Self-bunning Lady: Volume 1

By Ran Xiaohu

one comb two combs three combs free four combs clean five combs strong six combs jinlan sisters in love seven combs great eight combs unstoppable when i was eight years old i poisoned my father and went to my great-aunt's house to be a self-grooming woman from then on i stepped into the world of real self-grooming girls

• Language: English
• Publisher: Funstory
• Release date: Mar 6, 2020
• ISBN: 9781648570032

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FIRE

CHAPTER 1 - DEAD BODY

When I was eight, I poisoned my father.

My father is a bad gambler.

On the day I was born, he stayed at the gambling table and lost my elder sister to an old cripple from the neighboring village.

That night, my elder sister was forcefully taken away by that old cripple.

At that time, my elder sister was only sixteen.

In our more poor and poor, where women live like ants, casino sales are common.

Even though my big sister was crying her heart out and my mother was screaming for help, she didn't have a single neighbor to meddle in other people's business.

Old Cripple is a sadist, he tortured my Big Sis to death in less than half a year.

The night my big sister was taken away, my mother hanged herself.

At home, there's only my two girls, Second Sister and I, left all of a sudden.

My Second Sister went to the gambling table to look for my father, but he was kicked by my father so unlucky that he couldn't get up for a long time.

In the village, it was more important to bury her in the ground for peace. If she couldn't call back her father, then her neighbors would help to wrap her up in a straw mat and bury her in the back mountain.

By the time my father finally returned, my mother had already been buried in peace for two or three days.

My dad called me a loser, so he grabbed my leg and threw me to the ground. He didn't forget to spit at me again.

My father's fall directly caused me to lose my breath.

Second Sister brought me to the back of the mountain and dug a hole for me beside my mother's grave.

Just as my Second Sister buried me in the pit halfway, I came back to life.

Second Sister carried me down the mountain, and only after my father left did he dare to return home.

After my father found out that I was alive, although he didn't kill me again, he didn't care about me at all.

Second Sister, who is eight years older than me, went around begging for women with milk to feed me.

Relying on my Second Sister's diligence and sweetness, I didn't starve to death.

Second Sister and I live our lives relying on each other, our lives are very bitter.

Every time my dad comes home, it's the time I'm most afraid of.

He would easily beat me and my Second Sister, who wouldn't dare to retaliate and even if I wanted to.

In order to prevent me from getting beaten up, as soon as I see my father entering the room, my Second Sister would hide me under the bed and take the hit from my father alone.

When I was shivering under the bed, I always thought, if only my father were dead.

I didn't dare get out of bed until my father was gone.

Every time I look at the bruises on Second Sister's exposed skin, I can't help but cry non-stop. Second Sister would smile and comfort me, saying that it wasn't painful at all.

I thought then that the worst of life was to face my father's.

I never thought that when I was eight years old, my father would sell my Second Sister in the fall.

My father said that he had wanted to sell my Second Sister since long ago, it's just that my Second Sister was too small and no one wanted to buy it.

Second Sister brought me and escaped from the village overnight, but in the end, we were caught by my father and brought back.

Not wanting to be sold off by my father, Second Sister used a knife to cut her own face. My father became furious and beat my Second Sister to death in front of me.

I cried in front of Second Sister's corpse. I hated my father to death.

The next day, I poisoned my father.

Looking at my father lying on the ground, twitching and foaming at the mouth, I felt fear in my heart, but at the same time, I also felt a sense of relief.

When my father was completely dead, I sat at the dining table, trembling, to eat the food that my father had not had time to eat before he was poisoned by me.

It's too tiring to live. I don't want to live anymore.

However, I didn't die.

Perhaps it was because the amount of poisonous food left on the table was too little, but after my stomach had been wrung for a while, I didn't feel anything extra.

I had lost the courage to kill myself again.

My legs went limp as I walked around my father's body. I went out to tell the villagers that my father was dead.

No one questioned me about my father's death. Very soon, a few people from the village came to help deal with the aftermath of my father's death.

In a place where men were superior to women, if a woman died, she would directly be buried. If a man died, she would be buried at home for seven days.

My father's corpse was placed in the living room. Someone told me that I needed to keep watch for my father for seven days and that I needed to be treated like a filial child.

When the night came and the fear came, I shivered under the bed, tears running down my face but I didn't dare to cry out.

I killed my father, so I'm afraid he won't forgive me even if he dies.

The next day, just as I was sitting in the courtyard in a daze, the village chief brought Aunt Tao over.

Aunt Tao was in her sixties and wore clean white clothes and black pants, with a long braid at the back of her head.

The Village Chief looked to be very respectful to the Aunt Tao, which surprised me.

Seeing the Aunt Tao walking towards me, I hurriedly got up from the ground, completely at a loss of what to do.

Aunt Tao said in a gentle voice. She wanted to borrow my father's corpse to be the corpse of the person at Aunt House to ask if I agree.

I didn't understand what the Aunt Tao was saying, but I immediately nodded my head in agreement.

Aunt Tao patted my head to sound good and then left with the village chief.

I stood at the entrance and watched as Aunt Tao's back figure disappeared. Then, I went to find someone to ask Aunt Tao who she was.

Everyone despised me, who was dressed in filial clothes, for being too unlucky and had no one to pay attention to me, so I didn't ask anymore questions. On the way home, I was filled with envy towards Aunt Tao.

At dusk, the Aunt Tao came again.

Accompanying Aunt Tao were a few villagers and a few women who were similarly wearing white clothes and black pants with long braids behind their heads.

Aunt Tao had the villagers put on ancient clothing for my father. One of the women she brought along changed into an antique blood-red wedding dress, while the rest of the women pasted red wedding letters on our hall and lit two red candles.

