“AHHH! A GHOST!”
Chen Fugui let out a miserable scream and fled in panic.
Shen Honglian pursued him relentlessly.
“Chen Fugui… you made my death so miserable… give me back my life…”
“It wasn’t me! I didn’t kill you! Don’t come after me! Don’t come after me! Help! There’s a ghost!”
He desperately tried to escape the bamboo grove.
But no matter how hard he ran, he kept circling inside it.
He couldn’t get out.
Chen Fugui’s son and grandson stared at him in bewilderment.
“Dad,” his grandson said, “didn’t you say Grandpa’s legs were bad? They look perfectly fine to me.”
“He can run better than I can. The old man’s got some serious energy.”
His son nodded in agreement.
“Yeah! His legs look great. Before this, he kept saying they hurt and made your mom and me come back to take care of him. That old fox!”
“So… what exactly is Grandpa doing?”
The grandson’s gaze drifted toward Rong Leying and the other two, who were filming nearby.
Suddenly, realization dawned on him.
He leaned over and whispered into his father’s ear.
“Grandpa’s one of those performance personalities.”
“He wants to become an internet celebrity.”
His father blinked.
“What personality?”
“He wants to go viral.”
“Ohhh!”
Chen Fugui’s son immediately understood.
“No way. Grandpa can’t become famous by himself.”
“We’re getting famous too!”
The father and son—equally gifted in their own minds—began copying Chen Fugui.
They screamed and ran wildly around the grove.
“There’s a ghost! Help!”
“Ahhh! I didn’t kill you! Don’t come after me!”
Wu Yan: “…”
(Subway Elderly Man Meme.)
Speechless.
The IQ of this father-and-son duo…
…was beyond saving.
Rong Leying: “???”
I never gave those two Ghost-Seeing Talismans…
How can they see her?
Guan Qianyu looked at Rong Leying with even greater admiration.
As expected of a master!
A beautiful misunderstanding had just been born.
Shen Honglian suddenly lunged forward and grabbed Chen Fugui by the throat.
Her scarlet eyes burned with hatred.
“Chen Fugui…”
“Give me back my life!”
Chen Fugui kicked frantically against the ground while clawing at her hands.
His face quickly turned purple.
“Ghk… ghk…”
“Spare… spare me…”
“I…”
“I know I was wrong…”
“I… I didn’t mean to kill you…”
“Whoa!”
Chen Fugui’s grandson exclaimed.
“Grandpa’s really committed!”
“He’ll do anything to become famous!”
His father immediately tried to imitate him as well.
Only…
He tripped over himself and landed face-first in the dirt.
Wu Yan: “…”
So stupid.
Shen Honglian didn’t believe a single word of Chen Fugui’s apology.
Her grip tightened.
Just as Chen Fugui was about to be strangled to death—
BOOM!!
A deafening clap of thunder exploded overhead.
Everyone jumped.
It was broad daylight.
There wasn’t a single sign of rain.
Yet thunder suddenly roared across the sky.
Guan Qianyu was so startled that he dropped his phone.
Rong Leying nearly did the same.
She looked up.
At some point, a mass of dark clouds had gathered above the bamboo grove.
…I get it now.
She hurried over and grabbed Shen Honglian.
“Don’t kill him!”
“If you really kill him, you’ll die too!”
That thunder…
It was most likely a warning.
A warning not to let her kill someone.
But Shen Honglian had already been consumed by hatred.
She couldn’t hear anything.
“He killed me…”
“I’m going to kill him…”
BOOM!!
Another clap of thunder erupted.
This one was even louder.
Rong Leying instinctively shrank her neck.
Yep.
I guessed right.
She hurriedly shouted,
“Think about Guan Jinqi!”
“He’s still waiting for you!”
“If you kill him and get struck down by heavenly lightning…”
“…you’ll never be able to see him again!”
She had never expected a ghost consumed by resentment to become tangible enough to physically strangle someone.
Honestly…
It was terrifying.
Shen Honglian froze.
“…Jinqi…”
“Yes! Think about Guan Jinqi!”
