Xin Hang didn't dare hang up the phone. The chill that followed him hung heavy around him. Xin Fan, standing next to him, thought the boss had gone mad. He couldn't even let go, his hand still tugged at by Xin Hang. He said angrily, "Boss, what's wrong with you? Why are you begging for help from a mistress?"
"Shut up, don't say anything." Xin Hang didn't dare to tell the truth and lowered his voice: "If you want to live, don't say anything and don't provoke Xin Zhou."
"You're crazy, aren't you? One after another, first it was the mistress, and now it's you." Xin Fan's voice slowly trailed off. He thought of Xin Zhou's strange behavior after Fang Xiaoyun came in, and Xin Hang's abnormal behavior today. He felt suspicious, but soon laughed twice and said, "Boss, don't tell me, you really fell for Xin Zhou's tricks?"
"I don't believe it. There are no ghosts in this world. Don't scare yourself."
Xin Hang covered Xin Fan's mouth with his hand, looked around nervously, and said in a pleading tone, "Stop talking, stop talking."
Xin Fan got goosebumps from Xin Hang's appearance. It was as if he was afraid someone would hear their conversation. But it was the middle of the night, and there were only the two of them on the street, not even a ghost in sight.
ghost?
No way?
Xin Fan was getting a bit nervous, not knowing if it was a psychological problem or if he really had one. He suddenly felt a bit cold, not knowing if he was trying to comfort himself or Xin Hang, as he muttered to himself, "No, no, I just didn't wear enough clothes when I went out. The temperature has dropped recently, so it's not that."
He was just calling it a ghost and didn't believe it, but now he doesn't even dare to say it out loud.
The two of them didn't know how long they had been waiting. Xin Hang felt that every second was like a year, and Xin Fan felt the temperature drop as time went on. He felt a chill on his back. That kind of coldness was not superficial, but the kind of chill that blew into his bones.
"Brother, do you feel cold?"
Xin Fan shivered and asked. Xin Hang also felt cold.
The street was previously deserted, but Xin Hang saw something, his pupils constricted, and he continued walking, pulling Xin Fan along. When they reached the main street, even in the middle of the night, there used to be taxis and young men and women lingering on the street, thanks to the proximity of bars in the city center. But now, it was completely quiet, with nothing to see.
"It's so quiet." Xin Fan muttered to himself, and suddenly saw a figure at the intersection. Before he could be happy, his face turned pale, and the figure floated away on tiptoe.
Yes, it’s a ghost.
There really is a ghost.
"Brother, what happened? Did you see that? What just happened?"
"Stop talking, stop talking." Xin Hang was about to collapse.
Both brothers noticed something was amiss. They were clearly on the main road, clearly in a familiar environment, yet it felt like they had wandered into another dimension. Xin Hang, in particular, hadn't lost that eerie, surveillance gaze.
"You said Xiao, no, you said Xin Zhou will come? We are his brothers, he can't just ignore us." Xin Fan regretted it. If he had known earlier, he should not have kicked someone when he was down at the company yesterday. He could not help but urge: "Check the phone, check."
Xin Hang looked at his phone and saw that the screen was black and there was no signal. He didn't know when this happened.
He didn't even notice.
"It's over, it's over, Fang Xiaoyun is Fang Xiaoyun..."
As the two were in despair, they suddenly heard the sound of a car horn and a familiar voice: "What are you two idiots doing standing in the middle of the road? Are you looking for death?"
It’s Xin Zhou!
The two men woke up as if from a dream, as if they just realized that they were standing in the middle of the road, and this was not the main road. They had been circling around the road in front of the villa and had never left.
Suddenly I felt a chill.
Xin Zhou asked the driver to pull over and didn't even get out. He waved and said, "Get in."
The two of them supported each other and quickly got on the bus. Because their legs were weak, they almost fell when they got on the bus. After entering the car, the cold air on them dissipated a lot, and they saw that there was someone sitting in the front row.
It’s the young master I met yesterday afternoon.
"Master, help me, help me, there is a monster, a monster that eats raw meat, and it has eyes..." As soon as Xin Hang saw that he was safe, he collapsed and spoke incoherently.
The co-pilot was sitting on the road, and when he saw the driver looking at him strangely, he smiled awkwardly but politely and said, "Drive, let's go back to the hotel."
The driver was frightened by the two grown men crying behind him. What nonsense were they talking about at this hour of night? He muttered, "Drunk? They don't look like it."
But if he wasn't drunk and was standing in the middle of the street hugging someone, he wouldn't be crazy, right?
