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Ma Laosan’s wife had been coming to my house for two days in a row. Every time she came, she would leave behind only a single sentence, causing everyone in the family to feel an unprecedented sense of terror.
If this continued, we might not be killed by her, but we would certainly be scared to death by her.
That entire night, the whole family stayed awake. Only I, who was three years old, slept soundly.
Early the next morning, Grandpa made a decision. He told my father to go to Sanshilipu to find a Horseback Immortal named Granny Liu and ask her to help resolve the trouble in our family.
However, there was one difficult problem. This Horseback Immortal, Granny Liu, charged a very high price. The minimum fee for helping someone deal with supernatural matters was one hundred yuan, and she also demanded good liquor and cigarettes to be provided for her.
For people nowadays, one hundred yuan was not much. It was merely the price of a meal. But back then, an ordinary worker earned only a little over one yuan a day. For our family, this was a considerable expense.
But how could money be more important than her grandson’s life? Besides, there was a possibility that Ma Laosan’s wife might harm the entire family.
Early that morning, my father, with dark circles under his eyes, hurried to Sanshilipu. He brought money and gifts to ask Granny Liu to come.
Granny Liu had quite a reputation for being difficult to invite. It was extremely hard for ordinary people to persuade her to make a trip. After my father pleaded with her repeatedly, she finally agreed to come, but she refused to walk there. She insisted on riding in a donkey cart.
My father had no choice but to spend another few yuan to hire a donkey cart and bring Granny Liu from Sanshilipu to our house.
Granny Liu was over sixty years old. Her feet had been bound since childhood, and she carried a long-stemmed tobacco pipe in her hand. Whenever she spoke, she always held her head high, as though she regarded no one in the world as worthy of her attention.
Grandpa was also extremely polite toward her. The main reason was that he had heard this old woman possessed profound spiritual cultivation and had never failed when helping people deal with supernatural matters.
Granny Liu took a puff of her pipe and snorted a few words through her nose.
“Where’s the child? Bring him out and let me have a look.”
Hearing this, Grandpa immediately told my mother to bring me out of the room.
Only then did Granny Liu lower her head and glance at me.
Unexpectedly, the moment she looked at me, her expression changed drastically.
It was as though she had seen something terrifying.
She suddenly dropped to her knees with a loud thump, kneeling directly in front of me. Her entire body trembled violently.
“This junior is Liu, a disciple of the Horseback Immortals from Sanshilipu. I have served the Chang Immortal in my household for forty years. I have disturbed the Immortal’s sacred presence. I beg the Immortal to forgive me.”
As she spoke, she repeatedly knocked her head against the ground in front of me.
This scene completely stunned my entire family.
They had gone to such great lengths to bring Granny Liu all the way from Sanshilipu, only for her to kneel down and kowtow to a three-year-old child the moment she arrived.
What was going on?
Completely ignorant of what was happening, I looked at Granny Liu kowtowing before me and simply smiled.
I thought it was fun.
After finishing her kowtows, Granny Liu still remained kneeling on the ground and did not dare to get up.
Grandpa was stunned for a moment before quickly walking over to help her up.
“You’re being far too polite. Why are you kowtowing to a child? Come on, get up.”
“This disciple does not dare to rise until the Immortal speaks.”
Granny Liu remained kneeling on the ground, not even daring to raise her head and look at me.
Grandpa was helpless. He glanced at me and said, “Xiaojie, hurry up and tell Granny Liu to get up.”
So I told her to get up.
Granny Liu looked as though she had just been granted a pardon, and she finally stood up tremblingly, retreating to the side.
My mother, somewhat at a loss for what to do, led me back into the room.
Only after I had gone inside did Granny Liu finally let out a long sigh of relief. She looked somewhat resentfully at Grandpa and my father.
“I say, you two. Your family is already serving such a powerful Immortal, so why did you still invite an old woman like me to help? Aren’t you just making me show off my meager skills in front of an expert?”
“An Immortal… What Immortal? We don’t have a spiritual altar in our home, nor do we know any Immortal. What exactly do you mean, Granny Liu?” Grandpa knew a little about Horseback Immortals, so he asked her directly.
“Your grandson has a very powerful Immortal attached to him. That Immortal is a hundred times more powerful than every Immortal I have ever known. Compared to that Immortal, this old woman’s little bit of cultivation is simply nothing. I think I should just leave. There’s no point in staying here and making a fool of myself.” Granny Liu shook her head and sighed.
“But he’s only a three-year-old child who doesn’t know anything at all. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have gone to all the trouble of bringing you here from so far away.” My father spoke anxiously.
This made Granny Liu somewhat suspicious. She pondered for a moment before saying, “Can I take another look at the child?”
“That’s no problem. I’ll call him out…”
With that, my father was about to call me out.
Granny Liu suddenly stopped my father and said cautiously, “No. It’s better if I go inside and take a look. We shouldn’t disturb the Immortal.”
With that, Granny Liu walked into the room on her tiny bound feet.
When she saw me again, Granny Liu remained extremely respectful. The wrinkles on her face gathered into a smile as she said, “Immortal, let your disciple take a look at you. Please do not blame me.”
As she spoke, Granny Liu suddenly reached out a hand and placed it directly on the top of my head. Then she closed her eyes and began muttering under her breath.
Her entire body soon started trembling.
But after only a short while, Granny Liu suddenly opened her eyes. She staggered backward several steps before dropping to her knees again and kowtowing three times to me, each kowtow landing heavily against the floor.
“Great Immortal, please do not be angry. This disciple had no intention of offending you.”
Afterward, Granny Liu hurriedly left the room, looking somewhat panicked.
My father and Grandpa followed her outside once again.
As soon as they reached the courtyard, they saw Granny Liu take out the one hundred yuan my father had previously given her. She then added another one hundred yuan of her own and handed the money to my father.
“Brother, please take this money back.”
Grandpa froze for a moment, thinking that Granny Liu had decided not to deal with our family’s problem anymore.
“Granny Liu, what do you mean by this? Are you no longer willing to help with our family’s troubles?”
“It’s not that I’m unwilling to help. It’s that I wouldn’t dare accept money from your family.”
Granny Liu spoke with utmost respect, with no trace of the arrogance she had shown earlier.
“Being able to do something for the Great Immortal is a blessing that I, Liu, have accumulated over eight lifetimes. How could I possibly dare accept money? Please take this money back. Consider it a small gesture of goodwill from this old woman.”
Only after Grandpa repeatedly pressed her for an explanation did Granny Liu finally reveal what had happened.
From the very first moment she saw me, Granny Liu had sensed an extremely dense Immortal aura coming from my body. She had initially assumed that our family was also a family of Horseback Immortal disciples.
But after carefully sensing my presence, she discovered that a powerful Immortal soul was hidden within my body.
It possessed at least a thousand years of cultivation.
However, the divine soul inside me was extremely weak. It was obvious that it had suffered severe injuries in the past, and its consciousness had not yet awakened.
As a disciple of the Horseback Immortals herself, Granny Liu naturally knew just how terrifyingly powerful the soul inside me was.
Therefore, she did not dare to show the slightest disrespect, much less accept payment for helping us.
Although she refused to take any money, Granny Liu still thumped her chest and firmly promised that she would take responsibility for the affairs of the Wu Family.
From then on, whatever happened to our family would be her business as well. Even if she had to risk her own life, she would guarantee that I remained safe and unharmed.
Only after hearing Granny Liu say this did everyone in the family finally understand why, ever since the day I was born, so many yellow weasels and fox spirits had been kneeling and kowtowing toward our house.