Chapter 8: Eloquence



No sooner said than done, the phosphorus powder on the wooden sword started to burn along the fuse and was about to pounce on Gu Yunru. Gu Yunru reacted quickly and fanned herself with the palm-leaf fan.

There was not much phosphorus powder to begin with, and the fire was not very big, so when Gu Yunru fanned it, the fire spread back and burned the Taoist priest.

Gu Yunru picked up a jar of something he had placed on the table. Others didn't know what it was, but she could recognize it. It was called rosin powder, one of the important props used by Taoists to deceive people. As long as you put rosin powder in your mouth and spit it out, it will burn when it encounters fire, and it will look like a fire dragon is spitting out of your mouth.

She opened her mouth and took a sip, then raised an oil lamp and pointed it in the direction of the Taoist priest. With a puff, a dragon of fire burned his body.

"Oh my God! Mother! Gu Yunru is really a monster! This Taoist priest can't subdue her!" Gu Junyao didn't believe in ghosts. She had just had a secret discussion with Gu Junyue in the ancestral hall and asked Gu Junyue to pretend to be extremely frightened so that she could find an excuse to leave the ancestral hall. She also bribed the Taoist priest and asked him to say that Gu Junyue was indeed frightened by a ghost. Only then did she let her mother call Gu Yunru.

She originally wanted to teach Gu Yunru a lesson by scaring her with fire, but she actually saw through the Taoist's trick and subdued him.

Gu Yunru smiled softly upon hearing this, and said to Gu Junyao: "Second sister, you are wrong. I am not a monster. I think second sister is the monster."

After she said that, she actually snatched the Taoist's peach wood sword, and imitated what he had done just now, she took out a piece of yellow paper and stuck it on Gu Junyao's forehead, then waved it a few times, and then poured the water in the Taoist's kettle on her.

"Show yourself!" Gu Yunru shouted, and a monster with bared fangs and claws appeared on the paper. She dipped the peach wood sword in rosin powder and deliberately scratched it on the oil lamp. The rosin powder would ignite when it came into contact with fire. She directed the fire to the yellow paper and shouted loudly, "Burn!"

The yellow paper burned to ashes in an instant.

After Gu Yunru had performed this trick, the servants who were watching in the main courtyard were already stunned with fear. Only the Taoist priest managed to put out the fire on his body with great difficulty. He looked pale and in a very embarrassed state.

This little girl is not very old, but she has seen through his tricks. Don't bully the young!

"Second sister, do you think there are still evil ghosts? Do we need to tie them to pillars and roast them over fire?" Gu Yunru threw the peach wood sword to the ground with a clang and asked leisurely.

"Good, good. I didn't expect that the eldest daughter of the Gu family is actually such a good magician." When the room was in chaos, a low and pleasant voice accompanied by applause rang out.

Madam Gu and Gu Junyao looked in the direction of the voice and were immediately frightened and turned pale: "Master, Prince Zhao, His Royal Highness Prince Zhao——"

Compared to Rong Zhen's great interest, Gu Yan's face was ashen and his brows were furrowed so tightly that they could pinch a mosquito to death.

"What are you doing? What are you doing?" Gu Yan glanced at Gu Junyao and Madam Gu coldly, and finally fixed his gaze on Gu Yunru's face and shouted, "Why don't you go back and change your clothes? What a mess!"

Gu Yunru also felt that the scandal on her body was really stinking, but if she just walked away like that, wouldn't that give Gu Junyao the opportunity to slander her?

She's not that stupid.

Gu Yunru bowed to Gu Yanfu and whispered, "In reply to father, I only brought two sets of clothes from the farm. I changed one today, so I only have this set of clothes. Although the madam sent some clothes, they were all outer skirts, not full-body ones, and the sizes were a little small, so they didn't fit. I didn't even eat the incredibly salty dinner tonight. I hurriedly responded to the madam's call, but I didn't expect that as soon as I entered the door, a basin of dog blood was poured on me. Shouldn't the madam compensate me for this set of clothes?"

What she said was just taking advantage of every opportunity, and the complaint was both justified and indirect.

Mrs. Gu was so angry that she had already said that she had taken Gu Yunru to the Dabei Temple to have her treated by the abbot. The abbot said that she was helped by the gods, but Jun Yao refused to believe it and insisted that it was an evil spirit that possessed her. This frightened Jun Yue, so she agreed to invite a Taoist priest to perform a ritual for her daughter. However, she did not expect that -

It's really a case of losing the rice while trying to steal the chicken!

"Madam! In these few days, you haven't even bought her clothes? And what's going on with this ridiculous thing!" Gu Yan shouted coldly and questioned.

"The thing is, when I just returned home, my third sister threatened me, saying that my father had arranged a marriage for me, and the man was ugly and evil, disabled, and liked to torture people for fun. I made a fuss about breaking off the engagement, and my third sister grabbed me, and during the tug, I fell into the lake. After I woke up, I was confused and forgot some things in the past, but I had a wonderful encounter, which was to open my third eye. This was because the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Demons told me that my life span should not end, and I had suffered, so they made up for it and taught me some unique medical skills. Let me cure illnesses and save lives, and do good deeds. But my wife didn't believe it, saying that I was possessed by an evil spirit, so she dragged me to the Great Compassion Temple to burn incense and ask the abbot to exorcise the evil spirit for me. The abbot said that I was helped by God, not by a ghost. I also saw from my heavenly eyes that my second sister was meeting the new champion, and my third sister was covering for her, so I told my mother. Unexpectedly, my second sister held a grudge and asked the Taoist priest to punish me. I had seen through the Taoist priest's tricks from my heavenly eyes, so I made this scene later. "Gu Yunru spoke clearly and seriously, telling the whole story in detail.

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Of course, she was not a fool. She pretended to be a ghost to scare Gu Junyue, so she naturally jumped over it.

Not to mention Gu Yan was stunned, even Rong Zhen was amazed.

How can this be called opening the third eye? This is opening the mind, right? The meeting between the new champion and Gu Junyao was clearly something that he had seen by accident in the back mountain and told her about. She actually made up such a tortuous, magical and suspenseful story. It's such a waste of talent for this girl not to tell stories! "You are really, talking nonsense! What third eye! Your father has never believed in such ghost stuff!" Gu Yan was so angry that his beard twitched, and he pointed at Gu Yunru and said.

Alas, she also knew that ghosts could not be trusted, but if she told them that she was a time traveler, wouldn't it be even more impossible to communicate? There was no other way, so Gu Yunru decided to use some real skills to fool him.


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