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Chapter 26 Selling Own Daughter For Money

Unsurprisingly, the person on the other side fell silent, as if he was torn between whether to come or not. Gu Ye held back a smirk and said, “I’m just kidding. If I’m inviting you to dinner, we definitely wouldn’t come to this kind of place.”

Yu Ze probably didn’t expect Gu Ye to joke with him, so he paused for a moment before chuckling, “I have a meeting later so I can’t come. But I’ll treat you guys to some after-meal dessert.”

Gu Ye looks at Zhao Pengyu, your little uncle is such a nice guy!

Zhao Pengyu shook his head like a rattle. He held out both hands with Gu Ye like Er Kang’s pose, indicating that his uncle is not as nice as he thought. He suffered countless hidden damages when he was a child. His childhood memories were all of his uncle’s tricks*.

*This sentence is a play of words that is not translatable to English so Banana just replace with something similar.

Sure enough, Yu Ze kept his word. In a short while, someone brought a box of desserts. There are all kinds of desserts, and the portions are just right for tasting. Gu Ye said in a surprised tone, “He actually knows where we are.”

“It should be he checked the GPS I have on my body.” Zhao Pengyu used a fork to flip the dessert box and then checked the desserts one by one. As he did that, he turned his face to the side, for fear that something would spray out from the dessert and hit himself with cream foam.

Gu Ye and Xia Xiang didn’t think too much. They each took one and ate it. It makes them wonder where Yu Ze ordered these desserts from. It tastes better than the ones sold in the shops. The cream melts in the mouth, and the chilly feeling; very tasty. Zhao Pengyu only dared to eat the desserts when he saw the two of them are eating well.

Xia Xiang asked, “Your uncle is really kind to you. He only has you as the only nephew?”

“No, I’m the oldest. My second aunt’s family has twins, and my third aunt’s family has a younger cousin. When I was young, no one cared about me so I often lived in my grandfather’s house. My uncle is only 7 years older than me, and he teases me like a monkey every day. Maybe that’s why he likes me the most.” Zhao Pengyu had a serious face, and he almost believed what he said.

Xia Xiang pointed out mercilessly, “He didn’t even want you to talk just now.”

Zhao Pengyu: “Don’t say it! One does not simply reveal the truth!”

Gu Ye smiled and ate another piece of dessert. He doesn’t like dessert very much and just tastes for something new. But he did eat more than usual today. After eating and drinking, the three of them went to a nearby video game city and played games all afternoon. It is past 5.00 pm when he got back.

When Gu Ye got home, he saw the invitation card on his desk, and couldn’t help admiring. These words from Old Master Yu deserved to be framed up and treated as a treasure. The handwriting is vigorous and powerful, flying like dragons and phoenixes. Without decades of foundation, momentum, and insight, one simply can’t write such characters.

During dinner at night, Gu Decheng asked Gu Ye, “I heard that you received an invitation from the Yu family?”

Gu Ye answered calmly, “The old master invited me to appreciate the antiques.”

Gu Decheng happily said, “Not bad. Inviting you to this tea party should be because you saved Zhao Pengyu. It’s also good to go and broaden your knowledge. The Yu family has a rich cultural background, and the old master’s calligraphy and paintings are all national treasures. You should talk less, listen more, watch more, and learn more.”

Gu Ye nodded obediently. The way to survive in this family is – Everything Dad said is right.

“Take out that invitation card of yours…” Gu Decheng paused and said seriously, “… and bring it to me to have a look.”

Gu Ye asked worriedly, “You won’t cut out those words and keep them for collection, right? Don’t cut out holes in my invitation card.”

Hearing that, Gu Decheng’s face darkened, “Am I that kind of person? How could I rob my son?”

After admiring Old Master Yu’s handwriting, Gu Decheng casually put the invitation card by his side, pressed on it with his elbow, and continued to eat. Gu Ye curled his lips, you don’t want to rob me, you just simply take it away.

Mrs. Gu rolled her eyes and placed a shrimp in Gu Ye’s bowl. Then she asked flatteringly, “Would you like to take your brother together with you? It’s summer vacation at that time.”

Gu Decheng clicked his tongue, and asked disapprovingly, “What’s the point with bringing the child along?”

Gu Ye didn’t mind and said, “It’s fine to take him along. Then we can go and play with Zhao Pengyu.”

Mrs. Gu shrank her neck when her husband looked at her, “Isn’t this just to let Gu Yang join in the fun and gain a lot of knowledge? If you don’t want him to go, then he won’t go.”

At this moment, Gu Ye wisely says nothing so to protect himself. He retreated to his room when he was full and began to pack his things.

Early the next morning, when the nanny called Gu Ye down for breakfast, she found that he had left a note on the table, and had disappeared. The nanny saw the words written on the paper, clutched her little heart, and rushed downstairs, “It’s not good! Sir! Ma’am! The third young master ran away from home!”

“Run away from home?” Mrs. Gu got taken aback. Wasn’t he fine last night?

Gu Decheng read the letter Gu Ye left for him with a cold face, and slapped the table angrily, “Just reaching adulthood and he thinks his wings are strong enough to fly. Servants, bring him back to me!”

“Don’t, don’t, don’t!” Mrs. Gu hurriedly stopped Gu Decheng. After reading Gu Ye’s message and knowing that he just wanted to go out for a walk, she quickly comforted her husband and soothed him, “The child has finished his college entrance examination and just wants to go out to relax. He is no longer a child, you can let him go.”

“You are still pampering him. If he dares to run away from home today, he will dare to elope with a girl tomorrow!”

Mrs. Gu didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. This train of thought is going too far, “To put it bluntly, you just can’t bear to see your child grow up.”

Gu Decheng asked angrily: “You are still protecting him until now, how many benefits have you received from him?”

Mrs. Gu snorted and muttered unhappily, “Is it easy for me to be a mother? If I don’t care for him, you will say that I treated him badly. But it’s still my fault if I protected him. What do you really want me to do?”

Gu Decheng got a mental slap in the face by the last sentence. If he continued this conversation, she would make a fuss again. So, President Gu sighed heavily and said, “A benevolent mother who spoils her children will have bad children! You just continue to pamper him like all I care, I’m going to the company now!”

Mrs. Gu quickly sent a message to Gu Ye, “Come back after playing for a few days, or your father will send someone to catch you. At that time, I really can’t stop it.”

Gu Ye replied after seeing the message: [Okay~ Mom, I love you yo~ *finger-gesture heart]

Mrs. Gu sent Gu Ye a string of dots in return. Gu Ye could imagine how speechless the expression on his little mother’s face was after reading his reply, and couldn’t help but laugh by himself.

…

It took Gu Ye a day and a half by car before he arrived at his destination, a small town surrounded by mountains and rivers – Wufu Town.

This is a small town formed by the union of several surrounding villages. There is a river on the outskirts of the town. Looking down from the mountain, it seems like the town is embraced by the river, like a paradise isolated from the world. In fact, this small town is not so closed off from the outside world. Many young people in the town go to work in the city, and the standard of living in the town is not bad.

This small town is the hometown of Shao Fuxian, Gu Ye’s master. Before Shao Fuxian died, he told Gu Ye that he had no other request, but he hoped Gu Ye would take him back to his hometown for burial. Gu Ye went all the way to bring the old man’s ashes back, found a place with good geomantic omens to bury his ashes, and even lived in this small town for a while.

An old woman saw the direction Gu Ye is going, and asked with concern, “Young man, are you here to visit the town?”

Gu Ye smiled and shook his head, “I’m just going home, Auntie. Did something happen in Daliu Village up front?”

The aunt saw that Gu Ye isn’t dressed like a villager, and kindly advised him, “If you are not in a hurry, come back in 2 days. Many people died in Daliu Village. Funerals are going on in the past few days. It’s a mess.”

Gu Ye thanked the aunty for the reminder with a smile and continued to walk in. When approaching the entrance of Daliu Village, he found a large shed built at the entrance of the village. There are several large coffins under the shed, and there are several rows of paper horses and cows next to them. Gu Ye tilted his head and looked carefully, his face became serious. How many people died at once to warrant a collective funeral?

In small villages like this, almost every household has some relation with each other, 7th aunt, 8th aunt, 3rd aunt, and 6th uncle. If something is going on in the countryside, almost the whole family is involved. Generally, when someone from a family dies, a string of hell paper money is placed at the door of the families related to that family.

When Gu Ye entered the village, he found that almost every household had a string of hell paper papers. It is really rare for the whole village to hold a funeral at once. The more he walked, the more he felt uneasy, until he came to the place where he lived before. Gu Ye pushed open the unlocked gate with complicated emotions and found that the yard is already full of weeds. Gu Ye immediately regretted it. He shouldn’t have come back by himself. He should have brought a gardener back with him to change the hairstyle of the green grass.

At this moment, someone at the door asked, “Who are you? Where did you come from?”

Gu Ye turned around and saw a middle-aged man who is not very tall, dark-skinned, and a little thin. He called out happily, “Uncle Guan Ting?”

“You are?” The other party got stunned by his call and didn’t know who Gu Ye was for a while.

Gu Ye realized that he had changed his body now, and the people in this village no longer knew him. He smiled and said, “My senior brother Gu Ye has something to do, so he let me come back to visit Master’s grave. My senior brother mentioned you to me, Uncle Guan Ting, the neighbor uncle who is very good at building houses.”

“Oh! Gu Ye’s junior brother,” Liu Guan Ting smiled innocently when he heard Gu Ye praise him and stopped acting distant like a stranger to Gu Ye, “He actually let you come back alone, you are not familiar with this place,” Liu Guan Ting glanced at the courtyard and said with disgust, “It’s impossible to find a place to step on at all. Just wait for a moment, Uncle will tidy up the yard for you in a while.”

After a while, the uncle came back with a big shovel and quickly leveled the grass in the yard. Gu Ye felt really embarrassed to bother Guan Ting, so he stuffed the other party with a sesame oil chicken he bought on the road. His excuse is that his senior brother asked him to bring it, and I have to give it away.

Uncle Guan Ting accepted it embarrassingly, and enthusiastically asked Gu Ye to go to their house for dinner. Gu Ye declined, and asked by the way, “Uncle, what happened in our village?”

At the mention of this, the smile on Liu Guan Ting’s face faded. He took out a cigarette, lit it, took a deep puff, and said after a long time, “It’s miserable!”

After finishing smoking the cigarette, Liu Guan Ting finally calmed down and began to say, “It’s the rainy season now. The rain is heavy and the current is fast so the river has washed away the bridge in the town. Many people in our village are working on construction sites outside. Since they promise to work on people’s projects, they have to do it. There are people in the village who know how to row boats. So they pulled out the old boats at home, and use them to carry people across the river. It was fine for the first few days, but the boat capsized the day before yesterday.”

Uncle Guan Ting sighed, “A dozen people got caught under the boat. Even those who can swim are not spared. In the end, only 2 came back alive.”

There are also a few buddies who grew up with Liu Guan Ting among the deceased. The more he talks, the more uncomfortable he becomes. Liu Guan Ting wiped away his tears and picked up the big shovel for weeding.

“Uncle is going to help dig the grave. If you need something, go to ask your aunt (LGT’s wife).”

Gu Ye sent Liu Guan Ting out. Hearing the cries from all over the village, he heaved a long sigh and lamented that the world is impermanent.

Gu Ye checked the circuit and found that there is no problem. There are pots and pans at home, and they can be used after washing them a bit. When it is getting dark, Gu Ye took out the food he bought on the road from his backpack and warmed it up. Just as Gu Ye is eating, he heard a burst of crying outside and many people shouting and cursing, as if something terrible had happened.

Gu Ye quickly spread out a flatbread. He shaved off the meat from the chicken legs, and then put some shredded cucumbers. Rolling them into a roll (like kimbap), he went out to watch the commotion.

Surrounded by the crowd, a middle-aged aunt is held up by two women. She is crying so much that she couldn’t walk by herself. As she is being dragged away, she scolded, “Li Dahai! You have no conscience! You are inhuman! You will not end well! You dare to sell your own daughter! Are you not afraid that your daughter will find you in the middle of the night?! Pity my son, nothing is left behind. Why didn’t you think about the parents who raised you when you jumped down!”[1]

The surrounding villagers sympathetically scolded along with the woman, “So heartless, actually selling own daughter for money!”

“What is this thing? Liu Chao has suffered, and now his life ended for nothing, alas!”

Gu Ye walked behind the two aunts and asked in a low voice, “Auntie, what’s going on?”

Sometimes, being good-looking has its own advantage. The aunts saw Gu Ye’s nice appearance with red lips and white teeth. Even if he is not from this village, she still talked to him, “This woman’s son Liu Chao and Li Cui, a girl from the next village[1], grew up together as childhood sweethearts. The two graduated and worked outside together. This time they said they were coming back to get engaged and gotten just in time to catch the boat. There was a big wave and the girl fell off. The boy can swim, in order to save the girl, he also jumped down. Unexpectedly, the boat capsized and he is caught underneath. If he didn’t jump to save the girl, he might survive.[2]”

Another aunt also came over to chip in, “The boy’s family thought that the two children had a good relationship and since they both died, they should arrange a yin marriage for them. They will be buried together so that they will still be together in the next life. They agreed with the bride’s family yesterday, but who would have thought that when the woman went to discuss this matter today, the other party backed away from the deal.”

“It is said that someone drove from the city in the middle of the night last night. They gave Li Dahai 50,000 yuan and bought Li Cui’s body away that night. Times like this, it is very difficult to find girls for a yin marriage, so everyone is rushing to get them when they caught wind of it.”

When the aunts get together, their gossip can dig out people’s ancestors up to 8 generations. An older lady with red eyes wiped her tears and said, “I heard that the family who bought that girl is the richest man in the county/district. He’s a big boss who runs the coal mine and has a lot of money in his family. His son was executed by shooting a few years ago, he was a murderer.”

“Aiya! Li Dahai is really inhuman! This kind of person’s money also dares to take, and he is not afraid of retribution. Does he feel at ease spending the money from selling his daughter?”

Amidst a group of sighs and cursing, Gu Ye suddenly felt a ghostly aura. He looked over vigilantly and saw a young man in his early twenties standing on a hillside not far away. The young man looked at the woman who got taken home with a painful expression, the black aura above his head became more and more intense. Just as Gu Ye is about to chase after him, the ghost disappeared in a flash.

With a sullen face, Gu Ye counted with his fingers, and cursed in his heart: F U U C C K!

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[1] 这家儿子刘朝和隔壁村闺女李翠 – the raw said that Li Cui is from the other village so Banana is not very sure why the son’s mother is making a commotion in her own village instead of Li Dahai’s house?

[2] But to be honest, which fiancee won’t jump down to save the person they wanted to marry? Especially they are planning to get married.

