Hearing Lin Shuya mention Lin Fangyu, a faint look of guilt flashed across Si Jiangchen's face.
When I looked up at him, he had already returned to his usual aloofness.
"Sister, I did promise Fangyu," Si Jiangchen sighed softly. "But now you have a family, a husband and a child. I should let go. Moreover, I also have my own wife... I can't take care of every little thing for you anymore."
"Whoa..."
"His wife?! Did CEO Si just say that woman is his wife?!"
"It can't be! Isn't that woman a fortune - teller? How could CEO Si take a fancy to her?"
"Their family backgrounds don't match at all!"
"...Shocking!!"
"Wasn't Ms. Lin going to introduce us to CEO Si today?"
"I wish I hadn't come. It's so unfair..."
"Come on, what's unfair? As if CEO Si would take a fancy to you!"
Si Jiangchen's words were like a boulder suddenly thrown into a calm lake, instantly stirring up huge waves.
"Brother - in - law, could you please take my sister to the hospital?" Si Jiangchen glanced at Wei Wenzhao and gently sent Lin Shuya to his side.
Wei Wenzhao put a half - hearted arm around Lin Shuya. To me, it looked like he was holding a hot potato. He had to pretend to be deeply in love with his wife. "Shuya, Jiangchen is right. I'll take you to the hospital."
"Wu..." Lin Shuya still wanted to make a scene, but was given a look by Wei Wenzhao. Immediately, two female waitresses came over, supported Lin Shuya and left the hall.
After watching them leave, Si Jiangchen turned to Police Officer Fu and said, "Officer Fu, why don't you first tell us how your partner had the accident and got injured? This way, everyone can understand what those with ulterior motives are up to."
As he said this, he gave Du Peiyun a sidelong glance. "Du Peiyun, I seem to remember that your Du family used to be in the business of raising corpses, right?"
Du Peiyun was shocked. She didn't know why Si Jiangchen had suddenly turned his attention to digging into the Du family's background.
The Du family in northern Henan was not originally from Henan Province. They had migrated from Baowan Mountain in western Hunan.
There was a very strange business in western Hunan: raising corpses and corpse - driving.
The ancients firmly believed that "those who died in a foreign land should have their souls return to their hometowns." No matter where a person died, their body had to be taken back to their hometown to be buried in peace.
Corpse - drivers were people who made a living by transporting the bodies of those who "died in a foreign land" back to their hometowns.
They called the transported corpses "guests."
To prevent the "guests" from rotting, they would use special medicinal talismans to raise the corpses. Although the limbs of the corpses treated by corpse - drivers were stiff, they would not decay. When the "guests" were safely sent home, the corpse - drivers would burn talismans and chant incantations to remove the state of non - decay from the corpses, allowing their families to dress them and bury them in peace.
Originally, the profession of corpse - drivers was highly respected. Although they often dealt with corpses, they were doing good deeds to accumulate virtue.
The Du family was not only the largest family in western Hunan but also made a fortune from corpse - driving. After all, the families that could afford to send the corpses of their relatives back home were all wealthy local families.
However, at the end of the Republic of China, the Du family suffered a disaster that almost wiped them out.
A fire killed almost all the Du family members, young and old. Only a distant branch of the Du family, because they lived far from the old mansion, managed to escape.
Later, this branch of the Du family migrated all the way to northern Henan.
They no longer engaged in corpse - driving but instead studied Taoist talismans and their family - inherited magic for exorcising ghosts and became a well - known feng shui family in the local area.
Du Peiyun was the current head of the family.
"Raise... raise corpses?!" Hearing Si Jiangchen's words, Police Officer Fu couldn't help but let out a shocked cry. "The last case my master and I handled was a crime committed by a dead person!!"
Police Officer Fu's name was Fu Ning. He was a newbie who had just graduated from the police academy.
Because an old person in his family was deceived by a fortune - telling sorcerer, got sick but didn't go to the doctor, and spent a lot of money on "divine water" and "immortal medicine" every day, and finally the illness worsened and the old person died. So he had an innate aversion to me.
On the night when Song Yixuan had an accident, he and his master, Xue Donglai, were angry with me at my place. After leaving the apartment, he tore the yellow talisman I gave him into pieces and let it fly away with the wind.
Xue Donglai knew about his family's troubles and just sighed without saying anything.
Two days later, Xue Donglai suddenly asked Fu Ning if anyone had asked him about Song Yixuan's situation recently.
Fu Ning was confused. He had always been with Xue Donglai, and no one had ever asked him about the police case related to Song Yixuan.
Xue Donglai thought for a while and casually stuffed the yellow talisman folded into a small triangle from his coat pocket into Fu Ning's pocket.
"Master, what are you doing! I don't want this thing!"
Fu Ning was very stubborn. He reached out to take out the talisman, but Xue Donglai knocked on his head. "This is my thing. You help me keep it well. I'll take it back in a few days! If you dare to lose it, I'll break your legs!"
Xue Donglai's knock on the head made Fu Ning's head ache. He knew that his master generally didn't get angry, but when he did, even the captain would be in awe.
For the time being, he had to endure it. Anyway, the yellow talisman was put in his pocket by his master. He might as well just pretend it didn't exist!
Two days after that, they suddenly received a police report saying that there was a missing - person case in the jurisdiction. The reporter was the wife of the missing person, saying that her husband had not been home for four days. When he left home, he said he was going to play mahjong with friends, but those friends said he left in the early morning of that day.
Xue Donglai took Fu Ning to check the surveillance cameras at the scene of the incident.
The video in front of the mahjong parlor could prove what those friends said. The camera clearly showed the man walking out while making a phone call. The time on the surveillance showed it was around one o'clock at night.
Later, the man's figure appeared again in the camera of a street park. He walked around as if waiting for someone...
About half an hour later, a long - haired woman appeared in the frame. The man immediately walked up to her. The two of them were like lovers, hugging and kissing for a long time, and then they hugged each other and disappeared into the blind spot of the camera, never to be seen again.
"Master, this man ran away with his mistress!"
Fu Ning curled his lips. He felt sorry for the woman who reported the missing person. This scumbag man had actually abandoned his family and gone off to have a good time with his mistress. "Let's just tell the reporter! See if she knows this woman."
So, Xue Donglai and the others took the printed and magnified video images taken by the camera to find the female reporter.
Unexpectedly, when this not - very - clear video screenshot was placed in front of the woman, she was so scared that she almost screamed. "Impossible!! It's impossible!! I'd recognize this woman even if she turned to ashes!! But... she, she's been dead for several years!!"