Chapter 045 The Forty-fifth Melon

"Ms. Gu, please come in, please come in."

When Hu Danyang opened the door and saw that the person coming was Gu Xicao, the tense expression on his face relaxed and he quickly opened the door.

Gu Xicao brought Wang Laoshi into the room and introduced him, "This is my assistant. Miss Hu, don't you mind?"

Hu Danyang waved his hands like a palm leaf fan, "I don't mind. To be honest, the more people there are, the better. I'm terrified even at home now."

Gu Xicao entered the house, which was a very cozy small three-bedroom apartment. The area was not very large, but from the furnishings one could tell that the owner was well off. Hu Danyang was a wealthy lady at the party a few days ago. Although she was a wealthy lady, she was not very old, only thirty years old.

"You said before that your house is haunted?"

Gu Xicao changed her shoes, sat down in the living room and asked.

Hu Danyang poured out a few cups of tea and nodded, "Yes, it has been going on for almost half a month."

Wang Laoshi's heart tightened. Is it haunted?!

If it's really haunted, it would be hard to take this order!

"What are the specific symptoms?" Gu Xicao's expression did not change. She took a sip of tea and asked.

Hu Danyang thought for a moment and said, "It started ten days ago. Every night when I was sleeping in my room, I could hear footsteps in the corridor and the sound of eating in the living room."

"Didn't you come out to check after you heard the noise?"

Wang Laoshi couldn't help but ask out of curiosity.

Hu Danyang touched his neck and said awkwardly, "I have always been very timid. I was afraid that it was really a ghost, so I didn't dare to come out. Besides, I'm alone at home recently."

"Then why do you think it's haunted?" Wang Laoshi frowned and asked, "It could also be a thief."

"I had this guess, but yesterday I saw blood in the toilet bowl in our house. After seeing this, I started feeling unwell last night. I suspect it was caused by a ghost."

When Hu Danyang said this, he looked around, with a nervous and apprehensive look on his face.

As soon as she finished speaking, there was a click-click-click sound from the front door.

Hu Danyang and Wang Laoshi both looked towards the gate immediately.

Wang Laoshi asked in a low voice: "Miss Hu, is this your family coming back?"

"Impossible, my husband and I had a quarrel and he hasn't been home for a month." Hu Danyang's face turned pale and he hid behind Gu Xicao tremblingly. "Master Gu, this must be a fierce ghost. Master, help me."

Gu Xicao: “…”

She glanced at her tightly grasped arm and the corners of her lips twitched.

With a click.

The door opened, and a man holding a briefcase took off his shoes in the entrance without raising his head until Gu Xicao dragged Hu Danyang over.

The man suddenly looked up and was startled. "Who are you?"

Gu Xicao patted Hu Danyang and said, "Ms. Hu, look up and see if this man is your husband."

Hu Danyang was stunned for a moment, then hesitantly raised his head and was stunned at the time, "Husband, why are you back?"

Cao Yixing's face darkened, holding the briefcase, "Why can't I come back? This is my home. Also, who are they?"

"Them? I hired them to exorcise ghosts. This one is Master Gu, very famous."

Hu Danyang pointed at Gu Xicao and introduced her.

Exorcism?

Master Gu?

What a mess.

Cao Yixing was speechless for a while, "What kind of ghost does our family need to exorcise? Don't mess around, or you'll get cheated."

"You're like this again, always saying that I was deceived. How could I be so easily deceived?"

Hu Danyang got angry when he heard this, stamped his feet, and looked at Gu Xicao: "Master, don't listen to my husband, please help us drive away the ghost."

Cao Yixing looked at Gu Xicao with suspicion.

Gu Xicao coughed and patted Hu Danyang's shoulder, "Ms. Hu, your house is not haunted at all."

"How is it possible? I saw so many signs!" Hu Danyang frowned and said dissatisfiedly, "I've been possessed by evil spirits. It's impossible that there is no ghost."

"Signs, what signs?"

Cao Yixing's heart skipped a beat and he asked.

Wang Laoshi helped out, "Mrs. Hu said that she could hear footsteps and eating sounds at home in the middle of the night recently."

"Yes, and yesterday, I saw blood in the toilet bowl. If this isn't a haunting, then what is it?"

Hu Danyang said this in a resounding voice.

Cao Yixing's face changed and his expression became strange.

Gu Xicao looked at him, almost unable to hold back a smile, "Mr. Cao, I think you should tell Miss Hu the truth. You scared Miss Hu enough."

Hu Danyang and Wang Laoshi both looked at Cao Yixing in confusion.

Cao Yixing was stubborn and put down his briefcase and said, "I don't know what you are talking about."

"Really?" Gu Xicao said, "Then you were the one who ran home secretly in the middle of the night because he was afraid that his wife was alone at home? You were the one who ate supper in the living room? You were the one who had a relapse of hemorrhoids because of internal heat?"

???

Cao Yixing jumped up like a dog whose tail was stepped on, and looked at Gu Xicao as if he had seen a ghost: "How do you know all this?"

"You did all this?!"

Hu Danyang stared at her husband with wide eyes.

Cao Yixing opened his mouth and lowered his head guiltily: "I did it, so what? I also own half of this family, can't I go home?"

Hu Danyang was so angry that his face turned red. "Why don't you tell me when you get home? You scared me to death. I thought it was haunted. But I really feel unwell recently."

Gu Xicao was somewhat helpless and stroked her forehead: "Ms. Hu, is it possible that you are pregnant?"