Aunt Tao took out a red piece of paper, wrote the word birthdate on it, then wrote the word birthdate on it. Then, she muttered an incantation and placed the red paper between the two red candles.

Following that, with the arrival of the auspicious hour, the villagers picked up my father's corpse and started to worship the heaven and earth with the lady dressed in ancient clothing.

The marriage between a dead person and a living person, no matter what, was a horrifying thing.

I stood at the door of the living room and stared timidly at my father's drooping head, afraid that my father would be brought back to life again.

After the ceremony, my father's body was stripped of his groom's clothes and placed back in the living room. The girl who had been with my father took off her bridal robe and kneeled down beside my father's corpse.

After the red paper with the words' Birthday 'was lit on fire, the word' Joy 'was torn off and the red candle was replaced with a white candle.

Aunt Tao called me over, and asked me to guard the spirit with the woman dressed in filial clothes.

Of course it was good for me to have a companion, so I knelt down beside the woman.

Aunt Tao brought the rest of the people and quickly left. At home, only my father's corpse, me and the woman remained.

The woman looked scared and began to talk to me without a word.

From my conversation with her, I knew that her name was Chen Chunxi and that she came from the neighboring village.

The Aunt Tao was the Self-bunning Lady, and the women that the Aunt Tao had brought tonight were all Self-bunning Lady.

Self-bunning Lady was a woman whose hair was tied up by itself like a married woman, indicating that she would never marry into an unmarried family.

Self-bunning Lady also called her mother or aunt. People called her by her surname and auntie.

Self-bunning Lady mostly lived in groups, and the place they lived in was called Aunt House. Aunt Tao was the manager of their Aunt House.

Self-bunning Lady were all sisters of Golden Orchid Empire, and all of them supported each other while they loved each other. No one would dare to easily bully Self-bunning Lady who was in a group.

If I want to become a Self-bunning Lady, I have to go through a combing ceremony, and I can ask the Aunt Tao to comb my hair.

After knowing that I could also become a Self-bunning Lady, I was extremely excited.

Chen Chunxi told me not to be impatient, she would bring me back to the Aunt House after my father was buried, and then ask me how my father died.

Chen Chunxi's question instantly wiped away all of my excitement. I glanced at my father's corpse and mumbled, I don't know either.

I have already found a way to survive, I don't want anyone to know that I killed someone, otherwise Aunt Tao would not accept me as her Self-bunning Lady.

Years later, I learned that there was a type of life called half-dead, and there was a type of life that was worse than death.

After waiting for my father to be buried at home for seven days, I packed some patched clothes and prepared to return to Aunt House with Chen Chunxi.

Chen Chunxi's family came to find her at this time, wanting her to stay at home for the night before returning to Aunt House.

Chen Chunxi wanted me to come with her, but her family didn't agree. They said that other than me, my entire family had died, I was too disheartened.

Chen Chunxi couldn't refuse her family, and hesitantly followed her family members alone. Before leaving, she repeatedly reminded me not to run around, and assured me that she would come to pick me up the next day.

I urgently wanted to escape from my home, I wanted to go to the Aunt House s, but seeing Chen Chunxi's troubled appearance, I hesitated for a moment before nodding my head and agreeing.

After Chen Chunxi left, I sat at the entrance until it was dark before I returned to my room.

I don't know where my Aunt House is, but the only time I ever left the village was when my Second Sister fled with me.

I could only wait for Chen Chunxi to come back to pick me up.

When I got back to the house, I hid under the bed and didn't dare to breathe loudly.

There was a sudden movement in the living room that made my hair stand on end. I held my breath and closed my eyes tightly. When I heard the sound of a cat meowing, I heaved a sigh of relief before opening my eyes.

The moment I opened my eyes, I saw my father's face in the darkness.

My father's head was upside down and his eyes were fixed on me.

My father didn't move. He just stared at me.

When I had nowhere to retreat to, my father's head suddenly disappeared from my sight.

Time slowly passed. My father didn't appear again, and the surroundings were deathly silent.

In this kind of environment, my trembling became even more intense. My eyes were always focused on the bottom of the bed.

It was then that I realized how good my night vision was, how clearly my eyes could see anything in the darkness.

After a long time, I accidentally saw that my father had already reached the bottom of the bed. He was wearing an ancient dress and was standing on my right side.

I let out a scream and quickly crawled out from under the bed. I rushed into the yard and headed for the gate.

Just at this time, the door was pushed open from the outside. Chen Chunxi walked in with a dazed look on her face and her bare feet.

I stopped abruptly and turned to look. I saw my father, his feet dangling vertically from the ground, heading toward me.

CHAPTER 2 - GHOST FETUS

Seeing my father's actions, I didn't have time to think about anything else as I once again dashed towards the main entrance.

When I passed by Chen Chunxi, Chen Chunxi continued to walk forward with a dull expression.

After rushing out of the house, I couldn't help but look back. I saw that Chen Chunxi had stopped in her tracks, my father was standing in front of Chen Chunxi and looking down at her. There were emotions in her eyes that I couldn't understand.

I knew that Chen Chunxi was very dangerous and I was so frightened that I couldn't even protect myself from stopping in my tracks.

As I ran, I kept looking back. My father wasn't chasing me.

Chen Chunxi's personality is extremely similar to my Second Sister. After getting along with her for a few days, I have already grown to like her a lot. I don't want anything to happen to her at all.

I ran slower and slower until I finally stopped at the entrance of the village, wondering if I should go back and take a look at Chen Chunxi.

After being at a loss for a long time, I still decided to return to see Chen Chunxi.

