Jiang Yu shook the car keys in his hand and said, "I'll take you there."
Chen Ling nodded, took Wu Weiwei with him and walked out, while at the same time calling Sun Peifeng.
Sun Peifeng didn't know what had happened. When he heard that the talisman paper was broken, he was stunned for a moment, dropped his phone and ran to the second floor.
Sun Jiayu's door was tightly closed, with a faint light coming through the crack. He raised his hand and knocked on the door, shouting, "Jiayu, open the door."
Mrs. Sun and her husband went their separate ways and continued walking to the door of Sun Zhi's room. The door was half open, leaving a gap, and it was pitch dark inside.
With a little force from my fingertips, the door opened slowly.
The light shone into the room in the corridor. Although it was dim, it was not difficult to see that Sun Zhi was not in the room at all.
"Peifeng, he should be in our son's room too." Mrs. Sun returned to her husband and knocked on the door together.
When they secretly placed the talisman before, they were sure that their son was really asleep. They also observed carefully when they left and no one else noticed their actions.
If that’s the case, what’s going on in the current situation
Is it that Sun Zhi is worried about being sent out, or maybe the management rights are not as tempting to him as money and wealth, so he can't wait to take action in advance...
The more Mrs. Sun thought about it, the more frightened she became. She called Sun Zhi's name with a broken voice, waking up the maids in the nanny's room on the first floor.
The aunt ran up in panic, and seeing the anxious expressions of the couple, she hurriedly asked, "Sir, Madam, what happened?"
"Auntie, go downstairs first. Mr. Chen is almost here. Go open the door for him." Seeing that Auntie couldn't react, Mrs. Sun urged, "Don't just stand there. Go quickly!"
Auntie responded with a pale face, "I'll go right away!"
She came from a rural village in a small border town. There were many strange things circulating in the village, such as what happened to the Sun family recently. When she was young, she had heard similar stories from her elders. If it weren't for the fact that her husband and wife had always treated her well, she would have resigned long ago.
Auntie shook her head and sighed, then walked into the elevator anxiously.
Jiang Yu had a new driver, and his driving skills were unexpectedly good, fast and steady. In less than ten minutes, a group of people, plus a big parrot that insisted on coming along, arrived outside the gate of Mr. Sun's community.
After registration, the security guard let me pass.
Just as I was about to call to ask for the door password, the aunt from the Sun family who I had met once showed up.
She opened the door for Chen Ling. "Mr. and Mrs. are knocking on the young master's door upstairs. I don't know what's going on now."
"Did you hear any noise before this?" Chen Ling knew that the nanny's room was right below Sun Jiayu's room. If there was any noise upstairs, the people downstairs would know about it.
"No." Auntie was not sure after saying that. After thinking carefully, she shook her head and said, "Indeed, no."
Chen Ling thought that since both souls did not want to leave the body, a fight was bound to take place, which could not be silent. Maybe the talisman paper was broken, and it was not the work of a wild ghost, but a human factor.
While I was thinking, the elevator arrived.
The aunt pressed the code to open the door, and the shouting from the second floor immediately reached the first floor.
Fearing that something might have happened upstairs, Chen Ling didn't wait for the door to be completely opened, but squeezed sideways into the entrance and rushed to the second floor.
Mr. Sun, who was banging on the door, was stunned when he saw someone suddenly appear in the corridor. It was because the clingy bird on the young man's shoulder was too eye-catching.
It was not until he heard Chen Ling calling him that he rushed forward like a drowning man catching a piece of driftwood, grabbing the young man and shouting, "Mr. Chen, please think of a solution. Jiayu has been locking himself in the room and refuses to come out. Oh, right! Sun Zhi! Sun Zhi must be in there too!"
Chen Ling glanced at the loose door handle. It was obvious that before he came up, the couple had already tried to break the door violently, but the effect was not very obvious.
He took a deep breath and tried to knock against the door with his shoulder a few times, but still couldn't open it. It wasn't because the quality of the door was too good, but because there was a force on the other side of the door panel that was fighting against him.
Chen Ling went back to the stairs and waved to the man who was walking upstairs, "Come up quickly, I need your help with something."
