Chapter 104 Beating Up a Brat
The brat cried so hard his face was covered in snot and tears, and without hesitation, he sold his own grandfather.
Li Lecan stared coldly at his wailing face and sneered.
She spoke in a deliberately lowered voice, her tone sinister:
"No, we just like to eat the kids who bully others."
"The meat tastes best when you bully other people's kids!"
She approached little by little, her pale hands bearing sharp, needle-like black fingernails.
I gently stroked the chubby cheek of the mischievous child, leaving a red mark.
"Kids like you are the most delicious."
The child shook his head frantically, tears streaming down his face.
"I won't do it again! I'll never bully anyone again! Please don't eat me!"
He sold his entire family without hesitation.
"It's all because of my parents and grandparents, that's how they taught me!"
"They must have been bad when they were young. They've been bad for so many years, their meat tastes even better!"
"Go eat them then, waaaaaah..."
The grandfather in the next room, who was terrified, trembled with anger upon hearing this.
He couldn't catch his breath and collapsed next to the old lady, fainting from anger.
Watching the brat wailing, Li Lecan got a headache from the noise, and the veins on his forehead bulged.
She reached out and slapped him twice more.
"Stop crying! If you cry again, I'll eat you up!"
The mischievous child was so frightened by the female ghost's wide eyes that his lips trembled, and he quickly shut his mouth.
Looking at his frail figure clinging to the windowsill, Li Lecan's mind kept replaying the scene of her younger brother being locked in a dog cage.
She hatched a plan and curled her lips into a smile.
"You don't want to be eaten by us?"
The mischievous child nodded like a chick pecking at rice, tears streaming down his face with each movement.
"You...you guys, please don't eat me...I really will change..."
Li Lecan curled her lips and looked at him with disgust.
"Whether you change it or not is none of my business. If you change it, your family will benefit, but I won't get any benefit at all."
With a gentle lift, she dragged the unruly child, half of whom was dangling outside the building, into the house.
Her sharp black fingernails pinched the child's chubby neck, and feeling the child tremble with fear, she let out a chilling laugh.
"What I want to do now is take revenge."
"Let me show you what it feels like to be bullied!"
After she finished speaking, she winked at Xiaomin, who nodded.
Under their threat, the brat sobbed and went downstairs into the alley with the abandoned dog cage.
"Open the cage door and climb in."
Li Lecan shoved the brat, who bumped into the dog cage and made a clattering sound.
Looking at the rusty dog cage, the naughty child stood in front of the cage door, sobbing.
Only dogs go into dog cages, he's not a dog...
He gripped the hem of his clothes, hesitating to go inside.
When Li Lecan saw his appearance, she was reminded of her own younger brother.
Her brother certainly didn't go in voluntarily, yet this child locked him in a dog cage and humiliated him at will.
Her pale hand suddenly grabbed the child's neck and lifted him up abruptly.
The once normal facial features slowly rotted under the terrified gaze of the brat, the eyes turned white like lychees, and black energy surged all over the body.
Her dark, menacing lips twitched, and she tightened her grip.
"Do you think I'm your mother? You want to discuss things with me?"
She shoved the unruly child to the ground and yelled, "Get inside!"
Feeling threatened with death, the bear cub was so frightened that tears streamed down its face, and it quickly climbed into the cage.
He huddled inside, cautiously peering at Li Lecan through the gaps in the cage.
In that instant, through his bewildered eyes, Li Lecan seemed to see the fear in his younger brother's eyes.
But the thought of this person beating her brother like a dog with pebbles and twigs...
Li Lecan felt a surge of inexplicable anger rising within him.
She mimicked the naughty child's behavior during the day and kicked the dog cage hard.
The loud noise and violent shaking instantly frightened the child in the dog cage, making him cry.
Li Lecan stared into his tear-filled eyes, squatted down, and asked expressionlessly:
"So you're scared of this too? If you don't want to be locked in a dog cage, then why are you locking other people in?"
"Just because other people's parents don't value him, do you think he's no different from a dog and can be locked in a dog cage?"
The child was so frightened that he shook his head and cried, but couldn't explain why.
Li Lecan was also surprised by his explanation.
She took Xiaomin away, got some meat, and then lured a few stray dogs away.
