Upon seeing this, Madam Xu immediately placed the white rice she had brought from home on the table.
There were about three pounds of white rice in the bag, which Mrs. Xu had specially bought from town yesterday. The family usually eats coarse rice, so they couldn't bear to buy white rice.
Ever since Xu Shi's dishonest dealings last time, Madam Xu has never let her go out to buy things again.
"Tell me what happened?" the Bamboo Goddess finally asked.
"That wretched girl in my house..." Madam Xu still exaggerated the facts as she habitually did.
She told the bamboo shaman in front of her all about Jiang Hua's changes during this period.
"Do you have her birth date and time?" the Bamboo Goddess asked thoughtfully upon hearing this.
"Yes, yes." Madam Xu looked at Madam Xu:
"Hurry up and tell the fortune teller that brat's birth date and time."
Xu was taken aback when she heard this. Birth date and time?
The deepest memory buried in her mind resurfaced, but Xu quickly suppressed it and gave him his birth date and time.
After hearing this, the Bamboo Goddess calculated for the time it takes to drink a cup of tea before opening her eyes and tapping her fingers on the table.
Madam Xu hurriedly took out one tael of silver and placed it on the table. However, the bamboo shaman's fingers were still tapping, so she had to reluctantly put another tael of silver on it before she stopped.
"This girl is possessed by a wandering ghost, that's why she's like this," the Bamboo Sage said slowly as she accepted the silver.
"This wandering ghost is specifically here to bring misfortune to your family."
“But she’s already married, shouldn’t she bring bad luck to her husband’s family?” Madam Xu asked first.
"Hmph, didn't you treat her badly before? She was often hungry and cold." The bamboo witch sneered.
“Every family is like this.” Both Madam Xu and Madam Xu blushed when they realized they had been told the truth.
Which girl in the village isn't treated this way?
She'll get married sooner or later; she's a complete money-loser. Why treat her so well? It's a waste of resources!
"So she's bringing bad luck to your family. Are all the unpleasant things happening in your family now related to her?"
"Witch doctor, what should we do?" Mrs. Xu asked anxiously.
The Bamboo Goddess was right! I knew it! How could this good-for-nothing suddenly turn into this? It must be possessed by a ghost!
“There must be a way. I’ll draw three talismans for you. You should stick them in her house, and it would be best to burn them to ashes and drink the ashes with water,” said the Bamboo Sage.
After the Bamboo Goddess finished drawing the talisman with cinnabar, she led the two women, including Da Xu, into the inner room.
A Buddha statue was enshrined on the altar in the inner room, and because incense and candles were burning, the room was filled with smoke.
The shaman laid the three talismans flat on the table and had Da Xu and her husband kneel down to offer incense and kowtow.
"Put one in her house, one on her body, and burn one to ashes and drink it. Remember that."
After the two finished kowtowing, the Bamboo Goddess handed three talismans to Madam Xu and gave her instructions again.
"Okay, I'll remember." Madam Xu hurriedly put away the talisman, thanked the Bamboo Goddess again, and then left.
On the way back, the sunlight had already shone into the bamboo forest, and Xu Shi didn't feel scared at all.
"Mother-in-law, how do we get that brat to drink the talisman water?"
Xu thought it was unlikely. Pasting talismans was one thing, but she could secretly paste them while that wretched girl wasn't home, and secretly sew another talisman into her clothes.
"Go back and think of another way!" Madam Xu said in a deep voice. If this method doesn't work, then try another one.
She had just given the old woman a tael of silver, asking her to give her three more talismans so she wouldn't run out. Now she could suppress that wretched girl to death.
...
Lin Shuyan knew they were going to see the Bamboo Goddess today, so she deliberately stayed home instead of going to town. Now that she saw them return, she immediately went to greet them.
"Grandma, Aunt, how is it? What did the Bamboo Goddess say?" Lin Shuyan asked with a hint of anticipation.
Fortunately, neither Madam Xu nor Madam Xu paid any attention to Lin Shuyan's tone, and took out the talisman paper, saying:
"The sorceress has already figured it out. This wretched girl is possessed by a wandering ghost, and she's come back specifically to bring bad luck to our family," said Madam Xu angrily.
"Originally, our dean had his eye on Yaozu, but that bitch ruined it, causing Yaozu to miss out on this opportunity."
Upon hearing this, Xu Dagui's face darkened: "Did the Bamboo Goddess say how to resolve this?"
Then, Madam Xu relayed what the Bamboo Goddess had said to the others in the room.
"When the time comes, our Yaozu will be hosting a banquet for the villagers. When that wretched girl comes to eat at the banquet, we'll take that opportunity to make her drink the talisman water."
On the way back just now, Madam Xu had already come up with a plan.
“Okay, Mother, then we’ll do as you say.” Xu Dagui nodded.
Jiang Hua went to Shili Village early in the morning. The foundation for the house she wanted to build was already being laid according to her blueprints.
Dozens of people were busy in the field, and Village Chief Lu was supervising the work from the side.
The women in the village set up a shed next to it and put two tables on it to serve tea.
"Miss Jiang, you've come over." Village Chief Lu greeted Jiang Hua and Jiang Jingyi as soon as he saw them arrive.
"Yes, come and take a look." After saying that, Jiang Hua took out two silver notes worth one thousand taels and handed them to Village Chief Lu.
"Miss Jiang, why are you giving so much?" Village Chief Lu asked in surprise.
“I might be a bit busy during this time and won’t be able to come over much. I’m afraid I won’t have enough money to buy the bricks, so I’ll give it to you first,” Jiang Hua replied.
"Okay." Village Chief Lu nodded and carefully put the silver notes away from his body.
Village Chief Lu was very pleased with this job. Jiang Hua's big house provided work for everyone in the village, and the wages were not low.
"How long will it take to build?" Jiang Hua asked, looking at the piles of blue bricks on the ground.
"A month and a half," Lu Dayong said after thinking for a moment.
"If Miss Jiang is in a hurry, there are vacant courtyards in the village where you can move in first."
"No need, we'll talk about it later." Jiang Hua asked again:
"Is the farmland in Shili Village short of water? Why not dig a canal to cross it?"
"This requires money, but no one has much spare cash. We also have to pay taxes every year, so we can only save a small portion of our annual harvest. It's barely enough to make ends meet," Village Chief Lu said with a wry smile.
"Are the taxes very high?" Jiang Hua raised an eyebrow; she hadn't thought of it that way before.
“Officials come to collect them every year at the end of the year,” Village Chief Lu explained.
"Once the house is finished, I plan to buy some land in Shili Village to grow things," Jiang Hua planned.
The cacti should arrive around that time, then we can start making arrangements.
"Didn't we buy a few acres before? Wasn't that enough, Miss Jiang?" Village Chief Lu asked suspiciously, noticing that Miss Jiang didn't seem like someone who worked in the fields.
"We plan to plant other plants; we'll ask for help later," Jiang Hua explained.
"Hire someone?" Village Chief Lu's eyes lit up, and he looked at her expectantly.
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