“Calm down!”
“He has waited for you all these years!”
Little by little…
Reason returned to Shen Honglian’s eyes.
The crimson faded.
Her grip loosened.
Thud!
Chen Fugui collapsed onto the ground, unconscious.
Only then did Rong Leying let out a long breath and release Shen Honglian.
She looked up nervously through the gaps in the bamboo leaves.
The dark clouds slowly dispersed.
The sky returned to normal.
Thanks, big guy.
You’re actually pretty reasonable.
You even gave two warnings instead of striking immediately.
Wu Yan and Guan Qianyu stood there in complete shock.
Neither could recover from what they had just witnessed.
Meanwhile…
Chen Fugui’s son and grandson were utterly lost.
“…What part of the performance are we on now?”
Half an hour later…
The police Wu Yan had called finally arrived.
Underneath the thickest bamboo in the grove…
They unearthed Shen Honglian’s remains.
The normally quiet Chen Family Village instantly exploded into chaos.
No one had known that a corpse had been buried beneath Chen Fugui’s bamboo grove.
And it turned out to be the very woman Old Master Guan had searched for over decades.
Now Chen Fugui had been arrested as well.
What on earth had happened?
Only then did Chen Fugui’s son and grandson realize—
These people hadn’t come for bamboo shoots at all.
The father and son immediately rallied several villagers and blocked the road, refusing to let the police take Chen Fugui away.
Fortunately…
The officers already knew exactly what kind of villagers they were dealing with.
Without saying a word…
They calmly drew their pistols.
The villagers looked down at the sickles and hoes in their own hands…
Then looked at the black muzzles of the police firearms…
Silently…
They stepped aside.
Within moments…
Only Chen Fugui’s son and grandson were left standing in the middle of the road.
The two exchanged glances.
Then quietly walked to the very back of the crowd.
Compared to their father…
Their own lives were clearly more important.
Watching the entire scene unfold, Rong Leying gave the officers a big thumbs-up.
With the letter successfully delivered…
Her delivery mission was officially complete.
She received 30 Merit Points and 350,000 yuan as payment.
Shen Honglian’s spirit accompanied her own remains back to the Tongzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau.
Guan Qianyu had already informed Tang Chengyun.
He would be arriving in Tongzhou later that day.
For now, they decided not to tell Old Master Guan.
They were afraid the emotional shock would be too much for him.
Only after Tang Chengyun escorted Shen Honglian’s remains back to Dongning would they allow the two to reunite.
Everything after that…
Had nothing to do with Rong Leying.
She was still worried about her grandfather’s condition, so she bought a ticket on the evening high-speed rail back to Dongning.
Before leaving, she sold Guan Qianyu two Advanced Ghost-Seeing Talismans.
Together with the two Intermediate Ghost-Seeing Talismans from earlier…
He transferred her a total of 360,000 yuan.
“Master,” Guan Qianyu said, “leave me your contact information. When I get back to Dongning, I’ll come to you whenever I need more talismans.”
“You can buy talismans from me,” Rong Leying replied, “but don’t call me ‘Master.’ I’m not a master.”
She was just an ordinary delivery courier.
“Got it, Master.”
“…”
Hopeless.
She gave him her contact information anyway.
The two even added each other on WeChat.
“Master, let me add you too.”
Wu Yan also pulled out his phone.
Someone this capable wasn’t easy to come across.
Who could guarantee they’d never run into anything supernatural in their lifetime?
Better to keep the master’s contact information.
Rong Leying sighed.
“…Sure.”
At seven that evening, Wu Yan drove Rong Leying to the high-speed rail station.
She boarded the train back to Dongning.
By the time she arrived, it was nearly ten o’clock at night.
She hailed a taxi to the hospital.
The driver was an overly enthusiastic middle-aged man.
“Young lady, you just started university this year?”
“No.”
“Which university do you attend?”
“Peking University.”
When you’re out in the world…
Your identity is whatever you say it is.
“Oh! A top student from Peking University!”
“Is someone in your family hospitalized?”
“Is it serious?”
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