Chapter 46

TRANSLATED BY MYPEN_22

Back in the house, Hua Ling gently tugged on Yan Shi's sleeve, "Brother, why is Jiang Tang like this?"

Yan Shi stroked the little princess' head soothingly and called for Qu Liujing to agree on a plan.

As it was getting dark, Jiang's old lady's voice suddenly reached his ears, "Oh my God! My life is at stake! Oh my God! How can I live?"

The three of them looked at each other, pushed the door open and went out.

The sound of voices came from Jiang's room, and Jiang and his wife had already arrived in his room, which was not very big and was a bit cramped with these people.

Jiang's second wife happened to be standing at the door, and when she heard the noise behind her, she glanced back and Yan Shi asked, "May I ask what has happened?"

Jiang's second wife said, "Xiao Er has suddenly fallen ill, he just spat out a mouthful of white foam and now his face is blue.

"Have you called a doctor?"

"I did, but the doctor said his pulse was normal and he didn't see anything wrong."

Yan Shi frowned slightly "That's strange, can't you call another doctor to see?"

Jiang's second wife had a difficult look on her face, "We only have this one doctor here, even if we want to change doctors, there is nowhere to do so."

"Well," Yan Shi paused for a moment, "can you let me go in and have a look?"

The Jiang family gave way and Yan Shi and the others went into the room and saw that Jiang Xiao Er was indeed as blue as Jiang's second wife had said, and was very frightening.

"Master Yan, can you see what's wrong?" When Old Mrs Jiang saw Yan Shi enter, she wiped her tears with her sleeve as if she had found her backbone, and stopped crying.

Boss Jiang's wife said, "I think it's just an evil spell, later the Boss Jiang will invite the divine mother back to do a magic ceremony and it will be fine."

After a short time, Boss Jiang invited the goddess back in a hurry.

When she arrived at the house, she chanted and recited incantations and danced around for a while, saying, "Has the boy gone to some place he hasn't been before today?"

Boss Jiang nodded repeatedly, "Yes, I took him to the county town today."

The godmother nodded in a vain manner, "That's right, when a child goes to the county town, it's inevitable that he will be enchanted and won't want to come back. At his age, his soul is still unstable, so he won't want to come back if he is hooked by the good things there."

Boss Jiang asked eagerly "What should we do?"

"It's not a difficult task, just call the soul back."

When Boss Jiang heard that it was nothing serious, his heart was relieved and he asked the goddess to invoke the spirit.

The divine woman did some more fiddling, collected some silver and told them that it would be ready in another hour.

The Jiang family thanked the goddess and sent her away. By this time it was almost dark and the couple went to the kitchen to cook. When Yan Shi and the others saw that there was nothing else to do, they also came out of the house. However, they did not go back to their room and found a place to hide outside Jiang's room.

They heard Jiang's boss inside say, "I thought it would be good to go to the county town, but I never thought that Xiao Er would get sick. It's all the fault of Master Yan that made us go to the county town. The silver was spent unjustly.

Hearing this, Hua Ling wanted to go to them to argue, but Yan Shì grabbed his wrist and shook his head at him.

If we offend him now, how can you follow him to the imperial city to make big money?"

"But they are so rich, do they still care about these few silver pieces?" Boss Jiang still wanted to ask Yan Shi for the silver.

"Why are you so unenlightened?" Old Mrs Jiang said, "If you offend him because of these few silver pieces, you will regret it. Your second brother accompanied his wife back to her mother's house a few days ago, and I don't believe her father didn't give her a penny of silver back. I've been thinking of a reason to ask for it for the past few days, so I'll use it as an excuse to ask for it later."

Boss Jiang laughed, "You're still smart, Mother."

Seeing that there was nothing more to hear, Yan Shi took Hua Ling's hand and went back into the room.

The goddess said that in another hour Jiang Xiao Er would be well, but

Two hours had passed and not only was he not well, but he looked worse and worse.

The Jiang family was so anxious that Mrs. Jiang and his Boss Jiang wife were crying.

In a fit of anger, Jiang's boss grabbed the godmother and brought her over.

"What's wrong with my son?" He was not as respectful as he had been to the godmother, and his voice was gruff and fierce.

The godmother was so frightened that she couldn't even speak clearly "The soul, the soul has been recalled, it should be fine. Why don't you spend another night and see what happens?"

"Another night? My son will die if I look again!" Boss Jiang stretched out his fist and tried to hit the godmother, who was so scared that she was holding her head.

Yan Shì was quick to stop Jiang's fist "Brother Jiang, please calm down, I have a method to cure your son."

He was stunned that his wrists were being held by this weak-looking man. He had to suppress his anger and said, "What is your method, Sir Yan?"

Yan Shi said to the goddess, "Go away."

