Xu Kuo watched the two men's reactions with satisfaction.
This is just the simplest little trick. More complex stage magic tricks, such as "disappearing a person" and "retrieving objects from a distance," require specific props and venues.
"Alright, stop studying it." Xu Kuo tossed the little sparrow into the air, and the little creature flapped its wings and flew away.
"Let someone trustworthy handle the vegetable selling for the next few days. You two, come with me to prepare the things we'll need for the New Year's Eve party."
Although they were still incredibly curious about the principles behind magic, Niu Erbao and Tan Wang knew the importance of the matter and immediately nodded in agreement.
After giving his instructions, Xu Kuo locked up the warehouse and began to ponder.
The magic trick is now sorted out, and it should be able to fool the audience at the New Year's Eve party.
He should go home and tell his mother and Xiuya so they won't worry, and also to make them happy.
However, as soon as he reached his doorstep, Xu Kuo heard a commotion of crying coming from the courtyard.
He frowned, pushed open the door, and sure enough, saw two uninvited guests.
Eldest sister-in-law Liu Xueli, second sister-in-law Zhang Cuifen.
At this moment, Liu Xueli was sitting on a small stool in the yard, her face ashen and her eyes red and swollen, complaining to her mother, Ren Hongmei, who looked troubled.
"Mother! You have to stand up for us! Xu Kuo... he's completely insane! That's his own brother! Even if Jian Guo is wrong, a lesson is enough, how could he... how could he send him to the guard team! Is that a place for a human being? Isn't that going to kill Jian Guo?!"
Zhang Cuifen, standing beside her, was sobbing and wailing, echoing, "Yes, Mother! Our Jianjun... he just went to see what was going on, how could he have been arrested too! Waaah... what are we going to do! Jianjun is a scaredy-cat, he must be terrified inside..."
The two were crying and complaining when they looked up and suddenly saw Xu Kuo pushing open the door and entering.
Liu Xueli was furious. She stood up abruptly, pointed at Xu Kuo's nose, and started cursing.
"Xu Kuo! You heartless ingrate! How could you be so cruel and ruthless! Those are your own elder brothers! Your own second elder brothers! How could you do this to them! Do you want to ruin the entire Xu family before you're satisfied?! Huh?!"
Xu Kuo became even more impatient as he watched the two women throwing a tantrum.
He didn't even bother to lift his eyelids, coldly uttering a few words: "What are you doing here?"
"What are you doing?!" Liu Xueli trembled with anger at Xu Kuo's cold attitude.
"We've come to demand you release them! Mother! Look at his attitude! Say something! Tell him to go to the security team and get Jianguo and Jianjun out! Otherwise... otherwise how will we, a widow and her children, survive!"
As she spoke, she reached out and tugged at Ren Hongmei's arm again.
Ren Hongmei looked at this daughter-in-law, then at that daughter-in-law, and then at her expressionless youngest son. Her face was filled with difficulty and heartache. She opened her mouth, but didn't know what to say.
Upon seeing this, Xu Kuo let out a cold snort, his eyes sweeping over Liu Xueli and Zhang Cuifen with icy gaze.
"Release them? Hmph, don't you know what they've done? Poisoning, theft, robbing warehouses! Any one of those crimes is enough to get them into serious trouble. Now they're crying? Where were you before? This is their own fault, they have no one else to blame!"
"You're talking nonsense!" Liu Xueli shrieked. "Jianguo was just confused for a moment! Stealing vegetables was Xu Jianguo's doing! Robbing the warehouse? That's a misunderstanding! You can't treat your own brother like this!"
Seeing that Xu Kuo was unmoved by her words, Liu Xueli rolled her eyes, gritted her teeth, and sat down on the cold ground with a "plop," then began to slap her thighs and wail loudly.
"Oh dear! This is outrageous! My younger brother is so cruel, he's driving his own brother to his death! I can't live anymore! If you don't release your elder brothers today, I'll smash my head against your doorstep and die! Let the whole village see how you, Xu Kuo, drove your own sister-in-law to her death!"
Faced with Liu Xueli's shameless behavior of sitting on the ground, throwing a tantrum, and threatening suicide, Xu Kuo's eyes remained unmoved, only showing a cold expression.
Kill yourself by crashing? Who are you trying to scare? If you really had that kind of guts, hanging yourself, taking poison, or jumping into a well would be much more quick and easy than just crashing your head into a car. You're just putting on a show here because you're related to someone.
"Go ahead and crash into it." Xu Kuo said calmly, seemingly unconcerned. "The ground in front of my house is solid. If you put in a little effort, I guarantee you'll succeed. I'll buy you a good coffin afterward, as a way of fulfilling my duty as your uncle and sister-in-law."
"You...you..." Liu Xueli was so choked by Xu Kuo's unyielding and even vicious words that she almost couldn't breathe. Her finger pointing at Xu Kuo was trembling, and her face turned from blue to purple. She was obviously furious.
She never expected that Xu Kuo would be so shameless!
Xu Kuo, no longer wanting to watch her performance, suddenly turned stern, his voice hardening: "I'll say it one last time, get out! Now! Immediately! If you stay here any longer, I'll call the security team!"
"Go ahead and yell! Go ahead and yell!" Liu Xueli screamed, scrambling to her feet, hands on her hips, looking like a shrew who was ready to throw caution to the wind.
"I'd like to see which security team dares to kick me out of my mother's house! This is my mother-in-law's house, and it's only natural for me to visit my mother! You can call someone to judge this and see who's in the wrong!"
In her view, this was still a family matter. Even if the security team came, they would only try to smooth things over and offer some advice. What could they really do to her?
"Heh, relatives?" Xu Kuo sneered, his gaze icy. Liu Xueli and Zhang Cuifen, who was standing next to him, shrank back, clearly frightened.
"Breaking into a private residence, inciting a disturbance, and you want to cause a scene here? It seems you men are inside, and you want to join in the fun?"
These words made Zhang Cuifen shudder instantly. She was timid to begin with and relied entirely on Liu Xueli for support. Hearing the word "go in," her legs went weak.
“Sister-in-law…why don’t we…why don’t we go back first?” Zhang Cuifen tugged at Liu Xueli’s sleeve, her voice trembling with tears. “He…he doesn’t seem to be joking…”
"What are you afraid of!" Liu Xueli flung her hand away, glaring fiercely at Zhang Cuifen as if blaming her for ruining their plans. "He's just trying to scare us! I don't believe he'd actually dare! This is his family home. If he dares to make a scene, let's see whose face is lost!"
After saying that, Liu Xueli seemed to want to prove her courage and to completely enrage Xu Kuo. Her eyes rolled, and she suddenly rushed to the old square wooden table in the center of the courtyard and forcefully overturned it with both hands!
With a loud crash, the wooden table, along with several rough porcelain bowls and plates on it, fell to the ground, shattering into pieces and leaving a mess.
"I'm not leaving today!" Liu Xueli pointed at the broken pieces on the ground and shouted defiantly at Xu Kuo, "Let's see what you can do to me! If you're so capable, go ahead and call someone to arrest me right now! Let's see who dares to touch me!"
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