Ge Xingwang was breathing heavily, and he was happier looking at the old lady in front of him than seeing his own mother.
"Ah...Auntie, can you...can you let me in to talk?" Ge Xingwang looked at the corridor with some fear.
The old lady hesitated for a moment, but still let Ge Xingwang into the house.
"You don't look like a poor person. Why are you here in the middle of the night?" The old lady poured a cup of tea for Ge Xingwang.
"Thank you! Thank you, Auntie!" Ge Xingwang took a sip of tea to calm himself down before asking:
"Auntie, how long have you lived here?"
"You've lived here since you married my old man in your twenties. It's been about thirty or forty years. Why are you asking this?" asked the old lady.
"Do you know a woman named Bai Feng here?" Ge Xingwang asked.
"Bai Feng?" The old lady thought about it carefully, and then suddenly realized:
"Oh! You mean that beautiful girl?"
"Yes! Do you know her?" Ge Xingwang asked hurriedly.
"I know them! There are only a few families left in our neighborhood. We've lived here for over ten years, and no developers have come. We all know each other well!"
"Then can you tell me about her?" Ge Xingwang asked hurriedly.
The old lady did not refuse and smiled:
"I watched Bai Feng grow up. She and her mother depended on each other for survival. She was a good person and had a really good boyfriend at that time!
Several families here are poor, and we are all happy for Bai Feng that she can find such a good man. Her mother is even more happy and keeps urging them to get married!
But unexpectedly, not long after, the girl was arrested for some unknown crime, and her boyfriend was nowhere to be seen.
During that time, her mother almost cried her eyes out, and she finally waited for her daughter to be released from prison.
Unexpectedly, when she came out, she was pregnant. Her mother was so angry that she had a heart attack and died not long after.
Bai Feng buried her mother alone with a big belly, and later she gave birth to a child.
She was a woman with a child and no one to help her, so she had no choice but to send the child to an orphanage.
Less than two months later, we heard that Bai Feng had died, and she had jumped to her death from a building. The white dress she was wearing was stained red with blood. It was so scary!
The boyfriend who got her pregnant never showed up from beginning to end. It's a shame Bai Feng treated him so well that we praised him to the skies!"
The more the old lady spoke, the more guilty Ge Xingwang felt. He had never expected that Bai Feng had forced him to marry her because of her mother.
If he had not been so cruel at the beginning, Bai Feng might not have died, and today's tragedy would not have happened.
"Auntie, what about Bai Feng's child? How is he?" Ge Xingwang asked again.
"What else can I do? Life in an orphanage is nothing compared to living with both parents!
The child is a loner and doesn't talk much to others. We feel sorry for him and visited him in the orphanage not long ago.
But people say that the child fell down the stairs and died two months ago." The old lady sighed.
Ge Xingwang's heart tightened, that was his child too!
"Oh~ This child is so miserable! He doesn't know who his father is, and his mother can't afford to raise him. How can such a handsome little boy have such a miserable life?" sighed the old lady.
Ge Xingwang regretted his decision, but now it was too late to make amends.
"By the way! Who are you and why do you want to know about Bai Feng?" The old lady finally remembered and asked.
"I... I am a relative of Bai Feng, so I came to ask!" Ge Xingwang said.
The old lady nodded doubtfully:
"If you had come two months earlier, maybe you could have seen the child. Sigh~ we are all miserable people!"
After understanding what happened, Ge Xingwang planned to leave. He was always scared to stay here.
"Thank you, Auntie. I'll be leaving now! I'm sorry to bother you so late!"
Ge Xingwang was about to leave when he suddenly saw that behind the old lady, under the dim light, there was no shadow at all.
How can a person not have a shadow? Only ghosts don't have one!
Ge Xingwang's face turned pale with fright in an instant, and fear made him run away.
The old lady behind him looked at Ge Xingwang, her old face suddenly turned as pale as paper, and her smile gradually became gloomy.
Ge Xingwang ran out of the building relying on the light of the flashlight. When he turned around, the light behind him had already disappeared in the cold wind.
"Husband~Husband~Don't run!"
Bai Feng's voice came again, and Ge Xingwang was so scared that he quickly climbed into the car and closed the door tightly.
When he raised his head, Bai Feng, wearing a blood-stained red dress, was standing straight in front of the car. Her face was covered in blood and flesh, which made people feel nauseous.
Ge Xingwang was so frightened that his limbs were out of control. He tried to start the car, but it wouldn't start.
Seeing Bai Feng climbing up to the front of the car little by little, with blood staining the entire glass red, Ge Xingwang was almost scared to death, his body shaking like a sieve.
"Bai Feng... Bai Feng, I'm sorry! I know I was wrong, I really know I was wrong, please let me go!"
Ge Xingwang spoke in a trembling voice, but Bai Feng continued to climb up.
The glass creaked and spider-web-like cracks spread out. In the critical moment, Ge Xingwang thought of the talisman paper Chu Ruanruan gave him, and quickly took it out of his pocket and stuck it forward.
The power of the talisman paper instantly bounced Bai Feng away. Ge Xingwang took the opportunity to start the car, stepped on the accelerator, and drove away at a high speed.
After driving for a long time, Ge Xingwang's hands and feet still couldn't stop shaking. He drove all the way to the city center. When he saw the street lights and more cars, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
At three o'clock in the morning, Ge Xingwang returned home and the talisman paper had turned to ashes.
As soon as she heard the knock on the door, Ma Lanru hurried to open it. Unexpectedly, when she opened the door, she saw Ge Xingwang lying weakly, with an unknown liquid dripping from his pants.
"Husband, husband, what's wrong with you?" Ma Lanru said anxiously.
Lao Ge and the others quickly helped the person in.
"Ruanruan, what do you think happened to him?" Lao Ge asked hurriedly.
"It's okay! He was scared by a ghost. Just give him some sugar water to calm him down!" Chu Runrun said.
"I'll do it right away!" Ma Lanru hurried into the kitchen.
Chu Ruanruan yawned, took out the talisman paper that had turned to ashes from Ge Xingwang's pocket, frowned and said:
"This Bai Feng's resentment is deeper than I thought!"
After drinking a glass of water, Ge Xingwang burst into tears, "It's me... I'm sorry for her and the child!"
"Bai Feng really has a child!" Ma Lanru said in surprise.
"That's right! Not only is there a child, but the child was in an orphanage until he was eight years old. Just two months ago, he fell down the stairs and died!" Ge Xingwang said sadly, gritting his teeth.
"No wonder Bai Feng is so resentful. Which child is not the apple of his mother's eye?" Ning Changbo sighed.
"What should we do now? Even if we did something wrong, Taozi is innocent. If she wants to kill someone, she can come after me!" Ma Lanru said with tears in her eyes.
"Now you know you were wrong, what were you doing then?" Lao Ge said angrily.
"Ruanruan, please save us. I have already let Bai Feng and the child down, and I can't let Taozi and Ru'er down again. If Bai Feng is angry, just blame me. I am willing to atone my sins!" Ge Xingwang cried with his head down.
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