"With the thirteen thousand added to what we had before, we now have over thirty thousand yuan," Zhao Yan calculated in her mind.
It wasn't the end of the month yet, and she had earned nearly thirty thousand yuan. Thinking about it made her feel quite pleased.
"Xinxin, let's go," Zhao Yan said softly.
"Oh, okay." Wu Jiaxin turned around and caught up with Zhao Yan.
"Sister Zhao, when I saw Sister Jiang watching us leave just now, she was smiling. Her smile was rather frightening," Wu Jiaxin said from behind Zhao Yan.
Zhao Yan waved her hand. "That's her own doing. She's too soft-hearted, and it only harms herself."
Zhao Yan couldn't control this. She had told Jiang Linmin many times not to interfere, no matter what her mother-in-law said.
Her mother-in-law had softened after just a few cries.
This old ghost was wicked. Zhao Yan had whipped her many times, and she would surely hold a grudge. The next thing would be Jiang Linmin's "good days."
Zhao Yan couldn't be bothered to say anything more about it.
"Xinxin, did the DSLR record anything?" Zhao Yan asked.
"The DSLR? Let me see." Wu Jiaxin took out the DSLR and looked for a while before shaking her head at Zhao Yan. "It doesn't seem to have recorded anything."
"Let me see." Zhao Yan took the DSLR and looked through it from beginning to end. She couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
Zhao Yan had pasted talismans on the DSLR, but she couldn't see the old ghost. It seemed this old ghost was quite something. Recalling how the old ghost had deliberately avoided the bells she had set up, Zhao Yan felt that this matter might not be over.
"Xinxin, you should go to bed early tonight," Zhao Yan said.
"Okay." Wu Jiaxin nodded.
Zhao Yan got onto the electric scooter, handed the helmet to Wu Jiaxin, and took her back to the shop.
As soon as they arrived at the shop, Wu Jiaxin received a call.
"Sister Zhao, it's Jiang Linmin," Wu Jiaxin said.
"Take it," Zhao Yan said.
Wu Jiaxin answered the phone and heard Jiang Linmin's scream.
"Master, hurry back and save me! That old hag is back!"
"Mom! I was wrong, I shouldn't have called others to deal with you. Mom, please forgive me, I'll never dare to do it again."
"Mom! No, Mom!"
Jiang Linmin's panicked voice came through.
Zhao Yan leaned her ear closer. The voice instantly stopped, and the call was suddenly disconnected.
She rubbed her forehead helplessly.
"Sister Zhao, should we go back?" Wu Jiaxin asked.
Zhao Yan shook her head. "Go back for what? It takes us over half an hour to get to her house from here. By now, the old ghost would have tormented Jiang Linmin enough."
"I told you, you have to be ruthless when dealing with this kind of old ghost."
This was all Jiang Linmin's own doing. When she had reminded her to buy a talisman earlier, the look in her eyes seemed to say that after the matter was over, she still wanted her to buy talismans, trying to scam her.
Zhao Yan could only say she was powerless.
"It's not that late. Get some rest," Zhao Yan said softly.
"Okay." Wu Jiaxin nodded.
Zhao Yan still drew two talismans every night. After finishing the talismans, she felt at ease and went to sleep.
She checked the time; it had just passed midnight.
Zhao Yan was about to close the door and go upstairs to rest.
As her hand touched the door, the bells hanging there chimed.
She narrowed her eyes slightly and quickly looked to the right.
The stool she had been sitting on was floating in mid-air.
The stool floated towards her and was thrown at her.
Zhao Yan covered her head with both hands. With a "bang," the stool hit her arm squarely.
The window was being violently pulled by an invisible force.
Zhao Yan shook her arms a couple of times. The impact had made her hands numb, especially her left arm, which she suspected had been hit on the bone.
She had anticipated that Jiang Linmin's mother-in-law might come back for revenge, but she hadn't expected it to actually happen.
It seemed this old ghost was eager for revenge.
"Die!" Jiang Linmin's mother-in-law roared, pulling down the curtains and wrapping them into a ball of cloth, trying to strangle Zhao Yan's neck and suffocate her.
Zhao Yan had been careless before, which allowed this old ghost to succeed.
She pulled out a talisman, recited an incantation, and a fierce glint flashed in her eyes.
Since this old ghost wanted to kill her, she wouldn't hold back either.
"Soul-Stabilizing Talisman! Go!"
Zhao Yan said coldly. The talisman emitted a golden light, forming a curved arc of sparks, and flew rapidly towards Jiang Linmin's mother-in-law.
As Jiang Linmin's mother-in-law flew in front of her, she saw the Soul-Stabilizing Talisman flying towards her and was greatly alarmed.
The yang energy of this talisman was many times stronger than any talisman she had encountered before.
She instantly knew she had underestimated Zhao Yan.
Before, she had thought Zhao Yan was just a minor Taoist priest. The reason she had been suppressed by Zhao Yan was that Zhao Yan had used a talisman formation to control her.
The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. She couldn't swallow this insult, but she hadn't expected Zhao Yan to use such a powerful Soul-Stabilizing Talisman right away.
How could a Taoist priest in her twenties possess such a talisman?
"This is the end!" Zhao Yan said coldly.
Jiang Linmin's mother-in-law was instantly immobilized by the Soul-Stabilizing Talisman and couldn't move at all.
Her previously ferocious face immediately turned ingratiating. She forced a smile onto her old face, like a withered chrysanthemum, and said to Zhao Yan with a fawning smile, "I'll go reincarnate immediately. Please spare me, Master."
"I will never interfere in my daughter-in-law's affairs again."
"As long as you let me go, I'll leave immediately!"
Zhao Yan pointed two fingers at Jiang Linmin's mother-in-law's forehead. "It's not about her anymore; it's about you and me."
"You came with the intention of killing me. Now you want me to let you go. Do you think that's possible!"
"Therefore, there's no room for negotiation."
"I've already been registered in the ghost messenger's reincarnation ledger. If you destroy my soul, you will surely anger the ghost messengers!" Jiang Linmin's mother-in-law completely panicked, her tone becoming increasingly fearful.
"Do you think I'm afraid?" Zhao Yan said coldly.
With the infusion of yang energy, with a slight sound, Jiang Linmin's mother-in-law's soul expanded like an inflating balloon. After reaching a certain size, it could no longer withstand the yang energy and instantly exploded from within with a bang.
From the moment this old ghost controlled the stool to throw at her, Zhao Yan had already sentenced her to complete annihilation.
She wouldn't show mercy.
As for the ghost messengers, Zhao Yan sneered inwardly. This old ghost had been wealthy in her past life and thought she was still a big shot after death.
Even if the ghost messengers came for the old ghost, she wouldn't be afraid at all. She hadn't never seen ghost messengers before.
Using them to threaten her was utterly ridiculous.
"Sister Zhao, it was a bit noisy downstairs. Did something happen?" Wu Jiaxin got out of bed, rubbing her eyes as she spoke to Zhao Yan.
Zhao Yan: "A detestable old dog came just now. It took a little time to deal with it. It's all fine now."