"You heartless brute!" Amidst Jun He's curses, I dashed behind the rockery in search of Gu Yuan.
At this moment, Gu Yuan was standing in front of a black-clad woman. The woman was kneeling before him, dressed in a golden-black snake-scale robe. Her long, waterfall-like black hair was half-tied up behind her head. She had willow-leaf eyebrows and was quite good-looking, but the venomous look on her face overshadowed her beauty.
I was about to rush out and call Gu Yuan's name, but then I remembered what had happened today. I still felt so aggrieved that I didn't want to forgive him so soon.
Gu Yuan also sensed my presence behind him. In a flat tone, he said, "I said I would bring you to deal with your classmate's matter. Why couldn't you hold your horses and act on your own?"
I stood there, muttering in my heart: It was you who didn't tell me anything, so I left in a huff.
I was already feeling so aggrieved. Who would have thought that when we were having dinner in the restaurant, he even pretended not to know me.
Now that he was in front of me, the first thing he asked wasn't about my safety but why I had acted on my own. Have you lost your memory?
I didn't answer his question. Trying my best to hide my emotions, I said, "This is not the time to talk about our issues. The most important thing is to deal with what's going on in the manor."
Gu Yuan glanced at me from the corner of his eye and didn't press further.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, I took the initiative to ask, "Who is this?"
The woman raised her eyes. Her golden vertical pupils met mine. Those eyes were just like a snake's, sending a chill down one's spine at a glance.
I couldn't help but be startled. I quickly grabbed Gu Yuan's solid back and hid behind him, blurting out, "She... She's a snake demon?"
Seeing my timid look, Gu Yuan curled the corner of his eye in a barely noticeable smile.
He seemed quite satisfied with my timidity. Although he didn't say it out loud, he must have thought so.
Feeling that my action was too intimate, I quickly let go of my hand and stood side by side with him warily.
Gu Yuan didn't care what I was doing anymore. Instead, he coldly interrogated the woman kneeling on the ground.
"Liu Chunjiao, do you know your crime?"
Liu Chunjiao lowered her eyes. The venomous look on her face remained undiminished.
"Chunjiao doesn't understand. What crime have I committed?"
"You, as a spiritual being of the Liu family's hall, actually harbored the intention to kill. You weren't satisfied with harming one life. Do you still want to harm Ling Chuchu's life? Aren't you afraid that the third master of the Liu family will blame you, occupy your spiritual body, and make you never be able to turn things around?"
Liu Chunjiao let out a low laugh. She raised her eyes and met Gu Yuan's cold eyes directly. There was not a trace of fear on her face. She said straightforwardly, "Third master, you have a close relationship with the third master. You should know that the Liu family members never pick fights or kill wantonly. They only take such extreme measures when they are pushed to the limit."
"As the saying goes, every grievance has its cause and every debt has its debtor. Ling Chuchu is still young. She should have no grudge against you. Why did you go after her?"
When Gu Yuan said this, Liu Chunjiao sneered, "You say Ling Chuchu has no grudge against me. But what about my husband and my child? What grudges did they have with the Ling family? Why can they treat innocent lives like grass, while I have to consider whether their lives are innocent?"
"Third master, I respect you as a member of the Liu family, so I'm willing to kneel in front of you and talk to you today. This doesn't mean I'm backing down. The Ling family killed my clansmen. I will definitely settle this score with them."
Every word that Liu Chunjiao said was filled with deep hatred. She wished she could grind the Ling family members to powder and make them never be able to turn things around.
As she was speaking, Zhou Yichen rushed over with Ling Feng in a hurry.
Ling Feng was already scared half to death at this moment. But when he saw Liu Chunjiao kneeling on the ground, he immediately knelt down like he had seen a living Bodhisattva and begged Liu Chunjiao to help get rid of the demons.
"Master, please save me! There are snakes in this house, so many snakes. They killed my wife, and now my daughter is missing. Please help me find out..."
Ling Feng knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly. When Liu Chunjiao saw him, the anger on her face increased instead of decreasing. She raised her hand and was about to pounce on Ling Feng.
Seeing this, Gu Yuan raised his arm. Liu Chunjiao's body seemed to be acupunctured and couldn't move at all.
Ling Feng was so scared at this moment that he was completely dumbfounded. He couldn't figure out why Liu Chunjiao would attack him.
Zhou Yichen quickly pulled Ling Feng out and asked anxiously, "Is she the feng shui master who helped you look at the layout of the villa?"
Ling Feng nodded repeatedly and said yes. Only at this moment did he suddenly realize.
A good feng shui treasure land had been changed by this so-called feng shui expert into a pattern of a lucky place with a fierce burial, and was forcibly turned into a tomb for raising corpses.
"Is all this your conspiracy? You did it on purpose. What's your intention?"
Although Liu Chunjiao couldn't move her body, she could still speak. She snorted at Ling Feng, "Otherwise? Do you think I would really help you build a fortune-gathering building?"
After hearing this, Ling Feng was so angry that he stood up and was about to take action. But with Gu Yuan around, of course, he couldn't be allowed to hurt Liu Chunjiao.
With just a look from him, Ling Feng felt as if he had been kicked in the abdomen. He covered his stomach and squatted on the ground again, moaning continuously.
"What grudge do I have with you that you treat me like this?" Ling Feng covered his stomach, his face flushed with pain.
Zhou Yichen quickly stepped forward and helped the fallen Ling Feng up, saying, "Uncle Ling, can't you see? That so-called feng shui master is a snake spirit. They say snake spirits hold grudges. Did you do something wrong before and offend her?"
Ling Feng hugged his stomach and was in so much pain that he couldn't stand up. He could only lean in Zhou Yichen's arms and kept thinking back, wondering if he really had any feud with her.
"Are you the black snake that was pressed under our family's climbing pavilion?" After Ling Feng asked, after a while, he suddenly seemed to think of something and immediately asked again, "No, that black snake was clearly given to me by you. It was already a dead snake when it came. I didn't kill that snake at all."
Liu Chunjiao looked at Ling Feng as if he were a fool.
"Ling Feng, you really have a short memory. You said you didn't kill that snake, but you clearly did. You heartless man. It's the injustice of heaven that you've been able to live in peace for so many years. If you have the guts, kill me today. Otherwise, I'll make sure you're doomed."
Ling Feng was already angry. After hearing Liu Chunjiao's curse, he was so angry that he stamped his feet, "You... Yichen, kill this snake demon for me. I don't believe a mere snake can cause any trouble."
"Uncle Ling, Lan Lan said before that it's better to settle a feud than to keep it. Moreover, Chuchu is still in her hands. Don't you want to save her?" Zhou Yichen supported Ling Feng and said.
Only then did Ling Feng react. He suppressed his anger just now.
"Snake demon, what do you want to do to let Chuchu go?"