I tiptoed to my house's gate and looked inside. I saw Chen Chunxi lying naked on top of the blood-red bridal dress. My father had just separated his legs from hers and was pressing down on her body without stop.

Fresh blood was flowing out from the inside of Chen Chunxi's thigh.

I don't know if it's called rape yet, but the blood flowing in Chen Chunxi's inner thighs is enough to make me hate him.

I didn't forget the way my Second Sister looked when she was beaten to death in front of me. My whole body was dyed red with her blood, and her clothes were all over the ground.

Filled with anger, I forgot my fear. I tore off a branch from the low peach tree by the door, rushed into the yard, and beat my father with the peach branch.

My dad seems to be very afraid of the peach branches, the moment I hit him, he immediately left Chen Chunxi's body.

After my father left her body, Chen Chunxi was still lying lifelessly on the ground, motionless.

I stood between my father and Chen Chunxi. My father stared at me with his sinister eyes, tightly clothed, and tightly held onto the peach branch. He pursed his lips and stared back at my father.

After a while, as the anger in my heart subsided, I slowly lost under my father's gaze.

My fear of my father had long since seeped into my bones, and it was not something that could be removed in a short period of time.

He frightened me when he was a man, and I was even more frightened when he became a ghost.

Fortunately, just as I was about to be defeated, my father actually withdrew his gaze and left.

When I could no longer see my father, I fell limply to the ground and began to tremble.

After sitting on the ground for a while, I found a clean piece of cloth and wiped off the blood on the inside of her thigh for Chen Chunxi.

My father did not come back until dawn.

Chen Chunxi just stood there with her eyes glazed over. No matter how hard I tried to call her, she shouldn't have.

When the morning sunlight penetrated the clouds, Chen Chunxi sat up abruptly and looked around blankly. She was dumbstruck when she saw me.

When she came to, I told her briefly what had happened last night. I didn't tell her that my father had pressed down on her and made her bleed.

After Chen Chunxi heard what I said, she clearly heaved a sigh of relief, and opened her mouth to say, that she was probably possessed by the evil spirit last night, and that after we return to the Aunt House, she had to have the Aunt Tao help her get rid of the evil spirit.

Aunt Tao was not only the head of their Aunt House, she was also someone who had the ability to exorcise evil spirits.

Chen Chunxi stood up as she spoke, she had just taken a step when she stopped with a frown on her face.

I quickly asked her what was wrong. Her eyes flickered a few times as she shook her head, saying that she was fine. She then hurriedly rushed to the toilet.

I went into the room to get a bundle of clothes and sat at the entrance to wait for Chen Chunxi. After a long time, she came out of the bathroom.

Chen Chunxi took off her bridal robe, put on my Second Sister's clothes and shoes, then brought me to her village.

I waited for her at the entrance of her village. When she returned home, she changed into a set of clothes, changed into a pair of shoes, and carried a bundle.

She made me promise that I wouldn't tell her about what happened to us last night.

After I assured her, she burst into tears.

I didn't know what was wrong with her or how to comfort her, and when I saw her cry, I cried with her.

But instead of crying, she came over to comfort me and promised me that in the future, she would take care of me and that the people in the Aunt House were all very kind. I didn't need to worry about anything.

When I followed Chen Chunxi to the Aunt House s, I had an indescribable feeling in my heart.

The Aunt House is only an hour's distance away from our village, but I didn't know of the existence of the Aunt House before.

If my Second Sister also came early to comb her hair, she wouldn't have died.

Perhaps my Second Sister already knew of the existence of Aunt House, it was only because she couldn't stop worrying that she didn't come.

The Aunt House Palace is very big, there are a lot of Self-bunning Lady in there, and they are all very kind to me.

There were many reports about the Self-bunning Lady now, but none of the statistical work had been done in place. The existing Self-bunning Lady s were far from being as young and old as the number of people mentioned in the various reports.

The Self-bunning Lady was also not just a unique group of people in the Pearl River Delta.

When I was eight years old, I was only an hour away from my village's Aunt House. I saw many Self-bunning Lady of all kinds and ages, and it had only been ten years since then.

After finding out that I wanted to comb my hair, a Self-bunning Lady took me to wash up. She also examined my body to confirm that I was a virgin.

Aunt Tao combed my hair that night. Listening to Aunt Tao's gentle voice as she combed my hair, I silently shed tears.

From now on, my Gan Mei is also a Self-bunning Lady, I no longer need to live as lowly as an ant.

Aunt Tao combed my hair, then took me to the main hall of Aunt House.

There were many idols in the main hall. There were many wooden poles across the beams, and many burning pagodas hung on hooks. In the middle of each pagoda hung a wooden sign.

Aunt Tao told me that each pagoda's fragrance could burn for around a month, and the wooden signboard in the middle of the pagoda's fragrance says High Fragrance Self-bunning Lady.

In the future, I want to burn incense like her Self-bunning Lady. As long as I am pious when burning incense, the gods who protect her will protect me.

After I nodded and explained everything, the Aunt Tao made me kowtow in front of the deity statue one by one.

After I finished my kowtowing, Aunt Tao took out a wooden tablet and wrote my name on it. She lit a new wooden tablet and hung it with my name on the wooden tablet in the middle of the tower's fragrance.

After all of this, Aunt Tao told me that I am not allowed to live with others nor marry anyone else. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to get the protection of the Gods and would, according to the rules, be tortured and thrown into a pig cage and drowned to death.

After listening to Aunt Tao talk about the rules of the Self-bunning Lady, I nodded my head silently as if I didn't really understand it.

I don't know what that means, I never thought of marrying someone. I'm confused, if Self-bunning Lady can't marry someone, then why did Aunt Tao want to marry Chen Chunxi to my father.

