The colors of the wind and clouds changed, and ghosts cried while gods howled.
As Aunt Zhang was setting up the altar, the two scarecrows transformed into figures wearing soap clothes. Both donned official hats with waist knives at their belts; one carried chains, and the other wielded criminal shackles, resembling officers hurrying in the night to capture thieves.
The Yellow Dog Village was now filled with dense clusters of little ghosts, all brought by the Five Evil Ghost who had just descended. But in its haste to escape, it had no time to take them back with it.
All these little ghosts squeezed and jostled, attempting to slip into the well to follow the Five Evil Master back, but they were already too late. When they saw those two figures in soap clothes arrive at the village entrance, they were so frightened they shrieked wildly.
