Chapter 253: You’re Calling Nan Yuanman?
Jiang Lixuan feared that Nan Yuanman would hang up the phone, so without waiting for her to reply, he hurriedly told her what had happened.
Originally, after being dealt a blow in Shangjing, Jiang Lixuan had returned to S City, as he did not want to continue disturbing Nan Yuanman’s peaceful life.
He had returned to S City planning to sell the studio and then settle down in Batang Village, guarding Bai Wenyin’s tomb for the rest of his life without leaving the village.
However, Ge Peiyao had not yet recovered, and someone needed to handle Jiang Tianzong’s affairs, so he had no choice but to stay in S City first to take care of Ge Peiyao.
During this time, Jiang Lixuan inevitably had contact with Jiang Xinxin, but he could no longer treat her with his previous attitude, and treated her coolly.
One day, Jiang Junsheng suddenly brought Jiang Xinxin back to the villa, saying she had nowhere to live outside and letting her stay there temporarily.
Jiang Lixuan could not bring himself to drive out a five-year-old child, so he tacitly agreed.
But soon he discovered that Jiang Junsheng and Jiang Hengzhi, who had originally been busy outside, as well as Jiang Chuyun who had been running announcements outside, suddenly started coming home more frequently.
Moreover, no matter what they did, they would bring Jiang Xinxin with them, as if nothing had ever happened between them.
Jiang Lixuan watched, feeling deeply upset inside, and could not help comparing their attitude toward Jiang Xinxin with their attitude toward Nan Yuanman, thinking they had no heart.
They could accept Jiang Xinxin as father’s illegitimate daughter, but could not tolerate Nan Yuanman, this close niece.
Jiang Lixuan could not help but privately talk to Jiang Junsheng several times, but Jiang Junsheng’s attitude remained very cold: “Does Nan Yuanman need uncles like us? She doesn’t, and besides, she has already chosen her biological father. Why should we uncles go and annoy her.”
“Zhen’er is different from Yuanman. Yuanman still has her father, but Zhen’er only has us.”
Jiang Lixuan felt they were quibbling unreasonably and incomprehensible, so after a big quarrel with them, he moved out of the villa and went to the hospital to take care of Ge Peiyao.
In the days after he moved out, the Jiang family company, which had been on the verge of bankruptcy, suddenly stabilized again, with various cooperations coming one after another. Jiang Junsheng, who had always kept a low profile in his work, became high-profile and even started selling a miracle drug said to greatly nourish the body!
The S City families and companies that had once participated in dividing up the Jiang family company’s interests all suffered some big and small accidents, and even one family had quite a few deaths.
At first, Jiang Lixuan thought Nan Yuanman had softened and stopped letting the Feng family target them, and that this miracle drug was also researched by fourth brother, but later, when he returned to the villa to get Ge Peiyao’s change of clothes, he discovered the weird things in the house.
The clean and tidy villa had somehow acquired some red things inside and out, like spider silk, the temperature in the house had also dropped quite a bit, and the refrigerator had a lot more raw meat inside.
Jiang Hengzhi, who was working from home, had an unusually pale face, and his eyes were dull, just like he had lost his soul.
But when asked questions, he would still answer. Jiang Lixuan felt a bit worried and stayed one night in the villa.
Waking up thirsty in the middle of the night, he got up to drink water and heard someone rummaging in the refrigerator, so he reminded them, saying there was no cooked food in the refrigerator, only raw meat, which needed to be cooked before eating.
That person did not respond to him.
After half a minute, Jiang Lixuan, still a bit sleepy, suddenly heard crunching chewing sounds.
Jiang Lixuan felt a deep chill, thinking a wild cat had gotten in and was rummaging through the trash can to eat leftovers. Summoning courage, he walked toward the kitchen and suddenly discovered that Jiang Hengzhi was lying on the ground on all fours like a dog!!
Jiang Hengzhi noticed someone intruding, and he slowly raised his head in a sluggish and mechanical way, speaking word by word: “Do you want to eat?”
Jiang Lixuan immediately vomited uncontrollably on the spot. Even now, recalling that scene, he could not help but dry-heave twice.
Nan Yuanman feared he would vomit into the watch, so she could not help but move the watch a bit farther away, frowning as she spoke: “Jiang Xinxin, hasn’t she already died?”
“And who is Zhen’er?”
Jiang Lixuan, who was dry-heaving on the other end of the watch, was stunned. A chill suddenly surged up his spine, but he still subconsciously answered Nan Yuanman’s question: “Zhen’er is Jiang Xinxin. She changed her name.”
“W-Wait, Yuanman, you, you say Jiang Xinxin has already… died?”
“Then who is the person living at home now?”
Nan Yuanman affirmed: “She’s dead. I even fought her ghost.”
“Probably when she died, her body was occupied by another ghost. Find a local Taoist priest to catch the ghost possessing her body for you.”
“As for Jiang Hengzhi’s situation, it looks a lot like being collided by some animal. Find someone local to handle it too.”
Even though Jiang Lixuan had psychologically prepared himself for Nan Yuanman to refuse, hearing her say this still made him feel disappointed uncontrollably.
He opened his mouth and said: “You… you can come to S City to help…”
“No.” Nan Yuanman interrupted him, refusing: “I’m very busy, no time to go to S City.”
Nan Yuanman was not a good child who repaid grievance with kindness. She knew exorcise demons and uphold righteousness was her responsibility, but… when facing a group of ‘kill’ mother culprits, she still could not bring herself to help.
Not to mention the days she spent at the Jiang family, she did not feel any favoritism from the Jiang family members toward her, but rather full of disgust and scheming.
So she wanted to be willful once, follow her heart, and not help.
Being able to remind Jiang Lixuan and let him find a local sorcerer for help was already the utmost of benevolence and righteousness; she did not want to do more.
Jiang Lixuan was unwilling, and wanted to strive a bit more: “Yuanman, I don’t trust the local sorcerers. Just, just treat it as your uncle begging you.”
“Help your uncle one last time, okay? We are your mother’s only relatives left in this world!”
“You’re wrong!” Nan Yuanman said: “Mother’s relatives also include me. If she were still alive, she definitely wouldn’t want to acknowledge you relatives either.”
“Jiang Lixuan, don’t morally bind me. I don’t buy it. Take care of yourself!”
With that, Nan Yuanman directly hung up the phone.
Jiang Lixuan listened to the beeping sound from the receiver, as if Nan Yuanman’s words from earlier were still echoing in his ears, feeling especially upset inside.
He could not help but regret once again. If at the beginning, when he went to pick up Nan Yuanman, his attitude had not been so nasty, would she have helped him this time for his sake…
He could not help but think, if at the beginning he had not been a silent executioner and had not driven Bai Wenyin out of the Jiang family, would the Jiang family not have suffered such a disaster?
The more Jiang Lixuan thought, the more he regretted, his heart feeling like it was being tightly gripped by a big hand, so uncomfortable he could not breathe.
While Jiang Lixuan was immersed in regret and unable to extricate himself, Jiang Hengzhi’s voice suddenly sounded behind him: “What are you doing?”
Jiang Lixuan was startled and abruptly turned back, meeting Jiang Hengzhi’s pitch-black, lifeless pupils.
He saw him mechanically turning his eyeballs to his hand, the corners of his mouth hooking up in a weird arc: “Ah… you’re calling Nan Yuanman?”