Jiang Yu looked up at him, "What?"
"The door of Sun Jiayu's room can't be opened, you go and try." Before he finished speaking, the young man's hand had already grabbed the man's wrist.
Lowering his eyes to look at the thin white fingers pressing against his skin, Jiang Yu obediently followed Chen Ling's strength and moved forward. After a few moves, he reached the door that needed to be opened.
The man opened his eyes, and the fleeting emotion in his eyes had long since calmed down. He raised his hand and loosely grasped the door handle. His slender fingers contained tremendous strength. Everyone present saw the door handle break and the lock tongue made a clicking sound.
Chen Ling rushed in first, and the wooden door slammed into the wall. Sun Jiayu was standing in the center of the room, with his legs crossed on the ground, holding a knife in his hand, scratching on the pages of the book again and again.
Knowing someone was coming in, he still maintained his original posture, with a weird grin on his mouth, and kept saying: "How disgusting, how disgusting, go to hell, you all deserve to die."
"Jia Yu, I..." Sun Zhi came out of the bathroom with a lighter in his hand. Seeing a group of people crowded outside the door, he showed a surprised expression, "Second Uncle, Second Aunt, why are you here?"
Sun Peifeng looked at him warily, not wanting to say a word.
Chen Ling looked at what he was holding, "What did you burn?"
Sun Zhi pushed his glasses and said with a smile, "It's a piece of talisman paper hidden under Jiayu's pillow by someone unknown." He turned to look at Sun Peifeng and his wife, "Second Uncle, did you and Second Aunt hide it?"
Sun Peifeng's face turned green. This ungrateful bastard must have seen him and his wife coming out of his son's room somehow!
But how did he find out
Sun Peifeng frowned and thought for a moment, then walked past the others and went in to rummage through the drawers.
No, no surveillance, no bugs, nothing!
With a bad temper in his chest, Sun Peifeng closed his eyes in pain. He knew that Jiayu was not asleep at all when he placed the talisman paper, he was just pretending.
Chen Ling handed the parrot to Wu Weiwei. Before Wu Weiwei could hold it firmly, the parrot struggled to break free from his arms, circled in the room for a while, and then landed on a three-dimensional clothes hanger in the corner.
Chen Ling glanced at it and silently mouthed "Be good and stop making trouble" and moved closer to Sun Zhi.
Sun Zhi had already put on a mask, his smile was gentle, his eyes were focused, but the words he spoke were very tough.
"Mr. Chen, right? The thing you asked my second uncle to put under Jiayu's pillow made him very irritated and even lost control of his emotions. I know it's not easy to make a living, but if you try to cheat more money from our family through these weird means again, I will definitely call the police."
"Then report it." Chen Ling said, "I just want to ask the police what kind of punishment will be meted out if someone deliberately kills someone or seizes property that does not belong to him."
The curve on Sun Zhi's lips froze for a moment, "Do you think I'm kidding?"
"No." Chen Ling had an innocent look on his face, with his hands behind his back. He suddenly stepped forward and stared at the gentle face opposite him with an inquiring look.
Sun Zhi felt uncomfortable when he looked at her, "What are you looking at?"
"Look at the greed and malice in your eyes." Chen Ling walked around him, deliberately annoying him and stimulating his emotions. "Before you came here to live, you lived in your own home. Because your parents were ordinary working class people, they could only barely make ends meet. The food and things you used were neither good nor bad, and could not be called high-end. You could not be compared with your cousin who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth."
Sun Zhi's smile faded, "I didn't expect Mr. Chen to know so much about my past."
"I don't have the hobby of prying into other people's privacy. I was just guessing." Chen Ling's tone was as if he was joking with a friend. "Do you think I guessed right?"
The room was very quiet, and everyone had a different expression on their face. Among them, Sun Jiayu's was the most ferocious.
He turned a page of the book, and suddenly used more force with the knife in his hand, stabbing at the illustration on the page.
Again and again, the face of the person in the illustration was pierced beyond recognition by the tip of the knife, leaving only black holes for the eyes and mouth.
