Chapter 24
Wu Jin's expression suddenly changed: "What? Will I become like... aunt?"
"If no one is in charge, that's true. Now everything should wait for a while. Don't let anyone pass by the place where your grandfather stayed, and don't clean it. Go to the open place downstairs, and I will pull out the seeds of resentment for you. Don't worry, you notified me in time, so there won't be any problem." Su Yun said with a smile.
Hearing this, Wu Jin heaved a sigh of relief. He didn't dare to think about what would happen to his parents and Wu Yu if he turned into a zombie and was about to be burned. His parents were old, and Wu Yu was a erratic person. He had to carry the burden of the family alone. If he fell, it would be equivalent to half of the Wu family falling.
Su Yun found a lock on the desk and locked the drawer directly, then walked over to Wu Jin and said, "Come on, let's go out first and see how to remove it for you. You haven't been here for too long, so even if you are really parasitic, it's easy to remove it."
When they got downstairs, Lin Lang and Li He were both sitting on the sofa in the living room, facing each other in silence. It was true that the two taciturn people could not make any noise.
Wu Jin followed Su Yun and walked into the living room and said, "By the way, do you want to prepare anything? I'll ask Li He to arrange it now, and then notify the people in the villa not to go upstairs."
Seeing the two of them coming down, Li He stood up first, bowed slightly to Wu Jin, indicating that he was ready at any time.
Su Yun looked at Li He and the sky, and said, "I need ink, chicken blood, ink, yellow talismans and so on. I brought them myself, but the chicken blood needs to be from a rooster, and it's best if it's fresh. Is there any chicken farmer nearby? I can go buy one."
Normally, Su Yun would not write a lot of yellow talismans and carry them with her. She had just taken over the family business not long ago, and the funeral home did not have much business. It was boring to prepare these in advance, so now she had to buy everything on the spot.
Li He is indeed an excellent assistant. He immediately said, "There is a small town five kilometers away from the foot of the mountain. You can buy chickens at the morning market there, but I'm not sure if they are roosters. If there are no big roosters, can I buy ordinary roosters?"
A rigorous assistant will not find problems when he arrives at the place and then solve them, but will raise the problems before the boss finds them.
"There is no difference. When I say a big rooster, I mean one that has not been castrated. But if there are really no big roosters, an ordinary rooster will do." Su Yun said indifferently. She just wanted some fresh chicken blood, and it didn't matter what kind it was.
Li He immediately went to make arrangements. At the same time, Wu Jin also instructed him to tell the servants in the villa not to go upstairs. If they were tired, they could go back to their rooms to rest. He didn't need anyone for the time being.
After Li He left, Su Yun walked to one of the sofas that looked quite comfortable and sat down. After Wu Jin also sat down tiredly, he asked him: "While Assistant Li is out buying a big rooster, Brother Wu Jin, can you tell me what's going on?"
Wu Jin's eyes were bloodshot, and he rubbed his face to stay awake: "I'm not too sure either. Suddenly, I received a call from Uncle Wu, the housekeeper who takes care of Grandpa, saying that someone fell down from upstairs. He is already in his seventies or eighties this year, and he usually tries to take the elevator. Why would he take the stairs for no reason?"
Su Yun's only impression of the old man of the Wu family is that he is very serious. When Su Yun came to the Wu family to attend banquets when he was a child, the old man always looked serious. Everyone said that the old man was serious and cold, but he gave birth to two gentle children who smiled all day long. Only the eldest grandson was exactly the same as he was when he was young.
Because of his tough character, the old man is actually a very unwilling person to admit defeat. He is also a male chauvinist and has all the problems of middle-aged and elderly feudal men. When he had a quarrel with Aunt Wu, it was basically because of his character. I don't know if he regrets it now. Anyway, if Aunt Wu knew the news, she would probably be very happy.
