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  While eating, Cheng Zhou told Yao Fangqing's mother and son about his affairs through a dream.

  He Sheng furrowed his brow as soon as he heard the two words "curse".

  The red leaf was dissatisfied and very rudely used chopsticks to poke his father's mouth. "Why didn't you tell me at that time?"

  That mother and son, especially the mother, are considered to be quite powerful among the lingering spirits who can maintain their souls and memories. Moreover, they have killed people, and their resentment is heavy enough that they are only one step away from becoming evil spirits, making them a suitable snack.

  If Li Jiacheng had sent the mother and son to the underworld for reincarnation, it would have been fine. If the mother and son escaped from Li Jiacheng's hands, why did he want to restrain his appetite?

  Cheng Zhou moved his chopsticks away from his mouth and scolded his son: "Don't do this while eating, it's not good, it's disrespectful to others."

  Before the son got angry, he comforted him and gave him half a piece of braised yellow croaker, "Eat this, He Sheng cooks it deliciously, children who eat more fish are smart."

  "It hurts."

  "What's the big deal about yellow fish? Lazy bug." Cheng Zhou, still not switched back from his silly dad mode, muttered to his son while diligently and painstakingly removing the only main thorn from the yellow fish.

  Situ looked at the powerful Red Leaf Hall with a majestic attitude in front of them, making a speech that seemed like coquetry to the weakest human here, and calmly drank a mouthful of soup. Then he turned his head to He Sheng and said:

  "I like to eat beef and mutton, I like to drink thick wild crucian carp tofu soup. I prefer Northeastern rice, which has a strong fragrance of rice and is very sticky when eaten. I love all kinds of fruits, except durians, you can buy any kind."

  He Sheng snapped back from his thoughts and nodded, indicating he had taken note of it.

  Cheng Zhou immediately heard that Situ didn't like to eat durian, and anxiously said: "Durians are delicious, I bought them back on the same day, dug them all out and put them in the quick-freeze cabinet to chill, even threw away the skin, guaranteeing that there's no smell at home."

  Cheng Zhou looked at his son again and tried to persuade him, "Believe me, durians are really delicious!"

  "Durian?" Hong Ye was recalling if he had ever eaten this thing before.

  "Next time I'll buy it for you to eat, guaranteed delicious!"

  Situ's face suddenly revealed an extremely disgusted expression.

  Cheng Chou glared at him, "Don't you want your vitality anymore?"

  Sze-toh could see that and reluctantly said, "Alright, let me know when you buy durians, I'll come back three days after you finish eating them."

  "Sir!"

  "Cheng Ge, you mentioned that curse thing, can you tell me more about it. If what the mother and son said is true, that someone has cursed you, then this matter really can't be taken lightly."

  He Sheng was probably the one in the family who worried most about Cheng Chou's safety, and yet even Cheng Chou himself didn't take the curse seriously.

  "Has someone cursed him?" Hong Ye grabbed Cheng Chou's collar, leaned in and sniffed, "There's no strange smell, either the curse didn't take effect or...the person who cast it was so skilled that even I couldn't detect it."

  Hong Ye wanted to say that this was completely impossible, but he had slept for too long and forgotten many things. Many of his abilities were also recovering by feeling his way through, so at this time, he didn't dare boast that no one could curse Cheng Chong.

  And this fact obviously made Hongye very unhappy, so he opened his mouth and left another oily mark on his father's neck.

  Cheng Chou wiped his neck with a paper towel and said to He Sheng, "Yao Fangqing and her mother left too quickly, I don't know if they were scared by the red leaf or that 'guy who can transfer curses' from their mouths. However, I got a letter from Chen Yan which Yao Fangqing left behind, and it also mentioned something about a curse."

  Chengzhou spoke up to here and ran to find out that copy.

  The family sat at the dinner table, eating and passing around the letter that was equivalent to a will.

  "Looking at Yao Fangqing's letter, it seems like she formally cursed three people with her own life." The last one to receive the letter, He Sheng said while reading.

  "No, there are four." He went to the kitchen and added a fourth bowl of rice. When he came back, Si Tu opened his mouth and said: "In addition to that scumbag Huang Yu and his selfish parents, there is also Yao Fangqing's father. However, for her own father, she used another kind of curse method that would not kill him, cursing him with a hundred illnesses until the day he died."

  "Is the curse effective?" Cheng Zhou, although he had seen ghosts and some inexplicable beings with his own eyes, still held a skeptical attitude towards curses, which were invisible and intangible.

