Chapter 119: [Harboring a Ghostly Secret] Grandma Leads the Way
An old woman stood there in the dark. The old woman was very thin, so thin that her eye sockets were deeply sunken, and her entire eyes looked like shadows. At first glance, she gave people a fright.
[Jeez, this old lady looks…]
[Holy crap, I can’t sleep at night, I go on the game, and why is the streamer I follow in an instance again?]
[There are a few less people today…]
[They’re probably all in Shen Qingchen’s instance]
[Shen Qingchen actually went into an instance?]
[Yeah, if it weren’t for seeing that the streamer’s younger sister seems to have come in, it’s rare to see family members enter an instance together, I would have left long ago]
[Hmm… I’m going to go take a look, streamer sorry, streamer goodbye, although the streamer doesn’t seem to have turned on subtitles, so probably doesn’t care]
Bai Cha indeed hadn’t turned on subtitles. Since Xu Shengsheng had entered this instance, she simply turned them off to fully immerse herself in the game.
The old woman saw that they didn’t speak and asked again.
“Who are you all?”
“Uh…” Wang Jiangtao spoke, smiling, “It’s like this, we’re here to attend Ji Xiaolan’s wedding.”
Upon hearing this, the old woman suddenly understood. A smile appeared on her wrinkled face; she had lost a few teeth.
“So you’re Xiaolan’s classmates! She told me a few days ago that a group of her classmates would be coming.”
As the old woman spoke, she walked shakily towards the village.
“Come with me, I’ve specially tidied up a courtyard for you. There are three or four rooms inside, you should be able to squeeze in.”
The old woman walked very slowly.
The players followed slowly behind her, looking around.
This village wasn’t big, probably only a dozen households.
The total population was estimated to be only a few dozen people.
Every house had red lanterns hanging, which was quite strange.
Generally speaking, even if someone in the village got married, it was unlikely that every household would hang red lanterns. At most, the whole village would have a feast together.
“Grandma, how are you related to Xiaolan?” Bai Cha asked.
“Xiaolan is my granddaughter!”
The old woman’s face showed pride when she mentioned Ji Xiaolan.
“My granddaughter is very capable! She’s the only college student from our village in recent years! And she has a good personality, very kind. Unlike those from the village who go to college and never come back, she came back to teach after finishing university!”
“So good, so good…” As the old woman spoke, she suddenly stopped and turned to look at Bai Cha.
“You’re my granddaughter’s classmate, hasn’t she ever mentioned me to you before?”
The players all felt a tightening in their chests.
Bai Cha spoke naturally.
“Now that you mention it, it seems like she has. But she was often busy studying and rarely talked about family matters. She worked very hard at school.”
Upon hearing this, the old woman immediately beamed.
“Yes, my granddaughter is of course this good. She has been hardworking since she was little. Going to school in town was too far, so she would get up at four in the morning, and she would still help me with chores when she came back…”
The old woman rambled on.
“Xiaolan is good in every way… it’s my fault…”
She suddenly fell into a whisper.
Actually, because she had lost a few teeth, she had always spoken a bit unclearly, and this mumbled whisper was almost impossible to understand.
And her current state was very likely related to a key plot point.
Jin Qiao pushed Bai Cha aside and simply went forward to support the old woman.
“Grandma, let me help you. You don’t seem very steady on your feet!”
After her hand touched the old woman’s arm, Jin Qiao felt a cold, hard touch.
She regretted it a bit.
But this NPC was clearly a guiding NPC and should be able to provide a lot of plot information.
While ensuring her own survival, she definitely wanted to get a higher rating, because that would mean more points.
Seeing that Bai Cha’s casual flattery could make the old woman say so much, and since she disliked the two sisters, she decided to ask herself.
“Why do you say it’s your fault? Xiaolan is such a good person, it must be because you taught her well!”
Xu Shengsheng rolled her eyes to the side.
This woman was really inexplicable.
The old woman suddenly closed her mouth.
She looked at Jin Qiao with her cloudy eyes.
“Do you think I’m a good person?”
Jin Qiao froze for a moment.
That question was asked in a sinister and terrifying way.
She wanted to pull her hand back, but the other party directly grabbed her wrist.
The old woman had been wearing a relatively thick coat before, and the coldness had already been very clear. Now that her hand touched the old woman’s wrist, Jin Qiao shivered directly.
She could only force a smile.
“After all, Xiaolan is a very good person, so you must be good too.”
She wasn’t completely brainless. The old woman liked her granddaughter so much that praising her granddaughter would definitely be fine.
The old woman did slowly release her hand.
She nodded and then shook her head.
“I’m not a good person, I’m useless…”
She didn’t say anything more after that.
The atmosphere became awkward.
Fortunately, they had arrived at the place.
She took out a string of keys from her pocket and opened the courtyard with the wooden gate.
The sound of the wooden door opening and closing was loud.
A gust of cold wind blew out from the courtyard.
“You can stay here for now. Clean up inside yourselves. I’m old and not good at doing these things.”
The old woman was about to leave as she spoke.
Bai Cha said softly, “Grandma, is Xiaolan resting now? Did we come at a bad time? Yes, it’s already so late…”
The old woman paused and looked back at her.
“If you want to see her, I’ll ask her.”
With that, she left.
Only after she had walked far away did Jin Qiao suddenly turn around.
“What are you doing? Do you want to kill us? Who doesn’t know that Ji Xiaolan is the most crucial thing? And you said you wanted her to come over?”
Bai Cha completely ignored her and walked straight into the courtyard.
Jin Qiao’s face was livid. She raised her leg to follow, but two players were one step ahead of her.
It was Wang Jiangtao and Zhang Feng.
Wang Jiangtao smiled at her and said, “Your worries aren’t entirely unreasonable, but are you still going to stay here?”
Of course, no one wanted to see a female ghost.
But not seeing her was impossible.
It was better to meet her on the first day, which might be better than later.
The wedding date was September 1st, and today was August 27th.
There were still four days.
Although the game didn’t specify a time, experienced players knew that these four days were their time to explore the storyline.
Once the wedding began…
The players’ dreams were all similar, ending with death at the wedding, their hearts cut open.
Jin Qiao walked in fiercely.
She just hated those two sisters. They spoke carelessly and always liked to pretend to be innocent with those innocent-looking eyes, how disgusting!
They had already entered the game, who would believe they were naive and innocent!
Bai Cha, whom she disliked, had already pushed open the door to the living room.
She didn’t care what Jin Qiao thought. But she noted the malice the other woman had shown.
If she behaved herself next, that would be fine. If not… she would make her behave.
Seems like I have a fever…
