Chapter 223 Encountering the Old Squad Leader in a Foreign Land
[Pfft! I was having a late-night snack when I burst out laughing. Turns out, all that dowdy clothes were fake! No wonder he's so good at scamming people; he's trying to hook up with a rich guy.]
Things on the internet are best viewed with a grain of salt.
The man looked somewhat embarrassed: "How did you know?"
"I not only know you gamble, I also know you're going to be in trouble later."
"It's so effective, I don't believe it!"
The man switched legs and lifted them up, but he lost his balance and fell down, hitting his forehead on the corner of the table.
After he stood up, he looked at himself in the camera, his forehead red, with disbelief on his face.
"Do you believe me now?"
[Retribution came so quickly, I never expected it. I didn't believe it one minute, and then I was the one who suffered the consequences the next.]
"I'll say it again, I advise you to stop gambling with others. Your luck has been almost completely worn down by not gambling. Perhaps if you change your approach, you'll be better off than you are now."
"Besides, your assets are less than 100,000, aren't they? I will return the money you just swiped to me. Besides keeping the money, think carefully about what I said. If you are still stubborn and like to gamble everywhere, losing money is a small matter, but losing your life is not worth it."
Before the man could react, Gu Yunxi cut off his connection.
The man checked his bank card information and, sure enough, the money had been refunded.
Could it be that I really did something wrong?
He glanced at his left hand, where a finger had been cut off. If he didn't quit gambling, he might really lose his life, just as the woman had said.
"Master Gu, please save my daughter." The moment the live stream connected, a man in his early thirties appeared on camera.
Judging from the surroundings behind him, he must be in a hospital.
[Since you're in the hospital, you have to trust the doctor. How did you find the streamer? Our streamer's abilities are now proficient in all fields.]
[Perhaps there are some medically unexplainable issues? The host has encountered similar problems before, and resolved them smoothly.]
How old is your daughter? Is she hospitalized?
Wu Liang turned the camera to a girl of about ten years old, her face pale, seemingly receiving an IV drip, her eyes tightly closed.
"This is my daughter, Xiaohua. I took her to pay respects to our ancestors the day before yesterday. After we came back, she started vomiting and then fell into a coma. I quickly took her to the hospital in our county, but the doctor couldn't find anything wrong and told us to stay in the hospital for observation. The fluids they gave her were glucose."
Xiaohua seems to be asleep and can't be woken up at all. Her fever has subsided, but she's still burning up. My wife isn't well and is still in our hometown, so I could only bring my daughter here. She's our only child. Please, please save her! Could it be that we've been possessed by an evil spirit while trying to remember her? After all, that area is quite remote.
"The doctor couldn't find anything wrong either. Her temperature keeps fluctuating. If this continues, I'm afraid..."
The man sighed and looked at Gu Yunxi in the camera with a pleading expression.
“My wife called me and said that she heard from the villagers that this kind of situation might be caused by evil spirits. That’s why I thought of coming to you, Master. Can you tell if my daughter is really possessed by evil spirits?”
The man pointed the camera at his daughter again.
"Let me ask you, do you practice traditional burial in your area, and are the graves scattered?"
"Yes, yes, there's a mountain in my hometown with good feng shui, so everyone who dies there is buried there."
"That's right. Your daughter will wake up soon. Go ask her if she's been wandering around the neighborhood or found anything."
Just then, someone walked into the ward. "Honey, you're not feeling well. How did you get here? Please sit down."
“My pain is nothing compared to my daughter’s pain. She’s in such a state. Even if I stay at home, I can’t sleep. I had the neighbor bring her some over.”
The woman walked over, squatted down, and held the child's hand. "Little Flower, why don't you look at your mother?"
Touching the child's forehead, she found it was burning hot again. Xiaohua seemed to hear her mother's call and forced her heavy eyelids open.
"Mom, I just heard you talking, but I just can't wake up. That day when we went up the mountain, I was playing around and I saw a piece of candy lying on the ground, so I picked it up and ate it."
"That's right. One of you go and bring some food that children like to eat, and properly worship the child, and everything will be fine."
"I'll be there in a bit, so don't worry."
Hearing that the anchor would come to the hospital, the man breathed a sigh of relief. He hung up the call and prepared to go back to buy things to offer as a sacrifice.
[What's with the streamer? I think I also picked up things when I was little. Looking back now, I guess I'm just incredibly lucky to be alive.]
"If I'm not mistaken, the grave next to theirs is that of a child who died young. His parents accidentally left one of the snacks they bought for him, and Xiaohua picked it up and ate it. This caused the child to be invaded by evil spirits, resulting in his body temperature fluctuating and him falling into a coma."
[So that's how it is. There's definitely a reason why people say you shouldn't pick up things from the street.]
Those of you with children especially need to educate them. Most people couldn't handle something like this happening to them. If he hadn't met Master Gu, who would have known what was wrong with his child?
After the broadcast ended, Gu Yunxi rushed to the hospital; it was almost 9 o'clock by then.
The corridors of the pediatric hospital were still packed with people. Gu Yunxi accidentally bumped into a pedestrian, apologized hastily, and left.
The man glanced at Gu Yunxi's back with a puzzled look. Why did that figure seem so familiar?
"Gu Yunxi?"
The man called out tentatively, and Gu Yunxi stopped and looked back.
She kept searching her mind for him, and finally she recognized him. This was her class monitor, Jiang Xubai. Logically speaking, it wasn't winter break yet, so why was he here?
"It's Squad Leader Jiang. It's been a long time."
Jiang Xubai greeted her and left, turning back with a sinister look in his eyes.
She ruined the Jiang family, bankrupted them, and sent her father and aunt to prison. She had been enduring it all, and now she had actually come to this county town.
Sure enough, even the heavens were helping him. After paying respects to his ancestors, he felt a little unwell and got some medicine.
I never expected to run into her again. No matter what, she's a woman. So what if she's amazing?
Everything the Jiang family has lost must be taken back from her.
Gu Yunxi was a little surprised. Why did she look at Jiang Xubai with such a strange expression? Was she overthinking it?
Upon arriving at the ward, we were taken to a bed near the window, where the curtains were drawn.
The woman leaned back in a chair, drowsy, while her daughter, Xiaohua, fell into a coma again.
Wang Cuicui vaguely sensed someone approaching, so she quickly opened her eyes.
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