Chapter 107: How About Both Families Bear It Together?
“Manifestation, manifestation again, Lin Lao Er manifested again.” A villager suddenly said in a trembling voice.
This sentence awakened everyone’s memory. Back then, when Lin Lao Er manifested, he only wrote characters in the air with water, but now he could even kill people. What did this mean? It meant his abilities had grown stronger again.
“Lin Erge, we were just here to watch the excitement, we didn’t do anything!”
“Exactly, Lin Erge, this old Daoist priest wasn’t brought by us. If you’re going to blame someone, don’t blame me!”
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The villagers were inspired by the first one who spoke, and they all claimed that they were innocent in today’s farce.
Seeing the looks on these people’s faces, Lin Xin couldn’t be bothered to argue with them. A very thick water chain appeared out of thin air, binding the He Clan Leader tightly and suspending him in the air.
“Ahhh~” The He Clan Leader turned pale with fright, screaming nonstop from his mouth, “Daoist priest, Daoist priest save a life! Little Daoist priests, you can’t just stand by and watch me die, ahhh~”
The little Daoist priests were even more afraid than him, but the oldest one mustered his courage and walked up to their master, roughly checking his condition. He found that only his skin and flesh had lost moisture and turned into dried meat, but the person was still alive, so he couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Thinking that their current predicament was entirely caused by the He Clan Leader inviting them to collect some demon, they already had anger in their hearts. Then hearing him randomly yelling for them to save a life, the fear and panic in their hearts finally found an outlet. They jumped up, pointed at him, and started cursing loudly.
The richness of their vocabulary, the fluency of their language, the variety of their tones, and the intensity of their expressions completely refreshed Lin Xin’s impression of cursing in her mind.
She glanced at Mo Ziyuan beside her and sure enough saw his jaw twitching slightly. She finally felt a bit more balanced psychologically. It seemed she wasn’t the only one lacking experience!
After cursing until his throat started to go hoarse, the eldest disciple finally stopped. He also felt that his pant leg seemed to be slipping down, so he quickly looked down and saw that he was standing right next to his master’s hand, with one of his master’s shriveled hands gripping his pant cuff tightly.
“M-Master?” Since the eldest disciple knew his master was still alive, he wasn’t so afraid anymore. He quickly squatted down, “Master, what are your orders?”
The old Daoist priest struggled for a long time before barely mouthing the two words “go back.”
The eldest disciple understood and quickly called the other little Daoist priests, sweeping all the things on the altar table to the ground. They carefully lifted the old Daoist priest onto it, wanting to take their master back.
They had just taken one step when there was a “whoosh,” and a shiny little knife flew past his cheek, leaving a sensation of coolness on his skin surface.
“Ah~” The eldest disciple screamed, nearly throwing the master he was carrying in his hands.
He turned his head back tremblingly and saw that Lin Xin still had another identical little knife in her hand, flashing with a chilling light in the sunlight. Following her hand upward, he directly met her cold gaze.
Then her equally cold voice came to his ears: “Want to leave? Did you ask me?”
Although the eldest disciple still had some reason left, it was very little. Already feeling very embarrassed that his master had become like this, he directly lashed out at Lin Xin: “What more do you want? Isn’t it just relying on your dad who’s protecting you even as a ghost? My master is already like this, and you still won’t let him go?”
“Hehe, what you said is funny. Did you ask for my opinion when you came? You barged straight into my home and did all these messy cheating and deception things in my home. Now that you’ve been thoroughly defeated, you want to just leave? Is there such a cheap deal in the world?”
“Then what do you want? We didn’t come on our own initiative. People from your village invited us. If you have the guts, go settle accounts with him! Why come after us?”
“I don’t care if you came willingly or not. Since you’re here, leaving won’t be that easy. You’ve dirtied my courtyard and ruined my reputation. If I let you leave just like that today, wouldn’t it make me, Lin Xin, seem weak and easy to bully? If word spreads later and anyone comes to our house kicking up a fuss, who do we reason with?”
“I don’t care who you go after. Anyway, that old man invited us. Whatever the issue, go find him. It has nothing to do with us!” The eldest disciple simply went all out and started arguing unreasonably.
“Fine, since it has nothing to do with you and your mouth is so tough, then stay and clean my courtyard spotless before you leave!” After Lin Xin finished speaking, her right index finger moved slightly.
A water arrow appeared out of thin air, wrapping around the eldest disciple’s neck, then straightening and yanking him into a stumble to the ground. If the little Daoist priest behind him hadn’t quickly steadied the altar table he was carrying, the old Daoist priest probably would have fallen to the ground.
“Ah~” The eldest disciple had just watched the old clan leader being hoisted up by the water chain and didn’t feel much, but now that it was his turn, he realized how truly unbearable it was.
Lin Xin ignored his squealing and manipulated the water chain to drag him like a broom, sweeping the entire courtyard once. All the candles, talismans, peach wood sword, incense burner, including the incense ash spilled from it, were swept completely clean before she tied him up and threw him out of the courtyard.
Hearing the dull “thud,” she finally showed a satisfied smile and slowly walked up to the little Daoist priests carrying the table.
“W-What do you w-want to do?” The little Daoist priest who happened to be facing Lin Xin directly turned pale with fright, swallowed hard, and stammered.
“What do I want? You’ve done plenty of this cheating and deception before, right! You’ve collected quite a bit of ill-gotten gains too, I bet! I won’t ask for much, two hundred taels of silver. Otherwise, as long as I don’t nod, my dad will absolutely make sure you can’t leave this courtyard.” Lin Xin now felt that Lin Lao Er was quite useful.
“T-Two hundred taels, we d-don’t have that!” The little Daoist priest said with a miserable face, “Our money is all held by Master.”
“Is that so? Looks like you envy that previous guy’s treatment!”
A water arrow appeared out of thin air right in front of the little Daoist priest, even humanely shaking back and forth several times, scaring the little Daoist priest into staring at it fixedly until he crossed his eyes.
“How about it?” Lin Xin controlled the water arrow to shake in front of each little Daoist priest’s eyes, “Does anyone know?”
“I-I know.” A little Daoist priest raised his hand with a pale face, struggling a bit under everyone’s gazes: “I know where Master keeps the silver.”
“Is that so?”
“Little Six!”
Lin Xin and the other little Daoist priests’ voices rang out at the same time.
The little Daoist priests all shuddered together, but Lin Xin smiled happily.
She glanced at the He Clan Leader who was hanging in midair and starting to roll his eyes, thought for a moment, and said: “How about this? Since coming to my house was something both your families did together, it’s a bit unreasonable to make one side compensate fully. Why don’t you two families share the burden?”
