Chapter 46 She was also a child adopted by her grandmother…
During the live television broadcast, the scene was in complete chaos.
Not only was the host, covered in blood, terrified, but the show's director was also stunned for a long time.
The entire program was filled with blood on camera; Grandma Hui was lying on the stage, most of her body stained red with blood.
It wasn't until the screams of the two actresses pierced the recording studio that the director suddenly realized what was happening and shouted from out of the camera's view:
"Shut it down! Shut down the live stream! What are you standing there for? Shut it down now!"
As the commotion at the scene subsided, the live broadcast on television went completely dark.
Chen Xinxin and her grandmother stared intently at the television, remaining silent for a long time.
Chu Ci frowned as she looked at the television screen filled with static.
"Sister Aci..."
As she was deep in thought, Chen Xinxin's trembling voice rang out from behind her.
Turning around, I saw that Chen Xinxin behind me was already crying in fear.
She clung tightly to her grandmother's arm, her eyes red as she looked at Chu Ci, her voice choked with emotion:
"Sister Aci, was the master's death because of... Granny Guo?"
In the short time it took to say just one sentence, her whole body felt cold, and her back was covered in cold sweat.
Chu Ci looked at her, who seemed like a frightened bird, and shook his head reassuringly.
"I'm not sure. But even if it was Granny Guo, it was because Master Hui prevented Granny Guo from taking revenge."
She patted Chen Xinxin's head, which was soaked with cold sweat, and said, "After Guo Miaotong died, you kept helping her. Grandma Guo won't hurt you."
Chen Xinxin's hands trembled uncontrollably, and tears streamed down her cheeks.
She nodded, then shook her head.
She looked up at Chu Ci and asked, "Sister Aci, if Granny Guo really did this, then will she... meet a bad end?"
Chu Ci looked at her youthful face and lowered her eyes.
"From the moment Guo Miaotong was forced to jump off the building, the fate of this grandmother and granddaughter was sealed."
Her words were so blunt that Chen Xinxin suddenly looked up at her, her already pale face turning deathly white.
After this live stream, all three people in the family were a little dazed.
But the Bai family was even more bewildered.
Ever since Bai Anna was haunted and a paper ghost cart appeared at her doorstep, the Bai family has never had a moment of peace.
At first, it was Bai Anna who encountered ghosts, and later other women and children also encountered ghosts one after another.
He also encountered a ghost.
He got drunk while discussing business, and when he saw his car, he jumped in without waiting for his secretary, closed the door, and went straight to sleep.
When he woke up again, he wasn't at his own doorstep.
Outside the car window lay a desolate wilderness, with dense branches overlapping each other, appearing ghostly under the cover of night.
When Bai's father was young, he was involved in organized crime and believed only in fists, not in ghosts or gods.
He slammed his fist on the driver's seat. "Are you crazy? You've been with me for so many years, and you can't even drive?"
Seeing that the person in the driver's seat didn't speak, he went up and kicked him again.
"What are you standing there for? Drive back! This place is so desolate, do you want me to sleep in the middle of nowhere?!"
After he finished cursing, he wanted to go back to sleep, but he didn't hear the car start for a long time.
"Oh shit!"
Unable to bear it any longer, he sat up straight, grabbed the driver's seat, and reached out to grab the driver's ear.
"I've cleared my name these past two years, you brat, you really think your big brother has no temper? I'm talking to you..."
His cursing stopped abruptly.
He touched the driver's seat and indeed felt a face, but it wasn't a human face.
He craned his neck to look at the driver's seat.
A paper figure dressed in a sapphire blue funeral shroud was sitting in the driver's seat.
The paper figure is strapped with a seatbelt and has its hands on the steering wheel, looking like it's driving seriously.
Seemingly sensing that someone was watching it, it suddenly turned its head.
A pair of painted black eyes stared intently at Bai's father, as if they had come to life.
The white man was startled by its sudden head turn.
He gasped for breath and suddenly stepped back.
After regaining his senses, he became enraged and punched the paper figure's face several times.
"Use the shovel!"
He smashed the paper figure's face flat, his face contorted with rage, and he practically kicked the car door open and got out of the car.
"Damn it! Who is it that dares to scare me? They're asking for trouble!"
"Is this the wife and kids you've been scaring me with all this time?!"
"You only dare to hide behind the scenes and pull these petty tricks? If you've got the guts, come out and face me!"
He shouted into the dark woods, completely unafraid.
But in the empty woods, only the echo of his voice responded.
"Oh shit!"
He spat, pulled the paper figure out of the driver's seat, threw it on the ground, and stomped on it a few times.
He climbed into the driver's seat and tried to start the car, but it wouldn't budge.
Just as he was looking for his big brother in the car, hoping to find outside help, a thick fog suddenly drifted by outside.
In just a few moments, the thick fog had almost completely disappeared.
It was at this moment that Bai's father finally heard the voices of other people.
