817 A pair of hypocrites



Fu Yu Sheng raised his head and looked at Song Yan and the rest before he said, " I asked elder brother to bring me a picture of Chen Chu Chu and her sister's childhood and sent it to assistant Xu to investigate. From Assistant Xu's report, I can only tell you one thing that these two appeared in the small village of the L city after the old sect and the things which were hidden inside them were excavated from " 

Song Yan turned to face her husband while she seriously paid attention to what he was saying and so did the rest as they all waited for Fu Yu Sheng to continue.

It turned out that the Chen sisters first appeared in the small village where an ancient sect was found thirty-five years ago. The sect was hidden under the debris of a landslide and was completely hidden under the boulder and the rocks but then one day a villager found an old hairpin which was made out of pure gold sticking out of the boulder, after continuous weathering and erosion washed away the boulder, slowly revealing the treasures which were hidden inside. 

At once the appearance of the gold hairpin created a huge uproar in the village. The village of plum blossoms was cut off from the outer world because the villagers were uneducated and did not keep much connection with the cities, no among them thought of calling the archaeological department instead they all became tomb robbers overnight. 

One of the reasons was that they were not educated and the other reason was they did not wish to share the wealth which was found in their village which was why they absolutely refused to let this information be known by others.

The villagers then excavated the sect by breaking and pushing the boulders away. Once the sect appeared it was like an all-free Buffett for the villagers, they rushed inside at once and then snatched everything from within that they could—— they even went inside the chambers which were shut by talismans and had an ancient lock with strings and enchantment arrays drawn on it. 

From that chamber, they brought out several jade pieces, vases and a big portrait of two women who despite being covered in dust and dirt looked really pretty. The person who excavated this portrait was someone surnamed Yin, he liked the two women in the portrait and brought it home with him. 

Later that man became one of the richest men in the village, how it happened no one knew. All they knew was that after surname Yin brought the portrait with him, he became incredibly lucky, all the businesses which he started suddenly boomed causing him to rake in riches, the only thing that he was unlucky in—— was his marriage. 

Every time he married a woman, she would either die in mysterious circumstances or she would simply vanish. 

However, the man did not give up marrying women. Even when he was in his sixties, he continued to marry young women and because he was rich no one dared to deny him. Most of the time he would target either those families who were on the verge of getting bankrupt or those who were poor from the very beginning. 

Surname Yin bribed these families with either money or jobs in his company and sometimes he even succeeded in marrying two women at the same time.

Song Yan's gaze turned cold when she realised that the man who excavated the portrait was most likely feeding the souls which were trapped inside in exchange for his good luck. 

She did not interrupt Fu Yu Sheng and let him continue. 

Surname Yin's business continued to flourish but his wives continued to die and in case his wife somehow managed to live long enough to give birth to a child, that child also ended up dying after a few months. 

It was said that half of the cemetery of the plum blossom village consisted of those who married into the Yin house. 

After a few years when the surname Yin turned eighty years old, he could no longer marry anyone because he ended up paralysed in his lower body which caused him to remain in bed for a couple of months before he died as well. 

His body was found on the outskirts of the village, half eaten with skin melting no one knew what happened to him. 

The matter was too strange, many villagers said that it was his karma while the rest thought that it was an animal attack. 

It was only after his death that the police found two young girls locked in the basement. These two girls were none other than Chen Chu Chu and Chen Xi, who were then taken out and they were being prepared to be sent to the orphanage but before leaving, the two sisters asked to take the portrait with them.

They said that their father told them it was a lucky portrait and they have to keep it safe. 

To others, it sounded like childish talk but since Fu Yu Sheng knew that the two girls were not innocent children, he knew that they must have deliberately spoken these words in front of everyone. 

Later on, before the officers sent them to the orphanage, one of the villagers asked the Chen sisters about the portrait but the two denied him, saying that it was a family secret.

Fu Yu Sheng then continued,  " The villager was surname Chen, he was the brother of the Old Master Chen. He was lazy and a good-for-nothing who envied the luck of others, he saw that Old Yin was able to get to new heights because of that portrait which was why he suggested taking the two girls in saying to the police officers that he could not  see them stay in the orphanage." 

" The way he spoke made the police officers waver, but the last nail was hit in the coffin by Chen Chu Chu and Chen Xi who after spending a few hours with Second Uncle Chen agreed to stay with him. The villagers all sighed when they saw the Chen sisters being fooled by the Second Uncle. They all thought that the Chen sisters were unlucky but the one who turned unlucky was the second uncle Chen."