The King of Curses

Chapter 219 Sister's Reward

Cen Dongsheng and others planned to leave the village from then on.

Before that, they had one last thing to take care of.

"Go meet the village secretary."

……

They took the initiative to visit, and Jiang Dafu came out to greet them with sleepy eyes.

"Teachers, what's up?"

He seemed surprised and confused, and studied their faces.

“Someone has died in our house.”

Song Yutang's words were very straightforward.

"........."

Jiang Dafu was stunned and his face suddenly turned pale.

"A family of three, from the couple to the children, were all trapped in the wall. The person who did this is really crazy."

"You... you..."

Jiang Dafu's voice trembled, and his hand that was grabbing the eaves of the door subconsciously stepped back.

This reaction is enough to explain something.

"It seems that you are surprised that we are still alive." Cen Dongsheng said calmly, "Does everyone who is sent to that room die?"

"No... that's not what I meant... Please forgive me..."

Cen Dongsheng was not in the mood to get entangled with an ordinary person. He was not a policeman or a judge, and he did not need to listen to annoying excuses or confessions.

The man's eyes sparkled and his voice was deep.

"Tell us everything you know."

Jiang Dafu's eyes became dazed for a moment, and he felt as if a tiger appeared out of nowhere and pounced on him. He was so frightened that his brain went blank and he had no memory after that.

The frightened people would only answer questions instinctively, and soon tell every detail of the dark past that had happened in this seemingly peaceful village.

……

Although Jiang Dafu was not the murderer who killed the couple personally, he was an accomplice.

He arranged accommodation for the victims, and he also built the bodies that were left behind into the wall with his own hands.

Moreover, similar things have happened more than once.

The beginning of it all was simple. On the day Jiang Dafu became the village secretary, he dreamed of Jiang Qi, and his body and mind were controlled by it.

The haunted house built by Jiang Qi is adjacent to Jiangtun Village. With its usual style of doing things, it will naturally find a way to completely control it, and the village chiefs of all generations have become puppets of ghosts.

Under Jiang Qi's confusion or coercion, over the past hundred years, the people in the village have been helping ghosts kill outsiders, sending them to the haunted house to be transformed into a member of the ghost army, or helping to clean up the traces.

All the people sent into that room would disappear from this world the next day; therefore, Jiang Dafu originally thought that it was impossible for them to get out. He never imagined that someone could actually take down the haunted house that had existed for a century, along with the mastermind behind it, overnight.

……

"Okay, now we know the truth."

Cen Dongsheng looked at Jiang Dafu who was lying unconscious on the ground.

"The specific handling of the aftermath should be handed over to the Chao Working Committee."

Jiang Dafu was an accomplice to the evildoer. How his crime will be dealt with will depend on his subjective will, such as whether he was sober when he acted. In addition to him, there are some people in the village who know about the incident and they will all be punished.

Song Yutang looked towards the room, thinking about how desperate the family of three who were treated as victims would feel before they died, and her eyes were a little melancholy.

"The lives of ordinary people are like duckweed in the wind."

It symbolizes the tragedy encountered by weak lives, and the bullying of supernatural forces due to the weakness of ordinary people... The chaotic characteristics of the era of spiritual revival have gradually spread.

"Yes."

Cen Dongsheng said.

Therefore, he feels that there must be a stable order, no matter whether the rules of this order itself may be unacceptable to others - it must exist first.

……

Afterwards, Cen Dongsheng drove back to Tianhai City and sent his two teammates back one by one.

Song Yutang lived with her parents, while Jiang Yunmei lived alone. He sent the former home first, and when they arrived at the latter's door, the girl invited him to sit up.

Cen Dongsheng thought about it and did not refuse, as he just happened to have something to say to her.

"Finally back!"

Jiang Yunmei took the key to open the door, kicked off the long boots she wore when going out and put on slippers, ran into the room with a "clack clack", lay on her pillow and hugged it tightly, lay on the sofa, raised her hands and shouted, as excited as a primary school student who had just started summer vacation.

...He was too excited and completely disregarded his image, as if he had forgotten that he had invited someone else, a guest of the opposite sex.

Cen Dongsheng closed the door and waited silently for a while before he saw Jiang Yunmei slowly sitting up from the sofa.

