Ye Yin’s lips curved upwards slightly. “Before, that person didn’t survive a single night.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Mu Anxiao felt a gust of cold wind blow past her back. She tilted her head slightly and glanced unclearly at the dry well before looking back, her face tense, and asked, “What do you mean by that?”
“Where do you think I got that booklet from?” Ye Yin said something that left Mu Anxiao puzzled.
Mu Anxiao’s eyes slowly opened after the gust of cold wind. “Can you explain it more clearly? My brain is slow.”
Ye Yin let out a long sigh and admitted to seeing Mu Anxiao’s slowness. “Alright, I’ll tell you. This family used to believe strongly in gods and ghosts. The booklet you have was made by them. As for the youngest son of the family, he was a coward. I put him in the dry well just like you. To my surprise, he scared himself to death in less than half an hour. Afterward, their family, worried that I would harm their other children, obediently handed over the booklet to me and left.”
“You killed their child just for a booklet,” Mu Anxiao said, surprised.
“He scared himself to death; it has nothing to do with me.” Ye Yin frowned. “Besides, that booklet is of no use to them. Moreover, even if their family married a woman with a destiny for immortality, what good would it do? It would be better to hand those women over to me.”
“You demon are not only fickle but also stubborn.”
“Say whatever you want. Anyway, if you don’t listen to me, I’ll really kill you,” Ye Yin said, pointing at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao gained a new understanding of Ye Yin’s madness.
“Don’t worry, as long as you don’t kill me, I’ll cooperate with you in whatever way,” she said.
“Remember your words,” Ye Yin’s lips curved upwards, and she turned her back, waving her hand. “Go.”
“Oh,” Mu Anxiao replied perfunctorily, walked to the door, and turned back. “Um, I want to ask you, with so many vendors here, why don’t they sell food?”
“Why don’t you ask why the people here are so thin?” Ye Yin countered.
Upon hearing this, Mu Anxiao remembered what Shen Yan had told her yesterday. She then gave Ye Yin a dry smile, turned, and opened the door, walking out of the courtyard. Immediately, heart-wrenching cries reached Mu Anxiao’s ears.
“Huh? What’s happening up ahead?” she muttered to herself, walking towards it curiously.
At the same time, the sounds of discussion, accompanied by crying, reached Mu Anxiao’s ears.
“The auntie who came out yesterday was killed by a demon,” a young man said.
The woman beside the young man shook her head. “Yesterday, that auntie was telling me she was going to give me a charm to ward off demons. Who would have thought she was pierced through the heart by a demon yesterday?”
‘Pierced through the heart.’ Mu Anxiao was startled and stopped. She turned to the woman speaking and asked, “Excuse me, what does ‘pierced through the heart’ mean?”
“You look unfamiliar,” the woman said, scanning Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao smiled dryly. “I just arrived here. Please, what does ‘pierced through the heart’ mean?”
“I only took one glance just now, and I only saw…” The woman pointed at Mu Anxiao’s chest. “This position of the auntie was pierced through.”
“Here,” Mu Anxiao followed the woman’s finger and pointed to her own chest.
The woman nodded.
Mu Anxiao blinked her eyes, recalling the auntie who had given her directions yesterday, then the fake auntie who suddenly appeared and wanted to take her home, and was subdued by Shen Yan. She thought, ‘It must have been that imposter who killed the auntie. It must be.’ After thinking, her heart began to feel uneasy.