There was no movement under the cupboard, it was still quiet, even the blood dripping out suddenly stopped.
Chi Shen was not in a hurry. He waited calmly outside the cupboard. After nearly ten minutes, the cupboard door was slowly pushed open.
The first thing that was stretched out was a hand covered in blood. It was the hand of a middle-aged woman. It was not soft, but looked rough and strong. There were calluses on her hands due to frequent work. That hand left a bloody handprint on the cupboard door.
Chi Shen took a step back and made room.
The woman crawled out extremely slowly. She was covered in blood and was wrapped in black air, which made her look almost black. The bloody red blood dripping in the black air looked extremely weird.
There were knife wounds on her body, located on her abdomen and heart, which she had cut herself. Suicide is a very painful way to commit suicide, and hacking oneself to death undoubtedly requires the greatest despair and courage. Every wound on her body is extremely horrific, and one can imagine how determined she was when she hacked herself to death.
Finally, she pulled her right hand out of the cupboard. In that hand was a kitchen knife covered in blood. She had used that knife to hack herself to death. Her hand was tightly holding the knife, as if it was her last bargaining chip. Although she was holding it tightly, she still tried to hide the knife behind her, as if she was afraid of being seen by Chi Shen.
Chi Shen didn't care about the kitchen knife in her hand, and even took the initiative to move away from the knife to give the woman enough sense of security. She said in a trembling voice: "You can cook now."
"I'm not cooking today." Chi Shen said, "I want to discuss the house with you."
The woman looked up at Chi Shen. She seemed confused, but she tried to control herself, muttering, "You guys live here, you guys live here, I won't disturb you."
"You are also residents of this house. We will not drive you away. The cupboard is too small and not suitable for living." Chi Shen raised his hand, as if he wanted to touch his face, but he put it down halfway. "Come to the living room and let's discuss it together. You don't have to worry. We all think you should live here, so the living room is also a place you can go."
The woman nodded hesitantly. Chi Shen stepped aside and slowly walked out with the woman.
When she reached the kitchen door, the woman suddenly looked up and asked in a panic, "He's not here, is he? Not...here, is he?"
As she spoke, the wounds on her body began to bleed again. She tried to cover the wound with the hand that was not holding the knife, but she could not cover the second one. Her expression became painful.
Chi Shen answered without hesitation: "Not here."
The woman still looked a little worried, but when she saw Chi Shen's encouraging eyes, she slowly followed him out of the kitchen.
Chi Shen stood outside the kitchen door, waiting patiently for her to come out. When she took her last step out of the kitchen, he reached out and pushed the sliding door of the kitchen, and with a click, the kitchen door closed.
The woman turned around suddenly and saw Chi Shen's calm and encouraging eyes. She calmed down again and slowly walked towards the sofa.
The red-dressed ghost looked at the woman curiously. Bai Wan made room for the woman and asked her to sit on the sofa. The woman held the kitchen knife nervously, looked at the sofa several times, shook her head, and said in a trembling voice, "No, it's dirty."
The two ghosts did not force it. The female ghost in red climbed onto the sofa and stared at the kitchen knife in the woman's hand. She seemed very curious about the knife.
Chi Shen has gone to the toilet.
The boy, who was about fourteen or fifteen years old, lived behind the toilet in the bathroom. Maybe ghosts couldn’t smell anything, so they didn’t think there was anything wrong with this place. Anyway, he had been there for a long time.
"Your mother is waiting for you in the living room." Chi Shen didn't use any fancy words this time, he just said it calmly at the door of the bathroom.
The shadow behind the toilet moved, and a boy with blood dripping from his body crawled out from the shadow. His blood was lighter in color, a light red after being soaked in water. He also committed suicide. When he died, he was lying on the edge of the bathtub, with his wrists cut and placed in the warm water in the bathtub.
The boy glanced outside the living room, then looked at Chi Shen uncertainly: "You...you...who are you?"
Chi Shen did not answer this question. He just opened the bathroom door completely and made way for her: "You probably don't want your mother to live in the cupboard forever, so let's discuss this in the living room."
The boy hesitated for a moment, then walked out away from Chi Shen. When the woman in the living room saw the boy coming out, she deliberately lowered her head, turned her back to the boy, and did not look at him.
The moment the boy walked out of the bathroom, the bathroom door closed with a click, and Chi Shen went to close the bedroom door.
Chi Shen went to the balcony again. The ghost that lived under his bed went to the balcony. After Chi Shen and Ji Xingchen No. 2 moved into the bedroom, the ghost never came back, but he didn't leave far and hid among the sundries on the balcony.
"We need to talk about the ownership of the house." Chi Shen pushed aside the debris and said to a tattered flowerpot.
An old man with a purple face immediately crawled out of the old flowerpot. He shouted, "Mine! The house is mine!"
Chi Shen was not so polite to the old man. He directly picked him up and threw him into the living room. The old man turned around and wanted to curse, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he saw the woman and Bai Wan in the living room. Before he could even curse, he immediately jumped up from the ground and wanted to run back to the balcony as soon as possible.
Click.
The balcony door was also closed by Chi Shen, and the old man lost the opportunity to return to the balcony.
"How can you be such a person!" The old man cursed angrily, "I am an old man, you should respect me, open the door and let me out!"
Chi Shen ignored him and looked up at the chandelier.
"Mr. Ji," the woman spoke at this time. Every word she spoke seemed extremely painful. She finished the whole sentence slowly and vaguely. "We want to discuss... what? He... is not here. After we discuss it... will he agree?"
Chi Shen withdrew his gaze from the chandelier. He looked around at the ghosts standing and lying in the living room. His originally calm eyebrows slowly became excited, as if he had wantonly smeared colors on a neat sketch. He smiled, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, trying to make his smile full of affinity: "He will approve."
When the woman saw Chi Shen's smile, she felt like she had seen a ghost and immediately wanted to run to the kitchen. The boy also wanted to go back to the bathroom, but they suddenly found that the door could not be opened! As ghosts, they couldn't go through that door either!
At this time, the translucent Ji Xingchen came in from the gate with a pale ghost face. He covered the ghost face's mouth with the hand holding the ghost face and looked at Chi Shen: "Are you all here?"
His face looked very calm, as if Chi Shen's impersonation of him to deceive ghosts had nothing to do with him and he simply came back a little late.
Chi Shen smiled and looked at the chandelier: "There is still one missing, but I'm not sure if he can still communicate normally."
The chandelier was on, and under Chi Shen's gaze, a figure slowly emerged. It was the moth in the chandelier that the landlord had mentioned.
The red-dressed female ghost also looked up at the chandelier and whimpered, "Come down! Let's have a meeting!"
"He's not there," Chi Shen followed the position of the human-shaped shadow and looked at the sofa, "He's here."
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