Hu Zhixing and the others kept kowtowing, but the sounds coming from the coffin not only didn't get quieter, but got louder and louder, and even the coffin lid started to shake, as if it was about to be pushed open from the inside.
"This...this..." Hu Zhixing was dumbfounded, cold sweat pouring down his forehead.
"Big brother...when will Miss Ye arrive?" Hu Zhixiong, the second brother, asked in a trembling voice.
"Miss Ye said she would arrive as soon as it got dark." Hu Zhixing was somewhat at a loss, and he got up and kept backing away.
He was really afraid that the coffin lid would suddenly fly up, and then his father, who had turned into a ghost, would crawl out and eat people.
Such a loud noise coming from inside the coffin, what else could it be but a ghost?
Just then, there was a knock on the door outside the courtyard.
"It's Miss Ye!" Hu Zhixing shouted and rushed over to open the door.
“Uncle Hu.” Ye Xianya nodded gently as she looked at Hu Zhixing, who suddenly opened the door.
"Miss Ye, you've finally arrived! My father's coffin lid is about to burst open. Please come in and take a look," Hu Zhixing said urgently.
Ye Xianya nodded and followed him into the Hu family's gate.
She had just gone inside when the door slammed shut.
Hu Zhixing looked at his hands, then at the closed door, and was somewhat bewildered.
He didn't close the door at all, so how did it close by itself?
Hu Zhixing hurriedly reached out to push the door, but he couldn't open it no matter what he did.
"Uncle Hu, don't bother. The door will open on its own in a moment," Ye Xianya said with a smile as she turned her head.
Hu Zhixing felt very scared, and his family huddled together, trembling.
Ye Xianya walked quickly outside and arrived at the coffin.
Hu Zhixing mustered his courage and walked over, his voice trembling as he said, "Miss Ye, before... before we only heard the sound of fingernails scratching at the coffin lid, but today... after dark today, the top coffin lid has been shaking. Could my father... could he really have turned into a man-eating monster and be coming out of there?"
Upon hearing this, Ye Xianya suddenly waved her hand, and the coffin lid flew up and landed on the ground, startling Hu Zhixing and the others, who all cried out in surprise.
"I'm sorry, I should have told you before I opened it," Ye Xianya said apologetically as she turned to look at them.
Zhengzheng, perched on her shoulder, secretly made a face. Don't think she didn't know; her older sister was doing it on purpose.
"Come and see, everything is normal inside the coffin." Ye Xianya took a torch from the side, walked over quickly, looked at the old man lying in the coffin, and said softly.
Upon hearing this, Hu Zhixing and the others pushed and shoved each other, and slowly made their way to the coffin.
Because of the cold weather, the old man's body, which had been dead for four days, had not decomposed; his face was just ashen and his cheeks were sunken.
The body appeared perfectly normal, but the coffin lids on both sides of his body were covered with claw marks.
"What...what exactly is going on?" Hu Zhixing asked, his eyes wide.
"We've encountered a coward," Ye Xianya said calmly.
Hu Zhixing and the others were a little confused when they heard this.
Ye Xianya formed a hand seal, and a faint golden light slowly emerged from her hands. With a gentle touch, the entire coffin was filled with a faint golden light, and the old man's body visibly bulged out, as if something inside the body was about to burst out, which made people's scalps tingle.
The next moment, his fingernails turned black and long, and his face became terrifying.
Amidst the horrified gazes of the crowd, the old man reached out and gripped the coffin lids on both sides with all his might, occasionally pushing them upwards. His gray pupils bulged outwards, and he made a "whoosh" sound from his mouth. His teeth were sharp and pointed, as if he wanted to bite someone, making him look particularly frightening.
"A zombie apocalypse!" Hu Zhixing exclaimed in utter terror.
Although he had never seen it, he had heard people talk about it.
In the teahouses of all sizes in the capital, there are storytellers, and he has heard such stories before.
“It’s not a zombie.” Ye Xianya shook her head slightly. “It’s a special kind of ghost called ‘Blue-faced Fang Ghost.’ It likes to live in people’s corpses and feeds on their death energy. It especially likes people who have just died a few days ago. However… most of the time, this kind of ghost likes to enter people’s graves after they have been buried and absorb their death energy without being noticed. They are very timid and somewhat afraid of people. Once they are discovered, they will hide.”
“People like your father, who were parasitized not long after their death, are extremely rare.”
Hu Zhixing and the others were stunned upon hearing this.
"This... there are such ghosts and monsters in this world? I... I've never heard of them before."
"This kind of ghost was deliberately raised by evil cultivators and is different from ordinary ghosts." After Ye Xianya finished speaking, she kept making hand seals and casting spells. Before long, a ball of golden light wrapped in blue mist flew out of the coffin and hovered in front of everyone.
The green mist inside kept clashing against the golden light outside, and a hideous gray-blue ghost face appeared and disappeared in the black mist, scaring Hu Zhixing and the others into retreating.
Ye Xianya took out a small white porcelain bottle from the small cloth bag she carried with her, and with a gentle touch, the wisp of green mist with the ghost face on it was absorbed into it.
"I've taken away this green-faced, fanged demon. Nothing else will happen, so you don't need to worry. We can bury the old man tomorrow," Ye Xianya said with a smile, looking at the still-shaken crowd.
"Thank you, Miss Ye!" Hu Zhixing breathed a sigh of relief and quickly bowed to express his gratitude.
"No need to be polite!" Ye Xianya nodded slightly, casually stuffed the small porcelain bottle into her cloth bag, and turned to leave.
When she returned to the Ye family home, she found that her mother and father had already come back.
The two returned an hour or so earlier than usual today.
"Mother, you're back so early today," Ye Xianya said with a smile.
“Your father is the Crown Prince now, and he has a bunch of people following him wherever he goes. If we stay at Peach Blossom Residence, no one dares to go in for a meal, so we had to come back first,” Ye Miaoyun said, somewhat amused and exasperated.
Since the emperor issued the decree last night to establish Qi Jiu as the crown prince, a large group of people have been guarding outside the Ye family's residence, including eunuchs, palace maids, and hundreds of guards.
After they went to the Peach Garden today, these guards were still standing guard outside, each with a cold expression.
At first, some people went to Taoyuanju to dine, but by evening, more and more people knew that Qi Jiu had become the crown prince, and with the guards standing watch outside, no one dared to go to dine.
Upon seeing this, Ye Miaoyun persuaded Qi Jiu to come back with her.
“If that’s the case, then Father, you shouldn’t go to Peach Blossom Residence. Anyway, you’ll be going to the palace in a couple of days, so it’s good to leave these matters to your two uncles in advance. Father and Mother can take a good rest these two days,” Ye Xianya said with a smile.
Qi Jiu nodded upon hearing this and said softly, "Didn't you say you were going to exorcise ghosts for someone else? Did it go smoothly?"
“It’s a blue-faced, fanged demon, and I’ve already caught it.” Ye Xianya said, taking out a small porcelain bottle from her cloth bag: “It’s in here.”
Upon hearing this, Qi Jiu and Ye Miaoyun subconsciously took a few steps back.
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