After Waking Up, I Inherited a Bookstore 100

Chapter 100: Little Dumpling

Xiaoling sat on the sofa, her body trembling uncontrollably.

“Are you okay?” Liu Chuxia stood up and looked at it nervously.

Xiaoling shook her head. “I’m fine. I just can’t control myself whenever I think of that incident. I’m still like this even after becoming a ghost. Hehe.”

“It’s good that you’re fine. What happened after that?”

“After that, my screams attracted the neighbors, who came over to check on the situation. The moment they came in, they were almost cut by that woman with the scissors.

And I was already curled up in pain and barely conscious. Later, it was the Zhang family, that is, Yunyi’s family. Her mother couldn’t stand it anymore and sent me to the hospital.

Going to the hospital at that time meant spending a lot of money, but Auntie still sent me to the hospital. She was the one who took care of me afterwards, until I was discharged.

So I’m very grateful to her and have always thought of her as my mother. I would also give her half of my monthly salary.

If she didn’t want it, I would have Yunyi give it to her. Life could have been getting better, but that woman suddenly found me and even broke into the Zhang family and injured Yunyi.

To protect Zhang Ma and Yunyi, I was accidentally cut in the neck by her. I died not long after. Maybe it’s because I didn’t have enough to eat since I was a child, so I became a starving ghost.

Later, I went to see the Zhang family, but they were no longer there. I wanted to find them but didn’t know how. If you can really find them, I’m willing to tell you the information about the ‘Master.’

It’s been many years since this happened. I don’t know if Zhang Ma is still alive, or if Yunyi is doing well.”

“Do you know the specific time?” Li Hanyan asked, looking up from her notebook.

“I don’t remember. It’s been too long. I only remember that I was only twenty-two when I died,” Xiaoling said, shaking her head.

“Alright. You get in the bottle first. I’ll tell you when there’s news.”

Xiaoling nodded and went into the bottle.

“Should we have Wanfeng investigate this?” Liu Chuxia asked.

Li Hanyan shook her head. “She’s busy with her wedding right now. How would she have time to help us investigate this kind of thing? Besides, if Dr. Han finds out we’re investigating this because of the ‘Master,’ she might beat me up.”

“Then we’ll investigate it ourselves?”

“Mhm. I’ll take you to meet someone. She’s also from the Zhang family, but she was adopted by them and was just given the surname.”

“Are we going now?”

Li Hanyan shook her head. “No. Let’s go and eat first. We’ll wait a little longer and see what the situation is with Jiajia and Xiao Nian.”

“Okay.”

Then Li Hanyan sent a message in the group chat.

Big Bad Wolf Eats Little Rabbit (Yan): @everyone, after you’re done, come straight up to the conference room on the fourth floor. I have something to tell you.

A Fox Flying in the Sky (Jia): Roger.

A Rabbit Swimming in the Sea (Xiao): Roger.

I Love You Yanbao (Xu): Roger.

I Love You Xubao (Yan): Roger.

I’m a Little Rabbit (Xia): Roger.

Li Hanyan looked at the last message, then turned to look at Liu Chuxia with a smile. “What message did you send?”

“Hehe, just joining in on the fun. Let’s go. Let’s go down and buy them some food.”

Li Hanyan put away her phone and took Liu Chuxia to buy food.

Carrying the lunchboxes to the fourth floor, the two of them started to eat their own portions first.

In just a few minutes, the two humans and two ghosts had all returned to the conference room one after another.

“What is it? Why did you call us all up?” Jiang Jiajia asked, drinking water.

“Let’s eat first. We’ll talk while we eat.”

“Fine. I’m starving. You don’t know, there was a group of Flying Head Fiends where I was. I was throwing talismans like crazy.”

With that, she started to wolf down her food.

Xiao Nian placed a glass of water beside her.

Li Hanyan took a bite of her food and then briefly explained Xiaoling’s matter.

“Without a specific time, how long will it take to find them? Isn’t this like looking for a needle in a haystack?” Jiang Jiajia said, taking a sip of water.

“We can look for old newspapers here and see if there are any reports. As for the rest, I’ll have Zhang Yan help me look,” Li Hanyan said, putting the finished lunchbox into a plastic bag.

“Does the Information Group also do this kind of thing?”

“We have no choice. We don’t have the manpower, and we need to be ready at any time for emergency missions. And Wanfeng is busy with her wedding now and has no time. So we can only ask them.”

“That’s true. I just don’t know if they’ll help with this,” Jiang Jiajia said with some worry.

“They’ve been taking my talismans for free for so many years. If they don’t even help with this little thing, then I’ll just cut off their monthly supply of talismans. Don’t worry, just leave it to me.”

“Fine. But you actually give them talismans for free every month. What for?” Jiang Jiajia asked with some confusion.

Li Hanyan chuckled softly and said, “So that they can help me at any time, like now.”

“You’re quite farsighted.”

“That’s about it for this matter. Is there any situation on your side?”

“There’s nothing on the order side,” Xiao Xu said.

“There’s nothing on my side either. As I just said, just some Flying Head Fiends causing trouble.”

“I…” Xiao Nian only said one word and then stopped.

“What’s wrong?” Liu Chuxia asked.

Xiao Nian didn’t speak. Instead, she took out a bottle from her bag and then released the thing inside.

A small dumpling sat quietly on the floor. She looked at the four humans and two ghosts quietly, then flashed into Xiao Xu’s embrace, calling out “Mommy,” and then climbed into Ke Yan’s embrace, calling out “Mama.”

After she was done, she looked at Xiao Xu and Ke Yan with a grin.

Xiao Nian sighed, picked her up, and held her in her arms. The little one was not afraid of people and said to Xiao Nian with a grin, “Sister! Play.”

“Is this child a ghost? What on earth is going on? A Nian, hurry up and tell me,” Jiang Jiajia said, taking the little one from her hand and urging Xiao Nian to explain quickly.

“That’s right, hurry up and tell us. What’s the situation?” Liu Chuxia also urged.

Xiao Nian looked at the little one’s grinning face, sighed, and said, “I went to a private clinic. The moment I went in, I saw a woman giving birth. At first, I thought it was an illusion and was thinking of killing that woman.

Then I would go and break the illusion. But when my talisman paper landed on her, it had no effect, and the peach wood sword had no reaction.

Just as I was wondering, a wrongfully-died ghost suddenly appeared, and I started to fight with her.

In the end, the wrongfully-died ghost lost. In her last moments, she begged me to save that woman. I was going to save her anyway, so I agreed. After that, I called the Jiang family’s doctor to deliver the woman’s baby.

The woman didn’t make it. Because the ghost baby’s yin energy was too heavy when it was born, the woman was injured by this baleful aura. She was already weak and didn’t last long.

This little one is not like a newborn child at all. She could open her eyes and speak the moment she was born. If the one who had conceived her was a female ghost, I think she would have been able to walk right after she was born.

She should be about the same as a five or six-year-old child. I was originally going to kill her directly, but the Jiang family’s doctor said that this little one is not entirely a ghost.

She has half human genes. The Jiang family’s doctor wanted to take her back for research. I stopped her and brought her back.”