Upon arriving at Xianyuan Village once again, the group felt a chill run down their spines as they looked at the ancient village before them.
"Okay, let go! I don't want you to wash my clothes!" The argument at the village entrance attracted everyone's attention.
The thin old woman let go with a bitter face. The woman who spoke was probably her daughter, who was dressed elegantly and looked impatient as she carried the basin to the lake.
"Aunt Lian, if Miaomiao wants to wash, just let her. You can enjoy your retirement too."
Hongjie was watching the commotion with glee when she turned around and saw Mingzhuo, and she immediately became furious.
"Well, you've finally come! Why did you scare my son with those unclean things!"
Mingzhuo: "When did I scare your son?"
"Don't play dumb! Your classmates all told me, you must have done it! You're a teacher, and you think you can do that? I'll report you!"
Mingzhuo immediately understood what was going on; it was the people who stayed in the village who had betrayed him.
He even revealed to the other party that he could file a complaint; he was trying to make himself look bad.
Since that's the case, she might as well admit it: "Yes, I did it. This is just a lesson, but it might happen again next time."
Sister Hong was utterly incredulous: "You're threatening me? You're a monk, why aren't you exorcising ghosts, and instead you're scaring ordinary people? Is there no law anymore?!"
Zhuang Xun coughed softly beside him, reminding Ming Zhuo to take it easy.
If a complaint is filed, Mingzhuo's job as a teacher will be over; the impact will be too bad.
Ming Zhuo didn't care about him. He wanted to make her lose face? No way!
"First, I am not a monk; second, I am the law. I don't care if you are human or ghost. If you dare to cause trouble in front of me, I will beat you up."
Sister Hong was so angry she almost fainted; she had never seen such an unreasonable person!
"Teacher Ruan, you've arrived." The village chief came in a hurry, leading his people from the village.
His expression was relatively calm, but the people behind him clearly had strange expressions, looking at them with hostility.
"Who else could it be but them?"
“Only a few of them entered the village yesterday, it couldn’t have been anyone else.”
The village chief hesitated for a moment: "Teacher Ruan, have you been to the ancestral hall?"
Fang Linxiao, who rushed over, immediately felt a chill run down his spine. This group of people had just questioned Shen Boyuan and the others with the same questions.
Mingzhuo shook her head decisively, "No." After a pause, she asked, puzzled, "What's wrong? What happened?"
The village chief's gaze fell on the bag she was carrying, which contained steamed buns, pancakes, fried dough sticks, soy milk... This was a lazy, greedy, and unmotivated little girl.
His smile softened: "It's nothing. Where do you want to go? I'll have someone take you there."
Mingzhuo said he still had work to do and needed to take his students to the village to exorcise evil spirits. Upon hearing this, the village chief refused to send anyone.
Fang Linxiao watched in disbelief as Ming Zhuo slipped through the cracks and swaggered away.
That's an amazing lie, she can lie without even blinking! It's Oscar-worthy acting!
He caught up with Mingzhuo, feeling a little guilty. "Was it wrong of us to lie to the village chief like this?"
Mingzhuo gave him a meaningful look: "You think the village chief is a good person?"
"Of course," Fang Linxiao replied without hesitation.
Mingzhuo: "It seems you learned a lot from Assistant Teacher Shen last night."
Fang Linxiao quickly said, "Teacher Ruan, I still admire you, but this time I'm afraid our investigation is going in the wrong direction. The evil spirit causing trouble is someone else."
The two were standing quite close when Mingzhuo suddenly frowned. "Did you eat fish this morning?"
Fang Linxiao paused for a moment, "I only tasted one bite of the fish noodles."
Because of Mingzhuo's behavior, he suspected there was something wrong with the fish and didn't dare to eat it last night. However, when Chu Yuqi strongly recommended it at breakfast today, he couldn't refuse and took a bite.
What is Teacher Ruan's nose made of that allows her to smell this?
Fang Linxiao felt a little uneasy: "Is there really something wrong with the fish? No way, but that evil spirit isn't in the lake, it's in the pond behind the village. Teacher Shen and the others have already gone to ward off the evil spirit."
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On the other side, Chu Yuqi stopped at a certain spot with her compass, saying, "Here."
The small pond behind the village was filled with garbage and smelled terrible. Shen Boyuan always felt that if he took a few more breaths, his entire nasal cavity and mouth would smell bad.
He and two other students began to set up the formation.
When the yang energy is at its peak at noon, the coffin can be opened and the corpse raised to dispel the evil spirits.
A few raindrops fell on his face. Shen Boyuan looked up at the sky. It was raining.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, showing no signs of stopping. Even though it was morning, it felt as gloomy as evening.
In this kind of weather, the yang energy is weak, which is obviously not conducive to eliminating the corpse demon.
But last night they spent a lot of effort to force the evil spirit out of the small house where it was hiding, and they finally found the location of its true form. How could they give up so easily?
Staying another night would increase the danger, and besides, he didn't want Mingzhuo to steal the credit.
Chu Yuqi suddenly remembered something, "Oh no! We have to stop the sorceress from worshipping the lake!"
Ji Yong's heart was in his throat the whole time, and he immediately became nervous when he heard this. "Will there be a problem with the lake worship? But this is a custom that has been passed down in the village for thousands of years."
“There’s nothing wrong with offering sacrifices to the lake, but I’m always worried that something might go wrong.” Chu Yuqi shook her head.
She remembered that in the story, some villagers suspected that their son, who had drowned years ago, had not been reincarnated, so they bribed a sorceress to sacrifice a living person as a substitute for their son.
This matter also distracted the protagonist, causing her to take many detours, so she never intended to pay attention to it from the beginning.
However, that child could be saved; the family is very wealthy, so we could do them a favor.
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