Chapter 836 The Little Ball Taking Selfies
"What's that strange noise?"
"At first, the electrical wires in our house were inexplicably chewed through several times. Then, one night, my wife took the children to the bathroom. In her drowsy state, she seemed to step on something, but when she looked closely, she found nothing in the hallway. At first, we thought it was a rat infestation, so we had someone come over and poison the rats. After that, we did see a few dead rats."
"But after that, the noises at home became louder and more frequent. My wife and I often heard faint footsteps in the house at night, footsteps that didn't sound like human footsteps, but more like animal footsteps. Later, we even heard the sound of a ball bouncing..."
"The sound of a ball bouncing?"
"Yes, it's on the second floor. My daughter has a little ball that she really likes, and she loves to take it to the yard to play with it. But every time she's done playing, her great-grandmother, who is also my grandmother, will help her put the ball away and put it in the playroom to prevent her from throwing it around and losing it."
“That day, we heard the sound of a ball bouncing, and we thought it was my daughter who couldn’t sleep in the middle of the night and ran out of her room to play with the ball. But when we went upstairs, we found that my daughter was sleeping soundly and the ball was not bouncing by her. Moreover, according to my grandmother, she clearly put the ball away that day, and the ball could not have run out by itself.”
Ye Wanxi frowned: "Could it be that after your grandmother put the ball away, your daughter wanted to play with it again and took it out herself?"
"We have considered that possibility, but..."
“But my daughter is only four years old and just started kindergarten. Our door is quite high, so she shouldn’t be able to reach it. Even if she could, she probably took the ball out on the first day, but on the second day, my wife took the ball away, and my mother-in-law took care of the child. After the ball was taken away, both of them confirmed that the child hadn’t touched the ball again, but the sound of the ball bouncing still came out that night.”
Ye Wanxi raised an eyebrow: "That ball came out by itself again?"
"Yes, my wife even locked the game room door, but the ball just kept coming out. My wife and I were both really uneasy about it, and we didn't know how to explain it. So we installed a security camera in that hallway to see who stole the ball and was playing games there in the middle of the night, trying to create a mystery. And then..."
"What happened?"
Zhai Yizhong's face showed a hint of fear: "I didn't see anything. The ball seemed to appear out of thin air. There was no one or any small animals around. It was like it had accidentally fallen to the ground. Even though no one was patting it, it was still bouncing around."
It was just a small ball, no bigger than the palm of your hand, but it gave the Zhai couple the creeps. They felt there was something behind the ball that they couldn't see.
“My wife and I were terrified. We thought about hiring a master to exorcise the evil spirits. We did hire one, but we felt it was useless. Especially in the last two days, my wife said that she has started to feel like she is being watched and followed again. What’s even scarier is that one time when she was getting off work and about to go home, she felt something tugging at her skirt and preventing her from leaving.”
“Although it was only for a short while, my wife is certain that something she couldn’t see was pulling at her. After returning home, she thought about it carefully and realized that the strange things at home seemed to have started after she felt she was being followed that day. My wife guessed that maybe she accidentally passed through some place she shouldn’t have that night and brought some dirty things home.”
"So, you had Young Master Bai call me over?"
Zhai Yizhong nodded somewhat nervously: "Haoqi said that you could tell at a glance that something in their house had been tampered with, and you also solved the problem of the Bai family's ancestral graves. Haoqi trusts Miss Ye, and I naturally trust him too."
Ye Wanxi was silent for a moment, then said only, "Take me to see that corridor and... that ball."
Zhai Yizhong naturally had no reason to refuse and hurriedly tried to lead her upstairs: "Please."
Just then, a child's laughter suddenly came from outside the door.
Everyone turned to look in the direction of the voice and saw a little girl in a pink dress holding the hand of an elderly woman with white hair, walking in happily from outside.
"Dad, we're back."
As soon as the little girl entered the house, she let go of the old lady's hand, ran to Zhai Yizhong's side with her short legs, and hugged his leg tightly.
Zhai Yizhong was dumbfounded: "Why are you back? Didn't you say you were going to take Tingting to Yuanyuan's house to play?"
Zhai Yizhong was referring to Yuan Yuan, whom his daughter had met at kindergarten. Yuan Yuan lived just a few hundred meters from their home.
Considering that Ye Wanxi was coming to their house today on business, Zhai Yizhong had the old lady take the children out to play early this morning, thinking they wouldn't be back until almost lunchtime.
Unexpectedly, they even brought back a surprise attack.
Ye Wanxi glanced at the little girl, then at the slightly hunched, white-haired old woman not far away, her eyes flashing slightly: "Is this your daughter and the child's great-grandmother?"
“Yes.” Zhai Yizhong reached out and patted his daughter’s head, explaining, “My grandma used to live in our hometown. After Tingting was born, the family was too busy. Grandma didn’t trust the nannies in the market, so she specially came from her hometown to help us take care of Tingting.”
One reason is that she doesn't trust the caregiver, but another reason is that the elderly woman's husband passed away a few years ago, and she is quite lonely at home alone. Moreover, her generation has experienced hardship.
Knowing that her grandson wanted to hire a nanny to take care of the mother and daughter, the old lady felt that although there were many nannies on the market, few were good, and no matter what, they were not as safe as her own family. Secondly, she also felt that the young couple did not earn money easily, and hiring a nanny would cost at least eight or ten thousand yuan, which the old lady thought was a waste of money.
With this in mind, the old lady packed her things that very day and came to help take care of their child.
After listening to Zhai Yizhong's explanation, Ye Wanxi nodded without saying anything.
Feng Tianyu, who was standing next to her, seemed to have noticed something and scratched her palm twice with his finger.
Ye Wanxi was startled, but quickly understood Feng Tianyu's meaning. She nudged him twice to let him know that she knew what she was doing.
When Grandma Zhai saw so many people at home, she was startled: "We have guests today? Ayi, why didn't you tell me beforehand? I could have bought more groceries when I came back and treated them well at noon."
Zhai Yizhong coughed lightly: "Grandma, don't worry about that. I've already asked Xiaofeng to order the food. They'll deliver it later, saving us from having to cook for half a day. I have something to tell them, so I need to take them upstairs. Grandma, you can take Tingting downstairs to play for a while. We'll be down soon."
(End of this chapter)
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