Chapter 54 The blind date disappeared

Seeing that Chu Ci did not answer for a long time, the nun's eyes dimmed.

"master……"

Her hands trembled as she clutched Chu Ci's sleeve, her voice even more uneasy.

"Is that so, Master?"

"If I do as you say, will both Zizai and I be able to survive?"

Looking at her haggard face, Chu Ci's gaze was indifferent.

“You were a major factor that drove Guo Miaotong to jump off the building. I'm not sure if you'll survive. But he…”

Chu Ci looked at the mischievous little devil in her arms, who was pouting and about to cry.

"If you sincerely apologize, he will most likely survive."

But it's just a probability.

The carnivorous flower, drenched in blood, even its newly sprouted buds are stained with blood.

Don't say things like "the child is too young to understand" or "he can't choose his birth or his parents."

In all the cases Chu Ci encountered in his previous life, the probability of a good bamboo shoot emerging from a bad one was less than one percent.

Most children are a carbon copy of their parents; the saying "a rat's son knows how to dig a hole" is not just an empty phrase.

She closed the door. "Go back and think about it carefully."

After some time, she opened the door, but the people outside had already left.

She knocked on He Lihua's door, and He Lihua's daughter, Jingjing, came to help open it.

The little girl was growing taller, and Jingjing had grown quite a bit taller since she first moved here.

"Master Sister!"

Jingjing's eyes lit up, and she quickly opened the door to let her in.

"Grandma, Sister Xin Xin, and my mom are talking about you!"

"Discussing me?"

Chu Ci bent down and patted her head, teasing her on purpose, "Then Jingjing, tell your sister, are they talking badly about you?"

"You're so amazing, who would dare to say anything bad about you!"

Grandma came out, chuckled and scolded her, then nodded towards the door with her chin.

"Did that family leave?"

"They're gone."

"How did you get them away?"

Chen Xinxin and He Lihua came out. Chen Xinxin asked anxiously, "Sister Aci, you don't really want to save them, do you?"

She also remembered the tragic death of Grandma Hui during her live stream, saying, "That family isn't worth risking your life for!"

"What are you thinking about!"

Chu Ci patted her head.

“If I’m gone, who will take care of your grandmother? I’m just asking them to apologize to Granny Guo.”

"Apologize?" Grandma frowned. "Apologize only to Granny Guo and Tongtong? Isn't that letting them off too easily?"

“I made them publish an apology in the newspaper and explain what happened. I also made that nun resign from her position at the school, return the money she received, and apologize to the children she had harmed.”

When Grandma heard the words "publish an apology in the newspaper," she felt uneasy.

"Families like theirs care the most about face. Her son and daughter-in-law still work at the TV station, don't they?"

"Once it's published in the newspaper, the future and career of everyone in their family will be completely ruined."

"They are unlikely to publish an apology."

"Then it's none of my business." Chu Ci shrugged. "What they do is up to them."

Jingjing strolled around the house with her younger brother, who was still in his walker, and warmly invited Chuci, Grandma, and Chen Xinxin to stay for dinner.

Chen Xinxin shook her head with her schoolbag on her back, "I'm not eating, I have to go back to school."

She sighed, "If I hadn't heard that their family was coming to see Sister Aci, I wouldn't have come back from school until evening."

Grandma couldn't help but ask, "Xin Xin, who told you that?"

“My former classmates at St. Mary’s School.”

Chen Xinxin answered honestly.

“My classmate’s mother is quite close to my homeroom teacher’s daughter-in-law. I heard it from her daughter-in-law, and then it got to me.”

As she spoke, she glanced down at the time, and her expression changed.

"Oh no, it's too late!"

She ran into the elevator with her schoolbag on her back.

"Grandma, Sister Aci, and Aunt He, I'm leaving now!"

Grandma waved goodbye, "Be careful on the road!"

"Understood, Grandma!"

Watching Chen Xinxin enter the elevator, He Lihua smiled and remarked:

"This child is much more cheerful than when we first met."

"Yes," Grandma sighed, gazing in the direction of the elevator, "without the mountain weighing her down, she can finally breathe properly."

After exchanging a few words, the two families decided to have dinner together.

Jingjing wanted to drink the alcohol downstairs, and Chuci also wanted to drink, so the two went to buy it together.

Passing by the newsstand downstairs with its doors tightly shut, Jingjing looked disappointed.

