After returning from my cultivation journey, I built a farm through fortune telling.

Chapter 101

"I won't disturb the scene, I'll just take a look."

As Bailu spoke, she stopped a meter away from the corpse, squatted down, and looked at the leech hiding in the grass.

This leech is different from ordinary leeches. It is larger, darker in color, and looks more ferocious. Sensing the scent of a person, it immediately stretched out and crawled over. But just as it was about to climb onto the egret's shoe, it seemed to encounter something terrifying and turned to flee.

"What are you looking at?"

Bai Xiao stood at a distance, not daring to go over, but also curious.

The others weren't as timid as she was. When they saw the egret go by, they went by too, and then the leeches piled up in the grass went crazy with joy!
"Fuck——"

The green grass was almost crushed by leeches.

The egret's lips moved slightly, and an unknown incantation was silently uttered from its lips. As if guided, the leeches crawled into the tin can that Gao Laorong had found but had discarded because it was empty of leeches.

This scene startled the group of strong young men.

Bai Fei pressed himself against the tree next to him, feeling his worldview being challenged. He muttered, "Could it really be the spirit of our ancestors appearing?"

"perhaps……"

"Maybe……"

"Maybe..."

The others also moved closer to the tree, but the next second, Bai Fei suddenly let out a "whoosh!" and a fat, thick leech was lying casually on his hand, sucking his blood!

The others immediately jumped back, checking themselves. They really felt that nowhere in this place was safe.

If they didn't feel that leaving a few girls here was not the act of a real man, they would have jumped on the tractor and run away long ago!
"Brother Fei, what's there to be afraid of? Go ahead and pull it!"

Seeing Bai Fei keep shaking it, Bai Chen walked over and laughed.

"I'm not afraid of it, I'm disgusted by it!"

Bai Fei's face looked exactly like someone who was constipated. After seeing Bai Chen pull the leech away with his bare hands, he patted Bai Fei on the shoulder and said, "Thanks!"

"It's alright, just stop the bleeding."

Leech bites are difficult to heal, and blood kept oozing from Bai Fei's arm. He would wipe it, and blood would gush out again. Eventually, he just stopped caring and let it flow; he wouldn't die anyway.

"Lulu, who knows how many leeches are still in those bushes? Come back here quickly, let's wait for the police upstairs."

Bai Fei called out from afar.

"No need, there are no more leeches here, they've all gone into this tin can—where's the lid? Where did Uncle Rong put the lid? Hey—Brother Fei, it's right by your feet, could you pick it up and put the lid back on?"

Bai Fei: "..."

He really... didn't want to agree.

Why cover it with anything but a leech jar!

He shuffled over slowly, while also making sure there were no leeches under his feet.

Everyone fell silent when they saw his effeminate manner.

Really.

Shame on you!
The humiliated Bai Fei saw the leeches wriggling inside the jar, closed his eyes tightly, and couldn't take it anymore. He threw down the lid and ran away!
Damn it, I'm having nightmares for nights on end!

Finally, the police arrived. Although there was no siren, they could still recognize the sound of the car.

Because it involved a murder case, a total of four vehicles arrived, including criminal police officers and forensic doctors. One of the police officers looked familiar; he was Officer Wang, who had visited their home before.

Who reported the crime?

One of the chubby policemen led Officer Wang forward to question the suspects, while the others quickly cordoned off the scene, and the forensic doctor began a preliminary examination of the body.

"That's me," Bai Chen stepped forward.

"Name."

"Bai Chen."

"Can you tell me how you found this body?"

"Here's what happened. Today is the day our clan worships Taigong Mountain. We come to this valley every year, but this year something is very wrong. A lot of leeches have appeared out of nowhere. I... I have good eyesight, and I saw a human-shaped shadow underwater, but I wasn't sure if it was a person. So I told my older sister, and she suggested we fish it out to take a look. When we pulled it out, it really was a person!"

Bai Chen's words were so compelling that even Bai Fei and the others, who had witnessed the entire incident, couldn't find a single point to refute them.

They didn't actually see Bai Chen and Bai Lu talking, but there was a corpse at the bottom of the water, which was clearly told to everyone by Bai Lu!
However, they couldn't be sure whether Bai Chen had secretly told Bai Lu without their knowledge...

Well, that's about it. The gist of it is that they found the body!