Chapter 25 Mr. Yu, want to come and play? Part 2

Carrying his schoolbag, Gu Ye casually stood by the door and waved goodbye to his parents, “Don’t worry, everything is destined.”

Mrs. Gu rolled her eyes, what does the test score have to do with destiny?

“Remember to take the exam well, and check the answers several times after you finish the test. Don’t eat random things starting today, and make sure you don’t get sick when you go to the exam room tomorrow. After the exam, I will pick you up at the entrance gate. If you don’t pass the exam, your dad will spank your butt when you come home!”

“Okay, okay~” Gu Ye swung his bag onto his back, “I remembered it all! After the exam, please give me a few days off, I want to go out for a while and play.”

Gu Decheng wants to say ‘Where do you want to play, please stop running around and stay put’ but Mrs. Gu grabbed her husband and said, “For now, just let him do whatever he wants. Let him go to the exam without any pressure.”

Gu Decheng could only endure it.

Gu Ye climbed into the car and left with a smile on his face. Gu Ye simply takes it as his consent if his father didn’t object. After the exam, he wanted to go out and had fun. Then he wants to go to the mountains to sweep his master’s tomb and burn incense sticks.

…

On the day of the college entrance examination, it must rain! This is the iron law of nature![1]

A large group of parents held umbrellas and guarded the school gate like mushroom soldiers. They are more anxious than the students who are on the battlefield. It really makes people feel sorry for the parents in the world. Students without parents to accompany the exam all went to have lunch with Teacher Yu. After lunch, they went to a nearby hotel to rest and prepare for the exam in the afternoon.

Gu Ye went to the bathroom after lunch. When he came out, he heard someone in the corner saying something like a swindler, “I am your senior from the previous class. I have people in the education bureau who already know the question. I can give you the answer for only 200 yuan. Do you want it?”

Amused, Gu Ye thought to himself, what age is this? How can any fool still believe in such nonsense?

At this moment, a girl asked in a low voice, “Is it true? Can you give it now?”

Hearing that, Gu Ye is dumbfounded. There really are fools!

“I can’t give now. I can only give you the answers 5 minutes before you enter the examination hall. How much you can memorize depends on your ability. If I give it to you in advance, the risk of you leaking it will be greater. Wouldn’t it cause me trouble?”

The girl didn’t even realize that it is just a lie, so she thought she is being smart in asking, “What if after I give you money, but you don’t give me the answers?”

“Then you report to the police to arrest me. You can add me on WeChat, and I will never run away.”

Gu Ye could hardly listen to the scam anymore and turned around the corner to see how bastardly-looking is that liar’s face.

The liar had just made a fortune, so when he saw Gu Ye coming over, he wanted to continue his scam and asked, “Little handsome guy, I have the answers to the next test questions here, do you want it?”

Gu Ye asked coldly, “If I buy it, what can I do if you send me a bunch of nonsensical answers? The college entrance examination papers are not distributed to outsiders, so who knows if you gave me the right ones? You can still claim that I have a bad memory if I get the wrong answers. Your words are justified anyway.”

Seeing that Gu Ye didn’t take the bait, the liar continued to lie, “If I lie to you, you can go to the police station and make a report!”

Gu Ye sneered, “Buying illegal answers for the college entrance examination, you think I still have the face to complain after being cheated? For 200 yuan, do you think I’ll let the teacher know about it? At that time, won’t I try to hide the secret tightly? Liars like you who aim to cheat little fools, I can beat 800 of them to death a day.”

At this point, the girl who was cheated also realized that something is wrong, “Liar! Give me back the money!”

“Who is a liar? Little girl, how do you talk? Let me tell you, you are legally responsible for framing someone!”

After all, the student is just a little girl who has never been in contact with society. The girl didn’t expect this liar to be so shameless. She got frightened by his domineering attitude and took a step back, not daring to speak out.

Gu Ye grabbed the liar by the collar with one hand and dragged him to the toilet like a dog. Then he pressed the liar against the wall with his elbow, so that he couldn’t move, “Give her back the money, or I will feed you shit.”

The liar is frightened by Gu Ye’s strength, while paying back the money, he quibbles, “I, I’ll give it back. I’m not lying, I really have the answer, why don’t you guys believe me?”

Gu Ye curled his lips, dragged the liar out forcibly, and handed him over to the patrolling police.

The girl caught up with Gu Ye and said gratefully, “Classmate, thank you.”

“For pushovers, you can only learn from your mistakes.” Gu Ye threw his schoolbag on his back, waved his hands without looking back, and left.

The girl chased after Gu Ye for a few steps but failed to catch up. She regretfully took a picture of his back. In her heart she hoped, see you again if we have fate.

…

On the morning of the second day of the college entrance examination, Lin Zihao rushed to the toilet, clutching his stomach. The little cartoon that Gu Ye gave him is a nightmare for him, and he was afraid that it would come true during the college entrance examination*. Yesterday he didn’t dare to eat too much all day, for fear of ruining his stomach. But because he ate too little, he was very hungry when he came back. So he asked his mother to make him a bowl of noodles and added a little bit of chili that he usually likes to eat. Unexpectedly, because he has been staying hungry for too long, his stomach became fragile. Stimulated by the chili, he ended up having diarrhea.

*Lin Zihao is the person who reported to Teacher Yu that Gu Ye must have cheated in the exam. And Gu Ye drew a cartoon figure behind his paper in Chapter 14 that he will lose his admission slip

Lin Zihao’s hatred rose in his heart, thinking to himself that this must be Gu Ye’s curse on him!

Before going out to the examination hall, Lin Zihao went to the toilet 3 times. He went too much that he almost gets dehydrated, causing his parents to feel anxious for him. Seeing that time is running out, Lin Zihao tightened his belt and rushed out of the toilet. He put on his schoolbag and ran out the door. His parents also hurried to catch up, but no one saw that Lin Zihao’s admission slip is still lying on the table.

One can imagine the result. For the first exam, Lin Zihao failed to enter the exam room, his parents fell into despair on the spot.

Lin Zihao muttered furiously with red eyes, “It must be Gu Ye who cursed me, Gu Ye has already cursed me since then! It’s Gu Ye!”

After the exam has ended, Gu Ye walked out with Teacher Yu and a few classmates when Lin Zihao rushed up, “Gu Ye! I’m going to kill you!”

Before Lin Zihao could reach them, the security personnel held Lin Zihao down, “What’s the matter with you, student? You can’t commit crimes even if you don’t do well in the exam.”

“Gu Ye, did you curse me to lose my admission slip? It must be you!” Lin Zihao struggled like crazy, just wanting to rush up and hit Gu Ye.

Hearing that, several students in the same class became speechless, “Lin Zihao, are you mental? What does it have to do with Gu Ye that you didn’t bring your admission slip?”

Teacher Yu’s face turned red from the anger. He had been extremely disappointed in Lin Zihao for the past 6 months, “Lin Zihao, why are you having trouble with Gu Ye again?”

Gu Ye shook his head. He had calculated that Lin Zihao would encounter a hurdle, and this time he would definitely not be able to get into the university of his choice. That picture he drew before was just to scare him.

Lin Zihao is jealous, narrow-minded, and doesn’t know how to be grateful. If Zhao Pengyu, an innocent person, hadn’t been implicated, he wouldn’t have bothered to help him and Liu Yiwen (from the female ghost case). If this person had changed his temperament, he might not have suffered such a catastrophe. Unfortunately, nature is hard to change.

Lin Zihao’s mother is surprised by her son’s behavior. She ran to hold her son, and asked in panic, “Zihao, what’s wrong with you? You didn’t lose your admission slip. Your dad found it for you. You put it on the table and didn’t take it. How can you blame others?”

Lin Zihao froze in astonishment, “On, on the table?”

“Yeah, it’s on your desk.” His mother cried and persuaded him, “It doesn’t matter if you didn’t pass the exam this year. You can study for another year and take the exam next year. You can’t let yourself down.”

After such a commotion, the parents and students around looked at Lin Zihao as if he has gone crazy. Lin Zihao couldn’t bear it, so he pushed his mother away and ran away. In the afternoon exam, Lin Zihao did not come. He has to review for an extra year anyway whether he takes this exam or not. Lin Zihao is so lofty that he couldn’t afford to lose his face by coming.

After the college entrance examination, there are even more parents waiting at the gate. Because it rained yesterday, the sky is washed clean today and the sun is shining brightly. The heat makes people feel like they are melting, and a mushroom of umbrellas once again propped up at the school gate.

As soon as Gu Ye left the school gate, he saw his little mother all wrapped up, looking like she had just returned from the Sahara Desert. Amused, Gu Ye walked over with a smile, and praised, “Even if it is a mushroom, you are the most beautiful one here.”

“Aiya, you brat, hahaha,” Mrs. Gu slapped Gu Ye on the shoulder happily, “You are the only one who knows how to talk, hahaha!”

Gu Ye grinned in pain, and quickly grabbed her hand, “Mom, there are a lot of people watching you here. Later, won’t news come out saying: Shocking! The wealthy stepmother beat up her stepson in the street, why is she so vicious?”

The smile on Mrs. Gu’s face paused, this is really possible. When she came, she had already noticed that a reporter taking pictures of her, but she didn’t know what those people said about her. Probably saying that she is just putting on a show for waiting here. She didn’t bother to think about those stupid things anymore, so she asked Gu Ye with concern, “How did you do in the exam?”

Gu Ye smiled and said, “I have answered everything I know. Let’s go home, I want to have a big meal and then have a good sleep.”

Gu Ye slept all morning again the next day and didn’t get up until lunchtime. Mrs. Gu is not at home, so Gu Ye went downstairs to make a cup of milk tea by himself. The nanny came over and asked him, “Third Young Master, what do you want for lunch? Chinese food or Western food?”

Gu Ye shook his head disinterestedly.

The nanny asked with a smile, “The sea cucumbers bought by the kitchen today are not bad, do you want some sushi?”

Gu Ye continue shaking his head, still not interested.

The nanny asked tentatively, “Then, Thai food?”

Gu Ye finished his milk tea and stretched his waist, “I want to eat Malatang and stinky tofu.”

Nanny: “… Urm, we don’t know how to do this, but we can learn!”

Gu Ye laughed, “Then you guys definitely can’t make it at noon today. I’ll go out to eat, so don’t worry about me, and don’t tell my mother.”

Mrs. Gu has never let her children eat those outside food. Gu Ye couldn’t hold it anymore, so he called Zhao Pengyu and Xia Xiang, and they went to the snack street. 3 wealthy young masters, each holding a bowl of Malatang, eating until their belly is round and sweating all over.

While sitting and resting, Gu Ye received a phone call unexpectedly. When he checked the caller ID, Gu Ye blinked and asked seriously, “Zhao Pengyu, if I invite your uncle to eat Malatang and stinky tofu, will he come?”

Zhao Pengyu saw that the caller ID is Yu Ze, and sneered twice, “My uncle is obsessed with cleanliness. In some aspects, he is almost obsessed. Hero, you can try to ask.”

“Hello, I’m Yu Ze.” Yu Ze’s cold voice sounded, like a glass of sake in summer. Gu Ye immediately felt much refreshed.

Gu Ye narrowed his eyes with a smile, “Mr. Yu, what do you want me to do?”

“Have you received the invitation?”

Gu Ye is puzzled, “What invitation?”

Zhao Pengyu came to his senses first and explained, “It must be the invitation for the July tea party. The guests are all masters in your field, let’s go play together!”

Hearing Zhao Pengyu’s voice, Yu Ze said in disdain, “Shut up.”

Zhao Pengyu immediately fell silent.

Gu Ye understood what is happening and said, “I’m eating out now, the invitation should be at home.”

Yu Ze asked, “So, do you want to come and play?”

“Okay.” Gu Ye agreed immediately. Then, squinting his eyes, he warmly invited in the call, “I’m eating Malatang and stinky tofu outside. Mr. Yu, want to come and play?”

Yu Ze: “…”

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[1] Just like how Banana’s place would rain for no reason whenever a funfair is built nearby, for about 2-weeks to a month

Chapter 25 Mr. Yu, want to come and play? Part 1

If to say Gu Ye looked like he simply doesn’t care and bother with them, Gu Decheng definitely looked hostile to the people from Xuanshu Association, “I don’t care what you do but my son will not have anything to do with you in the future, stay away from my son.”

The people from Xuanshu Association stood there in embarrassment. They didn’t know how they managed to get on this boss’s nerves.

In the car, Gu Decheng told Gu Ye sternly, “This Xuanshu Association sounds like an underground organization engaged in feudal superstition. If you dare to become a Taoist priest, I will break your legs.”

“Okay Dad, I’ll listen to you.” Gu Ye took out his mobile phone and searched for the most popular variety show while promising piously in the mouth.

President Gu wanted to beat the child again, “Still remember the Disciple’s Rules? Recite once for me.”

Gu Ye sighed, and turned off the video,
“If the Parents call out, don’t delay to answer,
If the Parents give an order, don’t be lazy to do it,
If the Parents teach a lesson, listen quietly,
If the Parents give a scolding, obey and follow.

Dad, please say what you want. I will kneel and listen to your scolding.”

Gu Decheng softened his expression and said, “How do you know that Li Shengkai evaded taxes? You calculated it?”

“For the fortune-telling business, after seeing through the secrets of Heaven, one must also add in personal speculation.”

“So if one’s brain is not working well (not witty), they can’t do this job?”

“Yeah.”

Amused, Gu Decheng asked, “Why didn’t I see that you were so smart before this?”

Gu Ye said solemnly, “I got scared from getting beaten by you before, so I dare not make noise.”

“Then why are you constantly making trouble now?”

“Because I know you are reluctant to beat me to death now.”

Papa Gu is at a loss for words, what Gu Ye said really made sense.

At this moment, Gu Ye glanced at the window and his eyes lit up. He suddenly asked, “Is the car at the front belonging to Li Shengkai?”

The driver took a look and answered, “Yes, this kind of thing also can be calculated out?”

“It’s just that it has the same aura as Li Shengkai. Stop here, I’ll go down for a while.”

Gu Decheng watched Gu Ye goof about with a cold face. At first, he wanted to stop him, but it seemed that he hadn’t sat in the same car with his son for a long time. Also, it’s been a long time since he saw Gu Ye make a request so naturally, so he just endured it.

Gu Ye walked around Li Shengkai’s car and patted the front of the car with a smile. After that, he returned to the car with a grin and said, “Let’s go.”

The driver looked at the smile on the corner of Gu Ye’s mouth from the rearview mirror and didn’t dare to ask any more questions. He had a feeling that Third Young Master had an evil smile at that moment.

The next day, it was reported that Li Shengkai encountered a ‘ghost hitting the wall’* on the way home. It was said that he wandered around the Outer Ring Road for most of the night, and finally found his way back around dawn.

