Chapter 39 Guo Po's Suicide Turns Out to Be a Murder
Ryan's eyes widened, and he suddenly stood up.
Because she had experienced it firsthand, she did not doubt Chu Ci's statement.
He asked eagerly, "Master, can you see where Linda is?"
Chu Ci shook her head. "I didn't see her. You're her colleague, do you know where she lives?"
“I know!” Ryan turned to leave, but stopped to stop Chu Ci when he saw that Chu Ci seemed to want to catch up.
“Master, you are injured, so please don’t come with me. I’ll ask my colleagues at the publishing house for help. Linda is well-liked at the publishing house, and they will be willing to help.”
After saying that, he hurriedly entered the elevator with his injured arm.
Chu Ci watched him leave, then sighed as she looked at her injured arm.
Sigh, she could have easily dodged Jiang Yuan's blow; this body's reaction time is just too slow.
Once her shoulder injury has healed sufficiently, she needs to get back to training as soon as possible.
She has been too lax lately.
It got dark quickly. After Grandma returned, she told her about Ryan and Linda.
Grandma poked her forehead in exasperation, "You, always trying to meddle! Didn't the injury on your arm teach you a lesson?"
"Grandma." Chu Ci sighed, leaning on the table and looking at the steaming medicine in front of her, "I really saw Linda get beaten up badly, her whole face was swollen up..."
"That's none of your business."
Grandma's expression turned serious.
“Aci, we are just ordinary people, we can’t help everyone. You need to know what it means to do what you can.”
Grandma's words were earnest and meaningful. Chu Ci moved her lips, but ultimately said nothing.
She lowered her eyes and sighed silently in her heart.
Now that I'm no longer a police officer, it's not very convenient for me to do anything.
While the tranquilizer was cooling down, she remembered the system reward she received for completing Jiang Caixia's mission.
"Grandma," she carried the still-warm medicine into the bedroom, "I'm going back to read for a while, then I'll drink the medicine and go to sleep."
"Go on, go on," Grandma said, sitting in front of the TV waiting for an entertainment program. "Take your medicine and go to sleep quickly, don't stay up too late."
"knew."
After closing the bedroom door, Chu Ci found her bag and rummaged through it, and sure enough, she found a new black card at the bottom of the bag.
To her surprise, this so-called "Heaven and Earth Bank Pass" turned out to be a book!
The black card transformed into a thin book in her hand, and she frowned slightly as she looked at the yellowed cover.
But when she saw the contents of the book, her furrowed brows immediately relaxed.
"Grandma!"
She drank the bowl of bitter, numbingly bitter medicine in one gulp, grabbed her coat, and prepared to go out.
"My mouth tastes bitter, I'm going out to buy some candy!"
Grandma, who was watching an entertainment program, turned her head and said, "What time is it? Why are you still going out? There's sugar in the kitchen. Go and eat some to soothe the bitterness."
"White sugar won't work, I want to eat fruit candy."
"Hey, you, Aci, you're such a picky eater..."
Chu Ci slipped on her shoes, shutting out her grandmother's voice behind her, and hurriedly entered the elevator.
It wasn't too late, and there were still public buses outside.
She boarded a public bus and headed straight for Kowloon City.
After getting off the bus, she took out the contact information of the incense and paper money shop owners that her grandmother had given her, and found a newsstand to make the call.
"Hello, is this Tiandi Renhe Paper Products Shop? I'd like to order a batch of yellow mounting paper. Can we discuss this in person?"
After getting the other party's address over the phone and arranging to meet later, she called the workshop that sells cinnabar ink.
"Baiyaotang? I'd like to buy cinnabar ink... Okay, I'll go get it in a bit."
Having obtained the addresses of the two stores, she rushed over there.
First, I got some yellow mounting paper from the paper shop to try out, then I sold some paper for making paper offerings, and then I went to the pharmacy to buy cinnabar ink.
Finally, she went to the most important place: the engraving workshop.
"Miss, you mean... you want me to carve a new paper money rubbing plate?"
The master craftsman stood in the brightly lit courtyard, where various kinds of wood were scattered haphazardly, and the unique fragrance of dried wood wafted through the air.
He looked at Chu Ci, who was nodding, with a helpless expression.
"Miss, the same printing plate has been used for making rubbings of paper money for so many years. If you change it, the rubbings of paper money won't sell!"
“I’m not here to sell paper money rubbings,” Chu Ci said, pulling out two hundred-yuan bills. “Please go ahead and do it; this is a deposit.”
Upon seeing the two bills she produced, the old man's initial suspicion vanished, and he immediately beamed with joy.
"Sure, sure, Chen's Seal Engraving Workshop can do anything."
He took the money, but didn't forget to emphasize, "However, miss, I must remind you that our engraving workshop only handles the engraving of the rubbings. The rest is none of our business."
He was still worried that Chu Ci's printed paper money wouldn't sell and that he would come back to cause trouble for them.
"Don't worry, old man," Chu Ci assured him repeatedly, "You just focus on making the rubbings, I will definitely not cause you any trouble later."
