I fixed my gaze on Old Liu Tou, my eyes like knives. "Does the Liu family also possess such an evil artifact?"

Old Liu Tou swore an oath, "May Heaven and Earth bear witness! Our Liu family has never done anything immoral! How could we nurture any evil artifact? Mr. Li, you can't just make things up!"

I stared intently at Old Liu Tou. "You may not have done it, but that doesn't mean your ancestors didn't! Seven people guarding the water, one nurturing evil. Could the rest escape?"

I said in a deep voice, "Don't forget the trees in Fish Basket Village!"

Old Liu Tou fell silent.

Sorcerers don't plant trees for no reason. The seven trees in the village were not only a Seven Stars Formation, but also represented a kind of covenant.

"I, I..." Old Liu Tou stammered for a long time, then suddenly shouted, "I'll destroy this cauldron right now, and I'll tell you, we..."

Before Old Liu Tou could act, someone said, "You'll regret it if you break the cauldron."

It was Er Zhuzi who spoke, but a woman's voice came from his mouth.

I sheathed Bai Zhou and said, "Now that you've spoken, Your Excellency, why not come out and meet us?"

As Er Zhuzi stood up, a hazy phantom appeared on his body.

In a few short seconds, the phantom solidified, and an old woman in gray cloth clothes appeared before us.

The woman wasn't beautiful, but she possessed the demeanor of a matriarch from a wealthy family.

I asked, "How should I address you, Your Excellency?"

"Just call me Wang Li Shi!" I was stunned the moment she spoke.

Was she the Wang Li Shi I was looking for?

At that moment, Old Liu Tou shouted, "Old Aunt, you didn't leave?"

Old Liu Tou's address of "Old Aunt" revealed the old woman's identity. She was Er Zhuzi's grandmother. Judging by her age, the old woman should have lived before the founding of the country.

At that time, many women didn't have formal names. Apart from close relatives, outsiders rarely knew their names. Sometimes, when you heard someone call someone "Old Wang's Wife," if you assumed she was surnamed Wang, you'd be wrong. People were probably referring to her husband's surname.

Hei Bai Wuchang only gave me the name "Wang Li Shi," without even a portrait or a specific age. The time of death was also based on the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches. The same Jia Zi year could refer to sixty years ago or sixty years in the future if no prefix was written.

Who knew if the Wang Li Shi I was looking for jumped into the river at eighty or drowned herself at eighteen?

I couldn't just assume that the old woman before me was the one I was looking for based solely on a name.

The old woman didn't even look at me, turning her head to say to Old Liu Tou, "If I leave, what will happen to the Wang family's descendants? Can you support Er Zhuzi and find him a wife?"

"This..." Old Liu Tou didn't know what to say.

But I narrowed my eyes and looked at the old woman.

The idea of ​​continuing the family line was deeply ingrained in the minds of the older generation. Sometimes, it could form an obsession that was hard to understand. Some people, even if they knew that marrying a fool was harming someone, would not hesitate to drag them into the pit of fire.

I believed that Old Woman Wang's obsession had turned her into a demon. She had already done this kind of thing once. But to say that her ghost remained to find a wife for a fool was a bit intriguing.

Could a ghost handle the matter of finding a wife?

You should know that finding a wife for a fool was much more difficult than a normal marriage. Either you had to have a wealthy family, or the family marrying into had to have the ability to bear the consequences.

What did the Wang family have left?

Old Liu Tou sighed, "Old Aunt, let's not talk about you not leaving for now. Tell me, what's going on with this cauldron? And what's going on with the dead person that popped up in your house?"

The old woman said coldly, "That's our family's business, why should I tell you? And..."

The old woman pointed at me. "You quickly get this person out of here. The affairs of Fish Basket Village don't need outsiders to interfere!"

Without waiting for anyone to speak, the old woman said to me, "Kid, let me tell you, the affairs of Fish Basket Village are not something you can interfere with."

"If you don't provoke the water ghosts, they'll just kill a few people when they enter the village. If you provoke them, none of the people in Fish Basket Village will want to live."

"I advise you to leave! To put it nicely, you're too young. It's not worth dying here."

"To put it bluntly, if you show off your abilities and sacrifice other people's lives, you're committing a sin. Not only will no one in Fish Basket Village thank you, but they'll also curse your ancestors for eight generations."

"Bullshit!" Old Liu Tou was the first to get angry. "Old Aunt, are you talking like a human being? Mr. Li, in order to help the villagers, he carried a coffin and jumped into the water himself. What is that called? That's called chivalry! How can it be worthless in your mouth? You have to have a conscience!"

The old woman sneered, "Alright! Liu Bao Zi, you dare to be disrespectful to me? Let me tell you, you'll regret it if you don't chase him away. Zhuzi, let's go home."

The old woman pulled Er Zhuzi up and stood up. "Kid, return my family's cauldron to me. Do you still want to rob my family's belongings?"

"You..." Old Liu Tou was trembling with anger, unable to say a word.

I took a step back and made a "please" gesture. "Take it away!"