Chapter 2695 - 697: Such a Ruthless Person
Xiao Chen put away the needles.
Chairman Liao sat up from the bed and bent down to salute directly: "Mr. Xiao, I’ll never forget this life‑saving grace as long as I live."
As the saying goes, great kindness needs no thanks.
But Chairman Liao still had to say it.
He knew his own body best.
If it hadn’t been for Xiao Chen, a few years later he really might have kicked the bucket.
Now he was finally fine.
Not only did his body feel much lighter.
He even felt a lot younger.
No matter how much he said, it was hard to express his inner excitement and gratitude.
"Mr. Xiao, just say it.
Don’t say one condition, even a hundred conditions.
As long as you bring them up, if it’s not against the law, I guarantee I’ll get it done for you."
Chairman Liao said.
"No rush."
Xiao Chen shook his head and said, "At first I thought it was just your own problem.
I didn’t expect that the biggest problem wasn’t you.
It’s your home."
"My home has a problem?
What problem does my home have?"
Chairman Liao and Madam Liao were both a bit stunned.
"You haven’t noticed?
In the past year your family has been having accident after accident.
You became President of the Elixir Medicine Association, but you’ve been excluded, even sidelined.
Your wife went out some time ago and had a car accident, almost died.
Your son’s grades were clearly very good, but not long ago they suddenly plummeted.
Like he turned into a different person."
Xiao Chen asked back.
"This! You know even that?"
Chairman Liao was completely dumbfounded.
Was Xiao Chen a doctor, or a fate‑reader?
"These things aren’t hard to find out.
I hope you don’t mind.
Originally I didn’t know why all this suddenly kept happening.
Only after I came to your home did I sense where the problem was."
Xiao Chen said.
"Hearing you say that, we also feel something’s wrong.
But to be honest, we don’t really believe in that kind of stuff.
So we just never bothered with it."
Chairman Liao said.
"Some things aren’t necessarily superstition; it depends how you understand them.
Take formaldehyde for example.
Back when technology wasn’t developed, people had no idea it existed.
Yet it could cause enormous harm.
For people of that era, it was very mysterious.
But if someone could discover this substance called formaldehyde and get rid of it,
that person would hold a very high status."
Xiao Chen said casually.
"Please speak, Mr. Xiao. We believe what you say. Where exactly is the problem?"
This man who usually didn’t believe in Feng Shui had no choice but to believe today.
Misfortunes had been popping up one after another.
This absolutely wasn’t a coincidence.
Since Xiao Chen had spotted the source of the problem, they naturally had to ask him to help resolve it today.
Otherwise if something else happened in the future, what would they do?
"Did you buy this house recently?"
Xiao Chen asked.
"We bought the house several years ago.
But we did redo the interior once in the middle.
Because there were some issues with the underfloor heating.
Thinking about it now, that was exactly a year ago.
Could it be that someone tampered with our house?"
As these thoughts flashed through her mind, Madam Liao’s hands and feet turned ice‑cold.
Who could be that vicious.
Actually doing something like this to their family.
"Did you offend any of those workers?"
Xiao Chen asked.
"No, we treated the workers quite well."
Madam Liao and Chairman Liao looked at each other, both a bit lost.
They didn’t normally like to offend people.
"Since it wasn’t the workers you offended, then you must have offended someone else.
Someone paid off the workers and had them put something unclean in your house."
Xiao Chen said.
"Huang Baisheng!"
Chairman Liao suddenly ground his teeth and said.
"Who is Huang Baisheng?"
Xiao Chen asked curiously.
"Huang Baisheng is from the Huang Family, the younger brother of the current Family Head.
A year ago, when the Elixir Medicine Association was just being established,
the two of us were competing for the President’s position.
He screwed up and someone reported him.
Then he decided I was the one who did it.
He’s held a grudge against me ever since.
Later he even said to me
that he wanted to see my whole family stay unlucky.
Back then I didn’t understand what he meant by that.
Now I finally get it completely.
This Huang Baisheng is vicious."
Chairman Liao said angrily.
"From what you’re saying, it’s most likely this Huang Baisheng.
But the one who actually did it should be one of the workers.
He was probably bribed.
Once I find that thing, we’ll naturally know which worker did it."
Xiao Chen said.
"We’ll trouble you, Mr. Xiao!"
Both Chairman Liao and Madam Liao were endlessly grateful.
Xiao Chen walked a circuit around Chairman Liao’s home.
Suddenly he stopped at one spot.
He fixed his eyes on a section of wooden floor and slammed a punch down.
The ground was blasted open into a big hole.
But the underfloor heating inside was intact.
Next to the heating pipes sat a box.
There were many symbols drawn on the box.
Bloody and sinister, they looked horribly creepy.
Xiao Chen took the box out.
He carefully opened it.
"Ah—!"
Madam Liao suddenly screamed.
Inside the box was a pitch‑black object.
As if it had been scorched.
It gave off waves of stench.
"Quite a nasty bit of Sorcery."
Xiao Chen hurriedly closed the lid.
He sighed and said, "You’re lucky you found this thing within a year.
This thing is called a ’Cursed Ghost Stone’.
It’s very rare.
And very sinister.
Used together with Sorcery runes,
it can completely destroy the Feng Shui of your home.
This isn’t just about bad luck for one lifetime.
Your descendants, generation after generation, would probably be plagued by misfortune.
If your luck was a bit worse, your line could be cut off entirely."
"So vicious!"
Chairman Liao felt his spine go cold as he listened.
"Mm, I’ve got it figured out. It should be a male worker.
About one meter seventy‑five tall.
A bit on the thin side.
His shoe size should be 41.
Ring any bells?"
Xiao Chen asked.
"I know who it is."
Chairman Liao clenched his teeth and said, "Mr. Xiao, I really can’t thank you enough.
If it weren’t for you, I honestly wouldn’t know what to do.
I’ll handle the follow‑up to this myself.
Tell me your request. I promise to get it done."
"It’s not a big request. May I ask, is it the Tianshen Group that’s been putting pressure on your Elixir Medicine Association?"
Xiao Chen asked.
"Yes, it’s them."
Originally, Chairman Liao hadn’t wanted to say.
But since Xiao Chen was asking,
he naturally had to answer.
"If it were up to me alone, I’d definitely never let them get their way.
But right now I’m not the one in charge at the Elixir Medicine Association.
I’ve been sidelined.
The one really calling the shots is Huang Baisheng.
The Huang Family is very close with the Black and White Divine Palace."
Chairman Liao said.
"If you were given real authority, would you dare to approve our new drug for market?"
Xiao Chen asked.
"As long as the quality’s fine, of course I’d dare."
Chairman Liao said.
"Good, that’s all I need to hear.
The days of the Elixir Medicine Association being a smog‑filled mess need to end."
Xiao Chen took out his phone and dialed a number.
Only half an hour later.
Chairman Liao received a call.
Huang Baisheng and the others had been arrested for taking bribes.
The whole mess at the Elixir Medicine Association was now completely dumped onto Chairman Liao’s shoulders.
"This was originally my duty anyway. In fact, you’re still the one who helped me.
I really haven’t done anything to help you, have I?"
Chairman Liao said a bit awkwardly.