Chen Ge nodded and did not refuse: "Let's drive."
"Thank you." Huang Ling was soaked and sitting in the driver's seat: "My home is not far from here, I can get there in ten minutes."
The car lights came on, and Huang Ling drove several others through the rain curtain and drove toward the distance along the highway.
No one spoke a word along the way, everyone was thinking about their own things.
At one o'clock in the morning, the car drove to the residential complex where Huang Ling lived. The location was very remote and very close to Liwan Town.
"In the past, the city planned to vigorously develop the eastern suburbs, but later, I don't know why, it was ignored. As a result, this large area of half-built buildings was left. The people who originally lived here also moved out one after another due to transportation, life and other reasons.
Let's go." Huang Ling drove the taxi directly into the community. Not a single light was on in the huge community. It felt like entering a ghost town: "When the eastern suburbs of Jiujiang were preparing to build a new district a few years ago, housing prices were high.
It’s so scary, and now all that’s left is chicken feathers, and residents like us who were tricked.”
Through conversation, Chen Ge learned about this woman's past. She and her husband spent all their savings to buy a house in the eastern suburbs of Jiujiang a few years ago.
At the beginning, the two were overjoyed because they had grabbed a house in the eastern suburbs, and were waiting for the new district to be built in the eastern suburbs and the value of the house to increase.
But who would have known that not long after, the developer delayed the delivery of the property due to financial problems, debt disputes and other issues.
In order to buy a house, the couple spent all their family savings and owed a lot of foreign debt. They joined forces with other owners to find an explanation from the developer, but the other party kept delaying it until now.
The project was stopped inexplicably, and the house they had spent all their savings on became an uninhabitable building. The couple had to rely on renting to survive.
Life was not easy. During this period, her husband had a car accident, and now she basically relies on Huang Ling alone to support her.
"We're here, that's it." Huang Ling stopped the car, took her bag and hurried upstairs, with Chen Ge and Xiao Gu following behind.
In the residential building, only the lights on the first floor could be used normally. The walls were blackened, seemingly due to moisture, and there was a faint musty smell floating in the corridor.
"Jia Ming!" Huang Ling came to the fourth floor and opened the door with the key while shouting into the house. She was extremely scared and worried that what she feared would come true.
Looking at the flustered Huang Ling, Chen Ge and Xiao Gu didn't speak. In their opinion, since Huang Ling's husband called at that time and knew that the car was full of ghosts, it meant that he himself was probably dead.
, he also turned into a ghost.
The key couldn't be inserted into the keyhole for a long time, Huang Ling's hands were shaking anxiously, but at this moment a man's voice sounded in the room.
"Why did you come back? Where did you go at night? I called the leader of your company..." The door opened from the inside, and a man with a haggard look and a lame leg appeared in front of Huang Ling.
"Jia Ming?!"
Huang Ling was very excited when she saw the middle-aged man. She reached out and wanted to hug him, but the middle-aged man dodged him without any trace: "Your clothes are soaked, what are you doing?"
"I'll tell you later. As long as nothing happens to you, I was really frightened today." Huang Ling's voice choked with sobs: "I'm going to change clothes first. These two are my lifesavers. I'll tell you later."
Will drive them home."
Huang Ling entered the house, but the lame man blocked the door, showing no intention of letting Chen Ge and Xiao Gu enter the house to sit.
Chen Ge and Xiao Gu outside the door looked at the lame man and felt strange. This man was alive and well. How could he have called Huang Ling at that time? How could he predict that the No. 104 bus was full of ghosts?
Woolen cloth?
"Your wife met a bad guy, and it was the two of us who acted bravely to save her." Chen Ge glanced at the room. The room was neatly tidied. This man was a standard housewife, and there was nothing strange about him.
"Hey! Where are you looking?" The man was very wary of Chen Ge.
"It's okay, can you lend me your mobile phone? My mobile phone is out of battery, and I want to let my family know that it's safe." Chen Ge said calmly.
"Then you wait here." The lame man entered the room and handed his mobile phone to Chen Ge.
"Thank you." Chen Ge flipped through the communication records and found that the man had indeed called the woman several times tonight, but none of the calls were connected.
Wasn't he the one who made the call?
Chen Ge pretended to send a few messages, then deleted the records and returned the phone to the middle-aged man.
In the room, Huang Ling had already changed her clothes. Wearing casual clothes, she exuded a mature and intellectual beauty: "Husband, you stay at home, I will send them two back. This is what I promised before."
"No!" The lame man refused without thinking: "It's past one o'clock in the morning. I don't trust you if you follow them out. Let them take a taxi. In the worst case, we will pay for the fare."
"It's raining so heavily outside, where do you want us to find a taxi?" Chen Ge looked at Huang Ling with a straight face: "What do you think?"
Huang Ling hesitated for a moment, but finally walked out of the room: "Husband, the situation is complicated. I will explain it to you in detail when I come back."
"You can't go anywhere tonight! Are you running out at one or two in the morning? Are you crazy?" The lame man reached out to grab Huang Ling's arm, but was stopped by Chen Ge.
The man was obviously a little afraid of Chen Ge, and he didn't have enough confidence to speak: "What do you want to do?"
Holding the backpack with one hand, Chen Ge's pupils slowly narrowed and he stared at the face of the lame man: "I am a very reasonable person. I fulfilled her request. If she fails to fulfill her agreement with me, then
Just don’t blame me for being rude."
The atmosphere was a little tense. In the end, Xiao Gu and Huang Ling persuaded each other at the same time, and the lame man snorted and reluctantly agreed.
"Don't mind, my husband is a bit petty, and he is always like this." Huang Ling handed the umbrella and towel in her hand to Xiao Gu: "I didn't thank you properly in the car before."
"It's okay, I understand." Xiao Gu took the towel with a silly smile and wiped his face.
"Don't waste time, let's go downstairs first." Chen Ge walked downstairs expressionlessly, without saying a word during the whole process.
After walking out of the corridor, Chen Ge sat in the passenger seat of the taxi. He unzipped his backpack and reached into the bag to grab something.
After Huang Ling saw that nothing happened to her husband, she finally let go of her worries. Only after losing her did she know how to cherish. She decided not to quarrel with her husband again and to live a good life.
The taxi started and drove into the rain. Chen Ge, who had remained silent, finally spoke.
"Huang Ling, have you noticed that your husband has become different from before from a certain period of time?"
Rain hit the car window. When Huang Ling heard Chen Ge's words, she thought seriously for a while: "Is there anything different? What's wrong?"
Chen Ge paused for a moment and spoke slowly: "I suspect that man is not your husband."