"Asshole, I'll teach you a lesson today for meddling in other people's business."
A few scoundrels shouted at me angrily.
The guy with the knife had a grim face and stabbed me without hesitation.
The energy of Yin De rose from my body, and I took the Seven Stars Gang Step, dodging to the side, and at the same time, I turned around and went behind the guy. I lowered my elbow and hit the back of the guy's neck hard. His body went limp, the knife fell to the ground, and he fainted and lost consciousness.
Before the other few people could react, their companions had already fallen to the ground.
"What happened just now? My eyes are blurry."
A young man was muttering with a grunt.
One of them who responded shouted, "There's something strange about this guy. Let's run."
As soon as the words fell, those scoundrels pushed aside the crowd and rushed downstairs.
The young man with a goatee, who was lying on the ground with his hands still covering his crotch, showed a timid expression on his face when he saw me looking at him. He muttered, "Brother, I was wrong. I shouldn't have flirted with that girl. Please forgive me. I've been miserable enough!..."
I glared at the young man with a goatee and said coldly, "Get lost!"
The young man with the goatee got up from the ground as if he had been pardoned. But he might still be hurting from the pain in his crotch, so he walked like a duck, which looked very funny.
However, the young man with a goatee was quite loyal. When he left, he took the unconscious young man away.
After all the scoundrels left the third floor, the onlookers, who knew who started it, began to applaud. They praised my courageous act.
One of the men even asked me if I should call the police. I smiled and shook my head, saying no.
At this time, Yuquan walked over quickly, leaned close to me and whispered, "Brother Yang, the woman named Guan Xinrui is missing."
After hearing this, I looked around quickly, and sure enough, the woman was gone.
I was a little annoyed, thinking, I clearly helped her get rid of those hooligans, but she disappeared. How heartless and ungrateful.
Then Yuquan and I went to look inside the third floor.
When the onlookers saw that there was nothing to watch, they all dispersed.
I thought to myself that since Guan Xinrui came to this "Hongfu Department Store", she must have a purpose. Otherwise, she wouldn't come here. As for the hooligan taking advantage of her, I'm afraid she wouldn't have expected it.
Thinking about the ghostly aura that had just emerged from Guan Xinrui, I felt something was wrong. Could it be that Guan Xinrui had been haunted by a ghost recently, or had come into contact with a ghost? This possibility was very high.
Yuquan and I walked around the third floor for more than ten minutes but couldn't find Guan Xinrui.
Just as we were about to leave the third floor and wait at the entrance of the mall, Yuquan suddenly raised his hand and pointed at a small shoe store in front of us and said to me, "Brother Yang, over there! That woman is over there."
I looked in the direction Yuquan pointed, and sure enough, I saw Guan Xinrui.
At this time, Guan Xinrui was standing in the shoe store, in front of her was a young man, about 27 or 28 years old. The man was wearing a shirt and leather shoes, and his hair was probably waxed and shiny.
There were no other customers in the shoe store. Guan Xinrui and the young man seemed to have had an argument. The man's face was a little gloomy, and he raised his hand from time to time to point outside, as if asking Guan Xinrui to go out.
Guan Xinrui's face was covered with tears, and her shoulders kept shaking. Then, as if she was very sad, she wiped the tears from her face and ran out of the shoe store.
The direction she ran towards was exactly where Yuquan and I were.
I pulled Yuquan's arm, and we both quickly dodged back, hiding behind some hanging clothes, pretending to look at clothes. Interestingly, the clothes we were looking at turned out to be women's underwear. The shop owner gave us a strange look.
"She's gone. The woman is gone." Yuquan reminded me.
I looked back and only saw Guan Xinrui's back.
"Then Brother Yang, should we still follow her?"
I thought about it and said, "No need for now. I guess she has gone home. Her home is in Qing'an Apartment, which is quite far from here. We can go there later."
"Then what should we do now?" Yuquan looked at me puzzled.
I raised my neck and said to him, "Let's go to that shoe store. The young man should know Guan Xinrui. Maybe he can talk Guan Xinrui into letting us into her house and get the Taiyin Pearl back."
Then I took Yuquan and walked towards the shoe store.
When I got there, the young man was leaning back in a chair with his eyes closed, looking very tired.
Hearing footsteps, he slightly opened his eyes and said, "It's too late today, so I won't sell any more goods. If you want to buy shoes, come tomorrow."
His voice was indifferent and he seemed to be in a bad mood.
Yuquan and I naturally didn't leave.
I walked over, smiled and said, "Brother, I'm not buying shoes, I just come to ask something."
After hearing what I said, the young man looked alert and sat up straight in his chair.
"Ask about something? What do you want to know?"
I asked directly: "Do you know Guan Xinrui?"
Unexpectedly, when the man heard the name "Guan Xinrui", he reacted strongly: "Don't mention her to me, that woman is a fucking psychopath. She's just a jinx! I think her sister was killed by her, and now she's fucking harassing me again, she's crazy."
