Chapter 31: Little Tricks
Taoist Tianji is a very powerful person.
He is good at fortune-telling, feng shui, and exorcism, and some people even say that Taoist Tianji can call the wind and rain.
At the beginning, Princess Jiashan gave birth to several sons in a row and wanted to have a daughter. After she became pregnant, she asked Taoist Tianji to help her tell the fortune. The fortune teller said it would be a daughter, and she really gave birth to Zhang Hanyan.
There is also the current emperor. Before he ascended the throne, he was only the fourth prince. Taoist Tianji calculated that he would be the emperor in the future, and he actually ascended the throne and became the emperor.
The more Wang thought about it, the more she felt that Taoist Tianji was an extraordinary person and would definitely be able to suppress Lin Qianqian's evil spirit.
I remember that when Lin Qianqian just returned to the Lin Mansion, she tortured a maid in the family so hard that her limbs were twisted and she was crawling in the dark, so that girl must be evil.
"Mother Sun, last time I asked you to invite Taoist Tianji from Qingfeng Temple to come to our house to perform a ritual. Why haven't you heard from me in such a long time?"
"Madam, the abbot of Qingfeng Temple never leaves the temple. Taoist Xiaoyaozi will come out to help with Feng Shui and house evil spirits, but there are many people in line. I will send someone to Qingfeng Temple to urge them. It will probably be our turn soon."
Waited for a few days.
Taoist Xiaoyaozi from Qingfeng Temple finally arrived.
Xiaoyaozi has a handsome appearance, holding a silver-white whisk in his hand and wearing a sky-blue Taoist robe with the Yin-Yang Bagua diagram printed on it, making him look very respectable.
But Wang felt that Xiaoyaozi was too young.
Moreover, I heard that Xiaoyaozi was just one of the countless orphans adopted by the temple master, and I'm afraid he doesn't have much Taoist skills.
Then she heard Xiaoyaozi say to her: "Female Master, good and evil will be rewarded in the end. I advise you to turn back."
Wang thought to herself: What the young Taoist said is quite accurate. However, I have already done so many evil things. What if I do one more? One more is not much, and one less is not much less either. It is impossible to turn back.
But she didn't know that Xiaoyaozi was just bullying her.
After all, there are many secret methods in the inner house, and few of the mistresses in wealthy families have clean hands, so every time he goes to wealthy families to get money for rituals, what he says is always the same, mostly to persuade the mistress to be good, and what he says is always accurate.
"Master, the biological mother of the second girl in my house is missing. Now the second girl seems to be possessed by an evil spirit. When she first entered the house, she injured the servants. Although she has moved to another house, she insists that she is a lucky star. Please help me perform a ritual to drive away the evil spirit from her."
Xiaoyaozi responded readily, "Don't worry, it's not difficult for me to perform a ritual to exorcise the evil spirits, but it will cost one hundred taels of silver."
Wang gave a silver note worth one hundred taels and went to Jiang's house with Xiaoyaozi, and Mother Sun also went with them.
Mother Sun was afraid of Lin Qianqian, so she took Xiaoyaozi to the gate of Jiang's house and hid in the corner.
Wang hid in the carriage and did not show up.
Xiaoyaozi was very efficient. He set up an altar directly outside the gate of Jiang's house and started to perform a ritual, mumbling some incomprehensible spells.
With so many people watching, it seemed particularly noisy.
Lin Qianqian was taking a nap and was woken up, so she was a little grumpy.
Hongdou came in from outside. She had already inquired about the news outside. "Miss, the Lin Mansion has invited a Taoist priest to perform a spell outside. He woke up the young lady. I will go and settle the score with them now."
After saying that, he picked up a copper basin from the house and prepared to knock the old Taoist unconscious.
"Hongdou, life has been a bit dull lately, I'll go along and see what's going on."
After Hongdou opened the door, Lin Qianqian saw the young Taoist priest outside holding a piece of talisman paper in his hand. He recited a spell, and the talisman paper began to burn.