*Keep circling in the same area, unable to leave

After Gu Ye made such a fuss in the reception, many people in the business circle asked if Li Shengkai is really evading taxes, especially those who wanted to cooperate with him. Hence, they went and got someone to check it out. Although no tangible evidence was found, some problems were found during the investigation. Cooperating with Li Shengkai under the pressure of offending Gu Decheng is inherently risky, now that the other party may really break the law, who wants to take risks? In a short time, countless orders were withdrawn, and the stock of Li Shengkai’s company fell all the way to the bottom.

Immediately afterward, Li Shengkai is reported to the authorities. He had offended many people over the years so upon hearing that Gu Ye calculated about his crime, those people would rather believe Gu Ye and reported Li Shengkai. After receiving the reports, the relevant units began to investigate his tax issues.

Li Shengkai is worried about his company until his hair would turn white, but it is a pity that misfortunes never come alone. One of the little mistresses he secretly raised outside came to his house with a child in her arms. Knowing that Li Shengkai has encountered problems, the little mistress is afraid that she will no longer have money to use for the rest of her life. She is one of the mistresses and has given birth to a child for Li Shengkai but why did he send another vixen abroad as soon as something happened, not to mention that he gave that woman money as well?!

Hu Yu is mad with anger and slapped the mistress. Unexpectedly, the mistress is not someone easy to provoke. She pulled Hu Yu’s hair, pushed her to the ground, and kicked her fiercely.

It happened that Li Shengkai’s son, Li Peng, came home. When he saw that the mistress dared to beat his mother, he rushed up and hit the mistress until her head is bleeding. Li Shengkai wanted to protect his little lover, so he shoved his son away angrily. That push caused Li Peng to knock his head on the table, and a big bump immediately appeared.

Seeing this, Hu Yu finally understood that there is no way to live this life. She declared, “Divorce, we must divorce! Everything you have is given by my father, and it is all mine!”

“How dare you?!” Li Shengkai’s eyes turned red, “Even if I kill you, I won’t divorce you!”

“If you have the guts, kill me then!” Hu Yu straightened her neck at Li Shengkai. With her son by her side, she stiffened her will to divorce.

Li Shengkai looked at the mother and son who dared to resist him and hated them very much. He picked up something from the table without looking at what it was and smashed it hard at Hu Yu, “Bitch, I’ll kill you right now!”

“ARGH!” With Hu Yu’s scream, the atmosphere suddenly turned silent. Hu Yu fell to the ground, her widened eyes stained with blood staring at the floor gradually turning red.

“Mom! Mom!!” Li Peng picked up his mother with trembling hands. After shouting a few times but his mother didn’t respond, his face turned pale with fright, “What are you doing in a daze? Call an ambulance!”

The little mistress didn’t dare to make trouble anymore and silently slipped away with the baby in her arms. Li Shengkai is also scared by what happened and subconsciously took out his mobile phone. Just after he pressed the number 120 (number for the ambulance), he suddenly thought of something. His finger hovered over the dial button for a long time but didn’t press it.

Li Peng anxiously cover the blood on his mother’s head, calling his mother several times but there was no response. As her body got colder, Li Peng looked up at his father in fear, “What are you doing? Help my mother!”

“Son, we may not be able to save your mother.” Li Shengkai steeled his heart and grabbed his son’s shoulder with one hand. The strength of the grip is so strong that his veins bulged out. If Hu Yu dies, she will not divorce him, and the family property will not be divided. In the current situation, Hu Yu’s death is in his best interest.

Li Peng looked at his father in shock, as if he didn’t know the man in front of him anymore. Not caring about the pain in his shoulder, he asked, “Do you want to watch my mother die? She can still be saved! If you don’t call, I will call!”

Li Peng took out his cell phone to call an ambulance, but Li Shengkai pushed his son down. Grabbing Li Peng’s cell phone, he smashed it to the ground.

“Are you crazy? You’re crazy! You murderer!”

Li Peng is only 15 years old. This is the first time in his life that he suffered such a big blow and it is because his father wanted to kill his mother. Li Peng is already in a panic and wanted to run away, but his father held him down. When he looked back, his father’s eyes are red, like a lunatic.

“If you reported it, you will not only have no mother, but also no father, and you will lose a good life in the future. Dad promises you that after this difficulty is over, Dad will send you to study abroad. I will give you whatever you want.”

Li Peng cried, “I just want my mother, can you give her to me?”

With red eyes, Li Shengkai held the stone lion that smashed Hu Yu just now. A fierce glint flashed in his eyes, “Are you listening to me or not?”

Li Peng is so frightened that he trembled all over. Nodding tremblingly, he cried, “I, I’ll listen. Dad, I’ll listen to you. I’ll listen to you in everything.”

Hearing that, Li Shengkai loosened his grip on Li Peng’s hand a little bit. At this moment, Li Peng jumped up suddenly. After all, he is an energetic 15-year-old boy. He often fights so he still has that explosive power. Li Shengkai is suddenly pushed to the ground. Before he could react, Li Peng had already run to the door.

Li Peng cried and shouted, “Help! Call an ambulance! Quickly call an ambulance!”

Unfortunately, when the ambulance arrived, Hu Yu’s body is already cold. The doctor said regretfully, “It’s too late, even if it’s 3 minutes earlier, she can still be saved.”

Li Peng tidied up his mother’s body expressionlessly and adjusted his mother’s appearance. Then, not even looking at Li Shengkai, he ran away from home as the Li family fell into chaos.

Soon, the police came to the door, “Your son said you killed his mother, we need to investigate.”

“This unfilial son!” Li Shengkai never thought that his son would betray him as soon as he left the house.

The evidence is solid, so Li Shengkai is arrested that day. This incident really answered Gu Ye’s words, finished.

The Li family is completely finished.

After this incident got out, Gu Ye’s name became more famous in the circle. The more rumors are passed on, the more evil they become, and it is said that a few words of him have ruined a company. Even though Gu Ye is still young, after so many incidents, they all prefer to believe what they heard and have the mentality that they don’t want to offend the master. This incident even caused Gu Decheng’s business to become smoother.

There are also many people who want Gu Ye to check out their Feng Shui and do fortune telling, but unfortunately, they can’t get started queueing now because Master Gu is about to take the college entrance examination.

The people in the Xuanshu Association are also very troubled. If this Gu Ye is really related to that ‘Gu Ye’, then they would have to bring him into their association in advance to control his temper so that he would not be difficult to manage when he grows up. It’s a pity that Gu Ye is the son of Gu Decheng, and President Gu has inexplicable hostility towards them, so it’s not convenient to get close to Gu Ye.

Many masters in the Xuanshu Association got together for a chat, “This kid is quite capable of stealing business, which sect does he belongs to?”

“I don’t know, I never heard of such a young child that possesses such strong spiritual power, and he is still in school.”

“Why are people with the name Gu Ye so talented? Will Old Master Yu invite him to a tea party this year?”

“Anyone invited in the name of the old master must ensure that they attend. This is, after all, the old national treasure that could make both the business circle and the entertainment circle sing along with a stomp of feet. Coupled with the success of the heir, the Yu family will develop better and better. Anything the old master says, everyone must give face.”

“Mr. Yu is also very interesting. Every July, he will hold a tea party, inviting people from our circle to appraise some antiques and whatnot. What is his real purpose?” The person who asked this question is a young man who had just joined the association not long ago.

Hearing that, a few old people amusedly answered, “What else? It’s to choose a truly talented person to change the life of his youngest son. Yu Ze’s whole body of good fortune, if ordinary people possessed just a little bit of that, they will be prosperous and rich all their lives. It’s a pity that ‘when a thing reaches an extreme, it can only move in the opposite direction* (idiom)’. Yu Ze had his fortune told from the moment he was born that he won’t have any children and grandchildren. The fate of an emperor is heaped on this lifetime in wealth and honor.”

*You can never have too much good things

The young man thought for a while and said enviously, “…I feel that I can exchange my life with him. I don’t want children and descendants, I just want to live a rich life.[1]”

The elders joked, “Won’t your parents beat you to death?”

The young man fell silent. The fact is that young people don’t actually care about having children, but old people don’t think so. Therefore, Old Master Yu religiously invites people to come over every year. This year, he really wrote an extra invitation to Gu Ye, which is now on the old man’s desk.

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[1] Same here, brother, Banana has the same thought (╥_╥) who cares about children? (okay, some do) … I just want to live a life where I don’t have to worry if I earned enough for retirement or worried if I don’t have enough money for healthcare. I just want to enjoy life _(;3/

Chapter 24 My calculation is your time will be over soon Part 2

In the circle of businessmen, seniority is judged by economic strength, and the one with the most money is the boss. Wherever Papa Gu goes, there are people who come to flatter him. It’s not good to not give a face when people come, so he will give a perfunctory sip. But taking a sip for each person, a dozen of people could make him drunk.

A middle-aged entrepreneur approached Gu Decheng with a glass of wine and chatted with him, “Mr. Gu is not only capable but also taught your sons well. Your two eldest sons are both capable, needless to say. But I also heard that your 3rd son is also at the top of the school. He learned from a very powerful master and has saved many people.”

What Gu Decheng likes to hear is that others praise his son, and he is happy to hide here in a less crowded area to chat and drink less. Just as he was talking, a mocking voice asked, “Can I ask Third Young Master Gu to do a prayer dance and fortune telling on how to guard against bad people?”

Gu Decheng knew it is Li Shengkai without looking back. The whole Li family has been emptied out by him, so he doesn’t know where Li Shengkai got the courage, to dare to provoke him here. With a cold face, Gu Decheng said condescendingly with the attitude of a winner, “If you want to guard against bad people, just cover your face when you go out.”

At first, Li Shengkai didn’t understand what Gu Decheng meant, but the person next to Gu Decheng almost laughed out loud. President Gu meant that Li Shengkai is the bad person. So if he covered his face when he went out, other people can guard against him.

After figuring out the meaning, Li Shengkai cursed in a low voice with a dark face. He scoffed at Gu Decheng’s attitude of ‘showing off’ his son and said, “I wonder which master is so awesome to be able to teach fools so well?”

Gu Decheng understood the meaning when he heard it and his expression turned cold all of a sudden. Just as he is about to explode, a cold voice said indifferently, “If Mr. Li still has time to care about how the Gu family’s children are raised, it’s better to care about yourself.”

Everyone is startled when they heard this voice. They all turned their heads and saw a tall, handsome but unsmiling young man who had come to stand behind Gu Decheng. He is wearing a white shirt, while the collar and cufflinks are cool gray. It made his handsome face seem to lack a human touch.

It is Yu Ze.

Even though Yu Ze is young, everyone present dare not underestimate him. They can understand to some extent what kind of temperament is he. Unexpectedly, the notoriously indifferent young man directly confronts Li Shengkai. Those who found out what is going on all shut their mouths, quietly observing the development of the situation here, for fear of accidentally causing trouble for themselves.

Yu Ze passed by Li Shengkai expressionlessly, picked up a wine glass from the plate carried by the waiter, and toasted Gu Decheng, “Mr. Gu, we meet again.”

Gu Decheng clinked glasses with Yu Ze happily, but is also a little surprised that Yu Ze would go out of his way to interrupt, “I thought you wouldn’t come.”

“I’ve got something to do at the company, so I’m late.” Yu Ze’s expression softened, and he directly changed the subject, “Mr. Gu taught your sons well. Gu Ye saved my nephew’s life a while ago and took good care of him. My family has always been grateful.”

“Naturally, saving a friend should be a duty.” The corners of Gu Decheng’s mouth curved up, feeling relieved. He looked at this young man with admiration and felt envious in his heart that Yu Ze is able to support a business empire at such a young age, but none of his sons wanted to succeed him.

Just as the atmosphere eased, a voice carrying a smile said lightly, “Yo~ Mister, let me calculate. You’ve had bad luck these past few months. Is it okay to be bald and wear a wig at such a young age?”

When Gu Decheng heard the familiar voice, he let out an angry laugh. His third son, who is the most difficult to discipline is here. He doesn’t know how Gu Ye managed to get in, but he is currently pinching his fingers and standing solemnly in front of Li Shengkai, telling his fortune.

“If you do too many bad things, don’t walk around at night as it’s easy to run into ghosts. Don’t sleep too much with your 3rd, 4th, and 5th mistress as it will make you prone to impotence. Let me calculate more, aiya, you have 2 children outside. Madam Li is so lucky, she’s a mother to 2 extra children!”

Gu Decheng became sullen, wanting to stop this little bastard from engaging in feudal superstition in front of so many people. But before he could go out, he is stopped by Yu Ze who said, “I suddenly felt that his actions are quite interesting.” Yu Ze paused, staring at the smirk on Gu Ye’s face. His eyebrows and eyes are slightly drawn, and the corners of his mouth are raised a little before continuing, “I want to hear what he wants to say.”

Feeling a headache, Gu Decheng rubbed his forehead. This little rascal had nothing good to say, and Yu Zu will absolutely regret it.

Today Li Shengkai brought his wife with him. After all, it is a formal business reception, and more than half of the businessmen brought their wives. Li Shengkai’s business is taken over from his father-in-law, so if his wife comes, he can win some face. When Hu Yu heard that her husband is messing around outside, Hu Yu’s expression became a little uneasy.

Gu Ye smiled and said, “Ma’am, don’t change your expression yet. He has the look of a scoundrel. Your father should still be alive right, but he is not in good health, got harmed by bad people ah. Is he(LSK) married into your family? Did he start his business with your family’s power? A lot of indiscriminate means were used eh, and you still think that your father suddenly fell ill. Is it really because of his poor health? Have you never used those godforsaken methods?”

“You are talking nonsense! Where did this wild child come from, simply talking nonsense!” Hu Yu immediately changed her attitude. She had met Gu Ye before, but Gu Ye had changed so much that she didn’t recognize him for a while.

Gu Ye curled his lips, amused, “Wild child? That’s not what you said when you asked my mother to kill me.”

Hearing what Gu Ye said, everyone understood that this is the 3rd son of the Gu family. Those words of persuasion that Hu Yu said were uploaded by Mrs. Gu to her social page so there are quite a few people present who know about this. They didn’t comment but the way they looked at Hu Yu is different.

Hu Yu is furious but unable to quibble so her face turned pale with anger.

Gu Ye sneered, “How did your father fall sick? You can ask someone to check it out. The cause is absolutely inseparable from the man next to you.”

Indeed, the people present heard of the news that Li Shengkai started his business by relying on his father-in-law and mother-in-law. In the end, the old father-in-law got tricked into transferring all the shares to Li Shengkai. Although there is no evidence, people who know how things work can see that something is fishy. That’s why Gu Decheng told Mrs. Gu that this person’s family history is not clean. Only Hu Yu loves Li Shengkai deeply and doesn’t know anything.

Being watched by so many people, Li Shengkai panicked and scolded in embarrassment, “Gu Decheng, is this the way you taught your son? What kind of place is this, he dares to come here to act wild?!”

