Chapter 114 When the cold wind blows into my arms, I always think...
Ang Lee's mother thought her son's words were a bit of a mouthful, but she didn't think of her missing daughter at all.
Hearing that someone had come looking for them, she and her husband exchanged a glance and quickly stood up.
Chu Ci stepped inside and greeted them with a smile:
"Good afternoon, Mr. Li, Mrs. Li."
The couple looked at her young face and nodded politely.
Looking closely at her features, and confirming that she didn't recognize her, she asked in confusion, "You are...?"
"Oh, let me introduce myself."
Chu Ci handed them a business card.
“My name is Chu Ci, and I own a spiritual medium and incense shop in Kwun Tong District.”
Upon hearing the words "spiritual medium," Ang Lee's father's expression changed instantly, and he quickly looked at his wife beside him.
His wife's expression was indeed not good, but she still maintained her politeness.
"What can I do for you?"
Chu Ci sensed the displeasure in her tone and had a premonition that things probably wouldn't go too smoothly today.
She smiled and said, "I'm here today for two things."
"One is about your daughter, Li Lechan, and the other is about your son, Li An."
"..."
Ang Lee's mother gasped for breath, and the hand gripping her son's shoulder suddenly tightened.
Ang Lee frowned, glanced at his mother's tense face, and didn't call out.
It took quite a while for Ang Lee's mother to regain her normal breathing.
She pressed her lips tightly together, her reddened eyes looking at Chu Ci.
His voice was cold: "When my daughter first went missing, I prayed to gods and Buddhas and asked many masters to help me find her."
"But over the years, I've spent all my wealth and haven't gotten any useful information."
"Instead, they mortgaged the house, turning our family's peaceful life into this mess..."
She took a deep breath, avoided looking Chu Ci in the eye, and managed to maintain a calm tone.
"So you can leave, I won't believe you."
As she spoke, her red eyes looked at her husband beside her.
Ang Lee's father immediately understood and frowned as he stepped forward to drive them away.
"Go away, go away! We don't believe in ghosts or gods! You're not welcome!"
He roughly pushed Chu Ci out, and Chu Ci sighed.
"Everything I said is true..."
But since we were planning to have a proper talk, it wasn't convenient to take action.
Ang Lee's father: "We've seen plenty of people like you over the years. Go try looking elsewhere!"
Just as he was about to push Chu Ci out, he suddenly felt a force coming from his lower back.
The force was neither too strong nor too weak, pulling him in the opposite direction.
Turning my head, I saw my son with his little face scrunched up.
"Xiao An?"
Ang Lee ran up to him and stopped him from shoving Chu Ci.
Her delicate brows furrowed slightly. "What she said is true! She really is a master!"
As he spoke, he used all his strength to pull his father to the side.
"Dad, you stepped on my sister's foot!"
Li Lecan, who had been silent all along, lowered his head and realized that his father had indeed stepped on his foot.
But in her soul state, she felt nothing; she could only see her feet dispersing like dust.
After the father was pulled away by his younger brother, the dust-like spirits reassembled and returned to their original state.
Ang Lee's father was pulled away by his son and subconsciously glanced at his wife.
The wife was also looking at her son, but assumed that the "sister" her son was referring to was Chu Ci.
She frowned and said, "Xiao An, we don't know them, don't call them names."
As she spoke, she walked up and pulled Li An away.
"I'm sorry, Miss Medium, you should go promote your business elsewhere."
After saying that, she turned and tried to close the door with a cold expression.
"ah!"
Just as I was about to close the door, my son suddenly cried out in pain.
Li An's mother hurriedly lowered her head, "Xiao An!"
Ang Lee's small hand was caught in the crack of the door, turning red, and his little hand trembled incessantly.
He looked up at his mother, his eyes filled with tears, his little brows furrowed, and his expression stubborn.
She looks exactly like her daughter when she was little.
"Mom, I'm telling the truth! I really can see..."
Looking into her son's tearful eyes, Ang Lee's mother had complex emotions in her eyes.
After a brief standoff, she let out a deep sigh.
He opened the door again and frowned as he looked at Chu Ci outside.
"Come in."
Even so, she still didn't want Chu Ci to have any contact with her son.
When she sat on the sofa, she was close together with her son and husband.
There was a clear dividing line between them and Chu Ci, and the couple looked at Chu Ci with wary eyes.