The three brothers sat in a row at the back. Xin Zhou looked at the crying Xin Hang with disgust. Xin Hang used to be pretentious and thought he was Zhuge Liang. He always urged the second brother to rush to the front while he hid at the back to watch the fun. Now he was crying with snot and tears. Where was the elite future president persona he had portrayed before?
"If you keep crying, I'll throw you down. Can you please talk properly and act like a man?" Xin Zhou asked.
The driver nodded, thinking that finally there was someone normal here, and he thought so too.
"You, you don't know, I saw a ghost before you came. You asked the second brother, and he saw it too."
"Yes, yes, I saw it. Its heels didn't touch the ground. It was floating."
The two of them exchanged a few words. Xin Zhou, emboldened by Master Lu's presence, was the only one in the car who felt uneasy. He laughed awkwardly and said, "Stop joking, young man. It's late at night."
"Master, open it straight."
Lu Cijiu said.
The driver said, "Go straight? If you go straight, you'll hit the wall."
Lu Cijiu didn't explain. He pulled a talisman from his pocket, made a hand gesture, and it instantly ignited. The driver was about to ask, "What the hell, pulling a bunch of lunatics in the middle of the night?" But as the talisman burned, he shuddered. "How, how are we heading towards the villa? I remember we were going back."
"It's okay, let's drive now." Lu Cijiu said.
Xin Hang and Xin Fan were hugging each other and yelling, especially Xin Hang, "She's here, Fang Xiaoyun is here, it must be her."
If the master hadn't been there, would they have just gone back?
"Quiet." Lu Cijiu said, pinching his fingers and chanting the Heart Cleansing Mantra: "Taishangtaixing, responding to changes without stopping, exorcising evil spirits and binding demons, protecting life and body, wisdom and intellect are clear, the mind is at peace, the three souls are forever in spirit, without loss or loss."
The carriage was filled with incantations. Lu Cijiu's voice was not loud, and the incantations he chanted were slow and peaceful. The driver next to him was the most touched. He was originally in a restless state of mind and wanted to be distracted all the time, with his head full of thoughts. There was nothing he could do because the two passengers who got on at the back were talking nonsense.
But as the co-pilot kept reciting, his confused mind gradually became clearer and his attention focused. His heart, which had been originally timid and fearful, now felt like it was burning with righteousness and he was not afraid of anything.
Not to mention Xin Hang and Xin Fan behind them, their crying stopped.
The hotel in the villa was only a twenty-minute drive away. The streets were deserted in the middle of the night, and the driver drove very fast, arriving in ten minutes. Pulling over to the side of the road, Lu Cijiu handed the driver a peace charm, "Ping An Fu, thank you for troubling you tonight."
"Oh, you're welcome. Thank you, thank you." The driver took it with both hands. Along the way, he finally understood that although this young man looked young, he was really capable and believed in him completely.
Xin Zhou scanned the code to pay the bill, Xin Hang and Xin Fan got out of the car in a hurry and followed the master closely.
"Master, I haven't asked for your last name yet."
"The road is old."
"It turns out to be Master Lu. I've heard a lot about you." Xin Fan was used to being polite.
In fact, these two people didn't know Lu Cijiu before, but from that moment on, they remembered him firmly. They stayed by Master Lu's side like thieves all the way.
Then Lu Cijiu noticed that the girl at the front desk looked at him with shock.
Note: The girl at the front desk was the same girl who was on duty when he and Gong Xichao came the day before yesterday.
Now it may have changed from a sport involving two or three people to a sport involving multiple people.
The girl's imagination is quite exaggerated.
Lu Cijiu walked into the elevator with a righteous look on his face, went up to the room, and headed straight for Lin Xuan. The cubs were all asleep, and the eldest son was watching the house. When he reached the next room, he found the eldest son in the living room, and Lin Xuan was standing next to him, as if he was being lectured by the dean.
…
When he saw them coming back, Lin Xuan greeted them happily and said he would boil some hot water. Mainly, he didn't want to be in the same room with Assistant Gong. It was too embarrassing and scary, and he was sobered up by the drunkenness.
The small living room was cramped, with only one sofa and two chairs. Lu Cijiu and Gong Xichao sat on the sofa, while Xin Zhou and Lin Xuan occupied the other two chairs. Xin Hang and Xin Fan didn't dare to say anything more, their legs weakening with fear as they sat down on the carpet. Xin Hang began to recount his experiences tonight.
Fang Xiaoyun eats raw meat, and there are eyes watching him.
"Master, Master Lu, Fang Xiaoyun is not a human being. You must save us."