Pregnant?

Hu Danyang was stunned. Cao Yixing was startled at first, then asked in disbelief: "Really?"

Gu Xicao said: "Don't ask me about this, ask your wife."

Cao Yixing finally reacted and looked at Hu Danyang.

Hu Danyang opened his mouth slightly, "I, I haven't had my period for two months."

"Then it must be, Danyang, that's great, that's great."

Cao Yixing hurried over to help his wife sit down, "Wife, be careful. This is such a big happy event, you have to tell your parents as soon as possible so that they can be happy too."

Hu Danyang originally had a smile on his face, but after hearing this, the smile disappeared immediately. He snorted and turned his back to Cao Yixing.

Cao Yixing looked a little embarrassed, and whispered: "Wife, they are my parents after all, I can't just not give them money."

"Did I tell you not to give me money? The problem is that you give more than 20,000 yuan every month. Is this money for your parents or your brother and sister-in-law?"

Hu Danyang pursed his lips and felt angry when he talked about this.

Cao Yixing was somewhat at a loss as to what to do.

Just at this moment, the doorbell rang. He had to go and open the door. When he saw who was coming, he was stunned.

"Yixing, open the door quickly. What are you still standing there for? My parents said that it was no big deal for you to quarrel with your sister-in-law. Today, I specially accompanied my parents to come here to apologize to my sister-in-law."

Cao Defeng shook the plastic bag in his hand at Cao Yixing, which contained a lot of things.

Cao Yixing's expression was a little stiff. He could have come at any time, why did he have to come at this time?

He took a look at the living room. Cao's father and mother urged him again and again. Cao Yixing was afraid of disturbing the neighbors, so he had to open the door and let them in.

When the Cao family entered the house and saw two strangers, Gu Xicao and Wang Laoshi, they were stunned. Cao's mother asked, "Who are these?"

"These are Danyang's friends. Mom and Dad, we have some things to do right now. Why don't you put your things down and talk to us later." Cao Yixing was afraid that Hu Danyang would be angry, and he also knew that his family had always had conflicts with Hu Danyang, so he wanted to separate them.

Father Cao's face darkened, he sat down and said, "I really gave birth to a good son. Your mother and I have only been here for a short time, and you are chasing us away. Are we so annoying? Or is it that your wife can't tolerate us? If that's the case, we will cut off our relationship with you and help you!"

"Dad!" Cao Yixing felt a headache.

Cao Defeng also said earnestly: "Second brother, I am not saying anything bad about you. Even if you are a relative, you should not chase us away just because we come to your house. I know that you are rich now, so you naturally look down on us poor relatives, but we are not here to beg for money. We even brought some gifts today."

Cao Yixing looked at those things. Although they were not expensive, they were still a token of thoughtfulness after all.

He couldn't help feeling helpless and looked at Hu Danyang as if begging for mercy.

Although Hu Danyang hated the Cao family, she still felt sorry for her husband. She snorted, "Go to the kitchen and get some drinks."

"Okay, okay, what do you want to drink? I'll get it right away." Cao Yixing quickly stood up. Gu Xicao smiled and said, "I want to get it myself, is that okay?"

"Okay, come with me." Cao Yixing paused, feeling a little confused, but didn't say anything.

He entered the kitchen and opened the refrigerator. Gu Xicao came over and took a bottle of Coke. He opened it with a snap and took a sip. He said slowly, "Mr. Cao, let me remind you that your family members are here with bad intentions today. You may lose money."

"Losing money?" Cao Yixing, holding a drink in his arms, couldn't help but laugh when he heard it, "Miss Gu, my parents are coming over, there's nothing wrong with me giving them some money."

Gu Xicao smiled and shook her head: "A few tens of thousands of yuan is a small amount of money for you, but what about hundreds of thousands or millions?"

She looked at Cao Yixing's slightly changed expression and smiled slightly, "Such a large sum of money is still a drop in the bucket compared to the gambling debt, Mr. Cao."

Cao Yixing's pupils contracted, and when he opened them to get more information, Gu Xicao had already walked out.

He had no choice but to walk out with the drink in his arms, his eyes constantly looking towards Gu Xicao.

"Second brother, why are you looking at what the girl is doing? Are you attracted to her because she is young and pretty?" Cao Defeng joked with a smile while drinking Coke.

Cao Yixing waved his hands: "Brother, don't talk nonsense. What young and beautiful? I only have Danyang in my heart."

Cao's mother said sarcastically, "I don't know what's so good about her. Yixing, you are so capable and can make money. You can find any wife you want. Why did you choose a wife so old?"

"Mom! If you say something like that, leave now!"

Cao Yixing's face flushed, veins bulged on his neck, and he spoke angrily.

Mother Cao was startled, and said with an embarrassed look on her face, "If you don't want to tell me, then don't tell me."

Cao's father said, "We are too lazy to care about your affairs. We came here today because we have something to ask you. Your eldest brother wants to start a small business, but he is short of money."

Small business?

Cao Yixing was suddenly startled and looked up at Gu Xicao.

Gu Xicao was drinking Coke and ignored him.

Cao Yixing bit his lower lip. His father was a little dissatisfied. He expected that when he brought up this matter, Cao Yixing should have taken out the money immediately to save him from being embarrassed.

"Your dad is talking to you, what are you looking at! Your eldest brother finally has a chance to do business, as his younger brother you should show some appreciation, it doesn't have to be much, 400,000 or 500,000 will be enough."