"If you want something to drink, go find it in the refrigerator and pour it yourself. Don't be polite with me."

The girl lifted her hair with her fingers and smiled beautifully and quietly.

"Also, since Teacher Cen is willing to come up with me, you have something to say to me, right?"

…It’s no use trying to pretend now.

"I can tell?"

Cen Dongsheng didn't bother to be polite with her. He took a can of Coke from the refrigerator, pulled off the pull ring and drank it in a few gulps.

"Throw a can at me... Yeah, Mr. Cen is the type who will show his thoughts on his face."

Jiang Yunmei took the Coke and answered with a smile.

"Actually, I'm just reminding you." He said, "Yunmei, you may be even busier during this period."

"Eh?"

"The Jiang family is now yours."

Jiang Yunmei blinked.

"Now that the head of the family has passed away, there is no one more suitable than you. The Jiang family is a family of spell masters, so it is only natural to let the strongest spell master take charge of the power."

Cen Dongsheng said.

"Of course, even without these elements, as long as you have the support of the Super Working Committee, it will be easy for you to become the master of the Jiang family."

“Haha…indeed.”

"So, I'm here to ask for your opinion. Although someone has suggested this to me, if you think that managing the family and the business is too hard, you can just find someone to take care of it."

"I originally wanted to say that I'm just a college student, and it doesn't seem appropriate for me to manage the family and the business... But since you took the initiative to bring it up, does that mean this matter has other meanings?"

Jiang Yunmei thought about it and put forward her own guess.

"Let me think about it. The Jiang family has always been in the position of acting as a middleman between folk spell-forbidden masters and ordinary people. Do you want to continue doing so?"

"That's right. In the past, you had to use the tiger's skin and the banner everywhere, but now you have the opportunity to make this identity worthy of the name..."

Cen Dongsheng replied.

"But this is for the Jiang family. For you personally, I think it's too tiring and there's no need to try. You still have to go on a mission with me."

After a moment's silence, the girl's expression became serious.

"That's fine. We can do these two things together."

she says.

"I will put all the school affairs aside and start with family management." "Is that okay?"

"I am Mr. Cen's assistant. Since I have accepted this responsibility, I think I have an obligation to learn and master it."

"obligation?"

"In fact, I have long realized that the Jiang family is not my final destination. With Mr. Cen's ability, there will definitely be more than just the two of us recognized teammates around him in the future."

“I have no interest in developing power.”

"But there will be people who follow you for various reasons. They are the kind of people you may not take to heart, but you won't go out of your way to drive them away either."

"That's true."

"So how do we deal with people like this? I think someone has to help."

Jiang Yunmei crossed her legs, held her chin with one hand, shook the can in her hand, and smiled drunkenly.

"I plan to try to be a candidate from now on. If Teacher Cen needs me in the future, I hope he will consider me first."

“…To be honest, you’re a little too nice to me, senior sister.” The young man sighed.

"Haha, it's so rare to hear such words from you. I call you 'teacher' and you call me 'senior'? It's really confusing."

It is said that beautiful girls who have grown up being the center of attention often have a willful side, but the girls Cen Dongsheng has met so far are not among them.

Song Yutang looks like someone who has received an excellent family education; as for Jiang Yunmei, it is probably because she has an overly strong sense of responsibility that her willful side is suppressed by herself.

As for the two sisters in the family, to say that they are willful... they are indeed the type who act on their own and have too strong self-will, but the degree of their "self" exceeds a certain limit, and they try to make the whole world revolve around themselves. In the eyes of others, it is difficult to call them simply "willful".

While Cen Dongsheng was thinking, Jiang Yunmei was still speaking seriously;
"With you here, I have someone to lean on, and I can do things without considering the risks. That's how the connection between us was established... In short, doing everything I can to help you is my goal from the beginning, so you don't have to worry about it."

She tilted her head.

"Or does Teacher Cen have other candidates?"

“…Yes, there is.”

Cen Dongsheng had naturally considered what Jiang Yunmei described about his future situation.

Just as she had predicted, even if the man did not have the ambition to conquer the world like the Philosopher King, or take the initiative to build his own power like the Equality King, the social status of a high-level curse master meant that he was destined not to be alone.

Unless they are the ascetic type or a lone wolf who has an instinctive aversion to interpersonal relationships, most top-level spell-binding masters will have their own team of followers and corresponding industries.