"Then have you asked the servants in the villa? What did they say? And the butler Uncle Wu?" Su Yun remembered Uncle Wu, the butler who belonged to the old man alone and had been with the old man for many years.
Wu Jin thought for a while, turning his increasingly dull brain, and said, "Uncle Wu said that he was downstairs preparing dinner for Grandpa as usual today. During normal working hours, Grandpa would handle official business in his study and would call him upstairs when needed. But today, for some reason, Grandpa went downstairs by himself, and Uncle Wu was in the kitchen. When the servants who passed by saw him, Grandpa was already unconscious."
Su Yun touched his chin and said, "In other words, the daily life in the villa is basically the same every day. Uncle Wu, the housekeeper, will go to the kitchen about two hours in advance to confirm the preparations, and there are a series of daily affairs. There are about five to six hours a day that he is definitely not with the old man?"
After listening to Su Yun's analysis, Wu Jin nodded: "Yes, Uncle Wu is Grandpa's housekeeper. In addition to representing Grandpa, he also has to take care of Grandpa's daily life. He is in charge of the entire villa. When Grandpa is working, he takes time to arrange these trivial matters."
"What about the surveillance? Is it possible that the thief is crying thief?" Su Yun asked curiously.
"There is surveillance. I checked it before you came, but I don't have the authority to open the surveillance in the study. The surveillance outside the study shows that grandpa pushed the door open by himself and seemed to be in good spirits. He walked straight to the stairs after leaving the study, and it seemed that he was going downstairs. If I hadn't found that mold in the study, I would have thought it was an accident." Wu Jin was getting more and more headache as he spoke.
It was just one problem after another. He didn't know who was targeting the Wu family behind the scenes. He hadn't found the murderer yet, but he was already exhausted from dealing with it.
Su Yun thought thoughtfully: "So, from the surveillance, I can't tell that there is anything wrong with the old man, and I don't know if anyone pushed him?"
Wu Jin held his forehead and said, "Yes, there is nothing in the surveillance. Even if grandpa didn't fall, I can't see anything pushing grandpa. As soon as Uncle Wu found out that grandpa was not right in the morning, he quickly called the hospital helicopter to send grandpa back to Bincheng Hospital. After I knew it, I notified my parents. Before I told Wu Yu, I came to check the situation and locked up the important documents."
Because Wu Yu is unreliable, he is the last one to be notified when something happens in the Wu family after the dust has settled. Although this is not good, no one has the energy to take care of him now, so it is better to let him enjoy himself for a while.
Who knew that after Wu Jin arrived here and checked the old man's study, he suddenly found the familiar black flower mold in the drawer that was often opened.
Wu Jin would not make a mistake after looking at so many people with Su Yun's painting. Just in case, he immediately called Su Yun, hoping that she could come and see if there was any problem.
As a young person in power, Wu Jin has to take over the burden from his grandfather and parents. It is actually very hard. He may not get a good night's sleep every day. Last night, Wu Yu was playing and went to bed late and got up late, but Wu Jin stayed up all night to deal with affairs and find people who targeted the Wu family, so he didn't sleep the whole night. Now he has stayed up most of the night again, and he feels dizzy when he walks.
Su Yun had no opinion on the Wu family's handling of the situation, and only asked: "So how is the old man doing now? What does the hospital say?"
"Not really. They said that grandpa is old and broke some bones when he fell. The old people's bodies are fragile and it is difficult for them to recover on their own. They asked us to be mentally prepared." Wu Jin answered helplessly, but he was not very sad.
Every child who comes from a feudal family basically has no feelings for such feudal parents, especially since the incident with Aunt Wu, the old man has hardly communicated with the younger generation, and they didn't even get along with each other when they were young, so it's hard to say how much affection they have.
I have been respectful to the old man over the years, only out of my duty as a grandson.
Su Yun saw that Wu Jin didn't have much to say about this matter, so he didn't ask: "In that case, let's find the murderer first. If someone has been deliberately venting resentment in the villa, then it must be impossible to clean it up. According to the ordinary way, it will take at least half a month to clean it every day. The mold in the drawer grows so fast, it must not be accidental."