Everyone present gave a statement. The police asked them if they knew any other clues. Everyone else shook their heads and said no. Only Bailu hesitated expressionlessly.

She knew where the murderer was, but if she directly told him his exact location, the police might arrest her as well.

So she hesitated for a moment and didn't say anything. After getting into the tractor truck bed, she edited the account of what happened and sent it to Master Qingxu.

She felt that someone of Master Qingxu's rank must know people in higher positions, and his words were quite convincing—catching the murderer as soon as possible would be a good deed, after all, the man was living a very comfortable life, and in broad daylight, he was massaging her feet!

To everyone's surprise, Master Qingxu made a phone call—

"Lulu, does this incident involve people from the Xuanmen sect? Or is it something that can only be resolved using Xuanmen methods?"

The egret shook its head: "No, everything at the scene is normal. It was done by ordinary humans."

“Then we shouldn’t interfere too much in this matter. The criminal police have their own investigative methods, and we cultivators should not interfere too much.”

Bai Lu frowned: "But even if I know where someone is, I can't say?"

Just rush over and arrest them; that would save so much police resources!

“At most, you can give them a direction,” Master Qingxu said. “If every criminal case involves us Xuan Masters, what’s the point of having the police? If we really don’t have any clues at all, then we can talk about it later.”

“Alright!” the egret replied.

To be precise, she wasn't part of Master Qingxu's circle, but there were still some rules to follow. Cultivators were different from ordinary people, and without rules to restrain them, it would be detrimental to social stability.

The government would not allow such a situation to occur.

While Bai Lu was still in a daze, she heard Master Qingxu on the other end of the phone ask, "Lu Lu, how are you feeling now? Are there any old injuries that haven't healed yet?"

Bai Lu shook her head: "I'm fine, I'm in great health!" After going to the cultivation world, not only did she recover her lost cultivation, but even her old injuries were completely healed.

"That's good. Come visit the temple more often when you have time. We haven't been able to have a long talk every time we meet for various reasons. There are still many questions that I would like to discuss with you, young friend!"

"Sure!" Bailu replied, "But it will be a while. We just finished transplanting rice seedlings and planted a lot of vegetables, so it's a busy time!"

“Alright! Sanqing Mountain welcomes you anytime. I’ve been spending most of my time at Sanqing Temple lately, so if you have time, just come up here.”

Master Qingxu is not yet aware of the seriousness of the matter, but he thought that Bailu's family was making a living by growing vegetables and did not pay much attention until the new vegetables came on the market. Only then did he realize his mistake and regret it.

The egret said, "Okay."

"Xiao Chen—" Bai Fei nudged Bai Chen with his shoulder and pointed at Bai Lu: "Your older sister...is she on the phone? Why is there no sound when she speaks?! Did you hear her?"

He picked at his ear with his little finger, wondering if he had a hearing problem.

Bai Lu was sitting on either side of Bai Chen and Bai Wei, with Bai Xiao sitting opposite him. Although Bai Chen was between him and her, he wasn't blind. He had his phone receiver pressed against his ear and his mouth was moving. What else could this be but making a phone call?
But he couldn't hear anything except the rumble of the tractor, otherwise he would have wondered if he was deaf.

After the incident in the valley, he became quite sensitive. Normally, he would never pay attention to these issues and would have been scrolling through short videos.

"I didn't make a sound, of course you couldn't hear me."

Bai Lu ended the call and looked at Bai Fei, who looked at her with a "you think I'm stupid" expression. Bai Lu said sincerely, "Really, otherwise, if your hearing is fine, how come you couldn't hear what I said?"

Bai Fei had no choice but to accept this explanation.

Bai Xiao, being the insider, certainly didn't believe it. She was certain that Bai Lu had done something, but she didn't say anything. Instead, she winked at Bai Lu, who raised an eyebrow at her.

Bailu did indeed mute herself, because she was unsure whether what she and Master Qingxu were saying was appropriate for them to hear, and it was better to be cautious.

As the tractor rumbled into the village, Bailu smelled the strong scent of incense. It was probably because such an incident during the ancestral worship was extremely unlucky, and each household had lit three extra sticks of incense to apologize to their ancestors.

Seeing Bai Lu and Bai Chen return, Qin Xiucai truly breathed a sigh of relief: "How are you? Are you alright?"

