Chapter 373: The Pretending Old Lady
As he spoke, he picked up a record book from the store and showed it to her.
Chen Wan flipped through it casually, "Wow, I really remember a lot. Have you taken all these cases?"
"It's a small business, so of course I'll take on as many as I can."
Chen Wan read out what he had recorded, "A ghost turned on the light in the middle of the night? The light in Old Man Liu's house at the head of Dongcheng Village turned on for no reason late at night, and Old Man Liu was so scared that he fell ill and was hospitalized..."
Qi Chong coughed lightly: "I checked it out, and it was just the screw that turned on the light that was loose. But my trip was not in vain, as Old Man Liu's family reimbursed me for my travel expenses, although it was only ten yuan..."
Chen Wan turned another page: "Ghosts crying at midnight? A certain old building would emit creepy cries at midnight, and the residents were panic-stricken and terrified."
Qi Chong said seriously: "This took me a lot of effort. I went there in the middle of the night and dug up the septic tank under the building following the sound. I found that a catfish had fallen into it. It was accidentally flushed into the sewer by a resident..."
"To thank me, they gave me 100 yuan, plus 30 yuan for the bath."
Shen Wan flipped the page again: "Zombie boy? A new zombie appeared?"
Qi Chong was furious when he mentioned this matter, "This little brat is pretending to avoid going to school!"
"He acted pretty well, jumping around like the zombies in the movies and drinking blood. In the end, he got beaten up by his dad."
Shen Wan was about to burst out laughing: "What about this, the ground that will ooze blood, and there are pictures."
Qi Chong held his forehead with his hand: "When I received this case, I also thought it was some evil ghost haunting the house, but guess what happened?"
"What?"
"That guy wanted to gain fame and traffic, so he spilled it on purpose!"
Chen Wan laughed: "So you have been busy these days just dealing with these things?"
Qi Chong picked up another booklet and showed it to her, "What you just read was irrelevant. These are actually related to the supernatural."
"Some were forwarded to me by my former colleagues, and some were approached by my former connections. My firm was just established not long ago, and I'm the only one busy, so I haven't had the chance to go yet."
"Master Shen, can you help me take a look?"
As soon as Shen Wan opened the page, he was attracted by the information on it, "The old lady who pretended to be dead, suddenly came back to life after being dead for three days, and after waking up, she knew everything and could predict the death of the dead?"
Qi Chong's expression became a little solemn. "This is true. Old Lady Wang had already died. According to rural customs, the body had to be kept for three days before the burial ceremony. Unexpectedly, when the burial was about to begin, Old Lady Wang woke up and knocked on the coffin loudly. The people carrying the coffin did not dare to open it, so it was Old Lady Wang's sons who opened it. After opening it, they found that their mother was alive..."
"Her sons happily took their mother home, and a funeral turned into a happy occasion, but unexpectedly misfortune also followed."
"Ever since Old Lady Wang came back to life, she has been like a spirit. She can answer questions accurately. When she says who is going to die, that person will definitely die, and the time is exactly right."
"Soon, Old Lady Wang became a well-known 'fortune teller' in the surrounding villages. Many people went to her for advice, and she made a lot of money!"
Shen Wan glanced at the information in the book, "Is it her son who came to see you?"
"Since you've made a lot of money, why would her son come to you to kill his mother?"
Qi Chong: "That's what's strange. The person who came to see me was Old Lady Wang's eldest son, Wang Daqiang. Wang Daqiang said that ever since his mother had the ability to tell fortunes, cure diseases, and communicate with spirits, she has completely changed."
"Especially, there are a lot of things like snake scales growing on her body. Every midnight, Wang Daqiang would find Old Lady Wang hiding in the kitchen doing something. When she left, he would secretly check and find snake sloughs all over the floor!"
"Wang Daqiang suspected that the person who came back to life was not his mother at all, but a snake spirit."
"When I was in the Jiujiu before, I went to their village to do some work, so this time Wang Daqiang came directly to me and wanted me to help take a look."
Chen Wan was very interested: "The old lady pretending to be dead, the snake sloughing, it's quite interesting, let's go, let's go to Wangjiazhuang now."
Qi Chong became excited when he heard this, and quickly put on his gear and got on the tricycle.
Chen Wan was shocked when she saw his tricycle which was even more broken than the one used to collect scraps. "Captain Qi has fallen on hard times. He rides this? It's not even as fast as my three-wheeled bike."
Qi Chong was waiting for her to say this, "Hey, great then, just go ride your three-wheeled motorcycle."
Chen Wan: “…”
Wangjiazhuang is located outside the city, and it takes several hours to drive there, let alone ride a three-wheeled motorcycle.
Shen Wan simply summoned the five ghosts.
Qi Chong got off the three-wheeled vehicle and came to the ghost sedan chair. "Master Shen, please go first."
Shen Wan did not get out of the car, but smiled faintly at the five ghosts.
Qi Chong: "You don't mean to... your three-wheeled motorcycle is bigger than the ghost sedan, and you still want to ride in it."
Chen Wan smiled casually: "Why not?"
Bang!
A cloud of black smoke rose up, and the ghost sedan seemed to have become bigger!
Chen Wan rode his three-wheeled motorcycle straight in.
Qi Chong was stunned: "Fuck, can we play like this?"
With the five ghosts carrying the sedan chair, the process became much faster. In the blink of an eye, the two of them arrived at the woods outside Wangjiazhuang.
The five ghosts put down the ghost sedan.
Chen Wan rode a three-wheeled motorcycle and hurriedly got out of the ghost sedan with Qi Chong, and stopped on the road in Wangjiazhuang.
She looked up at the sky above Wangjiazhuang and said, "The evil spirit is so strong."
Qi Chong tilted his head and asked her, "Are you Liu Xian from the Five Great Families?"
Chen Wan said calmly: "No matter whether it is a fairy or a demon, we will know after we go in and take a look."
"I heard that Old Lady Wang is extremely effective now. She only needs to look at you to know your origins. What do you want to ask? Should we just go and catch them first or should we not alert them?"
"If she is really so effective, then she should have known we were up to no good from the moment we entered the village. There would be no need to do anything fancy, she should have just walked past us."
"Okay!"
The story of Old Lady Wang becoming a fortune teller spread throughout the surrounding villages, and many people came to visit her because of her fame.
The villagers of Wangjiazhuang did not miss this good opportunity to make money. In just one month, they set up a number of farm stays in the village. Every household set up snack stands and agricultural product stalls. In order to facilitate the entry and exit of people, a piece of open space was specially planned as a parking lot.
Chen Wan and Qi Chong were stuck on the road halfway and couldn't go in.
The street was full of people who came to see Old Lady Wang for advice, all kinds of people.
"You can't get in by bike, let's get off." Chen Wan spent 20 yuan to park the bike at a farmer's house, and then walked there with Qi Chong.
Along the way, I heard many people exaggerate the effectiveness of Old Lady Wang, the fortune teller.
"My daughter is already 38 and still hasn't married. This time I'm going to ask the fortune teller to find her a man."
"My son has been sickly since he was young. I heard that the witch can cure diseases, so I brought my son here."
"I want to ask when I can get rich!"
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