After her repeated insistence, the master craftsman finally felt relieved and told her to come back in three days to pick it up.
I was carrying a bag of things back home when my grandmother blocked me at the door before I even got inside.
Grandma raised an eyebrow as she saw her standing in the brightly lit hallway, carrying a bunch of bags.
"Why did you buy so many fruit candies so late at night?"
Chu Ci: "..."
She gave an embarrassed smile and picked up the things in her hand to show her grandmother.
"I suddenly realized that I've been a bit too lax lately, so I went and bought some things wholesale."
Seeing the yellow paper in her hand, Grandma's expression softened, and she took the paper from her.
"Your hands are injured, yet you're still running around everywhere. Come in."
Chu Ci smiled at her grandmother and was changing her shoes when the front door suddenly rang.
Her bent-over posture froze, and she suddenly widened her eyes to look at the door that had been knocked on.
It's so late, could it be Jiang Caixia again?
Grandma put down her things and noticed that the girl was staring at the door but not opening it, so she patted her shoulder.
"Keep it closed, why don't you open the door?"
She opened the door, only to find Chen Xinxin standing outside.
"Xin Xin?" Grandma was pleasantly surprised and quickly pulled her inside. "Why are you here so late?"
When Grandma pulled Chen Xinxin into the brightly lit room, she noticed that Chen's eyes were red and her eyelids were swollen, clearly indicating that she had just been crying.
She glanced at Chu Ci in surprise, but Chu Ci shook his head at her. "Grandma, you should go back to sleep first. I'll chat with Xin Xin."
"good."
Grandma was too embarrassed to ask any more questions and turned back to her room.
Chu Ci pulled Chen Xinxin into the bedroom. As soon as the door closed, Chen Xinxin couldn't hold back any longer and burst into tears.
"Sister Aci, Tongtong's grandma is gone, waaaaah..."
"What?!" Chu Ci was also shocked by the news. "Grandma Guo is gone? What happened!"
Chen Xinxin sobbed and explained what had happened.
Since learning of Guo Miaotong's death, Chen Xinxin has maintained close contact with Guo's mother, and the two of them want to avenge Guo Miaotong.
During this time, the two of them encountered a lot of trouble from Anna's family, but the more trouble they faced, the angrier they became, and the more determined they were to overcome their setbacks.
However, the police station was unable to find any evidence, and at the behest of the Bai family, no one at the school dared to speak out.
To save face, the Bai family hired unscrupulous reporters to write fabricated reports.
They portrayed Guo Miaotong's parents as loan sharks, said their deaths were deserved, and even claimed the person who ran them over was a righteous person.
When Granny Guo saw this report that distorted the truth, she fainted on the spot.
After waking up, she went to the police station, but the serious crimes unit couldn't get involved, and other police officers said they couldn't handle it.
Having no other option, Granny Guo could only continue searching for evidence to avenge Guo Miaotong. However, neither she nor Chen Xinxin expected that the Bai family's methods could be even more despicable.
Chen Xinxin's eyes became more and more swollen from crying. "The Bai family found a girl whose profile looked a lot like Tongtong's and took pictures of her sleeping with many men, which were then posted all over the school and at Grandma Guo's house."
"They even told Guo Po's neighbors that Tongtong was promiscuous and slept with many men. They also bribed a thug near Tongtong's house, who said..."
"They said Tongtong slept with him and got pregnant, but he didn't acknowledge the child, so Tongtong jumped off the building and committed suicide. It had nothing to do with Bai Anna."
At this point, Chen Xinxin almost broke down in tears.
"Sister Aci, they are so wicked! They not only drove Tongtong to her death, but also smeared her name after she died!"
Chu Ci clenched his fists so tightly they cracked, then squatted down and grabbed Chen Xinxin's shoulders.
"And then what? They attacked Granny Guo?"
"No...no..."
Chen Xinxin's face was red from crying as she shook her head, "Grandma Guo committed suicide, she hanged herself!"
Chu Ci: "!!!"
She was stunned for a long time before she came to her senses. "Grandma Guo committed suicide?"
She didn't believe it. "Are you sure? Did the forensic doctor say the same thing?"
Regarding Guo Miaotong's case, she had previously discussed it with Guo's mother, and it's unlikely that suicide would make the murderer pay the price they deserve.
If you've been wronged and are no longer afraid of death, then stand up and fight them to the end, instead of choosing a way to die that won't make the perpetrators pay any price.
At the time, Granny Guo wholeheartedly agreed.
She didn't believe that Granny Guo would choose suicide as her way of dying.
But Chen Xinxin nodded through her tears, “It’s true, Grandma Guo committed suicide. She left a suicide note, and the forensic doctor also said it was suicide…”
"Did Granny Guo leave a suicide note? What did it say?" Chu Ci pressed.
At this point, Chen Xinxin paused in her sobbing, and her expression turned much paler.
She swallowed hard, her face turning pale, and after a long while, she finally spoke:
"When Granny Guo died, she had an iron weight tied to her feet, and she wore her hemp burial shroud inside out. She said that after she died, she would become a vengeful ghost and make the entire Bai family pay the price..."
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