"I was wondering why Dad suddenly changed. He's like an old stubborn man who insists on marrying Fang Xiaoyun. Fang Xiaoyun is indeed very problematic." Xin Fan thought of something, his eyes turned, and he said enthusiastically: "Master Lu, please catch this monster Fang Xiaoyun. Since Fang Xiaoyun is a monster, then the child in her belly is also a monster? The inheritance and other things are not counted."
As soon as I was safe, I started to worry about the Xin Group.
Xin Zhou sneered, but said nothing. He had nothing to do with the Xin family anyway. He'd originally invited Master Lu over because something was wrong with him, and he was just trying to protect himself.
Xin Fan didn't see Fang Xiaoyun eating raw meat or those eyes. Although he saw the ghost, he was safe because there was no threat, so his mind was still working and thinking about other things. Xin Hang now just wanted to be safe and get rid of Fang Xiaoyun. "I've been targeted by Fang Xiaoyun."
He knew that if Fang Xiaoyun didn't die, he would die.
"Does anyone know Fang Xiaoyun's birth date?" Lu Cijiu asked.
Everyone shook their heads. Xin Hang suddenly remembered and said, "Let me check. When Fang Xiaoyun got married some time ago, she left her ID number with the wedding company."
Since Fang Xiaoyun's success, he has become arrogant, with a flamboyant personality and a love of showing off. He even asked the three brothers to run errands for the wedding. The three of them felt disgusted with Fang Xiaoyun, but they had to endure it and help with the arrangements themselves, otherwise Fang Xiaoyun would complain to Xin Huaiping.
Because Xin Hang considered himself the "eldest son," he endured the humiliation for a while, happily running errands. He didn't have his phone with him, so he used Xin Hang's phone to log into WeChat, quickly found it, and handed it to Master Lu.
"Master, look."
Lu Cijiu took a look and calculated the lunar calendar, "Sure enough."
"Master, what exactly is Fang Xiaoyun?" Xin Hang was very scared. Xin Fan said angrily: "Brother, let's invite Master Lu back and expose this woman's true face in front of Dad——"
Lu Cijiu said coldly: “In front of your father, you may all be gone.”
"? What do you mean?" Xin Fan was the first to deny, "Impossible, I just don't believe it. Fang Xiaoyun is a monster, and my dad really loves him."
What kind of love is this? Even a rich family can raise a fool.
Xin Zhou realized something and looked at the master in shock. "Master Lu, are you saying that Xin Huaiping is the one with the problem?"
"What? Impossible, how could there be something wrong with my dad?" Xin Fan was the first to deny it.
Lu Cijiu speculated, "At present, we only know Fang Xiaoyun's birthday, but we don't know when he was born. It was already a Yin year, Yin month, and Yin day, so it is very likely that his birth time was also a Yin hour. How did Xin Huaiping make his fortune?"
"Coal mine." Lin Xuan knew the answer to this question. He had just searched it on Baidu in the afternoon.
Beep beep talked a lot.
"Since Xin Huaiping became rich from the coal mine, his business has grown over the years. Of course, he can't be ruled out as a business genius." Lu Cijiu continued, "It stands to reason that Xin Huaiping has been a womanizer all year round, but he's tall and full of energy, and he doesn't want to undermine his health. I've met Fang Xiaoyun, and aside from the evil spirit in his stomach, he's a normal person. So I suspect Xin Huaiping has been doing something sinister over the years to make the Xin Group so prosperous and profitable in everything they do."
Xin Fan said without thinking: "This doesn't mean it's my dad's fault. It must be Fang Xiaoyun's fault. She's the monster because she has a problem with her stomach."
Lu Cijiu said he had doubts, but in fact he was about 80% sure.
"We'll find out tomorrow when we go to the villa. The evil formation must be inside the villa." Lu Cijiu saw Xin Fan trying to win Xin Huaiping's favor by snitching on him at any time and said calmly, "This formation is very likely to require Xin Huaiping's own blood. If you go and complain, and Xin Huaiping finds out, what do you think will happen to you?"
Xin Fan: ...
tremble with fear.
"You guys go back to work tomorrow. Xin Hang, put this on Xin Huaiping." Lu Cijiu took out cinnabar talisman paper from his bag, drew the talisman on the spot, folded the talisman paper and handed it to Xin Hang.
Xin Hang was trembling with fear and didn't want to answer. If it was really Xin Huaiping, would he go to die tomorrow?
As for the father-son affection, it was long gone when Xin Huaiping's mistresses came to the house one after another.
After finishing his work, Lu Cijiu yawned, and Gong Xichao immediately stood up and said, "Lu Cijiu, go to sleep."