  "Yao Fangqing said someone transferred the curse she laid onto Officer Meng, did he?" asked Situ Dao.

  Cheng Zhou nodded.

  "And you and Hong Ye saw Mang Huang when he was fine, right?" Si Tu looked at Hong Ye.

  Hong Ye said "uh-huh" and urged Cheng Chou to cut up a watermelon for him to eat.

  "Finish the rice in your bowl first."

  Hong Ye didn't finish his meal and poured all the remaining half bowl of rice from his small bowl into his father's bowl.

  Situ ignored his own childish behavior, which was very consistent with his current appearance and age, and calmly analyzed it for Cheng Chou: "However, later on the train, Meng Han, who was originally in good health, suddenly vomited blood and fainted. After being sent to a local hospital, he was even initially diagnosed with stomach cancer. But after we eliminated Xiao Heshang, Yao Fangqing and her son were reunited, and Meng Han's stomach cancer turned into a stomach ulcer, and he quickly recovered. Have you ever thought about what the reason is?"

  "You're saying... that Yao Fangqing's curse really exists, and someone successfully transferred Yao Fangqing's curse on her father to Officer Meng, but after Yao Fangqing woke up and found out the wrong target was cursed, she lifted the curse off Meng, so he would be in danger one moment and then turn safe again?"

  "That's it."

  "Wait a minute." Cheng Zhou was driven crazy by his son and had no choice but to run into the kitchen first to cut watermelon for him.

  Hongye saw that there was watermelon to eat and felt satisfied.

  Cheng Chou gave a piece to each person at the table and took one for himself to start eating.

  "This season's watermelon is the most expensive. Cheng Ge, do you have enough money on you?" He Sheng asked while biting into a watermelon.

  "Alright, I'll pay you back next week when I get my salary. I'll return the 3,000 yuan I borrowed from you at that time."

  He Sheng was surprised, "Return me? What for?"

  "That's a red leaf for your family use, I just borrowed it temporarily, of course, I will return it to you."

  "No need, Cheng Ge, Hong Ye made me exchange another gold coin today, and we have enough money at home for the time being."

  "That's the money from selling red leaves, I..."

  Before he finished speaking, his son suddenly dropped the watermelon and ran into the bedroom with a thud. After a while, he ran out again and casually threw a small cloth bag at him.

  "Here! Just these few gold coins, and you've been nagging me until now! Wait till the day I use pure gold to build a palace for you, and you can live comfortably!"

  "Huh? A palace made of pure gold?" Red Leaf said, and as soon as she finished speaking, she felt something flash through her mind - a magnificent palace that shone so brightly under the morning sun that it could blind people's eyes, entirely crafted from gold, inside the palace...

  The scene flashed by, and Hong Ye frowned slightly, but he smiled again. Although the memory was not very clear, he was now certain that he absolutely had a magnificent palace made of pure gold and occupying a vast area!

  Just wait, wait for him to recover his memory, find that palace, he wants to take Cheng Chou there to circle three times, let him look but not touch, wait until he drools all over the floor, then announce - that palace is given to him, I wonder what kind of fool Cheng Chou will become at that time?

  Oh dear, just thinking of such a scene makes him extremely look forward to it.

  Chengzhou was already stunned at this time.

  His son actually gave him all seven remaining gold coins!

  Cheng Zhou... quietly put the gold coins on the dinner table, quietly thinking to himself that he indeed had the best son in the world, hahaha!

  Whose son is as lovely, handsome, cool and domineering as my son?

  Who else's son is as talented and intelligent as my son, with artistic cells?

  Whose son can be as sensible and capable as my son?

  My son can catch ghosts, can your sons?

  My son will still protect his old man, can your sons?

  My son will hand over all his property to his father, your sons... it's good if they don't squander the family fortune! Haha!

  At this time, all the shadows left before retreated from Cheng Chou's body.

  He vowed that he would work hard and earn more money to let his beloved son live a life like a little emperor.

  In the future when his son gets married, he wants to buy a big villa as a wedding gift! He also wants to buy him a luxury car worth over one million!

  Wow! Men, work hard for your children!

  "Can we get back to the curse?" Stewart tapped his fingers lightly on the table.

  The whole family looked at him together.

  "I don't understand curses, what about you?"

  He Sheng swallowed his saliva and said: "I've heard my mother mention some of it before, and I've also read some books about this kind of thing."

  "Your Majesty, do you understand about curses?" Sutu looked at Hongye Lao Da.

