When the cockcrows at dawn, ghosts and monsters retreat.
Yihuayuan suddenly became quiet.
Marquis Annan and his wife huddled in the corner of the bed, their hair disheveled, their eyes bloodshot, and their minds in turmoil.
I don’t know how many hours in the early morning, I faced that terrifying, weird and ferocious evil ghost.
The good sleep I used to have, where I could fall asleep as soon as I closed my eyes, has disappeared without a trace.
The old man even asked the old lady to knock him out, and the old lady banged her head against the pillar, but it didn't work.
No matter how hard they tried, even though their foreheads and backs of their necks were swollen, they were still extremely awake, more awake than ever before.
They can't get close, they can't get dizzy.
The two sides faced each other, and neither side could escape.
Amid the howling of ghosts and wolves, they sat on their beds all night in fear, hugging their quilts.
Faint sunlight shone from the horizon, and the two looked at each other.
It wasn't a dream, everything that happened last night was real.
They encountered a ghost.
Until this moment, the old lady finally burst into tears.
He covered his face with his hands, tears streaming down his face.
"Last night...those...why..." His heart was trembling so much that he couldn't utter a complete sentence.
The old man instantly lost strength and collapsed on the bed.
So many evil spirits only appear during the Ghost Festival and shouldn't appear at this time.
Could it be that it was provoked from somewhere else?
But no one in the family has been to places like cemeteries in recent months, and it is impossible to attract so many ghosts.
"Come... someone come... someone come..." the old man shouted outside.
No one answered.
After shouting a few more times, a trembling figure appeared at the door.
Butler Chen leaned on the door frame and looked inside, carefully peering into the room.
Nothing had changed, no blood, no broken limbs, not even any collapsed objects.
He stepped over the threshold and walked in with trembling legs. He took a few deep breaths before daring to look at the bed.
There was no blood and flesh scattered all over the room as imagined, only two haggard old men lying limply on the bed.
The look she gave him showed residual fear and dissatisfaction towards him.
Chen Guanjia rushed forward and asked, "My Lord, Old Madam, how are you?"
Just as she was about to tell the story of the horrific scene last night that the maid and nanny had just described, she fell silent.
If they knew that someone saw it last night but no one came to rescue, then the people who were guarding the yard would surely have a miserable end.
Butler Chen quickly changed the subject, "It's still early, why not rest a while..."
"Go..." the old man said weakly, "Go and put up the remaining talismans and door gods from the Ghost Festival..."
"Put them all on... Then go to Haihui Temple and ask a master to exorcise the ghost..."
After giving this order, the old marquis could no longer bear the fatigue and fell asleep.
The old lady's eyes were dull, as if she was in a state of dementia, and she also fell down.
They were really exhausted last night.
Butler Chen placed the two people in the right position, covered them with a quilt, and immediately went to give instructions on how to handle the matter.
Inside the Manxing Courtyard.
Rong Yue'e opened her eyes and looked at her hands. They were from a child.
Touching your arms and legs, you are also a child.
She wasn't captured and eaten, she's still here.
"Wow... That's great..." The survivor burst into tears.
"Thank you, Queen Wangyou, thank you for not eating..." The little girl knelt on the bed and kowtowed towards the window.
When she grows up and has taken revenge, she will go back and apologize.
Now, let her live secretly in the mortal world for a few more days.
…
After getting up early in the morning and arranging household affairs, Mrs. Hu walked towards her yard, rubbing her sore neck.
On the way, I met Rong Huanyao with a flushed face.
"Little sister, what's wrong with you..." Mrs. Hu frowned slightly, "Did you put on too much rouge today?"
Her cheeks are as red as a monkey's butt.
"I...I..." Rong Huanyao raised her hands to cover her cheeks and stammered, "Second sister-in-law, I have something to do, so I won't be having breakfast at home."
"Your grounding hasn't been lifted yet, where are you going?"
"Why is everything so strange at home today?" Mrs. Hu was confused.
When she got up, Aunt Xu and the two maids in Manxing Courtyard avoided her as if she were some kind of monster.
Something was not right at Yihuayuan either. They actually put up talismans and door gods.
The maids and servants were all listless, with dull eyes.
Did you take the wrong medicine?
…
It was late at night again and everything was quiet.
A Taoist priest with a long beard and wearing a gray Taoist robe sat cross-legged on the round platform in the middle of Yihuayuan.
On the long table in front of him were peach wood swords and various talismans and magical instruments.
Suddenly——
A gust of cold wind blew, and black fog gathered here from all directions, stopping ten feet away from the long-bearded Taoist priest.
Inside the room, housekeeper Chen and the maids and servants were peeking out through the crack in the door.
Tonight, the old man summoned all the servants in the yard to their bedroom to protect them.
A group of people were shaking at the door.
As the black fog stopped, hope rose in my heart.
The bearded Taoist priest slowly opened his eyes, picked up the talisman on the table with an unfathomable look on his face, and muttered some incomprehensible spells.
The words on the talisman paper began to glow with golden light.
The next moment, the old monk raised his hand and threw the talisman paper into the black fog.
I saw crackling golden light in the fog, and soon the black fog retreated outside the courtyard gate.
Just when everyone was about to cheer.
In an instant, black fog surged out of the doorway like a flood, instantly submerging the bearded Taoist priest and rushing straight into the bedroom.
at once--
Screams rang out, echoing throughout the world of Yihuayuan.
Outside, everything was as calm as ever.
"Let's knock the others out and scare them together. It's pitiful." Rong Chaoxi rested his chin on Du Niang's arm. "Just do it again tomorrow..."
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