HLnovel Chapter 74 The Old Taoist Priest in Town
Chapter 74 The Old Taoist Priest in Town
After Cao finished speaking, she reluctantly took out one tael of silver from her bosom and handed it to Zhao Taohua.
"Aunt Cao, Sister Pearl just came to my house last night. There are no signs of her being possessed by evil spirits, so you can rest assured!"
Zhao Taohua pushed the silver that she was offered back.
"What? How is this possible?"
Cao became anxious immediately; Zhao Taohua's words made her feel even worse than if she had spent an ounce of silver.
"With her temperament changing so drastically, how could she not be possessed by evil spirits?"
"Peach Blossom, are you mistaken? Look again carefully. Maybe this evil spirit is more powerful and has fooled you?"
Cao insisted that Zhao Taohua take Yan Zhenzhu for another check-up.
When she was about to step forward to pull Zhao Taohua, Zhao Taohua took a step back and dodged her.
“Aunt Cao, I’m quite certain that there are no evil spirits around Sister Pearl. People aren’t static; she grows and changes.”
Zhao Taohua said calmly.
But Cao still didn't believe it: "But how could a person suddenly change so much? She's nothing like the Yan Zhenzhu she used to be."
Now, even if she stands in front of Yan Zhenzhu, she doesn't dare to speak too loudly, let alone order Yan Zhenzhu around or criticize her for not being able to have children.
"You suddenly had an epiphany, didn't you?"
After leaving those words, Zhao Taohua stopped arguing with Cao and left directly.
Cao stood there stamping her feet, cursing at Zhao Taohua's retreating figure:
"What kind of awakening is this? I think it's just that your skills are lacking."
"He suddenly seemed like a completely different person. I heard that after Zhao Lianhua caught the 'argumentative' habit, she became like this too, loving to argue with people, which infuriated Matchmaker You."
The more Cao thought about it, the more convinced she was that her guess was correct; it was just that Zhao Taohua was too inexperienced to see it.
"She's just a little girl; all she can see are minor imps and evil spirits!"
Cao cursed at Zhao Taohua's retreating figure with disdain, even spitting out a mouthful of saliva.
She stood at the gate of the courtyard, lost in thought, recalling that before the Lunar New Year, she had seen an old Taoist priest setting up a stall in town with a Bagua banner hanging on his back.
There were many people queuing up in front of his stall to have their fortunes told. She watched for a while, and the people who came to have their fortunes told all said that the old Taoist priest was very accurate.
Cao immediately went to town to find the old Taoist priest.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, there were still many people queuing up to have their fortunes told at the old Taoist priest's stall, and it wasn't long before it was her turn.
Unexpectedly, before she could even speak, the old Taoist priest could tell that there was a sinister aura on her face, indicating that her home had recently been tainted by something evil and that she needed to exorcise it.
"!!!"
In that instant, Cao felt that the other party was divine!
"Master, you're right. My daughter-in-law has changed completely lately. She used to be so timid and submissive, never daring to breathe in front of me. She wouldn't dare to question me if I pointed east, but now she dares to contradict me on everything..."
Cao talked on and on about the humiliation she had recently suffered at Yan Zhenzhu's hands, and the old Taoist priest listened patiently.
Finally, Cao finished speaking, and the old Taoist priest's eyes darted around before he immediately straightened his expression.
He said in a serious tone, "To be honest, your guess is correct. Your daughter-in-law is indeed possessed by a ghost, and now it is that ghost that is controlling your daughter-in-law."
The moment I saw you, I saw that you were surrounded by an aura of yin energy.
"You and your son are living under the same roof with this evil spirit. If you don't get rid of it quickly, your lives will be in danger. At that time, even a great immortal wouldn't be able to save you!"
Upon hearing this, Cao's face turned deathly pale. Was it really that serious?
She's not even forty yet, she hasn't lived enough, she hasn't even had a grandchild yet!
"Master, please save me and my son! I beg you!"
Cao hurriedly sought help from the old Taoist priest.
