Chapter 2: Kicked Out of the House

Chu Ci didn't speak, but the old woman on her back kept apologizing.

"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I've really disturbed everyone!"

The couple rolled their eyes at the grandmother and granddaughter. "You two are doing this every day, it really affects our work! You two make a living by cheating and swindling, but we still have to work!"

Grandma smiled apologetically and kept saying, "It won't happen again, it won't happen again, we'll be more careful in the future. We're so sorry to have caused you trouble..."

The old woman smiled apologetically for as long as the couple kept talking about it.

It wasn't until the couple went too far with their words that Chu Ci finally couldn't bear it any longer and glared at them, at which point they reluctantly shut up.

Grandma said goodbye to the couple with apologies.

I went to the hospital and had an X-ray, and sure enough, I had a broken rib.

The doctor suggested that she be hospitalized for observation, prescribed painkillers, and told Grandma to rest well.

Lying in the hospital bed, Grandma touched the bill and cried out in distress.

"You silly girl! Your chest hurts, just go to a traditional Chinese medicine clinic and get some liniment massage, that'll be fine! Why bother going to the hospital and spending so much money!"

Chu Ci sat on a small stool, propped up on the edge of the bed with her elbows, and gently massaged her temples.

He mimicked the original owner's tone, saying, "You're so badly injured, you definitely need to come to the hospital!"

Today, first, that [medium system] showed her many images, and then she had the original memories of this body. Her mind was suddenly filled with too many things, and she had a bit of a headache.

But even though her mind was exhausted and aching, she couldn't help but think about time travel, something that defied "science".

What was she doing before she time-traveled?

Oh, right, she received a call from her informant, who said there was a new lead on the case she had been investigating and wanted to pick her up to go with him.

She had been working with this informant for over ten years. When they first met, she had just become a police officer and unexpectedly saved his daughter.

Later, this person became an informant and continued to work with her for more than ten years.

So when the informant notified her, she didn't suspect a thing and went straight to him.

He lost consciousness shortly after getting on the bus.

Was she betrayed by her informant?

Chu Ci sighed. Based on her years of understanding of her informant, that person was not someone who could be easily bribed; he was likely being threatened.

But now that she's traveled through time, even if she knows he's being threatened, she can't save him.

Seeing her granddaughter sigh repeatedly, the grandmother, who had been muttering to herself, shut her mouth.

"Alright, Grandma won't nag you anymore. You're so young and you're always sighing. Be careful you don't turn into a haggard old woman!"

As she spoke, Grandma affectionately tried to poke her forehead, but Chu Ci instinctively dodged it.

Grandma was taken aback and looked at her in confusion. Chu Ci rubbed her forehead and chuckled like the original owner of the body, "I got hit on the head, it still hurts."

When this topic came up, Grandma's good mood vanished instantly.

He began to berate Chu Ci, "How many times have I told you not to take jobs from this kind of person? But you insisted on being greedy, so greedy! Now look at you, you're in big trouble now!"

Chu Ci obediently lowered her head and stopped scolding. Seeing that she didn't jump up to argue as usual, Grandma stared at the familiar whorl of hair on her head for a long time before finally sighing.

"You embarrassed the Green Dragon Gang today, they won't let you off easily."

Grandma rummaged in her pocket for a while and pulled out a small roll of money.

"Under the octagonal table in the corner of the kitchen, there is a movable floor tile, which contains the money that my grandmother has saved over the years."

"Go home quietly later, don't let anyone see you. Take the money and go to the dock. It's dark now, there are many unlicensed boats there. Find any boat and go hide inland!"

Chu Ci looked up instantly, "And what about you, Grandma?"

An old woman was approached by a group of vicious people. Given the current state of public security, how could she possibly survive?

Grandma's eyes, already slightly cloudy, were fixed on her, as if trying to etch her face into her memory. It took her a while before she reached out to touch her face.

Chu Ci resisted her discomfort and didn't move away, letting her grandmother gently touch her eyebrows and eyes.

“Grandma is old, she won’t live for many more years anyway. You go over there and escape first. If those people think it’s shameful to bully an old woman and let her go, then Grandma will come looking for you.”

But Chu Ci knew that those people wouldn't do that.

They were a group of thugs who bullied the weak and feared the strong. Seeing that only an elderly woman was left at home, they were sure they wouldn't let her go.

She lowered her eyes, then quickly raised them again. "No, I won't leave. I can't leave you alone."

"..."

Grandma stared at her for a long while, tears slowly welling up in her eyes.

He patted her head and, choking back tears, said "okay" several times.

"My silly little sister Ci has grown up and become sensible..."

Chu Ci froze in the face of his grandmother's affection.

She was an orphan who grew up in an orphanage. She had no elders to be close to when she was young, and she was always busy with work when she grew up, so she never had any close relationships.

Now, when someone pats me on the head, I resist it with all my heart.

But after all, she's taken someone else's body; it would be too pretentious not to even make this small sacrifice.

She urged her grandmother to lie down and went to the hospital to get some water.

When I returned, Grandma had already fallen asleep with her head on a pillow soaked with tears.

-

Wang Qiang and his men rode motorcycles at breakneck speed, rushing along the road.

Since he could name the paper mill, he was already 80% convinced of the sorceress's abilities.

He led his men to a villa not far from the paper mill. The villa gate was open, and there were many corpses lying haphazardly in the yard.

