Li Mingyu didn't say a word, silence was already his answer.

After a while, Li Mingjuan was placed on a wooden stake, surrounded by dry firewood.

Except for Qiao Xuan and Xi He, everyone else stood far away and did not dare to approach. Li Mingyu stood behind Zhou Qin with her eyes lowered and couldn't bear to look any further.

Xi He asked in a low voice: "Do you really want to burn her to death?" After this period of contact, he felt that Qiao Xuan could not do such a cruel thing.

Qiao Xuan grinned and said, "Scare and scare them." Besides, the county magistrate's daughter was really unpleasant, so it would be nice to teach her a lesson.

"When that thing comes out of her body, stay back and protect yourself."

Xi He felt warm when he heard Qiao Xuan's advice and nodded to express that he understood. He might not be able to help Qiao Xuan, but he could never hold her back.

Qiao Xuan picked up the burning torch stuck on the ground and walked towards Li Mingjuan step by step.

"You - you bad woman, don't come here! Don't come here!" Li Mingjuan's face turned pale and her voice trembled as she shouted, "Dad, save me, I don't want to die, I don't want to die."

"It's useless to beg your father! You might as well beg me." Qiao Xuan smiled, tilting his head and narrowing his eyes.

"Tch! If you can, burn it. I'll earn it if I bring one of the Li family members to accompany me to hell."

The thing possessing Li Mingjuan smiled evilly, not afraid of Qiao Xuan at all.

Qiao Xuan tightened the hand behind his back. What he held tightly in his hand was a Thunder Talisman, "As you wish!"

The torch was tossed casually and landed accurately at Li Mingjuan's feet. Suddenly the flames burst into flames and green smoke billowed.

"Ah! It hurts, it hurts, dad, it hurts me so much."

"Please, master, save me. I will never scold you again. I was wrong, wuwu, I was really wrong!"

The fire got bigger and bigger, burning higher and higher from Li Mingjuan's feet, and the air was filled with a burning smell.

Li Mingyu, who was standing far away, clenched his fists when he heard his daughter's heart-rending shouts. He lowered his head and his eyes were red.

Suddenly, a wisp of black energy floated out from Li Mingjuan's head, and Qiao Xuan quickly threw out a talisman.

With a sound of "Bang!", a thunderbolt struck from the sky above the black shadow, and the black shadow disappeared into thin air before it had time to escape.

The ground was also hit, a big crater appeared, and dust flew up.

"You haven't put out the fire yet! Do you really want your lady to be burned to death?" Qiao Xuan waved the dust in front of his eyes, turned around and said angrily to a group of stunned servants.

Li Mingyu reacted faster than anyone else at this time and immediately ordered, "Quick! Quick! Quick! Save the lady."

Li Mingjuan was rescued and her life was intact. However, she fainted and was probably very frightened.

In the study room.

"It's getting late, why don't you two rest at home tonight, and I'll have someone take you back tomorrow?"

Li Mingyu felt like he had come back to life again. Now he looked at Qiao Xuan and Xi He and they were so pleased with each other. When he spoke, his tone was full of flattery.

Qiao Xuan waved his hand and declined politely, "Thank you for your kindness, sir, but I have other matters to deal with tonight. I have an appointment, so I have to go back as soon as possible."

Li Mingyu didn't want to stay long after hearing this, and took out a stack of banknotes from a small box in the study room, "It's a small thought, but I hope you two will accept it."

Qiao Xuan smiled heartily and took it generously, "Then we won't be polite!"

Li Mingyu looked at Zhou Qin and said, "Manager Zhou, you must send these two home safely."

"Yes! Sir."

Li Mingyu was courteous and personally escorted Qiao Xuan and Xi He to the door. He did not turn back until they got on the carriage.

"Ahem, Miss Qiao." On the carriage, Zhou Qin hesitated several times before asking, "Is what the girl on the carriage said true before we came here?"

Qiao Xuan and Xi He looked at each other and saw the smile in each other's eyes.

"Manager Zhou doesn't believe me? He thinks I'm a liar," Qiao Xuan said, half joking and half serious.

Zhou Qin had a look of embarrassment on his face. He pursed his lips and was about to say something when he heard Qiao Xuan say in an understatement: "It's okay if you don't believe me! Time will tell us the answer anyway."

Zhou Qin: "..."

She said that he was in trouble and something bad had happened recently. He didn't believe it before, but after seeing what she was capable of, he had to reconsider her words.

After a pause, Zhou Qin then said, "Can I ask the girl to buy a talisman?"

Qiao Xuan smiled, showing his white teeth, "I'm sorry, Manager Zhou, I've run out of all my talismans. You saw a lot of them used in the backyard of the county government just now."

Xi He raised his lips and smiled. It seemed that Qiao Xuan wanted to take advantage of Manager Zhou.

Zhou Qin's heart tightened, "Then -"

When will it happen again? Before he finished asking, he heard Qiao Xuan change the subject, "If Manager Zhou sincerely wants it, it's not impossible. I still have a peace charm left for myself."

Zhou Qin looked at her expectantly, "I'll buy it!"

He spoke too quickly, as if he was afraid that Qiao Xuan would regret it the next moment.

"It's not expensive at all, fifty taels a piece." Qiao Xuan was very satisfied with Zhou Qin's reaction. "After all, it's the last one. It's still useful if I keep it, so I reluctantly parted with it."

"If you don't want it, Manager Zhou, just buy it for me! Xiaoxuan, I accidentally got the one you gave me last time wet, so I want to buy a new one," Xi He said seriously.

Zhou Qin was speechless. He suspected that these two people were working together to deceive him and he had evidence, but he had no choice. He knew that he would still have to jump if he knew they were deceiving him. After all, he didn't want to put himself in danger because of these fifty taels.

"I'll buy it!" he said with a bit of gritted teeth.

"I know that Manager Zhou is a happy person, so I suffered a little loss and bought it for you cheaply."

Qiao Xuan's smile became brighter and brighter. He quickly took out a wrinkled talisman from his sleeve, smoothed out the wrinkles and placed it in front of Zhou Qin.

If she hadn't planned to buy his talisman for ten taels of silver before, Zhou Qin wouldn't have felt that he was at a disadvantage. He was just afraid of comparison, so the price went up to forty taels in one afternoon, giving him the illusion that he was being taken advantage of.

Reluctantly, he took out fifty taels and placed them on the small table in front of Qiao Xuan.

Qiao Xuan put the money away with a smile without any hesitation.

The carriage was running fast, and it was already dark.

"Go to Qingfeng Village, not Taoyuan Village."

Qiao Xuan yawned. He was either hungry or sleepy at the moment.

Zhou Qin placed Qiao Xuan and Xi He at the entrance of Qingfeng Village and left. The night breeze was blowing and the moonlight was bright, illuminating the road at the entrance of the village very clearly.

"It's still early. We can't go back until midnight. The soul of the little grandson of the head of Qingfeng Village has been lost and we have to find it."

Qiao Xuan told Xi He the general story of the matter while walking.

"Is it dangerous?" Xi He has gained a lot of experience following Qiao Xuan recently. He knows that Qiao Xuan is very powerful, but he is always worried about her, for fear of encountering a powerful character that Qiao Xuan cannot solve.
Chapter completed!