Chapter 27 You can't distinguish friend from foe? You're even helping evil spirits?! Who exactly are you...?
“I see that the base of this candlestick is damaged. It must have been thrown out by someone from the manor on orders. Everyone in town knows that our manor often throws out useless things. Whoever wants to pick up those junk can pick them up. This dead person has nothing to do with our manor. Even if you invite the person sitting in the courtroom here, it will be the same.”
Li Chenjin smiled slightly, “I naturally don’t think this matter is related to your family. It’s just that I went to the home of the person who was harmed by the evil spirit and found that the resentment inside was extremely strong. Also, there happened to be a candlestick that was thrown out of your family’s home. I was worried that the evil spirit would cause trouble for your family, so I came here.”
As Li Chen finished speaking, he took out a stack of yellow talismans from his sleeve and handed them to the man, saying, "These are talismans I drew yesterday to ward off evil. Please pass them on to Master Wu so that your household may be safe."
Han Shannan was taken aback when he saw the stack of yellow talismans she suddenly pulled out. He wanted to say something, but considering that there were outsiders present, he could only swallow his words.
The person didn't take it, but another person who heard the conversation came over curiously and took the yellow talisman she offered.
The person who took the yellow talisman looked at the talisman paper and sneered, "Putting aside the fact that my master doesn't believe in your Zen cultivation world, you said earlier that you were from the Zen cultivation world, but you can produce things that only the Dharma cultivation world has. I think you are just charlatans trying to swindle some money."
With a wave of his hand, the stack of yellow talismans scattered in front of the two of them like a shower of flowers.
Li Chen remained calm and showed no reaction, but Han Shannan's eyes widened immediately. He pointed at Li Chen's nose and said, "Do you have any manners at all? How could you litter other people's things like that?!"
The gatekeeper replied, "You two come here to swindle people, do you think you have any manners? Who in town doesn't know that our master utterly despises the meditation community? You've just had to come here looking for trouble!"
"Let me tell you, I'm being very nice to you right now. If it were anyone else, they would have beaten you out of town with sticks! Get out! Quickly pick up your junk and get out of here, or I'll call my men out and make you regret it!"
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Han Shannan was about to have a serious argument with him, but to his surprise, the other party was unwilling to pay any attention to him. The person who was originally standing next to him actually squatted down and slowly picked up the scattered yellow talismans on the ground.
Seeing the mocking look from the gatekeeper, he felt embarrassed and angry. He grabbed Li Chenjin, who was still picking up his things, and said, "They don't know what's good for them. They threw your things away. They should be the ones picking them up. Why are you picking them up?!"
After saying that, he rushed up the steps again, as if he wanted to beat up the two men and get justice for Li Chen.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he stepped onto the first step, Li Chenjin swiftly grabbed him. Ignoring the mocking gaze of the person opposite him, he smiled again and said, "Since your esteemed residence doesn't need me, I will take my leave. If Master Wu wishes to find me later, he can simply go to the outskirts of town to look for me."
Hearing Li Chenjin's words, Han Shannan looked at her in disbelief, feeling that Li Chenjin was unreasonable, which made him, who had just wanted to seek justice for her, seem like a fool.
He tried to shake off her hand, but to his surprise, not only did he fail to shake her off, he was also pulled back several steps, which made Han Shannan's anger instantly dissipate. Instead, he began to wonder if he had been too tired or had not rested well in the past two days.
Otherwise, how could he have been picked up and carried away by Li Chen so easily, like a helpless little chick?
Only after the two were far away from the Wu family did Li Chen release his grip, and Han Shannan immediately said, "Why did you stop me? I was just about to help you! Didn't you see that they didn't take you seriously at all?!"
Li Chen sighed, took out a few coins, bought a string of candied hawthorns from a roadside vendor, and handed it to Han Shannan, saying, "Of course I saw through it, I'm not stupid."
Han Shannan was taken aback when the candied hawthorn was suddenly stuffed into his mouth. After realizing what was happening, he immediately said, "Then why don't you let me teach them a lesson? No matter what, they should have picked up those things and returned them to you. How could you have picked them up yourself?!"
Li Chen sighed and glanced at the person beside him who was still burning with anger, saying, "Calm down, calm down. Think about it, if we don't make a scene like this outside the Wu family's gate today, how will we wait for that Master Wu to come to our door in person tomorrow?"
Han Shannan's expression went blank for a moment before he asked, "What do you mean? Isn't that Master Wu the one who hates people from your Zen cultivation world the most? Today, his men all threw away your things, so why would he come looking for you on his own initiative?"