When the meat was placed on the dog cage where the unruly child was kept, the stray dogs immediately surrounded the cage and began to scramble for the food.
Sharp teeth, fierce eyes, constantly dripping saliva, and the incessant sound of the dog hitting its cage.
Everything terrified the little bear in the dog cage, causing it to scream incessantly.
Xiaomin felt a chill run down her spine as she watched a pack of stray dogs surround the dog cage.
She glanced at Li Lecan beside her, whose eyes were cold and who seemed like a completely different person, and hesitated to speak.
She finally couldn't help but speak up when the little boy in the dog cage screamed, clutching his leg:
"Sister Can, aren't we going too far? He's still just a child..."
"Just because he's a child, does that mean he can bully my brother all he wants?"
Xiaomin: "That's not what I meant, but two adults bullying a child..."
"I was still a minor when I died, and judging from your appearance, you probably weren't a minor either."
Li Lecan interrupted her coldly, frowning as she looked over.
Why do you think it's not serious when one child arbitrarily humiliates and bullies another?
"When an older child treats a naughty child in this way, do you feel it's cruel?"
Does being young allow one to overlook the malice of an action?
She pointed to the trembling, screaming child inside the dog cage.
"Isn't this what he asked for? Besides, I only saw him bullying my brother once, but what about the ones I didn't see?"
"My brother was driven to suicide. How many times do you think he bullied my brother when the parents and teachers weren't looking?"
"I only treated him the way he bullied my brother, and you think I'm cruel?"
Xiaomin was speechless when asked the question.
"I...I didn't mean that..."
But hearing the terrified cries of the cubs in the cage, she still couldn't bear it.
"Sister Can, this child has become like this because of his parents and elders..."
“Of course I know it was his parents and elders who made him this way,” Li Lecan interrupted her.
"But you can't deny that he really bullied my brother like he was beating a dog."
Xiaomin looked at the coldness in Li Lecan's eyes, pursed her lips twice, and then fell silent.
After the stray dogs finished eating the meat, they scattered in fright at the child's cries.
Li Lecan then squatted down in front of the dog cage and asked the trembling, sobbing child inside.
"Where do those kids who bullied Li An with you today live?"
The child was almost paralyzed with fear.
But Li Lecan kicked the dog cage hard, and the naughty child was immediately brought back to his senses.
He curled up into a small ball, choking back tears as he recited a few addresses.
Li Lecan memorized these addresses, looking at the brat whose pants were completely soaked with disgust.
"If you dare to bully your classmates again, I'll make you taste what you did today."
The little rascal shuddered, hugged his shoulders, and sobbed.
Li Lecan turned to leave, but Xiaomin quickly grabbed her and pointed to the unruly child in the dog cage.
"Are we just going to leave like this? What about him?"
Li Lecan: "Someone will come looking for him tomorrow."
"Are we just going to leave this kid here all night?"
Li Lecan looked into her eyes, and Xiaomin awkwardly looked away.
He stammered as he explained, "I...I just felt it wasn't safe for a child to be here alone..."
"A child?" Li Lecan sneered. "He doesn't look like a child at all."
“He has been corrupted by his parents and elders; he’s a complete little beast.”
After saying that, Li Lecan shook off her hand.
“If you’re worried about him, stay here. I’ll go find the rest of the kids myself.”
After saying that, she left without looking back.
Xiaomin glanced at Li Lecan's back, then at the mischievous child in the cage.
The child trembled even more when he saw her standing guard by the dog cage.
Xiaomin: "..."
She sighed silently and followed Li Lecan's steps.
The homes of the remaining few unruly kids were also thrown into chaos that night.
Unsurprisingly, all the unruly children were severely punished by the suddenly appearing female ghost.
Li Lecan also didn't let the parents who raised unruly children off the hook.
They were given a severe beating, and those on lower floors were thrown out.
The woman slapped them, and the man kicked them in the ribs, making the parents scream in pain.
In addition to hitting people, she also destroyed all the appliances and cars in these unruly children's homes.
If they want to buy another set, they'll have to bleed money again.
After everything was done, the sky outside was already faintly turning white.
Xiaomin was startled when she saw Li Lecan's body, which was becoming faint and blurry.