Chu Ci felt uneasy as he touched his nose, noticing the wary looks in their eyes.
I don't know where to begin.
It was Li An who spoke first, "Sister Spirit Medium, why don't you start with me?"
He pointed to Li Lecan, who was standing next to Chu Ci, looking dazed.
Li Lecan suddenly raised her head and met her younger brother's dark eyes.
For some reason, she suddenly felt her heart skip a beat.
“Xiao An…”
She walked past Chu Ci, squatted down next to Li An, and looked at his tender little face.
"you……"
However, Ang Lee only glanced down at her and then looked at Chu Ci.
Her expression was calm; she was a completely different person from the younger brother who had been bullied that day.
Chu Ci also noticed Li An's difference and raised an eyebrow at Li Lecan.
But Li Lecan only focused on her brother's face and didn't look at her.
Chu Ci coughed softly, and Li Lecan finally looked over.
She suppressed her doubts for the time being, stood up, and returned to Chu Ci's side.
“Master, let’s start from the day I disappeared.”
Chu Ci nodded, lowered his eyes, and organized his thoughts.
"Mr. Li, Mrs. Li, I hope you are prepared for what I am about to say."
But Ang Lee's parents, who believed they had long since figured out the masters' tricks, scoffed at her words.
After searching for so many years, which master didn't first put pressure on them and then coax them into paying money?
Over the years, they have experienced scenarios such as "daughter critically ill", "daughter in danger of death", and "daughter forced to marry and have children", and have long since become desensitized to them.
Just as they were watching with bated breath to see if the young medium would come up with any new tricks, she suddenly spoke:
“Your daughter, Li Lechan, died ten years ago.”
"..."
After he finished speaking, the whole room fell silent.
After a while, Ang Lee's mother stared at her pale face and frowned deeply.
"What did you say?"
Her voice was filled with anger, and her eyes grew increasingly red.
Ang Lee's father stood up abruptly and kicked the coffee table.
"You liars, you're utterly shameless!"
His eyes were even redder than his wife's, and the muscles in his face were twitching, as if he was about to burst into tears.
"Do you guys have no bottom line?!"
"I've been looking for my daughter for ten years, and you're telling me she's gone?"
"What methods wouldn't you use to swindle money!"
His eyes were fixed on Chu Ci, who was sitting in the chair, and his hand was raised high, as if he wanted to bring it down in the next second.
But they have no money left.
The son's mental state is also not optimistic, and he cannot be allowed to vent his emotions at will.
His hand trembled as he raised it high, staring intently at the expressionless Chu Ci.
Suddenly, as if deflated, he withdrew his hand and sat heavily back on the sofa.
"never mind."
He closed his eyes in grief and exhaled.
"My family has no money left to give you, you should leave."
He pointed towards the doorway.
"Let's go to another one, my family really doesn't have any money left."
Li Lecan stood beside her father, looking at the white hair on his head, tears of blood streaming from her eyes.
"dad……"
She grabbed her father's clenched fist and sobbed, unable to say anything.
Ang Lee's mother stood up and vigorously rubbed her face.
She walked straight to the bedroom, saying, "I don't want to listen to your nonsense anymore, you can leave."
She tried to escape, but her son suddenly hugged her waist.
"Mom, what she said is all true..."
Before Ang Lee could finish speaking, he was suddenly thrown out by his mother.
He slammed his back against the coffee table with a thud, his face contorting in pain.
"Xiao An!"
Li Lecan ran to her younger brother's side and looked up at her mother in astonishment.
"mom……"
Ang Lee's father rushed over and hugged his son, looking at his wife in disbelief.
"What...what are you doing?!"
Ang Lee's mother had red eyes and stray hairs falling across her forehead.
Through the gaps in her hair, her scarlet eyes glared fiercely at her son, whose face contorted in pain.
The words were practically squeezed out between clenched teeth: "You really want your sister to die?"
"Mom! What nonsense are you talking about!"
Li Lecan tried to take her mother's hand, but her hand passed right through her mother's body.
"..."
She looked down at her translucent hands, a sense of powerlessness washing over her.
She was clearly the person involved, but all she could do was stand there and do nothing else.
Ang Lee's father picked up his son and glanced at his son's back, which was already turning blue.
Looking into his wife's eyes, he was both angry and pitying. "What...what does all this have to do with Xiao An!"
