Chapter 220: The Talisman Flew By Itself! There Really Is A Red Thread!
Chu Hao was directly stunned. The three talismans flew off the table by themselves to the Chen Family Head and stopped in front of him.
“I’m not seeing things, am I?” Lin Wanwan also could not believe it and carefully tugged at his sleeve.
“We shouldn’t be.” Chu Hao shook his head instinctively.
It was not just the two of them. The surrounding tourists were all dumbfounded. Everyone knew that this Chen Family Head had real skill and true kung fu.
But his sudden shout of “talisman, come,” and then three talismans flying to him on their own was somewhat too big of an impact.
Fortunately, he had not shouted “sword, come,” or three swords would have flown to him.
After the shock, quite a few tourists around could not help speaking up:
“This shouldn’t be some ancient technique, right?”
“It shouldn’t be some wires or something. There’s nothing above!”
“H-he… how did he do that?”
Those secretly filming were even more excited and hurriedly pointed their lenses at the three floating talismans.
Faced with such a shocking scene, they had already forgotten the Chen Clan’s warning.
The next moment, something that shocked them even more happened. The Chen Family Head waved his hand again and shouted, “Go!”
The three talismans, as if receiving an order, flew in unison toward the candles on the altar table and lit themselves.
As the three talismans ignited themselves, they then flew toward the Matchmaker God Statue in front, circling around the statue until the talismans burned out completely.
They turned into ash and vanished.
But the scene just now made everyone unable to come back to their senses. How on earth did the Chen Family Head make those three talismans obey him?
Previously, when the Chen Family Head displayed lightness skill, people all said it was wire fu. Now these three talismans, could those be wire fu too?
The key was, in public with so many people watching, no one had discovered how those three talismans worked.
Or was this some kind of spell of the Chen Family Head?
At this moment, the Chen Clan scripture chanters began to recite the corresponding scripture texts.
But the surrounding tourists clearly had not recovered from the shock of the three talismans just now and had no mind to listen to the scriptures.
Only when Chen Han picked up a talisman brush, dipped it in cinnabar, and touched it between the brows of the Matchmaker God did he once again draw the tourists’ attention.
Especially those secretly filming; they instinctively aimed their lenses at the statue, wanting to see whether this Chen Family Head would produce some other astonishing event.
But at that moment, they were shocked to discover that their mobile phone screens had turned into a snowflake pattern, showing no image at all.
More importantly, they discovered their phones were actually smoking.
How could their phones suddenly start smoking for no reason?
Before they could react, the phones suddenly spat out sparks with a fizzle and went completely black.
They were stunned, and looking at their still-smoking phones, they even felt like crying.
This scared everyone around them.
“Holy crap, your phone better not explode.”
“It’s not a Samsung phone, how is it sparking?”
“You weren’t secretly filming, were you? Didn’t they say during the Chen Clan consecration ceremony the Matchmaker God would descend?”
These words made the people around pause and recall that the Chen Clan had reminded them that filming with phones would be disrespectful to the deity.
Could it really be that?
Those whose phones had gone black and died subconsciously thought of the snowflake pattern from just now. It seemed like some kind of energy influence.
Could it really be the Matchmaker God?
Quite a few people whose phones had blacked out showed a trace of nervousness and did not even care about their scrapped phones.
At this time, Chen Han also received a game prompt:
【Matchmaker God Statue Consecration completed. In an instant, radiance burst forth in the sky. A miraculous yet gentle energy appeared, followed by colorful auspicious clouds. Upon the clouds was a trace of my Matchmaker God’s true spirit, descending beams of golden light.
From now on, within three days, as long as lovers worship the Matchmaker God Statue together with piety, they can see the red thread between each other. Once the red thread leaves the Sect residence range, it will disappear.
Upon piously worshipping the Matchmaker God Statue again, the red thread can be reconnected!】
Chen Han was surprised by this prompt. A three-day red thread effect was absolutely unexpected. This meant meeting the conditions for flawless couples would be easier.