"Sister Can, your health!"
She quickly checked herself; her skin was also a little pale, but not as severely as Li Lecan's.
Li Lecan's body was almost transparent, nearly blending into the air.
Xiaomin was startled and quickly pulled Li Lecan to the hospital to find Chu Ci.
Chu Ci was still sleeping when he was suddenly awakened by a crying sound.
She opened her eyes and saw a face covered in blood and tears pressed against her face.
Her heart skipped a beat, but when she realized that the ghost was Xiaomin, she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Xiaomin?" Chu Ci sat up in bed.
Seeing Xiaomin crying, he frowned and asked, "Why are you crying?"
"master……"
Xiaomin cried and pointed to the door.
"Sister Can is about to be utterly destroyed..."
Chu Ci: "Huh?"
She just took a nap, how could her soul have vanished!
Xiaomin choked up: "No matter what I say, she doesn't want to come in. Can you go and try to persuade her?"
Chu Ci quickly put on her slippers and went outside.
The hospital was much quieter in the early morning, and the nurses on duty were dozing off at the service desk.
Chu Ci followed Xiao Min into the emergency exit and, sure enough, saw Li Lecan, whose body had faded to the point of almost blending into the surrounding environment.
Li Lecan sat on the steps of the emergency exit, head down, back to them, lost in thought.
"Li Lecan?"
Chu Ci called her name, and Li Lecan turned her head as if waking from a dream.
Upon seeing her, Li Lecan lowered her head like a child who had made a mistake.
"master……"
Chu Ci quickly went over and asked, "What happened to you?"
Now that she had calmed down, she looked at Xiaomin.
I discovered that Xiaomin wasn't much better off.
She frowned as she looked at the two of them, her voice becoming stern.
"What have you been doing?"
Li Lecan just kept his head down, so Xiaomin had no choice but to tell him everything.
Chu Ci arrived late and was unaware that Li Lecan's younger brother had been bullied by a group of unruly children.
But what surprised her even more was that the two ghosts had done so much in one night.
"How many households did you disturb tonight?!"
Li Lecan lowered his head and remained silent.
Xiaomin counted on her fingers for a moment, then hesitated, "Maybe five or six households?"
During the day, there are only five or six naughty kids who bully Sister Can's brother.
Chu Ci sighed, his tone becoming serious.
"No one was killed, right?"
Xiaomin quickly shook her head and answered firmly, "No!"
She knew that if someone died, both she and Sister Can would be burdened with karmic debt.
These karmic debts will be settled when they are reincarnated.
So after Sister Chan taught those people a lesson, she would carefully observe whether they were dead or not.
Whether adults or children, they were all just frightened.
The adults were less affected, while the children were more severely frightened, but at most they only developed a fever.
Thinking of something, Xiaomin pursed her lips, looking at Li Lecan, unsure whether she should speak.
Chu Ci sighed: "At this point, you shouldn't hide anything from me. Just tell me what's going on."
Just as Xiaomin was about to speak, Li Lecan interrupted:
"I broke several people's ribs, including the grandparents of that brat who was initially being reprimanded..."
She paused, "I don't think that old man will repent. Before leaving, he went back and broke his ankle again..."
Chu Ci's vision went black.
No wonder her soul has faded to such a state!
The two of them have been away for ten years, and over the years they have inadvertently consumed a lot of incense offerings.
If this happened to a new ghost, it would have been utterly destroyed long ago!
Chu Ci held her head, but seeing Li Lecan's expression, her anger subsided.
It's no wonder Li Lecan was so angry to see his younger brother locked in a dog cage and bullied like a dog.
She sighed, "While it's still dark, you two go to the shop first."
"The psychic table and chair in the shop should be of good use to you two. Go and see if you can stabilize your dissipated spirits."
Xiaomin nodded quickly, "We'll go back now, thank you, Master!"
Chu Ci waved his hand helplessly, "Go quickly."
Xiaomin quickly pulled Li Lecan away.
Chu Ci went to the restroom and then returned to the ward.
But once she was woken up like that, she couldn't fall back asleep.
She stayed awake until dawn, and before her grandmother woke up, she went outside the hospital to buy breakfast.
But before she could get back, she bumped into Bai Shengtian, who had come to see her, at the hospital entrance.
