Chapter 683: Chapter 680: The Fourth Ebony Box

“Master, the two young masters can’t bear the itching and are going crazy in their rooms; neither the Chinese doctors nor the Western doctors could find a solution, and sedatives and sleeping pills have all failed.”

A nanny rushed into the study to report.

Xiang Jinsheng flew into a rage at this. He was already troubled by Huo Sining’s matters and had no time to care for his two sons. He angrily said,

“Are they expecting their old man to wipe their asses for the mess they’ve caused? They can’t even endure this little bit of pain? Tell them to suck it up for me!”

The nanny, frightened and trembling, had no choice but to run and report to the lady of the house.

Xiang Jinsheng paced around the room for a while before suddenly thinking of something; he ran to the hidden compartment in the ancient tower and pulled out a box.

Seeing the items in the box, a deep reluctance appeared on his face, but in the end, he hardened his heart and called the butler to the study, giving him detailed instructions:

“Go there, and hand this thing directly to Miss Huo, say it was a gift from me. Don’t say anything else, lower your stance, remember!”

Originally, when Xiang Jinsheng learned that his two sons had lost the map to Song Chaoying, he almost had a heart attack from anger.

At this point, with the map already in the Song Family’s hands, it was definitely not retrievable, so after some consideration, Xiang Jinsheng couldn’t help but target Huo Sining.

If he gave the map to Huo Sining, Xiang Jinsheng was certain that Song Lifeng, due to the power behind Huo Sining, wouldn’t dare to ask it back from Huo Sining, and could only reluctantly part with it.

Since the Xiang Family got nothing good from the gambling agreement on the high seas with Song Lifeng, Xiang Jinsheng felt it was not a bad idea to scheme against the Song Family now.

With this thought, Xiang Jinsheng felt balanced in his heart and without further ado, handed his map to the butler, instructing him to make sure it was delivered to the hotel where Huo Sining was staying.

As soon as Xiang Jinsheng made his move, Song Lifeng got the news, and knowing what the Xiang Family had given to Huo Sining, Song Lifeng’s expression changed. In the end, he couldn’t help but sigh and curse “Old fox!” Apart from that, he was truly helpless.

Huo Sining looked at the wooden box placed on the table and felt that the developments were becoming increasingly interesting.

Over the past three days, Su Qingqing and her group had a really good time in Ao City; not only the Song Family but also the Ye family and Xiang Family treated them with utmost respect.

Furthermore, when they attended the banquets hosted by the Ye Xiang families, the attitudes of these two families toward them were very strange: they were extremely cautious, as if they were contagious diseases, yet they had to grit their teeth and receive them.

Su Qingqing was puzzled; they weren’t old witches, and even though they might not be stunning beauties that caused the downfall of cities and states, they could at least be considered delicately pretty young ladies, right? At S University, she had no shortage of suitors. But what were these ghostly expressions all about?

Su Qingqing didn’t know about the misery of Ye Rongbin and the Xiang brothers after being afflicted by the Itch Powder; if she knew how pitiful those three were, she wouldn’t find it so inexplicable and might even sympathize with their plight.

Just because they incorrectly spoke of Gu Xu as a pretty boy who lived off women, the three were unknowingly struck by a stealthy blow.

Itching is an ailment that must be treated.

But the medicine administered by Huo Sining was no ordinary drug — 999 Piyanping would not be effective against it.

The three unlucky children had their hands bound and couldn’t scratch, and they desperately wanted to pass out but not even sleeping pills worked, so they had to endure the itchiness, hour by hour, for one day and one night, three days and three nights, feeling itchy all over. One can hardly imagine this feeling without experiencing it personally.

Ye Han and Xiang Jinsheng didn’t dare offend Huo Si Ning, so they pleaded earnestly, and finally, Huo Si Ning, the great Buddha, deigned to come.

So, you want to invite me to dine, huh? Well, fine, let’s dine then. Huo Si Ning was not the least bit courteous, bringing Su Qingqing and the others to dine at the Ye and Xiang families, then nonchalantly leaving after the meal.

Ye Han and Xiang Jinsheng turned green in the face at that time, but didn’t dare to utter a word.

After staying three days in Macau, Huo Si Ning and others were ready to return to S City.

To everyone’s shock, just before Huo Si Ning and the group boarded the plane, Ye Han and Xiang Jinsheng actually rushed over personally to see them off.

“Miss Huo, if you ever come to Hong Kong in the future and need anything, just say the word. I, Ye Han, might not be capable of much, but I do have people at my disposal who can carry out tasks,” Ye Han said with a mix of reverence and caution on his face.

The faces of Ye Han and Xiang Jinsheng both showed a few degrees of fear and carefulness, making many people unaware of the internal situation drop their jaws in surprise, the Song sisters included. They exchanged glances with each other, both puzzled and confounded.

Not just the Song sisters, even Su Qingqing and her companions felt like clueless monks, unable to understand what was going on with these people.

Seeing Huo Si Ning’s face with a mysteriously smug expression, as if holding the Ye and Xiang families’ Achilles’ heel, Su Qingqing was immensely curious. It was maddeningly tantalizing; she almost wanted to grab Huo Si Ning right away for a harsh interrogation to find out what exactly she had done in the past few days, unknown to them, to make the Ye and Xiang families so compliant.

Not long after Huo Si Ning’s plane took off, the Ye and Xiang families finally received a small paper package delivered by a servant from the Song family, claiming it to be a gift from Miss Huo.

Understanding the message, the Ye and Xiang families dissolved the powder from the paper package in water as the servant had instructed, and gave it to Ye Rongbin and the Xiang Brothers to drink. Very soon, the welts on their bodies visibly faded away!

Both families breathed a sigh of relief.

However, after this incident, no one dared to provoke Huo Si Ning again, and even the usually arrogant Xiang brothers became much more subdued.

There was no choice, the Miao people’s poisons were too malicious; once afflicted by their poison, one could neither live nor die.

Of course, as the instigator of this prank, Huo Si Ning was unaware of the impact it had caused. It wasn’t until she had returned to her villa in S City that she finally felt a sense of relief.

After safely storing away the gifts from the Song, Ye, and Xiang families she had brought back from Ao City, Huo Si Ning noticed the wooden box that Xiang Jinsheng had given her.

The box was neatly packaged. Huo Si Ning had been too busy to open it and see what was inside while in Ao City. Now faced with the present, her curiosity was piqued, and she decided to unwrap the package.

To her astonishment upon opening it, Huo Si Ning’s mouth gaped wide open, almost shattering her spectacles.

The gift from Xiang Jinsheng was a wooden box, approximately half a foot in size, with the surface sanded smooth, made of prime-quality phoebe wood.

The most important thing was that on the surface of the box, there was a carved flower design – a pattern that Huo Si Ning found exceedingly familiar!