Chapter 64 Chapter 64 The Su Family Manor was burned down
The hexagram's description of the family being torn apart and people dying did not match Su Lin's fate. Su Yun immediately went back to check the book and found that this situation was not uncommon.
Not everyone will live their life exactly according to their horoscope, because when you are born you have karma that belongs only to you. As your life progresses, other people's karma is transferred to you, and your horoscope may become something that protects you.
As for what the outcome will be, that will depend on the new conditions.
Fortune-telling is ultimately a math problem. What kind of conditions will determine what the result will be. The result obtained by segmenting and arranging the data may not be a real number, but a range. The result that can be calculated for Su Lin's entire life will naturally be different from what it is at this moment.
Just as he closed the book, Su Yun heard a knock on the door, asking someone to come in. The ghost bride pushed the door open and poked her head out: "Director, Su Yun is here, the one from the Su family."
"What is she doing here?" Su Yun was puzzled. He had made it very clear before, so why did he let Su Yun come?
The ghost bride shook her head: "I don't know. She said she was asked by Madam Ji to come here and bring you a gift."
Su Yun went downstairs without knowing why, walked through the corridor and came to the reception room, where he saw a large wooden box on the table.
Su Yun, who looked very unhappy, did not sit down. She stood beside the box. When she saw Su Yun coming, she said loudly, "Hey, my mom asked me to bring something to you."
Normally, this should have been followed by a sarcastic or green tea remark, but Su Yun didn't know why she held it back and just pouted and rolled her eyes.
Su Yun was too lazy to argue with her, so he walked to the table and opened the box.
The reception room is used to entertain guests. The lighting can be adjusted, and most of the lights are very soft. However, under this lighting, the items in the wooden boxes still emit a soft glow.
Everyone present was stunned when they saw the gift in the box. They didn't expect it to be so valuable - a jade Guanyin holding a bottle that was more than 60 centimeters tall including the base.
The Jade Guanyin is not only large, but also has jade quality that is visibly good. It is entirely white except for a few spots of emerald green. These are not spliced on, but are the emerald green of the jade itself. Guanyin's jade crown, the flower ornament between her eyebrows, the necklace around her neck, and the jade bracelets on her wrists are all very suitable emerald green.
The greenest place is the willow branches in the vase, which look so lush and green that it seems as if real willow branches have grown out of the jade vase.
You don't need any experience in looking at jade. Anyone with eyes will probably only have four words in their mind when seeing this jade Guanyin: priceless treasure.
Su Yun suddenly opened her eyes wide after seeing this. She was so shocked that she couldn't speak. After a long while, she came to her senses and immediately said angrily: "Why would they give you such a good thing? I have been back to the Su family for so many years, and I have never received such a good gift!"
"What's your name? I've seen this thing, and it's not for me at all." Su Yun frowned. Although Mrs. Ji and Su's father were not very normal, their behavior was usually for the Su family. They had been out of contact for so long, how could they suddenly send a gift?
"You've seen it, and you still say it's not for you? Even if it wasn't for you then, it's in your hands now! It's true that people are biased when they are brought up..." Su Yun was so angry that she kept cursing in a low voice. After a few minutes of cursing, her cell phone suddenly rang.
She took out her phone and saw it was the housekeeper. Su Yun was very unhappy at the moment and muttered, "Huh, you only know how to order me around. You asked me to deliver something in such a heavy rain, but you didn't give me anything good..."
Cursing, Su Yun answered the phone impatiently: "Hello? What's going on?"
The old housekeeper's collapsed voice came from the other end of the phone: "Miss, the manor is on fire, the lady is missing, and the young master's phone can't be reached. Please come back soon! Everyone in the manor is fighting the fire. If you can contact the young master, please ask him to come back quickly!"
As soon as she heard the first half of the sentence, Yan Gui immediately searched the Internet, and sure enough, it had become a hot search. It said that during a rainstorm, lightning suddenly struck a manor, and now it has caught fire. People on the Internet are discussing whether the capitalists have taken advantage of too many people and even God can't stand it anymore.
