As soon as Ye Chen removed the needle, the flames vanished instantly, but the rice in the bowl remained unchanged.
"Are you trying to pull some kind of magic trick on us?"
Xiao Xinglei was incredulous at what he saw and couldn't believe Ye Chen was really that amazing, so he stared at him with great skepticism.
Ye Chen handed him the silver needles: "Here, show me how to do it."
Xiao Xinglei was momentarily dumbfounded, but he just couldn't believe what he had just witnessed. He waved his hand and said, "I won't play this game with you. In short, you're just a charlatan. I don't believe you!"
Ye Chen glanced at him, too lazy to pay him any attention, and looked at the more sensible Xiao Hongyan and said, "To be honest, it's not just your patriarch who's been cursed in your Xiao family. When I came in, I found that your entire Xiao family manor was filled with evil energy. This evil energy will seriously affect your Xiao family's fortune. If I'm not mistaken, your Xiao family has been having a lot of bad luck lately."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Hongyan's pupils dilated suddenly. Indeed, the Xiao family had been experiencing a series of misfortunes lately!
The pharmaceutical factory had an accident, the building collapsed, and the restaurant business I invested in was always losing money. There were also a lot of other miscellaneous things going wrong.
"Don't try to fool me. Our Xiao family has been having a rough time lately, but it has nothing to do with any evil spirits!"
Xiao Xinglei disapproved of Ye Chen's pretentious act, thinking he was just putting on airs by playing a magic trick.
Ye Chen stared at him with amusement: "Don't jump. The evil energy here is seriously affecting everyone's life. I can tell you're the one most affected by it. You'd better be careful at all times, or you won't even know when you die."
"You let go... bang!"
Before Xiao Xinglei could even utter a curse, a lampshade suddenly fell from above, hitting him squarely on the head and instantly blooming into a beautiful flower. He fell to the ground in pain.
That wasn't all; there was an antique shelf nearby, and a large blue-and-white porcelain piece fell down...
"Bang!"
Several more flowers bloomed on Xiao Xinglei's head, blossoming profusely...
"Xing Lei!"
Xiao Hongyan rushed over immediately, but accidentally bumped into the antique shelf, causing the entire shelf and all the antiques on it to fall over!
"ah!"
"ah--"
A scream of alarm, followed by a horrified scream!
Xiao Hongyan shrank back in fright, while Xiao Xinglei was firmly buried under the antique shelves and some broken porcelain, his head covered in 'flowers'...
A few minutes later, Xiao Hongyan and her servants dragged Xiao Xinglei out. Xiao Xinglei knelt down in front of Ye Chen and pleaded, "Brother Chen, I was wrong, please save me!"
Having been hurt so badly, he dared not act tough anymore.
"Weren't you just acting all high and mighty, bullying my senior sister? If you want me to save you, you'd better kowtow to her ten times first. See if she agrees. If she does, I'll save you. If not, you'd better pray for yourself!"
As soon as Ye Chen finished speaking, Xiao Xinglei immediately turned around and kowtowed repeatedly to Leng Qingqiu: "Dr. Leng, I was wrong, I was wrong, please let Brother Chen save me!"
He really banged his head against the ground, making a 'thump thump' sound, because compared to his life, this pain was nothing.
"Senior sister, should we save him?"
After watching Xiao Xinglei finish kowtowing, Ye Chen asked his senior sister.
Leng Qingqiu nodded. She was worried that if she didn't save him after he had performed so many grand gestures, she would shorten her own lifespan.
"Alright, for the sake of my doting on my senior sister, I'll save your life. But your old man is in much worse shape, so you'll have to take the fall."
Ye Chen began instructing Xiao Hongyan to prepare a long enough cinnabar thread so he could tie up Master Xiao, along with three bowls of glutinous rice, three bowls of corn, and five copper coins dating back to at least the Qianlong era.
Xiao Hongyan immediately went down to order people to prepare. Now that things had come to this point, she had grown to admire and trust Ye Chen quite a bit!
Soon the necessary items were prepared, and Ye Chen began to work. He used cinnabar and red thread to wrap around Master Xiao's entire body, then mixed three bowls of glutinous rice and three bowls of corn and poured them over his entire front, spreading them evenly with his hands.
Finally, there were five copper coins. Ye Chen pulled on a remaining cinnabar thread, strung them together, then bit his fingertip, dipped a drop of blood on the top of the coins, and stuck them on Master Xiao's forehead like a talisman.
At first glance, it looks exactly like a Taoist priest performing a ritual.
Leng Qingqiu was stunned. She never expected her junior brother to know these things. It seems he has truly inherited all of Master's true teachings!
After all preparations were complete, Ye Chen made a hand seal and silently recited a spell, then pressed it hard against the copper coin, squeezing the space between Master Xiao's eyebrows.
At that moment, something strange happened again: the string of copper coins began to sway from side to side, making a clattering sound as if it were being blown by a strong wind.
The old man's body emitted a red and white glow, and he was panting heavily, like a very serious asthma patient, which made people feel uneasy.
"Jie—"
Suddenly they heard a very shrill scream, which didn't seem to come from a human, and the temperature in the whole room was inexplicably dropping.
At first, they thought it was an illusion, but they soon discovered that a real chill was sweeping over them, which they could feel very clearly even in the sweltering summer heat, as if they had suddenly jumped into an ice cave.
Xiao Xinglei was terrified, but he didn't make a sound. He just slowly crawled to Ye Chen's side, stretched out his hands and hugged Ye Chen's calves, and felt a sense of security.
Faced with this atmosphere and scene, Xiao Hongyan was not very brave. However, she was a girl and not familiar with Ye Chen. Otherwise, she would have reached out and hugged Ye Chen.
There were also those who hugged her, like Leng Qingqiu.
The servants who entered huddled together, shivering, showing no disgust at the homosexual scent emanating from each other.
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