Chapter 124

Chapter 124: This Hand Is Done For

Being suddenly exposed as a “little virgin,” Second Young Master Jiang looked like he had lost all hope in life.

Du Jun Yan and the others almost broke trying not to laugh. They were afraid that if they slipped up and hurt the kid’s pride, they would also make Du An Rao suspicious.

The Jiang family members, on the other hand, quietly let out a breath of relief. Thankfully their child didn’t have a messy private life. If he had, he might not have lasted long enough for someone to come and save him.

[But even if it held things down for a while, if this went on too long, there would still be problems.]

“People who are soaked in yin energy for a long time will be affected in both body and mind,” Du An Rao explained. “They’ll feel depressed and irritable for no reason. Food tastes like nothing, and they can’t sleep well. I’m guessing Second Cousin already had all these symptoms lately, right?”

Everyone in the ward turned to look at Jiang You Nian again. His face was very pale, and he looked like he was about to cry.

“So you’re saying the reason I haven’t been able to sleep is because of this jade? Then the person I see every night in my dreams, grabbing my throat…”

Everyone sucked in a cold breath.

Even the three members of the Jiang family who had been standing right by his bed stepped back without thinking, putting some distance between them and the bed.

Jiang You Nian: “…” Did they know how much that one step back hurt his feelings?

Seeing this, Du An Rao almost burst out laughing. She cleared her throat and said honestly: “That should be the tomb host’s obsession at work. Blood jade that’s stuffed into a dead person’s mouth usually slides down and gets stuck in their throat.”

Jiang You Nian suddenly felt like a chicken with its neck stepped on. He grabbed his own throat with one hand, and his face turned bright red.

Luckily, once the first shock and panic passed, everyone in the Jiang family cared more about Jiang You Nian’s health than anything else.

“An An, since we’re sure now that Second Cousin’s problem is all because of this jade, does that mean as long as we throw it away, he’ll be fine?”

Du An Rao shook her head: “It’s not that simple. This jade stayed with Second Cousin day and night for more than ten days. It’s already left a mark on him. Even if you throw it away, it will wander around and find its way back to him.”

At that, both mother and son felt their skin crawl. Goosebumps rose one layer after another.

Jiang You Nian was scared into silence by the word “mark.” Madam Jiang couldn’t help thinking of how, when she was packing up yesterday for the transfer, she had seen that jade lying in the cabinet.

She had planned to ask Jiang Chang Bin to take it home and put it away. But for some reason, she ended up leaving it, brought it all the way to City S, and then casually stuffed it into the bedside cabinet here.

Now, after hearing Du An Rao’s words, the more she thought about it, the creepier it felt.

“Then what should we do? Can we destroy it?”

“We should be able to… I’ll try.” Du An Rao glanced at the blood energy rolling over the jade. It looked scary, but it didn’t actually have much power. She felt she could handle it.

Thinking this, Du An Rao suddenly reached her hand toward the jade.

The Du family members hadn’t expected her to be so bold and just grab it with her bare hand. They shouted in shock: “An An!”

Just as they cried out, Du An Rao’s hand closed around the blood jade.

Then everything went silent. The wind stopped, the rain stopped. Nothing happened.

Everyone: “???”

Before they could think too much, Du An Rao’s scream exploded in their ears.

[Ahhhhhh… it stinks, it stinks so much! This hand is useless now! I need to wash my hands, wash my hands, wash my hands…]

The others, who had been scared half to death, fell silent: “…”

It was just a bad smell, what was the big deal?

But then they thought about it. If they knew something had stayed in a dead person’s mouth and they still had to pick it up with their own hand, and they could smell a stink no one else could smell, they would also want to rush off and scrub their hands like crazy.

Madam Jiang was the first to react and kindly reminded her: “There’s a private bathroom next to the ward.”

As soon as she finished speaking, everyone felt a gust of wind rush past their eyes. When they looked again, Du An Rao was already gone. The blood-soaked ancient jade, the source of all evil, was now lying in Jiang Chang Bin’s palm.

“This…” Jiang Chang Bin’s face turned green.

A few minutes later, Du An Rao came back into the ward. Her hands were washed until they shone, and even from a few steps away, they could smell a faint, clean scent.

“The Yin Fiend Star energy on that jade is gone. You can smash it, throw it away, or even keep it as a souvenir if you want. It won’t cause trouble anymore.”

Everyone in the Jiang family: “…” Who in their right mind would keep something like that as a souvenir?!

“Wait, that’s it? It’s already done?”

“Yeah, it’s done.”

[Master was actually right. Things like this that are full of evil yin are most afraid of Accumulated Merit. Just touching them burns them clean, just like when I touched Older Cousin at the banquet a few days ago. If I’d known it was this easy, I would have asked the nurse for a pair of gloves first before touching that thing. What a mistake, what a mistake!]

Everyone: “…” Is this really about whether you wore gloves or not?

They had thought this would be a very serious and dangerous matter. In the end, it was solved with a casual pinch. It made all the worry and fear of the last few days feel kind of silly.

Still, no matter what, having the problem solved was a good thing.

With the blood-soaked ancient jade gone, and with the Five Emperor Coins that Du An Rao had kindly lent him protecting him, Jiang You Nian’s condition improved so fast they could see it with their eyes.

When Director Qiao heard the news and rushed over, he even suspected that Father Du had exaggerated and made it sound urgent on purpose just to fool him.

“The Five Emperor Coins should stay with Second Cousin for now,” Du An Rao said. “He can give them back after he’s fully recovered. Besides that, Uncle, Aunt, and Older Cousin might not be as bad as Second Cousin, but they still stayed near that jade for a while. They must have some yin energy on them too. Over the next while, you should spend more time in the sun and avoid cold, gloomy, out-of-the-way places.”

“Okay, okay, okay, we’ll do exactly as you say.” Madam Jiang walked in front, arm-in-arm with Du An Rao, looking as gentle as if Du An Rao’s words were law. The corners of her mouth were almost reaching the back of her head.

The two grown men walked behind them, talking quietly about what would come next.

“What is really going on? Who gave you that jade? Was it an accident, or did they do it on purpose?”

Jiang Wen Tao’s face darkened slightly: “It really was an old friend I’ve known for decades. Emotionally, I don’t want to believe this has anything to do with him. But reason tells me that even if he wasn’t the one behind it all, he can’t be completely innocent.”

As soon as he found out there was a problem with the peace pendant, Jiang Wen Tao thought back to what that friend had said when he gave him the jade.

At the time, he hadn’t thought much of it. Now, thinking over each word, he realized his friend had been trying to talk him into wearing it himself.

If he had done that, the one lying in the hospital bed right now wouldn’t be Jiang You Nian, but him.

“I just can’t understand it. All these years, I never treated him badly, and I’ve never done anything against him. Why does he hate me so much that he wants my life?”