"Master Sister, when will Brother Sugar Soup come back? I miss making sugar soup with him."

Although Brother Tangshui only set up his dessert stall here for a few days, he had already won over the family's stomachs.

She hasn't had it for two days now, and she's starting to crave it.

Chu Ci followed her gaze to the closed newsstand and gently lowered her eyes.

Touching Jingjing's neatly tied little bun, she said, "It should be in the next day or two, it won't be long."

"Really?" Jingjing's eyes lit up.

Clutching the can of cola in her arms, she looked up at Chu Ci, her big eyes wide as she asked:

"Master Sister, what exactly happened to Brother Sugar Water? My mommy said he came looking for you a couple of days ago, and he looked terrifying!"

Chu Ci pinched her cheek. "Does your mother tell you everything?"

Of course!

Jingjing flicked the little tuft of hair off her head.

"My mom said that Brother Sugar Water was framed during a blind date, and that I should stay away from shady hooligans in the future!"

The two of them entered the elevator together, and as soon as they got off, they saw Bao Liang pacing back and forth in front of her door.

Jingjing exclaimed in surprise: "Uncle Newspaper, is Brother Sugar Water's dad!"

When Liang saw them, his face lit up with joy. "Master!"

His joy couldn't hide his worry as he jogged over, "Master, my son has started banging his head against the wall again!"

"Don't worry, I'll go with you to take a look."

Chu Ci handed the things in her hand to Jingjing, "Jingjing, I won't be eating with you. Please tell Grandma for me."

Jingjing took the item and nodded obediently.

"Yes, Master Sister, I understand."

Liang's home is in an alleyway on the outskirts of Kwun Tong District.

The alleyway is very narrow, yet it's packed with people.

The place was packed with people, and with the warm weather typical of Hong Kong, there was an unpleasant smell.

As Chu Ci passed by, he saw many houses where several people were crammed together. The houses were dark, and some even had bunk beds.

Even the most crowded house she had ever seen, Jiang Caixia's, seemed much more spacious compared to this place.

But the Liang family's financial situation was considered quite good in this area. The three of them lived in a slightly larger bungalow, without having to squeeze in with others.

Although the house was still crowded with three people, it was clean and bright.

"master!"

The newspaper's wife was waiting in the room. When she saw Chu Ci coming over, she wanted to stand up to greet him, but she had to hold back her son who wanted to bang his head against the wall.

"Make way! Make way!"

A crowd had gathered in front of the door. After pushing through the onlookers, Liang led Chu Ci inside.

Seeing Chu Ci approaching, the newspaper reporters chased away the onlookers and asked somewhat nervously:

"Master, Ah Yong won't always be like this, will he?"

A friend glared at him and said, "What nonsense are you spouting! Ah Yong is such a good kid, good people are always blessed, don't you understand!"

Chu Ci glanced at Wei Yong and noticed that although his face looked terrible, he didn't look dead.

But two days later, he recklessly banged his head against the wall again, and his forehead was completely mangled.

She glanced at the newspaper and asked, "Where does your son's blind date live? Take me there."

Liang stood up to speak, but Chu Ci shook his head. "If you hold your son down here, what if he struggles and your wife can't hold him down?"

Liang nodded repeatedly and switched seats with his wife.

The newspaper reported that Liang's wife brought Chu Ci out of the house, enduring many strange looks from people along the way.

An elderly woman with gray hair and a harsh expression was holding her great-grandson and swaying him back and forth. Seeing the newspaper article about a good wife, she quickly spoke up:

"Hey, Ah Hua, how's your son?"

The newspaper's wife, thinking the woman was concerned about her son, sighed softly, "Still the same..."

Before she could finish speaking, the old woman hugged the child tightly in her arms, her triangular eyes revealing a hint of disdain.

"Has your family done something terrible? There are children everywhere in our alley, and they are easily bumped into. Don't let your family cause trouble for others!"

The newspaper's virtuous wife, who was called "Ahua," was so angry that she couldn't speak for a long time.

As she was so angry that her lips were trembling, a woman pushed open the door and threw a basin of water out.

The water, without bias, soaked the old lady's shoes.

The old lady jumped up immediately, "What are you doing! These are my new shoes, can't you watch where you're going to splash water on them?!"

The woman leaned against the doorframe, carrying an empty basin, and sneered, "Grandma Yu, you should have a conscience when you speak."