After this ceremony activity ended, as long as the matter of the red thread was confirmed and spread online, it would definitely attract more tourists.
The key point was that once the red thread left the Chen Clan, it vanished, yet through continued worship it could be reconnected. This would undoubtedly give the Chen Clan an additional sense of legend.
Then, without hesitation, he put down the talisman brush, set the wooden sword upright behind his back, and said to the surrounding tourists, “The Matchmaker God has already descended to bestow blessing. Within three days, as long as you are lovers, if you piously worship together, you can see each other’s red thread and receive the Matchmaker God’s blessing!”
These words instantly set the surrounding tourists abuzz. Some had not yet reacted.
Before coming, they had seen the video posted by the Chen Family Head. In the video he said that during the consecration ceremony, the Matchmaker God would descend to bestow blessings and allow people to see the red threads.
Now the Chen Family Head was saying the same thing right in front of them. This felt off.
Could there really be such a miraculous thing?
Wasn’t that video just the Chen Family Head placating everyone?
There are always people who are good at trying things, so some had already pulled their girlfriends over to piously worship the Matchmaker God.
Naturally, Chu Hao did too. He was one of the people who knew best that the Chen Clan possessed mysterious power, so he immediately took Lin Wanwan to start piously worshipping the Matchmaker God Statue.
Moreover, after winning his big gamble, he was now extremely devout. After their worship, they clearly felt something appear on their wrists.
Looking down, both widened their eyes. A red thread had really appeared on their wrists, connecting to each other’s.
The key was that the red thread seemed seamless from end to end, without a single knot. It was extremely mysterious.
And it had appeared out of thin air in their hands right after their worship.
The two of them subconsciously looked at the Matchmaker God Statue, their mouths hanging open in a daze. Had he… really descended?
One couple could not help shouting aloud, “Hahaha, a red thread, there really is a red thread. Look, we’re lovers!”
They held up their wrists, wanting others to see the red thread between them.
But the people beside them stared blankly.
“Do you see anything on their hands? I don’t.”
“I don’t see anything either. Are they messing with us?”
“Yeah, there’s nothing there.”
“…”
These words made the couple realize that only they themselves could see it. Right, the Chen Family Head had said it was only between each other, that only couples could see it, and outsiders could not.
Chen Han, however, showed a puzzled expression, because on the wrists of the couples who had worshipped first, he could clearly see the red threads.
Although the restriction was that only couples could see the red threads between them, he seemed to have an additional right: he could see all the red threads appearing on those people’s wrists.
It seemed he was acting as the Matchmaker God’s envoy. At the same time, he noticed other prompts appearing in his mind:
【Congratulations, you have discovered flawless lovers piously worshipping the Matchmaker God Statue!】
…
【Congratulations, you have discovered flawless lovers piously worshipping the Matchmaker God Statue!】
Three prompts in a row. He could also see that in the requirements list of the Marriage Hall, the number for flawless couples was increasing, now becoming （3/50）.
This truly surprised him. According to his previous guess, flawless couples should be extremely rare in modern society.
Yet after only some people had worshipped, three had appeared.
It seemed quite a few of the tourists visiting the Chen Clan this time were people who took love and feelings seriously.
On thinking about it, he could roughly guess why. First, word had already spread online that at the Chen Clan, whether one was unlucky, whether one’s partner was loyal, whether there was cheating, could all be seen upon visiting.
Second, those with issues would likely have triggered minor punishment as a warning upon entering the Chen Clan and already left. The ones remaining had no problems and had not triggered minor punishment.
So a higher probability of flawless couples was not strange.
“Everyone, stop being confused. The Chen Family Head has said twice that only couples can see the red thread. Others cannot.” A tourist raised their wrist with their girlfriend’s and said, “You can’t see anything on us either, right? We also have a red thread, and we can’t see theirs.”
