The rebellious daughter is spoiled by the disabled boss

The night was as cool as water. Jiang Yuechu and Tao Runyan walked out of the courtyard side by side and headed towards the backyard.

The cobblestone path made a creaking sound when one walked on it, and the apparently dilapidated backyard had a different meaning under the moonlight.

Tao Runyan looked around and saw that there was no danger, but seeing that Jiang Yuchu was nervous, he spoke to her to try to calm her down.

"After you get out of here, do you want to go back to the Tao family and stay for a few days?"

The sudden question made Jiang Yuechu stunned for a moment, "Why go to live in Tao's house? I have already found a place, you don't have to worry about me having no place to live."

Tao Runyan pursed his lips and said, "What I mean is that my grandmother is here and she wants to see you. We can't let our family know that we are a contract couple."

If Tao Runyan hadn't mentioned it, she would have forgotten about it.

"Okay, this is indeed what I should do."

As he was speaking, faint footsteps were suddenly heard nearby, accompanied by the sound of a copper bell.

Jiang Yuechu stretched out his hand to block Tao Runyan's way and lowered his voice, "Don't move, something is approaching us."

As soon as he finished speaking, a ghost appeared in the darkness.

It was a little girl about five years old, who jumped out from the darkness, with a bell woven with a red rope tied around her delicate ankle.

The little girl seemed not to see them and she just kept her head down picking up the small balls woven from bamboo strips on the ground.

"Mom, ball."

The little girl turned around holding the bamboo ball and spoke to the person behind her.

Another figure appeared as the voice fell.

A woman of about twenty years old, her simple clothes could not conceal her innate temperament.

"Begonia?"

Jiang Yuechu asked doubtfully and glanced at Tao Runyan, but his reaction was unusually calm.

"you know?"

Tao Runyan nodded slightly, "I guessed it. The goddess of the mountain is Haitang, and Haitang is the goddess of the mountain."

Jiang Yuechu looked at him in disbelief, "When did you know that? The sculpture in the mountain temple doesn't look like a crabapple tree."

"Have you forgotten why we are here?"

Jiang Yuechu recalled what happened before entering the Mountain God Temple, and suddenly realized, "It was Haitang who guided us here. She said she came to see the Flower Street, but actually she wanted to bring us here."

Tao Runyan lowered his eyes gently, "You are not that stupid."

"It seems that there is something we need ahead."

Tao Runyan reached out and held Jiang Yuechu's hand, "It's cold in the middle of the night, I'll help you warm your hands."

Jiang Yue was speechless for a moment and let Tao Runyan lead her forward, passing through two ghosts and heading deep into the backyard.

For some reason, she felt particularly safe when Tao Runyan was by her side.

After they walked around the rockery, they saw a house. The house was even more dilapidated than the main hall, with broken tiles all over the floor. Looking up, they could see a large leak in the roof.

With a creaky sound, Tao Runyan pushed open the wooden door in front of him. The moonlight shone into the room, and he could barely see what was going on inside.

There were several mummies lying in the room, as if something had sucked all their blood out, and there were no visible wounds from being hit hard.

"It should be the archaeologists who disappeared before. They accidentally broke in, violated something, and lost their lives here." Jiang Yuchu analyzed.

Tao Runyan gave a different opinion, "I saw it written in the book before, that the mountain goddess will choose different men as husbands within seven days, and those who are not suitable will be killed directly. I think they are the ones who were not chosen."

"wrong."

A deep voice suddenly interrupted, making Jiang Yuchu alert instantly.

"who is it?"

"Wrong, all wrong, all wrong!"

Overlapping sounds continued to come out.

Suddenly, a withered branch stretched out from the darkness of the dilapidated house. The branch swayed and broke the already dilapidated roof, and the moonlight poured into the room.

They then noticed that there was a thick banyan tree in the room. The trunk of the banyan tree was made up of different human faces, and the mouths opened and closed, saying the same sentence, "Wrong, all wrong."

"After so many years, I finally see a living person again."

The old voice sounded, instantly activating the memories in Jiang Yuchu's mind.

“You are the tree in that village.”

"Haha, you actually still remember me. It's rare, rare. It's fate that you can find this place again." As these words were spoken, the faces of the people sank into the tree trunks, revealing an old face.

"Are you the village chief back then, the old Taoist priest who knows Taoism?"

"Yes and no."

The old banyan tree sighed heavily, "Everything has its cause and effect. I created the cause, but let the people in the village bear the result. I deserve what I have become now."

Jiang Yuechu looked at the old banyan tree warily, "What do you mean?"

"Back then, I accidentally discovered that there was a very special child in this village. His physique was a spiritual body that I had never seen before. I wanted to borrow his special physique to achieve immortality, but I didn't expect to create a monster."

The old banyan tree's thoughts drifted far away, tracing back to the past.

"We found Haitang in the mountains. No one knew where she came from or where she was going, so I kept her. We fell in love. I envied her great strength, and I was jealous of her immortality."

"I asked her to teach me everything she knew, and I elevated her to the status of a deity, forgetting that she was already a deity."

When Tao Runyan heard this, he snorted and laughed, "You didn't lift her up, you pulled her down. She was originally a deity. You don't need to do anything. She is always a deity."

The old banyan tree seemed to be touched by the words and shook its branches and leaves. "You are right. I have tasted the bitter fruit of offending the gods."

Jiang Yuechu asked, "Where is the child named A-Ming?"

"Haitang told me that the child she gave birth to would only be a girl. I needed someone to help carry on my family line, so I gave birth to a son and sent him to foster care. Unexpectedly, I spent too much time in contact with Haitang and was tainted by her scent, which I also brought to A-Ming."

"Amin was a surprise, and it was also a surprise that pleasantly surprised me."

"I discovered that his spirit can be extracted from his body, even if he is dead. I thought I had found the secret to immortality, and I used Amin as an experiment, but it still failed."

Jiang Yuechu frowned, "Failure?"

"Yes, Ah Ming's spirit can leave his body, but I can't. I forced Haitang to hand over the secret technique, but she refused. I spread rumors in the village, turning her from a worshipped god into a monster that everyone wanted to kill."

Jiang Yuechu sneered, "I've seen many people who do whatever it takes to achieve their goals, but I've never seen anyone as shameless as you."