A Courtyard Full of Snakes

Old Madam Zhou stormed into the front yard, glaring at Zhou Wanwan who was eating breakfast, and demanded, "Zhou Wanwan, what's inside this house? Why did we all encounter ghosts last night?"

Zhou Wanwan looked at her and said:

"A ghost? Old Madam Zhou, we've lived here for so long and have never encountered anything like this before."

Don't scare me, I'm terrified of ghosts.

Old Madam Zhou pointed at her nose and scolded, "You did this on purpose! You arranged all those ghosts, didn't you?"

Zhou Wanwan looked at her and said, "Old Madam Zhou, don't make false accusations. I was sleeping all night and didn't do anything."

Old Madam Zhou laughed heartily:

Did you think we were going to leave?

"Don't worry, I absolutely won't leave. 1600 taels of silver, why would I leave? You just wait and see."

She returned to the side courtyard, where Zhou Fuyu's legs were trembling. "Mother, let's go! I have a feeling something's not right here."

Old Madam Zhou snorted coldly and said:

"We paid 1600 taels of silver, why should we leave?"

I was thinking, how do I deal with them? These ghosts are all fake; where in the world do ghosts come from?

Feng Wancai said blankly, "I will never get married again, I will never get married again, I will never get married again."

Yang Hongmei slapped him across the face and said:

"If you don't get married, how will you carry on the Feng Clan family line? What nonsense are you talking about?"

"This was all Zhou Wanwan's doing. Don't be afraid, she just wants to get rid of us."

Old Madam Zhou calmed herself down and said:

"I met a wandering sorcerer who was very skilled; he knew how to control beasts."

"Let's call this person back, then find some wild animals to scare Zhou Wanwan to death."

Yang Hongmei nodded and said, "That's a good idea."

Old Madam Zhou suddenly said, "If we could get the Princess, Liu Su'e, and Zhou Fusheng all killed, wouldn't we be the ones calling the shots in this family?"

Yang Hongmei nodded and said, "Let's go all the way and do it this way!"

Sure enough, in the afternoon, a person dressed in a blue robe walked into the house.

Old Madam Zhou took out 100 taels of silver and said, "Are you confident you can deal with them?"

The man laughed loudly:

"Your question is unnecessary. Many ladies know me; I'm quite capable."

I can control hundreds of snakes, and also centipedes and scorpions...

Just you wait and see! But it's not good to do it in broad daylight; we'll have to wait until night.

Old Madam Zhou nodded and said, "Evening is the best time, sir. You should rest first."

Night fell quickly, and the man continued playing his flute while pulling several snakes from his waist.

Soon, several snakes crawled into the yard, and after a while, the yard was full of snakes.

They were so densely packed, it looked quite frightening.

Old Madam Zhou shrank to one side in fright and said, "So many snakes, there must be several hundred of them!"

Yang Hongmei glanced at them and said, "Not only are there snakes, but I also saw a lot of scorpions and centipedes! This family is definitely doomed."

The blue-robed Daoist laughed loudly:

"I've already told you I'm very capable, why don't you believe me?"

Everyone in this room will die at my hands. I used this method to kill an entire family before.

But after I finish killing them, 100 taels of silver won't be enough.

Old Madam Zhou nodded and said, "If you can kill the person next door, I'll give you 200 taels of silver."

Just kidding, if the person next door dies, they'll have no shortage of money, won't they?

Zhou Wanwan won tens of millions of taels!

The Old Scholar Tree looked at the poisonous creatures and said, "They really don't know what's good for them."

The Old Ancestor said, "What do we do now?"

The Old Scholar Tree scoffed and said, "It's not like he's the only one who can summon poisonous creatures. Let's summon some too, and see who can summon more. I'm going to have a competition with him today."

The Old Ancestor chuckled and said, "I'll go and summon all those poisonous creatures now."

It's not like Zhou Wanwan's house doesn't have snakes.

When Lingbao was on the mountain, many of his friends were snakes.

Later, Zhou Wanwan kept these snakes at home, but little did she know that the snakes' reproductive ability would become stronger and stronger.

One litter after another.

They now have hundreds of snakes in their house, but these snakes don't usually come out; they just hide in the backyard.

Now that they heard the summons, they all came out.

These are no ordinary snakes; they eat ginseng and drink spiritual spring water every day, making them far more powerful than ordinary snakes.

Their heads are several times larger than those of ordinary snakes.

Zhou Wanwan said with a smile, "Don't they like to play? Why don't you play with them?"

The Old Scholar Tree went out to call for help, while the blue-robed Daoist still didn't realize there was anything wrong, as more and more snakes gathered around him.

He boasted smugly:

"See that? That's real skill. Everyone in the capital knows about my snake-driving abilities."

Many families in the capital like to invite me over.

Old Madam Zhou was terrified. How could there be so many snakes?

She said, trembling, "Daoist Master, isn't this too much? That's about enough. Why are you getting so many snakes for just one child?"

The Daoist priest calmly replied, "Didn't you say it had to be a fatal blow? The more snakes, the better."

After he finished speaking, he began directing the snakes to the neighboring yard.

But the snakes weren't going to listen to him; they were everywhere.

The Daoist priest then realized something was wrong, wiped the sweat from his brow, and said, "This is strange! Logically, they should have left, so why are they gathering in ever-increasing numbers?"

The entire yard was teeming with snakes, so numerous and densely packed that it sent chills down one's spine.

Zhou Fuyu was so frightened that he stood up on the chair and said, "Quick... quickly get these snakes out of here, they're too scary!"

Feng Wancai, who was standing nearby, was trembling with fear. The snakes rushed towards him, scaring him so much that he wet himself.

He held Yang Hongmei's hand and said:

"Mom, I want to go home, I want to go home right now, this place is not right at all."

I felt something was off last night; I dreamt that I got married.

Then, along with a skull, they lay in a coffin.

Yang Hongmei was terrified; what happened to her yesterday was even more frightening!

Her face was covered in maggots, and she suddenly vomited.

The Daoist priest kept wiping the sweat from his brow, saying, "Too much, too much! Something's not right, something's not right, how could there be so much?"

At first, he was quite proud of himself, thinking he was much better than his master.

His master could only summon a hundred snakes, but I have hundreds now!

But the snakes gathered in greater numbers, numbering in the thousands, and surrounded them.

Old Man Zhou shouted, "Daoist priest, get all these snakes to retreat! What will happen if this continues?"

The Daoist priest, his face deathly pale, exclaimed, "It's over! Something's not right! These weren't snakes I summoned at all. Do you think I didn't want them to retreat? They can't!"

Not only snakes, but scorpions, centipedes, and spiders all came, Manman the whole room!

That's terrifying!