"Honey, why don't we visit the Demon-Suppressing Bureau tomorrow?"
Voices drifted from a house somewhere in Qingjiang Town.
"Let's wait a little longer. We have enough money, but I want to replace our work tools first. Otherwise, it'll take another few months to save up again, and we'll lose quite a bit in the meantime," the man replied.
Hearing her husband say this, the woman looked worried.
"But I heard hoofbeats around nightfall..."
"You're worrying over nothing. What's there to think about hoofbeats? It must've been one of the wealthy families in town coming home late after enjoying themselves outside." The man paid it no mind.
The woman thought about what her husband had said and decided he had a point.
"Then how much longer?"
The woman asked.
"Let me think... Once we replace the tools, we'll work faster. We could do two months' work in one month. I reckon a month should be enough." "A month? Isn't that too long?"
Hearing how long it would take, the woman began to worry again.
"Don't worry. Didn't I visit my hometown a while ago? Dad happened to tell me a few ways to keep unclean things out of the house." "Remember the mirror I put on the door a few days ago?"
"Dad heard about it from an expert. And those old peach branches I hung on our windows? Dad went to a lot of trouble to find them, too." "With those things here, ordinary unclean things can't get through the doors or windows. They'll hold out for a month, no problem."
The woman looked astonished.
"Do those things work? If they really do, why buy a Calamity-Guarding Object at all?"
The man shook his head. "They definitely work. Dad heard about them from Great-Grandfather when he was little, after all."