Otherwise, how could the fire continue to burn and not be put out in such heavy rain?
Yan Gui handed the tablet to Su Yun and whispered, "This is weird. According to the area of the Su Family Manor, even if lightning and fire struck, it would not burn so quickly."
Rich people build houses in prosperous or remote places. The establishment of Su Family Manor can be traced back to the Republic of China. The site chosen at that time is now considered a suburb, so it is a bit remote, but there are still other wealthy people nearby, so they took short videos and photos and posted them online.
Judging from the video that was circulated, the fire was too big. It didn't look like it was caused by lightning at all. It seemed more like someone deliberately set fire to every flammable point in the manor, and with the addition of lightning, it burned so quickly and so big.
Su Yun was stunned for a while, hung up the phone in a panic, and then walked out muttering to herself: "I have to, I have to go back, find, find my brother..."
Seeing her like this, Su Yun raised his hand to stop her: "What's the point of you going back? You should call the police and then find your brother first. Do you know how to deal with the current situation?"
After listening, Su Yun could only nod. She wanted to call Su Lin, but her hands were shaking. Su Yun couldn't bear it, so he snatched her phone, held her hand to open the fingerprint lock, and then quickly found Su Lin's contact information and called him.
Su Yun, who was already at a loss, looked at Su Yun with wide eyes, hoping to find Su Lin smoothly.
But the call just couldn't go through. They said sorry, the other party's phone is temporarily unavailable.
Su Yun glanced at the screen curiously and asked, "Is there something wrong with your phone?"
He knew it wasn't him, but Su Yun was so scared that he didn't react at all. There was no other way, so Su Yun took out his cell phone and called again, but still couldn't get through. What was going on with Su Lin at this time?
Seeing Su Yun's panic, Su Yun sighed and said, "I can't get through. Your brother might be delayed by something. How about... contacting your dad?"
Su Yun tugged at her hem in grievance: "My dad has been in the hospital for a long time. He can't call at night. They say that every time he hears the phone ringing, he is easily frightened and goes into shock."
This description sounds like a ghost. The Su family's liver was stolen back by Lin Lang a long time ago, and the backlash of the formation was also dealt with. The fact that Su's father still has this symptom is obviously caused by other problems.
After returning the phone to Su Yun, Su Yun said, "Then you have to go back by yourself. But before you go back, I have to explain something to you, because you may need it later."
Su Yun held the phone and asked in a muffled voice, "What's the matter?"
"I was stolen by the Su family. We were not taken away by mistake. I did not occupy your identity or position. It was the Su family who sent you away and let me take over. Mr. Ziyuan's predictions are always half-hearted. They only count the results and not the causes. He thought that the eldest daughter of the Su family would die at the age of 20. In fact, he had set the premise of raising me first, which led to this prediction." Su Yun said seriously and slowly, afraid that Su Yun would not understand.
A normal and well-trained fortune teller will calculate the cause and effect completely, and can avoid harm by changing the cause and effect.
For example, if someone says that you are going to have a bloody disaster, you might as well get your wisdom teeth removed to directly offset the bad luck. This is a very useful method of using someone else's talent to offset the bad luck.
But Mr. Ziyuan was different. He only calculated the results, not the reasons. His prerequisite was that he wanted to create an immortal body of his own. The natural result of his calculation was that no matter who became the eldest daughter of the Su family, she would die at the age of twenty. After all, it was this body that he wanted to refine.
If he had not added this premise when he made the prediction, and instead both couples surnamed Su raised their daughters well, the results would have been very different.
Su Yun was under too much stimulation tonight. In fact, she knew the situation of her family when she was twelve years old. It was because Su's father and Madam Ji were afraid that she would not be familiar with them when she grew up, so they went to recognize her as a relative. The explanation they used was the prophecy of Master Ziyuan. She always felt that Su Yun was the one who took her place.
