The goateed man walked up to Miaomiao and gave her a kind smile. "Little one, why are you here all by yourself? Where are your family?"
"My brother went to the supermarket. Dad, uncles, auntie, and grandma are all at home."
The little girl didn't know why this uncle was talking to her, but she answered honestly.
The man took a closer look at the little girl's outfit.
The down jacket she was wearing looked simple, but it was definitely high - end. The shoes on her feet cost over ten thousand yuan, and the hat was worth several thousand. She was definitely from a wealthy family.
He had walked all around this neighborhood and basically expanded his client base as much as he could. This little girl looked unfamiliar. Maybe she could be a breakthrough for him to expand his client resources.
"Hey, uncle can do magic. You're so cute. Do you want uncle to show you a magic trick?" the man asked with a beaming smile.
"What's magic?"
"It's like a trick. You can make things appear out of thin air," the man patiently explained.
The little girl tilted her head and thought for a while, then nodded. "Okay, go ahead and do it."
Seeing that the little girl was interested, the man nodded secretly. He spread out his hands to show they were empty, and then in an instant, he produced a strange flower.
The flower gave off a strong fragrance and looked strangely beautiful.
The man held out the flower to the little girl, but Miaomiao just stared blankly, showing no reaction at all, nor any intention of taking the flower.
"Little one, don't you like flowers?" the man was a bit surprised. Normally, kids would clap and cheer when they saw his little tricks. Especially little girls, they would happily take the flowers.
He had never seen a kid like Miaomiao who showed no reaction at all.
"I don't like it," Miaomiao glanced at the flower and turned her head away.
"Well, what about the magic?" the man thought the little girl just didn't like flowers. He took back the flower in his hand and asked.
"Cool!"
Miaomiao's eyes suddenly lit up. The man was quite satisfied with her reaction and nodded slightly. "Uncle knows a lot of amazing things. Uncle can even predict the future."
"Huh?" The little girl was completely confused and just stared blankly for a moment.
The man thought Miaomiao was just simply amazed and continued talking to himself. "Uncle knows that you might get hurt in three days. You might accidentally bleed. It's really scary."
"What?"
The little girl still looked totally confused.
"Little one, do you want to get hurt? If you don't, you have to take uncle to see your dad."
"Okay."
If he wanted to see her dad, he should have just said so earlier instead of talking so much nonsense she couldn't understand.
Miaomiao silently complained in her heart. She jumped off the swing and led the man towards the old mansion.
Normally, there were quite a few people who wanted to see Lin Yao, either asking for favors or for other purposes.
Lin Yao was afraid that some petty people would hold a grudge against Miaomiao if she didn't take them to see him. So he simply told the little girl that if anyone wanted to see him, she should just take them straight to him. He would handle the rest.
Miaomiao thought this man was just like those people, so she took him straight to the old mansion.
Back at the old mansion, Lin Yao looked at the strange man in front of him with a confused look on his face.
Why would anyone be so tactless as to come asking for favors during the Chinese New Year?
The key was that this guy didn't even bring any gifts!
"Dad, this uncle said he wants to see you," Miaomiao pointed at the man and said in a crisp voice.
Lin Yao nodded slightly. Seeing that his nephews weren't back, he knew Miaomiao had run back by herself.
To avoid making his nephews worried, Lin Yao quickly asked Uncle Lin to go and tell the kids.
"Hello, may I ask what you want with me?" Lin Yao blocked the man at the entrance and politely inquired.
"Hello, this is my business card. I have a professional studio in Heyuan Building. Just now I saw your child playing outside. I noticed that your daughter seems to have a dark aura between her eyebrows. She will have a bloody disaster soon. Out of the principle of saving a life is better than building a seven - story pagoda, I'm here to remind you," the man said.
"Oh, anything else?" Lin Yao took the business card and glanced at it.
He had heard of this man. He was quite well - known in the circle, specializing in changing feng shui and eliminating disasters for people.
However, Lin Yao had always been an atheist and never took this kind of person seriously.
When there were some minor problems in his company before, his assistant had recommended this man to him.
"I'm just here to remind you. You don't need to be so on guard. If something really happened to such a cute child and I saw it but didn't remind you, I would feel guilty and develop a mental block," the man said with a gentle smile, never mentioning any profit - related transactions.
"Okay, I understand. Thank you. If there's anything, I'll come to you," Lin Yao nodded slightly, then turned around and closed the door, shutting the man out.
The man wasn't angry at being shut out. He hummed a tune and left the villa area.
Miaomiao was sitting on the sofa when she suddenly felt something in her pocket. She took it out and saw it was the flower the man had produced during his magic trick.
Miaomiao carefully pinched the stem with two fingers, avoiding the thorns on the flower, and looked disgusted.
Lin Yao walked in from the entrance and saw Miaomiao looking so disgusted. He was a bit puzzled and asked, "Miaomiao, what's wrong?"
"That uncle stuffed this in my pocket without me knowing. There are bugs," Miaomiao said.
"You didn't even notice?" Lin Yao was a bit surprised. Miaomiao's martial arts skills had received high praise from an old master. Normally, it was unlikely that someone could put something on her without her noticing.
"I didn't know. That uncle knows martial arts too."
"Miaomiao doesn't like this flower? Dad will throw it away," Lin Yao said and reached out his hand, but Miaomiao dodged him and shook her head. "No, Dad can't touch it. There are bugs. Dad doesn't know martial arts."
Seeing Miaomiao's strong reaction, Lin Yao felt that something was unusual. If they were just ordinary bugs, Miaomiao definitely wouldn't react like this.
"What kind of bugs?"
"Those are the same bugs I recognized when Uncle Lin asked me to look at the corpse last time. They're inside the flower. If Dad gets pricked by the flower, he'll be controlled by the bugs. Dad can't touch it. I'm going to burn it," Miaomiao said, protecting the flower.
Bugs on the corpse?
Weren't those the same gu worms on the human traffickers when Miaomiao was abducted last time?
"Such a dangerous thing. Miaomiao can't hold it either. Give it to Dad quickly. Dad will be very careful."
"No way!"
Miaomiao firmly refused. She would never let her dad touch this thing. It was her subconscious protection for her dad.
Just then, Uncle Lin walked downstairs. Miaomiao's eyes lit up. She ran to Uncle Lin's side, hoping he would set things right.