"You envied Sun Jiayu, thinking that fate was unfair. Your parents worked so hard every day but couldn't get what they wanted, but your second uncle could make a fortune just by sitting in the office and give his son the best living conditions... Fate changed after you graduated from elementary school. Your father wanted you to get a better education, so he asked your younger brother to help you get into the best junior high school in the city.
"Your second uncle had a good relationship with your father in his early years. Even after he became rich, he never forgot the brotherhood. In addition to arranging a school for you, he also promised your parents that he would take good care of you and not let you suffer any grievances. Sun Zhi, you have been in the Sun family for more than ten years. The life of luxury is engraved in your bones. If these are taken back one day, it will be like removing bones and scraping flesh from you."
"You are slandering me. I can sue you." Sun Zhi stared at the young man through the lenses, and vigilance flashed in his dim eyes.
Chen Ling shrugged indifferently and continued, "How can the flesh on your body be scraped off? You have to keep it. The most thorough way is to get rid of Sun Jiayu. Sun Jiayu and you have a good relationship. You know that in many cases, not only him, but even your second uncle treats you as a blood relative, not an ordinary relative separated by blood. So as long as he disappears, after a period of pain, your second uncle will definitely transfer his feelings for his son to you. You will become the legitimate heir of the Sun family."
Sun Zhi took out his phone and clicked on the numbers to call the police.
Wu Weiwei reacted very quickly and rushed over to grab his phone. "Why are you in such a hurry? Brother Chen hasn't finished talking yet."
Chen Ling: “…” I suddenly felt like a gangster. What’s wrong with me
He coughed lightly and cleared his throat, "Why do you want to burn the talisman paper?"
"I told you, because that thing annoys Jiayu." Sun Zhi sneered, "Mr. Chen, it's illegal to rob others of their property. You'd better ask your people to return the phone to me."
"If you believe in ghosts and gods, they exist. If you don't believe in them, they don't exist. As far as I know, you don't believe in them. So why did you burn it?" Seeing that Sun Zhi was about to speak, Chen Ling quickly blocked his mouth. "Oh, it was Sun Jiayu who asked you to burn it, but from my professional point of view, if he was a normal person, the talisman paper would have no effect on him. How could it affect his emotions?"
Sun Zhi's face gradually tensed up, and his eyes narrowed behind his glasses. "Are you going to use that ghost-possessed excuse again?"
Chen Ling just refused to talk to him nicely. He let out an "eh" and suddenly moved forward without any warning, reaching out his hand towards Sun Zhi's collar.
Just as they were about to touch each other, Jiang Yu appeared behind him and grabbed his hand.
Sun Zhi covered the collar of his shirt reflexively and took a step back cautiously, his face completely changed.
Chen Ling twitched his arm and said helplessly, "I just want to see what he is wearing around his neck. According to our previous judgment, he may have something on the wild ghost. Since it is a handle, of course it is safest to wear it close to his body."
The man's big hand was still holding his wrist, but his eyes had already fallen on Sun Zhi's neck.
Below the collar, a red jade line was faintly visible. But as Sun Zhi moved his body, the red line disappeared in an instant. He deliberately left the line long so that it would hang quietly below to avoid being exposed.
Sun Zhi suddenly growled, "Sun Jiayu!"
The man who had been poking the book with a knife suddenly stopped and stood up. He tightened the sharp fruit knife in his hand, and while everyone's attention was focused on Sun Zhi, he raised the knife and stabbed Chen Ling in the back.
Jiang Yu's eyes flashed with a dark light. He grabbed the young man's shoulders and protected him in his arms. He kicked sideways with his long legs, and Sun Jiayu's body, who had been bedridden for a long time, flew out directly.
He covered his stomach without feeling any pain, stood up with the help of the wall, and looked at Jiang Yu in panic and fear. His lips trembled and his pupils vibrated with excessive fear, as if he had seen the most terrifying existence in the world.
Chen Ling's head was pressed against Jiang Yu's chest, so he couldn't see anything. He stretched out the solid chest in front of him, threw out three pieces of talisman paper, and took out the Sanqing Bell he carried with him.
The copper bell vibrated hummingly, indicating that the wild ghost was not powerful at all at the moment. As he rang the bell, the clear sound spread like water waves.
