Ultimate Village Doctor

Chapter Two Hundred and Forty-Three

Song Yi had been lying in Long Xiaoshan's arms, filled with immense fear.

Suddenly, the sounds of the chaotic ghosts outside ceased abruptly, and her consciousness gradually regained clarity.

She was about to wake Long Xiaoshan to ask what had happened.

However, she quickly realized that Long Xiaoshan was completely still, even his breathing and heartbeat had stopped.

In the earlier confusion, Song Yi hadn't heard clearly what Long Xiaoshan had said.

Therefore, she thought that Long Xiaoshan had suffered an accident and was overpowered by the ghosts. Although she was often outspoken, she still felt quite guilty that Long Xiaoshan had encountered trouble in her home.

She hurriedly laid Long Xiaoshan on the bed and began to try to resuscitate him.

Song Yi had learned a bit of first aid, and in her urgency, she disregarded the propriety of their genders, performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on him.

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Long Xiaoshan showed no sign of revival.

Song Yi grew more and more scared, continuously calling out Long Xiaoshan's name.

At this moment, Long Xiaoshan's divine soul floated back from outside, witnessing this scene.

His divine soul quickly returned to his body.

Long Xiaoshan's eyes snapped open abruptly.

Song Yi felt something was off, opened her eyes, and saw Long Xiaoshan staring wide-eyed at her.

With a shriek, Song Yi quickly leaned back, and in her haste, her head struck the carved wooden railing of the bed, eliciting another cry of pain.

Long Xiaoshan sat up and looked at her with a half-smile, "Why are you taking advantage of me while I'm exorcising ghosts?"

"Taking advantage of your sister!"

Song Yi's vision darkened, and she nearly fainted from anger.

She had never seen such a shameless little ghost.

Who was taking advantage of whom, exactly?

She rubbed her mouth forcefully, said angrily, "Were you pretending to be dead on purpose? I called your name for so long and you didn't respond."

"Didn't I tell you I was going to exorcise ghosts and that you shouldn't touch me if my body becomes still later?" Long Xiaoshan said.

"When did you say that?" Song Yi yelled.

"I did say it, maybe you were too scared to hear clearly," Long Xiaoshan replied innocently.

"I..."

Song Yi wanted to retort, but she dimly remembered that Long Xiaoshan seemed to have mentioned something earlier. However, her mind had been muddled by the noise of the haunting, and she couldn't hear clearly.

"You're exorcising ghosts, so why pretend to be dead?"

"You don't understand, that was Daoist magic. Did you feel it? There are no more ghosts in the house now," Long Xiaoshan said with an air of pride.

Song Yi paused slightly and indeed.

The strange and eerie ghostly noises had indeed disappeared from the house.

Moreover, from the moment Long Xiaoshan's heartbeat and breathing stopped, those sounds had simultaneously ceased.

At this thought, Song Yi had already forgotten about arguing with Long Xiaoshan.

After all, she had been tormented by the haunting for nearly half a year and now to return to tranquility overnight filled her with surprise and delight. She said, "Is it true? Have all the ghosts been driven away by you?"

"Of course, if you don't believe it, you can go out and feel for yourself."

Song Yi nodded, got off the bed, and walked out. She felt that the room was very quiet, and even the cold, gloomy air had vanished.

Walking into the yard, the moonlight spilled from the sky, coating the courtyard in a layer of silver, making it appear very tranquil and peaceful.

Song Yi felt it, the ghosts had truly disappeared.

At that moment, she saw Long Xiaoshan holding a shovel, walking over to a corner of the house and beginning to dig. Song Yi approached him and asked, "What are you digging for?"

"You'll know in a moment," he replied.

Long Xiaoshan dug for a while and unearthed a black jar. He then moved to another corner of the yard and started digging again.

Ten minutes passed.

From the four corners of the house, Long Xiaoshan had dug up a black jar, a jade tablet, a bone, and a pitch-black tree branch.

"What are these?" Song Yi asked.

"These are the Corpse Jar, Ghost Jade, a Skeleton, and Yin Wood!" Long Xiaoshan said indifferently.

Hearing these names, Song Yi felt a chill come over her, an eerie sensation. She said, "How could these things be in my yard?"

"Someone buried them here, creating a Ghost Attracting Formation. The ghosts in your house are attracted by this formation, and they emerge to cause trouble at the Midnight Hour."

Song Yi shivered, her disbelief clear in her voice, "Are you saying that the haunting in my house is someone's doing against me?"

Long Xiaoshan nodded, "Ghosts are not the most terrifying thing; people are much scarier than ghosts. Do you have any enemies?"

Shaking her head, then nodding, Song Yi said, "I don't know. In business, there are always some conflicts of interest. I'm not sure who would act against me."

Long Xiaoshan nodded, took out a Talisman, and threw it onto the four items. Boom! A flame burst forth, turning the four ghostly items into ash.

Song Yi watched as Long Xiaoshan used the Talisman to summon fire without showing any sign of surprise.

She was now certain that Long Xiaoshan was no ordinary man.

This youngster, despite his sharp tongue, truly had skills, not like those fake Taoists and Feng Shui Masters she had hired before.

"Do you have Cinnabar and yellow paper here?" Long Xiaoshan asked.

"Yes, I've got them," Song Yi replied eagerly.

"Bring them to me."

Song Yi answered and quickly went inside to get the Cinnabar and yellow paper, as she had stocked up on these because of the many days her house was haunted.

Long Xiaoshan washed his hands, focused his breath, and with a solemn face, took a brush, dipped it in Cinnabar, and drew several Talismans on the yellow paper, then stuck them in the four corners of the courtyard and a few inside the house. After he finished, he said with the air of a learned sage, "These yellow papers serve to ward off evil. I've already put them all around your house. Unless it's a ghost more than a hundred years old, they won't be able to enter. Take this Talisman Paper as well, keep it close to you, it can protect you from evil."

Song Yi hurriedly accepted the Talisman Paper, saying, "Thank you so much, Master Long."

She thanked him earnestly.

After all, Long Xiaoshan had been a huge help to her. If not for him, she likely couldn't have gotten through this crisis.

"You don't need to thank me. Heh, if you really want to thank me, just give me that five million," Long Xiaoshan said with a cheeky smile, instantly shattering his lofty image.

"..."

After all the commotion, it was past two in the morning.

Song Yi, worn out, went back to her room to sleep.

Long Xiaoshan, full of energy, showed no signs of tiredness as he studied the Pill Furnace in the courtyard.

A night passed.

At dawn, just as the first rays of sunlight appeared, the main gate of the Song family was knocked on.

Long Xiaoshan opened the door to find Bai Susu and her daughter, both relieved to see him.

After all, with the Song family's house being haunted, even knowing Long Xiaoshan's capabilities, the two of them were still very worried.

"Xiaoshan, is everything alright? Were there really ghosts last night?" Bai Susu inquired.

"All is well now, Auntie Su. I've chased away all the ghosts," Long Xiaoshan assured, noting the dark circles under Bai Susu's eyes, clearly from a lack of sleep last night, and felt a warm surge in his heart as he let the two inside.