"Where do you live? I'll send your soul back right now."
Yan Miao raised her hand and gently flicked the button to turn on the Requiem Bell call.
Lan Cuoyou sensed the long-lost atmosphere, took a deep breath, and visibly became excited, "This is it!"
"Hahaha, after all these years, I'm finally back!"
"That's wonderful, I'll definitely thank you properly..."
When she said this, Yan Miao felt that the expression on her face was unsettling.
"No need, I already promised you that."
If you picked just anyone, you might be fooled by her, but Yan Miao is different.
From the very beginning, she had doubts about Lan Cuoyou's words!
Then she blurted out that she could use the teleportation scroll from the shop to send the medicine, which made her even more certain.
There's something wrong with this ghost!
According to her, she mustered up the courage to leave the village to gather herbs for her mother, but accidentally fell off a cliff and died.
She said she had never used the Merit Mall.
Since you've never used it before, how would you know that there's such a thing as a teleportation talisman that can teleport items?
Lan Cuoyou was definitely not an easy person to deal with in life, and she even tried to deceive them after her death.
Based on the strangeness of the village, Yan Miao roughly guessed her purpose—
In the village, she should be able to break free from the shackles of her soul and be resurrected in a new form.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have gone to such great lengths to try and get it back after all these decades.
They wanted to lure the two of them in and kill them!
Yan Miao was unmoved by reasoning and kept asking, "Hurry up and tell me where you live, then we'll let you go back and my brother and I will go home."
"This place is so run-down, I don't want to stay here even a day longer!"
She pinched her nose, looking disgusted.
It gives Lan Cuoyou the feeling of a spoiled young lady.
Haha, he really is a brainless person; I managed to coax her into submission with just a few words.
So what if you're selected by the Merit Mall? You're still just waiting to die.
Lan Cuoyou was secretly delighted.
But until things succeed, he had to try to reassure her, saying, "I have nowhere else to go, I can't go home..."
"If you can't go home, then why did you ask me to bring you back? Are you just messing with us?"
"No, no, no, I'm not kidding you."
“You’re from another village and don’t know the customs here. The Shi people think that the dead are unlucky, so there are no graves or corpses in the village.”
“The bodies of the dead are all cremated, and then their souls are absorbed into the stone statues in the ancestral hall. So many years have passed, my mother died long ago, and her remains can no longer be found.”
"Only the stone statue is the home for our souls!"
"Then, then I'll just put you inside the stone statue, won't that work?"
"Tell me where the ancestral hall is right away so I can go back after I finish. There's nothing to eat in this shabby place. I'm starving. If I don't go back soon, I'll only be able to eat the dried meat the village chief gave me."
Yan Miao spoke urgently, her face full of impatience.
They acted as if they couldn't stand this awful environment for even a day and were about to leave!
“I’ve found the spiritual herb for you, so you should finish what I need to do.”
"There are specific rules for placing a soul into the stone goddess statue. If you just put it in randomly, the stone goddess will not accept it at all."
Lan Cuoyou was right; Yan Miao would keep her promise.
"Then what should we do?"
Seeing that the fish had taken the bait, Lan Cuoyou curled the corners of her mouth and said, "You've come at the perfect time. You only need to stay in the village for three days, and your soul will be accepted by the stone statue. Then we'll be even."
"Three days...why does it have to be three days?"
"Because in three days, there will be the annual sacrificial ceremony. During the ceremony, the stone statue will be open to everyone. Only when my soul is put back in will it be considered a true homecoming."
"Your mission is complete!"
"Alright, this is the last time. If you bring up any more strange conditions in the future, I won't bother with you anymore!"
Yan Miao glanced at An Hun Ling with an air of arrogance, and without even saying hello, she directly turned off the communication.
After the call was cut off, she leisurely jingled the bell in her hand, crossed her legs, and lay down in her comfortable four-piece bedding set.
She rang the bell while waiting for Yan Zhao to return.
Lan Cuoyou, I want to see what you're up to.
Haha, the annual sacrificial ceremony?
How could it be such a coincidence?
This grand ceremony should be decided by the people of your village, they can decide which day it is.
But why does it have to be three days later?
The question that Yan Miao couldn't understand was quickly answered after Yan Zhao returned.
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"Hey, where are my compressed biscuits?"
"Did you eat the chiffon cake? I remember there were two pieces left before I went to bed yesterday!"
"Mine too! Chiffon, you glutton! Don't you have any for yourself? How come you ate both of our compressed biscuits!"
Mu Zi and Yao Lin'er couldn't find any food, so they glared angrily at the chiffon cake.
Besides him, who else would go through their bags in the middle of the night?
Chiffon spread her hands, on the verge of tears, "Grandma, two grandmas!"
He emphasized, "I really have no reason to steal two compressed biscuits, and I have enough myself, look—"
He reached into his backpack, rummaged around for a while, but found nothing. "Damn it, mine's gone too!"
"This is really strange, could it be that a thief broke in at night?"
Undeterred, she rummaged through the bag. "The money isn't missing either. Did they only steal food and not money?"
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