Song Yan was stunned after listening to the inhuman voice, she turned her head to walk in the direction from where the voice was coming, she was afraid that if she was late something wrong might befall the children playing around the banquet hall but as she walked towards the pool area together with Fu Yu Sheng, a mournful scream echoed in the entire hall and Song Yan cursed under her breath, looks like she really was too late!
After the screaming echoed in the banquet hall, everyone exchanged a look with each other before they too rushed towards the pool area together with Fu Yu Sheng and Song Yan.
The members of the Wu family too looked at each other before they followed the crowd and ran in the direction where the crowd was heading towards.
At the pool area a woman in her young thirties was kneeling clutching a young girl's pink princess dress, her eyes wild and teary as she looked around frantically, if not for the man who was holding her back clutching her shoulders, Song Yan was worried that the woman would have dived into the pool by now. " Yin Yin, calm down..all right? The patriarch of the Wu family is here, he will give us an explanation," said the man clutching the shoulders of the woman named Yin.
Father Wu stepped out of the crowd upon hearing the man mention him, his eyes grazed at the dress that the woman was clutching before he darted his gaze back up at the man and solemnly said, " Is something the matter master Huo?"
The man sitting next to the kneeling woman was Huo Cheng, the owner and boss of the Huo enterprises the Huo family wasn't as strong as the Wu and the Fu family they were not that bad either, this was the reason why Huo Cheng could look Father Wu in his eyes and without coating his words with honey asked, " Old master Wu, we came here on account of your family inviting us and we even brought our daughter to give her blessings to you, so can you tell me how in the world, my daughter vanished in thin air? The entire Wu villa is heavily guarded by security guards so where did my daughter go? Only leaving this behind?" He picked up a pink rabbit shoe from the ground and waved it at Father Wu who in turn exchanged a look with the two Wu brothers coming to stand next beside him.
Wu Jin took in the sight in front of him and felt his eyes tremble. The same thing happened all over again and yet no one was able to catch the culprit. He looked up and stared at the guards with their heads lowered before turning to look at angry Master Huo and the grief-stricken Madam Huo and his temples started to throb painfully. Great, he was going to have a headache solving this matter, this was why he was so against holding a banquet but his mother and eldest brother said that livening up the atmosphere in the house was important.
Now the atmosphere has truly lightened up!
He shot a blaming glance at his mother who looked more wronged than ever, Wu Jin knew that because his mother has been pampered rotten by his father, she wouldn't see that she was the one who was in the wrong and didn't bother to even say anything to her. He simply looked at his second brother and patted his shoulder, his second brother was standing next to him looking like as if he has seen a ghost and this was something that Wu Jin understood, just like they found little Hong's clothes far away in an abandoned village.
Watching this scene was like losing his son all over again for his second brother.
" You can go back in, I will deal with the matter here," said Wu Jin but Wu Lixin shook his head, he was the elder brother here, how shameful will it be for him to leave such a difficult matter to his younger brother?
" We will deal with this together," said Wu Lixin with determination in his eyes before he turned to look at his wife. Second madam Wu was leaning against their cousin in law shivering and trembling with tears in her eyes, Wu Lixin couldn't see his wife like that, so he walked towards her and softly said, " Tao Yang? Go back inside we will see what's going on in here okay?" Then he turned to look at his mother with a slightly blaming glance but still held his anger back. " Mother go with Yang'er and see if she is okay, I will take care of the matter here together with father."
Then he turned to look at Master Huo and Madam Huo with a sympathetic glance before hiding the emotions in his eyes, as a member of the Wu family he couldn't allow anyone to look down on them. If the matter was leaked out that something like this happened because of the negligence of their family then he was afraid that their family will be heavily criticised so with a stern expression he motioned Master Huo to follow him. " Master Huo crying like this wouldn't help, please come and check the surveillance recording with me, so that we can see what happened to your daughter."
Master Huo didn't want to move from the spot but at the same time, he knew that he couldn't offend the Wu family completely, so gritting his teeth, he stood up from his spot along with his wife before following after Wu Lixin. On the other hand, Wu Jin turned to look at the crowd in front of him and smiled lightly before apologising, " I am really sorry for this inconvenience but I believe that the banquet has to end here and now given the circumstances, please forgive us for the lack of hospitality and give us a chance to make it up to you."
"It's nothing," she tore her gaze away from the thin layer of demonic energy that was yet to disperse and looked at him. " I was just taking a look to see whether I could find something or not."
" And did you?"
" I——"
" What's going on?" With her wheelchair being pushed by a maid Wu Genji reappeared in the banquet hall that was now almost empty and turned to look at her parents because her voice was too loud, Song Yan and Fu Yu Sheng heard her.
" You know what? Just give me a second," said Song Yan as she strolled back inside the banquet hall and looked at Wu Genji, just as Song Yan expected her complexion was better than before the pallid hue of her face was now replaced with a rosiness that wasn't there before.
Song Yan narrowed her eyes as she took a very careful look at Wu Genji, staring point blankly to make sure that she doesn't miss anything. Surprisingly, she couldn't see any bad karma lingering on Wu Genji's back, this was something completely unexpected —- if she was the one behind all these killings then as a murderer of a child, she should have at least a little black mist hanging over her shoulders but there was nothing.
The more Song Yan looked at the members of the Wu family especially Wu Genji the more the bad feeling in her heart increased, she couldn't help but think of the family in front of her as a very dangerous and terrifying thing. Especially Wu Genji, that peerless, sickly face with a layer of sweat on her forehead —— that girl in front of her though clad in human skin couldn't be counted as human anymore. If anything she was just as much of a human as Fang Yanli despite being draped in human skin.
She looked at the rosy complexion of the woman and the little girl who was nowhere to be found and suddenly Song Yan wanted to know just what kind of heaven-defying methods this family used to hide someone from the grim reaper as well.
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