Chapter Thirty-Two: Raising Little Ghosts

  The eyes of the cloth doll child are red and full of spirit, just like a living being.

  Cao Jingyu felt extremely uneasy in her heart, and Dànián was raising a little devil.

  Raising a little ghost, many people may think of Thailand's Kumantong, but the difference between them is huge, or that Thailand's Kumantong is actually a continuation of China's Taoist transmigration. Raising a little ghost was originally a very common thing in ancient times, most of which were to send newly deceased infants and children to be reincarnated, but later some people raised little ghosts to make them do things for them. At first, they used offerings that the little ghosts liked to feed them, but as the little ghosts grew up, the offerings could no longer satisfy their tastes, and even required the feeder to use blood to feed them. Over time, people became more and more greedy, and the ghosts became more and more uncontrollable.

  This cloth doll's eyes are bloodshot, it must have been fed for a long time. No wonder this big year used several years to usurp the throne from a small Luo and became the old leader of the Taurus Group. It must be that the little ghost helped him kill the former old leader crocodile.

  Mao Shi Jiu took out a talisman and stuck it on the cloth doll's body. The talisman was immediately incinerated into nothingness, causing Mao Shi Jiu to cry out in alarm.

  This little demon is just one step away from becoming the Demon King. If he still doesn't surrender, it will be very difficult for anyone to stop the expansion of Jiangnan City's dark forces.

  The little ghosts liked it most when others offered them human blood, and what they hated the most was animal blood. They detested these lowly creatures from the bottom of their hearts, thinking that they were not worthy of being offered to a ghost.

  Cao Jing knew this, and the best way to get all the deceitful demons out was to offer the blood of a living being, which would surely enrage it and make it appear.

  Mao Shi Jiu took a cup and dripped a few drops of chicken blood into it, then diluted it with water and placed it on the incense table.

  "Little ghost, little ghost, I have a request, please show yourself." Mao Shi Jiu said.

  Ba Yu's eyes turned even redder as if she had heard something, staring fiercely at Mao Shi Jiu.

  "Who are you? Where did he go? I said I wanted fresh human blood, and you actually used animal blood to fool me. I'll suck your blood dry." Suddenly, a little boy who appeared out of nowhere licked his lips and spoke viciously.

  "You've finally come out, you're so big now." Mao Shi Jiu's mouth rose slightly as he took out a cloth bag sealed with talismans and stuffed the little ghost inside in one swift motion.

  "Now you can't run away." Mao Shi Jiu said with a triumphant smile.

  Just as Cao Jing was about to seal the burlap sack, a sudden blast of air startled him, and the sack burst open, tearing into several pieces of tattered cloth.

  The little demon appeared in front of Mao Shi Jiu again, laughing eerily. Mao Shi Jiu quickly covered his ears, as this laughter was affecting his mind. However, no matter how hard he covered his ears, the sound still seeped through his palms and swirled around his ears.

  Mao Shi Jiu hastily pulled out a San Qing bell and shook it. Trying to suppress the little ghost's laughter, it was clearly effective, the more evilly the little ghost laughed, the more vigorously Mao Shi Jiu shook it, for a time neither could overpower the other.

  The little demon stopped, its blood-red eyes began to change, turning a dark green. Mao Shi Jiu saw its eyes, Mao Shi Jiu's eyes also turned green, his expression becoming dull and lifeless.

  "Fourth brother, come out quickly." Mao Shi Jiu yelled as soon as he realized he had looked into the little ghost's eyes.

  Suddenly a white shadow flew out and entered Mao Shi Jiu's eyes. Mao Shi Jiu shuddered, his eyes changing from green to white. Lao Si attached himself to Mao Shi Jiu's body, breaking the ghost eye's control, and Mao Shi Jiu returned to normal.

  "Fourth brother, hold on to it." Mao Nineteen shouted again.

  A white shadow flew out of Mao Shi's body and flew towards the little ghost.

  The little devil saw that things were not going in his favor and wanted to run away.

  "Master, come and save me!" The little ghost actually cried out for help from the big year.

  "It's bad, there's no time, Laosi will go and stop them first, I'll go find the clue." Mao Shi Jiu didn't chase after the little ghost, instead he turned around and went to search for the zombie's clue.

  It's clear that the little ghost and Da Nian have some kind of spiritual connection, but since the little ghost grew up, it has been disdainful of calling Da Nian its master. Now that there is a crisis, it immediately took the initiative to reconnect their bond and even called Da Nian its master again.

  The little ghost saw Lao Si constantly entangling it, so it simply hid directly into the plush toy and didn't dare to come out again.

  The boss seemed to have sensed the cry for help from his subordinate and hastily threw me aside, rushing towards the office.

  "Something's wrong, Mao 19 is in danger." I felt that something was off at this time and immediately got up. The people around me were startled and retreated a few meters away.

  "Dad, I'm fine, don't go!" I sprinted 100 meters to catch up with Danye, hugged his leg and started acting again.

  "Get out of here, I have something important to attend to." Da Nian had no idea what kind of nonsense I was spouting, and his face turned red with rage as he kicked me again in the chest.

  "Damn it, do you think I'm a sandbag? You say kick and just kick." I finally couldn't bear it anymore, went up and punched him in the face with a fist, without any reaction. Danyan's expression solidified and turned around to look at me, his eyes full of murderous intent, the kind that could kill even his own son.

