Love letters are not allowed in the exorcism notebook!-Chapter 482 - 60: "You Can’t Write the Name ’Shen’ Twice With a Single Stroke

Men, in the presence of the opposite sex, instinctively prefer to display their superiority, or what they believe to be superior aspects of themselves.

In front of their own sex, especially those they are familiar with, they are more likely to reveal the despicable sides of their character.

"I’m gonna fucking kill those bastards!"

After eating a dumpling at his own welcome-back feast, Wang Yunxiao burst into profanity in front of his brothers.

"You have no idea how disgusting that family is, Human Skin Painters, eh, practicing sorcery using human skin. Where do you think that skin came from? Surely they don’t peel it off themselves, right? But that’s not even the sickest part. When I went to their door, they actually claimed that person was tempted by a demon and had nothing to do with the rest of their family."

Youtiao frowned and said, "Brother, you don’t seem like someone who would believe such nonsense."

"Of course I don’t believe it, but they wept bitterly and even offered me one thousand taels of silver as a thank you, praising me for ridding the community of an evil, even wanting to honor me with a public procession..."

"So brother, did you take the one thousand taels and come back?"

"I didn’t take it. Who knows whether that money was gratitude or hush money. If I took it, I really wouldn’t be able to explain myself. I kept an eye on them and secretly observed them, only to find out that there really were three factions in their family."

Wang Yunxiao raised a finger, "The first faction tries to act righteous. There’s a great-uncle in the family who is known in the county as a paragon of virtue, repairing bridges and paving roads, and known for his charitable works. This group of people have good reputations in the county, some of them even refuse aid from the family, preferring to work hard and study even if it means living in poverty."

"The second faction are the landlords, who have used various means to snatch a great deal of land in the county over the years, causing many scandals including bullying men and overbearing women, and there’s even family members in the new government, colluding with officials, birds of a feather flock together."

"The third faction includes the family’s cultivators, reportedly practicing the ’Chess Herald’ Dharma Gate, one of the Twelve Laws promoted by the new government, the same one that Chen Yan cultivates."

"How does cultivating Chess Herald lead to skinning people alive?"

"They must have been tempted by demons!"

"What’s with these first, second, third groups? Aren’t they all one family?"

Guozi said impatiently, "If you ask me, they’re all the same. What difference does it make?"

Wang Yunxiao gave him a stern look, "We’re also loafers, and our hands are dipped in blood, more or less. Do you want to be caught and fed peanuts in prison?"

"That’s different."

"What’s so different about it? Cui the Young Widow is Old Blind Meng’s family. Should she and her daughter also be dragged out and shot?"

"Zhou Qing is still hanging at the entrance of the women’s toilet. Should we take care of her first?"

"If not supporting the new policies enacted by the government justifies death, should we start with killing two hundred million people to see the effects?"

It wasn’t unreasonable for Guozi, with his simple mind, to come up with such an idea, but Wang Yunxiao couldn’t let it stand.

Billions of common people, infinite variety in life. It’s normal for people to not understand each other, but you absolutely can’t just kill someone because you don’t like the look of them, let alone their entire family... It might feel satisfying at the moment, but what about the problems it creates?

You kill people, does that mean others can’t kill you?

That’s why there must be standards that everyone can accept, namely the rule of law.

Wang Yunxiao had killed his fair share of people in the past, but it was always under the premise that they were unwilling to follow the rules. If you don’t abide by the laws or the rules of the Jianghu World, then don’t blame me for being ruthless.

His way of doing things could, of course, lead to criticism from those moral champions, but he never cared.

When I step out of line, naturally, someone will come to punish me. But, for now, I’m far from reaching that point.

Just like the people of the Shen Family, Guozi wasn’t wrong to say that those who appear charitable might just be fishing for compliments. Those landlords and officials might have all sorts of filthy trading going on behind the scenes.

While Wang Yunxiao was displeased with these matters, he could accept them.

He wasn’t the President, after all, he was just a loafer—eat all that fits in his bowl.

The only issue he needed to get straight with the Shen Family was the matter of the Imperial Jade Seal.

"Do you guys still remember someone called Shen Haowen from our school?"

"The one who hit it off with Chen Yan, right? The one who dropped out later?"

When Shen Haowen got into trouble, the brothers hadn’t yet tasted mutton soup, so after being swept by the tides of time and space, there was bound to be some confusion in their memories.

Having two totally different sets of memories suddenly appear in your mind is very dangerous.

Imagine coming back to life through time travel, not being clear about the situation, grabbing the hand of the school beauty sitting next to you and calling her ’wife’, only to be beaten to death by her current boyfriend.

After the tides of time and space, due to some sort of butterfly effect, Jiang Yinyin did not disappear, and Shen Haowen didn’t drop out of school either.

Apart from Wang Yunxiao and his brothers, who were drafted into the battlefield at that time, no one else, including Shen Haowen himself, retained the memory of that period.

At that time, Wang Yunxiao also found it strange. The origin was clearly the incident on the Cosmos, so why would the butterfly effect flap its wings to Qinghe Middle School and affect the lives of Shen Haowen and Jiang Yinyin?

But there were just too many messy things happening at the time, and he quickly pushed the matter to the back of his mind.

It wasn’t until recently, when he started investigating the Shen Family and discovered their collusion with the Western Demon, that Wang Yunxiao naturally remembered Shen Haowen and the long-tongued old lady he encountered in the kitchen on the day he first traveled through time.

Then he remembered another matter.

It concerned the notebook that he and Li Mumu had.

The notebook in Li Mumu’s possession came through a very normal route—it was a present from a friend.

But the route of the notebook in Wang Yunxiao’s hands was not so normal.

It came as a drop from a defeated monster.

By that time, Li Mumu was supposed to have died already.

Thinking back to the first time the two met with the notebooks, and the strange information revealed by the notebooks...

Is it possible, then, that this notebook wasn’t just any mass-produced item, but truly the same object?

If Zhou Qing could exist in a quantum superposition state between the living and the dead, why couldn’t the notebook do the same?

"In short, the Shen Family from Cangzhou County City is just a branch of the Tianmen Shen Family. This Shen Haowen, I remember his family also has a lot of influence, daring to challenge the Special Service Bureau."

Wang Yunxiao recalled how the Shen Family came storming for an explanation after Shen Haowen was shot... Regardless of whether they lost face in the end and got beaten up badly, it was clear that their family had the clout.

You can’t write the character ’Shen’ twice without having something to show for it.

He didn’t know much about this guy Shen Haowen, but Shen Haowen’s student file clearly recorded his home address.

"Let’s take advantage of the holidays to dig into this Shen Family. If we really find out something, our brothers won’t be satisfied with just a thousand taels of silver."