Bai Chen waved his hand: "What could possibly happen! We're law-abiding citizens, seeing a police officer only makes us feel safe, how could anything happen!"

"You talk too much!" Qin Xiu glared at him. "Just answer my questions. Why are you saying all this nonsense?"

Bai Chen: "..."

What's going on now?!

Why are you in a bad mood again?

He wisely kept quiet and stopped talking.

Qin Xiu turned around and took Bai Lu's hand, looking worried: "Lu Lu, tell your mother honestly, are you really planning to become a Taoist nun?"

The egret was taken aback: "I didn't, why do you say that?"

"Didn't you say that Master Qingxu was willing to teach you skills? And it seems you've already learned some..."

Qin Xiu's superstition is one thing, but if Bai Lu really returned after completing her studies to become a master, she felt it was absurd.

Since returning from the valley, she had been thinking about this matter. What if her eldest daughter changed careers and became a shaman... would that be good or bad?

Looking at her mother Qin Xiu's worried eyes, Bai Lu felt a surge of warmth in her heart.

She gently shook her head: "Mom, I won't become a Taoist nun. I'm just learning some things from Master Qingxu. You know, those things can sometimes help us. The seedlings in the garden are growing so well, and my hair is growing so well, all thanks to Master Qingxu."

Qin Xiu looked at Bai Lu's smooth, flowing hair, her brows still furrowed.

Qin Xiu likes fortune telling and divination, but the "masters" she comes into contact with are all, strictly speaking, charlatans. None of them have any real skills. At least, they certainly couldn't make someone's hair grow so long in such a short time.

She didn't believe anyone could do it, and she was more inclined to let Bailu get hair extensions—thanks to the video push from Douyin, she knew that hair could be extended, and it wouldn't fall out when combing, just like it was really growing on her scalp, it was just a bit expensive.

This is probably why Bailu didn't dare tell her, for fear of being scolded.

She sighed, "Lulu, it's not that I object to you learning those things, it's just that you're a girl, and I'm worried that if you keep dealing with ghosts and gods, you won't be able to get married in the future!"

Bai Lu patted Qin Xiu's hand and said casually, "Mom, don't worry, I know what I'm doing. Besides, who says girls can't learn this kind of thing? Don't worry about it."

"You!"

Qin Xiu poked Bai Lu's forehead: "It's true what they say, once a son grows up, he's no longer under his mother's control!"

“You don’t know, I heard that blind master in town is dying—it seems like he’s dying suddenly. Some people say it’s because he revealed too many heavenly secrets, and God is taking his life early! You should… use your brain more in the future, and know what to say and what to keep in mind.”

"Okay, okay!" Bai Lu said, both amused and exasperated.

Her mother had known this blind fortune teller for many years. Several years ago, she had taken her to have her fortune told by this "blind man".

This blind master is truly amazing; he actually calculated that she started elementary school at age seven and junior high school at age thirteen!

That's absolutely incredible!!!
He even predicted that she would marry someone from nearby and have three children!

The eldest son went into politics, the younger son went into business, and the youngest daughter married a university professor.

When she is fifty, her son will buy her her first house, and when she is seventy, she will have a second one. The key point is that the house cannot be bought with a "4" in its name, cannot be bought with a "7" in its name, and should not be bought with an age of 18!

He lived to be eighty-eight years old before he died!

For her mother, it was a very happy and fulfilling life.

It was all stuff her mother wanted to hear.

Whether Bailu believed it or not, no one knows. Qin Xiu, however, believed it completely. She immediately waved her hand and gave the blind fortune teller a 50-yuan red envelope. She then happily led Bailu away. Bailu thought to herself that her mother, who usually haggled over prices for everything, wasn't stingy at all. At least she was quite generous to the fortune teller.

"You get impatient after I say a few words to you! This is no joke!" Qin Xiu was so angry she wanted to hit her.

As the saying goes, raising a child means worrying for ninety-nine years of your life.

Qin Xiu cared deeply about the future of these children, which was why she absolutely refused to let Bai Lu quit her job and return to farming.

"Alright, alright!" the egret chuckled. "I'm hungry!"

"Alright, I'll just stir-fry some vegetables and then we'll eat."

Qin Xiu waved her hand: "You three go take a shower quickly, don't bring those leeches home, they're bad luck."

The three siblings: "Okay!"

(End of this chapter)