Chapter 59: The Night of the Vigil

Dong Xie unscrewed the faucet in front of him, and hot water gushed out from the rosette head. Grandmother's death, because it was expected, so it was not difficult to organize, the two uncles have even been in advance in the mother was buried in the cemetery for the grandmother to choose a good cemetery. Dong Xie also contributed to the effort, if it was not for the fear that he would contribute so much money that would make his uncle strange, he would have contributed all the money and it would not have been a big problem. The spirit hall was placed in his brother-in-law's home, and several juniors had recently taken time off work to come to the spirit hall for his grandmother's wake. At this time when she was taking a bath, Dong Qi could still vaguely hear the sound of chanting scriptures playing in front of the spiritual hall from outside. As a relatively well-off child among his grandmother's children, his brother-in-law had always lived with his grandmother, and although this had caused some slight comments from his aunt, his uncle had insisted on it. Right now, it was already almost close to midnight zero. Dong Xie had also been helping his two cousins, organizing his grandmother's funeral, receiving one guest after another who visited to offer condolences. He had made contact with the apartment side, telling Mo Yuan that he hoped that this Blood Character Summarization routine meeting could be delayed for a few days, while Ning had finally insisted on coming to offer condolences as well, intending to hold a wake for his grandmother as well. It was also good that no one in the Yu family knew about Ah Ning's life, and within the younger generation, only Yu Li, the daughter of her brother-in-law, knew about this matter because of Xie Ruoni's relationship in the first place. "Ning, what do you think of my painting?" Yu Li was showing Dong Ning an oil painting hanging on the wall at this time. "Well …… I don't really understand Western painting either …… is it your new work?" "Uh, yeah." Although Yu Li was a bank employee, her usual hobby was oil painting. She paid attention to Dong Ning, and was also taken aback when she first learned of Dong Ning's true life. She hadn't expected it to be like this either, but she had kept the matter hidden. At this time, Dong Xie, who had finished bathing and dressed, walked out, and seeing his cousin and Ning conversing, his heart couldn't help but feel a little nervous, even fearing that his cousin might not tell Ning about his birth in a moment of excitement. He slowly walked towards the duo, and at this time, his eyes focused on the black and white effigy of his grandmother placed in the center of the living room that had been temporarily set up as a spiritual hall. At that moment, he couldn't help but remember, the words that Grandma had said to him on the eve of her death. At that time, Grandma had not acted at all like someone who was about to die. She easily took off the respirator, sat up, looked at him and said three words "ghost". Moreover, at that time, he could hear that the tone of her voice was filled with intense fear! As far as Dong Xie could remember, his grandmother had always been an extremely strong person, and her life had been quite rough. The Yu family had once been very wealthy back in the day, so this identity was destined to suffer special treatment in a special time. Not long after Dong Xie's mother was born, Grandpa committed suicide by taking sleeping pills because he couldn't bear the thought of suddenly being the target of a thousand accusations, and his family was in decline, and he couldn't afford to raise so many children. Even so, Grandma still insisted on pulling the children to grow up, a widow with such a bad background to bring up the children, in a special era of natural incomparable hardship. My uncle once said that he couldn't remember Grandma ever crying, let alone seeing her afraid of anything. Before she died, why did she stare at herself and say the word "ghost"? Why was she still staring at herself after her death? At this moment, Dong Xie once again looked at his grandmother on the black-and-white portrait. Suddenly, he felt a little creeped out. Why was Grandmother staring at him? Could it be that …… The grandmother, who was in her final days, had "seen" something? At this moment, his mind immediately floated back to the photo that he had sent to his friends in Hawaii! He had always been afraid in his heart, whether the evil spirit left Hawaii, still haunting his side? For this reason he had even stayed in his apartment for a while not daring to go out. But nothing happened after that. Later on, he took selfies of himself many times, but all the photos were normal and never showed any psychic images. Thinking of this, Dong Xie subconsciously looked towards his back again. Of course, behind him, naturally, there was no one at all. "Ah Xie?" Cousin