“When Ah Yong sees that your family is not well-off, he always gives your son the leftover milk whenever he comes back from his stall.”

"Now that A-Yong is in trouble, why are you still cursing him?"

The old lady's face turned pale and then red as she was being talked to, but she stubbornly held her grandson and refused to admit it.

“His milk would have gone bad if we hadn’t given it to him, so we’re helping him so he wouldn’t have to throw it away!”

The woman rolled her eyes. "Then let's all stop helping you from now on, so you won't come looking for us later and demand we pay you back for our help."

After saying that, she turned her head and winked at the newspaper vendor's wife; the two were clearly very familiar with each other.

"Aunt Hua," Chu Ci called out to the newspaper's good wife, "may I call you that?"

"Sure, Master, call me whatever you like."

Chu Ci pulled her away, asking as they walked, "Are you close to the woman who just splashed water?"

"I know them well! We worked together when we were young, and later our families lived close to each other, so we became even closer."

“My family runs a business, so we don’t usually like to offend people. That old lady from earlier is her neighbor, and she’s always gossiping.”

“Every time we come back from our stall, this old woman starts asking around how much money we made. It’s so annoying.”

"You saw it just now, that old woman is not a good person. My Yong helped her, but she said that she helped us."

"My friend couldn't stand the way our neighbors acted, so he always stood up for us."

"But my son, Yong, can't tell right from wrong and insists on helping her..."

While criticizing her son, the newspaper's virtuous wife couldn't help but wipe away her tears.

Everyone says good deeds are rewarded. Her son always helped this person and that person, so how did things turn out like this?

Chu Ci glanced back and saw an old woman holding her grandson, seemingly still cursing.

She leaned close to the newspaper vendor's ear and whispered, "Aunt Hua, if you have time, tell your friend to ignore that old woman for a while."

"..."

The newspaper's wife's crying stopped abruptly, and she suddenly raised her head.

"Master... Could it be that something bad has happened to my friend because of that old woman?"

Chu Ci lowered her eyes. "I just saw a deathly aura on the face of the child in that old woman's arms, which means that the child probably won't live much longer."

“And your friend will be burdened with debt and his family will get worse and worse. I’m worried that the two are related.”

"Yes, there's definitely a connection."

The newspaper reporter's wife gripped his hand tightly and nodded vigorously.

"Master, don't be fooled by my friend's seemingly powerful appearance; she's actually very soft-hearted!"

"Even though she's argued with her neighbors so many times, if a neighbor comes to her with their child begging for help, she'll definitely help them!"

When the time comes, the old woman will blame the child's death on her, and even if you have ten mouths, you won't be able to explain yourself.

The newspaper's wife secretly kept Chu Ci's words in mind. As they walked, they arrived at the home of Wei Yong's blind date.

Wei Yong's blind date's family was similar to Wei Yong's; they both lived in a bungalow near the suburbs.

When they arrived, there was an elderly woman in a blue top picking vegetables, and a little boy playing beside her.

The little boy, who looked about five or six years old, was the first to see them and ran back shouting:

"Mom! Dad! Wei Yong's family has come again!"

Chu Ci paused, instinctively sensing that something was off about the child's voice.

She grabbed the newspaper-reading wife who was still walking forward with her head down, "Wait."

No sooner had he finished speaking than two men carrying brooms rushed out of the house.

Upon seeing Aunt Hua beside her, she rushed over without saying a word.

"We haven't even come looking for you yet, and you've already shown up!"

The two men raised their brooms and started hitting the two men.

The newspaper reporter's wife was completely stunned, and while dodging, she asked, "Why are you hitting people?!"

"We're not only going to beat people up, we're also going to report you to the police!"

Exhausted and out of breath, they still hadn't hit anyone. The woman's family put away the broom and questioned them sternly:

"Where have you hidden my daughter? Tell me now! Or I'll call the police to arrest you!"

The newspaper's reporter was even more bewildered.

"What? Your daughter is missing?"

"My son got into trouble because of your daughter, and now your daughter is missing?"

She glanced at Chu Ci, becoming even more certain that there was something wrong with this blind date.

But her words only made the woman's family angrier, and they picked up the broom again.

"My daughter went on a blind date with your son and hasn't come home since!"

"I asked you for the person, and you're turning around and blaming me?"