It seems that the young man knows a lot about the Guan family.
After swearing a few times, and seeing that we didn't respond, the young man looked at us suspiciously and asked, "Who are you?"
I thought about it and said, "Brother, we don't actually know Guan Xinrui, it's just that Guan Xinrui took my things and I want them back. It's that simple."
After hearing my explanation, the man asked, "Then you can just ask her for it. Why are you looking for me? I have no contact with the Guan family for a long time. It's that psychopath Guan Xinrui who comes to see me every day. She's driving me crazy."
The man was quite talkative and after just a few words he told me about him and Guan's family.
The man's name is Qi Chen, and he used to be in a relationship with Guan Xinrui's sister Guan Xintong. But after Guan Xintong's death, he had basically no connection with the Guan family.
The man loved Guan Xintong very much and had planned to marry her a year ago. But unexpectedly, after Guan Xintong and Guan Xinrui went out for a trip, Guan Xintong had an accident and fell off a cliff and died.
Qi Chen was very sad when he heard the news of Guan Xintong's death, but he gradually got over it.
What Qi Chen didn't expect was that Guan Xintong passed away, but Guan Xinrui came to see him almost every night when he was about to close at the shoe store, and said that she fell in love with Qi Chen and loved him more than Guan Xintong.
Guan Xinrui also asked Qi Chen to marry her.
After several times, Qi Chen had already become fed up with Guan Xinrui.
Qi Chen told us that when he and Guan Xintong were dating, seven years ago, Guan Xinrui's mental state was still normal. But after Guan Xinrui's parents died, Guan Xinrui began to have mental problems.
When I heard this, I thought it might be Guan Xinrui's father
Guan Xinrui was stimulated by her mother's death.
At the end of the conversation, Qi Chen didn't say anything else. He just said that he didn't want to bother with Guan Xinrui. If Guan Xinrui continued to bother him, he would have no choice but to close the shoe store and go to do business elsewhere.
I wanted to know more about Guan Xinrui's mental condition, but Qi Chen didn't tell me more, or rather, he didn't know what was going on with Guan Xinrui.
Soon, Yuquan and I left Hongfu Department Store and headed straight for Qing'an Apartment.
Yuquan and I took a taxi to Qing'an Apartment, so we arrived downstairs of her house before Guan Xinrui returned home.
At around eleven o'clock in the evening, under the moonlight, a white shadow appeared downstairs of Qing'an Apartment.
There were no street lights here, so Yuquan and I could only see the white skirt, as if there was no one inside, fluttering close to the ground. But I was sure it was Guan Xinrui.
At the door of unit three, Guan Xinrui stopped.
The unit door light is on.
As she was about to open the door, Yuquan and I walked out from behind a car.
I spoke in a calm voice: "Ms. Guan, wait a minute, I want to talk to you."
Guan Xinrui, a girl, didn't react much.
She turned around slowly and stared at Yuquan and me with a serious look.
When she saw me, her lips moved slightly and she said, "It's you!"
I smiled and said, "It's me. I'm the one who knocked on your door earlier, and I was the one who helped you drive away those hooligans at Hongfu Department Store."
Guan Xinrui stood there quietly. When I finished speaking, her eyes suddenly turned cold and she said, "What on earth do you want to do? I don't know you. I can understand that you want to find your things, but your things are not with me now. I can't give them to you, and besides, I bought that thing with my own money. It has become mine."
If the Taiyin Pearl is not in Guan Xinrui's hand, then where is it? I asked my doubts directly.
Guan Xinrui still said in a cold voice: "It's none of your business where the things are. They are mine, and I won't tell you where they are. You'd better leave quickly and don't disturb me. Otherwise, you'll just be asking for trouble."
Her words seemed to be a threat to Yuquan and me.
But she was right, she bought the item from the fat driver Ma Jiacheng, and it was indeed hers. However, from a legal perspective, the transaction between her and Ma Jiacheng was not legal, so the Taiyin Pearl was still mine.
What puzzles me is that Guan Xinrui seems normal in terms of communication. She doesn't seem to be crazy as her neighbor across the street and Qi Chen said.
At least, for now, I think this woman is normal.
I didn't want to anger this woman, so I said calmly, "Miss Guan, if you just give me the things, I can return the money you paid for them. Those things were not obtained legally and cannot be bought or sold. If you just give me the things, I can pretend that nothing happened."
"When the time comes, once we get the things, we will leave and won't disturb your life. What do you think?"
Unexpectedly, Guan Xinrui laughed sinisterly and said in a cold voice: "Impossible, I won't give it to you. I've already said that the thing is no longer with me. So you can't get it."
When she finished speaking, I suddenly felt the air around me was a little cold, as if the temperature had dropped all of a sudden. You know, it's the end of summer now, it's warm, and the temperature won't be very high even at night.
I can sense the coldness coming from Guan Xinrui... It's ghostly energy!
(to be continued)
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