Chapter 79 Remember
After hearing this, Granny Zhang walked to the statue of the Heavenly King and knelt down. She put her hands together and bowed respectfully to the statue.

This worship was not a big deal, but I heard a cold wind blowing in the house, making the candles on all sides flicker and making people shiver.

All I could hear was the rustling sounds of paper statues of gods all around, as if the gods had appeared and arrived on earth.

It was raining outside, and even darker inside. Only the candlelight provided some light, which always made people feel creepy.

But things had come to this point, and no matter how scared Granny Zhang felt, she had no choice but to continue bowing.

Trembling, she bowed three times to the statue and was about to stand up when the old woman stopped her.

"You can't get up yet. You need to continue kneeling until I call the King of Heaven to come down to the world to eliminate the disasters and evils for you." The old woman said, and then went into the back room.

He came out soon with a chicken in his hand.

The old woman changed her makeup, painted her face with oil lines, and painted flowers on her face like a wizard. She held up the three incense sticks she had just lit and walked to the incense burner of the Heavenly King statue, and inserted them into the incense burner. Then she let out a strange cry and stretched out her hands like a white crane spreading its wings.

"Sweep the floor in front of the hall and burn precious incense in the stove!" The old woman sang a strange tune in an indescribable language.

She was wearing a prayer dance costume, like a spotted peacock, dancing in front of the statue.

"God is sitting in the void, and will soon come riding on auspicious clouds! Ouch! Ouch!"

"Which god should I invite? Which god should I meet? Let's first invite Li Laojun of Maoshan!"

"Born on earth in the year of Jiayin, Li Laojun, the ancestor of all things"

"Please what god, meet what god, and then call on all the gods on the altar!"

"The gods on the altar are laughing, and the knife-head toast is placed on the table."

The old woman sang and walked towards the altar with trembling dance steps. She caught the chicken in front of the hall and grabbed the kitchen knife beside the table. The kitchen knife seemed to have been there all the time, as if it had been used for sacrifice for a long time.

The old woman raised her knife and chopped off the chicken's head.

The old woman placed the dead chicken on the altar, letting its blood drip. Then she performed a strange dance around Granny Zhang.

She held the horn in her hand, sang a line and blew it. While she blew it and sang, she smeared chicken blood on her fingertips and smeared it on Granny Zhang's face.

"It is up to me to exorcise demons and drive away evil. Who knows if the Lord of Heaven will come to earth?"

"Please save my life, King of Heaven, and keep me safe forever."

After singing, he stamped his feet and bowed his head. Then he looked up to the sky and drank a mouthful of water, which spurted out with a "puff". Granny Zhang's face was covered with water droplets.

Granny Zhang didn't dare to get angry, let alone speak. She just lowered her head and prayed in her heart.

Then the old woman made hand gestures and shouted in the direction of the Heavenly King: "Heavenly King, help me! Kill the demons and drive out the monsters! Ahhhhhh!"

The magic formula in her hand trembled, and her feet stomped on the ground, making a crackling sound. The old woman shook her head as if she was having a seizure.

This strange scene really frightened Granny Zhang, she had never seen anyone perform such a ritual. After all, she was not familiar with the scholar's family and knew very little about the old woman.

After the old woman finished her words, she stood still. She waited for a long time but nothing happened.

Granny Zhang didn't dare to stand up or speak. The previous scene was so shocking, but at this moment, everything was suddenly quiet. She felt more and more uncertain, not knowing what would happen next. She just felt like she was holding her breath and holding on. Apart from the numbness in her legs from kneeling, the rest was fear.

Just when Granny Zhang was getting anxious and at a loss, she heard the old woman's voice: "I told my child not to cry, there will always be ghosts and gods to drive away the evil spirits."

The old woman raised her face, and the pattern just painted on her face turned into an extremely ferocious mask of an evil god.

Granny Zhang was almost frightened to death as she watched, and then she heard the old woman's hoarse voice continue to come to her ears: "There is a ghost in your house, which will definitely bring disaster and trouble. Now I will call on the gods to eliminate the disaster and solve your doubts for you." After that, the old woman gently pressed her fingers on Granny Zhang's forehead.