The son in his arms was wincing in pain but didn't cry. Looking at his son, Ang Lee's father felt even more heartache.
"Xiao An, that's not what your mother meant..."
"She...she just misses her sister too much."
Li Lecan stood beside her mother, large drops of bloody tears falling down her face.
"mom……"
Ang Lee: "Mom..."
Ang Lee's mother was taken aback when her son called her "Mom".
The fierce and angry expression vanished, and tears instantly streamed down her face.
Realizing what she had just done, she looked at her hands in disbelief.
“Xiao An…”
She hunched over and went to her son's side.
Seeing that her son didn't run away from her, she finally dared to hug him, her tears soaking his clothes.
"Xiao An..."
"I'm sorry, Xiao An, I'm so sorry..."
"Mom doesn't know why, but she can't control her emotions..."
"Mom misses your sister so much. If Mom and your sister hadn't argued, your sister wouldn't have left."
"Mom just feels sorry for your sister. Mom didn't mean to get angry with you..."
She held her son, her sobs initially choked, but as she broke down emotionally, she cried louder and louder.
Standing beside her loved ones, Li Lecan suddenly realized that her decision was a mistake.
Perhaps she shouldn't have come at all, saying that a short, sharp pain is worse than a long, drawn-out one...
Rather than disturbing the peaceful lives my family has settled down, it's better to let them continue living in this muddle.
“Your daughter didn’t run away from home,” Chu Ci suddenly said.
Li Lecan's expression changed, "Master!"
However, Chu Ci had already said it: "She was murdered."
As soon as she finished speaking, the crying in the room suddenly stopped.
Ang Lee's mother's eyes were bloodshot. "What did you say?"
Chu Ci glanced at Li Lecan, who was sitting on the sofa with his eyes closed.
Chu Ci: "..."
So, should she tell him or not?
But Wu Jiangxue has already dug up the remains and will soon notify them to do DNA testing.
The arrow was already on the bowstring; it had to be released.
Chu Ci pursed her lips and met Li An's mother's bloodshot eyes.
“I said, ten years ago, Li Lecan didn’t run away from home, he was murdered.”
"She's not coming home because you two had a fight, but because she can't come back."
Ang Lee's mother: "..."
She forced a smile, her facial muscles twitching uncontrollably.
Her expression was neither crying nor laughing; only tears streamed down her cheeks endlessly.
"You mean... my Cancan..."
She choked up.
"It was gone ten years ago?"
Chu Ci nodded and lowered her eyes.
My condolences.
She dared not say too much more.
Ang Lee's mother is clearly experiencing mental health issues, and she is worried that excessive stimulation will worsen her condition.
As for Ang Lee, she was hesitating whether to speak about it, but Ang Lee himself suddenly spoke up:
"Mom, what I said before about being able to see my sister is true."
He was still gasping for breath from the pain in his back, but he still reached out to his sister.
Li Lecan raised her eyes, which were filled with blood and tears, and looked at him, then gently placed her hand in his small palm.
Ang Lee took his mother's hand and placed it together with his sister's hand.
The moment the two hands met, the soul dispersed like powder.
Li An's mother only felt a chill.
"It's cold, isn't it, Mom?"
Ang Lee looked at his mother carefully and said, "It's my older sister."
His youthful face lacked the maturity expected of someone his age.
"This is my older sister."
“My sister has been with us these past few days.”
Ang Lee's mother stared blankly at her son, feeling an unusual chill in her palm.
Her lips trembled, and as she lowered her eyes, large tears fell onto the clasped hands of the mother and son.
Just as she was about to speak, a chill ran down her back.
In an instant, she felt a chill throughout her entire back and the side of her face.
It was as if... someone was leaning on her back.
Despite the terrifying description, she wasn't scared at all.
Staring blankly at his son, his wide eyes unblinking.
Only large tears fell, pattering onto the mother and child's tightly clasped hands.
Then, through the gaps in their tightly clenched hands, their palms became damp.
Li Lecan lay on her mother's back and let her body sink down with peace of mind.
The moment she fell, her body scattered like flying dust.
"mom……"
A chilling feeling instantly enveloped the mother.
Feeling the chill in her body, Ang Lee's mother couldn't help but sneeze.
Li Lecan's body solidified again, and he couldn't help but laugh through his tears.
"Mom, it's been ten years since we last saw each other. You sneezed as soon as I hugged you, what a mood killer!"