Wu Jin frowned immediately: "Are you suspecting that someone has been bringing those seeds of resentment into Grandpa's villa?"
"It doesn't necessarily mean the seeds are brought directly, but rather some zombie-related things, such as clothes, hair, flesh, etc. As long as they are related to zombies, this kind of mold is likely to appear. If it is not cleaned for a long time, the whole house may become a breeding ground for resentment before people do." Su Yun tried his best to describe it in a way that Wu Jin could understand.
"So, there must be something in this villa?" Wu Jin felt creepy. Without their knowledge, someone brought something belonging to zombies in and wanted to kill them.
Su Yun replied, "Yes," and then looked at Lin Lang, who remained silent, and asked, "Lin Lang, did you figure out where it was? Did you come into contact with the servants just now?"
Lin Lang thought for a while and said, "Clothes, this is the only thing that no one will notice."
Zombie-like things will have an odor effect when placed in food, and it is easy for people to notice it when placed near daily necessities. However, rich people's clothes are all added with softeners and fragrances, so the smell can be covered up. The most important thing is that if the person concerned does not have special requirements for clothes, he or she will generally not realize there is a problem when encountering clothes with a slightly stronger odor.
After hearing Lin Lang's words, Wu Jin immediately said, "I haven't had time to check Grandpa's wardrobe yet. Do you want to go check it out now?"
"No, what's more important than the old man's wardrobe is who washes his clothes and how he usually washes his clothes?" Su Yun knew that it would take more than fifteen days of ordinary washing to remove the seeds of resentment, and as long as the person washing clothes reinforced it every day, the zombie resentment could be released to the old man without anyone noticing.
"As for clothes, we all have independent laundry rooms. The laundry aunties collect, wash, dry and sterilize the clothes every day, or directly use the dry cleaning process. Finally, a special maid irons the clothes and puts them in the closet. You also know that many of the clothes we wear cannot be washed, and they are basically not worn again after being worn once, but they will be put in the cloakroom." Wu Jin recalled the daily laundry process.
Su Yun was very familiar with this process. This was how she washed her clothes at the Su family before. However, she had to wear different school uniforms at school, so she would still wear them repeatedly. That was probably the only time this group of second-generation children would wear the same clothes.
Su Yun immediately asked: "How many aunties did you hire to do the laundry? Including the maid."
Wu Jin was stunned for a moment, then shook his head: "I'm sorry, I don't know about this. I can remember my own villa, but this is grandpa's. Maybe only Uncle Wu knows who was invited."
Uncle Wu is now keeping vigil for the old man in the hospital, so Su Yun asks Wu Jin if he can call and ask, as this is related to whether the murderer who harmed the old man can be found. Wu Jin agrees.
Uncle Wu over there really hadn't rested yet, but he was already old and had been on guard for most of the night, so his voice was very hoarse and tired.
After some inquiries, Uncle Wu directly sent over the servant form, which recorded the identities of all the servants, drivers, chefs, flower growers and other employees of the villa, as well as everyone's file background. Uncle Wu had been the old man's butler for his entire life and was very cautious in selecting people, so Wu Jin didn't suspect that someone had poisoned him at first.
The three of them got together to check the employee list sent by Uncle Wu, focusing on the aunties and maids in the laundry room.
The old man's health is not very good now, and Uncle Wu is very cautious, worried that the old man will get sick due to dirty clothes, so he hired a special laundry master and aunt. There are a total of ten people, from washing clothes to hanging clothes in the old man's cloakroom.
These ten people have different divisions of labor, and even each person cleans different things. There is also someone who specifically washes the old man's bed sheets and quilts, and they try to change the linens in the room every seven days.
