Chapter 1: The Strange Occurrence on Guard Spirit Night

  "It's all because of that child who appeared in her dream at night, asking you to save her! Yesterday night, the two of them came to our home and begged for a long time, fortunately you weren't around, sigh!"

  I nodded, and it turned out that it was just because of a dream.

  "Where have you been these past few days? Did you go see your grandmother?" My dad suddenly remembered this and turned his head to look at me.

  "I... can't remember anything, anyway I woke up under the Huang Ge tree in the town head, right, it was those three people who came to find grandma today who woke me up!"

  My dad's face fell as soon as I mentioned those three people.

  "In the future, ignore those three people."

  "Didn't they come looking for Grandma?"

  "Your grandma is already dead, what else are you looking for?"

  On the seventh day, apart from Zhang Yi happily becoming my grandmother's cane, nothing else happened.

  It was just this morning when I got up and heard my dad talking to someone outside the gate, he closed the door and spoke with the person outside, definitely not wanting people inside to hear.

  I'm a naturally curious person, so I put my ear against the door and listened in.

  "Officer Wu, can you please help us out? It's already been five days today. If it goes on for seven days, our Xiaobei will really be beyond saving. Can't you talk to your Xiaoxian about this?"

  "Wang Ming, Xiaoxian doesn't understand anything, she really can't help you guys!" That's my dad's voice.

  "Uncle Officer, you also know that my wife's body can't bear children, but Auntie Officer is all-powerful and used a strand of Xiaoxian's hair back then, so our family has this single sprout. All these years, the neighbors have known that Auntie dotes on Xiaoxian the most, so she must have passed on her skills to Xiaoxian. Please show some compassion and save our family!"

  The more I heard, the more confused I became in my heart.

  So can my grandmother still cure infertility?

  Why did my dad say two days ago that Wang's sister asked me for help because of a dream, now it sounds like things are a bit complicated.

  How did grandma use a lock of my hair to make Wang's wife pregnant with Xiaobei? If such skills really exist, I'd love to learn them, but after all these years by grandma's side, she never taught me!

  My dad sent away those two and as soon as he came in, he saw me leaning against the door frame. "What are you doing here?"

  I quickly got up, straightened my clothes and explained: "I want to go to the pawnshop in town to see how much money Aunt Zhang pawned Grandma's cane for. I want to redeem it back!"

  My dad didn't say much after hearing it, and took out 1,000 yuan from his wallet for me.

  But just as the door opened, a stout middle-aged man was standing outside, looking flustered and uneasy, holding something wrapped in black cloth.

  As soon as he saw my dad, he shouted: "Wan Shan, I've returned the things your daughter-in-law pawned, hurry up and return my money!"

  It wasn't until then that I remembered he was Old Cao from the pawnshop, and I quickly took it with a smile. Inside the black cloth wrapping, it indeed was my grandmother's cane.

  It seems that this one-eyed man is a sensible person, he handed me the ticket stub. I took a look and oh my god, Zhang Yi had actually exchanged 20,000 yuan for it!

  My dad and I were too naive, thinking that 1,000 yuan would settle it. No wonder she was grinning from ear to ear when she came back the night before!

  "How could you give her so much money?" My dad also looked at the receipt, his face turned green instantly, wanting Aunt Zhang to spit out the 20,000 yuan, definitely no chance.

  Mr. Cao spat on the ground and said with a scowl, "To be honest with you, Wanshan, I'm willing to buy this thing because it's really good stuff, but I just can't afford it, so hurry up and return my money!"