He pulled two guns from the trunk and grabbed a dagger before heading towards the direction from which the sound came.
To his surprise, the voice came from an elderly woman with white hair.
The old woman was very thin, with gray hair, and was kneeling on the ground burning paper money.
In front of her were three tombstones.
If you can see him, you can deal with him. What's there to be afraid of in an old codger?
He stepped forward and asked, "Madam, where is this place?"
The old woman stiffly turned her head, the firelight from the brazier flickering on her pale face, looking particularly eerie.
Looking at that inhuman face, Bai's father gripped the pistol in his pocket, a rare chill creeping up his back.
"you……"
"This is my family cemetery."
The two spoke at the same time.
Only then did Bai's father notice that there were more than just the three graves in front of the old lady beside him.
Looking up, I saw him standing in the circle of graves.
He frowned, but wasn't particularly scared, and continued to ask, "Grandma, did you see that car?"
He pointed to his car not far away, "That's the car!"
The old woman's dull eyes darted around as she looked at him.
Dad Bai: "Did you see who drove the car here? What did that person look like?"
The old woman stared intently at him, then suddenly grinned.
"I saw it."
"Who?" Bai's father asked impatiently, "Who is that person?"
On the old woman's pale face, the corners of her mouth stretched wider and wider, moving upwards until they reached her ears.
"That person, it was me..."
The white-faced father saw her eerie appearance reflected in his eyes, his pupils contracted, and he drew his gun without hesitation and fired.
Although his movements were swift and decisive, all the bullets passed right through the old woman's body.
When he ran out of bullets in both pistols, he turned and started to run, but the old woman grabbed him by the collar and pulled him back.
The old woman twisted his legs and forced him into a kneeling position in front of the three tombstones.
The eerie voice seemed to come from a great distance, carrying an almost overflowing resentment.
"Your daughter bullied my granddaughter because she doesn't have a father, so I'll kill you and let her taste what it's like to be fatherless!"
Bai's father was unable to speak at all, and was forced to kowtow on the ground by the old lady with a series of thuds.
Blood streamed down his forehead, and he felt as if his head was being held and shaken up and down in someone's hand, and then his body suddenly felt light.
"boss?"
The driver's familiar voice came from the driver's seat.
"Boss? We're home."
The comfortable temperature in the carriage dispelled the chill that had risen within him, and his body temperature gradually rose.
Mr. Bai lay in the back seat, raised his head blankly, stared at the driver's familiar face, and remained in a daze for a long time.
Just as he was about to open his mouth to speak, an unbearable pain shot through his knee.
He looked down and saw that his two legs were still attached to his body, but twisted like noodles, and were carelessly tossed onto the back seat.
Staring at his broken leg, his chest heaved, and he finally couldn't help but scream in terror.
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That evening, Anna Bai woke up in her hospital room.
She started making a huge fuss as soon as she woke up, throwing everything into a deserted corner.
"Mom! She's there! She's standing right there! Get her out of there!"
"Where is the master? I need to find the master, I've encountered a ghost... She's standing in the corner, can't you see her?"
"She's standing right in the corner, are you all blind? Why can't you see her?!"
She cried and said that Granny Guo was standing in the corner of the ward, staring intently at her, and wanted her to pay with her life.
Bai's mother held her daughter and tried to comfort her, but the girl bit her shoulder tightly, causing blood to flow all over her body.
In an attempt to escape the room, Bai Nana opened the window and was about to jump.
Bai Ma, quick as a flash, pulled him back.
"Mom! Come with me!" Bai Anna grabbed her mother's hand.
"There's a ghost in this room! Look!" Tears welled up in her terrified eyes. "She's standing right there, she's going to take me away!"
Bai's mother was almost pulled to jump off the building by her. Fortunately, the nurses and doctors arrived in time and gave Bai Anna two sedative injections before she calmed down.
Although she quieted down, she still stared wide-eyed in terror at the corner of the room.
The nurses who were taking care of her were terrified.
Bai's mother was also feeling uneasy, but for her daughter's sake, she could only pretend to be calm.
After the medication finally took effect and the daughter fell into a deep sleep, someone told her that her father wanted her to go back.
She didn't dare to lose her temper with her father, so she could only vent her anger on the person who relayed the message.
"How can I go back in the state of Miss?"
"The eldest daughter is the only daughter of the Bai family. If something happens to her, can you take responsibility?"
But the messenger was unmoved by either soft or hard tactics, only emphasizing that she should set off quickly.
Bai's mother swallowed her anger and went home, only to be hit on the forehead by a flying cup as soon as she got there.
She stood frozen in place, blood flowing down her brow bone, staining half her face red.
Looking up in astonishment, I saw that Dad Bai was surrounded by his children, who were showering him with concern and care. His legs were limp and he was dangling over the edge of the chair, his eyes looking like he wanted to devour someone.
"You filthy bitch! This is all your doing!"
