At one o’clock in the morning, the villa’s main hall was brightly lit.
Two police officers looked at Fengzi Taoist standing on a chair in a one-legged stance and explained, “This ‘Fengzi Taoist’ is a repeat offender. He’s always deluded himself into being an immortal old Taoist priest, swindled many people, and has been arrested by us several times.”
Jiang Luxi was speechless.
So he really was a madman.
Huo Jin Ge didn’t say much, watching as the two police officers prepared to escort the man away, each holding one of his arms.
Fengzi Taoist glanced sideways at the two officers: “Who dares disturb this venerable one’s cultivation?”
The police officers, accustomed to this, didn’t even blink: “We’re taking you to vanquish demons and defend the righteous path.”
Fengzi Taoist nodded, his feet moving through the air as if treading on clouds, then turned to Jiang Luxi and said leisurely, “Young lady, you’d better take care of yourself.”
Jiang Luxi: ……..
Jiang Luxi looked with disgust at the retreating figure, finally unable to hold back: “He’s actually a lunatic!”
She had actually been swindled out of ten thousand yuan by a lunatic.
Huo Jin Ge rubbed his slightly aching temples, looking at Jiang Luxi standing there with puffed cheeks, exactly like an angry pufferfish.
He never expected to hear the word “lunatic” come from her mouth.
He raised his eyes to gaze at the young girl hanging her head, stood up, and walked over to her.
He lifted his hand and mercilessly pinched her puffed cheeks. With a slight increase in pressure, Jiang Luxi grimaced in pain, the corners of her eyes turning red.
“It hurts!”
“So you still know pain?” Huo Jin Ge added a bit more pressure with his hand.
If he hadn’t seen her run crying into his arms, he would have thought this woman was as sick as that mad Taoist priest.
Jiang Luxi glared at the man before her.
Huo Jin Ge softened his grip on her cheek, his thumb repeatedly rubbing the reddened skin he had pinched.
Seeing her expression of both anger and grievance, he finally released her, shifting his gaze away from her.
“Next time you bring unrelated people into the villa, I’ll bury you alive.”
“…….”
He coldly tossed out these words and headed upstairs without looking back.
Jiang Luxi covered her sore cheek.
How was she supposed to know he was a real madman?
She never thought that in this book world, swindlers could be so brazen.
Remembering she still had a package of medicine the madman had given her in her pocket, she took it out in front of Jiang Feng and Yu Yi.
She proceeded to unwrap the packaging herself.
The three large characters on the box nearly made her crush it out of shape.
— Fever Reducer
Ten thousand yuan, and she had bought a box of fever reducer!
Jiang Luxi beat her chest in frustration: “How could anyone do such a thing!”
“Just because he’s a lunatic, does that give him the right to be so brazen?”
Jiang Feng: …….
Yu Yi: …….
Jiang Luxi initially wanted to throw the medicine box away, but then she remembered she had paid ten thousand yuan for it, so she took the crumpled box upstairs.
She spent the entire night tossing and turning in anger, unable to sleep.
The next day, she came downstairs with a pair of panda eyes.
The villa was unusually quiet. Jiang Luxi looked around but didn’t see Huo Jin Ge anywhere.
Jiang Feng and Yu Yi, standing to the side, were yawning from exhaustion.
Jiang Luxi looked at them and asked quietly, “Where’s Huo Jin Ge?”
“Master Ho is on basement level three.”
Jiang Luxi pressed her lips together without responding, lost in thought as she left the villa.
Along the way, the servants she passed all looked at her with sympathy and pity in their eyes. She even overheard people whispering her name multiple times.
Bad news travels fast.
It seemed everyone knew she had been swindled by a lunatic.Utterly humiliating.
She had been wandering outside for a while, feeling a bit bored, and was just about to return to the villa to continue watching movies and distract herself.
But she unexpectedly overheard two forest rangers talking.
“How can someone so young be so seriously ill?”
“Exactly. Given that, the Jiang family should be burning incense in gratitude that Master Ho doesn’t mind her being mentally ill.”
Jiang Luxi was listening intently, until the words “mentally ill” stabbed deep into her nerves.
She strode over and blocked their path, pointing at herself in horror: “You think I’m mentally ill?”
The two were startled, gasping sharply.
Oh no. Master Ho had instructed them not to casually gossip about this, lest it aggravate her condition.
One of them laughed awkwardly, “No, no.”
The other quickly shot him a look, and both shut their mouths, bowing their heads as they scurried away.
Jiang Luxi was furious. So Huo Jin Ge thought she was mentally ill?
No wonder he kept insisting she take the Elixir.
No wonder everyone looked at her so strangely.
Jiang Luxi narrowed her eyes, recalling how Jiang Feng had mentioned they had contacted the Jiang family.
Most likely, they knew the Jiang family had forced her to visit the psychiatry department.
Jiang Luxi squared her shoulders and stormed back into the villa.
Jiang Feng and Yu Yi watched her return, sighing inwardly with resignation.
She planted herself in front of them, chin raised, demanding accountability: “Do you think I’m mentally ill?”
The two were baffled.
Her voice rose higher as she pointed at herself incredulously: “What about me gives you the impression I’m mentally ill?”
Jiang Feng nudged Yu Yi, forcing a smile and speaking through clenched teeth: “Go get Master Ho, she’s having another episode.”
Jiang Luxi suddenly narrowed her eyes. Could it be that Huo Jin Ge, afraid she would expose his murders, had set this up in advance?
What a brilliant move!
Cutting the ground from under her feet!
It was just like him—planning two steps ahead for every one he took.
Trembling with rage, she spat out: “Are you afraid I’ll expose his murders?”
For a moment, Jiang Feng and Yu Yi almost believed she might not be mentally ill after all, but then her words made them chuckle.
Jiang Feng grinned, revealing his canine teeth, and for the first time earnestly explained to a “mental patient”: “Master Ho killing people? Which eye did you see that with?”
Jiang Luxi frowned, deadly serious: “Aren’t they all buried in those pits?”
Though she hadn’t witnessed it herself, the book had described it.
She knew exactly what kind of person Huo Jin Ge was.
“Who would bury bodies in their own estate? How unlucky.”
“……..”
Jiang Luxi scrutinized their faces for any tells, unsure if they were so accustomed to it or just acting too well.
They showed no signs of lying.
Jiang Feng simply grabbed her shoulders and marched her toward the back hill, leading her straight to the fertilizer storage.
He opened a sack right in front of her.
Curious, she peered inside—aside from river mud, it was mixed with some animal organs.
“Ugh~” Jiang Luxi covered her mouth and ran to a tree trunk, dry heaving for a good while.
Watching her reaction, Jiang Feng calmly retied the sack.
He explained leisurely, “This is fertilizer, for enriching the soil. These trees are very precious.”
Jiang Luxi’s face was deathly pale.
Confirmed: what the book said about Huo Jin Ge being a pervert was true.
But the specifics of his perversion were different.She forced back her nausea and straightened up, her gaze sweeping over the two of them. “Has Huo Jin Ge really never killed anyone?”
Yu Yi patted Jiang Feng’s shoulder as if he had just wasted his efforts.
“Definitely a mental case.”
“…….”