The old Taoist priest stroked his goatee with feigned difficulty. After a moment, he took out three talismans from his bundle, waved them in front of Cao Shi, and said:
"Very well, considering your sincerity, I will bestow upon you three talismans."
"Thank you, Taoist priest!"
When Cao saw the three talismans, she grasped at them as if they were her lifeline and quickly reached out to grab them.
Unexpectedly, the old Taoist priest then said, "These three talismans cost one tael of silver each."
After you take it home, burn the talisman to ashes, then dilute it with water and have your daughter-in-law drink it. Do one talisman a day, and in three days the evil spirits on her body will be completely removed.
This way, you and your son can be safe, and you'll also get a dutiful daughter-in-law.
When Cao heard the word "one tael of paper," her hands immediately stopped in mid-air.
so expensive?
She remembered that Zhao Taohua sold talismans for only one hundred coins each, but these talismans were ten times more expensive, and she had to buy three to completely remove the evil spirits from Yan Zhenzhu's body.
Cao felt a pang of regret at the loss of three taels of silver, but for her and Shengde's safety, and to get rid of the evil spirit on Yan Zhenzhu, she gritted her teeth and handed the silver to the old Taoist priest.
With trembling hands, she accepted the three talismans, deeply grateful to the old Taoist priest.
Cao carefully carried the three talismans home, afraid of losing them, and even more afraid that someone would find out she had such valuable talismans and try to steal them from her.
Having finally returned to Zhao Family Village, they found the village chief gathering all the villagers at the village entrance to discuss something:
"Fellow villagers, Peach Blossom has predicted that in a month, our village will experience a severe drop in temperature and hail, which will freeze the medicinal herbs to death. Therefore, everyone must hurry up and build thatched sheds for their medicinal herb fields to protect the herbs from freezing or being crushed."
"What? A sharp drop in temperature? Hail?"
"But we have cultivated more than 30 mu (approximately 2 hectares) of land, how are we going to manage this?"
Building a thatched shed for just one acre of medicinal herb field is a headache, let alone thirty acres!
Everyone looked troubled; it was only the first day of the Lunar New Year, and they couldn't even have a moment's peace.
But since it was Peach Blossom who said it, they had no choice but to do it, no matter how unwilling they were.
Cao snorted coldly upon hearing the village chief's words, and said disdainfully, "What do you mean by a big temperature drop and hail in a month? I don't believe it!"
Zhao Taohua is so young, how deep could her cultivation be?
Village chief, if you ask me, you should go and invite the old Taoist priest from town back to do a proper calculation. Don't listen to Zhao Taohua's nonsense and cause trouble for everyone.
No family in our village has less than five mu of medicinal herb fields. Asking everyone to build thatched sheds for every mu of medicinal herb fields is just a joke.
Anyway, there's no way my family will build a thatched hut!
The village chief frowned and looked at Cao, reminding her, "If you don't build a thatched shed for the medicinal herb field, you'll regret it later!"
The Cao family owns four mu of fertile land and three mu of wasteland, totaling seven mu of medicinal herb fields. If these are destroyed, they will lose a lot of money.
Cao raised her chin and said to the village chief, "I will never regret it! Village chief, I advise you not to listen to Zhao Taohua's nonsense. It is impossible for your family to build thatched sheds on all 30 mu of medicinal herb fields within a month. You will have to hire people to help."
Instead of wasting this month, we should pick perilla leaves from the medicinal herb field and sell them; we could make quite a bit of money!
Seeing that Cao was unyielding and even tried to persuade him, the village chief coldly said:
"You don't need to worry about my family's affairs. Anyway, I've already reminded you."
When Granny Sun heard Cao say that Zhao Taohua's words were lies, she was the first to disagree.
"Cao Chunxiang, watch your mouth. When has my Taohua ever said anything wrong?"
"This time, she actually didn't..." realize that Yan Zhenzhu was possessed by an evil spirit.
Cao stopped speaking immediately after only saying half of what he was saying.
She glanced furtively at Yan Zhenzhu in the crowd, afraid that she would be discovered.