Yu Li looked towards him and said, "You're done washing? I'll go wash it then." "Uh, okay, cousin." While Yu Li walked off to the restroom, Dong Xie looked towards Dong Ning while she was still admiring the oil painting hanging on the wall. "Ah Ning." "Well …… brother. Really …… please feel sorry for you, just after completing this Bloodletter Instruction, your grandmother ……" Although Dong Xie had just finished his bath, he still felt physically and mentally exhausted. At this time, it was very close to midnight zero. Frankly speaking, at this moment in time, Dong Xie suddenly had a trace of fear in his heart. At this time, would it be a little too dangerous for him to stay outside instead of entering the apartment? To this day, he still remembered the deathly, fear-filled eyes of his grandmother when she passed away. At this time, Yu Li went to her own room, ready to take a change of clothes to take a shower. For the whole day, she had been in charge of receiving the condolence guests, and had eaten her meal in a hurry. Normally she was more careful with her bathing and took a little longer, so she let everyone else finish and then went to wash herself. When she prepared a change of clothes and walked to the door, she suddenly kicked a box. As a result, something inside the box spilled out. "Ugh, really ……" Yu Li put the change of clothes on the bed first, and immediately after, put those things that spilled out, one by one, back into the box. This box, are organized grandmother (to Yu Li is grandmother) relics. Uncle planned, at the time of the memorial service, to cremate part of the relics along with the grandmother's body, while another part would be buried within the cemetery along with the urn. The contents of this box were indeed filled to the brim, which was why she had accidentally dislodged the contents just now. At this time, she saw on top of the box, a photo album laid out. She casually picked up the photo album and flipped it open to look at it. Most of the photos within the album were of her aunt Yu Yan, Dong Xie's birth mother. Grandmother seemed to have gathered a large number of photos of her aunt within this photo album. These photos, from the time her aunt was first born, all the way through her schooling, joining the workforce, and even marrying …… Yu Li was only two years older than Dong Xie, so she didn't have much of an impression of her aunt who had died prematurely, except that her aunt's tendency to hit her father really, really hard, and because of that she had always been against her learning to drive and getting a driver's license. And what she saw within this photo album was the most pictures of her aunt that she had seen since she was born. "Auntie looked like this when she was studying ……" Yu Li turned over another page and ended up seeing the wedding photo of her aunt Yu Yan and her uncle Dong Licheng. She then saw a photo of her aunt holding her newborn cousin Dong Evil in her arms. Seeing this, Yu Li couldn't help but feel saddened. In the previous photos, she had also seen a large number of photos of her grandmother and her aunt when they were young, and her aunt could truly be said to have completely inherited her grandmother's beauty. However, her aunt had died so early. The death of her aunt had always been too much for her grandmother to get over. After all, the coroner's report was that Auntie died of sudden cardiac death, but neither the Yu family nor Grandmother's mother's family had any genetic history of heart disease, and Auntie had no history of heart disease in the past, and she had a medical checkup before she and Auntie got married, so it was safe to assume that her heart was still very healthy at that time. She could also fully imagine just how much pain her grandmother was feeling in her heart. And outdoors, Dong Xie looked at the clock, and the closer the time got to midnight zero, the more he panicked. At this moment, he was considering whether or not to go back to the apartment as soon as possible. However, not to mention that it is too abrupt to leave suddenly now, more importantly, if there is really an evil spirit haunting him, he is now going out in the middle of the night, the probability is that he will die before he can return to the apartment. Just …… what did Grandma mean by her words before she died? Was it really related to the photos from Hawaii? "Brother, what's wrong with you?" Dong Ning looked at Dong Qi in disbelief, "Your hands have been shaking, is it because of that previous bloodletter mission?" Dong Xie hadn't told anyone about this, including Ning. He didn't know, either, what to say to the others. At this time, Yu Li flipped the photo album to the last few pages. "Well …… these photos are ……" Suddenly, her hands trembled, and her eyes revealed a look of 10,000 shock! And at that exact moment, the clock behind her, all the hands converged to 12. At this moment, it was midnight zero!