Seeing Li Shengkai acting nervous, Gu Decheng calmed down instead. He leisurely watched the commotion, clinked glasses with Yu Ze, and drank another sip.

Li Shengkai’s eyes turned red with anger.

Compared with Li Shengkai’s exasperation, Gu Ye said calmly, “I calculated some more. You have a mistress who is pregnant with someone else’s seed, but now the child carries the surname Li, that’s amazing! How much money did you steal for this illegitimate son of yours? Ma’am, please be cautious. He used the money your father earned to support his lover, who even gave him a cuckold. The relationship between your family is too chaotic.”

Hu Yu’s complexion became even uglier. She knew that her husband raised a woman outside. She cried and quarreled, and later her husband severed ties with that woman, so why is the child involved now? It is said that the Old Third of the Gu family can tell fortunes. Right now, he could tell the story with so many details, could it be true?

Subconsciously, Hu Yu felt a little uneasy and speculative when she looked at her husband, and took this matter to heart.

Li Shengkai glared at Hu Yu, “You actually believe this kind of nonsense!”

“Tsk tsk tsk,” Gu Ye chuckled a few times, “I can count how many bastard things you have done. Did you keep your tax evasion secret tightly? Whoever dares to cooperate with you is a hero, who is not afraid of death or sacrifice, and dares to contribute all his property.”

It was not easy but Li Shengkai managed to attract a few people who reluctantly agreed to cooperate with him. But now they looked at each other, tax evasion? Gu Ye rescued Mr. Yu’s grandson before, which has long been spread. If the Gu family’s 3rd son is saying nonsense, it’s still okay. But if he really can tell fortune, then this cooperation has to stop.

Li Shengkai squeezed the wine glass fiercely, wishing he could stab Gu Ye to death with the glass.

Gu Ye took the time to ask, “Are you thinking to hit me? It’s really ‘an old cat sleeping on the eaves, habits passed down from generation to generation’. Your son must be yours biologically, this is still certain. He dared to commit school violence when he was just in junior high school, beating his classmate into vegetative states. You gave half a million to settle the matter but if your son murders and sets fire in the future, can you also settle it for him?

‘The upper beam is not straight, the lower ones will go aslant’[1]. What kind of eye-prickling things you gave birth to?”

The people watching the commotion around are all prominent figures. If one wants to see the teaching style of a family, one can see it from the children. Li Shengkai taught his children like this, it is conceivable that their family is not a good parent.

Li Shengkai couldn’t hold his head up anymore. With so many people looking, he really can’t do anything to Gu Ye so he could only stand trembling from anger due to his words. If eyes could kill, he would have cut Gu Ye 800 times.

Gu Ye gave Li Shengkai a cold look, and finally said to him, “You’re finished.”

If it wasn’t for Li Shengkai playing tricks with that Evil Beckoning talisman, the owner of this body should still have half a year’s lifespan. Although it was by mistake that he came into this body and got a big advantage of rebirth, Gu Ye still felt that ‘he’ was being bullied. If he doesn’t take revenge and get back to the perpetrator, he will feel uncomfortable all over.

Gu Ye walked straight past Li Shengkai to Gu Decheng, and asked with a smile, “Let me see first, has this old man drunk too much?”

Gu Decheng scolded with a smile, “Still playing around!”

Gu Decheng is in a good mood, and introduced, “This is President Yu. He is young and promising, a leader of the younger generation in the business world. If you have one-tenth of him, I will happily burn incense and offer prayers to God.”

Gu Ye regretfully said, “Then forget it, the Bodhisattva will not accept your incense.”

Gu Decheng opened his mouth but choked back what he wanted to say. He just wanted to hit the child.

Gu Ye looked at Yu Ze and said with a smile, “Mr. Yu, I still owe you 2 meals.”

Inside, Gu Ye sighed in admiration. From facial features to figures to temperament, every detail of this person makes people feel perfect and flawless. But his father wants him to be like Yu Ze, which is absolutely impossible. He just wants to lie down like a salted fish and enjoy life.

The corner of Yu Ze’s mouth twitched slightly, “How?”

Gu Ye stretched out his fingers and explained to Yu Ze, “You treated me to a meal that night. Then the next day, I asked you to go do something for me, so in total 2 meals.”

Gu Decheng grabbed Gu Ye from behind and scolded him, “Nonsense! President Yu is busy, how can he has time to eat with you?”

“I have the time.” Yu Ze took out a business card with a gentle expression, “You decide the time and place, just let me know one day in advance.”

Gu Ye took it in a daze, a little confused. Is CEO normally so easy to talk to?

Gu Decheng said helplessly, “Don’t bother him. He has a childish temper, can’t spoil him too much.”

Yu Ze smiled slightly, “He is very sensible.”

Gu Decheng glared at Gu Ye, reminding him not to mess around, and don’t ask Yu Ze out for real.

Gu Ye has already happily put the business card in his pocket. This business card is still enveloped with a purple aura. After he returned home, he will rub with his hands more, and then buy lottery tickets.

Seeing that it is almost midnight, this business banquet should end. Gu Decheng took Gu Ye with him, exchanged pleasantries with some old friends, and then left. When walking towards the parking lot, Gu Ye looked at his father resentfully. This old man is really unreasonable. When they were heading out, a big boss asked him to tell his fortune, and he did it. But his old man wouldn’t let him take the money. How can there be such a loss-making business?

Gu Decheng stared back at Gu Ye, “Uncle Lin is just teasing you, how could you really tell his fortune for real?”

Gu Ye curled his lips, “I dare to tell even when the king of heaven comes.”

Gu Decheng had a cold face and wanted about to take the opportunity to teach Gu Ye a lesson. Let him know what to say on what occasion, especially in this kind of business circle. Everyone is two-faced people. They smile at you on the surface but stab you in the back. Talking too much will be a disadvantage for him.

However, before Gu Decheng could say much, a middle-aged man in a black shirt came over, “Hello, Mr. Gu, I’m from Xuanshu Association, and I’ve been waiting for you for a long time.”

Gu Decheng frowned, “What does the Xuanshu Association want to do with me? My son is not a Taoist priest either.”

“You misunderstood,” the person from the Xuanshu Association quickly explained, “I just wanted to ask 3rd Young Master a few questions.”

Gu Ye asked back with a look of disgust, “Xuanshu Association is not my father, why should I answer any questions? I refused!”

People from Xuanshu Association: “…”

If you say that this tooth-aching attitude has nothing to do with ‘that guy’, he wouldn’t believe it if you beat him to death.

…

Gu Decheng: Don’t listen to his nonsense!

Yu Ze: Very interesting.

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[1] When the superiors (or parents) do not set a good example, the subordinates (or children) are not expected behave well.

Chapter 24 My calculation is your time will be over soon Part 1

Early the next morning, Gu Ye got up early to wash up, took his schoolbag and luggage downstairs, and put them in the lobby before going to eat.

This time the breakfast is not ‘100% mark noodles’, but dumplings. According to Mrs. Gu, “Leave home with dumplings, return home with noodles. These are egg-filling dumplings, so after eating them, you two can scram.”

Gu Ye quietly glanced at his younger brother’s bowl, and then at his own bowl, as if comparing the contents.

Seeing that, Mrs. Gu’s heart tightened, fearing that Gu Ye say nonsense like “My brother’s dumplings are bigger than mine” which would make Gu Decheng and the older sons feel uncomfortable.

Gu Ye looked at her face and smiled. Then he switched his bowl with his younger brother and said, “Our mother is biased. You have opened/leaked dumplings in your bowl.”

Gu Yang blinked. He really believed Gu Ye’s words and asked, “Really? Mom, why do you only love my brother and not me?”

Mrs. Gu couldn’t hold back the corner of her mouth, and said with disgust, “Because your brother studies better than you. You silly thing, you ate a lot but your brain didn’t grow.”

Gu Yang looked dazed, “Is this my biological mother, really?”

Mrs. Gu gave her son a prideful sneer.

Just after eating, the servant came to the restaurant door with a long brocade box in his arms. “Third Young Master, there’s a middle-aged woman outside who left you a gift just now.”

Gu Ye wiped his mouth and took the box under the doubtful eyes of the whole family. Then, under the scrutinizing eyes of his father, he quietly opened a slight gap in the box. After seeing what was inside, he immediately closed it.

“Mom, here’s a Mother’s Day gift for you.” Gu Ye swiftly passed the box on to Mrs. Gu and said with a smile, “Take it back to your room before opening it. Don’t let my dad snatch it away.”

Happily accepting the gift, Mrs. Gu turned away to peek into the box. Then her expression paused slightly, before changing into joy. She hugged the box tightly, “Mom has accepted this gift. You won’t go back on your words, right?”

Gu Ye felt the pain from the damage, but he still keeps smiling, “No.”

Inside the box was the bank card sent by Aunt Wang. It was unknown where she got the money, but they managed to pay off their debts already. The thing is that there is a pennant included in the box! His family’s old man will get high blood pressure whenever he saw pennants. In order to prevent him from doing fortune-telling, his father even wanted to send him abroad. At such a critical time, how can he dare to take the contents out?!

Gu Ye dragged his suitcase to school in great pain (of losing money) while Mrs. Gu happily sent him to the car, telling him to take good care of himself, not to catch a cold, and not to lose weight~ Who is her real biological son? He has long been forgotten.

Gu Ye sat in the car and shook his head. This is what a woman who is obsessed with money looks like, how scary!

…

Once back to school, the topic that everyone cares about is which school to apply for. Friends will get together in groups of 3 or 5 people to discuss and decide what is their 1st and 2nd choice, and what is the reason. Just like a room full of ducklings, no one is idle in the class. The monitor stood up and shouted, “Students, Mr. Yu asked the students who have arrived to hand in their application forms first! Hand it to me!”

Xia Xiang took out his form and came to Gu Ye’s side, “Have you decided where to go?”

Gu Ye took out his form to show Xia Xiang. The word ‘Capital University’ was neatly written in all the boxes, as if he really has a soft spot for it.

Zhao Pengyu came over and took a look, “My god! This is the top university in the country, where you can honor your ancestors if you pass the exam, but the minimum score is too high.” Then, he looked around. Seeing no one approached them, he asked in a low voice, “You two, with your condition, why not study abroad?”

Gu Ye whispered: “No, the capital has a lot of rich people. Fortune-telling does make money.”

Hearing that, both Zhao Pengyu and Xia Xiang became speechless. Gu Ye’s reason is too simple.

“What if you don’t pass the exam?”

“That’s just right then. I can take my younger brother with me to set up a stall under the overpass. Dear patrons, you must take care of my business.”

Xia Xiang took a pen on Gu Ye’s desk. In his own form, he wrote in the empty 1st choice column: Capital University. Then he said, “Believe in yourself, you will be able to do it, try your best.”

The corner of Gu Ye’s mouth curved up. Xia Xiang is really a contradictory person. He is timid on the outside, but very assertive inside, and he won’t rush into anything when encountered a problem. Next, he turned to look at Zhao Pengyu’s form, all 3 boxes are empty. It seems that he has no idea where to go.

Zhao Pengyu hesitated for a moment, before taking the pen in Xia Xiang’s hand. He wrote his 1st choice calmly: Capital University.

The class monitor who ran over to ask if they had finished filling their form saw Zhao Pengyu’s form. He stared at him with wide eyes, his eyes seemed to be saying, ‘Have you gone crazy? You weakling with only battle power of 5 points?’

Zhao Pengyu laughed carelessly, “People must have dreams, what if they come true?”

Gu Ye took a closer look at Zhao Pengyu’s eyes, and patted him on the shoulder with a smile, “Let’s make up lessons. In the last monthly exam, you advanced 500 ranks. This time, you need to advance 800 in the monthly exam, and then get to the top 300 in the whole school. After that, in our last monthly exam, just get the top 50. Then your result will be almost there in time for the college entrance examination.”

Zhao Pengyu waved his hand but said nothing and went back to study materials.

At noon, Teacher Yu called Gu Ye to the office, “I don’t see any problem with your 1st choice, but will you change your 2nd and 3rd choices?”

Gu Ye insisted, “No change.”

“So confident?”

“It’s not about having self-confidence, it’s about cutting off all your backups.”

Teacher Yu has never seen such a stubborn person, “Why?”

With a cold face, Gu Ye answered seriously, “Because it’s closer to home.”

The corner of Teacher Yu’s mouth twitched, and he said kindly, “But changing the other choices won’t interfere with your 1st choice. Teacher is saying this for your own good.”

Gu Ye nodded, “I understand, but I don’t want to go to any other school.”

“That’s all right then, you can go back to your class.” Teacher Yu told Gu Ye to leave and sent a message to his parents: [Your child has filled in his application form, and he wrote the same school for all the choices. Do you, as the parents know about this?]

When Gu Decheng received this WeChat message, he really hesitated whether he should directly change Gu Ye’s choices. As a father, as long as it is for his son’s own good, he doesn’t mind being a bad guy and making Gu Ye hate him. Because how many years does he have left to live? But Gu Ye’s life has just begun.

Just when Gu Decheng is hesitating, Mrs. Gu shook her head at him and persuaded, “Forget it. This child has finally started to live like a normal person so just let him be. Or are you counting on him to expand your territory in the future? Our family’s money is enough to support him for a lifetime. Besides, you may be able to send him away for 3 years, 5 years, but can you keep him from coming back for the rest of his life?”

Mrs. Gu hesitated for a moment, but still reluctantly took out the bank card that Gu Ye gave her, and put it on Gu Decheng’s desk.

“Old Third went out on the second day of the holiday and rescued a family of four. I have checked the thank-you letter and the bank card they sent, there are 1.8 million yuan in it. He called me at school and asked me to donate half of the money to charity for your good fortune (good karma). Then, the rest is left to me as a Mother’s Day gift.”

Speaking of this, Mrs. Gu wiped away touching tears while feeling the pain of losing money, “The child is doing good deeds, how can there be any retribution from heaven? I raise him from baby to now, is it easy for me? You said you want to send him away just like this, but did you even think about how I feel as a mother? People said stepmothers have no heart. If the child is gone, I don’t know what other people would say about me. Like I cannot tolerate his existence or what?”

The more Mrs. Gu talked, the more aggrieved she became. Mrs. Gu is a bit of an actor, and she had to keep Gu Ye for her happiness’ sake, but she didn’t expect her heart to be moved as she spoke. Hence, the more she cried, the more aggrieved she became. Being a stepmother is not easy, and raising children is not easy either. She was only in her twenties when she raised Gu Ye, and she had no experience at all. Gu Ye’s body was weak, and she was afraid that if she didn’t do well, she would make the Gu family unhappy by raising the child badly. But in the end, she had no right to speak at all.