Even though it was for her life, Su Yun had also enjoyed the life of a rich lady for twenty years. Without that prophecy, how could Su Yun be better than her in every way?
After returning to the Su family, her thoughts became even stronger, because people compared her to Su Yun everywhere, saying that she was not as good as Su Yun, her grades were not as good as Su Yun, and her character was not as good as Su Yun. Since she was not as good as Su Yun in everything, why didn't they treat Su Yun as their daughter? Did they not want to?
Resentment and jealousy made Su Yun feel more and more disgusted with Su Yun. Although she knew that Su Yun was dead, she didn't quite understand where she heard the news. Perhaps she learned about it by chance from her parents and brother.
When we met again later, Su Yun was still as arrogant as ever, which made people hate him just to see him.
All the hatred and jealousy accumulated, but now she was told that the prophecy could have been false, and she could have been the eldest daughter of the Su family from the beginning, and she would not have been suppressed by Su Yun.
Su Yun's head was about to explode. She felt her temples throbbing with pain. She raised her hand with difficulty and grabbed Su Yun's arm: "Explain clearly, what do you mean by he wanted to support you, so there was a prophecy?"
"He doesn't want to make money from your family at all, he wants my life. You have seen it, my life is so good, I have been smooth sailing for twenty years, and no one in the Su family dares to mess with me. Do you really think I am so strong that they dare not touch me? It's because I am unhappy, they will be unlucky, otherwise they would have killed me long ago." Su Yun explained with a sneer.
After hearing this, Su Yun felt like her whole spirit had dispersed. She didn’t know how she should face what happened tonight. Was it her parents who had been deceived, or her own unlucky life?
Su Yun hit Su Yun's shoulder with his folding fan: "Anyway, I told you this so that you don't listen to anyone when you go back. If you can find your parents and Su Lin, listen to them. If you can't find them, don't listen to anyone. If necessary, pretend to be dead and hide in the police car."
However, Su Yun was in a panic now. She couldn't listen at all. Her cell phone rang again. This time it was someone from the Su family. She didn't know why they called her. Thinking about the huge amount of information Su Yun had just received, and the fear of not being able to contact her parents and brother, Su Yun hung up the phone directly.
But the phone calls continued to come. Su Yun was just not raised in the Su family. It was not like she had never read novels. The novels described in detail how miserable ordinary young ladies who lost the protection of their parents and brothers were and how they would die.
After refusing to answer the call again, Su Yun grabbed Su Yun's sleeve: "Su Yun, come with me, I'm scared..."
"What are you afraid of? You dare to come to the funeral home late at night. You're just going to go back. The police and firefighters are already here. What is there to be afraid of?" Su Yun thought it was funny. Su Yun drove to the funeral home alone to deliver something tonight.
Su Yun kept shaking her head: "No, no, I remember now. This afternoon, my mother suddenly found me and gave me this box. She said I couldn't open it, and I couldn't ask anyone else to help me. I had to drive it to you personally and by myself."
Interrupted by the continuous accidents, Su Yun almost forgot about the glittering Jade Guanyin on the table. No one had touched the Jade Guanyin with a smile on her face and closed eyes. It just lay quietly on the table, looking very pitiful.
It is true that the thing is very valuable. Regardless of the meaning of Madam Ji sending this thing over, she asked Su Yun to deliver it personally and alone, probably to save her life. As long as she left the manor, wouldn't she be able to avoid the fire?
Thinking of this, Su Yun asked seriously: "Don't tremble, what else did Madam Ji say? Think carefully, from the time she found you to the time she asked you to leave, what did Madam Ji say?"
Su Yun still shook her head: "Nothing, my mother is a quiet person, she is always praying to Buddha, I didn't know there was a Jade Guanyin inside, she just asked me to bring it to you."
"But we don't believe in Buddhism. We are Taoists. What's the matter with sending Jade Guanyin to us?" The ghost asked in confusion.
