Gu Xicheng's lips twitched a few times as he looked at the bone fragments:
"Lu Qing, is there a food processor in your mouth? How can you chew even bones like this?"
Lu Qing answered while shoveling rice into his mouth:
"There's marrow inside the bones, how can you eat the marrow if you don't chew it properly?"
"You eat the marrow from chicken bones?" Gu Xicheng asked in surprise.
Lu Qing looked puzzled: "Aren't you going to eat it? The bone marrow is delicious!"
“My teacher’s wife used to always buy chicken bones. There wasn’t much meat on them. If you didn’t eat the marrow, there would be no meat to eat.”
Gu Xicheng frowned slightly: "Why did your teacher's wife buy chicken bones? Why not chicken meat?"
"Of course it's because we're poor!" Lu Qing said helplessly.
"I remember the food there wasn't too bad when I was a kid. What happened later?" Gu Xicheng asked.
Upon hearing this, Lu Qing lowered his head and remained silent, seemingly finding it difficult to speak.
Seeing this, Gu Xicheng hurriedly said earnestly:
“Lu Qing, your master saved my life and my mother’s life. If you encounter any difficulties, you must tell me.”
Lu Qing remained silent, and Gu Xicheng grew anxious:
"Lu Qing, tell me, what exactly happened to your family?"
"Oh, stop asking!" Lu Qing sighed, rubbing her forehead.
"Lu Qing, if you don't tell me, I won't send you Snow Mochi anymore."
Upon hearing this, Lu Qing immediately surrendered:
"No, no, no! I'll tell you, okay?"
"My master is fine. The temple is poor because...because of...me!"
Lu Qing lowered her head in dejection:
"I told you before, I was born to be poor. Originally, this fate only affected me and didn't affect anyone else."
“But when I was a child, I saw the cats in the temple burying their poop and pee, and on a whim, I pooped in the incense altar that the patriarch worshipped, and even buried it with incense ash.”
“All the incense offerings were stuck in my poop. From then on, the temple became poorer and poorer. By the time the master found out, it was too late.”
"The patriarch is angry. The entire Taoist temple is affected by my fate. We are either short of money or on the road to being short of money. There are fewer and fewer worshippers."
Lu Qing's voice grew softer and softer as she spoke, while Gu Xicheng couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Gu Xicheng's laughter echoed throughout the rest room, making Lu Qing blush.
"You're not allowed to laugh!"
Gu Xicheng couldn't hold back any longer.
"If you laugh at me again, I'll hit you!" Lu Qing waved her fist and glared at Gu Xicheng in a cute but fierce way.
Gu Xicheng still didn't stop, and Lu Qing angrily pounced on him and covered his mouth:
"Ah!!! Stop laughing! Stop laughing! Stop laughing!"
Lu Qing covered Gu Xicheng's mouth tightly with both hands, and then somehow ended up sitting on him.
The two were completely unaware of their intimate posture.
Until a cleaning lady accidentally walked in and was startled by them:
"ah!"
Gu Xicheng and Lu Qing then realized what was happening.
The auntie exchanged an awkward glance with them and smiled:
"Haha! Young people these days are really... pretty open-minded!"
"You guys go on, go on! I was just passing by!"
The aunt turned and left quickly.
Lu Qing and Gu Xicheng looked at each other, then at their current posture, and their faces flushed red at the same time.
Especially since Lu Qing was wearing a skirt and sitting on Gu Xicheng's lower abdomen, with only a thin shirt and a pair of safety shorts between them.
Gu Xicheng swallowed hard, and before Lu Qing could react, he put one arm around her waist and lifted her up from his arms.
"Ahem... well... there's nothing funny about it, I won't tell anyone about this!"
Lu Qing nodded repeatedly, though he didn't know whether he was referring to the time he pooped in the incense ash or the time he rode on top of him.
The atmosphere in the space became somewhat ambiguous and awkward for a moment.