These words finally enlightened everyone. Now that they understood, the surrounding tourists began one after another to piously worship the Matchmaker God Statue.
Sure enough, after worship, many people shouted excitedly:
“It really works. We have a red thread too!”
“Us too, what the Chen Family Head said is actually true!”
“…”
As more and more tourists said this, the Chen Clan members looked at each other. Although they knew the Chen Clan had the protection of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation, it now seemed they had another deity granting protection.
Even though they could not see the red threads on the tourists’ hands, the excitement of those people was definitely not an act. They had truly seen something mysterious.
【Congratulations, you have discovered flawless lovers piously worshipping the Matchmaker God Statue!】
……
【Congratulations, you have discovered flawless lovers piously worshipping the Matchmaker God Statue!】
In Chen Han’s mind, the prompts for flawless lovers worshipping the Matchmaker God Statue appeared one after another. When all the surrounding tourists had worshipped, he looked at the number of flawless couples with delight.
It had already reached: 32/
This number was truly pleasing. At this rate, once news of the red thread spread online, it would definitely attract many couples to try.
The conditions for flawless couples could soon be fulfilled.
In his joy, Chen Han looked at the tourists who had worshipped the Matchmaker God Statue and clearly saw many red threads between them.
But he also saw that quite a few couples did not have any red thread between them.
Like the couple right in front of him: their hands were tightly clasped, yet there was no red thread between them.
That was strange. Why, under such circumstances, had these two not triggered minor punishment?
Both of them seemed a little awkward, because they truly had not seen any red thread. There was definitely a problem.
The man quickly said, “Baby, I see the red thread. Do you see it? This red thread!”
As he spoke, he gestured in mid-air around his wrist, deliberately holding it up in front of the woman as if there really were a thread.
The woman was even more embarrassed. She really could not see anything, but she obviously could not admit that now. So she quickly said sweetly, “Honey, I see it. Look, it’s this one.”
As she spoke, she too pointed delicately at that imaginary red thread.
Chen Han stared, dumbfounded, at two people with no red thread at all, happily playing with an imaginary one.
The emperor’s new clothes?
My god, what an eye-opener.
At this moment, Chen Han roughly understood. These two were indeed a couple, and as they had committed no wrongdoing, they had not triggered minor punishment.
As for why there was no red thread, the reason was simple. Right now, a large portion of married couples in the country had no deep feelings, especially those who married after blind dates.
Such people were together as a result of weighing pros and cons. Since they could not find better and what they truly wanted was out of reach, they chose someone roughly suitable whom they did not dislike, and made do with it.
Especially those who had been in long relationships without marrying. Once they broke up, they often lost their yearning for love. A lot of it became blind dates or simply marrying someone who treated them well, without truly courting love as before.
There was also the type of young, pretty woman who met a relatively wealthy man who gave her ten or twenty thousand a month in pocket money. Even without feelings, weighed against the benefits, she would stay with him.
In such cases, as long as both stayed together without cheating or serious wrongdoing, minor punishment would not be triggered.
But these people were not truly lovers in the sense of the term, so naturally the red thread would not appear.
In modern society, being together does not equal true affection.
Just then, an angry female voice suddenly rang out: “We’ve been married for four years. Why don’t we have a red thread? Does that mean after four years of marriage and two children, there are still no feelings?”
The man took a slap but remained silent, clearly feeling guilty. After all the daily grind of life, where was the passion of love?
What remained was affection like family, not love. Now everything was for the children. Had he known, he would not have come to the Chen Clan.
Seeing this scene, the couple from before clearly breathed a sigh of relief, glad they had reacted quickly and pretended to see a red thread.
At that moment, an exclamation rang out. In one area, the crowd parted, revealing two men inside.
Yes, men. The two were holding hands, faces full of happiness, seemingly very happy indeed.
Chen Han noticed them and was dumbfounded, because there was actually a real red thread on the wrists of the two men.
My god.