Aunt Tao patted my head, and called one of the Self-bunning Lady to arrange a room for me.

After that, I lived in Aunt House.

After staying here, I found out that part of the Self-bunning Lady's income came from the many manual labor jobs that the Aunt Tao brought back. The other part came from the fact that they were working together outside.

Self-bunning Lady had to pay a fixed amount of money to Aunt Tao every month in order to maintain the most basic expenses of Aunt House.

From time to time, Aunt Tao would go out to help them.

Ever since I entered the Aunt House, I didn't exit the Aunt House's gate until Chen Chunxi came to my room one night a month later.

When Chen Chunxi entered my room, she shut the door with a serious expression. She held my hand and trembled non-stop as she lowered her voice and said, She's pregnant, even if I didn't tell her, she would have already known that my father raped her that night when she was bewitched.

She had secretly found a way out. As long as she buried the things she asked for at night on the top of my father's grave, my father would not be able to come out and pester her. The things in her stomach would automatically disappear.

If a woman doesn't marry, she can only be a ghost after death. She can't be reincarnated.

Self-bunning Lady could not marry a living person. In order to not become a ghost after death, she could only marry a dead person and a ghost. However, nothing happened to her, the Self-bunning Lady's Underworld marriage, and it just so happened that she was the one who was in trouble.

She was pregnant now, so if she was discovered by the Self-bunning Lady, she would definitely drown to death.

When Chen Chunxi got to this point, she covered her mouth and started crying. She begged me to help her or she would die.

I frantically took out a towel and gave it to Chen Chunxi, asking her what I could help her with.

Chen Chunxi said that she was afraid that she would go out alone at night and she wanted me to accompany her.

Furthermore, Chen Chunxi treated me well after I came to the Aunt House. Even though I was afraid to go to my father's grave at night, I still agreed in the end.

Chen Chunxi took me away from the Aunt House due to family matters. Along the way, I folded many peach branches in my hands.

When Chen Chunxi and I arrived at my father's grave, it was already the middle of the night.

There were many tombs, large and small, on the back mountain. I walked in the graveyard in the dark at night, trying not to lose myself because of the fear in my heart.

Trembling, Chen Chunxi took out something wrapped in yellow cloth from her pocket and buried it on top of my father's grave. She cut open his left palm with a knife and dripped it onto my father's grave.

As blood dripped to the ground, my father's head popped up from the top of the grave.

I was so shocked that my legs started to tremble. I pulled the terrified Chen Chunxi and ran.

It wasn't until we ran back to the vicinity of Aunt House that Chen Chunxi and I stopped. I turned my head to look back, but didn't see my father following us.

I'm so tired that I can't breathe. Chen Chunxi muttered to herself absentmindedly.

When the sky brightened, Chen Chunxi pulled me back to the Aunt House. She said that she would go ask where the problem was later.

I followed Chen Chunxi back to the Aunt House. Self-bunning Lady, who had already woken up, looked at Chen Chunxi as if she had seen a ghost.

I didn't understand what was going on, but as I walked, I looked towards Chen Chunxi. I saw, I didn't know when, but Chen Chunxi's stomach was already about to burst open, and Chen Chunxi was still walking absentmindedly, as if she didn't feel the change in her body at all.

My heart is beating like a drum. Chen Chunxi pointed at her stomach, then lowered her head to glance at her stomach.

The entire Aunt House had exploded because of Chen Chunxi's stomach, and under Aunt Tao's questioning, I didn't dare to hide anything and tell him everything I knew about Chen Chunxi.

Aunt Tao frowned, and ordered for people to watch the unconscious Chen Chunxi, and for me to bring her to my father's grave immediately.

Arriving in front of my father's grave once again, Aunt Tao's expression was extremely ugly, and asked me who chose this grave for my father.

I shook my head and said that I didn't know, but the Aunt Tao took me to ask the Village Head, and the village head brought us to the village where the blind fortune-teller lived, saying that all these years, the men in the village died because the blind fortune-teller chose the cemetery.

What is the surname of the blind fortune-teller? Everyone in the village calls him old.

When we arrived at the house, we found that he had been hanged from the beam.

Elder He's head was completely bald, and his hair was scattered on the ground. The hemp rope that he used to hang himself was extremely thin, so thin that I could easily snap it with a single pull.

CHAPTER 3 - GHOST HEAD

The cold wind blew into the room as the door was pushed open. The scattered hair on the floor was blown all over the place. Old He's corpse floated on the thin hemp rope.

The village chief was so frightened that he almost fell to the ground. I stood at the door and looked at Old He's bulging eyes and his long tongue. I didn't dare to enter the house.

Aunt Tao entered the house and circled around Old He's body. She told me and the village chief that she wanted to move my father's grave.

The village chief nodded his head in agreement. I also nodded my head in agreement without hesitation.

After the village chief called a few villagers over to put down Old He's corpse, he asked Aunt Tao how the fine hemp rope could hang a person.

Aunt Tao mentioned that Old He's hair had been shaved.

He who has been shaven has lost three souls, and is lighter than the soul.

The village chief had a look of realization on his face, he was even more respectful to Aunt Tao and immediately called for people to follow me to the back of the mountain to move the graves.

Before digging the grave, Aunt Tao ordered someone to block the white cloth above my father's grave.

When my father was buried, there was a coffin. When the coffin was opened, there was no corpse of my father inside.

When I was digging, I didn't see the yellow cloth bag that Chen Chunxi had buried on top of the grave.

The person digging the grave looked at each other, Aunt Tao's forehead tightened up even more. She didn't say anything more, just told her people to bury the coffin somewhere else and then prepare to bring me back.

