"Don't worry, I will save her." Xiao Shuangbao felt relieved to see that Ye Yuan'er still had compassion.
As they were talking, the officials arrived.
This time, not only Constable Zhou came, but also his boss, Captain Jiang.
The two men, accompanied by several yamen runners, came in and saw Wan Niang pinned in the yard, unable to move.
"What's wrong with her?" Captain Jiang asked in surprise.
"It must have been done by the little saint! Let's go in first!" Constable Zhou was no longer surprised. He pulled Constable Jiang and several yamen runners into the room.
"Little Saint, we are here!" As Constable Zhou walked in and saw Xiao Shuangbao, he immediately smiled.
"Constable Zhou, you're here," Xiao Shuangbao said. He saw Constable Jiang standing beside him and asked, "Who is this?"
"This is my superior, Captain Jiang. He has heard about the abilities of the little saint girl a long time ago, and he came here today to see for himself! Every time the little saint girl sends people to the government office, it means someone has committed a crime again. May I ask what's going on this time?" asked Constable Zhou.
When Xiao Shuangbao heard this, he sighed.
She pointed at Ruo'er and said, "Today, a woman named Wan Niang came to the restaurant to have her fortune told. Wan Niang is the person I pinned down in the yard. This is her daughter Ruo'er. Wan Niang asked me to help catch a ghost. The ghost she caught was her husband's. Now it has become a fierce ghost. I felt something was wrong, so I came to check the room. Her house is too haunted.
“But Wanniang tried to stop me in every way, so I forced her to come in and found Ruo’er.
"I just had a fortune-teller tell me what's going on."
Xiao Shuangbao paused as he spoke, then raised his hand to remove the chains on Ruoer's feet.
It was at this time that Constable Zhou and Constable Jiang discovered that this skinny and frail little girl was actually chained...
"Little Saint, what's going on?" Constable Zhou looked at Ruo'er with some reluctance, and then said.
Ye Yuan'er also stared at her little princess curiously, eager to know why Wan Niang abused her own daughter.
Xiao Shuangbao sighed, then turned his gaze to the rag doll on the altar and said, "Wanniang wanted to maintain her youthful beauty, so she learned an evil technique from a Taoist priest—raising ghosts."
"Raising ghosts?" Captain Jiang stroked his beard and said immediately, "I've heard that some women from wealthy families like to raise ghosts. They feed the ghosts with their blood, and the ghosts fulfill their wishes. But the end result is always bad. Most of them are attacked by the ghosts."
"That's right." Xiao Shuangbao nodded, remembering that there was a concubine in the Dongqi Palace who had done something similar.
She paused, then continued, "Wanniang's evil method of raising ghosts is similar to what Captain Jiang said, except that she doesn't use her own blood to raise ghosts, but the blood of her son and daughter. Her son died, and she later gave birth to a daughter. In order to maintain her youthful beauty, she continued to use her daughter's blood to raise ghosts.
"Her husband didn't know at first and thought his daughter, like his son, had a strange disease that was why she was so thin.
“It wasn’t until half a year ago when I accidentally saw Wan Niang taking blood from his daughter to feed a ghost that I learned the truth.
"He was so angry that he wanted to kill Wan Niang, but was killed by the ghost raised by Wan Niang. Because he was filled with hatred and resentment before his death, he became a fierce ghost and wanted to kill Wan Niang to avenge his son and daughter. Unfortunately, he was no match for the ghost and never succeeded.
“Wanniang was afraid of him, so she invited me here.
"She probably didn't expect that after I captured her husband's soul, I would discover something unusual in her house."
Her words made Constable Zhou, Captain Jiang and others feel horrified.
Ye Yuan'er asked in confusion, "But why does Wan Niang abuse her son and daughter so much? Since she's using their blood, shouldn't she be feeding them well? Isn't that the same principle when raising pigs? You fatten them up before you slaughter them! Wan Niang has treated her son and daughter so badly, why won't she even give them a full meal?"
"Because she doesn't consider her son and daughter to be human beings at all." Little Shuangbao looked at Ruo'er and said softly, "In her mind, her son and daughter are just blood bags for her to feed ghosts. She feeds them every day and as long as they don't die, she doesn't want to bother taking care of them at all."
"That's too much!" Ye Yuan'er was stunned, then gritted her teeth, "Wanniang is completely devoid of conscience! She should be taken to the government and beheaded immediately!"
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