He recalled a joke he had seen before:
“Men nowadays are really strange. Why insist on finding women? What’s wrong with finding men? Then you would have two apartments, two cars, and several hundred thousand in bride price together, and you could go hire escorts together.
“As for the leftover women?
“They can be escorts.”
When that joke first appeared, everyone called the one who said it a genius.
But someone had really tried it?
Chen Han felt his eyes burn and did not dare look at the two men’s happy expressions.
After the consecration ceremony ended and the tourists had finished worshipping, the aunt-grandmother returned with the fly whisk. The statue had to be taken back to the hall.
On her instruction, the Chen Clan members carried the Matchmaker God back to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall. Watching the Matchmaker God Statue being carried away, those men and women whose hands were still bound by red threads all watched intently. Some even followed to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall.
Naturally, many people could not resist the urge to share this miracle in their Moments, online, and on Douyin.
Chu Wan was one of them. She was a small internet celebrity with several hundred thousand fans and had come with her boyfriend, feeling nervous. Now it seemed the outcome was good.
So she immediately wanted to share this miraculous matter. Looking at the red thread on her hand, she took out her phone to film it, but to her shock, the mobile phone screen was all snowflakes, with no image.
“Is my phone broken?” Chu Wan frowned and quickly turned the camera away, and the picture immediately appeared.
When she turned it back to the red rope, it was snowflakes again.
The red rope could not be filmed at all. It seemed some force was interfering with the phone’s recording.
Chu Wan was instantly helpless. Filming this red rope would surely attract a lot of traffic heat, but now it could not be recorded.
But that did not stop her from wanting to piggyback on the popularity. She immediately started a mobile phone recording: “Let me share something you probably won’t believe. Today I came to the Chen Clan to attend the Matchmaker God Statue Consecration Ceremony. You will never guess what I saw.”
“The Chen Family Head waved his hand, and three talismans flew over. They lit themselves at his command and circled the statue twice before burning out.”
“Even more unbelievable, some people secretly filmed the Matchmaker God Statue and their phones got destroyed… After we piously worshipped, a red thread really appeared between my boyfriend’s and my wrists, just like in the Chen Family Head’s previous video.”
After recording, she added the Chen Clan tag and a title, and uploaded it directly.
Since the Chen Clan was very popular now, her video quickly gained attention, and comments soon appeared:
“If you know we won’t believe you, then don’t share!”
“Haha, your story is great, but no video, no truth!”
“Why don’t you just say the Matchmaker God actually descended?”
Chu Wan really wanted to say that the Matchmaker God probably had descended; otherwise how could the red thread be explained?
Looking at the comments, she was annoyed and eager to prove it. Suddenly her eyes lit up. She could live stream and maybe let viewers see the screen turning into snowflakes.
Chu Wan decided to start a live stream. The room title: 《Proving the red thread for everyone!》
Because of the heat from the video, her stream quickly had over a hundred people online, growing faster than usual. Comments appeared:
“Prove it!”
“Prove it!”
“…”
She knew she had successfully piggybacked on the popularity and said to the viewers, “It seems everyone wants to verify this. I’ll prove it now. When I film my wrist, the livestream will definitely turn into snowflakes because of a special energy interference.”
With that, she aimed the livestream camera at her wrist, but to her shock, the stream directly disconnected. It did not show the snowflakes she had imagined.
In the background, messages popped up quickly:
“This is your ‘proof’?”
“Cutting the stream, huh?”
“You treating us like fools? 666!”
“…”
Chu Wan was truly stunned. There seemed to be no way to prove it. She wanted to share, yet was being cursed as a fool.
This…
She suddenly remembered something. People online often said that in the internet era, if there were really all kinds of bizarre, mysterious things, they would have been filmed and spread all over the net already.
But now she discovered that such things could not be uploaded online at all. So did that mean such mysterious things did not exist in reality?
Yet she knew the Matchmaker God and the red thread were real, but there was no way to produce evidence.
