The stone lions on both sides are baring their teeth and claws, and the stone beads in their mouths are covered with a thin layer of ice.
Fang Fang raised her hand and knocked on the door. An impatient shout came from inside: "Who is it? Are you looking to die in this freezing weather?"
The door had barely opened a crack when Fang Fang burst inside!
"Stop her! Stop this madwoman!" the servant shouted shrilly.
Deep within the courtyard, Fang Fang ran wildly, passing through the ornately decorated corridors and stepping on the snow-covered bluestone slabs, while the servants chasing behind her brandished sticks and roared angrily.
"How dare a lowly commoner trespass into the Zhou residence? You're courting death!" A burly guard swung an iron rake and smashed it down hard on the back of her head!
At the critical moment, the wooden carving suddenly emitted a burst of golden light, and an invisible barrier blocked all the attacks!
"Sorcery! This woman knows sorcery!" The servants retreated in terror.
Upon hearing the news, Master Zhou rushed over, wrapped in a thick mink coat, his jade belt gleaming in the snow.
He narrowed his triangular eyes, staring greedily at the wooden carving in Fang Fang's hand: "Grab her! That thing must be a treasure!"
Fang Fang ignored him and kicked open the granary door.
Inside the granary, there were mountains of rice and wheat, and on top of the grain piles, a huge black worm was coiled, its carapace gleaming with a cold, metallic light, and as its mouthparts moved, countless grains flew into its mouth.
Master Zhou grinned maliciously outside the door: "You vile woman, do you know what this is? A golden silkworm from the Western Regions! It eats grain, and as long as there is enough grain, it can spit out real gold!"
Fang Fang ignored him and simply held the wooden carving high.
In an instant, golden light exploded!
A phantom of a blue phoenix emerged from the wooden carving, its long cry clear and melodious like tearing silk, its sharp claws piercing fiercely into the golden silkworm's shell!
The black insect let out a piercing screech and its body writhed wildly, but the Azure Phoenix's beak pierced its head like a sharp sword, spraying black blood that turned into golden dust in mid-air.
Master Zhou collapsed to the ground, his face ashen: "No, my golden silkworm, my gold hasn't come out yet!"
"Haha, hahaha!" The woman burst into unrestrained laughter.
No wonder, no wonder their grain harvest this year was so low, it turns out it was all eaten by this monstrous insect!
After the monstrous insect devoured most of the food, the Zhou family went even further and stole their last remaining rations!
"She's gone mad! This woman has gone mad!" Old Master Zhou roared.
"Why aren't you taking him down yet!"
The woman closed her eyes. She had completed the task assigned by the Mountain Goddess and destroyed the insect. What did it matter if she died?
It's just my daughter...
She sighed inwardly.
"Let her die, let her die!" Old Master Zhou was furious.
Countless long swords slashed down.
Golden light reappeared, blasting everyone away.
A real phoenix flew out of the wooden carving and landed beside the woman.
The cry of the phoenix is like the shattering of jade in Kunlun, making it sound like a dream.
When everyone woke up, they were all knocked to the ground by the wings of the phoenix, coughing up mouthfuls of blood. The woman in front of them and the grain in the granary had also disappeared.
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