All the onlookers around cheered and applauded.
"The Taoist priest is so awesome!"
"The Taoist priest knows magic!"
Wang observed this scene through the car curtain and felt that Xiaoyaozi did have some skills. He could ignite the talisman paper by reciting a spell. Could this really be a magic trick?
So she found the right person this time.
This Xiaoyaozi should be able to control that evil girl Qianqian.
Wang felt it was quite interesting and boldly got off the carriage to watch the fun from a close distance.
Unexpectedly, what happened next surprised Wang.
Lin Qianqian kicked Xiaoyaozi, who was performing the shaman dance, down.
Xiaoyaozi was a little confused. As a Taoist priest, he often kept fit, but he was kicked down by this young girl.
But he had another trick up his sleeve. He quickly got up from the ground, picked up the incense ash mixed with the sleeping pills, and sprinkled it at Lin Qianqian.
Unexpectedly, Lin Qianqian dodged quickly, and all the incense ash was scattered on Wang who was watching the fun.
Wang felt her eyes go dark and she passed out.
Mother Sun and others hurried forward to support Wang: "Madam, Madam, are you okay?"
Xiaoyaozi was a little embarrassed. He failed to do what his master asked him to do and ended up knocking his master unconscious.
He coughed dryly twice and said, "It's okay, it's okay. Help Madam back to the carriage and give her some hot water. She will wake up in less than an hour."
Mother Sun was afraid of Lin Qianqian, so after helping Wang onto the carriage, she quickly asked the coachman to drive back to the Lin Mansion.
Now the people watching outside the gate of Jiang's house are divided into two groups. One group thinks that the Taoist priest is useless and will fall down if kicked by someone.
The other group thinks that Lin Qianqian does not respect immortals.
The two factions quarreled non-stop.
Lin Qianqian fished out a little Taoist boy from the crowd. This little Taoist boy was with Xiaoyaozi.
She said: "I also know the Taoist magic."
After saying that, he snatched the crystal convex mirror from the little Taoist boy and held it above another piece of talisman paper.
After the sunlight passed through the crystal convex mirror, it gathered into a small point of light, which instantly lit up the talisman paper.
She had played this trick countless times in the country villages.
Hongdou put her hands on her hips, "Humph, this little trick can't escape my girl's eyes. How can you, a stinky Taoist priest, be an immortal? You are just pretending to be a god."
The facts were before their eyes, and now all those who accused Lin Qianqian of disrespecting immortals shut up.
Xiaoyaozi was exposed on the spot and tried to escape immediately, but Ada grabbed him by the collar and picked him up in front of Lin Qianqian.
"Girl, how do we deal with this evil Taoist priest?"
Xiaoyaozi looked at Lin Qianqian warily: "What do you want?"
There was fear in his voice, no longer as confident and calm as before.
He had been to many wealthy families, but had never seen such a powerful and shrewd daughter of a rich family.
His magic of talisman-casting had always worked and had never failed, but he did not expect that it would be exposed by this young lady today.
"You stinky Taoist priest, you always cheat and deceive people, you must have made a lot of money, right?"
Indeed, Xiaoyaozi had worked tirelessly over the years, and his magic skill of burning talisman paper was popular wherever he went. He was always flattered by the people as if he were an immortal, and he earned a total of more than 5,000 taels of silver from wealthy families without telling the temple master.
He was afraid that the temple master would find out about his fraud, so he changed all the silver into large-denomination banknotes and hid them in his Taoist hat.
When Xiaoyaozi thought of this, he hurriedly reached out to touch the top of his head, but he felt a chill on his head and the Taoist hat flew into Lin Qianqian's hands.
Lin Qianqian searched out the silver bills hidden in the compartment.
This girl had a really sharp eye. He spent several years thinking about it before coming up with a way to hide the banknotes in a layer, but this young girl, who was not very worldly-wise, saw through it at a glance.
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