You can't be a privileged class among the privileged class and still have to do everything yourself, right?

He originally thought that for such a small matter, he could just let his elder sister find someone to handle it.

"I was planning to ask my girlfriend to help."

Jiang Yunmei's eyes, which were originally slightly narrowed like a lazy cat, widened at this moment. It seemed that this sentence really exceeded her expectations.

"Girlfriend? So Teacher Cen has a girlfriend..."

she muttered.

"Oh, I think I heard my junior schoolmate mention this before... Sorry, it seems my suggestion was a bit presumptuous."

"No." Cen Dongsheng shook his head, "I think I'll just leave it to you now."

"Uh...can I?"

At this time, Jiang Yunmei became hesitant.

"If you leave this matter to outsiders, your girlfriend won't be angry if she finds out, right?"

"No, she's quite busy. It's not a big deal."

"..."

Jiang Yunmei's eyes turned a little strange when she looked at him.

"Teacher Cen, I feel like you, as a boyfriend, seem to have no self-awareness."

"Really? It should be fine as long as you're honest with her. I'll explain it to her and she won't mind."

"Okay. If you don't mind, I'll do it according to your ideas. I'll just listen to you and don't have to think about those extra things... Isn't that right?"

"Well, that's good."

"Haha... then..."

Jiang Yunmei seemed to have regained some motivation after perking up from her lazy posture. She stretched lazily.

"Let's start with the Jiang family and accumulate some experience. I can't just be satisfied with the experience in the ivory tower. It's time to get in touch with the real world."

*
After that, Cen Dongsheng said goodbye to Jiang Yunmei and drove all the way back to his home.

After opening the door, Qingyan was at school, while her elder sister was still sitting on the balcony reading a book leisurely, just like before he left, as if time had never passed in this house.

But some things are different.

On the way back, Cen Dongsheng contacted the staff of the Super Working Committee. He could feel that although the city now seems calm, the power structure of the dark world has already undergone earth-shaking changes.

"you are back."

An Zhizhen closed the book and placed it on her knees.

"How's it going?"

"I have dealt with the ghost behind the Jiang family. What about you?"

"It went smoothly. There were quite a few people with bad intentions, but they were all hopeless. You killed the few who had the potential to raise the flag and become the leader."

Human teacher, vampire, insect master, Jiang Qi...

In total, Cen Dongsheng had personally dealt with four first-class sorcerers and the owner of the house, including a monster that was only one step away from being a vicious monster. Jiang Qi only had to avoid the misfortune of encountering a special-class spell master, who was a big devil at the dawn of the spiritual energy revival era, but he had killed them all before they could cause trouble.

"It seems that I have done a lot in the past few months."

What Cen Dongsheng has done will be considered a great achievement in the future. In addition, his strength is almost that of a magical sorcerer, so he is fully qualified to compete for the position of minister of a department directly under the Governing Bureau. If he is assigned outside Tianhai City, he will be a chief who rules a city and holds great power.

...Although his wish was to cling to someone powerful, it was not in vain after all.

"Yes, you helped me a lot. Everyone knows that."

An Zhizhen replied with a smile.

Cen Dongsheng, the first consultant who only obeys the orders of the chief consultant, has been involved in the development of the supernatural forum from the very beginning to the establishment of the Super Working Committee. Although the man's actions have never been revealed within the system, news and rumors about him have already spread throughout the entire Tianhai City's curse-master community and have even been heard by curse forces in other places.

"Come here, Dongsheng, I will reward you well."

The woman's tone became charming and gentle. This kind of temptation has become commonplace after the two officially became lovers.

But today, things are a little different.

"Sister Zhizhen..."

The man licked his lips, his heart warming slightly.

"I think the 'reward' I want now...is not ordinary."

"Haha, are you looking forward to it?"

An Zhizhen was not surprised by this reaction. She put down the book, stood up gracefully, and walked towards him.

"of course."

"After the work has come to an end, I feel a little itchy. Yes, maybe it's time..."

The woman hugged him gently. The soft and plump body of a mature woman exuded an alluring fragrance. Her long black hair fell on his arms, bringing a cool touch.

She whispered in Cen Dongsheng's ear.

"Are you ready?"

(End of this chapter)