Chapter 126 Not a ghost, but a mysterious person.
Hearing the knock, Wen Aili paused, turned to look at the door, and asked with a strange expression, "Could it be that the brat has come back and is banging on the door again?"
Knock knock knock.
The knocking continued.
Wen Aili walked to the door, and her heart suddenly skipped a beat. She felt an inexplicable unease, which reminded her of the matter of the dead man's food.
She didn't open the door, but instead looked out through the peephole to see what was going on outside.
There was still no one outside the door, but there was a bowl of rice on the ground outside.
The meal was fried rice, served in a white porcelain bowl, with a pair of black chopsticks on top.
"ah!"
Wen Aili turned pale with fright, took a step back, and almost dropped her phone.
"Ellie, what's wrong?"
My best friend asked worriedly on the other end of the phone.
"That thing is back!" Wen Aili said in horror. "I'm not talking to you anymore, I'm going to call Lao Yao and tell him to come home and keep me company right away!"
"What is this? You just said you wanted a divorce, why are you calling him now?"
Wen Aili didn't have time to explain to her best friend; the fear in her heart made her tremble all over.
She called Yao Shengwu and told him what had just happened.
Although the two had argued, they were husband and wife after all. Yao Shengwu was worried about her safety, so he didn't dwell on what had happened before and rushed home from the food stall.
Before Yao Shengwu returned home, Wen Aili didn't dare to go out; the bowl of rice was still left at the door.
When Yao Shengwu arrived at his doorstep, he saw the bowl of rice and smelled the aroma of incense ash.
He squatted down and found three incense sticks stuck next to the white porcelain bowl. The incense had burned out and the ash was scattered all over the ground.
As he got closer, he could smell that the bowl of rice had gone bad.
Yao Shengwu's face paled slightly when he recalled the first time Wen Aili saw a dark figure eating. He quickly opened the door and went inside.
Wen Aili was fine, but she was quite frightened and burst into tears as soon as she saw Yao Shengwu.
"Ghosts! There are ghosts in our house! It must be that mother and child who came back. They didn't want us to be together when they were alive, and now that they're dead, they want to harm us!"
When Yao Shengwu saw her bring up his ex-wife and his deceased son again, he said impatiently, "Respect the dead, can you please stop mentioning them? They are not that kind of people, they would not come to harm us."
"How do you know they won't! They are, exactly that kind of people! Your son, when he was alive, told me to die!"
Wen Aili was very emotional.
Yao Shengwu didn't want to continue arguing with her, so he said, "Calm down for a while. I'll go to the property management office to get the surveillance footage from the hallway outside. After watching the footage, we'll know what happened."
"No, don't go, I'm scared!"
Seeing that Yao Shengwu was going to leave her alone at home, she quickly pulled his clothes tighter, "I... I won't mention them anymore, okay? I'll go to the property management office with you."
Yao Shengwu glanced at her, his eyes showing some weariness. "Then let's go."
The two went out.
When Wen Aili saw the bowl of rice by the door, she ran into the elevator.
After getting into the elevator and going downstairs, Wen Aili was still clinging to Yao Shengwu's arm, looking around anxiously, as if someone was watching her from the shadows.
There was still a hint of guilt in her eyes, because she was involved in the deaths of Yao Shengwu's ex-wife and son.
After Yao Shengwu divorced his ex-wife, custody of their son was awarded to her. To support her son's education, his ex-wife found a job at a barbecue restaurant.
The barbecue restaurant was just two streets away from their food stall, and Yao Shengwu's son was very well-behaved, always helping his mother with chores at the barbecue restaurant.
Later, after Wen Aili learned that Yao Shengwu was giving his ex-wife a substantial alimony payment every month, she went to the barbecue restaurant to cause trouble for her ex-wife and demand that she return the money.
This is the alimony awarded by the court, so my ex-wife naturally can't give it to me. Besides, my son from my ex-wife's previous marriage is about to take the college entrance exam and is in need of money right now.
One early morning, Wen Aili went to ask her ex-wife for money again, only to find that the barbecue restaurant was on fire.
At that time, Wen Aili walked out through the back door of the barbecue restaurant, which led to the kitchen. She happened to see her ex-wife trying to run out with their son.
In a moment of madness, Wen Aili closed the back door and even moved something outside to block it.
Recalling what happened that day, Wen Aili's face gradually turned pale, and she muttered to herself, "I didn't mean to, I didn't mean to, don't come looking for me!"
Besides, even though she closed the back door, there's still the front door! They can still escape through the front door!
But unbeknownst to Wen Aili, when she blocked the door, it was during the most intense part of the fire. Many things inside the store were destroyed. To run back to the front door from the back door, one had to pass through the area where the fire was most intense. That's how the mother and son died in the flames.
Because of Wen Aili's actions, the employees working in the barbecue restaurant's kitchen were also unable to escape, and most of the barbecue restaurant's owner and employees died.
Not long after, the two arrived at the property management office.
Yao Shengwu asked the property management staff to check the surveillance footage from the corridor outside the door. They saw a person wearing a black hoodie and a black baseball cap come to their door.
The person was wearing a mask, so you couldn't see his face at all. You could only see him knock on the door several times, and then he would hide to the side after knocking.
After knocking on the door one last time, he placed a bowl of fried rice on the ground, lit three incense sticks, and bowed before leaving.
“This is a person, not a ghost,” Yao Shengwu said, frowning as he looked at the surveillance footage. “Someone is deliberately playing a prank to scare you.”
Wen Aili said, "But I did see a dark figure eating the first meal."
“He must have done this too,” Yao Shengwu said after thinking for a moment. “Let’s call the police and let them find him.”
"No, we can't call the police!"
The mention of calling the police caused Wen Aili, who had calmed down, to become extremely agitated and nervous again.
She felt Yao Shengwu's gaze and stammered, "He...he must have put something evil in our house, that's why I saw the shadowy figure eating. We should find a master to deal with him. If we don't find a master, even if the police arrest him, they won't be able to get rid of the evil in the house."
Yao Shengwu disagreed, saying, "If you're looking for a master to deal with him, you should at least know who he is. We don't even know who he is right now."
After he finished speaking, he noticed that Wen Aili's expression was off, so he asked her, "Have you offended someone outside? Otherwise, why would someone want to harm you?"
Upon hearing this, Wen Aili lowered her head guiltily and remained silent, but suddenly, as if she had thought of something crucial, she looked up sharply at Yao Shengwu.
"I know, it must have been that little bitch's doing! Otherwise, how would she know I received food from a dead body and that there would be bloodshed!"
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