Although Boss Jiang was dissatisfied, he saw Old Lady Jiang giving him a wink and held back, saying to the divine woman, "Take out my silver."

The goddess was so frightened by him that she dared not obey, and dejectedly took out the silver and threw it on the bed, running away in fear.

He squeezed out a smile and looked at Yan Shi and said, "Master Yan, what can you do to save my grandson?"

Yan Shi said, "I can't save him, but Mr. Qu does have a way to save him. His father is an official in the Qintian Supervisor and he is able to communicate with ghosts and gods, and he himself has received his father's true teachings.

I don't even know when I had a father who was an official in Qintian, but Qu Liujing came over and said, "If you trust me, I can try it out.

The Jiang family didn't know what the Qintian Supervisor was, but when they heard that they could communicate with ghosts and gods, and that they didn't charge silver, they were happy to let Qu Liujing try.

Qu asked Jiang Xiao Er about his birth date and eight characters, closed his eyes and pretended to pinch his fingers a bit, then slowly opened his eyes a moment later and pretended to probe his breath.

Jiang's heart flipped and he cautiously asked, "Qu, how is my son, Mr. Qu?"

"The situation is not good," Qu Liujing shook his head with a gloomy expression, "Alas! I'm afraid it's not going to be easy."

"How is it going?" Boss Jiang asked again.

Qu Liujing still shook his head, as if he wanted to say something, and as if there was something that prevented him from saying it.

"Sir Qu, what is going on with my nephew?" Jiang Tang also spoke up from the side, "If you need silver just say so, I'll borrow it if I don't have it."

"This matter cannot be solved with silver," Qu Liujing sighed heavily again, "it has to be solved with life."

"What!" The Jiang family was shocked at the words.

When Qu Liujing saw that his purpose had been achieved, he didn't look at Jiang Lao Dao, "The root cause of this child's illness is still in you."

"In me? How is that possible?" Boss Jiang looked as if he had heard some big joke.

Qu Liujing nodded and continued "Today you offended that restaurant, every restaurant has a guardian god, you offended the restaurant means you offended their guardian god, you have a hard eight characters, they can't subdue you, so they brought this disaster down on your son."

"How can that be, it's not my fault that this happened today!" Boss Jiang shouted groggily.

Old Mrs Jiang wanted to say something too, but Qu Liujing added, "The most important thing is to save the boy first, not to discuss who is right and who is wrong."

Old Mrs. Jiang said, "Then what does Mr. Qu say should be done to save my grandson?"

Qu Liu Goblet said, "We must exchange lives for lives. If we want to save Xiao Er, we must exchange him with someone who is related to him by blood."

Boss Jiang's heart thudded "No, there is no other way?"

Qu Liujing shook his head "Other than that there is no other way."

"You can't do anything to beat that guardian god of whatever tavern to death?" Boss Jiang's voice had a slightly sinister tone to it.

Qu Liujing sneered "Guardian God, with the word God at the end, how can he be killed? How can a mortal beat a god?"

"Only, is this the only way out?" Old Mrs. Jiang asked again.

"How about this, I'll send someone over to discuss with that guardian deity and bring a pen and paper and shears." Hearing that there might still be room for manoeuvre, the Jiang family were all heartened, and Jiang Tang went to fetch his own pen and paper, and although he didn't know what Qu Liujing wanted with the shears, he brought them over anyway.

When they saw the paper figure that Qu Liujing had picked up, they realised that what he had said about sending someone to discuss the matter turned out to be a paper figure. After cutting out the paper man, he took a brush and drew his eyes, nose and mouth on the paper man, and then took advantage of the situation to pinch out some tiny parasites from his sleeve and put them on the paper man. Then he blew lightly on the paper figure and it really seemed to come to life, bouncing rapidly from the floor to the outside of the house.

The Jiang family had some doubts about Qu Liujing before, but after he demonstrated this, all their doubts were dispelled, and the goddesses they had seen did not do this.

After about two quarters of an hour, Qu Liujing suddenly let out a hmm, then nodded again, occasionally saying a few short words, such as "Is there nothing else to do?" and "Is this the only way?", as if he was agreeing with whoever was talking to him.

A few moments later, Qu Liujing swept his gaze towards Jiang's family "The paper man wrote back to me, he said that he could only exchange lives for lives, there was no other way. So, you guys still need to make up your minds as early as possible on what you want to do."

As soon as Jiang's family heard this, they became a mess, and Qu Liujing went out with Yan Shi.

"Brother, what do you think they will do?" Hua Ling asked.

Yan Shì said, "Naturally, they will trade Jiang Xiaosan for his life."

Hua Ling asked again, "But Jiang Xiaosan is Jiang Tang's son, how would he agree?"

"So, this is another opportunity for this Prince to give Jiang Tang a chance." Qu Liujing took a sip of water and said, "Let's see how far Jiang Tangshan can go for his brother."