Chapter 42: Granny Guo takes revenge on Han Lang for being possessed by an evil spirit...
Zhang Wulai's words instantly changed Grandma's expression.
Her expression hardened, and her eyes widened. "What do you mean? You want to harm my Aci?"
Zhang Wulai didn't care about her anger at all, and just chuckled again.
"Grandma Dan," he called out in a drawn-out tone, smiling insincerely, "look at you, what are you thinking? Miss Bai and your Aci are friends, she's just showing concern."
"The Bai family are law-abiding citizens; you can't slander them!"
"you……"
Grandma wanted to pounce on him and scratch his face, but the landlord grabbed her waist and pulled her back.
Only after Zhang Wulai left triumphantly did she release her struggling grandmother. "Why bother arguing with a scoundrel like him? Let him be smug for long, he won't be smug for long!"
Grandma gradually calmed down. "What do you mean by that?"
The landlord didn't answer her, but called out "Cheng Zhenzhen" and took the old woman home with him.
Once they got home and closed the door, the landlord began to tell them about Granny Guo's death.
"They drove Granny Guo to her death! I heard that Granny Guo's death was no ordinary one!"
"Do you remember that century-old banyan tree at the intersection? Granny Guo hanged herself from that banyan tree at three-quarters past midnight!"
A hundred-year-old banyan tree, a dwelling place for a hundred ghosts. At three-quarters past midnight, the gates of hell open wide.
Granny Guo never intended to die a peaceful death.
Grandma was stunned, her expression changing repeatedly. She was shocked by Grandma Guo's resolute decision, and the last bit of displeasure she had for her vanished completely.
"She...she...sigh! How did she drive someone to this point!"
The landlord shook his head, "That's not all!"
"I heard that when Granny Guo died, she tied weights to her feet, wore her plain linen clothes inside out to cut off her way to the underworld, tied a red silk belt around her waist with a seven-evil lock to bind her soul, and stuffed copper coins into her eyes, ears, mouth and nose to nourish her soul..."
"She's determined to turn herself into a vengeful ghost to avenge her granddaughter!"
After saying this, the landlord and the old lady fell silent for a long time.
The landlord stubbed out the last bit of his cigarette and shook his head regretfully.
"It's a pity, this is a new era, those young people don't believe in ghosts and gods. In the past, Granny Guo's methods could make those people live a life of unrest, but now..."
She sighed, "I'm afraid those people are still cursing Guo Po for being stupid behind her back, and are glad they didn't have to do it themselves."
Grandma: "..."
She remained silent for a long time, when suddenly Zhang Wulai's face flashed back into her mind, and her expression changed slightly.
"uncertain?"
"What?" The landlord looked at her in surprise. "What do you mean, 'not necessarily'?"
"It's not necessarily useless."
Grandma raised her head with a bright look in her eyes, "When Zhang Wulai came to give me candy just now, I felt that there was something wrong with his appearance."
Now that I think about it, I can see the dark lines between his brows, the bloodshot eyes, and the bluish-black lines on his lower lip...
Having examined rice for so many years, this was the first time she had ever seen a person die exactly as described in a book.
She lost all interest in shopping, and seeing the landlord's surprised expression, she said confidently:
"Ah Jun, just you wait and see, this Zhang scoundrel won't live much longer."
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Chu Ci slept until noon when his grandmother slapped him awake.
She groggily opened her eyes, sat up, and yawned. "Grandma, how long have I been asleep?"
"You've been sleeping all morning!"
Looking at the dark circles under her eyes, Grandma felt a pang of sympathy. After hesitating for a moment, she decided not to tell anyone what had happened to her.
He gently touched her sweat-dampened forehead and said softly, "Get up and eat."
"good."
Chu Ci washed her face in a daze, and then sat down at the table after she came to her senses.
Chen Xinxin ate lunch at school, and it was just the two of them, grandmother and granddaughter, at the table.
Grandma, who usually enjoys watching TV and chatting with Chu Ci while eating, was unusually quiet today.
Chu Ci's mind was foggy, and he glanced at his grandmother during the meal.
Grandma was eating absentmindedly, stuffing food into her mouth bit by bit.
"Grandma."
She suddenly spoke, startling Grandma back to reality.
"What's wrong?" Grandma glanced at the food on the table. "Don't you like the food?"
"No." Chu Ci put down the spoon in her hand and looked at her with concern. "Grandma, did something happen to you when you went out today? You don't look well."
"..."
Grandma subconsciously touched her face and shook her head.
"I'm fine. You should eat quickly and continue to tell fortunes this afternoon."
She said this, but after a short while, she suddenly spoke:
"Don't concern yourself with Granny Guo's affairs anymore. And stay away from the Bai family from now on."
Chu Ci: "..."
She paused in her eating, looked up at her grandmother, and asked, "Grandma, you know everything?"
Grandma sighed, "I went to Kowloon City today and ran into my previous landlord. She told me about it."
After saying that, she became unusually serious, "Aci, promise Grandma that you will stay away from the Bai family from now on, do you understand?"
"Grandma," Chu Ci noticed her strange expression, "did the Bai family send someone to threaten you?"
Looking into her eyes, which seemed to see right through people, Grandma sighed once again.
"You... well, anyway, you promised Grandma that you'd stay away from the Bai family and Bai Anna from now on!"
Chu Ci: "..."
She pursed her lips, looked at her grandmother's aged and worried face, and nodded gently.