Mrs. Sun and Mr. Sun only felt that the sound was crisp and pleasant, but Sun Jiayu, who was immobilized by the talisman, wailed, fell to the ground again, and rolled around holding his head.
Chen Ling approached, squatted in front of him, and deliberately raised the Sanqing Bell above his ear.
"Peifeng, Peifeng, look!" Mrs. Sun grabbed her husband in surprise, looking in disbelief at the shadow whose facial features almost overlapped with her son's.
Sun Peifeng's arm was pinched by his wife's nails until it was almost bleeding, but there was no expression of pain on his face, only shock and fear.
If he had not sought out Lao Lin for help, and if Chen Ling had not told him about his suspicions about Sun Zhi, then his son would have continued to suffer the most painful torture.
Chen Ling shook the Sanqing Bell faster and faster, and the steady rhythm of the bell became rapid.
"Stop! Stop!" Sun Zhi roared and ran over, but was tripped by Wu Weiwei's foot.
Chen Ling threatened in a low voice: "Come out of his body, otherwise the Sanqing Bell will keep ringing."
Sun Jiayu rolled over in pain, gnashing his teeth and saying word by word: "No, Impossible."
"Oh, whatever you say." Chen Ling stood up and looked down at him, his eyes that were meant to be negotiating quickly cooling down.
At this moment, he no longer looked like a young boy who had just turned twenty, but like a high and mighty judge.
Jiang Yu took back all the aura that he had released from his body in an instant, and stood silently behind the young man like a shadow. Everything around him turned into a false mist, and only the person in front of him was real.
Chen Ling indifferently recited the exorcism spell, his voice faint and ethereal, filling every corner.
Wu Weiwei used his knee to support the back of Sun Zhi who was lying on the ground. His face showed nothing but admiration for his brother Chen. Academic methods require talent. Some people can achieve great success in three to five years, while others can only apply the basics throughout their entire lives.
He wondered sadly whether I belong to the latter.
"Stop reading, can't you see he's in pain!" Sun Zhi's glasses were askew, and his usual calm expression could no longer be maintained. He struggled like crazy, scratching and clawing at the ground, trying to get closer to Sun Jiayu.
"Hey." Wu Weiwei took his knees away, and when the other party thought he had broken free from his control, he sat on his back.
Sun Zhi let out a muffled cry of pain, and his internal organs were almost squeezed out.
Sun Peifeng felt extremely pleased when he saw it. He was not a saint. I was nice to you only because we were related by blood and because you treated me sincerely and respectfully.
But now, what used to be a family blind date has become a disguise to cover up an ugly face, and he only wishes to return the pain that Sun Zhi inflicted on his son many times over!
"Come out?" Chen Ling asked below.
Sun Jiayu's eyes were filled with urgency, and his lips moved with difficulty. The two souls in his body were tearing each other apart. The wild ghost quickly gained the upper hand, and he gritted his teeth, fearing that he would not be able to bear the pain and would humbly compromise. If he uttered a word, he would be ejected by this body that had voluntarily accepted him.
"It doesn't matter. We have plenty of time." Chen Ling took out his phone to check the time, then said with a smile, "It's still five hours before dawn. When my right hand gets tired, I'll switch to my left hand. Anyway, I've already slept in the guesthouse before."
The man on the ground was twitching in pain. In order to compete with Chen Ling, he endured the severe pain and began to scratch his body.
The face, arms, and thighs, all the skin exposed to the air became his attack areas. Red scars soon appeared on the sickly white skin.
Chen Ling's eyelids jumped, and he took out the Yellow God Yue Zhang Seal from his chest with his free hand. Without turning his head, he said to the man behind him, "Cinnabar."
Jiang Yu opened the backpack on his back and took out the round wooden box containing liquid cinnabar.
The lid was opened, and the Yellow God Yue Zhang Seal fell in, and it was pressed hard. Then it was pulled out, and the bottom of the seal was bright red.
Chen Ling stopped ringing the bell and pressed the seal hard on Sun Jiayu's forehead.
Sun Jiayu's body suddenly arched upwards, his waist bent into a terrifying arc, his pupils almost shrank to the size of a needle tip, and saliva continuously secreted from his mouth and flowed down his cheeks.