Hearing this, Su Yun looked at the Jade Guanyin and thought for a while: "No, the point is not Guanyin or Buddha, it's that I have seen this thing. It seems that when I was sixteen years old, the old man was seventy-five years old. Among the many gifts, this one is the most conspicuous. It is hard to forget once you have seen it."
Everyone turned around to look at the beautiful jade Guanyin. After knowing that it was something belonging to the old man of the Su family, they were even more puzzled. Why did Madam Ji suddenly ask Su Yun to send this thing over?
Su Yun narrowed his eyes slightly: "I'm too lazy to guess, just ask directly, Ayan, Lin Lang, let's go to the Su family manor."
Seeing that Su Yun was willing to go together, Su Yun hurried to follow. She did not drive her own car, but got into the funeral home's work vehicle.
When preparing to leave, Lin Lang paused and said, "Director, the fire in the manor is too big. Many people will leave tonight. Should we take our weapons with us?"
If there are too many deaths, the funeral home in the east of the city alone may not be able to handle it.
Su Yun glanced at him and said, "They are putting out the fire, but the funeral home is waiting at the scene with tools, waiting for the dead. Is that reasonable? Even if there are too many people to help us, the family members have to say that we can't just go and wait, as if we are expecting the person to die."
Lin Lang nodded awkwardly, started the car and set off.
The rain was extremely heavy that night. The navigation system kept reminding us of some places where the water was deep and difficult to navigate, and suggested taking a detour. It also reminded us of some places where there was traffic jam, and suggested taking a detour.
You have to take detours everywhere, and the time spent on taking detours is just as much as if you were stuck in traffic.
Time passed little by little. Su Yun was very scared. She didn't dare to open her mobile phone. She didn't know what was going on. She could only secretly glance at Yan Gui's tablet with the corner of her eye. Yan Gui kept refreshing the hot searches and news on the tablet. At the top of the hot searches tonight was this strange fire.
When the ghost saw that Su Yun wanted to look, she pushed closer, but Su Yun dodged again. She didn't dare to look.
Seeing this, the sexy ghost curled her lips and concentrated on brushing her own.
It was only 7:30 in the evening when Su Yun arrived at the funeral home, and it was already 10:30 in the evening when they arrived outside the Su family manor. However, they saw the flames and smoke rising into the sky from two kilometers away. Neither the darkness nor the rain could stop it, and there was still thunder in the sky, which was deafening.
Lin Lang was an excellent driver and he managed to drive through the muddy mountain road, avoiding the police and fire trucks and heading to the side gate of the Su family manor.
There were people gathered there too. The fire was too big and the firefighters were afraid it would spread, so they had built an isolation zone in advance. But the strange thing was that the fire only burned the manor and did not spread out.
When Su Yun saw such a huge fire, she rushed out but was stopped by firefighters. She cried and called for her mother and brother. The firefighters anxiously told the family members to control their emotions and not to be impulsive, and that they would rescue the person.
Then Su Yun also walked over, raised his hand to hold Su Yun's collar, pulled her back, and said, "I'm sorry, she couldn't contact her mother, so she was too excited. What's the rescue situation now?"
The firefighter saw that someone was able to hold Su Yun down, so he hurriedly said, "It's still unclear. The fire is too big. The housekeeper is counting the number of people. You can go a little further west. The ambulance and the people are there, and the fire is smaller."
After that, the firefighters went to put out the fire again. When they left, Su Yun suddenly grabbed Su Yun's hand: "Su Yun, you have a way, you must have a way, don't you know magic? Save people..."
Seeing Su Yun pleading, Su Yun raised his hand and pointed to the sky: "Didn't you notice that it has been raining? Such heavy rain can't put out the fire, which is no different from snow in June. Su Yun, some debts must be repaid. It is only natural."
At this moment, Su Yun thought of Su Lin who was kneeling beside Mrs. Ji. She didn't actually understand what Su Lin said at that time, but she just felt scared, so she didn't dare to cry.