The village chief followed behind us and asked Aunt Tao what we should do with Old He's corpse. My father's corpse had disappeared, so would these two matters cause any problems in the village?

Aunt Tao did not stop, she told the village head to deal with it, she did not know if there would be any problems, and would return to the village later.

On the way, I couldn't help but ask Aunt Tao where my father went. Did he get buried in the wrong place?

Aunt Tao said that she also wanted to know where my father's body is now.

The back of the mountain only had one fierce cave, which was just enough to bury my father.

That fierce point was the backside of the main body and was also the opposite of the elbow.

If the main culprit was buried, his descendants would be disrespectful to their elders. However, if the main culprit was buried, there would be people fighting for power and courage in the future, and the calamity would befall them.

She saw that the Yin Acupoints' abilities were lacking, but she did not know how the effect of the Acupoint of Vicious would change after the two forces overlaid each other.

She didn't want my father's yin acupoints to be detrimental to me, so she hoped to see some clues related to Chen Chunxi's mischievous womb. Hence, she suggested moving my father's grave.

She also did not expect that both my father's corpse and the yellow cloth bag that Chunxi had buried on top of my father's grave would actually all be gone.

After listening to Aunt Tao's answer, my mouth opened wide but in the end, my mouth didn't say anything.

Other than me, everyone else in my family is dead, I already wouldn't marry anyone else. If not for the incident with Chen Chunxi, I wouldn't have had any more descendants.

As for me, I won't forget my kindness or fight for courage. I just want to live a peaceful and safe life.

Aunt Tao asked me if I had any other questions. I asked her hesitantly, whether Chen Chunxi would really be drowned to death, and said urgently that it wasn't her fault that she was pregnant, it was all my father's fault.

Aunt Tao laughed bitterly, saying that she knew Chen Chunxi was innocent. Right now, not mentioning anything else, she only said that Chen Chunxi was pregnant with a ghost embryo.

Under normal circumstances, a ghost would have to stay in the human body for at least three months before reaching the point where it was familiar with everything.

However, it was hard to say how much Chen Chunxi had in her womb.

The moment that the ghost head died was also the moment that the mother died.

From the moment Chen Chunxi became pregnant with the Ghost Birth, she had been hopeless. She was in a hurry to return right now because she wanted to find out who the so-called solution was from.

If her guess was not wrong, Chen Chunxi's so-called solution was to create a ghost embryo.

I have already seen the situation in the village, the matter is very troublesome, it is extremely possible that someone was behind Chen Chunxi's accident.

If she knew that the village would turn out like this, she would have stayed in the Aunt House until Chen Chunxi woke up. She had underestimated the severity of the matter.

Hearing Aunt Tao's words, I sped up my pace, I did not want to be unable to see Chunxi one last time.

When Aunt Tao and I returned to the Aunt House, the Self-bunning Lady s inside the Aunt House were all outside Chen Chunxi's room, fear and shock on their faces.

The Aunt Tao had a serious expression on her face. She told me to wait for her there and then quickly return to her room.

My heart was too anxious to know about Chunxi's situation. I didn't wait for Aunt Tao to come out of her room before rushing into Chunxi's room.

On Chunxi's bed, there was Chunxi, who had already stopped breathing and his lower body was already wide-eyed, and a white, fat girl.

Dazzling blood dyed most of the sheets and blankets red. The girl giggled as she crawled around in the pool of blood.

What I saw stunned me for a moment. I quickly walked up to the demon and reached out to grab her arm, wanting to throw her off the bed.

I hate this ghost head, it was her who took Chunxi's life.

The combination of grief and resentment made me completely fearless of ghosts for the time being.

Just as my hand made contact with the demon's arm, the ghost turned its head and bit into my palm. An intense pain assaulted me and I reflexively retracted my hand before retreating.

Fresh blood flowed down from my palm. A piece of flesh was missing from my palm.

The girl spat out the meat from her mouth and giggled as she sat on the bed and held out her arms to me.

At this time, Aunt Tao's face suddenly changed, and she immediately threw the yellow talisman in her hand towards the ghost head.

Her originally black and white clear eyes were instantly filled with black paint. She then jumped up from the bed, in the blink of an eye, she had already rushed out of the window and leaped out of the Aunt House gate's wall.

Yellow Runes followed closely behind the demon, and disappeared without a trace as the demon jumped out of Aunt House's courtyard wall.

The Aunt Tao walked quickly to me and pulled my injured hand.

Just as I wanted to tell Aunt Tao that I was alright, my vision went black and I almost fell down head first.

Aunt Tao supported me and sent someone to make a stretcher. She told me that I had been poisoned by the Ghost Infant and that she would send me to the temple to cure the poison.

I looked at my injured hand and saw that the wound had turned black, and the black was spreading in all directions.

Panic filled my heart, and I quivered as I asked Aunt Tao if I would die.

After Aunt Tao said that maybe she would, maybe she wouldn't, I pressed my lips together and didn't ask anymore questions.

The simple stretcher was completed very quickly. Aunt Tao let me lie on the stretcher and had two Self-bunning Lady carry me to the temple with her.

Along the way, I would occasionally feel extremely cold, and other times, I would be drenched in sweat due to the heat.

When the temperature of my body started to become abnormal, my wounds started to burn with an excruciating pain, and my body began to twitch in pain.

The little me clenched my teeth and tried not to make a sound, for fear I would be irritating and be abandoned on the road.

There was no way up the mountain. There were weeds and trees everywhere, and it was hard to walk on.

I heard Aunt Li, who was carrying me, ask the Aunt Tao how good the Taoist Jingyan was.

