Old Dong and Old Liu rushed to the banker's door one after another.
The two men held the amulet tightly in their palms, then kicked the door of the banker's house together, yelling at Zhuang Tianer to come out and confront them.
Perhaps fearing Zhuang Tianer's strange methods, the two men simultaneously raised their voices and called the entire village over: "Fellow villagers, come out and see! Zhuang Tianer is truly an evil spirit! Everyone come and see, don't be fooled by her again! What the scholar said is true! Today we are going to expose Zhuang Tianer's true face! Everyone come and listen!"
As more and more people gathered around them, the noise and bustle gradually grew louder and louder, and the two finally felt a little more at ease. Zhuang Tianer wouldn't resort to violence against them in front of so many people.
The two of them shouted loudly, attracting everyone to look. Zhuang Tianer tried to pretend not to hear, but she had no choice but to walk out of the door under the shove of Zhuang Laoda, and came to the yard. She asked with a sweet smile, "Uncle Liu, Uncle Dong, what's wrong with you two?"
"ah!"
She suddenly screamed, then quickly walked to the door made of wooden fences, pointed her finger at Old Liu's face, and asked worriedly, "Uncle Liu, why is your forehead black? Are you possessed by evil spirits?"
Her sudden cry was also a hypnotic technique, intended to interrupt the subject's train of thought and draw their attention. Then, she extended her finger, drawing the subject's gaze towards her fingertips, and then along the fingertips towards her eyes.
As long as the subject held her gaze for two seconds, the hypnosis would be successful. Old Liu, now roaring furiously at her, would apologize to her in awe and then go back obediently.
Next, she will use the same method to deal with Lao Dong, and finally just say "the two of them are possessed by evil spirits" to easily resolve this crisis.
Her idea was perfect, but unfortunately, Old Liu, who was staring at her eyes, was only in a daze for a moment before he clenched his fists and came to his senses.
The heart anchor planted by Zhuang Li came into play at this moment, allowing Lao Liu to completely break free from Zhuang Tianer's control.
"Bah! You are the one who is possessed by evil spirits!" Old Liu spat a mouthful of thick phlegm at Zhuang Tianer's face.
Zhuang Tianer almost suffocated as her face was covered with thick, smelly phlegm.
"Pfft!" Old Dong also spat in Zhuang Tianer's face and cursed angrily, "We are indeed possessed by evil spirits, but it's all your fault! You are an evil spirit!"
"Everyone, come and listen to the good things Zhuang Tianer has done! I almost died in the mountains because of her!"
"Me too! I picked the ginseng her family sold! I almost fell into a mountain stream and drowned that day!"
"The prey she usually brings back is all hunted by me!"
"She's a monster. One time, she met me on the road and stared into my eyes for a while, leaving me completely bewildered. Then she asked me to give her the prey I caught every day. I actually agreed, but after that, I forgot about it. Every day, I was like a puppet, leaving all the prey I caught on her path for her to pick up. That's how she got the nickname 'Lucky Star'!"
"That's how I got tricked, too! I met her in the mountains, and she stared into my eyes for a moment, and I lost my mind. I promised to give her all the precious herbs I'd gathered. The ginseng she sold was mine! I also found a Ganoderma lucidum and a Dendrobium, but she took them all. I don't remember anything, and when I got home I thought I was just unlucky and hadn't found anything!"
"She's truly evil! She can control our minds and erase our memories!"
"The dog that was hanged in front of Zhuang Laoer's house was possessed by her evil spirit!"
"This afternoon, we went to Xishan to find the scholar. He helped us break Zhuang Tianer's spell, and then we remembered everything!"
"Otherwise, we would work like slaves for Zhuang Tianer and die in the mountains without anyone knowing..."
The two of them chatted back and forth, counting all the things that Zhuang Tianer had taken away from them over the years, and recounted the dangers they had encountered in order to find these things, and how many scars they had brought back.
The villagers saw and remembered what happened to the two men. Who wouldn't find it strange that they often returned with injuries and empty bags?