Compared to his spirited appearance a few days ago, Bai Shengtian now has two dark circles under his eyes and doesn't seem to be in good spirits.
But the moment Bai Shengtian saw Chu Ci, he immediately became happy.
"master!"
She quickly ran over, took the breakfast from Chu Ci's hands, and took Chu Ci's arm in the process.
"Master, you were hospitalized yesterday, how come you're out shopping by yourself today?"
Chu Ci was helped by her and walked easily into the hospital.
“My grandma is old, and I can’t sleep, so I’d rather let her sleep a little longer.”
After she finished speaking, she looked at Bai Shengtian's face.
"You look terrible, are you having some trouble?"
Bai Shengtian smiled, but the smile seemed a little forced.
"well enough.
"The life of a public interest lawyer is a little different from what I imagined."
She had previously handled financial lawsuits, dealing primarily with legal professionals from listed companies and multinational corporations.
Now that I'm involved in public interest law, I feel... a little uncomfortable.
"I've recently been helping a woman with her divorce case. She said her husband is a gambler and an alcoholic who beats her when he's drunk..."
Meeting Chu Ci's questioning eyes, she sighed.
"At first, the woman told me that she couldn't stand her husband's gambling and drinking, so she was planning to get a divorce."
"But when I went to her neighborhood to find out what was going on, I discovered that while her husband was indeed an alcoholic, his gambling was a lie."
"On the contrary, it's this lady who wants a divorce..."
Bai Shengtian sighed again.
"This woman started having an affair a year after marrying her husband, and was caught in bed with another man by her husband."
"Even her first child wasn't her husband's, but looked exactly like her lover."
"That's why her husband keeps drinking. And this woman has been having affairs with more than one lover."
"None of her three children look like her husband."
Bai Shengtian felt utterly powerless. "She wants a divorce now because she's found a man she likes even more outside."
"She wanted to leave all three children with her husband's mother, take her divorce settlement, remarry her, and start a new family..."
"Really," Bai Shengtian sighed heavily, "the people and things I've encountered these past two days are more exciting than any gossip I knew in my first twenty years..."
Chu Ci deeply agreed with her last sentence.
Being a police officer or a lawyer means constantly encountering all sorts of people in Hubei Province. Over time, you'll come to appreciate the diversity of the world.
She patted Bai Shengtian's hand and said, "You'll encounter many more people like this in the future. Once you get used to it, you won't feel uncomfortable anymore."
Bai Shengtian: "..."
Seeing Bai Shengtian's tearful expression, Chu Ci smiled and changed her words:
"Forget it, if you don't want to help this kind of person, then don't."
"You've contributed both money and effort, all to help those who truly need it."
"You don't need to worry about these kinds of people. If someone like that comes to you again, just refuse them."
Bai Shengtian nodded and sighed, "I have already rejected that lady."
Helping this kind of person with their divorce case always gave her a feeling of aiding and abetting evil.
When Chu Ci and Bai Shengtian returned to the ward, Grandma had already woken up.
Upon seeing Bai Shengtian, she exclaimed with delight:
"Attorney White T, what brings you here so early in the morning?"
Bai Shengtian smiled and said, "It just so happens that I have some time now. By the way, Grandma, I got what you asked for."
Chu Ci asked in confusion, "Things? What things?"
As Bai Shengtian pulled a folder out of his bag, he asked in confusion:
"Hmm? Master Chu, didn't you know that Grandma Chu is going to open a shop?"
Chu Ci's voice suddenly rose: "Open a shop?!"
She looked at her grandmother in shock, "What kind of shop?"
How could she not know!
Grandma happily took the documents from Bai Shengtian's hand, flipped through them a couple of times, and then showed them to Chu Ci.
It turned out to be a shop's business license.
Chu Ci took it and glanced at it. "'Hope for a Lifetime' matchmaking agency?"
She stared wide-eyed at her grandmother. "Grandma, you want to open a matchmaking agency?"
Grandma nodded happily.
She took the document from Chu Ci's hand and carefully brushed away any dust that wasn't even there.
He chuckled and replied to Chu Ci, "Yes, I've had this idea for a while now."
“I discussed it with Ahua a while ago, and she also wanted to find something to do, so we decided to work together.”