Aunt Tao said that she has never seen Taoist Jingyan before, she has only heard of Taoist Jingyan before, she doesn't know how to cure the poison in the demon's embryo, she can only bring me here to try her luck.

She had never been to a monastery before, and this was also the first time she went to one.

Hearing Aunt Tao's words, I gradually felt despair, and felt that it was even more difficult to endure the discomfort my body was experiencing.

When we were halfway up the hill, it was dusk. I was no longer cold or hot or twitching, but my wound hurt more.

I could feel something biting at my wound and sucking my blood, but when I raised my hand, I didn't see anything extra.

Ever since I started feeling like I was being sucked in, Aunt Li had said several times that I was a bit too heavy. Aunt Tao who was walking in front of the group turned his head to look at me, but she was only trying to comfort me that I would arrive at the temple soon.

When I was carried to the temple at the top of the mountain, the sky was already completely dark.

Our group was unable to find the Taoist Jingyan in the monastery, and in the entire ruined monastery, we only found a young Taoist sitting in meditation.

The little Daoist was about one or two years older than me. He was wearing an oversized Daoist robe and had a bun tied around his head. Ever since we entered the monastery, he sat on the praying mat with a cold expression and watched us silently.

When the Aunt Tao asked him about the whereabouts of the Taoist Jingyan, the little cultivator finally spoke up. He told us that the Taoist Jingyan had gone far away, but he didn't know when he would return.

Aunt Tao frowned, and looked at me helplessly.

I was so desperate that I could no longer hold back the tears in my heart like beads with a broken string.

Get out! After a while, the little Daoist suddenly spoke in a cold voice and stared at my wound. He then got up from the prayer mat and walked over to me.

The little Daoist's words made me cry even more. I am already hopeless, and he still wants me to get out.

The Aunt Tao looked at the little Daoist, and the two Self-bunning Lady s who brought me here pointed angrily at the little Daoist, saying that he was too rude.

Still not getting out? The little Taoist came to my side, crouched down, and spoke again in a cold voice.

As the little Taoist said this, I saw an unknown thing with a long, translucent tail appear on the stretcher, and the feeling of being sucked by something in my wound immediately disappeared.

The moment the unknown thing jumped into the ground, it disappeared from my sight.

I stopped crying in my heart. The two Self-bunning Lady s who were criticizing the little Daoist for being impolite immediately became silent with fear in their eyes, while the Aunt Tao found it hard to hide her astonishment.

She was poisoned by the Ghost Infant. The little cultivator's gaze followed that unknown object all the way to the entrance of the temple and then coldly opened his mouth once more.

I looked at the little Taoist with hope in my heart, Aunt Tao requested for the little Taoist to cure me of the poison with a serious expression on his face.

It's so ugly. Leave it here, you guys come pick her up in half a month. The little Daoist took my pulse and examined my wound, then gave me a look of disdain.

The Aunt Tao did not hesitate to agree, and followed the little Daoist's request to immediately leave the temple with the other two Self-bunning Lady s.

After Aunt Tao and the others left, the little Daoist boy squatted beside me and looked at me coldly.

Call me big brother Zuo, I'll send you to your room. Under the cold gaze of the little Daoist, I was at a loss of what to do. However, the little Daoist suddenly cracked his lips and laughed, revealing his snow-white teeth.

The change in the little Daoist's style gave me a shock.

I couldn't help but roll my eyes at the little Taoist before calling him Zuo gege.

My body is so weak that I can't stand up. I still need to rely on the young Daoist to cure me of the poison, so naturally, I won't challenge the young Daoist.

The little Daoist immediately took out a porcelain bottle, poured out a pill, and fed it to me.

After I took the pill, a cool feeling spread through my body, and my strength began to recover.

The little cultivator squatted beside me and told me that he was Zuo Mu and that he was ten years old. He also asked me how old I was.

When I replied that I was Gan Mei and she was already eight years old, Zuo Mu told me that Taoist Jingyan was his master but he was not a Daoist.

I can relax a hundred times, he definitely won't let me die.

But … Zuo Mu scratched his head, he wanted to say something but hesitated.

Only what? My heart skipped a beat and I immediately asked.

However, I am still unable to cure you of the poison. In the end, I will suppress the remaining poison in your body. After Zuo Mu finished speaking, he quickly declared to me that it was not because he was lacking in skills, but that even with his master here, he would not be able to cure me of the poison.

I let out a long breath and said it was fine. It was good enough for me to be alive.

Zuo Mu opened his mouth wanting to say something more but eventually stopped himself. He helped me up and arranged for me to stay in the room next to his.

Zuo Mu prepared a meal and brought it to my room. After eating dinner with me, he told me that it was already dark, and that he would go find the ingredients needed to poison me when the sun rose.

The pill I took had stopped the spread of the poison in my body.

I said thank you to Zuo Mu and nodded. I asked him what was that translucent thing from before.

Zuo Mu said that knowing too much was not good for me, so he did not answer my question. Before he left the room, he jokingly told me that if I had anything to do, as long as I shouted for Big Brother Zuo, he would immediately rush over.

I rolled my eyes at Zuo Mu's back. After Zuo Mu left the room, I quickly fell asleep.

In the middle of the night, I suddenly woke up cold.

When I opened my eyes, I saw that the Ghost Infant had already appeared on my bed, baring her fangs and biting towards my throat.

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I wanted to scream for help, but I couldn't make a sound. I wanted to push away the Ghost Infant immediately, but my hands were too weak to lift my arms. I could only use my nails to scratch the bed.

The Ghost Infant looked at me with its dark eyes. It extended its tongue to lick her fangs, then lowered its head to bite at my throat once more.

I threw my head back and finally screamed.

The pain came from my throat and I fainted.