Lao Liu and Lao Dong were originally the two richest people in the village, but after Zhuang Tianer became famous for being a lucky star, they gradually fell into poverty to the point where they could barely afford three meals a day. This is too strange!
Normally, the villagers were brainwashed and wouldn't think much about it, but now, the two parties involved recounted the past events one by one, and Zhuang Li also repeatedly hammered the psychological suggestion that Zhuang Tian'er was an evil spirit into everyone's subconscious, so everyone quickly woke up and pointed out Zhuang Tian'er's weirdness.
"I used to be the best at fishing. In the summer, I could always catch one or two big grass carp from the river and bring them back to eat. Ever since Zhuang Tianer became a lucky star, I haven't caught a fish since! What's even stranger is that my hands smell like fish and my clothes are covered in fish scales, but I always come back from the river empty-handed!"
"I wouldn't have remembered it if you hadn't mentioned it! Zhuang Tianer always picks up big fat fish whenever she goes to the river! Could it be that you caught all those fish?"
"And me! One time I went to the mountains to pick chestnuts. My hands were pierced with chestnut thorns, and when I came back my backpack was empty! My mother even scolded me for wasting my time!"
Everyone was talking at once, and more and more strange things were said.
Zhuang Tian'er had no time to wash her face. She just wiped off the fishy spit and shouted anxiously, "No, no, everyone, please listen to me! Everyone, look at me, everyone, look at me!"
This is her specialty.
Just by making eye contact with everyone, she can easily bewitch their minds and manipulate their behavior.
But now she has been labeled as evil by Zhuang Li, and her authority has been greatly reduced. When she is performing group hypnosis, who will listen to her carefully and look into her eyes?
As long as everyone has a resistance to her, her hypnosis will be completely ineffective. She only knows how to use this ability, but does not understand the principle behind it, so when problems arise, she does not know how to solve them.
She could only order everyone over and over again to listen to her carefully. However, later on, the tone of the command turned into a pleading, and finally turned into a sob of fear.
"I beg you to look at me! Just one look! I'm not evil!" For the first time since her rebirth, Zhuang Tianer cried in front of everyone.
However, this display of weakness only further reduced everyone's fear of her. So, the villagers, who had originally been somewhat afraid of her, now all revealed expressions of contempt, disgust, and hatred.
A little boy of eight or nine suddenly shouted, "I remember now! Zhuang Haisheng said his sister found more than just a ginseng plant, but also a Ganoderma lucidum and a magical herb. Their family secretly sold the Ganoderma lucidum and magical herb and saved up a few hundred taels of silver. They're going to move to the city and never come back! Everything Uncle Dong said is true!"
Children don't lie, so the villagers became more and more convinced that Zhuang Tian'er was an evil spirit.
"Give me back my herbs!" Old Dong was furious. He walked up and kicked the locked gate of the village house hard.
"Spray up all the prey I've hunted over the years! Boss Zhuang, all the animal skins you took to the town to sell are mine!" Lao Liu pulled out the hatchet from his waist and chopped hard at the door of the Zhuang family.
"Zhuang Tianer, give me back my fish!"
"And my chestnuts!"
"You must have taken my wild vegetables too! You monster!"
"Burn Zhuang Tianer to death! Burn this evil spirit to death!"
More and more people rushed forward to shake the gate of the village, and it seemed that even the wall was about to be demolished.
Boss Zhuang was so scared that he peed his pants and ran back to the house quickly.
Zhuang Tianer trembled and fell to the ground, her face pale as she shouted, "I'm not an evil spirit. Listen to me, I'm not an evil spirit!"
Old Madam Zhuang rushed out of the house, grabbed Zhuang Tianer by the collar, and demanded in a shrill voice, "In addition to ginseng, you also sold a Ganoderma lucidum and a magical grass? Where's the money? Where did you hide it? I've been so good to you, and this is how you treat me? Did your parents help you hide it from me? How come I didn't know you were planning to move to the city? Are you planning to abandon me and this old man and sneak away? Well, well, I've raised a bunch of ungrateful people!"
