"Ma'am?"
Jiang Chen waved a hand in front of the dazed woman's face.
"Snap out of it. Weren't you summoning spirits just now? Congratulations, you succeeded. And you got lucky-you summoned both of us in one go."
"Not to brag, but the spirits you summoned this time are pretty high quality."
"Look at this face of mine. So handsome."
"Now look at this little girl. So pretty and fresh-faced."
As he spoke, he pulled Su Ling over, pinched the soft flesh of her cheek, and tugged it a few times to show her off.
The little girl puffed out her cheeks.
She was angry but dared not say anything.
The woman was rather bewildered. For one thing, she had indeed been summoning spirits just now, but after her previous attempts, she had only ever vaguely sensed "their" presence. She had never actually seen them.
That was also why she had always firmly believed that it was her family who had returned.
They were simply too incomplete to acknowledge her. As long as she kept summoning their spirits and tricking living people into coming to nourish them, they would come back to life.
This time, she really had lived to see something new.
The spirits she summoned had actually knocked on her door and very politely asked her to see whether the two of them would do. It gave the woman the illusion that she was hiring.
And they were applying for the job.
Only after a long while did she come to her senses.
These were probably two living people playing a prank.
But she chose not to expose them. Instead, she smiled warmly. "Yes, yes, I was the one who summoned you. Come on in..."
Just last night, while she was sleeping, her husband and son had whispered in