When Mrs. Gu cried, Gu Decheng also felt distressed. Thinking of the smile on Gu Ye’s face, his heart softened, “Okay, okay, we won’t send him away. I’ll listen to your mother and son both. You have the right to speak, and I didn’t say that you can’t give an opinion.”

Mrs. Gu’s eyes turned red from crying, but she began to be arrogant and playful, “Then you leave my son behind!”

“Yes, yes, he’ll stay!” Gu Decheng agreed and immediately called Teacher Yu, “The 1st choice doesn’t need to be changed, but the 2nd choice, please change to Huaxia University of Science, and the 3rd choice to Huaxia Public University.”

These two schools can be ranked in the top 5 in the country, and they are also very famous in the world’s famous school rankings. Moreover, they are both in the north, relatively close to the capital, satisfying Gu Ye’s wish to go home anytime.

Teacher Yu helped to amend Gu Ye’s form before returning it to him, “This is your father’s opinion. When filling out the application form online, you should write according to this, and you can’t write the same for all three boxes.”

Gu Ye squinted his eyes and held up the list happily, “Thank you, teacher, thank you, Mom! I won!”

Teacher Yu: “…” I don’t understand what the kid is thinking.

In the next coming weeks, everyone is studying like crazy. Gu Ye also felt the pressure and placed study on top of everything else. This is just to study hard in order to go to the Capital University which is the nearest school to home. As for Xia Xiang, he will go wherever Gu Ye goes. In order not to live with ghosts, he studies desperately.

Zhao Pengyu also went crazy. Because his results were too far behind, he needed to make up more. He stopped playing ball and only slept 5 hours a night. After lights out, he would continue to read with a flashlight. The materials from Gu Ye’s brothers really came in handy, and he would finish reading a copy in a few days.

To everyone’s shock, Zhao Pengyu could learn by analogy about a topic once someone explained it to him. After doing 2 questions of the same type, he basically understood how to solve it. And so, his results climbed the ranks like flying like a rocket. His clever mind makes many good students jealous. The teachers of all subjects wanted to beat him in anger.

You are so smart, why didn’t you study properly before? Where is your IQ used?!

Gu Ye answered in place of Zhao Pengyu, “It’s used for being stupid.”

Zhao Pengyu couldn’t even protest.

Finally enduring to the end of the month, Zhao Pengyu lost several pounds but his monthly exam results shocked the whole school. As Gu Ye said, he advanced to 800 places in one breath and the top 300 in the school.

And so, until the eve of the college entrance examination, the last two crazy months have ended. All 3rd years got a day off. They returned to their dorm and pack up their things. Then the next day afternoon, they go back to school and go to the examination hall to check things out.

When Gu Ye got home, his eldest brother went abroad again, and his second brother returned to the company. The house is quiet and peaceful. Gu Ye lay down and fell asleep for a full 12 hours before Mrs. Gu woke him up to drink some soup.

Looking at the time, it is past 10.00 pm. Gu Ye looked at the sky outside and asked worriedly, “Where’s my dad? He hasn’t come back by this time?”

As soon as this is mentioned, Mrs. Gu became angry and complained distressedly, “He’s busy. There is a reception tonight, and he still drinks at such an age. His blood pressure is like being tied to a balloon, it only goes up but not down.”

Gu Ye frowned, “Give me the address, I’ll pick him up. He shouldn’t drink too much.”

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Chapter 23 Is he still alive?

Gu Ye took out the small box he carried with him from his pocket. Taking out a small cinnabar pen from inside, he squatted down and drew a formation on the ground. Then he put the talisman paper in the center of the formation. Next, Gu Ye stood up and took a step back, drawing a slightly smaller formation. After that, he gets up and draws again.

Watching from the side, Zhao Pengyu found that the formation drawn by Gu Ye is decreasing successively, getting smaller and simpler. He asked puzzledly, “Gu Ye, what are you doing?”

After drawing the last formation, Gu Ye stood up and hooked his fingers at Zhao Pengyu, beckoning him.

Zhao Pengyu walked over, “Need help?”

Gu Ye took Zhao Pengyu’s hand before pulling off the cap on the other end of the cinnabar pen to reveal a small needlepoint. Before Zhao Pengyu understood what Gu Ye wanted to do, he felt a stabbing pain at his finger, “Damn! What are you doing?”

Gu Ye explained solemnly, “Every formation needs a drop of blood. You are built stronger than me so your Yang energy must be stronger than mine. Your blood is easier to use.”

Zhao Pengyu raised his eyebrows, “I think you are simply afraid of pain.”

Being exposed, Gu Ye did not refute. He pulled Zhao Pengyu to drip a drop of blood on each of the formations he had drawn on the floor. Then he pushed Zhao Pengyu away and said, “Stay away, don’t get in the way.”

Zhao Pengyu grinds his teeth, what the hell is this kind of toxic friend?!

Standing in the smallest formation, Gu Ye narrowed his eyes, and sneered at the corner of his mouth, “Yangming Dakui, Yuanji Wenchang, Yinjing Taiji, Taishang Xuanji, listen to my orders and return to your position*!”

*[Banana: I’m not going to translate in detail regarding the chants as Banana also dunno if those are fictional or real Taoist chants #CantUnderstandLol. _(;3/ Just let it be ya]

As soon as Gu Ye finished speaking, somewhere at a distance of more than 100 kilometers away, a middle-aged man who was sleeping on the bed suddenly opened his eyes. His pair of mousy eyes the size of mung beans are wide open as he got up in disbelief.

Opening a purple box on the table, he saw a black line appear on the talisman paper inside. A wicked cold light flashed in his eyes. Immediately, the man picked up the long sword made of copper coins, picked up the talisman paper, and began to gesticulate while chanting. As the man chanted, the talisman straightened instantly from its limp state, like a spinach that had absorbed enough water.

Gu Ye tilted his head, as if sensing something. The corner of his mouth slightly curved and he took another step forward, standing in the next circle. With his cinnabar pen, he draws a few simple strokes and said, “Feigang breath, ten thousand ghosts submit, hundreds of ghosts obey my orders, return to your positions!”

The middle-aged man felt that there is dark gloomy air around him, and he felt like he is stuck in a quagmire. The spiritual energy is getting lesser, making it difficult for him to breathe due to the pressure. As the Yin wind under his feet is getting stronger, the man hurriedly chanted something and danced to a ritual. With the other free hand, he burned a talisman paper and poured the ashes into the water. He suppressed nausea and drank it, and he felt better afterward.

Gu Ye pursed his lips and took a step into another formation. The 7-star fighting formation, every step is stronger than the previous step. This formation lets the other party feel the pressure step by step, pulling them into the abyss of despair. Destroying the opponent’s will step by step, that’s the kind of game that’s fun to play.

Zhao Pengyu watched as Gu Ye muttered an incomprehensible sentence every step he took, the blood-red talisman had gradually turned yellow. Then, as Gu Ye approached nearer to the biggest formation, the talisman paper trembled with every step, as if it is afraid. The scene was really strange to watch.

The middle-aged man just managed to take a breath when he suddenly felt something pressing down on the top of his head. Sensing the ghostly aura above, he gritted his teeth and crawled under the table. He took out a mahogany wood sword that he had treasured for a long time, and stabbed upwards with all his strength. The force from above paused, and the middle-aged man’s eyes showed joy.

However, just as the man felt hopeful, the force pressing down suddenly multiplied several times, as if something heavy fell straight down on him. The mahogany wood sword snapped and the middle-aged man let out a scream. His right hand is twisted unnaturally; it is broken.

The corner of Gu Ye’s mouth curved up, and his footsteps still did not stop until he reached the 6th step. Then, Gu Ye stopped and tilted his head, as if sensing something.

Zhao Pengyu didn’t dare to disturb Gu Ye, for fear that something might happen to Gu Ye. Then, he wouldn’t be able to explain himself to the Gu family.

Gu Ye paused for more than 10 seconds, then suddenly laughed, “Tough-life thing, but Laozi has never lost a spell fight.” He finally raised his foot, stood in the last formation, and stepped on the talisman paper with one foot, “The excursion of 4 sages, 7 evil spirits follow behind. 5 heavenly emperors and demon lord, 8 caves take refuge. Axis of heaven and earth, soldiers of heaven and earth, listen to my order, return to your positions. Kill!”

As soon as the last two words are said, a gust of wind rose in the living room. In this early afternoon, Zhao Pengyu and Aunt Wang who were watching from the side felt a chill running down their back.

Gu Ye stood there quietly, and his hair fluttered without wind. In his pair of pitch-black eyes, there is a faint smile that revealed Gu Ye’s determination to win. Coupled with his exquisite face, he looked like an evil spirit that has descended into the world, giving people an inexplicable bewitching feeling.

The middle-aged man who cast the curse vomited blood and fell to the ground. All his limbs are twisted unnaturally, and broken into several pieces inside. He turned to look at the talisman paper and spat out blood again in horror. With a roll of his eyes, the man passed out.

Gu Ye picked up the talisman paper from the ground. He took a lighter from the table and burned it on the spot. After that, he reminded Aunt Wang, who is still in a state of shock, “It’s best for the family not to go out these days. Everyone should listen to the Diamond Sutra more. As for the fee, you can hold it first. Give it to me again when you have money.”

Gu Ye called Zhao Pengyu, “Let’s go to eat something delicious. I’ll order a soft-shelled turtle soup for you to nourish your body.”

Zhao Pengyu caught what Gu Ye meant and ran over, grabbing Gu Ye’s neck with both hands, “I’m not that delicate!”

“Then you will follow me to kill demons and exorcist ghosts in the future, and be my mobile blood bank?”

“In your dreams! So, this matter with Aunt Wang is resolved?”

Gu Ye glanced at Aunt Wang, “As for the rest, I can only let her solve it by herself. Maybe her friend just took a fancy to her life and wanted to take away her good luck. Unexpectedly, she found a vicious master, who wanted to kill Aunt Wang’s family to realize his ulterior motive.”

“That master, how is he now?”

Gu Ye casually shrugged, “It’s not important.”

Hearing that, Zhao Pengyu felt speechless. What the hell it means by ‘it’s not important’?

When the two young men came to the elevator, they happened to meet a girl in her early twenties who just came home with a bag on her back. Zhao Pengyu bared his teeth and teased, “Yo~ Freshman big sister is back?”

The girl glared at Zhao Pengyu angrily, scolding ‘little rascal’ under her breath. She swung the backpack on her shoulders, almost slapped Zhao Pengyu in his face, and walked away with a temper.

Embarrassed, Zhao Pengyu said, “Her temper is still so big!”

Gu Ye raised his eyebrows, “Aunt Wang’s daughter?”

Zhao Pengyu spread his hands, “Yes. I think I have forgotten how I offended her when I was a child, but she kept calling me little rascal whenever she sees me.”

Gu Ye smiled, “Maybe you were naughty when you were young, and you did some bastardly to her, and you forgot all about it.”

Hearing that, Zhao Pengyu scratched his head, feeling really guilty.

…

Hang Siwen knocked on the door, and it lets Aunt Wang recover from the shock just now. Opening the door, she saw her daughter, and asked in surprise, “Why did you come back so soon? Didn’t you go to the hospital?”

“Detour from the east, it’s closer to home. Dad called me and said he’s fine except for a broken arm so I decided to come back to see you first.”

Aunt Wang saw that her daughter’s expression is not very good, and asked in concern, “Why is your little face looking like this? Are you sick?”

At the mention of this, Hang Siwen hugged her mother’s neck in fear, “You almost lost your daughter. Fortunately, I listened to your words. By the way, where is the master? I have to pay homage to him.”

“The master has left. It’s not very long ago, so you should have seen him at the elevator.”

“I only saw that rascal Zhao Pengyu and a beautiful boy that he abducted.”

Aunt Wang helplessly replied, “That little handsome boy is the master you are looking for.”

Hang Siwen dropped her bag in shock, “His face is so small! Very ‘shou-looking’!!”

Aunt Wang felt speechless, what do girls focus on nowadays? Boys of this age are growing, so they are ‘thin’.

*[Banana: The word ‘thin/瘦’ has the same pronunciation as the word uke/bottom/shou]

The mother and daughter went to the hospital together to see Mr. Hang. After making sure there is nothing wrong with her husband, Aunt Wang called the driver to send her straight to a flower shop.

Entering the door of the flower shop, Aunt Wang closed the door casually. The female owner of the shop is a beautiful woman with a classic appearance. She has a slender figure, wearing a blue cheongsam. As soon as she saw Aunt Wang, she ran towards the door enthusiastically, “Why are you here at this time? You have free time?”

Aunt Wang had a cold face. She waited for the woman to come to her side before raising her fleshy hand, and slapping her face, “I’m not free, I should be in the hospital right now!”

Aunt Wang is chubby and has great strength. The female owner’s thin body staggered by the force of Aunt Wang’s slap, and almost fell on the ground. She covered her face and looked at Aunt Wang in shock, her eyes seemed to say, are you crazy?

Seeing the woman’s innocent-looking face, Aunt Wang is so angry that she wanted to tear her apart, “How have I treated you all these years? When your parents don’t have money for medical treatment, I lent it to you! When you don’t have a place to live, I helped you rent a house! When you want to open a flower shop, I rented out this shop of mine to you at a low price, and helped you make contacts! Even when you were bullied when you were a child, I would fight back for you, why did you want to kill my whole family?”

The woman burst into tears, and asked aggrievedly, “What nonsense are you talking about? How could I harm you?”

“I don’t need to hear your quibble. Your handwriting, I have seen it since I was a child. It has been more than 40 years. We have been friends for more than 40 years!” Aunt Wang’s eyes turned red with sadness, “I just came to tell you about this store that I opened for you. It’s my storefront so I’m taking it back. I’ll send someone to check it tomorrow at noon so take your flowers and get lost.”

As soon as the woman heard that her terrible deed had been discovered, her face immediately turned pale. She subconsciously grabbed Aunt Wang, not daring to let go of this childhood friend that she had been relying on, but couldn’t find an excuse to say.

Aunt Wang flung the woman away in disgust. Opening the door, she took the potted fortune tree from the driver. The pot has been broken by Gu Ye, and the soil left by the roots smells fishy. “I’m returning this potted flower to you. I can’t call the police on the grounds that you cursed my whole family, but I can keep an eye on you from now on. In the remaining 50 years, you must be cautious (and don’t do anything bad). Otherwise, I will create an opportunity for you to redeem your sins.”

The woman is finally scared. Her future life is cut off, so how will she live in the future? She rushed up and hugged Aunt Wang’s leg, and cried, “Meijuan, I admit my mistake. I was blinded by my feelings. This kind of thing is just feudal superstition, how could it work? I’m just jealous that you live so well, while I’m miserable. We grew up together, I look better than you, studied better than you, but why do you get to marry better than me? I just didn’t think properly at that moment! I just wanted your good luck, I just wanted to live a life like yours!”