Only after Su Yun pointed it out did Su Yun understand how desperate Su Lin was at that moment. Debts had to be repaid, murder had to be paid for, and when the debt collectors came, his parents showed no remorse at all. They just felt that as long as their children were alive, everything could continue.
Thinking of this, Su Yun grabbed Su Yun's clothes, softened little by little, knelt down beside Su Yun, and burst into tears.
After Su Yun was a little more stable, Su Yun took her to a safe area. Many servants were burned, but fortunately it was not fatal. Ambulances came again and again. The old butler kept recording the situation. When he saw Su Yun bringing Su Yun over, his waist suddenly bent.
Su Yun walked over and sat aside without saying a word. She was clearly a waste and knew she was a waste, so she did not disturb others from working.
Walking up to the old butler, Su Yun stretched out his hand. The old butler hesitated for a moment. He glanced at Su Yun, who was crying with her head down, sighed, handed the tablet to Su Yun, and reported in a low voice: "The fire started at seven o'clock. According to the servants' reports, there is a fire point on every floor of every building. The injured servants and bodyguards..."
The identity information and injury conditions of the injured were recorded in different categories, which was very clear at a glance. The ratio of the number of rescued people was also made, and it was clear how many servants were in the manor tonight and how many were rescued.
At present, the weaker servants and nannies have been rescued. They ran quickly after discovering the fire. As for the bodyguards who cooperated with the fire department in the rescue, the number is not determined, but some of them were injured after the rescue and have been sent away.
There are also Su family members living in each building, and their assistant secretaries, wives, husbands, and children are considered Su family members. The housekeepers are recorded separately, but the number... is very low.
There are four people in the main family, Father Su, Mrs. Ji, Su Lin and Su Yun. Currently, only Su Yun is registered, which means that the other three are missing.
After reading it, Su Yun returned the tablet to the old housekeeper and asked, "Before the fire, Madam Ji asked Su Yun to send something to me, so at least Madam Ji was at home at the time, and Mr. Su was in the hospital. What's the situation between Madam Ji and Su Lin?"
The old housekeeper replied, "The young master has not returned since he left this morning. Madam went to work in the morning and let Miss go out alone after she came back in the afternoon. After that, Madam has been drinking tea in the flower room, but..."
"But after the fire, the lady disappeared, but you were guarding outside the greenhouse before that?" Su Yun said it directly for him.
"That's right, I don't know what the madam asked the young lady to deliver, but I am sure that I never left the greenhouse. When it was raining, I went in and asked the madam if she wanted to have dinner in the greenhouse." The old butler described sadly.
Su Yun calculated the time: "When it rained, did she go to dinner?"
The old housekeeper wiped his eyes and shook his head: "No, the lady asked me to go to the kitchen to help her bring a bowl of sweet soup. I wanted to ask someone else to go, but the lady insisted that I go, so I had to go. As a result, the fire broke out just after I came out of the kitchen."
The timing was perfect, without any surprises.
I think when the fire was discovered, the old housekeeper hurriedly asked everyone to put out the fire. He ran to the greenhouse to look for Mrs. Ji, but he couldn't find her, and the fire was getting bigger and bigger.
Su Yun felt strange: "After the fire, didn't you go into the main building to look for her? You have been in the Su family for many years, you should go in to look for her, right?"
The old housekeeper felt even more uncomfortable when he heard Su Yun say this: "After I rushed into the main building, I ran into my son in the living room... He pulled me out..."
Su Yun had an impression of the old housekeeper's son, a rather fierce man who had always been Su's father's secretary. He always followed Su's father and even protected Su's father when he went to the hospital. Occasionally, when the old housekeeper was not around, he would go over to accompany him.
On a night like this, the fact that the other party was there could only mean that it was Su's father who asked him to come back to save people.
Su Yun let out a long sigh: "In that case, just respect their ideas."
Soon, another person was sent over, and the old butler was called by the medical staff to confirm his identity, and then he was given first aid and sent away.
The fire burned all night. Su Yun cried in the first half of the night, but in the second half she could no longer cry and just sat there in a daze, not knowing what she was thinking.
