Grandma Jiang trembled, turning back to look at Jiang Heng in disbelief, "Your father, your father..."
The three Jiang sisters had subtle expressions and looked in the same direction at the same time.
That's where the little girl was talking earlier.
Grandma Jiang followed their gaze but saw nothing.
She breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that her son was just joking with her and that the old man couldn't possibly be there.
She doesn't know why, but recently she's been able to see things that she couldn't see before.
For example, the spirit that Qiqi is currently suppressing was invisible to her before; she only started to see it in the last few days.
“Grandpa Jiang is over there!” Qiqi pointed to the spot behind Grandma Jiang.
Grandma Jiang's relaxed expression hadn't even fully formed before she froze again because of those words.
She turned her head slowly and stiffly, and sure enough, she saw a transparent spirit floating in mid-air behind her.
The area above the spirit's neck was empty, but a head was held in its slightly bent left hand.
At this moment, the head's eyes were looking at her with a complex and sorrowful expression.
That look in her eyes made Grandma Jiang's heart tremble uncontrollably.
"Old, Old Jiang..."
How can I describe Grandma Jiang's expression at this moment?
Shock, fear, guilt, remorse, and a complex mix of other emotions alternated on that face etched with the marks of time.
Grandpa Jiang looked at her intently for a long time, then sighed, "Wanjun, who is he? You only did this because of him..."
"No, no," Grandma Jiang hurriedly interrupted him, explaining, "Old Jiang, it was an accident, an accident! I didn't mean to, I really didn't mean to!"
Wan Jun is Grandma Jiang's name.
Grandma Jiang's real name is Jiang Wanjun.
She was the daughter of a close friend of Grandpa Jiang's parents. Her parents died in a plane crash shortly after she was born.
Jiang's parents took her back and, to avoid her awkward position in the Jiang family, changed her surname to Jiang.
The Jiang family treated her very well, and Grandpa Jiang treated her very well too. The two grew up together as childhood sweethearts. Although outsiders always said that Grandma Jiang was a child bride raised by the Jiang family for Grandpa Jiang, the Jiang family never put any pressure on Grandma Jiang. Even though Grandpa Jiang loved her, he completely respected her wishes.
Later, when Grandma Jiang was in high school, she started dating the school bully and became degenerate under his influence.
Not only did his grades plummet, but he also picked up many bad habits. The Jiang family could no longer ignore it and had to intervene.
However, this incident aroused a strong rebellious attitude in Grandma Jiang. She had a very ugly falling out with the Jiang family at the time, and even ran away from home for a long period of time.
It wasn't until six months later that he returned to the Jiang family, covered in injuries.
Jiang's parents were deeply hurt by Grandma Jiang's departure from home at the time, but after she returned, they still loved her as much as before, and Grandma Jiang became even more obedient and sensible than before.
Later, when she was a little older, she married Grandpa Jiang, just as the Jiang family had wished.
Of course, before the wedding, the Jiang family and Grandpa Jiang repeatedly asked her for her opinion, asking if she was really willing, and she always smiled and said yes.
But the result...
She has never forgotten that person from high school!
Even for him...
Jiang Heng keenly sensed something amiss in his mother's words and asked in a low voice, "What accident? What do you mean? Mom, didn't Dad suddenly fall ill and pass away?"
Grandma Jiang murmured, unable to utter a single word.
Grandpa Jiang closed his eyes in pain.
Perhaps the memories of his death were too painful, causing him to subconsciously choose to forget them.
After he died, he became a ghost and heard Grandma Jiang say that she had died of a sudden illness, so he believed it to be true.
But then he remembered. Just now, when he saw the spirit floating out of Grandma Jiang's body, he remembered the cause of his death.
He didn't die from a sudden illness. Instead, when he returned from an early business trip, he witnessed his wife embracing another man in their love nest, and that man smothered her to death with a pillow.
The man even broke his neck bone because he used too much force, which is why his head keeps falling off as a ghost after he dies.
Seeing Grandma Jiang's appearance, the three Jiang siblings were deeply shocked.
"Mom, tell us the truth, how exactly did Dad die?"
Jiang Hai, the second son of the Jiang family, shouted, his eyes burning red with anger and pain.
Grandma Jiang was startled by his loud voice. Her lips trembled for a long time, but she couldn't say a word. She could only cover her face with her hands in pain and let out a broken sob.
Qiqi couldn't bear to watch any longer; Grandpa Jiang was just too pitiful!
"Grandpa Jiang didn't die from a sudden illness; he was suffocated to death by the person possessed by this hungry ghost! And Grandma Jiang was there at the time, but she didn't try to stop it even once!"
The little girl's voice was soft, but the words she spoke sent chills down one's spine.
Jiang Yue swayed and fell onto the sofa with a thud, her face blank, not even knowing what expression to make.
Jiang Hai stared at Grandma Jiang, his face ashen, his eyes filled with disbelief.
Only Jiang Heng remained relatively composed, though his face was quite grim as he pressed on, "Mom, is what she said true?"
Grandma Jiang continued to cover her face and cry, without saying a word.
The spirit suppressed by Qiqi, on the other hand, arrogantly shouted, "So what if it's true? Hit me then! If it weren't for that old bastard and his parents' snobbishness, how could I have broken up with Wanjun? We loved each other so much, it was all his and his short-lived parents' fault! They forced us to this! They all deserve to die, they all deserve to die!!!"
"Shut the hell up!" Jiang Heng was truly enraged and charged at the spirit with his fist clenched.
However, the punch missed him completely, passing right through his spirit body.
The spirit rippled like water, then returned to normal, ushering in a new round of even more rampant laughter.
"Hahaha, that old codger is a piece of trash, and I never thought his son would be just as useless. Trash, you want to hit me? Come on then!"
Jiang Heng was so angry that his face turned ashen and his fists hardened.
Qiqi: ……
"Tsk!" The little girl clicked her tongue. "I've never heard such an absurd request in my life!"
Want to get beaten up? That's easy.
She took a talisman out of her bag and slapped it on Jiang Heng's arm. She crossed her arms and raised her chin.
"Uncle, beat him up!"
Jiang Heng was stunned for a moment, looking at the yellow talisman on his arm and then at the girl's calm demeanor.
He clenched his fist, gritted his teeth, and lunged at the spirit!
The man assumed Jiang Heng would be just like before, unable to touch him at all, and arrogantly puffed out his chest.
Who knew...
Bang!
Jiang Heng punched the other man in the stomach, sending him flying!
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