Aunt Wang felt cold in her heart, “You wanted my life, but what should I do?”

“I… I will treat you as well as you did to me!” The woman cried and pulled Aunt Wang, “For the sake of our years of friendship, please forgive me this time. I won’t believe in feudal superstition in the future, I won’t be jealous of you anymore!”

Hearing that, Aunt Wang just felt that it is funny, “Feudal superstition? Do you really think that it doesn’t work? Not to mention whether it works or not, just that thought alone makes me sick. Where do you have the face to ask me to forgive you? I am too kind to you. Too kind that it makes you feel that it’s okay to take away all my things.” Aunt Wang raised her foot in disgust, but couldn’t release herself from the woman’s grip so the driver came to drag her away with a cold face.

Aunt Wang wiped her wet eyes, and said indifferently, “There are many poor people out there, but one can’t be without principle. I have already informed your husband. Go back with him, and live a good life.”

“No! No! He will beat me to death! Why are you so cruel?!” The woman cried pitifully like pear blossoms in the rain and her body is covered with crushed flowers and soil. She pounced towards Aunt Wang like crazy but was pulled by the driver halfway and pushed aside.

Seeing Aunt Wang walking away proudly, the woman crawled forward two steps with both hands and feet, but she still didn’t manage to touch even Aunt Wang’s clothes. She covered her face in despair, trembling all over. Compared with the shock of losing her source of income and having no shelter, she is more afraid of her husband. That’s a demon, he’ll hound her like gangrene, sucking her to the last drop of blood. She lived in domestic violence every day and finally managed to escape. She couldn’t believe that Aunt Wang would treat her like this, and she didn’t dare to think about how she would live in the future.

Trembling, she took out her mobile phone and found Aunt Wang’s number. She wanted to pray for another chance. She wants her life like that, yes. She wanted to exchange her life with her. Is it wrong for her to want to live a good life? Didn’t Wang Meijuan appear in front of her, well and unharmed? Obviously, nothing happened, why did she treat her like this?

It’s a pity that the call didn’t connect as she has been blocked. Their friendship has completely broken.

The woman went back to the flower shop and cried a lot. With a heartbroken heart, she dialed a series of numbers, “Hello? Master, the spell last time is discovered. Is there any way to remedy it? You promised me, as long as I give you money and her birthdate characters, you can let me absorb her good luck and live a good life. What should I do now? What should I do?!”

“What should you do? Nothing. This guy couldn’t even take care of himself now, how can he save you?”

This sloppy voice is obviously different from the master she saw last time, so the woman asked vigilantly, “Who are you?”

The other side answered seriously, “Instant Noodle Superman (it’s like Power Rangers).”

…

Two young men in black trench coats are in the fortune teller’s small shop. After hanging up the woman’s call, they turned to look at the fortune teller’s miserable appearance. They kicked him in disgust, “No zuo no die! See, met a powerful opponent, didn’t you? Btw, hello, mxthxrfxckxr. We are from the Xuanshu Association, please go back with us to accept the investigation.”

The other colleague looked more decent. He said, “He can’t hear you anymore. His opponent didn’t want his life, it’s just that this lesson is harsh. He won’t be able to work in this line of work in the future anymore.”

“He deserves it! Look at the things he raises. He uses human life to raise the little devil and then sells the little devil to make money. Black-hearted bastard, he must have several lives in his hands. Eh? What is this?”

The two found a cracked talisman on the altar. What surprised them was not the viciousness of the spell, but the way the spell now appeared. It seemed to have been crushed by something, full of golden veins. Such a result can only be caused by being pressured by very fierce things.

The man who called himself Instant Noodle Superman became serious, “The person who took care of him actually used this method. Do you feel familiar?”

His colleague carefully packed the spell, “Take it back and let Lu Yun appraise it. There may be other descendants from his sect.”

“It won’t be everyone from that sect all have the same personality?”

“If so, the management will have a headache.”

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Chapter 22 Don’t be cowardly, just do it!

Zhao Pengyu knocked on the door of Aunt Wang’s house. Seeing a slightly chubby aunt opening the door, Gu Ye’s expression became colder, and it could be seen that he is getting angry. Such a strong black evil spirit. If he came 2 days later, there would be a massacre in this family. This misfortune was not formed naturally at all, it was secretly done by people in his profession.

Gu Ye hates this kind of person the most. Those who don’t have the ability but spout nonsense to cheat people deserve a beating. Those who have the ability but used it to harm others just fking deserve death.

Judging from Aunt Wang’s facial reading, Zhao Pengyu’s description of her is correct. This aunt is a kind-hearted person with a straight temper and is very loyal to her friends. But her eyeballs are slightly protruding and the bridge of her nose is uneven, which shows that this aunt is not very good at handling the relationship between friends. Kindness makes her easy to trust friends and be deceived by people around her, hence the situation she is in today.

“This is the little master that your mother told me about? Please come in.” Aunt Wang didn’t sleep all night so her face is pale and her hair is a bit messy. It could be seen that she had just come back from outside, and she didn’t even have time to take off her coat. Hastily invited the two of them in, she arranged for the nanny to make tea for them.

Zhao Pengyu pulled Aunt Wang to the sofa and sat down, “Aunt Wang, don’t go busying around with the tasks. We just ate a meal so we are not thirsty. You should sit down and rest for a while. How is Uncle now?”

“Fortunately, it’s just a broken arm,” Aunt Wang said with a sense of gratitude that he survived the catastrophe. “Falling down from such a high bridge and he managed to survive. It’s God’s blessing.”

While Zhao Pengyu is talking to Aunt Wang, Gu Ye had already looked around the living room of this house and the decoration made him feel a headache. This messy aura, it seems that many masters have come to see the feng shui. It’s like this master asked to put a bottle on one side while another master asked to put a mirror on the other. There are also some Taoist runes painted on the steps upstairs. The entire arrangement looks just like an altar. Anyone who makes it like this at home may really attract ghosts even if they didn’t do anything (bad).

Looking at Aunt Wang again, Gu Ye can see that when the black qi in the house tried to seep into her body, most of it got blocked by the light glowing from an item on her neck. This is why all her family members had accidents while Aunt Wang didn’t.

Gu Ye asked directly, “Aunt Wang, can I see what you are wearing around your neck?”

“Yes, it’s just a small Buddha statue,” Aunt Wang took off the pendant from her neck and handed it to Gu Ye. “It’s not a valuable thing. It’s a relic left to me by my grandma, and I’ve been wearing it since I was a child.”

Gu Ye didn’t take it but said, “It saved your life. You have a predestined relationship with Buddha so after this is over, remember to go to the temple to burn some incense.”

“Oh, alright!” Aunt Wang got stunned for a moment before realizing what Gu Ye meant. She quickly put the thing on her neck again, promising, “I will definitely offer incense to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas later, and donate incense money!”

The corner of Gu Ye’s mouth twitched slightly but he continued, “Your husband’s ancestors were in the shipbuilding business along the coast. They made their fortune 30 years ago, and then came to the mainland to change their profession to making children’s toys, right?”

“Yes.” Aunt Wang is dumbfounded by Gu Ye’s words. Her husband’s ancestor was indeed a shipbuilder. But this was mentioned after he came to the mainland and this happened decades ago. This little master actually calculated these, it’s amazing!

Gu Ye added, “Your family is honest and kind, and has never done anything bad. Generally speaking, your fate should not be over yet.”

“What does that mean?”

“It means that someone wants to kill your family of four. Both your children are unlucky, your husband’s business is not doing good recently, and something even happened yesterday. Doing the math, you probably lost more than 10 million yuan in business in the past 3 months and the family is already in debt.”

Hearing that, Aunt Wang’s complexion changed and her expression flustered. It’s all correct!

The family is indeed in a bind. In order not to affect the business outside, no one told anyone about this matter. But this little master has calculated this, it’s amazing! Strangely amazing and terrifying!

Gu Ye smiled, “Aunt Wang, do you believe me?”

At this point, Aunt Wang can only answer nervously, “I trust you! If master has something to say, just say it.”

“It’s enough if you believe me. Call your daughter now and ask her to come back from the East Outer Ring road.”

Aunt Wang thought of her daughter. When she knew that her father had an accident, she rushed back overnight and told her that she had already got into a taxi. According to her daughter’s temperament, she will go to see her father first. From the airport to the hospital, she would have to take the West Outer Ring road. Aunt Wang’s heart skipped a beat. When she thought that something would happen to her daughter, she trembled in fright and took out her mobile phone to call her daughter.

When Aunt Wang’s daughter Hang Siwen heard her mother suddenly asked her to change the route, she said helplessly, “I will arrive at the hospital in 20 minutes. It takes another hour if I make the detour.”

Aunt Wang is so anxious that she is about to cry, “My daughter, listen to your mother. Take the detour! You have to take the East Outer Ring road!”

Hang Siwen felt tired, “Did you invite another fortune teller again? What age is this? How many times have I told you that those masters are all liars? We have to believe in science.”

“Listen to your mother, take a detour!” Aunt Wang started to get angry, “This little master really knows how to calculate. Even the things about your father and ancestors can be counted clearly. Don’t talk nonsense with me, take a detour! Your mother won’t hurt you!”

Hearing her mother hang up the phone in the taxi, Hang Siwen is so angry that she threw her phone into her bag. “It’s already late, why need to detour?! She is just like ‘turning to any doctor one can find when critically ill’.”

The taxi driver is amused by the conversation, “How many people can really tell fortunes in this day and age? Those so-called masters will come to your house to take a look, and then they can deduce from the details what is happening in your home. These tricks are specially designed to deceive old men, old ladies, and housewives.”

“I know right?” Hang Siwen said angrily, “This kind of liar should be arrested and educated!”

While speaking, they reached the road turning to the East Outer Ring road. The driver asked for confirmation, “So you still want to take the detour?”

Seeing that they are about to arrive at the hospital, Hang Siwen hesitated for a moment. But then, she looked discouraged and said, “Forget it, I’ll listen to her and take a detour. Else, she might find out and it make her angry again.”

The driver happily took a detour, he can earn another 200 yuan.

As soon as the taxi turned around, he heard a harsh crash behind him. The driver looked in the rearview mirror and his face turned pale with fright, “My god!”

Hang Siwen also looked back to see what happened behind them. Her eyes widened in horror, and her whole body turned cold. On the road they were supposed to go, a fuel tanker crashed into the fence at the side of the road, and the front of the truck is already on fire. The two drivers jumped out of the truck and frantically sprayed the fire extinguishing agent.

Just imagine, if they took that road, they will inevitably be hit by that truck. At that time, don’t talk about their condition after being hit, in case their car caught fire as well, it will quickly burn its way to the oil tank. There won’t be much time for people to put out the fire.

Neither of them spoke for a full 5 minutes.

The taxi driver finally broke the silence and said, “Well, miss, can you scan my code and add me as a friend? Then later tell me where your mother found the master.”

Hang Siwen swallowed in shock, “En.”

Aunt Wang called her son next because Gu Ye told her not to let her son head east within this month. Due to a problem with the family’s business, Aunt Wang’s son left the house a few days ago in order to raise funds. After hanging up the phone, Aunt Wang felt uneasy, fearing that something would happen if one of her children didn’t listen to her.

Gu Ye waited for Aunt Wang to breathe a sigh of relief before asking, “Who did you give your family’s birthdate characters to?”

“Birthdate characters?” Aunt Wang thought for a while and said, “A friend asked me for it. A friend I grew up with, but it’s impossible to have anything to do with her. Because before she asked for it, my family was already unlucky.”

“A person’s aura will constantly change with the outside world, it’s normal to be unlucky once in a while. Don’t always complain, the more you complain, the weaker your aura will be.”

“I did complain a few times to that friend. She said she will go to pray and request for a peace talisman together so I gave her the birthdate characters.”

Aunt Wang firmly believed in her friend and said, “It must have nothing to do with her, she won’t harm me. We are childhood friends. Her family is poor, and I often help her. Even the flower shop she is running now, I was the one who got someone to help her started it.”

Gu Ye smiled and didn’t persuade Aunt Wang. He pointed to a lot of random things in the house and said, “Throw them all away. More decorations don’t mean the effect will be better.”

“Okay, I’ll throw it all away in a while. I will change it as you say.” Aunt Wang already regarded Gu Ye as a real god.

“Can I go upstairs and see around?”

“Yes, no problem. Upstairs is my bedroom with my husband, as well as my husband’s study room and a tea room. Come with me.”

The moment they reached upstairs, the strong evil qi made Gu Ye rub his eyes.

Zhao Pengyu didn’t have spiritual eyes so he couldn’t see anything. Concerned, he asked Gu Ye, “Did you sleep well?”

Gu Ye shook his head, his eyes are irritated and a little uncomfortable. He looked around upstairs, and his eyes are fixed on the potted fortune tree standing in the corner. This tree is already as tall as a person, with luxuriant branches and leaves, and the dark green leaves are crowded together. It seemed to be well maintained. Only after Gu Ye squatted down that he can see the flower pot covered by leaves.

Seeing Gu Ye stopping at the plant, Aunt Wang thought of what Gu Ye said about birthdate characters before. Feeling uneasy, she asked, “This potted tree is given by that friend who took away my family’s birthdate characters. Is there a problem?”

Gu Ye smiled. Rolling up his sleeves, he carried the potted flower up from the ground. Just when Aunt Wang is amazed at how strong he was, Gu Ye threw the flower pot on the ground. With a ‘crash’, the sound of the flowerpot breaking, a strong, nauseating bloody smell filled the entire living room.

Aunt Wang covered her mouth as she watched Gu Ye swiped the dirt twice, and pulled out an oil-paper bag from the soil. He opened it and revealed a blood-red talisman, which is not very auspicious at first glance. There is also a piece of paper inside, which listed the hand-written birthdate characters of her family of four. Seeing this, Aunt Wang froze in a daze. Her eyes widened, and she shivered in disbelief. The handwriting is so familiar.

Gu Ye tapped the talisman paper and glanced at Aunt Wang who couldn’t believe her eyes. He said, “It has the same effect as the ‘Evil Beckoning Household Talisman’, but it is more poisonous than that. Not only can this thing kill your whole family, but there is also a function that can suck the good luck of your whole family and transfer it to the caster themselves.”

Aunt Wang’s face turned pale, and her eyes are faintly red. She felt very cold and shivered all over. At this moment, she could only say, “Why? Why is this happening?”

“The matter between your friends is beyond my control. I just want to do something else.” Gu Ye held the talisman paper and sneered, “Foul stuff, but quite poisonous.”

Zhao Pengyu supported the weak Aunt Wang, feeling that people’s hearts are unpredictable and chilling. He lowered his head and asked Gu Ye who is still squatting, “Do you want to destroy it?”