She tried several more times and, after confirming there was truly no way, completely gave up. At the same time, she inexplicably developed more awe for this world.
Sighing, Chu Wan left the Chen Clan with her boyfriend. At the Chen Clan Main Entrance, they found all the tourists gathered, talking in disbelief.
“The red thread disappeared once we left the Chen Clan.”
“Yeah, once we step out of the Chen Clan, it’s gone.”
“It’s incredible. The Chen Family Head said the blessing lasts three days, right? If we keep worshipping the Matchmaker God, can we make the red thread reappear?”
“If that’s true, then it’s really miraculous.”
Hearing this, Chu Wan subconsciously pulled her boyfriend out of the Chen Clan’s range and found that the red thread between their wrists rapidly faded and disappeared.
Thinking of what the others had said, she hurriedly pulled her boyfriend back into the Chen Clan. She was not the only one. The other tourists also flocked back into the Chen Clan.
Soon she reached the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall, where there was now a signboard at the entrance indicating the way directly to the Marriage Hall.
This was a side hall that the Chen Clan had renovated into the Marriage Hall and opened a new entrance so tourists could go directly inside.
Chu Wan went in and saw the Matchmaker God placed on the altar. She immediately pulled her boyfriend to worship together. Moments later, she found that the red thread had appeared again on her wrist.
The tourists around seemed to have the same experience. Exclamations rang out, faces full of excitement.
Leaving the Marriage Hall, Chu Wan could not help saying to her boyfriend, “Thank you.”
“For what?” her boyfriend was stunned.
“Thank you for not letting me lose. Let’s get married.” Chu Wan said bluntly. She knew her boyfriend had taken leave to accompany her this time.
Given what had just happened, he was clearly someone she could entrust herself to. After saying this, she pulled him out of the Chen Clan again. She had only booked a room in Shangyuan Village, so they would go rest first.
And once again, after stepping out of the Chen Clan, the red thread on their wrists vanished. It was as if an intelligent program with a sensing range was running.
It was truly remarkable.
She was not the only one. The other tourists who had re-verified it were all excitedly discussing.
But when they reached the entrance of Shangyuan Village, they found people from the Linhe County Culture and Tourism Bureau handing something to each tourist.
“Dear tourists, welcome to visit Linhe County. Today, all tourists from the Chen Clan can receive free tickets to the Linhe County Ancient City Area. If you have time, please go take a look. It is definitely a very good ancient city scenic spot!”
Today, Chen Kai had personally come to distribute Ancient City Area tickets, wearing clothing with the culture and tourism logo so as not to be mistaken for a liar.
Many tourists accepted the tickets and said they would visit, which made him very happy. Although quite a few immediately threw the tickets away, this was definitely a good start.
He personally stayed on duty almost until noon. To boost tourism in Linhe County, he did everything himself.
During a break, the culture and tourism staff received the latest news and were all shocked:
“You saw the news, right?”
“I did. The Matchmaker God’s blessing is real. Red threads appeared out of nowhere on couples’ wrists.”
“The key is that others cannot see those red threads. Only the two in the couple can.”
“Many participating tourists have been talking about it online, but no one seems to believe them since there’s no evidence.”
“…”
Hearing this, Chen Kai was almost certain the tourists were telling the truth, because he knew a lot of inside information.
As for why there was no evidence, just think of the Chen Family Head’s way of doing things. He was always saying ‘believe in science.’
Wasn’t this the same logic?
As Chen Kai was thinking, two county cars drove up quickly, as if there was something urgent.
The first car belonged to County Magistrate Chu.
What had happened?
He hurried to the parking lot. The cars had already parked, and County Magistrate Chu was striding quickly out.
“County Magistrate Chu, what’s going on?” Chen Kai stepped forward and asked instinctively.
“No time to explain. I need the Chen Family Head to save a life.” Chu Ping said hurriedly and walked straight into the Chen Clan without pausing.
