"You two are rebelling! Guards, kill them both!" Qiu Feng shrieked, a mixture of shame and fury in her voice.
"Qiu Feng!" Wang Ye boomed, "Are you sure you want to kill me? Now that Big Brother is dead, if I die too, the Wang family will have no one in power. Can you hold onto the Wang family's fortune alone?"
Qiu Feng's expression flickered.
Qiu Shuyun continued with a smile, "Dear sister, think carefully. You can order the servants to attack us, but if Wang Ye dies, some of the Wang family's enemies will come knocking soon! The Wang family will also decline in the shortest possible time. Your comfortable life will be gone!"
"In the future, you'll have to beg on the streets with Xiao Yan."
"And you, as my own sister, I wouldn't treat you and Xiao Yan too badly. At least you can live out your lives peacefully and prosperously."
At this moment, Ye Fan also chuckled, "As long as Wang Xiao Yan marries me, Ye Fan, my Ye family will fully support Uncle Wang Ye to be the head of the Wang family!"
Wang Ye smiled and nodded, "This girl is definitely going to marry you. My dear niece wouldn't just marry any Tom, Dick, or Harry! My elder brother was foolish, but I'm not!"
"You..." Qiu Feng was so furious she was trembling, but she was helpless.
She dared not kill Wang Ye.
For if the Wang family were to be without a patriarch, it would be a grave matter.
What Qiu Shuyun said was the truth.
At this moment, Qiu Shuyun chided Wang Ye, "Why were you so ruthless just now? You've left a shadow in Xiao Yan's heart!"
Wang Ye shrugged, "What could I do? Who told my elder brother to suspect the cook of poisoning and want to interrogate him thoroughly?"
"If he had just thrown away the food, I wouldn't have acted directly. But he insisted on questioning the cook about the poisoning. If he started questioning, wouldn't I be exposed immediately? I had no choice but to do it this way!"
"You're celebrating too soon," Chen Jie said calmly.
As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Xiao Yan seemed to recall something. She looked at Wang Fa, who was lying on the ground, and exclaimed, "Dad!"
She saw that Wang Fa, though his neck had been cut, showed not a drop of blood.
He groggily got up from the ground.
This...
Everyone was dumbfounded.
They had seen with their own eyes Wang Ye's cleaver strike Wang Fa's neck with precision.
Yet, he could still stand.
"Big Brother! You're not dead! But you shouldn't be alive! By doing this, you've broken the rules!"
Seeing this, Wang Ye's face contorted. Gripping the cleaver, he swung again.
*Bang!*
This time, Wang Fa was prepared and blocked his face with his arm.
The cleaver struck Wang Fa's arm, but the expected breakage of his limb did not occur.
His arm seemed to be protected by a thin, glowing shield that deflected the attack.
"What's going on?"
Wang Ye was stunned for a moment, then quickly swung again.
But the result was the same; the shield blocked the attack.
"You bastard! Stay away from my dad!" Wang Xiao Yan angrily lunged at Wang Ye, trying to intervene.
"Get lost!"
Qiu Shuyun pushed her forcefully, sending her frail body in Chen Jie's direction.
Meanwhile, Wang Fa had also sobered up. He looked at Wang Ye with utter grimness, "I never thought that the person who would try to take my life would be my own brother."
"Big Brother, rest assured and go! Your wife and daughter are my responsibility!" Wang Ye madly swung the cleaver at Wang Fa again.
*Bang!*
Another crisp sound, and Wang Fa remained unharmed.
"Damn it! Damn it! What is going on?" Wang Ye yelled anxiously.
Wang Fa looked at his body in confusion. Then, as if remembering something, he quickly fumbled for the jade pendant Chen Jie had just given him.
He saw that several cracks had appeared on the jade pendant.
Instantly, his whole body trembled.
He finally understood what Chen Jie meant by a defensive artifact.
So, his survival was entirely due to the jade pendant Chen Jie had gifted him.
Thinking of this, he frantically called out to Chen Jie, "Son-in-law! My good son-in-law, do you have any more jade pendants? This one is about to crack!"
Everyone looked at Chen Jie in shock.
So, Chen Jie's jade pendant was indeed extraordinary.
It could actually block an attack for someone at a critical moment.
Everyone finally understood how precious Chen Jie's jade pendant was. It was equivalent to giving someone a second life, something that could not be measured by money.
How laughable that they had all thought Chen Jie's jade pendant, priced at twenty thousand yuan, was inferior to Ye Fan's jade Buddha.
One gave a jade Buddha that brought bad luck, the other a life-saving jade pendant. Compared to Chen Jie's gift, Ye Fan's was worse than trash.
"So it's that jade pendant saving you! Let's see how many times that jade pendant can save you!"
Wang Ye understood what was happening and furiously hacked again.
Wang Fa, having just endured a series of misfortunes, was already injured and could only passively endure the beating.
If not for the artifact Chen Jie had given him, he would have died several times over by now.
At this moment, Jiang Xue quickly said to Chen Jie, "Chen Jie, didn't you buy five jade pendants before? Give Uncle Wang another one!"
Wang Xiao Yan quickly added, "Chen Jie, please, give my dad another jade pendant? If you give my dad another one, I'll be your wife unconditionally! We can get the license anytime! Live together."
Chen Jie sized her up, a hint of interest in his eyes.
However, he didn't like to take advantage of others' misfortune, so he said, "You don't need to worry. The jade pendant I gave your father is enough for him to endure until the misfortune ends. As for the other jade pendants, giving you one is no problem."
Chen Jie could already see that in such a short time, the malevolent aura between Wang Fa's eyebrows had almost dissipated.
It would soon vanish, and his persecution by Wang Ye was, in a way, caused by the jade Buddha.
Without the eruption of bad luck from the jade Buddha, Wang Ye's actions today would likely have failed for various reasons before even beginning.
Chen Jie took out a pendant and handed it to Wang Xiao Yan.
Wang Xiao Yan looked at Chen Jie earnestly, "Thank you, Chen Jie."
Then, she intended to give the jade pendant to Wang Fa.
"You little slut, if you dare go near your dad, I'll kill you!" Qiu Shuyun wickedly blocked Wang Xiao Yan, threatening her.
Wang Xiao Yan's expression changed.
"Xiao Yan, don't worry about me! I'm fine!"
Wang Fa knew he was powerless to stop them and could only keep dodging.
As he dodged under a table, he finally found a brief respite and shouted, "Quick, invite the North and South Elders!"
"Damn it! Why aren't you dead yet? Die for me!" Wang Ye, seeing that he could do nothing to Wang Fa, became frantic.
If every strike could hit Wang Fa, the jade pendant might not have lasted that long.
The key was that Wang Fa was desperately dodging, causing many of his blows to miss.
*Crack!*
Finally, Wang Ye landed a blow on Wang Fa. After the shield deflected it, Wang Fa felt the jade pendant in his hand completely shatter.
The shield on his body seemed to have vanished.
"Hahaha... Big Brother, rest assured and go!" Wang Ye, having noticed this, was ecstatic. He raised his cleaver and brought it down ferociously.
"You're seeking death!"
Just then, two figures arrived.
With two powerful kicks, they both landed on Wang Ye's back.
Wang Ye was sent flying like a cannonball.