Just as Gu Xicheng was trying to find something to talk about to break the ice, Lu Qing suddenly stood up and ran wildly toward the ward where Li Ningqiang and Li Mengmeng were.
In the ward, Li Ningqiang and Li Mengmeng huddled together on the narrow hospital bed.
A nurse walked toward them with a stiff gait, and they could clearly see the ghost baby clinging to her back.
"Daddy, sister, come play with Chengcheng, okay?"
The ghost baby was controlling the nurse, who was getting closer and closer.
Li Mengmeng was so frightened she almost jumped off the bed, but thankfully Li Ningqiang pulled her back.
"Mengmeng, don't get out of bed. Lu Qing said that as long as you don't get out of bed, everything will be fine!"
"But she's coming!" Li Mengmeng trembled with fear.
"It's okay, it's okay! Calm down!"
Li Ningqiang held Li Mengmeng tightly, his eyes fixed on the ghost infant, a surge of anger overwhelming his fear:
"You bastard! Come here! You killed my wife. If you can't kill me today, I will grind you to dust one day!"
The ghost baby seemed to understand Li Ningqiang's words. Its expression froze for a moment, but then it revealed even greater anger.
"Why! Why!"
"I'm your child too, why can't I live!"
The ghost baby lunged suddenly, and Li Ningqiang and Li Mengmeng were so frightened that they closed their eyes.
Immediately afterwards, I heard a thud.
When they opened their eyes, they saw the talisman drawn by Lu Qinghua behind them shimmering with golden light.
The ghost baby seemed very scared and was forced back into a corner.
Sensing danger, it quickly climbed towards the window, preparing to leave from there.
But as soon as he climbed up, the net on the window got tangled up tightly, and the more he struggled, the tighter the net became.
At this moment, Lu Qing and Gu Xicheng arrived.
"Skynet, close!"
Lu Qing silently recited the incantation, and the Heavenly Net immediately shrank to the size of a palm.
Then she took out a small bottle, aligned the opening of the Heavenly Net with the bottle opening, poured the ghost baby into it, and affixed a talisman.
Gu Xicheng turned on the lights, and the surroundings returned to silence.
If it weren't for the unconscious nurse and the talisman on the wall, they probably would have thought it was all an illusion.
It took Li Ningqiang and Li Mengmeng quite a while to come to their senses.
"Is...it's alright?" Li Mengmeng looked up at Lu Qing.
Lu Qing raised an eyebrow and said, "You're fine for now, but your dad might not be."
As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Yanjun walked in:
"Wang Yanjun, head of the abnormal case investigation team, Li Ningqiang, right? Your confession video is quite good. Come with us!"
Li Ningqiang had long anticipated this moment and was already prepared.
He stood up and was about to walk over when Li Mengmeng rushed forward to stop him:
"Dad, don't go! Don't leave me alone!"
Li Ningqiang looked at Li Mengmeng with tears in his eyes:
"Silly child, you must take good care of yourself now that Dad isn't around. You can't be as willful as before, okay?"
After giving his instructions, Li Ningqiang looked at Wang Yanjun and asked:
"Could you please wait a moment? I need to change my clothes, is that alright?"
"Pretentious!" Wang Yanjun muttered, a cigarette dangling from his lips.
Gu Xicheng glanced at him before he finally relented:
"Alright! Hurry up, it's too late now, I don't have time to waste with you!"
"It won't be long!"
Li Ningqiang took a set of clothes from the closet and went into the bathroom.
Everyone waited outside, but he didn't come out for a long time.
Wang Yanjun frowned, sensing something was wrong. Just as he was about to kick the door, Li Ningqiang came out.
"Sorry! I took a shower, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting!"
Let's go!
Li Ningqiang walked out slowly.
Before getting into the police car, he turned back for one last look at Li Mengmeng, a loving smile on his face.
In the ward, Lu Qing and Gu Xicheng looked at the open window in the bathroom and the footprints by the window, their brows furrowing slightly.
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