There were too many injured people, so Su Yun brought Lin Lang and Yan Gui to help. They were ordinary people on the surface, and the firefighters would not let them pass, so they could only provide first aid to the injured here.
Su Yun whispered to Lin Lang that if necessary, he should go and rescue the firefighters, and Lin Lang agreed.
But the fire that night seemed to have consciousness. After the fire was extinguished, the settlement was made. Only the Su family manor was destroyed and some people in the Su family died.
Many members of the Su family live in this exquisite manor from the last century. Such an old family is proud to live in a big house, as if as long as they are here, they are a member of the main family and can get better resources.
But that night, many members of the Su family died, leaving only children and some women alive.
Even the firefighters couldn't bear to see the number of casualties, but Su Yun didn't dare to identify them. It was the old housekeeper and Su Yun who carried her over.
The fire was too big, and the family was like this, so even the director of the Public Security Bureau came over. They had all seen the gossip about the Su family over the years, and when he saw Su Yun standing there, he knew that the Su family was probably left with no one left, and they had to pull Su Yun out to keep up appearances.
"Concerning this fire, the police must find out the truth and give justice to all the victims." The director said to Su Yun seriously.
Su Yun looked up at him and said, "I am no longer a member of the Su family. I came here because Madam Ji asked Su Yun to give me a gift. The road was not easy to walk on at night, so I sent her back. She has no shares or seals on her, so it is useless to tell me or her these things. The most important thing now is to find Su Lin."
The director didn't expect that Su Yun was not here to help manage the situation, so he frowned and asked, "Su Lin is not in the manor?"
The old housekeeper hurriedly said, "Not only is he not here, but since the young master left for work yesterday, we have been unable to contact him."
So many people in the Su family have died, and now one is missing. The director's face changed and he hurriedly asked someone to look for him.
There were too many dead bodies, and all needed autopsies, so they were all sent to the Public Security Bureau. The nearby police station could not accommodate so many people, so Su Yun's car also helped transport two bodies, which were both sent to the Municipal Public Security Bureau. There were not enough forensic doctors, criminal police and trace examination staff, so some were borrowed from neighboring cities.
Everyone had to make a simple record, and Su Yun told the truth. Considering that the Su family had previously had murders and some accidents, it was Captain Gong who came to question them.
After Su Yun finished telling the story, Captain Gong asked, "You think Mrs. Ji gave you the Jade Guanyin in order to keep her daughter away from the fire, but how did Mrs. Ji know that?"
The reason why she said everything directly was because Su Yun knew that Su Yun's stupid brain would not cover up, so she could only tell the truth: "I'm not sure, I just guessed from the results, so I followed Su Yun back to the Su Family Manor. I wanted to ask directly, but I didn't expect the fire to be so big, and everything was unrecognizable."
The autopsy has not been completed yet, and the identities of the deceased in the Su family cannot be confirmed. According to the data recorded by the old housekeeper, the deceased are all members of the Su family. Moreover, the height of the bones can only be used to roughly distinguish the gender, and it is impossible to determine who the bodies with the same height are. DNA testing is still needed.
There were several female corpses that could not be distinguished. Their heights were almost the same as Mrs. Ji's, so the old butler could not recognize them. He had been a butler for decades and could tell who was who by looking at the physical data, which provided great help to the police.
Captain Gong nodded and said, "You think that Madam Ji can be rescued, so you want to ask her in person, but...then tell me about the Jade Guanyin. From your description, it seems to be a very valuable gift from your grandfather. Why did he pick it out specifically for you?"
Su Yun still couldn't figure it out: "I really can't figure it out. I only heard from Su Yun that Madam Ji suddenly believed in Buddhism after I left and would worship every day. But to be honest, I am in the funeral business, so I am half a Taoist priest. They sent me Guanyin, and the predecessor of Guanyin in Taoism was Cihang Taoist. Are they trying to tell me that someone has two identities, or is it a rebellion? I can't understand."
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