“Of course, we also have to mess with the bastard who draws such harmful spells.” Gu Ye narrowed his eyes, and his voice became colder, “He probably doesn’t know that there is still a psycho like me in this world. Using evil to fight evil, the cowards will die, while the tough ones will live. Their life and death all depend on their own ability.”

Zhao Pengyu got startled by these words and broke into a cold sweat. Isn’t this just trying to use their life to fight? Why not use skills ah?!

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Chapter 21 Someone wants their whole family to die

Mrs. Zhao’s friend’s surname is Wang, and Zhao Pengyu always calls her Aunt Wang. Aunt Wang’s family background is average and is very different from Mrs. Zhao’s background. But when the two were in college, they miraculously be friends together and have maintained a close friendship for so many years. The main reason is this aunt has a good personality! She is kind-hearted, and she treated her friends sincerely. She is just an honest-to-God tomboy, a tomboy who can do anything for her friends.

Later, Aunt Wang married well. Both husband and wife are very capable, and the family managed to accumulate a small amount of assets/property. Their family has been living smoothly, but recently not sure what happened, they encountered all kinds of bad luck.

Once Mrs. Zhao reminded her, Aunt Wang knew who she was talking about. She asked, “That little master? Can he help? It’s really the third young master of the Gu family who calculated the problem? Gu Decheng’s son?”

“Yes, it’s amazing. So many masters failed to save my son’s life but Gu Ye rescued Pengyu as soon as he came. This child is not like the rumors at all. His eyes are so bright, his smile is so beautiful, and he also speaks politely.” In short, in Mrs. Zhao’s view, Gu Ye is full of positive points and perfection.

However, Aunt Wang is still a little doubtful, “But before this, so many people talked about the rumor that he was not smart enough, how could he suddenly just know how to calculate and do fortune telling now?”

“Before this? It’s probably to get his father’s attention. After all, his father was too busy to take care of him.”

After all, there are a lot of twists and turns in the wealthy family. Having a child who has been pretending to be a fool for more than 20 years doesn’t sound impossible. The richer you are, the more people you have in the family. Hence, the more complicated your family is, the more troubles you have at home.

Mrs. Zhao is not a person who likes to inquire about gossip. She only believes in her own eyes when looking at people, and she has never misjudged people over the years.

“In short, this kid is trustworthy. If you believe me, you can find him for help. If you don’t believe me, you can just forget about it. Also, even if you want to invite him over, you have to ask in advance if he is free.”

Once Mrs. Zhao said that her friend had nothing to worry about, “Okay, I believe you. Can you help me to ask him if he can come? Money is not a problem.”

At this moment, Gu Ye is lying at the door of the study, looking pitifully at Mrs. Gu who is studying business. Recently Mrs. Gu started to learn how to do business and her beauty shop really made money. This made her even more energetic and focused on her business. Gu Ye had had enough sleep in the afternoon, so he came to interrupt her study; annoying her to the max.

“Mom, I have something to say but I don’t know if I should tell you.” Gu Ye lay at the door, hesitating to speak.

When Mrs. Gu heard how Gu Ye sounded hesitant, she had no choice but to stop what she was doing, “What’s wrong? Are you short of money?”

Gu Ye dawdled into the study, then closed the door with an aggrieved expression on his face.

Mrs. Gu couldn’t help standing up, “You didn’t do anything bad, did you? Did you make your father angry?”

Gu Ye pursed his lips, “I recently looked at my father’s face and calculated that he will have ‘peach blossom’ luck within this year.”

*Peach blossom luck means good luck with love and relationship

Hearing that, Mrs. Gu’s heart skipped a beat, “Impossible, your dad is already 60!”

“But he doesn’t look that old, and he is rich!” Gu Ye took Mrs. Gu’s hand, with an uneasy expression on his face, “Mom, you can’t relax your vigilance. Society doesn’t lack wealthy old men in their sixties who still marry new young wives. I know that my dad is not that kind of person. He is very devoted to you, but we can’t against a vixen coming to snatch him away! I don’t want another little mom. I’m already 19, so if there is a stepmother who is not a few years older than me, neither my brother nor I can hold our heads up at school.”

Mrs. Gu’s breath stilled for a moment. When she thought of the possibility of being c u c k ed, the flame of her fury rose 2.8 meters in an instant, “Who dares?!”

Gu Ye lowered his face, filled with righteous indignation, “Nowadays many girls don’t want to find a job after graduating from college so they went and become mistresses for old men. These girls have endless means to achieve their purpose and use everything to the extreme. Examples, coincidental meetings, pretending to fall down, pretending to be dizzy, faking pregnancy, and even saying that they had memory loss when they are desperate. Don’t you agree that these are scary?”

Thinking about it, Mrs. Gu’s complexion gradually became ugly. Indeed, she has heard many such rumors. Some old men are shameless, not only adopting a young girl as their mistress, but several at the same time. But their family’s old man, Mr. Gu, even though he is 60 years old, he has no gray hair yet so he looks like a handsome old man. Also, he has the demeanor of a mature man and most importantly is rich, which is exactly the goal of a girl who doesn’t study well at school.

Gu Ye narrowed his eyes and continued, “If something like this really happens, who can care about you? My eldest brother probably goes home like twice a year, and for my second brother, can he do anything about this? He was not under your care when he was young. It’s only my brother and I who were raised by you from young. We will take care of you when you are old, and we will hit back at whoever dares to bully you!”

Mrs. Gu got taken aback by Gu Ye’s sudden confession of filial piety. This sentence really touched her heart, and she was so moved that she wanted to hug this son.

“If you put it that way, then Mom won’t worry anymore when I get old.”

Mrs. Gu had actually thought about this issue a long time ago. When they are old, Gu Decheng will pass away earlier than her. But her son is just a silly child who can’t stands up by himself, and only knows how to play. The eldest and the second child must be the most successful ones, but unfortunately, they don’t have much affection for her. On the surface, their etiquette and behavior might be perfect, but in fact, they were quite distant from her. If Gu Ye treats her well, the eldest and second child will not abandon her mother and her son alone for the sake of their younger brother.

On this point, Gu Ye really didn’t lie to Mrs. Gu. After all, he was raised by her. Even if there is no blood relationship between them, Gu Ye will not be a bastard to abandon Mrs. Gu. As long as Mrs. Gu doesn’t harm him, it’s his duty as the adopted son to provide for the elderly.

Now, Mrs. Gu is moved by what Gu Ye said. Squinting her eyes, Mrs. Gu secretly thought about how to guard against the vixen, “Did you really calculate out your dad’s peach blossom luck in relationship within this year?”

Gu Ye nodded, “Fortune tellers can’t lie.” He added in his heart: But as a son, I can!

Mrs. Gu lowered her face, and said solemnly, “Okay, Mother knows what to do. You are indeed Mother’s good son.”

Gu Ye felt guilty for being praised. In his heart, he knelt down and kowtowed to his stepmother, silently promising that when she is old, he will give her countless little money that she likes most.

At this moment, Gu Ye saw Mrs. Gu’s face and suddenly discovered something unusual. After seeing what it is actually, the corners of Gu Ye’s mouth twitched. Is this for real?! Such a dog blood plot twist?

“What’s on my face?” Mrs. Gu covered her face, a little frightened by Gu Ye’s expression. Since she knew that Gu Ye could do fortune-telling, she only wanted to hear the good, not the bad.

Gu Ye said seriously, “Mom, you will get rich this year.”

Mrs. Gu twitched the corner of her mouth in disbelief. Aiya, she suddenly couldn’t control her happiness.

But Gu Ye continued, “Unfortunately, you have a peach blossom misfortune.”

Hearing that, Mrs. Gu’s heart skipped a beat. She asked exasperatedly, “Can’t I just enjoy my day normally?” Her husband has peach blossom luck, while she has peach blossom misfortune. She just wants to live a good life.

Gu Ye told Mrs. Gu with a distressed face, “Don’t talk to strange men. The guy doesn’t really like you, he was arranged to set you up.”

Mrs. Gu understood what Gu Ye means instantly. She raised her eyebrows with a domineering look and said, “Humph, want to steal my money? They should throw away that thought!”

Gu Ye couldn’t help laughing because his little stepmother is too cooperative. He was thinking about how to persuade her into listening to him, but he didn’t expect her to think about money matters which caused her to become anxious.

“Just pay attention to your surrounding.” Gu Ye quietly opened the door, “I’m leaving now. If you meet the guy, remember to tell me and I’ll get him.”

Mrs. Gu sneered proudly, “Don’t worry. Your father won’t have a chance to find you another young stepmother, and no one can cheat me of my money. Your mother will always be your mother.”

After Gu Ye went out the door, he turned his head back blankly, and proceed to rummage through his pocket. Just when Mrs. Gu thought Gu Ye is going to take out something to give her, Gu Ye pulled out his hand and pinched his two fingers together. With a serious face, he made a ‘heart’ gesture and said, “Mom, good luck. I love you yo.”

Mrs. Gu: “…”

This brat!

Gu Ye almost couldn’t hold back when he turned around. Then he burst out laughing, his mom is so easy to persuade. After tonight, in order to keep her position as Mrs. Gu, his mother will not let him, an ally, go abroad. During pillow talk at night, his father will hesitate, because his father’s only weakness is that ‘his ears are soft’ in front of his wife.

As for the peach blossom misfortune, it’s actually a rotten peach blossom. Since opening the beauty shop, Mrs. Gu has been taking great care of her appearance. She is good-looking to start with and now she’s also rich, so she will inevitably cause dubious people to lure her away. But it’s all great now, because whoever gets close to her will make her think that they just want to cheat her of money, so his little stepmother will tear those people apart.

Thinking of the stability of the family and his happy life in the future, Gu Ye went back to his room in a good mood. Jumping onto his bed, he hugged a pillow and laughed: Perfect!

At this moment, the phone buzzed under the pillow. Gu Ye took it out and took a look. It’s from Zhao Pengyu, and there were 4 missed calls. Gu Ye quickly answered, “I’m sorry, I didn’t bring my phone with me just now.”

“Frick! I thought you were captured by a female ghost!”

Hearing that, Gu Ye is speechless before saying, “I’m not you.”

“Stop, let’s not quarrel. I have something serious to say, are you free tomorrow? I have an aunt, and I would like to invite you to see her family’s feng shui. There have been a lot of troubles in her family recently.”

Gu Ye casually picked up ‘Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology Answering Questions Like A Dog’ on the bedside, and said with a deep expression, “Whether I’m free or not, it depends on when you pay me. How much time I’m available depends on how much you pay.”

Zhao Pengyu told his mother directly, “Mom, you have to let Aunt Wang know in advance that Gu Ye is doing charity recently. He needs money, a lot of money.”

When Mrs. Zhao heard this, she immediately took out her mobile phone to send a message to her friend. She couldn’t help but say something to her son, “Look at Gu Ye, and then look at you, sigh.”

Zhao Pengyu felt exasperated by the remark. Like, what’s wrong with him? Say it out!

Zhao Pengyu made an appointment with Gu Ye to pick him up at his home at 9.00 am tomorrow and accompany him to Aunt Wang’s house to see the feng shui. However, no one expected that something would happen to Aunt Wang’s house just this night.

In the past 3 months, Aunt Wang’s family has been really unlucky, and blood is spilled. First, her husband’s business suffered damages one after another, and then her son got hit on the head by a flower pot and has to stay in the hospital bed for half a month. Next, her daughter went climbing a mountain with a friend and encountered a landslide, almost leaving her life there.

The fatal misfortune just kept coming one after another, not to mention the trivial ones.

They asked a lot of masters to check their feng shui and spent a lot of money on remodeling the house. It worked in the first few days, but something happened again after a few days. On the night Zhao Pengyu set the appointment with Gu Ye, Aunt Wang’s husband was on the way home and his car brakes suddenly failed to work, causing the car to fly directly off the bridge. If it weren’t for the crowds around and the firefighters arriving in time, he would have died.

At dawn the next day, Aunt Wang couldn’t help but call Mrs. Zhao, urging her in a broken voice, “When will the little master come? Hurry up and invite him over. I really don’t know which Bodhisattva I offended. Why do I feel like I got possessed by bad luck?!”

Gu Ye received Zhao Pengyu’s urging call and knew that human life was at stake. Hence, he quickly gets up in a daze and found that he is the last one in the family to get up. The whole family has the habit of getting up early and exercising except him. Gu Ye suddenly felt that he is just like a *salted fish.

[Banana: The word salted/咸 has the same pronunciation as idle/闲. It’s just a play of words]

Gu Decheng looked at Gu Ye with a complicated gaze for a while. Recalling what his wife said last night, he sighed. The eldest son is far away abroad, while the second son does not go home often. There are only 2 children left, and if one is driven out, he may not see him again in the future. Gu Decheng also wants to have a full house of children and grandchildren years later, and he doesn’t want to be a lonely old man.

But Gu Decheng couldn’t bear not saying anything, so he called Gu Ye who wanted to run away to his side.

“I heard from your elder brother that you don’t want to study abroad with him?”

Gu Ye nodded obediently.

“Why? Tell me the truth.”

Gu Ye hesitated for a moment, then smiled, “I don’t have the ambitions of my elder brother and my second brother, nor do I have their business talent. So, it’s fine to just leave the future of the Gu family to them. I just want to go home and see you two often. After all, you are over 60 and approaching retirement age.”

Gu Decheng didn’t expect Gu Ye to say such a thing. He almost got emotional and say ‘Do whatever you want’. But after calming down, he still kept a cold face, and said to Gu Ye like a strict father, “You will continue to engage in those feudal superstitions if you stay in China. It’s better to go abroad with your elder brother to study. I’m still young, and I don’t need you to be filial by my side now.”

Gu Ye suppressed a smile, “But, your eyes are telling me this: Don’t go ~ stay back~ don’t leave old father behind!”

Gu Ye’s naughty tone is like how Er Kang is trying to keep Zi Wei at his side[1], which is extremely exaggerated.

Gu Decheng blushed and choked out a sentence: “…Farts!”

Gu Ye jumped back exaggeratedly, and said in horror, “You actually swore?! That’s terrifying!”

At this moment, President Gu wanted to beat his son again, but Gu Ye saw that things are not looking good, so he ran away. Gu Decheng was so angry, but this outburst simply make him lose all his temper. The corners of his mouth curved up as he shook his head helplessly, and he scolded with a smile, “This brat!”

Before breakfast is finished, Zhao Pengyu arrived at the door. Due to his wearing like an unreliable second-rich generation last time, it caused him to be scrutinized by the elder brother of the Gu family. This time Zhao Pengyu learned his lesson. He wore a British-style T-shirt and flat glasses, pretending to be a school top scorer.

Gu Decheng saw that the young man looked familiar and subconsciously gave him another look. Hence, Zhao Pengyu immediately revealed his identity. Gu Decheng has met his parents, and both of them are cultivated people. According to the Zhao family’s etiquette, Zhao Pengyu should also be a good boy.

