The protagonist chased the villain, and Tiandao screamed in anger

As a last resort, Wanxiang called Master Xiao at dawn.

"Bang!" Master Xiao kicked the door open from the outside. The wooden bars blocking the door broke and rolled to the ground. The stale smell in the room was dispersed by the fresh air.

Mrs. Xiao was exhausted and struggled to hold on until dawn. She just fainted from exhaustion but was awakened by the violent sound of the door breaking.

"Ah! Don't come over here! Don't come over here!"

She reflexively huddled into the quilt, covering her head and shrinking back.

"Madam, Ruoyun, what happened?" Mr. Xiao pulled back the quilt and saw that Madam Xiao's face was pale, her eyes were dark blue, she was sweating all over, and she was trembling.

Vaguely recognizing that it was her husband's voice, Mrs. Xiao had no time to think about it. She threw herself into his arms as if she had found support.

"Master, save me, Master"

"Xiao Yu wants to harm me! Xiao Yu wants to harm me!"

Madam Xiao cried and wailed, but even in her panic, she didn't say anything that she shouldn't have said.

Before Mr. Xiao could frown and ask the reason, Mrs. Xiao heard another person's voice coming from the room, which made her cry and shout pause.

"Mother, why do you say that?"

He raised his head from in front of Xiao's father and moved his gaze forward, and suddenly saw Xiao Yu standing there.

The morning light was warm, shining on each other's shoulders, and the shadows cast under their feet were clearly visible.

It looked perfectly normal, but in Mrs. Xiao's eyes, it was a trick from an evil spirit and a sinister provocation.

"Did you have a nightmare? You and Yu'er have been so close to each other. You must have been too tired recently."

Father Xiao was a broad-minded man and did not think that his son had any bad intentions. Seeing that Mrs. Xiao was in an abnormal mood, he frowned and could only attribute her nonsense to a nightmare.

"...Yes, it was a nightmare. The dream was too real. I... was a little hysterical." Mrs. Xiao was speechless. In front of Xiao Yu, she naturally couldn't say anything else. She could only continue to follow what Xiao's father said.

"Let's ask a doctor to come and take a look." Although it didn't look like anything serious, Xiao's father made the trip anyway, so he asked the servants to ask a doctor to come and take a look.

It turned out that there was no illness. The old doctor stroked his long beard and said that it was just palpitations and fright. He prescribed some tranquilizers and told the patient to rest.

That was all. Father Xiao asked the old doctor to feel the pulse of his eldest son. Hearing from the doctor with extraordinary medical skills that his eldest son was in good health, he felt even better.

"Okay, take good care of your wife. Rest for the next two days and don't go out."

Father Xiao still had some things to take care of, so he instructed Madam Xiao's maid, tidied his clothes, and strode away with Xiao Yu.

Mrs. Xiao naturally didn't want to let the matter go. She waited obediently for Xiao's father to leave, then called Wanxiang to ask how the task she had assigned her last night was going.

"Madam, Mother Lin has already invited the Taoist priest from Lingqing Temple, and he is waiting in the side courtyard!" Wanxiang explained truthfully.

Mrs. Xiao suddenly gained strength and found out that Xiao's father had gone with Xiao Yu to investigate the merchants today and was not at home. She secretly ordered someone to bring the Taoist priest to Qingxi Courtyard for investigation.

"how?"

Madam Xiao looked at the Taoist priest's mysterious expression and asked.

He is a well-known Taoist priest in Lingqing Temple. He is wearing a grey Taoist robe and a black hat, and looks like an immortal.

"Madam, the feng shui of this yard is yin, with a lot of water vapor, and the yin is strong and the yang is weak. It is not a good place."

The Taoist priest waved his dustpan, stopped and walked, and looked around.

"Then, can you tell if there are any evil ghosts in this courtyard?" Mrs. Xiao asked tentatively.

"Spirits require a lot of energy, and it only takes a moment..." The Taoist priest didn't say it clearly, but held his sleeves with a hint of meaning.

Mrs. Xiao understood and immediately took out some change from her sleeve and stuffed it into the Taoist priest's hand. "Money is not a problem, I just want you to perform a good ritual in my house to drive away the evil spirits."

"That's easy, but we need to prepare materials to open the altar..."

"Don't worry about these Taoist priests, just leave them to the mansion to prepare!"

After getting the Taoist's promise, Madam Xiao anxiously ordered the people around her to prepare the necessary materials. In her haste, she even forgot to ask Mr. Xiao for permission.

Perhaps because they were busy, Master Xiao and Xiao Yu had not shown up for several days.

On the day of the opening ceremony, the altar was placed in the center of the Xiao Mansion facing Qingxi Courtyard. The Taoist priest held a peach wood sword and a yellow talisman, chanting something while performing spells.

Madam Xiao was sitting in the corner, holding in her hand a piece of talisman paper folded into a triangle that she had obtained from the Taoist priest.

Relying on this talisman paper, she spent two nights safely. Now Madam Xiao has great trust in the Taoist priest from Lingqing Temple. She hopes that he can subdue the evil ghost so that she can be safe in the future.

The Taoist priest cast a spell and chanted an incantation, with his sword pointing directly to the southeast corner.

Suddenly, a strong wind blew up, and half of the sky was covered with haze.

As the Taoist priest pointed his wooden sword, a black smoke suddenly rushed out from the southeast corner, and several yellow talismans suddenly hung in the air and rushed towards the black smoke together.

The black smoke was forced to flee in all directions by the yellow talisman, and it overturned the magic platform and made the old trees rustle in panic.

In the end, the black smoke was no match for the power of the yellow talisman and was pressed down onto the bluestone ground.

The peach wood sword wrapped in the yellow talisman pierced into the black smoke's body, causing a roar.

In a trance, Madam Xiao saw Xiao Yu's face in the black smoke. She was horrified, but she forced herself to calm down after seeing the Taoist priest kill him.

"The evil spirit has been eliminated, Madam, you can rest assured."

The Taoist priest wiped his sweat, put down his peach wood sword, turned around and spoke to Madam Xiao.

"Thank you, Taoist Priest. Thank you very much!"

Madam Xiao ordered her servant to hand over the money bag, and her heart finally settled. After the venue was cleared, she looked at the remaining ashes on the stone slab and sighed:

"Don't blame me. Who asked you to block my way?"

"I was not smart when I was a human, and I became a ghost, and then I was eliminated. Who can I blame... In the next life, don't run into me again."

"Don't worry, Qi'er will manage the Xiao family for you."

“Haha…hahahahahaha”

As she spoke, Madam Xiao laughed out loud with the attitude of a winner, feeling proud of her superior skills.

Madam Xiao smiled vigorously, staring at the shadow with a smile that grew stronger and stronger, but she never noticed the increasingly dark environment around her, and the shadows hidden in the dark, gathering and moving...

"what!"

A shrill scream came from the room, piercing the ears of everyone outside the door.

"Has she always been like this?"

"Master, it's been three days in a row. Ever since she returned to the courtyard, Madam has locked herself in. I don't know..." Before Wanxiang could finish her words, Master Xiao raised his hand to stop her.

Several people listened to the sounds of Mrs. Xiao crying and laughing in the room, and they were all speechless.