  "If I remember correctly, that thing was originally a kind of talisman. And in the most ancient times, when there were no laws, if someone from a certain tribe committed a serious offense, the shaman of that tribe would use a special ritual to tell heaven and earth about the person's mistake, letting the rules of heaven and earth punish the person."

  Hong Ye lifted his face and let his father use a towel to wipe the watermelon juice off his face, then stretched out his small paws to grab another slice of watermelon.

  Later, this method of sacrifice spread, and some people would also use this method to pray to heaven and earth when they encountered extreme injustice or deep-seated hatred, hoping that the rules of heaven and earth would punish their enemies. Later still, due to wars, natural disasters, and other reasons, the correct methods of sacrifice were lost, and people could no longer utilize the power of heaven and earth, and could only seek help from those with great power.

  Hong Ye discovered that his memory had countless gaps, and he couldn't even remember who those powerful beings were.

  "And you want those great powers to help you, naturally it's impossible without paying a price, so there is the principle of exchange. You want to use the power of the great powers to achieve one of your goals, then you must also pay the corresponding price."

  "This sounds like a Western summoning of demons." Cheng Zhou interjected.

  "Who would have thought that He Sheng would nod in agreement, 'Although the development of things is different in the East and West, if you strip away the superficialities and look at the essence, you'll find many similarities. For example, their five-element arrays, six-element arrays, summoning demons, exorcising demons, inviting gods, and the offerings and incantations used in these rituals are all very similar to our Eastern array methods and talismans. They all emphasize certain rules, require special materials for drawing arrays, and need specific offerings, which are usually more effective the more powerful they are.'"

  Situ added, "The higher the quality of the offerings, the more powerful the energy that is summoned."

  "It is." He Sheng nodded and looked at Hong Ye with Si Tu, then glanced at Cheng Zhou.

  Cheng Zhou didn't understand the implication of their gaze, so he picked up the photocopy of the letter that Yao Fangqing had left behind and read it carefully again, especially the part about the curse.

  "Yao Fangqing didn't say who she invited, and I suspect she wasn't even clear herself. She only wrote two methods of cursing in the letter, one was a death curse to avenge her enemy, which she didn't elaborate on much, the other method she detailed the materials needed for the curse but didn't write how to use those materials, yet Chen Yan looked like he had already used the second method, how did Chen Yan know?"

  "No matter how Chen Yan knew, if she wanted to use the second method to curse someone, she must know the correct cursing method. That method is like a phone number, and if it's wrong, not only will she fail to contact the powerful being she wants to borrow power from, but she may also... find the wrong person who can't be found." He Sheng worried.

  "Chengzhou, I suggest you'd better go find Chen Yan again and see if you can ask her what kind of curse method she used. If possible, it's best to get her to lift the curse as soon as possible. Some powerful beings are particular about their reputation, as long as the offerings exchanged satisfy them, they won't bother the sacrificer too much. But some powerful beings...are quite greedy, they probably won't be satisfied with just that little offering, and in order to get more and better offerings, they might tempt your colleagues step by step into the abyss."

  "Women just love these things," Hong Ye sneered, "curses or talismans, they're all invented by them! And they like to spread them around one by one."

  Cheng Chou, who had some unusual thoughts about Chen Yan, couldn't help but speak up for the women, "That's because they are naturally inferior to men in terms of strength and muscle, they can't win by fighting openly, so they have no choice but to take another path."

  Hong Ye didn't refute, and instead said seriously: "Indeed, after discarding **, the women who die and become evil spirits are generally much more vicious than male ghosts. Probably because they were too oppressed when they were alive, the resentment accumulated day by day can form a substantial entity. Tell me! Which woman did you offend, making her want to curse you?"

  Cheng Zhou opened his big mouth, this topic changed too quickly.

  "Yes, this matter is important. If someone really is cursing Brother Cheng, we must first find out who that person is." He Sheng asked Cheng Zhou, "Brother Cheng, do you have any impression or feel that anyone around you would curse you?"

  Cheng Zhou was always the one who got wronged by others, he rarely took the initiative to offend others, but he couldn't guarantee that he hadn't unintentionally offended someone.

  Situ swept away the remaining watermelon in the plate, and then wiped his mouth: "Actually, to clarify the situation and who is cursing Cheng Chong, the best way is to find Yao Fangqing mother and son and ask them clearly."

  "I'm afraid we can't find that mother and son anymore."

  Chengzhou and the other two looked towards the speaking Hongye together.

  And then this sentence was like a kind of premonition, Cheng Zhou's mobile phone on the sofa rang.