"That woman has the body of a young lady but the life of a maid. She has a fever and cold every other day. I guess she is pretending." Zhou Zhi said with some disdain.

Zhou's father raised his hand to hit him, but he couldn't bear to let it fall. After he clenched his fist, he looked at Shi Mu with a smile: "She has been sick for a week. The hospital didn't find anything. She can only recuperate at home for the time being."

"Is it convenient for me to go up and take a look?"

Zhou's father nodded and led Shi Mu upstairs.

The closer they were to the bedroom, the colder the air became. She rubbed her arms and followed Zhou's father into the room.

On the double bed in the bedroom, a beautiful woman who looked only in her thirties was lying on it. She closed her eyes and kept talking in her sleep.

Shi Mu turned his eyes and saw a small black shadow hiding behind the balcony.

She narrowed her eyes and reached out to lift the thin blanket from the woman's body.

She was very thin, with veins bulging on the back of her hands, and a bulge on her chest. When Shi Mu's fingers touched it, the bulge slowly sank into her body.

This scene frightened Zhou's father. The small bulge had always been on her chest, and he had always thought it was a boil caused by inflammation. He thought it would slowly disappear after the disease was cured. Who would have thought it would become so big and move.

Zhou's father was horrified: "What's going on?"

Shi Mu covered her with the quilt again, and said while touching the red spots on his hands caused by insect bites: "Your wife was bitten by a poisonous insect."

Zhou's father's eyes widened: "Poisonous...poisonous insect?"

Shi Mu held Mrs. Zhou's hand and showed it to him, "The five fingers are red, the blood is stagnant, there is a tumor in the body, accompanied by fever and vomiting, and weakness in the limbs. These are indeed signs of being bitten by a snake." Zhou's father

became more and more confused as he listened. Didn't his wife catch a cold after returning from a party? How could it be related to the art of killing insects? But looking at the insects wiggling back and forth, he didn't believe it.

While he was stunned, Zhou Zhi walked in, "Shi Mu's family does this. She saved me before. You must be right to believe her."

Zhou's father was stunned.

Zhou Zhi had told him about seeing ghosts in school. He had always thought that it was a lie made up by his son because he didn't want to go to school. Now it seems to be true? ? ?

Zhou's father completely dispelled his worries and took Shi Mu's hand and asked, "What kind of dragon did she get? Is there a way to break it?" Zhou's father was born with a tough life. His wife had killed two people, and she didn't want to kill the third one.

Shi Mu bit her lip. There were many books left by her grandfather. She read all about how to exorcise ghosts and Taoist spells. She didn't know much about the cognition of dragons, especially since the characters written on them were all special for dragon magic, which was very difficult to recognize.

Just as he was feeling confused, there was a light knock on the door, and Xia Hangyi walked in, "Uncle Zhou, do you mind if I look after your aunt?"

Seeing that it was Xia Hangyi, Shi Mu breathed a sigh of relief and said to Zhou's father, "He knows more about this than I do."

Xia Hangyi came closer, lowered his eyes to check his pulse, then lifted his eyelids to look around, then stood up and glanced at the shadow hiding in the dark. As more people came, the ghosts with a sense of crisis slowly hid and disappeared.

"Your wife was poisoned by a snake. Snakes cannot cause much harm to the body. The scary thing about them is that they will attract creatures from the underworld to devour the yang energy. Now, ghosts from all directions are coveting this body."

Shi Mu's eyelashes trembled, and he suddenly remembered, "My grandfather wrote in a book that snakes lay eggs and split into offspring like cockroaches. After the mother dies, the offspring will hide in the bodies of related relatives and reproduce again. There was a tribe in ancient times that was destroyed by snakes."

When Zhou's father heard this, his heart sank.

Zhou Zhi was most afraid of cockroaches. Shi Mu's metaphor made him shiver all over. He rubbed his arms and trembled, "Then, what should I do? I don't want to die! Dad, who did you offend to hurt you like this!"

Zhou's father: "If you ask me who I didn't offend, I can still tell you. If you ask me who I offended, then there are as many as your father's hair."

Zhou Zhi glanced at his father's bald head and remained silent.

Did his father have any misunderstandings about his hair?

"Anyway, get the cockroach out. It hasn't grown too big now. It will be difficult to deal with it when it grows up."