When I woke up again, it was already noon of the second day. The Ghost Infant was already gone, and Zuo Mu was currently sitting beside me with a cold expression, frowning as he looked at me.

I'm still alive?! Seeing Zuo Mu surprised me and I couldn't help but smile. The piercing pain from my neck reminded me of that terrifying scene at night and I couldn't help but cry again.

Zuo Mu stood up in a fluster, looking at me while laughing and crying while scratching his head.

Gan Mei, that Ghost Infant didn't really suck your blood. Zuo Mu took a long time to force out these comforting words.

When I stopped laughing and crying, Zuo Mu told me that the Ghost Infant had already left the night before when he heard my screams rushing into my room.

After he had bandaged my wounds, he stayed by my side.

In the future, whenever I live in the temple, he will do his best to accompany me day and night so that I won't be sucked in by the Ghost Infant again.

But, Ghost Infant is very powerful, she might be able to suck your blood. Hearing that Zuo Mu said that he would accompany me, aside from being moved, I started to worry about his safety.

I sat up in bed, my head bowed and my fingers entwined.

Although I warned Zuo Mu about Ghost Infant, I still hoped that he would accompany me.

Don't be afraid, I have a lot of health left. Zuo Mu rubbed the top of my head and laughed.

After I eat lunch, Zuo Mu will be preparing to leave to find the ingredients needed to detoxify the poison.

I was afraid that the Ghost Infant would suddenly come back to find me, and I strongly requested that I follow Zuo Mu.

My body was very weak, and I was already panting from exhaustion after not walking far away.

Whenever I couldn't move, Zuo Mu would patiently stop and wait for me to rest before continuing on his journey.

The poison ingredients that Zuo Mu found were all on the mountain. Those poison ingredients were very complicated and strange, he even brought back a crow nest.

By the time he had collected all the poison materials, it was already dusk.

On the way back, Zuo Mu had been carrying me on his back the entire time.

Although Zuo Mu is only a head taller than me, he has a lot of strength.

Zuo Mu said that as a big brother, you have to act like a big brother.

Zuo Mu's words made my heart feel even more warm. After I took the initiative to mention my relationship with the Ghost Infant, Zuo Mu said, no wonder the Ghost Infant chased me to the temple and sucked my blood.

Because I am from the same father and mother with Ghost Infant, Ghost Infant can easily perceive my location and my blood is also the most delicious for Ghost Infant.

Ghost Infant was bloodthirsty, and its main food was blood.

Hearing Zuo Mu's words, I couldn't help but shiver. Zuo Mu said, with him here, I don't have to be afraid of anything.

Returning back to the temple to eat dinner, Zuo Mu used the detoxifying ingredients he collected to boil a big pot of hot water, and then poured the hot water into a bath barrel in my room.

I followed along behind Zuo Mu. From time to time, I would look around, afraid that the Ghost Infant would come look for me.

When the hot water was slightly hot, Zuo Mu sat down with his back facing the wooden barrel and let me take off my clothes to soak in the bath barrel. He warned me repeatedly that I would have to wait until there was no longer any black juice flowing out from my body before I could come out of the barrel.

I did as I was told, and as soon as my skin touched the water in the tub, it began to burn.

Enduring the discomfort I soaked my neck and all the way down in the tub, and not long after, a thick black juice began to flow out of my pores.

When my whole body was soaked in the water of the bath barrel, I trembled in pain.

After staying in the water for a while, I began to feel drowsy again.

Zuo Mu kept on telling me about his matters, and from time to time, he would ask me to remind me not to fall asleep.

From Zuo Mu's words, I knew that Zuo Mu had never seen his parents before and that his master never mentioned his parents to him either.

His master's whereabouts were unknown. He only came to this monastery with his master three years ago, and after coming here, his master often left him alone in the monastery.

In these three years, he had followed his master's instructions and never went down the mountain once.

His master didn't allow him to go down the mountain so easily, it was to prevent him from committing murder before he turned twelve. This slaughter not only affected humans, but also included ghosts, demons, and animals.

The translucent thing that sucked my blood before was actually a demon. Other than having nothing to do with absorbing human blood, it didn't cause too much damage to people. That demon is good at stealth, making it hard to detect.

His master had said that if he killed anyone before he was twelve, the consequences would be very, very serious.

Under normal circumstances, as long as his master used two extraordinary words in a sentence, it would mean that those words were absolutely true.

Gan Mei, call me big brother Zuo. When I couldn't hold on any longer and was about to fall asleep, Zuo Mu made me pronounce it once again.

I called Big Brother Zuo to wake up a little, and after seeing that there was no longer any black juice flowing out of my body, I left the bath barrel to dry my body, then put on the clothes that Zuo Mu had found for me.

The clothes I wore to the top of the mountain were a little too dirty. The clothes Zuo Mu found for me were his autumn clothes and pants.

Zuo Mu told me to stay in the room and rest, he scooped out the water from the bathtub and poured it into the courtyard.

When I came out of the bathtub, my skin was still burning with pain. Adding on that Zuo Mu was still in my line of sight, I did not follow Zuo Mu any further and listened to his orders to stay in the room to rest.

When I inadvertently looked at the window, I saw that the Ghost Infant was actually outside the window, looking at me with its black eyes.

I exclaimed and ran towards Zuo Mu. When Zuo Mu turned to look at the window, the Ghost Infant had already disappeared.

I didn't dare to stay half a step away from Zuo Mu. When we slept at night, I insisted on letting Zuo Mu and I squeeze into the same bed.

Zuo Mu blushed and hesitated for a long time, then lay down right beside the bed.

The Ghost Infant did not come find me. Zuo Mu only meditated and played with me every day.

