The moment I saw Du Peiyun, my heart skipped a beat, and I instinctively turned around to run.
This had almost become an ingrained memory in my bones.
After being chased by them for so many years, I had gone through countless perils.
Looking back now, wasn't it obvious that when they cornered Du Wenzhong and me in the desolate mountains without food or water several times, they were just waiting for me to lose control and devour Du Wenzhong out of desperation?!
I didn't know how I managed to hold on. Maybe it was because Wen had been so kind to me that I couldn't bring myself to do it.
Or maybe my Bu Huagu had been sealed by Si Jiangchen a hundred years ago and would never flare up again!!
The Taoist priest raised his hand and struck at me. This wasn't some spell imbued with Taoism, but simply the Bajiquan palm technique.
I had studied with the Taoist priests from Qingcheng Mountain for two years.
I dodged his palm wind easily by shifting my body and hips, and at the same time, I used a move called "Small Entanglement" from Bajiquan to grab his arm.
"Hey?!"
The Taoist priest was startled. He didn't expect a little girl like me to know such a profound move from their sect. Just as he was about to pull back his arm and ask about my master, he heard Du Peiyun's voice, neither too loud nor too soft, "Junior Brother Su, she's the traitor the Du family has been hunting for years. I never thought she'd become even more depraved... Sigh, she's even raised a new ghost child. It's simply intolerable to heaven and earth!"
Hearing this, Junior Brother Su thought it made sense. While swinging his elbow at me, he quickly formed the "Ghost-Slaying Seal" with his right hand and slapped at the ghost child on Sun Wenwen's head.
It seemed that he was eager to impress his new and old bosses.
He didn't even think about capturing the ghost child but wanted to kill the poor little thing directly.
"No!"
Although Si Tong didn't know the danger of the Taoist priest's hand seal, seeing the terrified expression on her good friend's face, she immediately rushed over and stood in front of Sun Wenwen.
Seeing Si Tong in front of her, Sun Wenwen cried loudly and bit down on Si Tong's calf.
"Ouch!"
Si Tong let out a pained cry but didn't move an inch.
She was afraid that if she dodged, the stinky Taoist priest would hurt the ghost child.
The ghost child that had been crouching on Sun Wenwen's head was almost scared away by the imposing aura of the Taoist masters on the stairs.
But now, seeing Si Tong enduring the pain to protect it from the Taoist priest, the ghost child let out a shrill scream and bit down on Sun Wenwen's cheek just like she had bitten Si Tong.
Ghost children actually didn't have much power in the mortal world. Their spiritual bodies couldn't even knock over a cup.
But this ghost child, seeing Si Tong trembling in pain, somehow gathered its spiritual energy and bit down hard on Sun Wenwen's cheek, leaving two rows of dark purple marks.
Sun Wenwen immediately howled and let go.
"You little brute, still daring to hurt someone?!"
Seeing that the ghost child he regarded as inferior had hurt the deputy director's daughter under his attack, how could Junior Brother Su save face? He immediately roared and rammed his elbow at me while kicking at Si Tong.
"Si Tong?!"
I was shocked. Junior Brother Su's kick was also a move from Bajiquan. If it landed on Si Tong, she would be seriously injured! Either with broken bones or internal injuries!
I ignored the elbow ramming at me and desperately rammed into Junior Brother Su, hoping to disrupt his move and save Si Tong.
"Bang!"
A loud noise exploded in everyone's ears. The pain I expected didn't come, and Si Tong was standing in front of me safe and sound.
Only Junior Brother Su flew out horizontally, knocking over two tables in a row before crashing heavily into the glass curtain wall and slowly sliding to the ground.
"Sun Liren, are you so eager to show your loyalty to your new superior?"
In the blink of an eye, Si Jiangchen was standing between me and Si Tong.
He bent down slightly, picked up Si Tong, who was on the verge of tears from the pain, rolled up her trouser leg, and looked down. Since it was through the fabric, Sun Wenwen had only left a purple bruise on her snow-white calf.
"Mr... Mr. Si."
Si Jiangchen had a very good relationship with Sun Liren's former superior, Lin Fangyu. How could he not recognize this great figure?!
It's just that Si Jiangchen's identity was special, and he didn't make his adoption of Si Tong public. This made Sun Liren mistakenly think that since Lin Fangyu was dead, Si Jiangchen, like most people, would just let things slide and no longer care about this little orphan from the Lin family.
Si Jiangchen ignored Sun Liren's greeting. After checking Si Tong's injury, he reached out and tugged at the collar of my T-shirt. Seeing the bloodstains on my neck, his slightly upturned peach blossom eyes narrowed, looking extremely dangerous.
"Who did this?"
Si Jiangchen's voice was calm, showing no emotion, but I knew he was on the verge of a rage.
Although I had never seen him show his emotions like this before... Even in the Book of Reincarnation, his expression was always cold and detached, like a heartless freak.
Naturally, I didn't dare to say that it was the little girl, Sun Wenwen, who had scratched me.
I was afraid that if I told the truth, he would kick Sun Wenwen into the glass curtain wall just like he had kicked that shameless Junior Brother Su. That little girl would probably be a hundred times worse off than Junior Brother Su!
Thinking this way, I turned my head and glanced at the unlucky Junior Brother Su.
He had crashed into the restaurant's glass wall, shattering it into a spider-web-like pattern. He was covered in tiny glass shards and was slowly getting up from the ground.
Junior Brother Su had practiced martial arts and Taoism in Qingcheng Mountain for at least thirty years. He had just come down the mountain, hoping to make a name for himself, but he had already suffered a crushing defeat. He didn't even see how Si Jiangchen had made his move!!
Unexpectedly, Sun Wenwen noticed me looking at Junior Brother Su. Hiding behind her mother, covering her bruised cheek, she made a face at me and said, "I scratched this stinky poor girl. Who asked her to be so good-looking! I just wanted to ruin her face!"
I was extremely surprised. How could a five or six-year-old child have such a vicious thought, even more so than an adult?
She must have heard a lot of such things from her mother on a daily basis. No wonder she was so good at bullying others in kindergarten!!
"Wenwen, what are you talking nonsense about?!"
Since Mrs. Sun had heard her husband call out "Mr. Si", she had been too scared to even breathe loudly. She was just about to sneak out of the restaurant when no one was paying attention to her and her daughter. Unexpectedly, her daughter had brought such a huge disaster upon herself.
Mrs. Sun angrily slapped her daughter across the face and then quickly showed a very obsequious smile to Si Jiangchen. "Mr... Mr. Si, this is all a misunderstanding!! We... we didn't know you still had a connection with the Lin family..."
She thought that Si Jiangchen might have just come to the restaurant for a meal and happened to see the child of an old acquaintance, so he had come to defend her. "This little nanny from the Lin family keeps a ghost child. It will harm Lin Tong!"