On the way, the three of them kept asking me what I had thought of, but I refused to say it because it was just some guesses, which were not always accurate. As long as I didn't say it out loud, it wouldn't be shameful even if I guessed wrong. Besides, what I thought of was something that was embarrassing to say. If I was wrong, they would definitely catch me and laugh at me.
It was past two in the morning when we arrived at the county hospital. Although the lights in the ward corridor were bright, we still felt eerie. This place was not much better than a crematorium at night, because people who went to the crematorium were already dead, while this place was where most of the dead died, so you can imagine how eerie it was.
A yin-yang master knows more about this, so he feels more terrified than ordinary people. Even without using the yin-yang eyes, I can still see that the lights are dim and there seems to be a wisp of ghostly spirits surging around us, making us feel terrified every step we take.
We came to the third floor, which is the surgical ward, where Zhu Zhongqi's sister-in-law lives. We helped her with the admission procedures, and we already knew her name was Su Meihe, a nice name. She was pretty, in her early thirties, but her skin was very well maintained. The pitiful look she had last night when she was frightened was quite attractive.
When I got to the ward, I pushed the door, but it was locked from the inside. So I knocked twice, and a sleepy man's voice came from inside: "Who is it?"
We looked at each other in surprise. It turned out to be Zhu Zhongqi, who was accompanying his sister-in-law in the middle of the night. I suddenly felt much more relieved. Su Meihe's injury was not serious, just a few scratches. Normally, she didn't need to be hospitalized after bandaging. But this woman insisted on being hospitalized, and we had no choice. Moreover, this brother-in-law was really attentive. He didn't care about his wife's funeral hall and stayed here to guard her.
"Your wife asked me to tell you something, saying that she is very angry because you didn't go back to send the soul off tonight!" I said in a pinched voice.
We have a custom for funerals here. After three days, filial sons and grandsons hold paper banners and carry paper horses to the City God Temple to burn them. This is called sending the soul, which is similar to calling the soul in Shanxi. Before midnight, it was the third day after Zhu Zhongqi's wife died, and it was time to send the soul. I guessed that this kid must have been in the hospital, so I said this to scare him.
Sure enough, he and his sister-in-law both screamed and asked in a trembling voice: "You...you...who are you?"
"Haha, I'm just kidding you. I'm Xifeng. Open the door, otherwise I won't care if your wife comes." I laughed.
"I was scared to death..." Zhu Zhongqi said as he opened the door, his face still in shock, and he stood at the door and refused to let us in. "We are not very familiar with each other, why are you playing such a joke on me?" He was still a little angry.
I picked up the ghost-collecting bottle, held it in front of him and said, "Because Xiaolu wants to find you, I'm playing a joke on you."
Although the soul in the bottle was shrunk, the facial features could be seen clearly under the light. Zhu Zhongqi saw his daughter's pale face and was so frightened that his legs softened and he sat on the ground. His face was ashen and beads of sweat flowed from his forehead like a spring. I stepped over him and went straight into the house. Qu Mo, Shen Bing and Lu Fei followed in.
There were two beds in the ward, but the bedding on the other one was very flat, and it looked like it hadn't been moved. And the bed where Su Meihe slept actually had two pillows. Damn it, was this considered catching someone cheating in bed
As soon as Su Meihe saw us come in, she discovered that there was an extra pillow on the bed. She quickly pushed the pillow away and stared at us with fear on her face.
Shen Bing, Qu Mo and Lu Fei were all puzzled. They never thought that their brother-in-law and sister-in-law would be together, especially during the funeral of their wife and sister. They were simply beasts!
"What are you doing here? I don't want to see you, please go out!" The woman's face turned cold and she ordered them to leave.
I sneered, held the bottle in front of her eyes and said, "We brought Xiaolu here to visit you!"
When the ghost of Xiaolu saw her aunt in the bottle, she bared her teeth and made a weird squeaking sound. How brave can a woman be? Not to mention that she couldn't stand hearing the ghost's cry, let alone how exciting this little ghost face was. She screamed and fainted with a tilted head.
Shen Bing curled her lips: "Such a pus-filled person will faint if frightened."
Oh my god, do you think everyone is not afraid of ghosts like you? There are not many people in this world who have this kind of mentality. Most of them are cowards.
Zhu Zhongqi sat at the door, not daring to move, and pleaded with us in a trembling voice: "Please stop making trouble, take my daughter away quickly, and I will transfer the money to your account tomorrow."
Qu Mo snorted coldly and said, "Do you think money can solve everything? You bribed the police and lawyers to kill Tan Guifen. Why don't you think about the fact that she is innocent? Where is your conscience for doing this?"
Lu Fei gritted his teeth and said, "This kid's conscience has been eaten by a dog."
Qu Mo's next sentence made us all laugh: "Yes, you ate it!"
"Hey, what does it have to do with me?" Lu Fei scratched his head with an innocent look on his face.
Qu Mo said with a gloomy face: "You have accepted his money, but it is all dirty stuff."
"Oh, then I will return it all to him tomorrow." Lu Fei said with his head down.
I smiled and winked at Shen Bing, asking her to wake Su Meihe up. Shen Bing walked over and pinched the woman's philtrum for a while. She woke up slowly and saw us and the ghost-collecting bottle in my hand. She was so scared that she wanted to scream again, and her eyes rolled back.
Shen Bing quickly covered her mouth, and I put the ghost-collecting bottle into my bag, put my hands behind my back and said to her, "Tell me, why did you want to kill Xiaolu?"
My words shocked Shen Bing, Qu Mo and Lu Fei. She was Xiao Lu's aunt, how could she be so cruel? Besides, she had married far away in the south and had just returned, which did not match the time of the crime.
"You...what are you saying? I don't understand." Su Meihe said, trembling all over.
Zhu Zhongqi chimed in: "Are you kidding me? How could an aunt like her kill her own niece?"
I turned around and said coldly: "It's not your turn to speak yet, shut up first!" I patted my bag, and the boy turned pale and dared not speak again. I turned back and stared at Su Meihe and said: "Don't you admit it? The child said everything..."
"Impossible, Mr. Cao made this kid mute..." Su Meihe said here angrily, and suddenly realized that she had let the cat out of the bag. She quickly covered her mouth with her hands, a look of panic on her face.
Shen Bing was so angry that she pointed at her and cursed: "So it was you who really killed Xiao Lu! You even killed your own niece, you are such a beast!"
Su Meihe's will collapsed all of a sudden. She shook her head and said with tears in her eyes, "It's none of my business. It was that bastard Zhu Zhongqi who told me to do this. He wanted to kill his own daughter, but couldn't bring himself to do it, so he asked me for help."
When we heard that there was a mystery behind this, the biological father hired someone to kill his daughter! We all turned around and looked at Zhu Zhongqi, who was covering his face and refusing to see anyone. He was crying loudly at this moment, crying like an old wolf. I don’t know if he was repenting for killing his daughter, or if he was ashamed to see people after the truth was revealed, but even a tiger won’t eat its own cubs, he is worse than an animal!