Every night, I would have to soak in Zuo Mu's boiled bath until no black juice flowed out of my body.

Every time I take a bath, the black juice coming out of my body becomes less and less.

The night before Chunxi's funeral, she told me that I no longer needed to take a bath and that I only needed to slowly recuperate.

The dark parts of my body had returned to normal. My wounds had mostly healed, but my body was still weak.

On the day of Chunxi's funeral, I said to Zuo Mu that I wanted to send him off the mountain, but Zuo Mu refused me no matter what.

Zuo Mu kept his eyes on me throughout the entire day, to prevent me from going down the mountain without permission.

At night, just as I was about to go to sleep, Chunxi's ghost came to my room.

Chunxi wore white clothes and black pants as she braided her hair, just like how she looked the first time I saw her. It was just that the tip of her foot was suspended vertically in the air, causing her face to turn deathly pale.

She stood at the door and looked at Zuo Mu with fear.

Seeing Chunxi, my tears started to fall. I ran to Chunxi's side and wanted to hug her, but my hands had passed through her body.

I was a little dazed and didn't understand what was going on. I remembered that when I beat my father with the peach branch earlier, the peach branch really hit my father's body.

When I ran to Chunxi, he was still looking at me fearfully.

After Zuo Mu cut a long story short, Chunxi began to cry and told me that her corpse was gone. She couldn't enter Aunt House nor Aunt Tao, so she could only find me and beg me to help her find her corpse.

Tell Chunxi that when I can go down the mountain, I will ask Aunt Tao to help me find her corpse.

Chunxi thanked me, and she would go look for me first. When she had news, she would come back to notify me.

I said I'm sorry to Chunxi, but Chunxi shook her head and said she never blamed me, and it was my father's fault that had nothing to do with me.

After Chunxi finished speaking, she bowed deeply towards Zuo Mu, then turned and left through the door.

I looked towards Zuo Mu in confusion, and saw that he was smiling at me with his white teeth bared.

I asked Zuo Mu why he seemed to be afraid of him. Zuo Mu scratched his head and said that he didn't know the specific reason either. It was as if all the ghosts he saw were afraid of him.

My heart was filled with worry that Chunxi's corpse had disappeared, and I did not linger over the issue above.

I mentioned to Zuo Mu what happened the day Aunt Tao and I moved my father's grave for him and told him that my father's body had also disappeared.

Zuo Mu thought for a while and asked me, What are my father's and Chunxi's birthdays?

I carefully thought about what Aunt Tao had written on the red paper on the night of Chunxi and my father's wedding, but I was unable to remember it.

Zuo Mu smiled and told me to rest early, he said that I would only be able to go down the mountain and help Chunxi if I had enough time to recuperate.

After I laid on the bed obediently, I asked Zuo Mu why did my hands pass through Chunxi's body and why did the peach branches really hit my father when I was beating my father previously.

Zuo Mu told me that ghosts only exist in physical form when they are at their highest level. The majority of ghosts that we meet are virtual body s.

The Ghost Birth was a special kind of existence, the Ghost Birth was born with a physical entity.

The peach branches could avoid impurities but could also avoid evil. When objects could cause material damage to ghosts, the virtual body ghosts would appear to be solid.

After Zuo Mu finished speaking, he took out a small peach wood dagger with the word Left engraved on it and handed it to me. He told me to take care of my body and that the peach wood dagger was made from the branches that had the sun on the peach tree and the shadow on the tree, so that I could have the benefit of Yin and Yang.

I carefully put away the peach wood dagger that Zuo Mu passed to me, and repeatedly thanked Zuo Mu.

Zuo Mu laughed at how easy it was to get rid of her. I said that I would be satisfied easily anyway.

In the period of time that followed, Zuo Mu took advantage of me falling asleep at night to suppress the remaining Ghost Infant poison in my body. Chunxi didn't come look for me again, and the Ghost Infant also never appeared again.

As Zuo Mu helped me recuperate my body, he taught me how to meditate and meditate. He also taught me how to use a peach wood dagger to deal with ghosts.

On the evening when I stayed in the monastery for half a month, Aunt Tao came up the mountain to pick me up.

After Zuo Mu came to the temple from the Aunt Tao, he returned to his ice-cold mode.

Aunt Tao did not immediately bring me out of the temple after thanking Zuo Mu with a gift. She wanted to invite Zuo Mu to come down the mountain to our village.

Aunt Tao said that while I was at the monastery, many things happened in my village again.

Old He's corpse disappeared for no reason during the morgue. She was still unable to find his three lost souls. In our village, there were frequent cases of poultry and villagers being sucked to death.

As the owner of the Aunt House, she had the responsibility to find out the culprit behind Chunxi's death.

During this period of time, she would frequently come to our village, wanting to investigate the recent events in our village and see if she can find any clues related to Chunxi's accident.

During her investigations, not only was she unable to find any clues related to Chunxi, she was also unable to find any clues related to the frequent accidents in the village.

The more it was like this, the weirder she felt.

After Zuo Mu quietly listened to Aunt Tao, he did not immediately reject Aunt Tao's request to go down the mountain. Instead, he coldly asked Aunt Tao to begin the story of his marriage with my father.

When Aunt Tao told her about me being bitten by the ghost, Zuo Mu interrupted her and asked her what the two words birthdate for my father, Chunxi and Elder He were.

After the Aunt Tao answered, Zuo Mu told the Aunt Tao that Chunxi had come to the temple before and her corpse had also disappeared.

Aunt Tao frowned her forehead as she thought deeply about it. When Zuo Mu mentioned the Five Tombs Technique, Aunt Tao's eyes were filled with shock.

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