67 Mottled ghost with missing bones

Song Yan stared at assistant Xu, as she gazed at him, the images that she saw in the scrying flashed in her mind. Though she had no interest in keeping Fu Yu Sheng, she still wasn't willing to let Song Lan succeed in her intentions. She tilted her head and thought for a moment before she took out a safety talisman from her space ring then she smiled at assistant Xu in a way that made his entire body quiver.

" Se...second madam?" said Assistant Xu with a hesitant expression on his face, what was this? Why was second madam smiling at him like he was a young girl whom she wanted to abduct?

Song Yan continued smiling as she strode towards Assistant Xu with the peace talisman in her hands and then with apt expertise she began speaking, " Assistant Xu, I can foresee that you will be having trouble at the twelfth hour, right in the middle of the night. The trouble might be dangerous and might cause a loss of a limb or two, worse come worse, yand you might even lose your life. Here I will give you this talisman for free, the price of this talisman is around four hundred thousand yuan but I will let you have it for free since you work so hard for my husband."

Assistant Xu said nothing, he simply blinked at Song Yan who was holding a talisman in her hands and a smile that could beat the smile of the number one salesman in the country.

When CEO Fu received the call from Young master Wang, he thought that Young Master Wang was overly exaggerating when he said that the second madam was acting like a crook, selling fake talismans. But now that he was seeing it with his own eyes, he understood that Young Master Wang wasn't exaggerating anything.

The Second madam was indeed acting like an ace crook.

" Second madam, this ---" began Assistant Xu with eyes that were filled with unwillingness but then Song Yan thrust the talisman that was in her hand to him and with a stern expression said, " This is an order, I am not asking you, Assistant Xu."

Song Yan knew that the latter was trying to refuse her, so she immediately used her status as his lady boss to suppress him.

Assistant Xu pursed his lips and swallowed the refusal that was almost on his throat. Fine, there was nothing else he could say to her now that she was using her identity as his lady boss.

He took the talisman in his hands and looked at it, and just as Young Master Xu said that it was really tacky with a single piece of yellow paper and red inscriptions written on it.

His lips twitched and then looked at Song Yan who was looking at him with a stern expression that was very similar to his boss when he wanted something to be done as soon as possible.

He sighed and then tied the talisman around his neck. Whatever just take it as he was doing an errand for his boss, after all his salary was in six figures and this was the least he could do.

Song Yan saw that he has tied the talisman around his neck, and nodded in appreciation. It was a good thing that he was a loyal subordinate and was willing to listen to everything that his bosses told him.

" Don't take this off till the next morning,"said Song Yan as she stared at the talisman. She wasn't lying when she said that Assistant Xu's life was in danger if he removed this talisman before midnight then even God wouldn't be able to save him from the gruesome death that she foreseen in the scrying.

Assistant Xu of course had to nod, there was no way he would ever be able to rebel against the tyranny of his bosses.

A six-figure salary, Xu Ming, remember the six-figure salary that comes into your bank account every month.

Once he was done tying the talisman around his neck, Song Yan turned around and hailed a taxi before he could stop her.

He watched her go and threw back his head, what in the world. The car was here and so was he, was there any need for Second madam to leave in a taxi and what's more---

Where was Boss Fu? Why didn't he come down with the Second madam? He thought about it for a moment and then he turned around to look for his boss on his own.

But before he could enter the restaurant, Fu Yu Sheng came down with a sullen expression on his face. Assistant Xu instinctively stopped breathing and sucked in his breath trying to look as small as possible.

Fu Yu Sheng's gaze drifted to the yellow talisman and his face turned even darker. " Why are you wearing this thing?"

Assistant Xu wished he could tear away the talisman that was tied to his neck but he resisted that urge. Though he was Fu Yu Sheng's subordinate, he was just as loyal to Song Yan... As long as Song Yan was married to Fu Yu Sheng, he will follow her wishes silently. Thus, he could only say what was the truth. " Second madam said that my life is in danger and she asked me to wear this talisman till the morning."

Fu Yu Sheng opened his mouth to tell her that it was stupid but then he remembered what happened to him just a few minutes ago and he sullenly closed his mouth.

Though he was still hesitant to believe that something like this really existed. This was a great opportunity, let's see whether or not such things really existed.

So, he didn't say anything and got in the car with an expression that was as dark as the night without the moon shining in the sky.

Assistant Xu said nothing, he saw that his boss has gotten inside the car, so he too immediately got in the car and drove away.

After finishing up his duty for the day, Assistant Xu returned home. He lived in a rather well to do apartment building, though it wasn't as good as the apartments where the millionaires or rich people lived but it was a great building. The neighbourhood was peaceful and quiet, and the neighbours were all nice and cordial people who would never do anything dangerous or shady.

Then he looked down at the talisman that was sticking to his neck and shook his head. Really, what was Second madam thinking? How can his life be in danger when he lived in such a secured locality?

However, he still didn't remove it. Call it a gut feeling or something of the sort but he was willing to listen to Song Yan maybe it was in his bones that he wanted to follow his boss's order no matter how stupid they were.

Though he was thinking like this, he still checked his house thoroughly once he opened the door of his apartment. He sniffed to sense whether or not the gas was leaking but that wasn't the case, then he picked up the baseball bat that was leaning against the cabinet behind the door and checked the nooks and crannies just in case someone was hiding.

But the thing was that there wasn't even a strand of a burglar much less an entire burglar.

He frowned, there wasn't any kind of danger here so why did Second madam say something like that to him, was she pulling his leg? But then again she looked too serious for that, it didn't look like she was lying or faking it?

Assistant Xu wasn't superstitious but when someone told him that his life was in danger he couldn't help but be worried. He looked here and there but he found nothing, scratching the back of his head, he shook his head. " What in the world am I doing?"

Exactly, he was a modern man who was living in the modern world. Since when did he start believing in something like this?

He stopped panicking and then went inside the bathroom to take a bath, but when he was walking down the hallway, he sensed that someone or something whipped past behind him.

The small hair on the back of the neck rose, and he instantly whipped his head to look behind. His brows creased as he swept his gaze around the dark hallway. " Who is there?" he asked then raised the bat in his hand, " I am warning you, I am armed don't even think about attacking me."

But there was no answer, Assistant Xu frowned and turned around to walk back to the small hall where he entertained his guests and flicked on the lights. The dark hallway lit up and was instantly drowned in bright lights, he swept his head sharply around every corner of the room and even looked behind his cushions and recliners. But nothing -- maybe he was being paranoid after listening to things like that.

He shook his head for the millionth time for being an idiot and then flipped off the lights before he turned around and left.

If only he swept his gaze at the upper corner of his hallway, he would have seen a dark and mottled figure with missing bones whose gaze was following her all along.