In ancient times, they secretly became gods in the deep mountains.

Chapter 66 Only the Golden Saintess can save us.

"How could corpse worms possibly grow on a living person?"

When Wu Minmin returned home, it was already late at night. Her grandmother and mother had prepared a sumptuous and delicious meal. She had been busy all day, and disgusting worms kept falling off her body.

The lavish dinner was hard for her to swallow.

She ate a few bites quickly and then went to sleep.

She was still thinking about the fabric before going to bed.

"Three days have already passed."

She was worried and upset.

"Drip, drip." Suddenly, the sound of water droplets falling on the wooden board appeared out of nowhere. Her heart tightened, and she pulled the blanket tighter.

In her hazy memories as she fell asleep, she heard this strange sound more than once, as if someone were dripping water onto a wooden floor, the sound both clear and eerie.

Wu Minmin closed her eyes.

"Tick tock."

The sound of dripping water was incessant.

"Dong dong dong."

The sound of toes touching the ground came from afar and grew closer.

She took a deep breath and realized this was not a dream.

Is there something dirty in the house?
She recalled what happened three years ago. When the drought started, her father told her grandfather that the only way to survive was to go south, where the Wu family also had property and they wouldn't have to worry about dying from the drought. Her grandfather listened to her father for the sake of his family's survival, and the whole family went south.

Before leaving, her father and mother had a fight because the mother didn't want to leave home. She went to see her father in the middle of the night to discuss moving. She seemed to have heard similar sounds in front of her father's door, but she hadn't thought much of it before.

Could it be that the Wu family has been corrupt since three years ago?

"Thump thump thump..." The sound of heartbeats rose and fell.

She held her breath.

"Thump thump... Heh..." It sounded like someone was breathing on her bed, and at the same time the temperature dropped sharply, as if winter had arrived.

"Tick-tock...thump-thump-thump..."

My instinctive sense of crisis resurfaced.

"what!"

A scream rang out, but it wasn't Wu Minmin who made it. When Wu Minmin heard her mother's voice, she immediately threw off the covers and jumped out of bed. Ignoring the bone-chilling icy water under her feet, she ran out of the room.

The thing disappeared when she got out of bed.

"what!"

The screams grew closer, interspersed with a man's anxious concern.

When she arrived at her parents' room, she pushed open the door and saw her mother, Wu Huier, holding a pair of scissors, about to stab her father.

"Mom!" Wu Minmin rushed to her mother's side: "Mom, what's wrong?"

"Snap!" She snatched the scissors and threw them far away.

"Minmin, you've come at the right time. Your mother suddenly had a nightmare and tried to grab a pair of scissors to kill me." Zhang Heng looked terrified and frightened.

"nightmare?"

She discovered that her mother was indeed somewhat delirious.

"mother!"

"What happened?" Old Madam Wu, leaning on her cane, rushed over with a large entourage of maids and servants, her face full of worry.

“Grandmother, Mother suddenly had a nightmare, and she’s still a little delirious.” Wu Minmin grabbed Wu Hui’er, who was extremely strong.

Zhang Heng touched his chest, still shaken, and said, "Yes, Mother, I was just about to go to sleep when Hui'er suddenly woke up. She picked up a pair of scissors and tried to stab me to death. If Minmin hadn't arrived in time, I would have been stabbed by Hui'er and bled."

"A nightmare?" Old Mrs. Wu looked at her daughter with concern.

"Quickly, get a rope and tie the lady to the bed!" she urged.

"You can't force someone to wake up from a nightmare, otherwise they'll have a headache for days, or even suffer from amnesia and become an idiot," said the very experienced Mrs. Wu.

"Waaaaah, I'll kill you all! I'm going to kill you all! Why?! Hahaha!"

Wu Huier kept repeating this sentence. She struggled wildly under the control of the maids and servants, sometimes crying and shouting, sometimes laughing madly, her voice sharp and eerie, intermittent.

"Mother!" Wu Minmin looked at her with concern.

"Hui'er." Old Mrs. Wu looked at her daughter with distress, unable to understand why her usually normal daughter had suddenly started having nightmares.

"Hui'er, oh dear! What on earth is going on?!" Zhang Heng's tone was worried and agitated. He sighed heavily, his brows furrowed tightly.

He went forward to comfort his wife.

But he found his wife staring straight at him, her eyes gleaming with the light of a hungry wolf, as if she wanted to devour him whole.

He suddenly stopped in his tracks, a chill running through him.

"Waaaaah, I'll kill you all! I'm going to kill you all! Why?! Hahaha!"

Wu Huier finally fell asleep the next day after the sun came out.

Her face was pale, and her voice was hoarse and unpleasant from the ordeal of the night. Fortunately, she finally calmed down, and Zhang Heng called a doctor to examine her.

The doctor examined her and only said four words:

"Excessive fright."

What caused Wu Huier, who is usually carefree, to be so frightened?
The Wu family members were puzzled.

"We still need to address the source of her fear, otherwise she'll continue to cry and scream when she wakes up." The doctor suggested, "I'll give the lady a few acupuncture treatments to calm her down."

The doctor left after administering the acupuncture.

Wu Huier remained unconscious.

"This is how to do?"

"Grandma Wu said anxiously."

She said to her usually resourceful granddaughter, "Your mother doesn't look like she has a normal nightmare. Although I don't believe in ghosts and gods, I can't explain your mother's nightmare. Why don't we go to Qihuang Mountain to see the Golden Saint Goddess that your mother mentioned?"

"Grandmother...I..."

Wu Minmin took a deep breath; her time was running out.

She has absolutely no clue at the moment.

“Mother, let’s find a famous monk to perform a ritual for Hui’er. No one has ever seen that Golden Saint Goddess, so her reliability is questionable,” Zhang Heng suggested.

Madam Wu nodded to her son-in-law: "You can handle it."

"Minmin, how's the investigation going?"

Wu Minmin moved her lips and forced a smile, saying, "My granddaughter has only a few days left."

Old Mrs. Wu said sadly, "There's no one to help you."

Suddenly, a huge commotion erupted at the doorway, accompanied by shrill, piercing curses and insults.

Madam Wu and Zhang Heng knew that it was people who had bought cloth or clothes from their family who had come. These past few days, every time they came, they would throw rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs all over the ground. They would clean it up and then throw them back down. The area in front of their house was almost never clean.

"Come out! Give us justice!"

Wu Minmin listened to the angry curses of the people from behind the wall, her heart filled with anguish.

How could this be?
Is the renowned first cloth shop in Xiping County about to be ruined in her hands?
The people discovered that the number of maggots on their bodies was increasing every day. The maggots, which were initially the size of rice grains, had become plump, fleshy maggots that appeared in clusters. Despite scrubbing their bodies until their skin turned red and rotten, they still could not get rid of the maggots.

Maggots are disgusting and they bite.

They angrily threw rotten vegetable leaves at the Wu family.

"If all else fails, let's go back to the South," said Madam Wu from behind her granddaughter.

Some people among the common people have been bitten by maggots, their bodies are burning hot, their skin is red, and their lips have lost their color and turned pure white.

terror!
Someone leaned over and exclaimed:
"That looks like a death sentence!"

"No, we must hurry to Qihuang Mountain to pay our respects to the Golden Saint Goddess and beg her to show mercy."

"Yes! Let's hurry to Qihuang Mountain to pray to the Goddess. Only the Golden Saint Goddess can save us."

In order to survive, the people went to Qihuang Mountain in a large group.

(End of this chapter)