When Zhao Pengyu seriously asked Gu Ye out to study together, Papa Gu didn’t think much and just let Gu Ye go.

After both of them left the house, Zhao Pengyu took off his glasses, and asked anxiously, “How is it? My disguise is not bad, right?”

Gu Ye pondered for a moment how likely his father would not beat him up if he knew he had been cheated someday. The answer is zero.

Gu Ye felt despair and didn’t want to praise Zhao Pengyu.

…

Two hours later, they finally arrived at the community where Aunt Wang’s home is located. This is a high-end community with a quiet environment. The entire community is made out of 6-story buildings where 1 household occupies 2 floors (Bi-level apartment). Generally, there are 3 households in each building. Although the Wang family is not as good as the Gu family and the Zhao family to stay in a big villa, it can be seen from the residence that Aunt Wang’s family is also considered rich.

Zhao Pengyu whispered in the elevator: “Aunt Wang’s husband was in a car accident last night and almost died. It caused Aunt Wang to have a breakdown last night. They have a good marriage relationship and a good temper.”

Gu Ye’s expression turned cold from the moment he got into the elevator, “Does Aunt Wang live on the 3rd floor?”

Zhao Pengyu looked at Gu Ye as if he is looking at a god, “This kind of thing also can be calculated? Dude, you are amazing!”

“It’s not from calculation, it’s what I saw.” Gu Ye’s tone became colder and colder, and he said in a deep voice: “This black-colored evil spirit… It’s not a matter of feng shui problem, it’s a curse. Someone wants their whole family to die.”

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Banana: Random but I have something to say about the raw for this novel. You guys might not know but Banana do purchase the whole raw from jj official website for all my project novels.

On the other hand, due to jj’s anti-theft function, it’s not possible to copy the entire text from the chapter itself because some characters are actually pictures a.k.a fake characters. We used to have a method to copy it via tampermonkey but unfortunately, the script is outdated and no longer usable to copy purchased VIP chapters in jj.

Banana still can continue the translation by using raw from ehem site (and then compare with the official raw from time to time) but if the author updated anything in her chapters, Banana’s copy of the raw won’t have it. There shouldn’t be much difference to be honest, but Banana thought to let y’all know just in case :v

[1] A scene from the drama [My Fair Princess] that made it to the list of memes.

Chapter 20 If you force me too much, I will start summoning soul

When Zhao Pengyu saw Gu Sen’s expression, he stopped pretending to be cool. He took off his sunglasses and got out of the car. Seeing that Gu Sen and Gu Ye had somewhat similar eyebrows and eyes, Zhao Pengyu instantly acted obediently and asked, “You are Gu Ye’s brother, right? I am Gu Ye’s classmate, who came to play with him. Big brother, is Gu Ye at home?”

Hearing his self-introduction, Gu Sen sized him up, and Zhao Pengyu’s skin tensed up from the scrutinization. He somehow felt that he is a bad boy who induced people’s younger brothers to be bad as well.

Gu Sen didn’t bother to argue with the child and said, “This is Gu Ye’s home indeed, but there are no masters here.”

“Hehe, I’m kidding. That’s my nickname for Gu Ye, Master Gu.” Zhao Pengyu smiled awkwardly. Inside, he is thinking that when he invites Gu Ye out in the future, he had to find an excuse because his family didn’t seem to like him doing this kind of thing (feng shui).

Gu Sen took another look at Zhao Pengyu. Seeing that he really didn’t look like a bad boy, he then asked the security guard to inform Gu Ye.

After successfully calling Gu Ye out, Zhao Pengyu complained with fear on his face, “Your elder brother is really scary. In his eyes, I seem to be some kind of irresponsible rich second-generation.”

Gu Ye looked at the sports car Zhao Pengyu is driving. Then he supported his chin on his palm and said deeply, “You don’t look like a rich second generation, but like a little boy who is taken care of by a rich woman (sugar mama).”

“There you go again! It’s like you will feel uncomfortable if you stopped teasing me for a day!” Zhao Pengyu opened the car door and pushed Gu Ye into it, “See if I will kidnap you to sell someday!”

Gu Ye lazily leaned back in his chair and started to mutter. His slow tone is like reading a block of text, without any emotion at all, but it sounded extremely annoying, “Ah, help. There’s a kidnapping, I’m being abducted. This thug beat me until my whole body is fractured…”

Zhao Pengyu’s mouth twitched, “Father, shut up!”

Gu Ye narrowed his eyes, “Okay~ My big son!”

Zhao Pengyu just wanted to beat Gu Ye up. What is actually maintaining the friendship between them? He really want to strangle him when he could!

Seeing that there’s no driver and Zhao Pengyu is driving the car, Gu Ye asked worriedly, “Do you have a driver’s license?”

Zhao Pengyu said proudly, “Of course, I took the exam the moment I turned eighteen.”

Gu Ye is still counting with his fingers. After calculating that nothing would happen to them today, he then said, “Okay, you can drive.”

Zhao Pengyu felt hopeless. What kind of experience is it to have a friend who can pinch and count?

After arriving at Zhao’s residence, Zhao Pengyu’s parents entertained Gu Ye very warmly. They arranged several plates of fruit and snacks and so on. It didn’t look like Gu Ye was invited to see feng shui, but more like they were just looking for an excuse to invite him over to be a guest.

Gu Ye said embarrassedly, “Let’s look at Feng Shui first.”

“Sure sure,” Father Zhao stood up, “Uncle will take you to see. I’ll let your aunt prepare lunch at noon today. Pengyu, go together with us and entertain your friends well.”

Zhao Pengyu has an inexplicable feeling like Gu Ye is their biological son instead of him. And him, he is like a freebie given to his parents during a telco company’s event when they reloaded money in their account.

Gu Ye walked around Zhao’s residence briefly, and said with a smile, “This villa must have been checked by a capable Feng shui master when it was under construction. I have nothing to change, but only one point for Mr. Zhao’s reference. In Feng shui, it is believed that a tree in the northwest of the villa is auspicious. Tree represents the beginning of all things, but the tree cannot be higher than the villa. If the tree is higher than the villa, the young males in the family will be prone to accidents. The tree should be very short when it was planted but now, it is already taller than the villa.”

As soon as Zhao Zhifeng thinks back to their residence’s arrangement, it was indeed the case. When the villa was built, his father-in-law asked someone to check the feng shui. The master also said that the tree should not be too tall. But it has been so many years ago and he didn’t really believe it before that, so he has totally forgotten about this advice. Now that Gu Ye mentioned it, Zhao Zhifeng thought about it and immediately thought of Zhao Pengyu’s accident. He also became suspicious, wondering if his child’s accident is caused by this tree.

As a concerned father, Zhao Zhifeng firmly made the decision and told the housekeeper, “Get someone to dig up this tree now and plant a small one.”

Gu Ye chuckled, “Don’t worry, just change it when you have time. Also, there is nothing else wrong with your feng shui. You and your wife often do good deeds and are both blessed people. Sometimes it’s better to believe in yourself than to believe in fate. People who often do good deeds will never have a bad fate.”

“Okay, okay, uncle has written it down.” Zhao Zhifeng happily took out a bank card that he had prepared in advance from his pocket, “This 1 million is money for checking our feng shui. After you checked it, I feel at ease. On the other hand, I inquired around and heard that there are rules in your business regarding payment. It is said that only when the family is ruined or dying, then the master will not collect money. I don’t know too much about this, but anyway, I won’t give you too much money, just the market price.”

Gu Ye squinted his eyes. This 1 million fee is the market price that only first-class masters can get, but there are indeed these sayings about payments. There 3 basic rules of a fortune teller’s fee: Charge more if the party is rich, charge less if the party is poor, and lastly, never do it for free.

For special circumstances, there are also 3 rules where they won’t accept the payment:
– Don’t charge dying people, which is to say they don’t accept dead people’s money.
– Don’t charge those who cannot avoid the imminent disaster, because even if you tell the other party, the other party will not be able to avoid death anyway.
– Don’t charge those who have no more luck in this lifetime, because the person’s life is about to decline, and accepting it will damage one’s own virtue.

However, Gu Ye doesn’t follow the rules very much. Whether he accepts the payment or not still depends on his mood. If he wants to accept it, he accepts it. If not, he won’t take it. After earning the money, he’ll just donate millions to charities. Then, the debt owed to God by divulging the secrets of heaven will be immediately repaid with merit. Speaking of this, Gu Ye didn’t refuse the payment, and took it with a smile, “Then, thank you, Uncle Zhao.”

Gu Ye had no choice but to stay at Zhao Pengyu’s house for lunch. It can be seen that the Zhao couple is unwilling to owe favors to others. Since he didn’t ask for money after saving Zhao Pengyu, it made them feel uneasy. So, if he didn’t eat this meal, Gu Ye doesn’t know how the couple would find a way to pay him back in the future.

Hence, Gu Ye got fed too much in this lunch.

On the side, Zhao Pengyu is jealous, “I’m doubting that you are my mother’s real son instead of me.”

Gu Ye narrowed his eyes, “Don’t worry, I’ll help you make up your lessons later. After your grades improve, Auntie will treat me even better.”

Hearing that, Zhao Pengyu is at a loss for words. He thought that Gu Ye would say his mother would like him for getting better grades, but he didn’t expect to hear that his mother will like Gu Ye even more. This unreasonable plot made him want to shout: Who can take this rascal away from me now?

After sending Gu Ye home, just as Zhao Pengyu is about to leave, Gu Ye opened his car door again and pressed on Zhao Pengyu’s shoulder with a serious face, “Brother, don’t go yet. My elder brother and second brother are back, and they gave me a lot of presents. I can’t use it all, so I’ll give you a set.”

Hearing about the gifts made Zhao Pengyu feel embarrassed. It seems Gu Ye found his conscience and thought to give him a gift. Not long after, 2 servants came out carrying a box and put it in Zhao Pengyu’s car, “Master Zhao, my third young master told you to open it after you go home.”

Seeing that the box is so big and heavy, Zhao Pengyu hummed a little tune happily and went back, thinking to himself that there must be a lot of good things inside. After returning home, Zhao Pengyu couldn’t wait to take it apart and saw “Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology Answering Questions Like A Dog”, and then read “Five-Year College Entrance Exam and Three-Year Simulation Set”… There is no need to read the following, it’s all this kind of books. Zhao Pengyu’s face turned green with anger, “If I got tricked by Gu Ye again, I’m going to kill myself by swallowing shiet!”

Mother Zhao is about to head out to her company when she heard her son shouting. She stood at the door in shock, and asked in disgust, “Don’t you feel disgusting about that?! What a way to die!”

Zhao Pengyu collapsed and covered his face, feeling hopeless.

…

Gu Ye went home and took a nap in the afternoon. When he got up in the evening, he saw Gu Sen sitting in the bar area, looking at the college entrance application form he brought back. Gu Ye went over and poured himself a glass of ice water. Just as he is drinking, Gu Sen suddenly asked, “I heard you’ve been doing fortune-telling recently.”

When Gu Ye heard that the tone is not right, he swallowed the mouthful of water and responded obediently, “En, was just casually doing it, it’s just for fun. My duty is to study hard.”

Looking at Gu Ye’s appearance, he didn’t seem to be fooling around in the second term so Gu Sen’s expression softened slightly, “What do you think about the university you are going to apply for?”

Gu Ye found a stool and sat down, his current behavior couldn’t be more obedient, “Just want to get on the capital university.”

Gu Sen frowned, “There are better educational resources abroad.”

Gu Ye took a bite of the ice, chewing it crunchily, “Not going.”

“Reason.”

“I can’t get used to the food there.”

Seeing Gu Ye’s serious expression, Gu Sen almost laughed in anger. What kind of reason was that?! And he actually said it like it’s the most logical thing.

“I can buy you a house, hire a Chinese housekeeper, and if you want, you can bring a nanny with you from home.” Gu Sen felt that Gu Ye is still too young to plan for his future, and tried to reason with him.

Gu Ye shook his head, and said with a serious face, “Brother, it’s pretty good in the capital university. I can go home 4 times a month, and when there are 5 Sundays in a month, I can come back 5 times!”

Gu Ye seriously stretched out 5 fingers, told the facts, and presented supporting information, “I can come back to see my old father, eat the beef noodles made by my mother, check out our mentally handicapped brother, and also there’s someone can help me wash my clothes. When I leave home for university, I can take a lot of snacks with me and save money.”

Gu Sen’s head is buzzing, listening to Gu Ye’s babbling. It sounded reasonable at first, but in fact it is all weird and unreasonable words so he just felt a headache. Brother Gu took a deep breath and calmed himself down, “Go to study abroad with me, and I will try my best to satisfy you with all these demands. If it doesn’t work, you can live with me.”

Gu Ye is not anxious and slowly said his biggest reason for not going, “Brother, I will miss home and miss my parents.”

Gu Sen is at a loss for words and couldn’t coax Gu Ye anymore!

“How old are you? Still sticking to your parents?”

Gu Ye put down the water glass and saw his big brother’s angry expression of wanting to beat him up. So he quietly moved out of the area of the bar and said, “I can’t help it, I’m still young.” After speaking, he raised his long legs, whoosh! He is gone.

Gu Sen palmed his forehead, understood why their old man didn’t want to talk about future planning with Old Third himself, and sent him to talk instead. Right now, he only feels a headache.

Gu Lin was standing on the handrail of the second floor, supporting his chin to watch the excitement earlier. He couldn’t help teasing, “Dad is afraid that Gu Ye would be punished by the gods for too much fortune-telling, so he wanted you to take him abroad. But now Old Third is obviously unwilling. It’s not like you guys could kidnap him and send him out, right?”

Gu Sen thought about the old man’s temper, it is really possible.

Gu Lin said with a smile, “If you guys force him too much, aren’t you afraid that he will start summoning our mother’s soul?”

Gu Sen: “…”

After Gu Ye returned to his room, he took out the extra application form that Teacher Yu gave as a spare, and quickly fill in the blanks: Capital First University! Capital First University! Capital First University! After finishing writing, Gu Ye still felt unsafe. A powerful person like his father might tamper with his application form, or tie him up and stuff him on the plane. Now, his elder brother has banded up with his father. As for his second brother, Gu Ye still can’t tell which camp he is in. In this family, he can only count on… Gu Ye’s eyes moved, there is a way!

Gu Ye hid the application form and went downstairs silently. There are only 3 words in his mind: He he he.

…

At this moment, at Zhao Pengyu’s home, Mother Zhao asked her friend, “That little master is back from school. Isn’t there always something going on in your house recently? You also said that it is very evil, why don’t you ask him to take a look?”

Mrs. Zhao didn’t expect that her recommendation would once again dig out the dark side of human nature and save her friend’s family of four.

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