"Oh, okay. I'm sleepy too."
The two went back to their room to sleep, regardless of what the Xin brothers arranged.
Back in the bedroom, Lu Cijiu took a shower. He had been very sleepy just now, but now he sat cross-legged on the bed, still thinking about Xin Huaiping. Gong Xichao glanced at him, lifted the quilt and went to the side, saying, "Lu Cijiu, do you know what I am?"
"The four thousand eight hundred year old ancient divine Kunpeng." Lu Cijiu answered very smoothly.
Xin Huaiping must have some evil weapon in his hand.
"I'm protecting you." Gong Xichao said coldly and proudly, "No one dares to hurt you."
Coming out of his thoughts, Lu Cijiu smiled, his eyes curved, staring at Gong Xichao. Gong Xichao paused, then said uncomfortably, "Why are you looking at me?"
He even knows how to protect his dad. Good boy.
"Look how handsome Brother Gong is. Suddenly I find that Brother Gong is even more powerful." Lu Cijiu smiled and flattered Kunpeng.
Gong Xichao froze in place for a second, then quickly lay down, pulled the quilt over him, turned sideways, and said to Lu Cijiu with his back to him, "Let's sleep."
Hahahaha, my ears are all red. Lu Cijiu finally caught Diao Zong's shy look.
Quite cute.
Lu Cijiu didn't think any more about it, got into bed and fell asleep quickly.
He slept deeply and woke up at around nine o'clock the next day. Gong Xichao was still sleeping on the bed. Lu Cijiu turned over and sat up, thinking that the kids were probably hungry and hadn't eaten, so he hurried out. Unexpectedly, Lin Xuan and Xin Zhou were both in the living room. There was breakfast, snacks, fruit and cake on the table. The kids had washed up and were sitting on the sofa watching TV and eating.
"You two helped them clean up?"
"No, when we came in, the Taoist boys had already packed up." Lin Xuan said.
Gong Xichao's voice appeared behind him: "It's me."
Of course Lu Cijiu praised his eldest son a lot, saying that he is taking better and better care of the children now!
After washing up, I sat in the living room to eat.
Xin Zhou said, "I checked, and it's just like what Master Lu said. Xin Huaiping's business is going very smoothly, and he's hardly ever lost money. However, in recent years, business isn't as strong as it was ten years ago."
"The finals of the formation exam," Lu Cijiu said. "Go check if any of Xin Huaiping's illegitimate children died ten years ago. At least five of them must have died."
The Five Ghosts Wealth-Moving Technique. Lu Cijiu doubted this evil formation.
Xin Zhou couldn't audit the company's accounts, but he could easily find Xin Huaiping's illegitimate children. Besides, when Xin Zhou's mother was Mrs. Xin, she looked like the legitimate wife, but in fact, Xin Huaiping had a lover and illegitimate children outside, and Xin Zhou's mother had a clear investigation.
Xin Zhou immediately went back to his mother's place.
He came back at noon with a thick stack of documents, which contained all the information about Xin Huaiping's lovers and children that Xin Zhou's mother had sent a private detective to investigate when she was Mrs. Xin.
Lin Xuan was frightened by Master Lu's speculation. Is it true that someone would ignore his own children just to get rich?
The fact is, there is.
When one is filled with desires, he is no longer a human being.
The earliest information was from 20 years ago, when five of Xin Huaiping's lovers had miscarried one after another, some seven months pregnant. Xin Zhou's mother, having been Mrs. Xin for three years at the time, had grown more confident and began secretly investigating Xin Huaiping's extramarital affairs. She was delighted to hear the news, believing that these people didn't need her intervention and weren't competing with her for their lives.
"Fuck, she's lost a baby every five or six years, and all of them were induced abortions at seven months." Lin Xuan was horrified as he read the pages. "She's already had four this year."
If a child is not born, it is not considered a life.
At seven months, the baby was already viable, but the mother didn't want to have an induced labor, so the hospital had no choice but to perform the procedure. If the baby had been born and raised, then killed, it wouldn't have been as silent as it is now, and no one would have noticed.
Xin Huaiping calculated very well.
"Fang Xiaoyun is probably seven months pregnant. She's still a rare person with a dark destiny." Lu Cijiu looked at the information and said in a cold voice, "Xin Huaiping started using evil magic over twenty years ago. He enjoyed the sweetness and made a lot of money, but this formation has a time limit. After a long time, the effect is not as strong as it was at the beginning."