"I understand, Grandma. If they don't bother me, I won't bother them."
Grandma's lips moved as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't.
"Alright, don't forget what you promised Grandma."
In the afternoon, we open our doors to welcome guests.
Ryan, the male reporter, came in with his colleagues, looking distressed.
"Master, I couldn't find Linda."
He sighed, rubbed his face with his good hand, and looked worried.
“I went to her house, but her husband said she had gone on vacation. Then I went to her parents’ house and they also said that Linda had gone on vacation.”
"But that's simply impossible!"
His colleague, who had come with him, suddenly spoke up.
My colleague is a very strong, fat man. He wears black-rimmed glasses, has a very nerdy face, but a very robust build.
Unlike the stereotypical image of a male reporter, he looks more like a fitness instructor at a gym.
He slammed his hand on the table, and the heavy spirit table trembled slightly.
"Linda is a workaholic. She said she found a big news story a while ago. How could she possibly go on vacation at a time like this?"
Chu Ci looked at the two people's worried eyes and nodded to indicate that she understood.
"So, you two came to see me this time because..."
"Master, I'd like to ask you to do a divination for me," the burly colleague said eagerly. "Could you also tell me where Linda is?"
As he spoke, he pushed a hundred-yuan bill toward him.
Chu Ci glanced at the money on the table but didn't accept it. "If she's not here, I can't calculate it."
Seeing their disappointed expressions, she added, "Recent photos are fine too, preferably from the last few days."
Ryan was disappointed. "Master, we didn't..."
"Yes!" the big guy interrupted him, "I have it!"
He took his camera out of his bag and started rummaging through it.
A short while later, they actually found a photo of Linda.
He looked at Chu Ci nervously, "Master, this photo was taken the day before Linda didn't come to work, about three or four days ago. Can it be used?"
In the camera footage, Linda wasn't looking directly at the lens; she was just staring blankly into space, her brow furrowed, looking somewhat melancholy.
Ryan glanced at Linda with the camera, then at his burly colleague beside him, opened his mouth, then closed it again.
The way he looked at his colleague suddenly became strange.
Chu Ci glanced at the big guy with a worried look on his face and nodded, "Okay."
The big man grinned. "Then I'll have to trouble you, Master!"
Chu Ci looked at Linda in the camera, took a deep breath to calm herself, and when she looked up again, it was as if she saw many things.
A moment later, she covered her slightly sore eyes and handed the camera back to the big guy.
"She and her husband are having marital problems, and they're quite serious. If you want to talk to her, you should talk to her husband and ask him properly."
The big guy got the answer, and without saying a word, he grabbed his bag and left.
Ryan wanted to ask a few more questions, but since his colleague had left, he had to go and help.
After thanking Chu Ci, he hurriedly followed his colleague and left.
In the evening, Chen Xinxin returned from school, finished her homework, and was about to have dinner when an unexpected person came to her door.
"Master, please, please save my grandson!"
After a long time, Master Fang and He Lihua led their family into the house in a grand procession.
As soon as I entered the door, the grandmother in that family knelt down on the ground with a "thud," her knees hitting the ground with a "thud."
Her clothes were not as luxurious as those of the old lady Cheng who had visited before, but they were still more extravagant than those of many others. She wore fine jade ornaments around her neck and wrists.
The slightly younger daughter behind her was probably her daughter-in-law, wearing sunglasses and a mask, her face completely covered.
He quickly knelt down to help the old lady up. "Mom, this master might not be any good... How about we go to Wong Tai Sin Temple and find Hui Po instead?"
"Hui Po?"
Upon hearing this name again, Chu Ci immediately thought of her words about Master He's daughter and her mentally ill son-in-law being a perfect couple.
"Isn't she in Kowloon City?"
Master Fang replied with a smile, "I heard that Granny Hui made a fortune by accurately predicting the fate of a big shot, and has now moved to Wong Tai Sin District."
After speaking, she glanced at the woman who was wrapped up tightly, and her tone turned cold.
"Amin, it was your mother-in-law who asked me to help her make the match. Now that things have come to this, it's not right for you to say something like this, is it?"
The woman named "Amin" spoke bluntly, and Master Fang didn't hold back either.
Although the woman's expression was unclear, she was visibly embarrassed and quickly waved her hand, saying that was not what she meant.
But Master Fang couldn't help but roll her eyes.
The old woman who was kneeling stood up and pointed at her daughter-in-law, cursing: "I knew you had been wicked for a long time, but I never thought you would be so vicious that you don't even care about your own son!"
"You just wait and see what happens to my grandson! I'll call the reporters to interview you, and you can forget about being a big star!"
"Mom!" The woman, who was wrapped up tightly, couldn't help but cry out, "Alang is my son, how can I not care about him!"
"The main problem is that this master is so young, she doesn't look much older than Ah Lang, and she's not famous at all, so it's normal for me to be suspicious of her!"
This woman probably holds a high position among those around her, so she completely fails to consider other people's feelings and speaks very bluntly.
But it was her blunt words that finally made Chu Ci notice the boy she was supporting.
She walked over and lifted the boy's face, revealing a beautiful, pale, yet familiar face.
"Han Lang?"
She raised an eyebrow and looked at the old lady who was still pointing at her daughter-in-law and talking non-stop.
"What's wrong with him?"
Upon hearing this, the old lady immediately stopped scolding and wiped away her tears.
"Master, please save my grandson! He's been possessed by an evil spirit!"
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