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His father was wondering if the rat had pulled him away. His mother said how many mice were there in the house. How many could they pull away without leaving a single pill? The elder brother and younger brother could only sigh. They hadn't even tasted this delicacy before it was gone.

After dinner, his father impatiently searched the house for the mouse hole, finally found a hole, with a very long big stick poking down to the bottom, stabbed for a long time, besides caught two mice, nothing, not even a small star.

If the two rats had really eaten the pill, they would have killed it long ago. They might have let the rats hide themselves, but after a thorough search, they did not find any traces of it.

Just when the whole family was depressed by the theft, Taoist Wang came over and told Taoist Wang about it. After Taoist Wang heard this, he said that he went to Old Song's house and saw Old Song sitting on the brick bed eating rice balls.

Just as he stood up and was about to find Old Song to settle the score, he was stopped by his father who shouted that no one had ever left his home. Old Song had also never been to his house before, so what right did he have to suspect that Old Song had taken it?

The Taoist Wang said that this was most likely done by the 'Maoju Spirit'.

However, the child's father was a cultured person, so he didn't believe it at all. He warned the child's mother not to mess around, because it was nothing more than a pill.

Two days later, two aunties who had good relations with their child's mother came to find her. She told her in a secretive manner that they had also seen Old Song sitting on the brick bed, eating the pills with relish!

The mother of the child also disapproved, saying that perhaps it was made by someone else.

But the child's mother's family had moved here from outside the village, and only his family knew how to fry pills. Other than her, there was no other custom in this village besides frying pills on New Year's Day.

The two aunties asked her back, ”None of us have eaten fried rice balls, then where do you think the Old Song pills came from?”

These words really stunned the child's mother.

Actually, these two aunties were sent by Taoist Wang. Taoist Wang only wanted to take the opportunity to earn some money, so he urged the two aunties to go to his parents' home to look for trouble.

He had been hiding outside the door eavesdropping, seeing that the time was ripe, he walked in and told the child's mother, your family lost all those pills, because the Old Song Family kept the 'Maoju Spirit', so you have to step forward, and everyone can only force Old Song to send this thing away, otherwise our village will never have another peaceful day in the future.

After that, Taoist Wang looked through many books and found some records related to it. He said that it would be really 'rich' to ask for this item.

If its luck was good, it would go steal from someone else and then give it to the person who supported it. If its luck was bad, it would send something from this family to someone else.

If there was no one else to support it, it would hoard the stolen food for its own consumption.

Luck is something that the Maoju Spirit cannot help you with, the only thing that the Maoju Spirit can help you with is stealing things for you, so the timing is changing. This kind of thing is too risky, and normally no one would dare to ask the Maoju Spirit to help them.

However, things were often out of one's control.

Later on, the Taoist Wang took his mother to Old Song's house, and found the altar of the Maoju Spirit in his home.

Old Song had no choice but to admit it and reveal the whole story.

Originally, Old Song did not provide for the Maoju Spirit.

One day when Old Song's father went out to do some business, he came back to find a new cloth bag at the crossroads. He didn't know what it was used for and felt that it was very practical, so he picked it up and from then on, the Maoju Spirit took root in his house.