Chapter 239 Guilty
The woman was still mumbling something when she heard a voice suddenly coming from behind her. She was so scared that her body trembled violently. She thought there was a ghost and turned to look at Nie Yao. Her face was very pale and even her lips were bloodless.
"You...you..." She was so frightened that she couldn't speak complete words for a moment, and her eyes were a little dull.
Only then did Nie Yao see the woman's appearance clearly. She looked like an ordinary middle-aged woman, but her face was a little depressed, her eyebrows were a little messy, her eyelids were drooping, and the two deep wrinkles at the corners of her lips made her look even more miserable.
Seeing her staring at him blankly, Nie Yao waved his hand in front of her and asked curiously, "Hello, can you see me?"
The woman finally came to her senses and looked at Nie Yao with a look of surprise. She hesitated and said, "Who are you?"
"Don't worry, I'm a human, not a ghost!" Nie Yao replied with a smile. It was originally just a joke to comfort her, but unexpectedly, the woman in front of him turned pale again when she heard this.
"Don't be afraid..." Nie Yao smiled faintly upon seeing this, and took the initiative to reach out and pat her arm, saying with a smile: "If you don't believe me, just touch it. I have temperature..."
The woman in front of her didn't dare to touch Nie Yao. Instead, when Nie Yao touched her arm, her body trembled again.
"You are..." She spoke slowly, with a hint of hesitation in her eyes.
"I'm Nie Yao, and I'm here to pay my respects to my grandfather!" Nie Yao explained politely, then asked, "I wonder who you are. Do you come here often to visit my grandfather?"
"Nie Yao?" The woman first repeated the name, and a familiar name seemed to emerge in her mind. The look she gave her changed from confusion to shock.
"Nie Yao...are you Nie Yao? The child that the Nie family lost and later found, Nie Yao?"
Nie Yao nodded and replied with a smile: "Yes, I am Nie Yao..."
As she spoke, she looked thoughtfully at the middle-aged woman in front of her, her eyes more inquiring. "It seems you have heard of my name and even know about what happened to the Nie family twenty years ago. Who are you? Are you familiar with my grandfather?"
"No, not at all..." The woman waved her hands quickly and replied, as if she was afraid that Nie Yao would ask her something.
"If you don't know him well, why would you come here to pay your respects to him?"
Nie Yao frowned slightly, looking straight into the eyes of the woman in front of him, and asked in a deep voice, "What exactly did you mean by what you just said? Why did you say that my grandfather was pestering you and asked him not to scare you in your dreams?
"I...I..." The woman never expected that what she had just said was heard by Nie Yao. Her face turned pale and she stammered, not knowing how to explain.
As she retreated step by step, Nie Yao grew more suspicious. He approached her and asked coldly, "Tell me the truth. Was there a hidden reason behind my grandfather's death in the hospital? Did you do anything wrong by coming to pay your respects to him?"
"No, no, I don't know anything..." The woman shook her head repeatedly, her face becoming more panicked and pale.
"Who are you, and what is your relationship with my grandfather?" Nie Yao looked at her sharply, pointing at her grandfather's tombstone nearby and said to her, "Please tell me the truth in front of my grandfather. Did he die of illness?"
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