"What have you and your good daughter done! Who are you bullying?!"
Bai's mother shuddered. Her first thought was that Bai's father knew about his daughter's domineering behavior at school, which had driven Guo Miaotong to jump off the building.
Seeing how angry he was, she didn't dare to hide anything and told him everything.
With her face bleeding, she cried her heart out.
"This has nothing to do with Anna. It wasn't Anna who pushed her down; she jumped off the building herself. What does it have to do with Anna?"
"It's clearly her grandmother who's being unreasonable, insisting on framing Anna! When she couldn't frame Anna, she resorted to threatening Anna with death, just like her granddaughter..."
Once he found out who that ghost grandma was, Bai's father immediately sent people to investigate.
When he saw Guo Po's photo, his vision went black.
The faith of atheists who had been atheists for many years collapsed in an instant.
His hands trembled as he held the photo, and cold sweat poured down his back.
"you……"
He looked at Bai Ma with a terrified expression, "Have you found a master for Anna?"
Bai Ma: "..."
She glanced at her father's expression, unsure whether she should tell the truth.
"I didn't..."
"to be honest!"
"Please..."
Worried that he might be upset, Mrs. Bai quickly explained, "But that's because Anna's condition is so serious..."
Mr. Bai's ears were ringing, and he didn't hear what she said at all. He reached out his hand to signal her to support him.
Bai's mother, not understanding what was going on, shut her mouth and, together with Bai's father's mistresses, helped him into the wheelchair.
Bai's father gripped the handles of his wheelchair with both hands, his eyes filled with malice. "Take me to that master, now!"
"..."
Bai's mother didn't understand why Bai's father had changed so much, but out of fear, she still did as he asked.
But to her utter surprise, as soon as she arrived at the master's residence, she encountered Han Lang's mother, who was wailing uncontrollably, as well as the mother of her daughter's friend whom she had met at the hospital that day.
Not only them, but also the parents of her daughter's classmates who were usually close to her were there.
Seeing their state, Bai's mother panicked and quickly went up to Han Lang's mother to ask:
"Why are you crying? Where is the master?!"
Han Lang's mother just kept crying, completely abandoning her celebrity image; her usually delicate and beautiful face was covered in tears and snot.
Seeing that she didn't speak, Bai's mother grabbed her shoulders and shook her hard, "Stop crying! I'm asking you a question!"
Han Lang's mother paused in her sobbing, glanced at her, and then cried even louder.
Bai's mother eventually learned the whole story from a parent who looked utterly desperate.
The exorcism ritual that Granny Hui performed for Han Lang a few days ago had been effective, and the parents, feeling guilty, all came to seek her out.
Everything was normal at first. With the exorcism ritual performed by Grandma Hui, the children in their family who had been haunted by ghosts all improved.
Hui Po wanted to make money by taking advantage of the situation, so she tried to use her connections to organize a large-scale live broadcast so that the whole of Hong Kong would be subservient to her.
But no one expected that not long after the live broadcast started, Hui Po smashed the cup in front of everyone and used the shards to cut her own neck.
The major artery was slashed, and blood splattered all over the recording studio, frightening the guests and staff who were live streaming with him.
After Grandma Hui died, the children in their family, who had almost returned to normal, began to attempt suicide as if possessed.
Han Lang's mother covered her mouth and cried bitterly, "How could this happen? My son was almost recovered, how could this happen..."
In the oppressive stairwell, cries rose and fell, making one feel irritated.
Bai's father made a quick decision: "Since this master can't be relied on, let's find someone else."
Bai's mother called her brother, who believed in this stuff and naturally knew who had real skills.
But she never expected that her brother would say a name that she knew very well, but hadn't thought of for many years.
"Chu Hongdan? You want me to go find that bitch?!"
She screamed and questioned her brother.
"Have you forgotten how we kicked her out back then? Even if she's really capable, can she help us?!"
"Brother, are you crazy? Is there no one else we can use besides her?!"
Her brother paused for two seconds on the phone, then told her the names of two journals.
Bai Ma immediately sent someone to look for them. Both publications were supernatural entertainment magazines, and they were all about a place called "Spiritual Medium Incense Shop".
The owner of that medium's incense shop was surnamed Chu and named Chu Ci.
Seeing that familiar surname, Bai's mother felt a surge of unease. "Brother, this Chu Ci..."
"Yes, you're right, she was also adopted by Chu Hongdan."
Her suspicions were confirmed, and Bai Ma's expression twisted for a moment before she sneered.
"A leopard can't change its spots. After all these years, she still likes to do the same thing."
He thought his older brother would join him in complaining, but his brother, who had never liked Chu Hongdan, remained silent this time.
After a long pause, he finally spoke: "Show her some respect."
“Some people I know have gone to this Chu Ci for fortune telling. She is very accurate and has real skills.”
“She had contact with Guo Miaotong’s grandmother before. If you want to save your daughter, go find her.”
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