With this press, the old woman's face suddenly changed unpredictably, and she spurted out a mouthful of blood.

She suddenly fell to the ground, covering her chest, and looked in astonishment at Grandma Zhang kneeling on the mat.

"Impossible! This is impossible!" the old woman shouted. "How could there be a demon in your house!"

Chi is a demon, a monster that is said to be able to harm people. There is a saying among the people that demons and monsters refer to mountain monsters and water gods.

Ghosts and monsters are different from ghosts and monsters. They are natural spirits.

The ten legendary monsters are all famous figures.

Just like the dragon girl, fox fairy, yaksha, judge, bull-headed monster, etc., they are all ghosts and monsters.

But nowadays, in such a vast world, it is not easy to encounter spirits, let alone these evil spirits? Probably no one would have thought that there was actually a demon hiding in Zhang Po Po's house!

"It hurts so much, it hurts so much!" the old woman cried out and rolled on the ground.

Granny Zhang panicked upon seeing this and quickly stood up and tried to help the old woman up.

The old woman was helped to sit up slowly, but she obviously no longer had the momentum she had just now.

She shook her hands tiredly and sighed to Granny Zhang, "My family has been Nuo altar masters for generations, leading thunder officers and soldiers. Although I think I have some skills, it seems that I have encountered a difficult problem now. The monster in your family is not ordinary, and it is difficult for me to get rid of it. Only a high-level master or Taoist priest can do it."

"Then, what should I do?!" When Granny Zhang heard this, she was at a loss. She was like a headless fly, not knowing what to do.

"I see that although you have been beset with disasters, you are also blessed with good fortune. You must have met a noble person recently. If you want to avoid disasters, you might as well look for that noble person. Maybe he can help you." After the old woman finished speaking, her breath became much weaker. She stood up, found a chair nearby, sat down and rested, and no longer paid attention to the bewildered Grandma Zhang.

Granny Zhang paced alone in the hall, thinking about what to do. Hearing the old woman's words, she suddenly remembered the young man she met that day. The young man said that there was a root of evil in her family, so he gave her a talisman to stick in the house, and then sprinkle rice soaked in wine in front of the door for fourteen days, and the family would be safe.

Young man, wine? Granny Zhang felt as if she had received an electric shock, and her whole body was numb. Her eyes were wide open, as if she was lost in thought.

No wonder she always felt like she had forgotten something. It turned out that she had forgotten all these ways! The young man told her to soak rice in wine every day, but she seemed to have forgotten everything. She even seemed to have forgotten the talisman that the young man had given her.

It’s as if this memory has been blocked, leaving only the days of love with my son and daughter-in-law.

"This..." Granny Zhang was a little confused. She remembered a lot of things now. Her mind suddenly became clear. She even remembered clearly what she saw when she came back that day. Her daughter-in-law, a faceless and picture-like person.

Granny Zhang shuddered, and she recalled what happened that night. She remembered that she fell asleep, and then a centipede as big as an arm crawled on her face. It was rare for a centipede to appear in the winter, and a centipede as big as an arm was even rarer. Granny Zhang was so scared that she screamed loudly, and finally got up and found a hoe to kill the centipede.

When he went out, he met his daughter-in-law, and she said something, and then he became dizzy and unconscious.

"My daughter-in-law is a monster, she is not a human!" Grandma Zhang felt a chill in her heart and was confused about this matter.

After taking care of the old woman, Granny Zhang pushed the door open and walked out. It was already night outside, and the night sky of Jinling was a little darker.

The two big red lanterns at the scholar's door looked lonely in the mist and rain, swaying in the wind.

In such a dark night, there seemed to be an undercurrent surging in the night in the distance, as if something was waiting in it.

Granny Zhang looked at the night sky that was like a gluttonous mouth, and slowly sank into it with something on her mind.

Not long after she left, a staggering drunk passed by, looked up at the scholar's door, and smiled foolishly: "Everything is here."

The drunkard's voice was ethereal and then disappeared in the mist and rain.

(End of this chapter)