NFBE Chapter 117 The Dust Settles
Chapter 117 The Dust Settles
Yan Xun saw He Jinqiu, and also saw He Jinqiu's parents, who had blank stares.
His father seemed terrified, his mother was also in a daze, and the servants screamed that the demon had turned on them!
For a moment, the whole scene was chaotic and absurd.
He Jinqiu stood in the crowd and glanced at Yan Xun from a distance.
After overturning the He family, the black mist finally transformed into a kitten and landed in the arms of the thin young man.
At this moment, everyone noticed the young man who had suddenly appeared—he looked somewhat like He Jinqiu—and the servants stared at him, some even kneeling down in fright, all thinking of the mysterious older brother whom the He family worshipped.
They looked at the young man with suspicion and uncertainty.
He Jinqiu also glanced at him.
Suddenly, a torrential downpour began... Yan Xun held Qiuqiu in his arms and used his coat to shield Qiuqiu from the rain.
The rain came down quickly and heavily; it shouldn't have rained tonight.
Some people squinted, while others stretched out their arms to shield their heads. As everyone scrambled to find shelter from the rain, the young man holding the black cat disappeared without a trace.
When the rain finally stopped.
Finally, someone saw it: the skeleton found in the excavated foundation—it should have been buried deep underground, covered with concrete and other materials, but now, a human skeleton and animal bones appeared before everyone's eyes.
Some people shouted, while others wanted to see the two owners of the crane family.
But they found that He Jinqiu's father's body was twisted almost like the skeletons on the ground, and he was completely silent.
His mother fainted.
He Jinqiu wiped the rain off his face, then glanced at Yan Xun, who was holding Qiuqiu and standing on the outside, before moving his mother to a relatively dry spot.
"Call the police."
He Jinqiu said.
He took off his coat. "I'll stay here."
……
No one cares about celebrity sisters-in-law anymore, but such a shocking and heinous incident has occurred in City A.
If there were a sudden earthquake, probably no one would know that Qian Jianghe, this son-in-law who married into the family, was so audacious as to kill his own flesh and blood, simply because he learned from a swindler that this would ensure his family's wealth.
Qian Jianghe is dead, and He Yuejin says she was unaware of it—at the time she was busy with her career and knew neither that her husband had an illegitimate child nor that such a secret was buried in the ground of their home.
However, she did know a little about charlatans.
Looking much more haggard, He Yuejin said she had only met that conman three times.
The other person covered their face, seemingly unwilling to let others know what they looked like.
"It was Qian Jianghe who made the contact!"
She bit her nail. "I've only seen him three times. He should be a man. Judging from his voice... I can't tell. He seems to deliberately try to hide it."
"Didn't you have any doubts?" the investigating police officer asked.
“Strange things often happen in the house. Qian Jianghe said it was a master he knew who set up a feng shui formation.” He Yuejin was somewhat flustered. She seemed to have never imagined that such a thing was buried in the place where she had always lived.
"He handled the house matter entirely, and indeed, after the house was built, the family business improved. So later he brought the master home, but the master never showed himself, and I just thought it was a strange quirk of a master."
He Yuejin seemed lost in her memories.
"Especially about the candy factory..."
"He told me that I shouldn't tell anyone about the sudden improvement in business, and if they ask, I should say it was a dream."
At the time, she also felt that everything in the family business was going too smoothly. Because she wasn't interested in business, her father brought in a son-in-law so that she could focus on her own career.
“After I moved in, I often had nightmares at night…” He Yuejin said, her fingers trembling with nervousness. “Every night, a little child is crying.”
“I told Qian Jianghe about this.”
He said he would go to a master to have his fortune told, and told me not to worry about it.
As He Yuejin finished speaking, she looked at the person opposite her and said, "This bastard lied to me and said that because this land was once an orphan's grave, there are many children's resentment in it. He said that if I did what the master said, it could be resolved."
That's why the family had that shrine, and that's when He Jinqiu's older brother appeared.
These are all methods the master spoke of to resolve the children's resentment.
Sure enough, after doing so, He Yuejin never had nightmares again.
But as He Jinqiu grew older, black cats would occasionally appear in the house. No one in the neighborhood kept cats, and what made her even more uneasy was that the servants in the house said they had never seen any black cats.
It was as if only the three of them could hear the black cat.
The sounds of children laughing and bouncing balls began to come from inside the house... She knew that it was He Jinqiu's older brother, and they had even given the child a name in an attempt to dispel his resentment.
The master gave them a name and said that as long as they followed He Jinqiu's lifestyle exactly and treated him as their own child, the vengeful spirit would naturally disappear.
For many years afterward, the three of them followed his instructions.
Do you remember that master's name?
"Yan Chuan!"
He Yuejin hurriedly said, "He said his name is Yan Chuan!"
"He worships a god called Jia Ye."
He Yuejin added, "The shrine we worship every day contains the very shrine he instructed us to worship, which he said would protect us and suppress evil spirits!"
……
Although He Jinqiu was not involved in these matters, he could no longer remain in the group.
Song Baiyuan never expected that things would be fine when he arrived, but the next day the world would be in chaos.
He Jinqiu's sudden withdrawal from the group caused the He family's stock price to plummet...
“You don’t need to see me off,” He Jinqiu said in the underground parking garage.
He cut his hair short and dyed it back to a dark color. He looked at Yan Xun and asked, "Shall we talk alone?"
Everyone else in the group knew that only Yan Xun was present when this happened... Yan Xun got into the passenger seat of He Jinqiu's car.
"What do you want to talk about?"
After He Jinqiu's hair was cut short, the scar on one side was naturally revealed.
“This scar…” he pointed to the scar on his forehead that ran through his brow bone, “I always thought it was from when I fell from a tree and scraped against a branch.”
"Isn't that right?" Yan Xun asked.
Although he knew in his heart that it was definitely not true, he still gave it a try.
Perhaps it was the way he interacted with the machine that gave He Jinqiu a sense of returning to the past, and a slight smile appeared on He Jinqiu's face, dispelling the gloom of the past few days.
“She told me.”
"It was scratched by a black cat."
As He Jinqiu was speaking, Qiuqiu barked from the back seat.
Yan Xun turned around, saw Qiuqiu, and was a little puzzled, "She doesn't want to be held anymore?"
He Jinqiu smiled and said, "Qiuqiu has always been very well-behaved."
"It's okay if I don't have to be held."
He didn't explain much, but just glanced at his former teammates who were still waiting outside the window, "Go back, I'll leave my affairs to you, Brother Bai."