She tried to wipe her mother's tears, but her hand passed right through her mother's body again.
Ang Lee looked behind his mother and repeated his sister's words in a childish voice.
"Mom, my sister said that you haven't seen each other for ten years, and she sneezed as soon as you hugged her. You're such a spoilsport."
Ang Lee's mother cried until her eyelids were red and swollen, shaking her head and wiping away tears.
"From now on, whenever Mom sneezes, she'll think of your sister..."
I think of it when the weather gets colder, and I also think of it when a cold wind blows in my face...
Every time the temperature drops, it reminds her of this reunion after ten years.
The son and wife hugged each other and cried their hearts out, while Ang Lee's father sat to the side, seemingly out of it.
He opened his mouth, then looked at Chu Ci, his brows furrowing repeatedly.
"you……"
Ang Lee said, “Dad, my sister said that when she was six years old, you hid money from Mom behind her back.”
"Your mother was almost caught cleaning the house, but she secretly took the money to school and managed to keep it safe for you."
Ang Lee's father: "..."
Subconsciously, his thoughts drifted back to more than twenty years ago, following his son's voice.
At that time, the couple had just bought a house by saving every penny, and they were so frugal that they wanted to stretch every single dollar to its limit.
But he also has a smoking addiction, and he feels itchy all over if he doesn't smoke.
In order to have money to smoke, he took on the task of buying groceries and managed to save some spare change each time.
As the spare change accumulated, my wife suddenly became interested in a thorough cleaning.
Fortunately, his daughter was going to school at the time and transferred his secret stash of money into her schoolbag, so his secret stash of money was not confiscated.
For this reason, he secretly treated his daughter to ice cream twice behind his wife's back.
Only the father and daughter knew about this; even the wife had no idea, let alone the son…
Looking at his wife's empty back, a sudden wave of bittersweet emotion welled up in his nose.
"Xiao An, who told you these things?"
"It's my older sister."
Ang Lee pointed to his older sister standing behind their mother.
"My sister just told me. She said it's a secret between you two."
"Only by saying this will you believe that I can really see ghosts."
Ang Lee's father: "..."
He looked in the direction his son was pointing, but clearly saw nothing.
But in a daze, he seemed to see his daughter in her school uniform again.
She stood quietly behind her mother, carrying a shoulder bag and sporting a trendy hairstyle.
Just like every ordinary morning more than ten years ago...
When Chu Ci went to the police station to find Wu Jiangxue, Wu Jiangxue subconsciously glanced at the clock on the wall.
"How come it was resolved so quickly?"
"Yes, it's much faster than I expected."
Chu Ci casually found a place to sit down and sighed.
"What's wrong?"
Wu Jiangxue brought over two glasses of water.
"So fast, it must have gone smoothly, why are you sighing?"
"It went quite smoothly, but it wasn't quite what I expected."
Chu Ci rested her chin on her hand.
She was prepared to face the couple's furious rage.
After all, in similar cases before, the victims' families all wanted to tear the murderer apart.
But Li Lecan's parents are different.
They care more about Lee Le-chan himself than about punishing the murderer.
After believing that their son could indeed see ghosts, they began asking where Li Lechan's body was.
Their daughter has been gone for ten years, and they want her to be laid to rest.
Wu Jiangxue: "Isn't this great?"
"That's not good at all," Chu Ci sighed.
"This means that the couple has not yet recovered from the grief of losing their daughter."
“Once they realize what’s happening, they’ll be even more agitated than the average victim’s family.”
Wu Jiangxue, who was also a criminal police officer, could understand what she was saying.
Wu Jiangxue sighed, patted her shoulder, and pushed the cup towards her.
"Don't worry so much. I'll explain everything to them when I go to see them later."
"With Liu He, who helped bury the body, as a witness, Inspector Wong can't escape."
"Li Lechan's family will be fine."
Seeing her point upstairs, Chu Ci asked, "Have they already arrested Liu He?"
"Yes, it wasn't supposed to be this fast."
Wu Jiangxue glanced at her, "But the two of them went to find Wang Jiali again. It was Master Qiu and the others who called the police."
"What are those two doing going to see Wang Jiali again?" Chu Ci suddenly stood up.
"How is Wang Jiali? Is she alright?"
"Wang Jiali is fine, but Master Qiu is not doing well."