Old Mrs. Zhuang was so angry that she lost her mind and strangled Zhuang Tianer's neck and refused to let go.
If it weren't for this evil spirit, her wonderful family would never have ended up like this! She could still follow her second son to the West Mountain and enjoy wealth and glory!
Old man Zhuang hid in the house and watched all this indifferently, not caring about Zhuang Tianer's life or death at all.
Zhuang Tianer's mother and brother rushed out of the room and begged Mrs. Zhuang to let go.
The scene was in chaos, and everyone inside and outside wanted to tear Zhuang Tianer apart.
In just a few days, Zhuang Tianer went from being a lucky star admired by everyone to an evil spirit that everyone wanted to get rid of. This change was too great.
Just as Zhuang Tian'er's neck was about to be strangled, a sharp arrow hit Old Lady Zhuang's hair bun. It didn't hurt her, but it frightened Old Lady Zhuang so much that she unconsciously let go of her hand and collapsed to the ground.
A group of guards came running over, swords drawn, shouting, "What are you doing? What are you doing? Why are you attacking a weak woman? Is there any law here?"
The villagers argued that Zhuang Tianer was an evil spirit.
The handsome young man on the tall horse shooting arrows sneered and said, "I never believe in ghosts. The real ghosts are only in people's hearts. Compared to this woman, your ugly faces are more like evil ghosts! I heard what you said just now. It's just speculation without any evidence. What right do you have to kill people? Get out of here, or I will arrest you all!"
When the villagers saw that he was dressed luxuriously, had an impressive aura, and kept calling himself "this prince", they all guessed his identity, knelt down to pay their respects, and then fled.
The plan to burn Zhuang Tianer to death was interrupted.
Zhuang Tianer, who had escaped death, quickly got up and thanked the handsome man with tears of gratitude. However, her eyes fell on a guard behind the man, and her face became even paler.
But she was already extremely frightened, so no one noticed this abnormality.
The man said gently: "I saved you because I saw injustice and did what was convenient for me. You don't have to say anything like I'm treated like a slave. The people here are very ignorant and have already regarded you as a monster. I advise you to move away quickly." After he finished speaking, he turned his horse's head and galloped towards the west mountain.
The guards he brought with him also followed closely behind in a mighty procession.
Zhuang Tianer had never seen such a handsome, noble and majestic man, and her heart fell in love with him.
She looked at the man's gradually disappearing back, with a determined light in her eyes.
The previous frustration and despair seemed to be instantly filled by the man's appearance. As long as she could control this man's heart, she could suddenly become the most powerful person in the world! Even if Zhuang Li and Zhuang Jiuge became high-ranking officials in the future, what would it matter? She was still the princess!
Thinking of this, Zhuang Tianer was so excited that she didn't notice that there were two strangers among the villagers secretly watching what was happening in her house.
After the villagers retreated, the two men also left Luoxia Village. After returning to the mountains, they immediately reported to the boss the news that Zhuang Laoer's family had been taken to Xishan by King Qi, and that Zhuang Laoda's family might also move away in the near future.
This was a gang of ruthless robbers who had robbed many wealthy families and committed many murders to silence them. Now that they had their sights set on the banker, they would not let him go easily.
The eldest master pondered for a long while, and finally made the decision: "Zhuang Lao Er's family is protected by the King of Qi, so we must not touch them. But Zhuang Lao Da's family cannot escape empty-handed. Let's take action tonight! Don't kill anyone, just steal the silver."
The Second Master worriedly said, "The King of Qi is in the West Mountain. Will we alarm him?"
"Luoxia Village is in chaos right now. Everyone in the village wants to burn Zhuang Tianer to death. We stole her family's silver, and everyone in the village is a suspect. We can successfully avoid being tracked down. Now is the best time to take action." The boss analyzed calmly.
"Yes, the more chaotic it is, the easier it will be to take action. By the time King Qi reacts and sends more troops to patrol the mountains, we will really have no chance." The third in command immediately agreed.
Everyone looked at each other and drank the liquor in their bowls in an unspoken understanding.
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