Zhou Zhi was a little scared: "How, how to do it?"

Xia Hangyi suddenly looked at Shi Mu, smiling meaningfully: "Shi Mu, you were born in a yin year, yin day, and yin hour."

"..." A bad premonition.

Xia Hangyi: "Yin insects like extremely yin places the most, especially blood, which makes them extremely excited, so I need you to donate some, and then I will use fire to force it out..."

Got it.

It's just donating some blood, no big deal.

Shi Mu pulled a chair and sat beside the bed. Xia Hangyi ordered Zhou Zhi to close the bedroom door and draw the curtains. When the room fell into darkness, he took out the talisman paper and lit it. At the same time, Shi Mu used a knife to cut a hole in Mrs. Zhou's arm and then drew a line on his palm. The fire emitted by the talisman paper

with a purifying effect attracted the insects in the body to dodge and escape desperately. It moved wildly, and Mrs. Zhou, who had fallen asleep, began to struggle because of excessive pain.

Soon, the insect followed the smell of blood and turned its head, twisting to get out of the wound. Xia Hangyi picked it up with the chopsticks he had prepared and put it in the jar.

The insect looked like a cicada pupa, with a black body and a big mouth. When it opened, there were five or six rows of densely packed teeth, which made the few people feel disgusted.

"Burn it to death."

Shi Mu bandaged the wound and hurriedly stopped him: "Wait, let me interrogate it first." ? ? ? ? ?

Zhou Zhi was confused: "Brother Mu, this thing is not even an animal, and cross-species conversation is not that cross-species."

Shi Mu took the sealed jar and shook it, saying: "Don't you want to know who did it?"

Zhou Zhi and his father looked at each other and nodded.

Shi Mu stared at the slimy, twisting reptile in the jar, cleared his throat, and called the names of the two snakes in his mind.

Shi Mu: [You are of the same kind, can you understand what it says?]

The charmed snake immediately rejected it: [This thing is too ugly, it doesn't deserve to be my kind.] The

charmed snake is in the shape of a purple gradient butterfly, bulging and very beautiful.

The creeper snake also agreed with this point, that the ugly thing is not qualified to be their kind.

Shi Mu: [The question is, who gave this thing away.]

The charmed snake: [It said it was a man named Liu Sheng, and his son is Liu Yu.]

Liu Yu...

Shi Mu wondered why the name sounded familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere before.

As she was thinking, she heard a voice saying "be careful". She looked down and saw that the insect had broken the jar. Shi Mu felt a sharp pain in her palm and the evil insect went into her body through the wound.

The faces of the three people present changed instantly.

But before Shi Mu could experience the feeling of the evil insect invading, the insect that had just entered her body was eaten by the vines and the charm snake.

Xia Hang was anxious and took out the talisman paper from his body. Looking at the three panicked people, Shi Mu comforted them: "I'm fine, it's dead."

Xia Hang's expression showed obvious disbelief.

Shi Mu held out his hand: "Look if you don't believe me."

There will be reactions when a worm enters the body, but her fingertips were pale and her face was rosy, so there was nothing abnormal, except... the red dot on her wrist attracted Xia Hang's attention. Looking at the red dot, his brows wrinkled tightly.

After bandaging Mrs. Zhou's wound, the few people left the room.

Shi Mu and the others helped Zhou's father solve a big problem, and the look in his eyes when he looked at them was full of gratitude. In the end, he even wrote two checks to them.

Xia Hang, who was not short of money nor seeking money, quickly shook his head: "I didn't help much. It was mainly Shi Mu's credit."

Shi Mu also shook his head: "I just did it for the convenience of the moment. Besides, you are Zhou Zhi's father. We don't want the money. We just hope you can listen to his opinions more and don't let him go abroad. It will be very uncomfortable for us to be separated by then." These words were from the heart. As a cannon fodder who was killed within a chapter of his appearance in the original plot, it is not easy for the nephew to turn over a new leaf now. If he is sent abroad again, he might learn bad things again.

Father Zhou glanced at Zhou Zhi, took Shi Mu's hand, and forcibly handed over the drawn check, "If my uncle's family were poor, I wouldn't give you this money. I heard from Zhou Zhi that you are living a hard life alone, so use it to improve your life. Besides, you should also get a thank you gift, there is no need. Be polite to me."

