Chapter 570 - Talismans (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree  Editor: Millman97

“Granny, what else do you know about bury seed? Have there been successful cases before? Who told the family about this method?” Chen Ge needed to confirm his thoughts, and for that, he needed a greater understanding of the situation.

“Why are you asking all that? Knowing too much has no benefit to you. When it comes to certain things, once you get too close, you’ll be dragged into it.” The old lady only wanted what was best for Chen Ge. She walked into the bedroom and took out two yellowed paper talismans. “These are for you. Take them with you. They’ll save you at key moments.”

Chen Ge did not reject the old lady’s kindness and accepted the talismans. They were painted with a weird pattern. However, it was not painted with cinnabar but just common red dye.

“Granny, are you sure these things are effective?” Chen Ge’s ghosts were not only not afraid of the talismans, and they even purposely came out to take a look due to curiosity.

“I have no idea whether they’re effective or not, but ever since I covered my place with them, that thing stopped appearing near my place.”

“She once appeared at your place before?” Chen Ge was suspicious. Some ghosts were highly aggressive, and they would attack anything that stood in their way, regardless of their innocence.

“You keep trying to jinx me. If she had entered my home, do you think a bag of old bones like myself would have been able to survive?” the old lady grumbled with dissatisfaction. She coughed twice at the door, but Chen Ge did not know the purpose of that. “When I first saw the ghost, she was standing at my door with her head lowered. After I covered my home with the talismans, she finally went to the opposite door.”

Chen Ge understood that this was probably not the effect of the talisman—the ghost originally wanted to find the girl. There was probably another reason for why she stopped at the old lady’s door, but Chen Ge could not ask about that openly. The old lady might have looked kind, but Chen Ge had a feeling that she had something to do with what had happened to the family.

“Granny, I’m not going to talk circles around you. The girl’s situation is not so good. The ghost that you mentioned might be haunting her. If we ignore this, the child might be in mortal danger.” Once Chen Ge said that, the old lady hesitated.

“No matter what their family has done in the past, the child is innocent—she shouldn’t be made a sacrifice. Furthermore, we have not reached a point of no return yet.”

“You’ve not seen it—that’s why you’d say that. There are really ghosts in this world, and this one appears every midnight. Once you see it, you’ll never say such things. This is what that family deserves. If you intervene, you’ll be targeted by the ghost.”

The old lady wanted to stop Chen Ge, but he was determined.

“Since I’ve run into this, then I have to do something.”

“Why are you so stubborn?” After several seconds, the old lady said, “Fine, if you insist on chasing death, then I won’t stop you. I hope that you’ll have a better luck.”

The old lady’s tone changed. “Originally, I didn’t want to bring this up again. The person who suggested the method of bury seed was my husband. The old coot didn’t mean any harm by it. He just tossed it out as a suggestion. We did not expect the family to really do it. The old man died not long after Wen Wen’s birth. When he left, he was wrought with guilt and regret.”