Li Chenjin said leisurely, "It's like this. I couldn't sleep last night, so I took this candlestick to the town's mortuary. After a quick comparison, I found that the head wounds on the backs of the corpses matched the base of this candlestick perfectly."
"If it weren't for the fact that those people happened to pick up the candlesticks that the Wu family threw out, then every time the evil spirit was about to kill someone, the candlestick would go with the evil spirit."
"You went out last night?" Han Shannan asked, looking extremely shocked. "How is that possible? I didn't hear any footsteps from you last night. Did you fly out?"
Li Chen said absentmindedly, "Cultivator Han, you slept upstairs yesterday and I slept downstairs. We were so far apart, how could you have heard my footsteps? Even if you have exceptional hearing, it's normal that you slept soundly last night after being so tired the past two days."
"Besides, why would I lie to you about this? I wouldn't gain anything by lying to you."
Han Shannan recalled how he had been unable to break free from Li Chen's grip earlier, and clenched his fist suspiciously, as if wondering if he was truly exhausted.
After a moment, he asked again, "Then why are you so sure that evil spirit will definitely cause trouble for the Wu family?"
"And another thing, you said before that the evil spirit only kills one person every ten days. It's only been a few days since the last person was killed by the evil spirit, how can you be so sure that something bad will happen to the Wu family today? That Master Wu will come looking for you tomorrow?"
Li Chen said gently, "Because I told that evil spirit to find its grievances and its debtors."
Han Shannan said, "You're not Buddha, how could evil spirits listen to you?"
“I am naturally not Buddha, and evil spirits will naturally not obey me,” Li Chen said. “It’s just that when I saw that evil spirit before, I found that it was somewhat lacking in power. I figured that it killed so many people to devour their souls in order to strengthen itself and take revenge. Coincidentally, I had some spirit stones on me at the time, so I helped it and improved its cultivation a bit…”
"What?!" Before Li Chenjin could finish speaking, Han Shannan suddenly exclaimed, "You're helping evil spirits?! Whose side are you on anyway?!"
Li Chenjin: "..."
She glanced at the eyes drawn to Han Shannan's voice, smiled helplessly at them, then pointed at Han Shannan and then at her own head, silently implying to them that Han Shannan wasn't quite right in the head.
After doing all this, she glanced sideways at Han Shannan, who was completely unaware of her actions, and then at the three or four jade pendants hanging from his waist. He looked exactly like a landlord's foolish son who had come out to make his way in the world, which she found extremely amusing.
"Please rest assured, Cultivator Han, I am naturally not on the side of the evil spirit," Li Chen said. "There are many ways to help. Although I am helping it, I have done some tricks. Once the evil spirit tries to kill someone, its spiritual power will backfire on itself. At that time, it will be seriously injured even if it doesn't die. So it can't kill this person; at most, it will just cause some trouble."
“I wasn’t sure it would come to the Wu family, but when I approached the Wu family just now, I saw that the Wu family was filled with resentment and ghostly energy. That evil spirit is probably hiding in some corner of the Wu family now. Even if it doesn’t make a move today, it will definitely make a move tomorrow. We just need to wait for Master Wu to come to our door.”
The two had walked for a while, and Han Shannan was no longer angry. Now, listening to Li Chenjin's words, he exclaimed, "You're really cunning! Are you really from the Zen cultivation world? You're even more shrewd than a fox from the fox clan."
"You flatter me, you flatter me," Li Chen said with a slight smile.
"Hey, how did you come up with these ideas? I didn't even think of them!" Han Shannan said.
Looking at the person laughing foolishly in front of him, Li Chen couldn't help but sigh and say, "Because you're too irrational, Cultivator Han."
Han Shannan's smile vanished instantly. "How did I lose my temper?"
"At least so far, I haven't seen any rationality in you, Han Xiushi," Li Chen said. "If you don't want to suffer losses in the future, you must remember to make rational judgments no matter what happens."
“Just like today, those people only said some unpleasant things, and you almost got into a fight with them. With your skills, Han Xiushi, I believe you will definitely not suffer a loss, but what will Master Wu think of us then? Even if we manage to infiltrate, those servants of the Wu family will keep in touch with each other and won't tell us anything. What should we do then?”
"So when you encounter a problem, it's absolutely not advisable to just vent your anger. Not only will it not solve any problems, it will also make things worse. Just like the sword goddess you admire, it was precisely because she was irrational that she met her demise."
Han Shannan initially nodded in agreement upon hearing Li Chenjin's words, but upon hearing the last sentence, he immediately retorted, "What does this have to do with the Sword God? You are the Sword God's friend, how can you speak ill of him?!"
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