When Zhao Zhao and Nan Jia returned to the Chen family, the atmosphere in the Chen family was very strange.
There were a lot of people standing in the living room on the first floor. The living room was extremely silent. Chen Jin, the head of the Chen family who everyone had concluded was not long for this world, was tied up with a rope, his face ashen.
And that Mrs. Chen, standing in front of Chen Jin without saying a word, only her red eyes were faintly visible.
"What's going on here?" Nan Jia raised an eyebrow as she watched this scene, asking the question that was on Zhao Zhao's mind.
Hearing the sound, everyone turned around. Seeing Zhao Zhao, they all showed surprised expressions. Song Yao was the first to rush in front of Zhao Zhao and hug her.
"Where did you go? Is the wound on your body healed? Does it hurt? It's my fault that I didn't protect you well..."
Song Yao's voice was choked with sobs. As she spoke, it was as if she was about to cry, leaving Zhao Zhao at a loss. She quickly patted Song Yao's back to comfort her: "Don't cry, cousin. I'm fine. Look, there's not a single wound on me!"
"Who's crying? I'm not."
Well, it was still that cousin who always loved face and was arrogant. Zhao Zhao thought helplessly.
Song Yao pulled her and carefully examined her from top to bottom, left and right. After confirming that the child was really okay and looked quite...moisturized? Only then did she feel relieved.
After soothing her cousin, Zhao Zhao looked down at the awkward Taotie at her feet. Her eyes involuntarily drifted to Chu Ming's side. She asked with her eyes: "Why did you come out in your original form? Aren't you afraid that your brother will recognize you?"
The telepathy between the spiritual pet and the master was revealed at this time. The spiritual pet Taotie understood, but it refused to answer.
Taotie shook its tail and turned its head away aggrievedly. Its ears were so sad that they became airplane ears. Zhao Zhao tilted her head to look. She didn't know until she saw it. She was shocked. There was actually water in those beast pupils!
This scared Zhao Zhao so much that she subconsciously wanted to hug this mini-version of the ball in her arms to comfort it. Her mind was still on the little cat and didn't turn around.
"What a big monster still needs the boss lady to coax. Taotie, stand up straight!" Chu Ming roared loudly in Zhao Zhao's ear, and she stopped in a daze.
Taotie held back its tears aggrievedly and was forced to stand upright.
Well, it wasn't easy to coax now. It seemed that Taotie had been caught by its own brother long ago.
And what was the boss lady? Zhao Zhao frowned and thought. Suddenly thinking of something, she slapped her hand and seriously explained to Chu Ming: "Ah! I'm still a child who has to go to school. I don't have any children, so I can't be anyone's mother! Chu Ming, don't talk nonsense next time!"
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Nan Jia helplessly supported her forehead. If silence had a level, then Zhao Zhao must be at the master level, easily silencing everyone.
"Cough," Lu Chukong, who had watched the fun for a long time, endured the laughter very hard and said with difficulty: "I said everyone, isn't the most important thing now? The person who cast the curse is still here. Don't wait for him to die and then regret it."
The person who cast the curse?! Lu Chukong's words pulled Zhao Zhao's thoughts back. She turned her head and looked at Song Yao and asked: "Cousin, did you find him?!"
Song Yao nodded and raised her chin towards Chen Jin: "It's him."
"Ah?" Zhao Zhao looked at the dying Chen Jin. The other party waved at her when he heard their conversation and smiled.
But looking at him like this, it didn't seem like he was the person who could raise souls?
"How did you...find out?"
Song Yao knew that she didn't believe it. If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she wouldn't have believed it either.
"The thing is like this..." Song Yao told Zhao Zhao what happened to the Chen family on the day she went to Penglai.
That day, she and Zhao Zhao were seriously injured. Yu Chu, who took them to the basement, was also affected and passed out.
Later, Zhao Zhao was taken away. After Song Yao woke up, regardless of the injury on her body, she was going to look for her sister. It was Lu Chukong who held her down and healed her injury.
Song Yao informed the Song family. Song Changming appeared and injured his own daughter and niece. Song Changyang naturally wouldn't sit idly by and came immediately.
Song Changyang came just in time. He happened to see the Reincarnation Bell that Su Yuan had just thrown to Fu Feng a moment ago. He recognized that bell.
It turned out that the Reincarnation Bell had the effect of summoning souls and exorcising them. It used to be a Buddhist thing. No one knew when it came to the Chen family and was passed down from generation to generation.
The Reincarnation Bell was actually not rare, but the one in the Chen family was extremely different. From the remaining inscriptions and totems on it, it should be a sacred object of a certain tribe a thousand years ago.
The things of the mysterious tribe were inevitably stained with a lot of blood, and the Reincarnation Bell of the Chen family was like this.
The normal Reincarnation Bell used for exorcising would generally be stained with merit, but this one carried a lot of living souls and sins, mostly because of the tribe's sacrifice ceremony.
Such a thing could be said to be an evil thing.
Song Changyang found the Song family's seal on the bell. It should have been placed by Song Changming. He untied it.
And it was at the moment when Song Changyang untied the seal that the Reincarnation Bell rang.
The Reincarnation Bell would make a tinkling sound when it felt the breath of the soul it summoned. And the matter of the Chen family was that someone was using living people for sacrifice to raise souls. This meant that someone had used the Reincarnation Bell to summon souls, and the person who summoned the souls and the soul he raised were in the Chen family!
"After we heard the bell ring, we started paying attention to the Chen family. However, just before you came, this head of the Chen family, Chen Jin, took the Reincarnation Bell and went to Mrs. Chen's room. He was setting up a formation, a formation of the Song family." Song Yao's gaze towards Chen Jin was cold. She hated everyone who was involved with Song Changming.
Zhao Zhao listened to Song Yao's words. Everything seemed very reasonable, but she always felt that something was wrong.
The curse was cast by Chen Jin, and the soul was raised by Chen Jin. Then how could he be like this, on the verge of death at any time?
Fu Feng probably saw what she was thinking. He walked to her side and patted her on the shoulder and told her: "Chen Jin might have also put himself in it when raising the soul. The soul he raised was not only devouring the sacrifice he chose, but also didn't let him go."
"Is that so?"
Fu Feng paused for a moment and still decided to be more rigorous. He said reservedly: "There is indeed such a situation."
There was such a situation...but it shouldn't be like this. What was wrong?
"They all say that you love each other very much. Mrs. Chen is still fine until now. Then what did you take the Reincarnation Bell to her room for?" Zhao Zhao walked in front of Chen Jin and asked word by word.
"Your question is too simple, little girl," Chen Jin smiled, then gasped for a long time before continuing: "I love her, but I love myself more...cough cough, and, Xiao Chu might not love me the most, right?"
When he said this, his eyes looked at Yu Chu tenderly, but Yu Chu just lowered her head from beginning to end, without saying a word, her hands tightly clutching the skirt.
Chen Jin smiled self-deprecatingly, then coughed again. There was a touch of red on the corner of his mouth.
"Tsk tsk, his lifespan is over." Lu Chukong casually pinched and shook his head and sighed.
Yu Chu finally moved. She raised her face full of tears and asked him: "Why did you do this?"
"Why..." Chen Jin smiled and didn't answer her question, but asked her instead: "Father and I, who would you choose?"