Looking at the work of these workers, Su Yun noticed that one of them was washing towels for the old man, and immediately pointed at her and said, "Does this towel washer sort out the various towels used by the old man and send them for washing and disinfection every day?"
Wu Jin took a look and nodded: "Yes, Grandpa is a bit of a germaphobe and requires that the towels he uses every day must be soft and clean, so Uncle Wu hired a special aunt to wash his daily towels. This towel also includes bath towels, etc., which are very personal items."
"It's more difficult to be discovered when it's close to the body. Every time I pick it up, I dip it in water first. The smell and everything else will remain in the water." Su Yun said confidently.
"Indeed... When we pick up a towel and it is dry, we will wipe our body with it. As long as we don't use the towel for wiping the body, but use it for washing the face or taking a bath, the smell of water and various facial cleansing products will naturally disappear." Wu Jin was shocked. No matter who it is, it is difficult to avoid this thing.
People have their own habitual actions and subconsciousness. Many people may subconsciously wet a towel, especially when the feel is the same. They will not just smell it. Besides, the resentment that is parasitic in the towel must be very thin, and it is estimated that there will be no smell.
Wu Jin quickly flipped through the servant's file. She was a 30-year-old woman with an undergraduate degree in hotel management and a postgraduate degree in housekeeping from the UK. She was very good at her professional courses and knew how to wash towels in the cleanest, softest way possible, and fold them neatly.
It can be said that with the Wu family's care experience, she is more than qualified to be a housekeeper in the future.
This person is currently 35 years old and has come to the villa to take care of the old man for five years. He is married and has children. When he started working, his child was already five years old, so he can leave home and there is no need to worry about suddenly taking leave for the child.
After comprehensive evaluation, Uncle Wu finally selected her to wash the old man's towels every day. The probation period is six months, which is a very long period. Even if she wanted to pretend to deceive Uncle Wu and get a job at the beginning, it would not be easy to persist for six months.
And she persisted completely, and now the child is ten years old, and there have been no problems in her daily work. In the beginning, she could only take care of the child in this villa, but now she goes to wash towels wherever the old man lives, and she is one of the few servants who serve him.
The old man would also bring servants with him to do daily tea and water, clean up, cook and prepare cakes, plus an Uncle Wu who would always be with him, which was basically the configuration for the old man to change his residence.
Uncle Wu was very cautious about the matter of washing clothes. If it weren't for Sister Lan, who washed towels and had done it for five years without any problems and was also honest and kind, she would never have become one of the servants who took care of the old man.
Su Yun pointed at Sister Lan's two-inch photo with his folding fan and said, "Is this person already at the Wu family's old house in Bincheng?"
Wu Jin then remembered that the old man had been admitted to the hospital. If he fell because of poison, then if he took people to the old house now, he would be able to get his hands on Wu's father, Wu's mother and Wu Yu sooner or later. Even by the time Wu Jin returned home, he might have been poisoned by the time he was tired and ready to rest.
"I'll call my mother right away and tell her not to act rashly, but tell her not to let Sister Lan have access to anything in our daily life." Wu Jin stood up hastily, took out his cell phone and ran to the side to make a call.
While Wu Jin was on the phone, Su Yun saw that Lin Lang still had that expressionless look on his face, so he couldn't help but tease him: "Lin Lang, you did a good job. When this is over, I will give you benefits. But, how did you think of clothes all of a sudden?"
Lin Lang answered truthfully: "I checked the yard when I came here, and there was no problem. When you went up, I asked Assistant Li about the servants, and I guessed that the problem might be with the fabric. In the past, in the Taoist temple, demons and ghosts would often secretly attach themselves to clothes and follow us back, but as long as they touched the Bagua mirror, they would disperse on their own."
Seeing Lin Lang's serious explanation, Su Yun couldn't help laughing. She knew that those things wanted to find a Taoist priest to play a prank on, or absorb the Taoist priest's skills. Knowing that they would be broken up by the Bagua mirror at the entrance of the Taoist temple every time, they still persisted in attaching themselves to it, betting that one day the Taoist priests would not return to the temple, but stay in an unsafe place.
