Soon, Su Qingluan arrived outside the narrow alley where the Liu family lived.

She had been to the Liu family once before, and she couldn't stand the dilapidated house where "it rained heavily outside and drizzled inside; it was sunny outside and you could see the stars inside."

However, the Liu family are all strong-willed people, and it is absolutely impossible for them to accept help from others for no reason.

So Su Qingluan simply asked her father to find a few carpenters and masons, and gave the Liu family the various materials left over from repairing the house and yard to repair the house. Although the house was still simple, it was much better than the original one.

Su Qingluan had once advised Liu Yunniang and Xi Niangzi that if they had a bedridden patient at home, the cold, damp environment wouldn't be conducive to their recovery. Since the Liu family already had some spare money, while it wasn't enough to buy a courtyard house, renting a smaller one should be more than enough.

Madam Xi has also been persuaded and is about to go to see a house. If she is cheated out of money by the so-called "master", it will undoubtedly be a disaster for the Liu family.

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. Su Qingluan couldn't help but quicken her pace. Before she even entered the Liu family's house, she shouted, "Madam Xi, I ran into Yunniang on the street and came to see my uncle!"

Neither Madam Xi nor Liu Sheng had ever met Su Qingluan before. Liu Sheng, half-lying on the couch, nodded to her. Madam Xi, on the other hand, took her hand and led her outside, hushing, "Su girl, please keep your voice down. A master is performing a ritual here." She then called to Liu Yunniang, "My dear, have you bought everything the master asked you to buy? Go and rest for a while. I'll take Su girl outside to talk..."

Then, Madam Xi turned around and smiled towards the room, "Master, please don't be offended. The child is still young and doesn't understand things. You are broad-minded and shouldn't be surprised..." She continued to make excuses for Su Qingluan's "recklessness".

Over there, Liu Yunniang had already taken out the chickens, ducks, fish and meat she had bought, placed them on pieces of red cloth, and placed them on different plates - of course, the very naughty fish was wrapped in red cloth like a rice dumpling and could not move in the plate.

Su Qingluan raised her eyebrows: Oh, this is quite ceremonial, it seems like that’s the real thing!

After Liu Yunniang finished preparing these "sacrifices", she said to Xi Niang, "Qingluan said she was curious about what this master could do. She had never seen such a miraculous thing before. It's okay for her to just watch the fun from the side."

Not to mention the Su family's overt and covert assistance to the Liu family that made Madam Xi grateful, she also quite liked Su Qingluan's personality. So, she smiled and lowered her voice to the two girls, saying, "You can watch the fun, but to avoid offending the gods, you two must keep quiet and don't cause trouble for the master!"

Su Qingluan naturally nodded hurriedly, and stood at the door with Liu Yunniang, watching the "master" chanting his "ritual".

It has to be said that even though Su Qingluan knew that this "master" was most likely a fraud, his image and temperament were still very intimidating.

Although this person is not as elegant as Mu Xingzhi, he also has a kind face and a dignified appearance.

His hair was tied up with a wooden hairpin, and his three strands of beautiful beard were fluttering in the wind. He wore a green cloth Taoist robe and carried a dark peach wood sword, giving him the air of a hermit.

The man first set up the table, placed all the chickens, ducks, fish and meat that he had asked Liu Yunniang to buy on it, and then offered three incense sticks on the incense burner, bowed three times, and performed a kneeling ceremony.

The Liu family members looked solemn and full of admiration, but Su Qingluan stood at the door as if she was watching a big show, and even had the leisure to comment: I have to say, nowadays even cheating has to have a little sense of ritual, wow, this set of movements is smooth and flowing, it seems that he does this kind of dirty things often.

Su Qingluan fully affirmed the performance of the "master", and then decided to teach him a lesson to let him know why the flowers are so red.

Although she was determined to turn this "master" into a "big shot", Su Qingluan did not act rashly - after all, to expose the deception, she had to first understand the key to his deception, right?

However, Su Qingluan watched coldly. At least the first few steps, sacrifice, burning incense, chanting, and rituals... every move, even Su Qingluan didn't know what the steps of orthodox Taoist sacrifices were, but looking at it this way, it seemed to be done in accordance with the rules and looked like the real thing.

Su Qingluan watched the "master" mumbling something in his mouth, and then inserted three incense sticks into three different bowls of grain. He rang the bell and waved the peach wood sword vigorously. His steps were different from ordinary walking or the sword dancing steps he had seen on TV.

Su Qingluan couldn't help but lean over to Liu Yunniang's ear and ask, "This step is so strange, have you seen it before?"

Liu Yunniang was watching very seriously. She nodded and said, "I've heard from my parents that this step contains the art of Bagua. It seems that this master is really sick."

Su Qingluan narrowed her eyes slightly: Could it be that this person is really a Taoist?

She murmured in her heart: Could this be a "serious master", like the "Imperial Astronomical Observatory", although they also have the intelligence to be responsible for divination and shamanism, but they can be regarded as "legal shamanism" and not a fraud - after all, in this era there are indeed many natural phenomena that cannot be explained and have to be attributed to ghosts and gods, so it cannot be simply said that it is a deception, but rather a place of faith.

Considering the cultural differences between the two worlds and eras, Su Qingluan was deeply troubled: Perhaps what she considered "feudal superstition" was commonplace in this era? If she rashly stopped it, would her good intentions backfire?

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