Before I raised my hand, Zhang Jinxia suddenly had a spasm all over her body, sat up straight from her bed, and shrank back to the wall, cursing with a terrified face, "You hooligan, where are you going to touch?"
Sweating profusely, I stopped, and I would never dare to have such an idea for someone like you, even if I was beaten to death. I turned back, Shen Bing stared at me, not knowing for a moment whether I really had evil thoughts, Zhang Jinsheng looked embarrassed and pulled me aside.
"At the time in the hospital, the doctor touched her stomach, just below her belly button, and she started cursing, brother, don't mind it."
I nodded and whispered to him, "Didn't the gentlemen you invited see any stomach problems?"
"No, they came and looked at my forehead, then gave me a bowl of magic water to drink, and then observed me for a while. If there was no movement, they said I was fine."
I realized what was going on, and I turned to look at Zhang Jinxia, and found that her eyes were particularly frightening, staring at me fiercely, like a beast protecting its cubs, which made me feel cold behind my back.
"This disease can be cured, but it takes too long and may be a bit troublesome. It depends on whether there is moonlight tonight. If the moon is out, we will take action. Otherwise, we have to wait until another day." I put my mouth close to Zhang Jinsheng's ear and lowered my voice, not daring to let Zhang Jinxia hear, and then told him not to tell his sister.
Zhang Jinsheng nodded vigorously and said excitedly, "Whatever you say, let's go back first."
When we came out of Zhang Jinxia's house and were walking back, we met Cao Minglu again. He pulled Zhang Jinsheng aside and whispered something. The two of them kept looking at us. I guess he was trying to find out about Shen Bing and I. When Zhang Jinsheng came back, he found that Cao Minglu looked at us with a strange look, as if he had a hint of resentment.
Zhang Jinsheng whispered to us as we walked: "He asked if you were a black market dealer who collected antiques. I said no, but he still didn't believe me. People are very secretive these days, and he is the type of black market dealer who trusts people the least."
"Let him be. We'll only stay here for a day or two at most and we don't charge anything." I smiled nonchalantly.
"What if the moon doesn't appear in the next two days?" Shen Bing asked.
"Let's leave here temporarily before the moon rises, and come back after we finish our business." Of course, we couldn't tell Zhang Jinsheng that we came to see Xiaoxue, and we had to keep it secret from him when we mentioned it.
We didn't go back to Zhang Jinsheng's home, but stayed in a small hotel in the town. The conditions were quite good. Because there are often "cultural relic brokers" from other places here, there are several hotels, and the hardware facilities are also very good. It was only a little after four in the afternoon. I took a shower, changed into clean clothes, and had a good sleep.
When I woke up, Zhang Jinsheng came to call us for dinner. It was already past eight o'clock and it was getting dark. There were a lot of children and the elderly in his family, so we were happy to go over and join in the fun, so we asked him to have a simple meal at a small restaurant. Zhang Jinsheng wanted to pay the bill, but I gave him the bill. It was not easy for him. He had to take care of his elderly and his sister's medical treatment. Although the meal was not much, I still couldn't bear to eat his meal.
Today is the 27th day of the lunar calendar, and the moon won't come out until midnight, so we're waiting in the guest room. The day after tomorrow is the 29th day, and this month is a small month, so the moon won't come out, so I said we can stay here for a day or two at most, otherwise it would be a waste of time to wait for another day the next day.
It was not until 2:30 in the morning that we saw a crescent moon hanging in the eastern sky through the window. It finally came out, and we all breathed a sigh of relief. We quickly took the things we had prepared, left the small hotel and ran to Zhang Jinxia's house. Zhang Jinsheng's brother-in-law had been waiting like an ant on a hot pot, and hurriedly asked us to come in, but I shushed him and shook my head to indicate that we should all stand outside the door.
Zhang Jinsheng's brother-in-law is called Zhang Jiushan. Besides Cao, Zhang is the largest surname in this place. He is a very honest man, a typical farmer.
Zhang Jinxia was asleep at the moment, so I asked Zhang Jinsheng and Zhang Jiushan to quietly carry her out and put her on an open space behind the house. But as soon as she was carried out, she suddenly woke up, looked up at the sky and screamed: "I am so wronged, God, why don't you open your eyes and look at me..."
She stared with a pair of bulging eyes, looking particularly scary. The miserable screams gave Shen Bing and I goose bumps on our backs. Fortunately, she cried out in the middle of the night, which happened about 20 days a month. People in the town were used to it and no one came out.
I noticed that her eyes were fixed on the crescent moon, which confirmed my guess. I guess that she cried out in grievances in the middle of the night during this month only when there was a moon. She must be very peaceful on cloudy and rainy days or at the end of the month.
Zhang Jinsheng and her husband held her down firmly and put her on the open space behind the house. I quickly asked Shen Bing to take out a bunch of incense, light it, and stick it into the ground facing the moon. First, I kowtowed and worshipped, then took out the "Moon Betel Talisman" that I had drawn tonight, slaughtered a rooster on the spot, Shen Bing held the rooster head, and dripped the chicken blood into a bowl of white wine. Then I chanted the Moon Betel spell softly: "The mighty god is so fierce that it breaks the nine heavens. The divine sword strikes and the ghosts are destroyed in the nine springs. Obey the order and do not linger. Hurry up and obey the order!"
The yellow talisman was burning, and when it burned into ashes and fell into the bowl, he mixed it evenly with his fingers, handed the bowl to Zhang Jiushan, and asked him to force his wife to drink it.
At this moment, Zhang Jinxia screamed like crazy and struggled on the ground. Zhang Jinsheng couldn't hold her down by himself. Zhang Jiushan didn't pry open her mouth, but spilled half of the bowl of chicken blood wine. I winked at Shen Bing, and she immediately understood and rushed over to help hold Zhang Jinxia down. Zhang Jiushan then pried open her mouth and poured the blood wine into her mouth.
"Ha ha..." The bloody wine bubbled in her throat and she kept wanting to spit it out.
I shouted to Shen Bing, "Put the chicken head in your mouth."
Shen Bing followed her instructions and stuffed the cock head into her mouth, suppressing the bubbles of alcohol that had just appeared. Zhang Jinxia got even more excited, kicking her legs and twisting her body. Her skinny body was twisted into a knot, and the three of them were so scared that they all let go.
Zhang Jinxia jumped up from the ground, she didn't look like a weak patient at all, she was stronger than a rooster, she spread her legs and ran forward.
"Ah, how could this happen?" Zhang Jiushan screamed in shock.
“Brother, this…” Zhang Jinsheng looked at me in horror.
I calmly shook my head at them, took out another Moon-Bo Talisman and clipped it on my fingertips, chanted the Moon-Bo Mantra again, and threw it forward with all my strength while the yellow talisman was burning. The talisman fire flew forward like a meteor chasing the moon, and quickly copied to Zhang Jinxia. At this moment, the talisman fire went out, and a piece of black and gray fell down.
"You bold evil creature, why don't you come out?" I shouted, pinched the magic formula, stepped on the magic circle, raised the peach wood sword and pointed it at Zhang Jinxia!
Zhang Jinxia fell headfirst to the ground with a thud.