Chapter 215
Chapter 215
It was the first time I had ever talked back to Seventh Master.
When you did something wrong, you either admitted your mistake, or admitted it with complete confidence.
I was the latter. Since that was what I thought, that was what I said.
If I were Ding Ruoning, I wouldn’t let Lv Zhengxian off either. Since that was the case, what right did I have to stop Ding Ruoning?
If I were Ding Ruoning, I might have been even more ruthless than her.
“You!”
Seventh Master was so angry with me he didn’t know what to say. He flung his hand and walked away.
After he left, Anning came over and comforted me. “I don’t think you did anything wrong. If it were me, I’d do the same.”
Song Xiaotian chimed in too. “That rotten old man is way too pedantic all day long. We’re not Taoist cultivators. Why bother with all that lofty sentiment? If you’ve got a grudge, settle it. If you’ve got a score, pay it back. That’s how normal people think.”
“I’m telling you, after the whole thing happened, those three little brats never apologized. Their parents never apologized either. So isn’t dying exactly what they deserved? The law never said ghosts can’t kill people, so why stick our noses so far into it?”
“Come on, I’ll treat you to skewers. Heh heh!”
We didn’t linger at the scene for long. Before we left, Wu Binbin’s mother seemed to cry herself unconscious, and his grandfather-or maybe his maternal grandfather-suddenly had a heart attack too. He probably couldn’t handle the shock.
After leaving the residential compound, we drove to the night market and found a barbecue stall to sit at.
But I really couldn’t eat.
Mainly because of Wu Binbin… He had jumped from one of the teen floors, and pieces of him had been smashed out. That image was still stuck in my head.
“Want some grilled brain?” Song Xiaotian asked us, holding the menu.
Anning and I both stared at him.
“Kidding, kidding. Then I’ll order you guys a plate of vegetables.”
After ordering the food, we got a few cans of beer too.
I was a little distracted, lost in thought the whole time.
“What are you thinking about? What’s there to think about?”
Song Xiaotian looked at me. “Don’t tell me you think that family is pitiful.”
I shook my head. “No. I don’t think they’re pitiful. I’m thinking about what Seventh Master said earlier.”
“Holy crap!” Song Xiaotian mocked. “He brainwashed you? We’re all ordinary people, not enlightened masters. Why worry so much? If you’ve got that kind of awareness, go find a temple and become a monk.”
I said, “Aren’t we… slapping ourselves in the face by doing this?”
Song Xiaotian said, “How are we slapping ourselves in the face?”
I said, “Liu Jing and Feng Gang. In order to sell that house, we racked our brains trying to get Liu Jing and Feng Gang to let go of their obsessions from when they were alive and go reincarnate. But now, we’re indulging Ding Ruoning and letting her take revenge. Isn’t that a huge slap in our own faces?”
Song Xiaotian suddenly had nothing to say.
He held a cigarette between his lips, then declared with righteous conviction, “So what if it is a slap in the face? We do whatever makes us happy. Persuading Liu Jing and Feng Gang was for their own good too. They could wait forever and still get nowhere, so why not go reincarnate? They were also affecting our business.”
“If they had enemies too, I’d absolutely never persuade them.”
“If you think you were wrong, then don’t admit your mistake. What’s the damn use of admitting it? You did it, so you did it. That’s how it is. What’s anyone gonna do about it? If Seventh Master isn’t happy, tell him to chop you up. See if he actually does.”
I wiped my face and said, “We still can’t let Ding Ruoning keep killing.”
Song Xiaotian looked somewhat speechless. “See? You were the one who agreed to let her take revenge, and now you’re the one who disagrees. That’s what I call slapping yourself in the face.”
I said, “Seventh Master is already angry. If we keep acting recklessly and let Ding Ruoning continue killing, he definitely won’t help us anymore. When that time comes, just relying on us, how are we supposed to perform Exorcism for Ding Ruoning and her daughter? Wouldn’t Meng Yifan’s deal be dead in the water?”
“Besides, who knows whether Ding Ruoning will lose control the more she kills? Who knows if innocent people will get dragged into it?”
Song Xiaotian stopped arguing with me.
That evening, after I got home, I took out the hexagram from before and began calculating again.
Ding Ruoning had already killed two people. There was no way she would stop now.
And the next person she intended to kill had to be Jiang Xiaoyu.
I needed to calculate when she would go after him.
Half an hour later, I had my result. Jiang Xiaoyu would be in danger two days from now, but I couldn’t tell whether he would die.
The hexagram showed that his luck was terrible, but he wasn’t being overcome to death, nor was he being clashed. That meant Ding Ruoning would definitely seek him out for revenge in two days, but something would happen in the middle of it. Her revenge wouldn’t go smoothly.
In Six Yao, the Month Builder and Day Builder hold the greatest power over generation and overcoming. To put it simply, the Month Builder refers to the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches of the current month, while the Day Builder refers to the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches of the day the hexagram is cast.
The Month Builder and Day Builder are equal in function and authority. Neither outranks the other.
The Earthly Branches symbol representing Jiang Xiaoyu was “Si.” He was being overcome by the Day Builder, but generated by the Month Builder. In other words, the Month Builder represented the person who would save him, while the Day Builder likely represented Ding Ruoning.
And the person saving him was most likely Seventh Master.
I still hadn’t learned enough. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t determine whether Jiang Xiaoyu would die. All I could calculate was that he was in grave danger.
But I figured that if Seventh Master got involved, Ding Ruoning probably wouldn’t be able to kill Jiang Xiaoyu.
…
In the blink of an eye, two days passed.
That morning, I was still sound asleep when Seventh Master called and woke me up.
After I lied to him that night, he’d stayed angry the entire time. I thought he was done with me.
“Seventh Master, good morning…”
“Good my ass!”
Over the phone, his tone still held a trace of displeasure. “I calculated it myself using Yin Pan Qi Men. Ding Ruoning will kill the third person tonight. If you lot are willing to listen to me, then come tonight. If not, don’t bother coming.”
I quickly apologized. “Seventh Master, I was wrong. I’ll come tonight and make up for it. I’ll help you persuade Ding Ruoning to leave.”
Seventh Master said, “Fine. Then tell me, what time will Ding Ruoning kill tonight?”
I froze for a second. “Didn’t you already calculate it?”
Seventh Master said, “Just tell me what time.”
I immediately understood. This Old Man was pretty crafty. He was testing whether I would lie to him again.
I said it would be during the Later Zi Hour tonight, between midnight and one in the morning.
“Fine.”
With that, he hung up.
Actually, even without his reminder, I wasn’t going to mess around again tonight.
Last night, I’d lain in bed thinking for a long time. If I went by my own personal feelings, I definitely wouldn’t stop Ding Ruoning from taking revenge. But this also involved Meng Yifan’s business.
If we let Ding Ruoning keep killing until, in the end, there was nothing we could do about her, then that villa would be impossible to handle.
I heard from Gu An’an that the villa was worth over eight million. Over eight million!
If it went to auction, the shop could make at least a million in profit.
Who would say no to money…?
I got out of bed and was just about to wash up when I suddenly noticed a text message on my phone.
It had been sent from an unfamiliar number, and there was a video attached.
I opened it, and my mind went completely blank.
In the video was Sun Jiayu… This was a video of Sun Jiayu being violated.
There was no doubt that the person filming it was the one violating Sun Jiayu.
I couldn’t keep watching. I deleted the video immediately.
Those three animals!
Those sons of bitches!
They really deserved to die!
Why the hell should scum like that be saved? They could all go to hell!