Chen Ling stopped all movements and just watched.
Except for the wild ghost himself, no one knew the pain he was feeling at this moment. The pain like a blade cutting spread from his brow to his limbs and bones, from his soul to the body where he was temporarily living. Every part was violently pulled and the pain spread.
"I'm going out, I'm willing to go out!" After the voice of begging for mercy fell, a wisp of green smoke came out of Sun Jiayu's body.
Chen Ling grabbed the wisp of smoke with his bare hands, trapped it with the ink line thrown by Wu Weiwei from a distance, and threw it to the ground.
Sun Jiayu's body had calmed down, his breathing was steady, and his eyes were tightly closed.
Sun Peifeng and his wife carefully carried him back to the bed. Fearing that things might change, they stood guard at the bedside like two soldiers.
Chen Ling walked up to Sun Zhi, grabbed his hair, pulled his head up, and opened his collar with his fingers.
Afraid that the old ancestor would get jealous again, he winked at Wu Weiwei and asked him to pull out the red line on the back of Sun Zhi's neck.
"Two?" Chen Ling really didn't expect that Sun Zhi would hang the protective jade Guanyin and a copper five-zhu coin together at the same time.
Wuzhu coins are copper coins that have been passed down through many dynasties. Two years ago, archaeologists dug up millions of them in a tomb. To be honest, this thing has low collection value, but because it has been buried underground without light for many years and is a burial object, it is extremely easy to be contaminated by dirty things.
Mrs. Sun was sharp-eyed. She noticed the jade pendant and her face turned pale and blue. She stared at Sun Zhi with more and more hatred, and she wanted to rush up and tear his face apart.
She remembered it clearly. When her husband was fascinated by jadeite, he specially bought high-ice material from a merchant and asked a studio to make a custom-made protective Guanyin for his two children!
Chen Ling: "You are quite knowledgeable. Hanging Guanyin and the Yin-powered Wuzhu coin together can not only dispel the Yin-powered Wuzhu coin, but also protect you with Guanyin to prevent wild ghosts from harming you."
A parrot standing quietly on a clothes hanger flapped its wings and shouted, "Bad guy, bad guy, big bad guy!"
Chen Ling reached into his trouser pocket and threw a melon seed over to the parrot to block its mouth.
Then he took the five-zhu coin off the red rope, wrapped his fingertips around one end of the ink line, and with a little skillful effort, the ink line loosened the wild ghost.
The wild ghost knew he couldn't escape, so he curled up into a ball and stayed where he was, not daring to move.
"Clang", the five-zhu coin was bounced away by the young man's hand, rolled on the floor and stopped in front of him. Without thinking, he immediately attached himself to the coin and refused to come out again.
Chen Ling used the ink line to pass through the copper coin and threw it to Wu Weiwei for him to hold. He was thinking about how to force Sun Zhi to tell him what happened. Sun Peifeng, who realized that his son would no longer be in danger, walked up to Sun Zhi aggressively, pulled him up from the ground, and slammed him against the wall fiercely.
Sun Zhi put on his glasses that had fallen down to the tip of his nose and said, "Second Uncle."
"I'm not your second uncle!" Sun Peifeng roared, his fists creaking. "I've treated you well, why are you doing this?"
"Why? Didn't the person you found make it very clear?" Sun Zhi stopped pretending after the truth was revealed. He sneered, "Your company, your money, your property, everything will only belong to Sun Jiayu in the future. My efforts to please you over the years are nothing! Can you give me even a little bit of it?"
Sun Peifeng was so angry that he was shaking. "I, Sun Peifeng, earned my property through my own hard work. What's wrong with me giving it to my son? I think of our family relationship, so it's not wrong for me not to give it to you!"
Mrs. Sun, who was sitting at the head of the bed, couldn't help but speak for her husband.
"Your second uncle still misses you." She lowered her head and touched her son's haggard face, wiping her tears and choking, "He discussed with me a long time ago that he would give you some shares after you graduated from college. If you don't want it, he will exchange it for cash so that you have the capital to start your own business."
Sun Zhi taunted: "How much shares are you going to give me? Thousands, tens of thousands, or all the shares in your name?"