Wu Jiangxue explained, "I don't know how they found out that Wang Jiali was with Master Qiu, but they suddenly went to her place today."
"However, their target was not Wang Jiali, but Wang Jiali's child."
During their recovery period, the two had already found a new buyer for the child.
They agreed on a price over the past two days and planned to send the child to the buyer.
"But the two of them didn't find out clearly, and only after they snatched the child did they discover that the child was disabled."
“The buyer wants a healthy, normal child; they don’t want a child with leg problems.”
“When she saw the child being snatched, Master Qiu was very agitated.”
Wu Jiangxue pointed to her head.
"She smashed a glass bottle of Coke over their heads, and they were knocked unconscious on the spot."
Chu Ci had long been aware of Master Qiu's feelings for Shuangshuang.
But I never expected her to be so brave, daring to take on two strong young men by herself.
Chu Ci glanced at Wu Jiangxue, "That Abbess Qiu acted in self-defense. When are you going to release her?"
Wu Jiangxue glared at her with a smile, "You still have to finish giving your statement first!"
Just then, Master Qiu, who had finished giving her statement, came downstairs.
Wang Jiali was supporting her from the side; Master Qiu's legs were weak.
Wang Jiali was overjoyed to see Chu Ci.
"Master Chu!"
Chu Ci went over and offered a helping hand, asking, "You two are here, where's Shuangshuang?"
Master Qiu's legs went weak as she descended the stairs, sighing, "She's with her father! Oh dear, it really scared me to death."
She held Chu Ci's hand, still shaken.
"In the movies I've seen, people smash their heads with glass bottles, and at most they bleed a little."
"After I drank two bottles, the two of them collapsed and didn't move."
"I thought I had killed someone!"
Upon hearing this, Wu Jiangxue said helplessly, "Master Qiu, that's a bottle full of cola."
"It's so thick and heavy, how can it be like the props in the movies?"
Fortunately, the two people were fine; Master Qiu simply cooperated by giving a statement.
After seeing Master Qiu out, Wu Jiangxue raised her chin at Chu Ci.
"If you're worried about Master Qiu, you can come along. I'll take some people to find Li Lecan's family in a bit."
Chu Ci glanced at the two figures, Master Qiu and the other woman, who were walking away, and shook his head.
"They're fine, I'll wait here for Li Lecan's parents."
About an hour later, Wu Jiangxue returned with Li Lecan's parents and younger brother.
Originally, DNA biological information was to be collected first, but Li Lecan's mother insisted on seeing her daughter's remains.
Wu Jiangxue hesitated: "Mrs. Li, Li Lecan has been dead for ten years, so her remains..."
She was worried that Li Lecan's mother wouldn't be able to handle the shock.
But Li Lecan's mother insisted.
No, I want to see it with my own eyes.
"I want to personally confirm that the person who died was my daughter."
Wu Jiangxue: "DNA testing is also an option. We'll send the samples overseas; we just need to wait..."
"Let me see," Li Lecan's mother interrupted her.
Wujiangxue: "..."
She paused for a moment, then nodded and said okay.
The forensic doctor quickly stopped her, whispering, "What's so good about that! Officer Wu, then all that's left is a skeleton!"
"They just dug it out, and the bones are barely all there. How can we show it to people?"
But Li Lecan's mother insisted, and his superior, Wu Jiangxue, agreed, so the lowly forensic doctor had no choice but to step aside.
Before taking people to see Li Lecan's remains, Wu Jiangxue reminded Li Lecan's parents:
“We just found Li Lecan. She might not look very good. You should be prepared.”
Li Lecan nodded and followed Wu Jiangxue to the dissection room.
On the cold workbench of the autopsy room lay a pieced-together skeleton.
Because there was no coffin at the time of burial, some of the small bones on Li Lecan's body were not completely found.
Li Lecan's mother's expression was much calmer than Wu Jiangxue had imagined.
She walked straight to the skeleton and reached out to touch the bones.
Wu Jiangxue and the forensic doctor spoke at the same time: "Don't touch it!"
But Li Lecan's mother suddenly became agitated.
He shook off their hands and reached straight for the white bone's leg bone.
Upon seeing the leg bone, tears welled up in her eyes.
"That's my daughter! That's my Cancan!"
She pointed to the inconspicuous steel nail on her leg bone.
"Honey, look, these are Can Can's legs!"
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