So every five or six years, a cycle would repeat. Until Xin Huaiping found Fang Xiaoyun, a person with a dark destiny, who happened to be the last eye of the formation. If he were to cut open the belly of the person with a dark destiny and take the child alive, Fang Xiaoyun would become resentful and infect the unborn child, and the effect would be even worse.
Isn’t Xin Huaiping afraid of being killed?
Lu Cijiu thought of those eyes.
The Xin family's wealth was earned from these unborn babies.
Lin Xuan almost vomited. Xin Zhou had an ugly look on his face. What his mother had fought for and what he had wanted before, the Xin family's money was stained with blood, and it was his half-brother's blood.
The phone rings.
Xin Zhou saw that it was Idiot No. 1. His face turned even uglier as he answered the phone. He said to Master Lu, "Xin Hang said that Xin Fan went to Xin Huaiping's office and stayed there for a long time. He's very scared now and drove over here."
They are not stupid. They know without guessing that Xin Fan went to inform on others.
Money is a powerful thing. Xin Fan thought that if Lu Cijiu was wrong, everything would be Fang Xiaoyun's fault. Fang Xiaoyun was driven away, and he took the initiative to make peace with Xin Huaiping. Xin Zhou and Xin Hang both ran away, so would the lion's share be his?
"Let's go to the villa and get to work." Lu Cijiu said.
The four Taoist children jumped off the sofa, extremely excited, eager to start work. Lu Cijiu hesitated. This job was a bit dangerous and disgusting. The Xin family villa was hiding the corpses of at least fifteen ghost babies.
"Let's go." Gong Xichao looked excited.
Five faces were excited, and they looked at Lu Cijiu eagerly.
Lu Bijiu: ...
"If there's danger later, or something scary and unpleasant to watch, what do you need to remember to do?"
The kids immediately held up their chubby fingers, covered their eyes, and whispered, "Don't look." Lu Cijiu nodded, then emphasized, "Follow Uncle Gong closely." Xin Zhou went to drive.
Poor Xin Hang just arrived at the hotel and saw that there was no one in the room. He called Xin Zhou to ask for directions. He knew that Xin Hang was in the old villa and looked scared and didn't want to go. As a result, a wind blew in the corridor, and Xin Hang screamed in fear. He said he didn't dare to stay alone and had to be with Master Lu.
Gong Xichao sat in the back row and sneered, "He's dreaming."
Lu Bijiu: ...
Xin Hang's voice was so loud that it sounded almost like an external speaker even through the phone, and he still heard it.
After saying that, Gong Xichao looked at Lu Cijiu, as if to say, "What do you mean?" Lu Cijiu could only say helplessly, "He wants nothing."
At the critical moment of the war, the eagle's heart will not waver.
Gong Xichao withdrew his face with great satisfaction and a happy expression.
When they arrived at the Xin family villa, the security guard stopped them from entering. Even Xin Zhou's face was blocked. He said, "Madam said that the Third Young Master is not allowed to enter. Third Young Master, please don't make things difficult for me, or I will call the police."
Fang Xiaoyun is also quite good.
Unable to get in, Fang Xiaoyun came out, wearing a thin cashmere long-sleeved red dress. Holding her big belly, she looked at the group of people at the door with a smug look on her face and said in a shrill voice, "I knew you would come back. You three talk big, but you're just thinking about my son's money. I tell you, Xin Zhou, everything the Xin family has belongs to my son. Xin Huaiping promised me."
The premise is that your son and you are alive.
Lu Cijiu raised his voice slightly through the large iron gate and said, "Miss Fang, if you don't open the door, you and your son will be in danger tonight."
"How dare you curse me!" Fang Xiaoyun's temper exploded, and he shrieked, "Security, call the police and tell them there's a thief stealing something."
It would be bad if the security guard hesitated, otherwise he would call the police.
Fang Xiaoyun was like crazy, shouting in a shrill voice, "Call the police, call the police!" She shouted twice, then stopped abruptly. She held her stomach with both hands and said, "Ahhh, my stomach hurts so much. Baby, be good and don't make trouble. Mommy is not talking to you. Don't hit Mommy."
The servants nearby were terrified and rushed over to help her, but they saw Fang Xiaoyun's bulging belly under her thin dress, which was bulging like a baby's fist. The raindrops falling on Fang Xiaoyun's belly were so strong that they could be deformed.
The servant was shocked and stood there in a daze. She had seen pregnant women before, but she had never seen the fetus move so violently, as if it wanted to break through Fang Xiaoyun's belly and come out quickly.
At this time, Xin Huaiping's car arrived, and the triumphant Xin Hang got out of the car.
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