After applying the ointment, Madam Bai asked Fan Hai:

"Master Fan, and then what?"

Fan Hai looked at Madam Bai, whose face was covered in black dog blood, and suppressed a laugh as he asked:

“Take the bell and candle in your hands, and then stand in the middle of the altar.”

Following Fan Hai's instructions, Madam Bai took the bell and candle and went over.

"From now on, you will ring the bell and keep calling for your soul to return quickly. You must not stop."

Fan Hai emphasized, "Once we stop, everything we've done will be useless, and we won't be able to bring back our souls."

Madam Bai nodded, agreeing verbally, but in her heart she was thinking:

Hmph! I'll definitely stop in a bit! That girl will never wake up.

Fan Hai lit the candle in Madam Bai's hand.

Fan Hai: "You stay here and guide the soul. I'm going to fetch some things. Don't stop until I come back."

When Madam Bai heard that Fan Hai was leaving, she immediately trembled and tried to persuade him to stay.

But the thought that he would cause trouble if he left made Madam Bai suppress her fear and not say anything to stop him.

Fan Hai pointed to the candle and said, "I have written Xiao Tuanzi's birth date and time on this candle. Remember, if the candle goes out, the person will be crippled. You must not let the candle go out."

"And this rooster, you must not let him go. He is an amulet that can ward off evil spirits and protect you in critical moments."

Mrs. Bai said with a devout expression, "Okay! I will definitely protect the candle."

After saying "That's good" to Fan Hai, he turned and left.

After Fan Hai had gone far away, Madam Bai cautiously looked around.

The pavilion overlooks the lake, and all around is quiet and deserted.

Only the rooster's clucking could be heard.

Madam Bai looked at the candle in her hand, smiled slyly, and blew it out without hesitation.

The bell in her hand was also thrown aside.

"Pah! You think you can summon my soul? Dream on! You can just stay asleep forever!"

"It would be best if you died. With you gone, the Mu family's focus will shift to my grandsons. Then all the power, wealth, and status will belong to my grandsons."

As Madam Bai spoke, she kicked the entire altar into disarray.

The rooster, frightened, crowed wildly.

Madam Bai wreaked havoc without any regard for consequences.

Anyway, when Master Fan returns, she will say that she saw something unclean, which was caused by evil spirits.

"Whoosh...whoosh..."

Just as Madam Bai was kicking wildly, a strange sound suddenly came from behind her.

Madam Bai immediately tensed up and turned to ask, "Who?"

But the surroundings were empty, there was nothing there.

Madam Bai thought she had misheard and had just relaxed when she saw a white shadow drift by in mid-air.

"Ah!" Madam Bai was startled, but when she looked again...

There was no white shadow at all; apart from the branches swaying in the wind, there was nothing there.

Madam Bai widened her eyes, glanced around again, and only relaxed slightly after confirming that there was nothing there.

But as soon as she turned around, a disheveled child appeared in the cold moonlight.

She was horrified to discover that the rooster, which had been lively just moments before, had somehow collapsed on the ground.

The child, dressed in a long dress, was squatting next to the rooster with her back to her. Judging from her movements, it seemed she was eating something.

Seeing this scene, Madam Bai suddenly remembered what the maid had just told her and couldn't help but scream.

"ah!!"

Her terrified screams disturbed the child who was squatting down.

She slowly stood up.

Madam Bai looked down at the empty ground beneath her long dress.

She has no feet!

She was floating in the air!

Madam Bai was so frightened that her face contorted in shock. She was now quite certain that the child in front of her was not human!

Who is she? Could she be the spirit of the little dumpling?

The child slowly turned around.

Madam Bai finally learned what the maid had seen that night!

The child's face was deathly pale, as if covered with a thick layer of flour, obscuring her features. Her eyes had dark circles around them, but her lips were bright red like blood.

The child's mouth and hands were covered in blood, and even the clothes on his chest had long, bloody stains.

"Help! Help!" Madam Bai was terrified when she saw a rooster being eaten raw for the first time. Her mind went blank, and she even forgot to run.

The child grinned at her, his red teeth opening and closing.

"Hehe, there's new food again."

The child's words drifted into Madam Bai's ears, and her mind was filled with images of the child biting her neck and sucking her blood.

Madam Bai could no longer bear it, screamed, and ran in like a madwoman.

In her panic and fear, she didn't even see where she was going and slipped into the lake next to her.

Madam Bai was terrified. After flailing her arms a few times, her eyes rolled back and she fainted, sinking to the bottom of the lake.

Seeing Madam Bai fall into the lake, the little girl licked the cherry juice from her lips and shouted to her brothers hiding in the shadows:

"Brother, she fell into the lake! Please put me down quickly!"

Mu Jinnian quickly loosened the transparent thread in her hand, letting the little dumpling fall to the ground.