However, Lin Lang's performance surprised Su Yun. Although he looked stupid, he was not the kind of idiot who would only move when kicked.
To be honest, what Su Yun hates most is the kind of people who don't respond even when asked three questions. Regardless of whether this attitude is polite or not, their behavior is very much like reactive abuse. No matter how many emotions or questions others give them, they won't answer, and they don't know what the other person is thinking.
In psychology, this behavior is called reactive abuse, which usually occurs in families, especially among men. In addition to violence and PUA, they use this method to tiaojiao their wives and children. Every time they use silence and pretending not to hear to make their wives and children compromise. In the later stages of training, as long as they don't speak, their wives and children will immediately speak, apologize and try to please them.
This behavior may even occur between friends. It is not exclusive to family or romantic relationships. It can be said that reactive abuse may occur in any kind of intimate relationship.
Su Yun had encountered this kind of unhealthy friendship when he was in school. One of the parties was obviously very rude, and no matter how much the other party said, the other party pretended not to hear or see. But when he needed emotional comfort, he would start talking about his own things, and the two sides were difficult to separate.
As an outsider, Su Yun couldn't stand it anymore. One day, he went to find the girl who was sexually abused and asked her why she didn't just change friends. Not to mention the whole world, there were many people in their aristocratic school, from wealthy families to ordinary poor students. There were good people there. Why did she have to torture herself?
The girl's reaction was the same as that of all those who have been subjected to PUA. She said it was her own problem and believed that no one wanted to be friends with her or save her. If she left her current friends, she would be alone in the future. She felt terrified.
At that time, Su Yun did not become friends with this girl. She was not suitable because what this girl needed now was not a friend but a psychologist. Later, Su Yun used some means to transfer the girl who was good at PUA and reactive sexual abuse to another school, hoping to take this opportunity to let the girl receive treatment. As a result, after she saw the doctor for a few days, she chased him back.
After this incident, Su Yun hated anyone who was on either side of reactive abuse even more. It's not that she demands perfection from the victim, but if you save someone who doesn't want to be saved by you, she will not only not be grateful to you, but will also think that you are breaking them up, just like a love-brained person and a PUA master.
To borrow a phrase from the Internet: I used to get so angry when I saw this kind of thing that I wanted to wake up the love-brain and kill the PUA master. Now I have taken Chinese medicine to recuperate, so I respect and wish you all the best.
Su Yun hated such people. Later, after learning Taoism, he realized that this was the fate of such people. Their fate was born to sink. If a good person was pulled in, he would be dragged down to hell to suffer together. The best way was to stay away from them. Never be reluctant to give up a temporary intimate relationship. Any intimate relationship that makes you uncomfortable is actually God's reminder for you to run away quickly.
Even those who have always been at odds with Su Yun, including Wu Yu before, would not use such despicable means to fight with Su Yun. At least they quarreled and fought with Su Yun with etiquette. At least they knew that even if they didn't want to answer, they had to respond with a sneer to show that they heard it but were disdainful.
Lin Lang is also a similar person. Su Yun finds it interesting that he doesn't speak, but Lin Lang's politeness lies in the fact that he will really listen to what everyone says, even if they are not talking to him, and as long as someone talks to him, even if it is a bunch of nonsense, he will answer seriously.
No one would dislike such a person. Who doesn’t want the person they talk to to respond to every word they say?
Even if the other person has a bad memory and can't remember most of the content of your conversation, at least he or she has answered it, and you will be happy when you think about it later.
Su Yun happily listened to Lin Lang talking about his inspection content. Before he finished, Wu Jin came back from a phone call. He sat next to Lin Lang and suddenly felt that this employee was sitting very straight, as if his waist would not get tired.