  "Dad, I was just joking with you. You can go, goodbye." I accompanied him with a smile, but actually I was quite scared.

  He gave me a fierce look and then went upstairs without looking back.

  Cao Jingrui quickly came up with an idea and directly put the laptop of the old man into her bag, which might have the clues they needed.

  Cao Jing Yu hastily walked out of the office and coincidentally bumped into Da Nian who was on his way upstairs.

  "What kind of person are you?" Da Nian asked with a face full of anger.

  At this time a group of men in black rushed up and surrounded Mao Zedong's 19th Regiment.

  "This is going to be a disaster, I'm in big trouble now."

  "You've got a lot of nerve, daring to raise a little devil." Mao Shi Jiu held a sacrificial cloth doll in one hand and a lighter in the other. It turned out that Mao Shi Jiu had been prepared all along.

  "Tell them all to back off, or I'll burn the little devil." Mao Shi Jiu fearlessly faced the numerous black-clad men.

  The men in black all had guns at their waists, they all wanted to draw their guns and kill Mao 19, but were stopped by Danyan, who was afraid that Mao 19 would kill his little ghost.

  "Fall back, all of you." Da Nian ordered his men.

  The men in black all retreated. Only then did Da Nian see that he was drenched with sweat, his face deathly pale, and extremely tense.

  "As long as you let it go, I'll agree to anything, do you want money? I can give you tens of millions or hundreds of millions, just don't burn it." The people present must have thought that Dà Nián was a madman, being threatened by another madman who burned cloth.

  "Let me go and I'll give it to you." Mao Shi Jiu and Da Nian discussed the terms.

  "Alright, I'll let you go. Everyone move aside and let him through." Da Nian said shakily.

  With an order, a passage was opened.

  I should leave too, Mao Shi Jiu is definitely safe now. The little ghost is the handle of the big year. I sneaked out of the building without anyone noticing me. All I need to do is wait outside for Mao Shi Jiu to come out.

  Before long, the sound of police sirens was heard. It was Li Jian Tian and his team who had arrived, just in time. We were finally able to retreat unscathed. The police surrounded the building, watching as Mao Shi Jiu cautiously stepped out of the building one step at a time.

  Give it back to you! Cao Shi Jiu threw the cloth doll towards Da Nian, who brazenly got into the police car. Da Nian didn't dare order the black-clad men to chase after him, or else they would be caught by the police and their plan would be exposed. Small tolerance can ruin a big plan, but Da Nian managed to hold his temper.

  However, my next move made Danye almost vomit blood. I made a ghostly face at Danye, shook my butt, and then got into the police car.

  It suddenly dawned on me, but I immediately thought that I was not his son, and got so angry that I stamped my feet.

  Li Jian Tian was also confused on the other side.

  "Who are you?"

  "He's Yang Guo." Mao Shi Jiu burst out laughing.

  "Haha, all these years I've never seen such a big New Year's Eve dinner, and yet you're making me swallow such a huge blow, your move is too ruthless." Li Jian Tian laughed very happily.

  "Master, when are you going to change me? That thing is too small, I always feel like something's off, it's missing something." I complained.

  Cao Jingyu glanced at me, took a blank talisman paper and stuck it on my back. My body began to change, transforming back into myself, while the blank talisman paper turned into a Ghostly Peach Talisman.

  I looked down at my lower body with concern, fortunately it hadn't shrunk, still the familiar feeling, the stone in my heart was also put down, but such expensive clothes can't be worn anymore, what a pity, the clothes are too big and don't fit at all.

  "Master, why are you afraid of burning that cloth doll?" I was also looking at it from below and couldn't understand.

  "That's his little demon that he raised, helping him with things. Who knows how many people he had to kill in order to raise the little demon to be so big, almost becoming a Demon King." Mao Shi Jiu explained.

  "Why did you still give it back to him?"

  "Don't worry, I've taken care of it on Bù ǒu. The little ghost is temporarily sealed by me and has no nourishment now, it will only become weaker and weaker until it disappears." said Mao Shi Jiu with no concern at all.

  "By the way, have you found any clues this time?" Li Jian Tian finally couldn't help but ask.

  "I stole Da Ye's laptop, I think there must be clues we need on it." Mao Shi Jiu said confidently.

  "You're wasting your life as a Taoist, you've stolen twice today and both times were successful, impressive!" I gave him a thumbs up.

  "What? Is that clothing store the one you guys stole from?" Mao Shi Jiu took a glance at our clothes and immediately reacted after hearing what I just said.

  "You're not too stupid either." Mao Shi Jiu chuckled and I also smiled.

  Li Jian Tian was so depressed that he wanted to cry, but had no choice but to swallow this breath alive. He had to go alone to accept the blame in order to protect us.

  "Master, you say we bully him like this, an honest man, is it really good?" I said with a serious face.

  "He didn't take it seriously a few times and didn't know how to improve, ten years ago when I was caught by him for the first time, he was sitting in this position, now still, do you think what I did is right or not?"

  It seems to make sense, Li Jian Tian has not been promoted in ten years and his family is still not well-off, he must be too stupid. I actually found such a reason and felt it was reasonable. We didn't know that our promotion would later enable Li Jian Tian to become a model for the Chinese police, but that's another story.

  We returned to the police station and took out the old laptop, only to find that many files were password-protected. We had no choice but to invite a computer expert to crack the passwords.

  Clues slowly surfaced.

  And my Xiangxi trip is about to begin.