Tao Xiaowu exited the room first and came to the courtyard.
The entire Xu family courtyard was already crowded with people inside and outside.
In this era, just like the rural areas of previous lives, every household has a yard.
Rich people build high rammed earth walls, while poor people just use wood to build a fence.
However, most villas have inner walls, so they almost always use the fence... This is the same as in Qingzhu Lane.
At this time, the fence was crowded with people inside and outside, watching the excitement, but many people were whispering to each other and talking.
Tao Xiaowu knew that the fact that the people from Qingzhuli came to his door today had still affected him. As a result, many people in Jinshuili were talking about this matter, and some people were unavoidably shaken by him.
Tao Xiaowu knew that today's matter must be completed beautifully, otherwise, Wucheng's brand might be ruined!
He even saw people from Qingzhuli snooping around.
"Great Witch, how is the situation?"
The Xu family members asked nervously.
"I have already seen it, it is indeed a water ghost!" Tao Xiaowu said in a deep voice: "Now we just wait until dark, and I will do what I can to arrest the water ghost!"
After hearing this, the Xu family immediately thanked him profusely.
Immediately there was a buzz of discussion nearby, about everything.
Tao Xiaowu turned a deaf ear and sat down on a straw mat, cross-legged, eyes slightly closed and motionless.
It was still early at this time, but at noon, if you wanted to wait until dark, it would take at least three or four hours!
Tao Xiaowu planned to just stay quiet until dark.
Grandma, don’t you believe me? Let me pretend first.
Of course, although Tao Xiaowu had learned some Taoist techniques from that Taoist book in his dream, he knew how to enter tranquility, and he continued to practice.
However, Tao Xiaowu did not do anything when he fell silent for six or seven hours.
However, if this is cool, let’s pretend it first.
Anyway, he didn't declare that he would stay quiet until dark, right?
Besides, how can these mud-legged people know what it means to enter tranquility?
At first, I just watched Tao Xiaowu remain silent and sit quietly with his eyes lowered. Some people came to talk to Tao Xiaowu.
But when he saw Tao Xiaowu motionless and sitting cross-legged, he gradually noticed something was different.
Especially after more than an hour passed, Tao Xiaowu just sat motionless, without even blinking, and he couldn't help but feel slightly shocked.
If it weren't for Tao Xiaowu sitting upright with a tall and straight body, I'm afraid he would have thought Tao Xiaowu was asleep!
Just like this, Tao Xiaowu sat there for several hours.
Many people watching the fun found it boring and dispersed one after another, waiting to come back in the evening.
More people, like looking at a zoetrope, even started betting on how long Tao Xiaowu could sit up!
At this time, the popularity of education was too low. As Lao Shi said, neighboring countries looked at each other, heard the sounds of chickens and dogs, and the people did not interact with each other until they grew old and died.
Most people have never traveled more than a hundred miles in their lives, and the furthest they have gone is the county seat.
For those at the bottom who have no knowledge or insight, their ignorance is far beyond imagination!
Tao Xiaowu was flirting with the blind man.
If he was still conscious and paying attention to the outside right now, he would have gotten up long ago... It's no fun to pretend like this!
However, he had already entered a state of deep tranquility from the shallow tranquility of daily meditation.
At this moment, the whole person was confused and ignorant, as if countless thoughts were flowing through him, and as if not a single thought had ever occurred.
When you really respond, your thoughts are like running water, and you sit and watch like an idle person.
People sitting by the river seem to be looking at the flowing water, but not paying attention to it.
Until the end, it was completely clear. I had no idea whether there was water or not.
In this state, no thoughts in the sea of consciousness are born or die.
The whispers outside, or something else, and where is there any sense of it?
To be honest, this is the first time Tao Xiaowu has set foot in this realm.
Even before he meditated, he had never imagined it!
Time passed unknowingly until it got dark, and then the Xu family carefully woke up Tao Xiaowu: "Witch, it's already dark!"
I was already in awe of Tao Xiaowu.
In fact, most of the people near the water, and even those peeking into the green bamboo, were full of fear of Tao Xiaowu at this time.
A person can remain silent for six or seven hours without even blinking an eyelid. This is something beyond the understanding of these ordinary people.
Since you can't understand it, you will naturally feel surprised and even think of witchcraft...
When Tao Xiaowu woke up, he just felt that his whole body was very relaxed, especially his energy was very full.
At this time, he realized that it was getting dark.
Tao Xiaowu just felt that he hadn't been sitting for long, but he didn't expect that six or seven hours had passed!
If he hadn't almost stumbled when he was about to stand up, he would have realized that he had been sitting for too long, his legs and feet were numb, and his blood and energy were blocked.
"This is due to insufficient internal Qi, which causes numbness in the limbs after sitting for a long time. If the internal Qi is sufficient, no matter how long you sit, the Qi and blood will circulate, and the limbs will not become numb!"
While I was thinking about it, as it got dark, I didn't know it was the water ghost possessing the Xu family girl who sensed danger.
After dark, the ghost's power increased greatly, and one after another screams were heard coming from the house.
There were even more banging sounds, but the woman possessed by the ghost was struggling continuously, and the hemp ropes tied to her body were broken one by one.
Several burly men went in and tried to hold down the Xu family girl and tie her up again, but they were also bitten by two of them.
"I beg the great witch to cast a spell quickly and save my daughter..."
Seeing such a scene, the master of the Xu family was so anxious that he prostrated himself to Tao Xiaowu and shouted.
Tao Xiaowu nodded slightly. According to the method taught to him by Wu Cheng, he had prepared the blood of the red snake, the gills of the carp, and the grass of the sun.
At this point, put these all on a plate.
Then Tao Xiaowu muttered something, pricked his finger with a needle, and a drop of blood dripped out.
It’s almost the same as the last time I was in Qingzhuli and wrote down the land coupons for someone to buy.
Although it was just a drop of blood, he suddenly felt a chill and weakness all over his body, as if what he had shed was not a drop of blood, as if his whole body had been drained.
Even involuntarily, his whole vision went dark, and he smelled an indescribable unpleasant smell in his nose, like the smell of fishy water or the smell of rotting corpses, permeating the surrounding area.
In a daze, Tao Xiaowu seemed to see aquatic plants and schools of fish.
There was also a rotting body floating in the water with half of its cheek eaten away by fish, so that its gums were exposed.