"Mr. Lin Lang, do you want to relax a little?" Wu Jin was so tired that he could fall asleep as soon as he lay down. Looking at Lin Lang made him feel even more sleepy.
"No, I'm not very tired, don't worry, Mr. Wu." Lin Lang nodded to Wu Jin, signaling him not to worry. After refusing, he continued to report to Su Yun about the situation of the villa.
Wu Jin followed and listened, and roughly understood that Lin Lang had already checked the first floor when he came just now, and found no special problems, nor did he find anything related to zombies. Combined with the fact that they just found Sister Lan, it meant that Sister Lan had already left with the things.
Su Yun nodded slightly, then turned to Wu Jin and said, "Brother Wu Jin, there is still corpse qi in this house, but it cannot be cleared away without special methods in a short period of time. We can only keep cleaning it every day, and it needs continuous sunlight. One day less of sunlight means one more day of cleaning. It's just that we came a little late and let Sister Lan run away. What does Auntie say now?"
Wu Jin had just discussed with his mother on the phone about how to arrange for Sister Lan. He said hurriedly, "Mom already knows about this. After she and Dad visited Grandpa in the afternoon, she returned to the old house to pack up her things. Then she met with Grandpa's personal servants. Since they don't usually live together, Mom said she didn't think much about it at the time and just handed the matter over to the servants. Anyway, Uncle Wu is in charge."
Unfortunately, Uncle Wu is not a Taoist, so he can guard against people but not ghosts.
"Let's do this for now. Let Uncle Wu control himself a little. Now the clue that the mastermind behind this is Sister Lan. Don't alert her and let her think that her life is no different from usual. Send someone to watch her whereabouts. After I get rid of the seeds of resentment in your body, I will go back and lend you someone." Su Yun made the decision and made the arrangements right away.
Wu Jin thought about it and had no objection, but just asked: "Who do you want to lend me? What for?"
Su Yun opened his folding fan and waved it: "A Xiu, he has a strong tracking ability. Ordinary people may not be able to track Sister Lan's whereabouts, but Ah Xiu can, and he likes this kind of work very much."
After that, Lin Lang and Wu Jin looked up in confusion, and the latter asked, "Do you like this kind of work? Looking for someone?"
"To be precise, it's about arresting people. Everyone has some little quirks. Don't pay attention to such details." Su Yun waved his hand and said.
They had almost finished talking about the matter. Wu Jin felt so sleepy that he fell asleep on the sofa. Su Yun took a look and felt sleepy too. He said hello to Lin Lang and fell asleep on the sofa he had chosen. Only Lin Lang was left standing there like a sculpture.
An hour later, Li He came back with a big rooster with a red crown. It was obvious that he had picked a good one on purpose.
Li He had just walked in and hadn't called anyone yet when the big rooster started crowing - it was daybreak and the rooster was about to crow.
Su Yun woke up in a daze when she heard the rooster crowing. Her daily routine was to wake up to the crowing of the rooster. When she opened her eyes, she remembered that she was in the villa of the old man of the Wu family. Wu Jin, who was opposite, did not wake up even when the rooster crowed in front of her.
"I'm sorry Miss Su, it woke you up." Li He pinched the rooster's neck expressionlessly to stop it from crowing, and quickly walked to Su Yun to apologize.
"It's okay to wake me up, but the problem is that you can't wake Wu Jin up," Su Yun walked to Wu Jin and squatted down, stretched out his hand to pry open his eyelids, his eyes were almost red, "Oh no, Assistant Li, don't pinch the rooster's neck, if it dies, Wu Jin will die with it"
[End of this chapter]
Li He: ???
Su Yun: Get up when the rooster crows. If you don't get up, be careful to turn into a zombie O(∩_∩)O
Today's post will be shorter. I have to go to the list of the next-door Madonna. The new keyboard has another material that will arrive the day after tomorrow, so I can't catch up with this week's list at all. I have to use my hand that is on the verge of a relapse of tendonitis to catch up with the list QAQ
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