The living room still bore the marks of the shootout; the sofa, table, chairs, and various cabinets were riddled with bullet holes, and bloodstains were everywhere on the floor.

He quickly examined the bodies lying scattered on the ground but did not find his elder brother's wife and children among them.

Wang Qiang felt a sense of relief, but then quickly became anxious again.

My sister-in-law and the child are alright, so where are they now?

"Go, take everyone to search! Especially if you encounter the second-in-command's men, you must report to me!"

He arrived at just the right time. He was searching around on his motorcycle when he turned a corner and saw his sister-in-law, who had fainted, and a crying child being stuffed into a car.

"Damn it! Let him go!"

Wang Qiang cursed and raised his gun. Before the other side could react, he shot one of them dead.

By the time the other side reacted and drew their guns to return fire, Wang Qiang had already taken down several of them.

On the other side, Wang Qiang's henchmen heard the gunshots and quickly rode their motorcycles over.

After a fierce battle, many people were killed or wounded on both sides.

Fortunately, Wang Qiang seized the initiative and successfully rescued his unconscious sister-in-law and the crying child.

-

Early the next morning, Chu Ci left the hospital to go home and get some money. Before she even entered her house, she heard someone standing at her door, loudly giving instructions:

"Hurry up! We didn't hire you here for nothing, so hurry up!"

Accompanied by an impatient female voice, various sounds of moving things could be heard from inside the room.

Chu Ci was taken aback. She strode upstairs and turned the corner to see a middle-aged woman in her fifties with a cigarette in her mouth directing people to move her belongings.

The original owner's memories instantly surfaced, "Landlady?"

The landlord, who was smoking, froze, recognizing Chu Ci's voice, and only turned around after a long while.

"Aci, it's you." She exhaled a puff of smoke, not looking into Chu Ci's eyes. "You and your grandma haven't paid rent for a long time. I'm not a charity. You should move out now."

Chu Ci watched as the original owner's and grandmother's belongings were moved out one by one, and frowned slightly. "Landlady, could you give me two more days? We can move out after I find a new place?"

From the time she could remember, the original owner had lived in this house with her grandmother and knew the landlord quite well.

Moreover, the landlord believed in ghosts and gods, and liked to consult Grandma Chu Ci about all sorts of things, big and small. She also had a good relationship with Grandma Chu Ci.

She practically watched Chu Ci grow up from a young age.

This girl had a bad mind since she was a child and was spoiled rotten. After this incident, her eyes have become much clearer.

The landlord stubbed out his cigarette, sighed softly, and spoke earnestly:

"Xiao Ci, it's not that I don't want to help you, it's just that you've messed with some extraordinary people, people we can't afford to offend!"

"That's right!" The neighbor's door opened, and the middle-aged woman with curly hair glared at Chu Ci, pouting, "You're the one who brought this trouble here. Everyone else is the one who's worried sick. Why should we be the ones to suffer?"

Chu Ci opened his mouth as if to plead for mercy, but another household opened their door, and an old woman poked her head out, holding her grandson's hand.

Her grandson, who was only five or six years old, was so frightened by just one glance at Chu Ci that he burst into tears.

Chu Ci: "..."

The original owner of this body did nothing productive, was generally disliked by everyone, and liked to tease and bully children. Now, karma has come back to haunt him.

Sure enough, the old woman picked up her grandson and said apologetically, "Xiao Ci, we shouldn't be so heartless after what happened to Dan Po."

“But the Green Dragon Gang you’ve messed with is something we really can’t afford to offend! My grandson is still young; if anything happens to him, our family’s world will collapse…”

She lowered her eyes, not daring to look at Chu Ci. "Anyway, Dan Po will be hospitalized during this time and won't need to go home. Why don't you... take advantage of this time to look at houses again?"

Chu Ci: "..."

She looked at her grandmother's crying grandson, whose face was flushed red, and knew that the grandmother was also helpless.

They are all ordinary people, and the police in this era are practically useless. They really can't afford to mess with thugs like the Green Dragon Gang who kill without shedding blood.

"I'm sorry, landlady, my demands were too much."

She sighed, made way for the people moving their belongings, and continued to say to the landlord, "How much will the moving cost? Please give me a figure, and I'll pay you the moving fee along with the rent later."

After saying that, she looked at her two neighbors who were staring at her with wide eyes as if they had seen a ghost, and smiled apologetically and warmly.

"I'm so grateful to everyone for taking care of me all these years as your neighbor. I'll treat you all to a meal after my grandma is discharged from the hospital."

After saying that, she went back to her house to get the money, and according to the original owner's memories, she took away all the valuables in the house. Then she followed the moving team downstairs, intending to rent a place to put her things and luggage first.

Behind her, the landlady and two neighbors stared wide-eyed as she left, remaining stunned for a long time.

"My God, the Dan family's granddaughter is possessed!"

After a while, the neighbor aunt patted her heart and whispered, "That annoying, silly girl, she's like a completely different person!"

The neighbor, an elderly woman, held her grandson and sighed for Chu Ci's grandmother, Dan Po.

"She must have gone through a great ordeal and grown up. If only this girl had been like this earlier, Danpo wouldn't have had to suffer so much."

The landlord lit another cigarette, sighing helplessly, "I told Danpo a long time ago that you can't always spoil children. But she always says this child is too pitiful without parents, she can't bear to hit him, can't bear to scold him..."

"Oh well, this child has changed his ways, and Danpo will have a good life from now on."

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