Zhou Zhi helped; "My dad is not short of money, just take it and help me later."

Father Zhou stepped over and

said, "Help you, you idiot!" At this point, Shi Mu didn't accept it, and she didn't look at the amount of the check, so she took it and put it in her pocket.

"Come to think of it, did you find out who the culprit was?

" Shi Mu nodded, "I found out. It's a guy called Liu Sheng, and his son is Liu Yu."

Zhou Zhi paused for

a moment and cursed, "Fuck! That grandson!" Shi Mu looked confused, "Do you know him?"

Zhou Zhi gritted his teeth in anger, "Have you forgotten? You were accused of having an affair with Old Huang before, and this Liu Yu was behind the scenes fanning the flames. I beat him up, and that grandson is still threatening me. Now I'm... ..."

Before he could finish his words, Zhou's father kicked him again and cursed: "You are nothing! Do you know that because you beat up Liu Sheng's son, I had to pay compensation and apologize before, and my business was also implicated. At the business party last week, he was still smiling and said it was okay, but I didn't expect him to play a trick on me..." Zhou's father became more and more angry. He heard that Liu Yu was beaten by Zhou Zhi and became stupid. He thought that even if Zhou Zhi had no sense of propriety, he would not be so cruel. He happened to meet him at the last party with his wife, and told him that the child was fine. He never expected that he would come up with such a sinister plan.

Zhou's father took a deep breath and said: "Don't worry about it, I will handle it. Okay, you can go downstairs and play, I'm going to make a phone call." After that, he turned and went into the study, probably to deal with Liu Yu's matter.

Several people went downstairs.

In the living room, Bei Ling was watching TV again, while Fu Yunshen was looking down at his phone. The two were far apart and the atmosphere was tense.

Seeing them coming over, Bei Ling breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and ran to Xia Hangyi, raised her head and whispered, "You are too much. Why did you let me stay with Brother Fu?" Fu Yunshen was cold and difficult to approach.

Before Xia Hangyi could say anything, Bei Ling noticed Shi Mu's injured palm and exclaimed, "Shi Mu, you are injured!!"

Fu Yunshen, who was originally indifferent, finally turned his eyes over. Shi Mu

smiled slightly and was about to speak to comfort her, but her heart suddenly hurt violently. Her eyebrows twisted, and she groaned in pain. Her hands couldn't help but grab the sofa in front of her.

Her face turned pale, and Zhou Zhi panicked, "Brother Mu, are you okay?"

"I'm fine." Shi Mu shook her head. The tight feeling from her heart made her a little confused. Then she thought of the two dragons in her body, and the confusion disappeared. The two of them fought every day, and they might make trouble again.

Because her heart was too uncomfortable, Shi Mu said goodbye to Zhou Zhi and left early. Fu Yunshen was worried about her leaving alone, so he naturally went with her.

After returning home, Shi Mu handed the task of buying groceries and cooking to Fu Yunshen. She took out the check in front of the sofa. Zhou's father was generous and gave her 100,000 directly. Together with the bonus she saved, it was enough to pay back the Shi family.

She carefully put it away and prepared to put it in the bedroom cabinet, but as soon as she got up, Shi Mu fell heavily to the ground.

Her knees seemed to be pried open by a spike, and she screamed out in agony.

Looking down, she saw blood oozing from her knees, soaking her off-white suit.

Shi Mu's lips trembled, and her face was covered with cold sweat. She reached out to hook the phone on the table. At this moment, her heart was hit again, and it was a hundred times more painful than the last time. It felt like a needle stabbing her again, and it felt like a pair of hands twisting her, damaging her internal organs, and her brain was completely occupied by pain, leaving her no room for thinking.

Shi Mu covered her chest and curled up into a ball. Her brows were wrinkled, and her eyes were full of painful struggles.

Then, her face, hands, and back were covered with scars and bloodstains, as if an invisible executioner was torturing her. She could feel it, but could not see or touch it.

Shi Mu bit her lip and slowly raised her arms. Her fingertips touched the screen, and the phone rang. Her fingertips just touched it and answered it.

On the other end of the phone, Xia Hang said anxiously: "Shi Mu, the red spots on your body are not caused by insect bites. Someone used a doll shooter on you. Are you okay, Shi Mu?"