As she spoke, Grandma wiped the smile off her face, looked at Chu Ci, and sighed.
"I originally only intended for you to check if the clients of the matchmaking agency had any bad backgrounds, so as to avoid arranging a bad relationship and harming other clients."
"Now that I see how tiring it is for you to run that incense shop, why don't you come and cooperate with me and Ahua?"
"You'll be in charge of fortune telling, and Ahua and I will be in charge of introducing people to clients. We'll split the profits 30/30, and save the remaining 10%."
"How about using it as operating capital for the store?"
Speaking of this, Grandma smiled and looked up at the sky, already envisioning a bright future.
“In that case, you won’t be so busy that you end up in the hospital. With you as our living advertisement, it will be easier for Ahua and me to run the shop.”
Chu Ci was both amused and exasperated: "Grandma, why didn't you discuss this with me?"
"If I discuss this with you, you definitely won't let me do it!"
Grandma pouted, "All you ever do is let me rest. I'm so bored being a freeloader who lives off you!"
Chu Ci then remembered that before the original owner took over Grandma's shop, Grandma had been working as a medium to earn money.
The elderly have been busy all their lives, and suddenly having free time is definitely not something they can adapt to.
She looked at the business license in her grandmother's hand and shook her head.
"Fine, go ahead and open it if you want. But I won't close down the spiritual medium's incense shop."
This is a system task; who knows what will happen if I turn it off!
Seeing that Grandma wanted to argue, she shook her head, "The incense shop cannot be closed, absolutely not."
Seeing that her attitude was really firm, Grandma had no choice but to compromise.
Chu Ci thought for a moment, "The shop rent is so expensive, you shouldn't rent any more houses. The spiritual medium shop is so big, we can give you half of it."
Grandma nodded repeatedly, "That's exactly what I meant! But we'll pay you rent! That way, we can also benefit from the foot traffic in your shop!"
"Even if you don't pay rent, you'll still freeload off me," Chu Ci said with a helpless smile.
The three of them ate breakfast together, and Grandma couldn't wait to go and talk to He Lihua about opening a shop.
Bai Shengtian also had things to do, so he left in a hurry.
Chu Ci waited at the hospital all morning, but Wu Jiangxue never came to visit him.
She called Ji Jingtong and Shen Xiuhe. Although they were not in the same police station as Wu Jiangxue, the two police stations often operated between each other and were quite familiar with each other.
“Officer Wu? Wong Tai Sin Police Station isn’t busy! There haven’t been any major cases today!” Ji Jingtong replied.
Shen Xiuhe asked, "Master Chu, is there anything you need to see Inspector Wu for? We can help you too!"
Chu Ci originally wanted to say no.
But upon closer reflection, she did have one thing to say!
"Inspector Ji, Inspector Shen, could you help me check a school uniform?"
What school uniform?
"A set of girls' school uniforms. I want to know which school this uniform comes from."
Ji Jingtong and Shen Xiuhe on the other side readily agreed.
Chu Ci plans to find some time today to copy Xiao Min's school uniform, and then have two people check it.
After hanging up the phone, Chu Ci walked back to the ward step by step.
The more she thought about it, the stranger it seemed. If Wu Jiangxue wasn't busy, why didn't she answer her calls?
She crunched on the apple, completely baffled.
The ward was a high-class single room arranged by the big star Sun Lingyan, and there was even a color TV in the room.
Chu Ci sat on the bed, munching on an apple and casually adjusting the radio.
It wasn't until she saw a program that focused on the paranormal, and the paranormal events being reported on seemed somewhat familiar to her.
A mother, her face bruised and swollen, and her son, also bruised and swollen, cried in front of the camera.
"There really are ghosts in the world!"
"Last night, my family and I were sleeping soundly when suddenly two female ghosts appeared in my house, insisting that my child was bullying someone!"
"They beat up my husband, me, and our child, and even broke all our appliances and car!"
The mother covered her face and wept, the handprints on both cheeks extremely noticeable.
She sobbed, "My child and I were the ones who were beaten relatively lightly; my husband suffered the most!"
She held back her tears for a moment, then burst into sobs.
"His ribs were broken, and he's in the hospital right now!"
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