The car was parked in a well-known upscale neighborhood... Before Shi Xi even got out of the car, she saw several people waiting at the entrance.
The man at the head was a neatly dressed middle-aged man, and his son stood behind him, whispering something.
"What kind of lousy immortal master is he? I think he's just a charlatan..."
The middle-aged man heard it but made no attempt to stop him.
He felt that Qin Budu was just someone who did things for money, and whether he had any real skills was another matter. It didn't matter if his son muttered a few words.
That's what he was thinking.
He completely ignored his friend's repeated reminders to "be polite to Master Qin".
"..." Shi Xi didn't understand how people could still talk badly about others in front of them these days.
Does he think the car is well soundproofed?
"Mr. Qin is very generous." Shi Xi looked at Qin Budu, who was sitting calmly beside her.
"I've heard even worse ones."
Qin Budu's voice was deep and magnetic, and he seemed not to have taken their words to heart.
In all his years as a sorcerer, he had encountered people who didn't believe in him and questioned him.
"And you're wrong."
Qin Budu looked at Shi Xi. The afternoon sunlight shone through the car window onto his handsome profile, and a smile appeared in his deep eyes.
"What?" Shi Xi asked, puzzled.
Qin Budu leaned slightly towards Shi Xi, a slight smile playing on his lips, his obsidian-like eyes reflecting the face of the person before him.
He said, "I am not generous."
As soon as he finished speaking, the man who had been saying "fraudulent and deceitful" suddenly found himself speechless.
He tried for a long time but the situation didn't change at all. He looked at the black car in front of him with suspicion and dared not speak anymore.
Old Zou also realized that Qin Budu had some ability, so he quickly stepped forward to smooth things over, pretending to be polite.
"Children don't know how to keep their mouths shut. Master Qin, please be magnanimous and don't take it to heart."
Qin Budu got out of the car and slowly straightened his clothes, as if he hadn't heard what he said at all.
Old Zou could barely keep up the smile on his face.
"How old is this child?" Qin Budu suddenly asked.
Old Zou didn't understand why Qin Budu suddenly asked this question. Suppressing his dissatisfaction, he said, "...Twenty-eight years old."
“He’s not young anymore.” Qin Budu glanced at the young man and released the curse. “If we don’t discipline him now, it will be too late.”
“Master Qin is right.”
Old Zou smiled ingratiatingly, but he didn't take Qin Budu's words seriously. His family had plenty of money and could handle anything that happened.
Shi Xi glanced at the man's face; he had a rosy complexion.
I had a pretty good idea of what was going on; this person was having an extramarital affair.
Old Zou welcomed them into the house, saying, "Every night I see a female ghost in a white dress, lying twisted in the bathtub..."
Old Zou was talking to Qin Budu.
Shi Xi stood to the side, looking around at the room's layout.
Zou Zhiping suddenly moved closer to him.
“I am Zou Zhiping,” he said softly.
Shi Xi looked at him. He had three white eyes and thin lips, giving him an extremely cold and heartless appearance. His forehead was dark, suggesting that he would soon face a bloody disaster.
“Xu Youchu,” Shi Xi said.
"Are you this feng shui master's apprentice?" Zou Zhiping asked, seemingly out of curiosity.
Her gaze lingered on his waist for a few seconds before moving on to his face.
...That slender waist, Zou Zhiping thought, must be quite a sight to behold when it twists and turns.
"Yes." Shi Xi frowned and looked at him. "Is there something you need?"
"ah!"
Just as Zou Zhiping was about to speak, he felt a sharp pain in his eyes, as if needles were pricking his eyeballs.
He quickly covered his eyes and left.
Shi Xi: "..." You're sick.
That's about all we've said. Old Zou said that the female college student he was keeping wanted to climb the social ladder, but she failed and committed suicide in the bathtub in a fit of anger.
After Lao Zou finished speaking, Qin Budu withdrew his hand from the spell, stared at him for a while, his dark eyes seeming to see through everything, "Is that really so?"
"Yes...that's how it is," Old Zou replied, feeling a little uneasy.
Qin Budu looked at him quietly, a silent sense of oppression spreading out.
"Woof! Woof woof woof!!!"
Just then, the Teddy dog in the living room suddenly started barking wildly at the top of the stairs.
"Master Qin, I'll give you five million. Help me get rid of this female ghost!" Old Zou said bitterly. "Because of this vile woman, my wife was so frightened that she fell ill and was hospitalized."
Anyone who didn't know better would think he was a loving husband.
Shi Xi chuckled to herself.
Qin Budu glanced at him and said to Shi Xi, "Go upstairs."
...
In front of the bathtub is a transparent floor-to-ceiling window, outside which is a lush green lawn.
When Shi Xi looked out the window, she happened to see the Teddy dog digging in the dirt with its rear end sticking up.
"What happened outside?" Qin Budu asked Shi Xi.
Shi Xi told the truth, "The puppy is digging in the dirt."
Qin Budu nodded.
"Is the female ghost here?" Shi Xi asked uncertainly.
The presence of ghosts here is so faint that he wouldn't have even noticed it if Old Zou hadn't pointed it out.
"They probably waited until someone came, so they put it down." Qin Budu sprinkled some incense ash into the bathtub, then said to Shi Xi, "Get a pair of scissors."
Shi Xi went to the kitchen, found a pair of scissors, and handed them to Qin Budu.
Qin Budu took it, walked to the bathtub, bent down, and made a cut in mid-air.
'Click—'
It seemed as if something had been cut; for a moment, Shi Xi thought she saw a rope... tied around her slender neck, wrists, and ankles.
"Xu Youchu".
Qin Budu looked at him and said, "Not all ghosts have the power to seek revenge; some just want someone to save them."
"I looked into the situation here before I came. This girl isn't someone he's keeping..."
"Her parents searched for her for two months."
"Is it Zou Zhiping?" Shi Xi asked directly.
Qin Budu: "Yes."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Shi Xi, seemingly waiting to see his reaction.
Qin Budu still remembered Ji Ruwen's attitude when he first encountered a similar situation; back then, Ji Ruwen was far less composed than he is now.
He rushed up and beat the man up.
He was the one who went to the police station to bail the person out.
Qin Budu thought Shi Xi would also lose her temper, but to his surprise, she paused for a moment and asked—
"So...you were asking where she was buried?"
What a smart and rational apprentice!
Qin Budu nodded in satisfaction.
...
As the assistant started the car, he suddenly heard a 'thump thump thump' sound.
"ah!!!"
Old Zou, who was happily seeing his son off, rushed over when he heard his son's cry of pain.
Then they saw Zou Zhiping lying on the ground with his limbs twisted, having fallen directly down the stairs!
Old Zou tried to help his son up, but he lost his balance and fell on top of Zou Zhiping.
In an instant, the servants inside the house were thrown into chaos.
"This family is really unlucky," the assistant remarked upon witnessing the scene.
“They really deserved their bad luck,” Shi Xi said meaningfully.
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