Old Wang really did have a fiery temper.
I hurriedly offered him a cigarette and tried to sweet-talk him. "Master Wang, that family's barely alive after what you've done to them. They know they were wrong now and want to ask you to show mercy and let them off."
Wang Xiaoxian took the cigarette and looked at me coldly. "What, they hired you again to break my spell?"
"That's simple enough. If you have the ability, go ahead and break my feng shui arrangement. I'll have nothing to say."
"If you don't, go back where you came from."
I shamelessly said, "You flatter me, saying that!"
"When I first went to their house and saw that feng shui arrangement, I nearly pissed myself. I honestly had no idea there were still masters like you in this day and age!"
"I came along with Seventh Master today mainly to see you in person!"
I quickly took out my lighter, lit his cigarette, and continued, "Besides, I don't think you did anything wrong at all. That woman deserved a lesson. And you weren't her first victim. I was..."
Wang Xiaoxian took a couple of drags and gave me a sidelong glance. "She stiffed you too?"
I said, "Your sixty-six thousand became sixty-six hundred. My eighty-eight thousand became five thousand..."
If we really compared, I'd had it a little worse, though Tao Jianhua had later made up the difference.
Wang Xiaoxian looked at me and asked, "Then you had it even worse than me. Yet you still came to plead for that woman? What were you thinking?"
I said, "It's really not that I want to plead for her. It's mainly that I have a bit of a family connection with them. I'm caught in the middle."
"And I've already persuaded them to