Chapter 0205 – She is my sister
”Quickly close the door.” The woman seemed to know that she was a bit scary looking and hurried into the inner room.
”Good.” Chen Ge didn’t lock the door, leaving a one-finger wide crack, and he had already started to think of a way back for himself before he even entered the house.
Standing in the living room with his bag on his back, Chen Ge looked into the inner room, the woman was sitting on the edge of the bed, covered with a thin quilt, “The house is very messy, don’t mind it, feel free to sit down.”
The woman’s home wasn’t too messy, there were just a lot of medicine bottles thrown around, Chen Ge casually picked one up and looked at it, it was all in English, he could only recognize a small part of it.
”Don’t mess with my things.” The woman whispered, she looked at Chen Ge with a hint of uncertainty in her gaze, “What’s in your backpack? I don’t look like you’re here to buy a house.”
”The bag may be broken, but all my belongings are in it.” Chen Ge casually said, “That house of yours is in a good location, but the price needs to be discussed again.”
”There’s a lot of room for appreciation in that house of mine, if it wasn’t for the fact that I’m in dire need of money right now, I wouldn’t sell it if I said anything.” The woman’s skin took on an unhealthy white color, giving off a strange feeling.
”At the risk of asking, what kind of disease did you get? Need to buy a house to raise money.” Chen Ge wasn’t here to buy a house at all, and started to condescend as soon as he came up.
”Cancer.” The woman pointed to her face, “Long-term chemotherapy, my hair and eyebrows have all fallen out.”
”Sorry.” Chen Ge did not expect to get such an answer.
”I’m just thinking about living a few more days now, people are at this point in their lives before they think it would be nice to live a few more days.” A woman selling her house to extend her life seemed right at first glance, but on second thought it always seemed problematic.
”Let’s talk about the price.”
The woman made a big concession, and the price she offered was thirty percent lower than the same type of house on the market.
”If you agree, I can go through the paperwork tomorrow with my documents.”
”It’s not that I’m taking advantage of the fire, the price you offered is a bit on the high side.” Doing a full set, Chen Ge looked torn.
”This price is still high?”
”I sympathize with what you’re going through, but one size does not fit all, I inquired before I came here, your house was haunted a few years ago, that’s why it hasn’t been sold.” Chen Ge patted his backpack, “I’m a bold person, plus I really lack money, that’s why I thought of selling your murderous house.”
The woman knew she was being unreasonable, she asked again, “Then how much are you prepared to offer?”
”One-tenth of the market price, that’s all I have.”
”One-tenth?!” The woman was exasperated, “And you say you’re not taking advantage of the fire?”
”After all, that house was haunted, buying a house is a lifetime event, if I didn’t really have no money, I wouldn’t have gone to buy a murderous house.” Chen Ge completely substituted himself, a hint of hesitation surfaced in his gaze, as if he was a bit intolerant after seeing the woman’s situation, “Why don’t we each take a step back, I know that you bought the house in exchange for the life-saving money, and I can find friends and relatives to borrow it, but you’re offering a price that’s too high, and I just can’t afford it.”
Perhaps because that house has not been sold for a long time, the woman is also desperate, she was silent for a long time: “One-tenth is too little, my bottom line is half of the market price, if you are willing to want, I will commission a guarantee company to go to do the formalities with you tomorrow, if not, forget it.”
”Half ……” Chen Ge lowered his head and seemed to be in distress.
”Don’t you listen to other people’s nonsense, the neighborhood hasn’t even had any injuries to the owners, how can it be haunted?” The woman was half lying on the bed, she sensed that Chen Ge’s tone was loosening and began to persuade.
”Don’t lie to me, the security guard in your neighborhood told me himself that he saw a white shadow burrowing into your house a few years ago, and then the police went there too. You weren’t home that night, so you probably don’t know these things.” Chen Ge followed the other party’s words and began to slowly ask what he wanted to know.
”How could I not know about my own house?” The woman sighed, a hint of struggle showing under her eyes, “Actually, this is something I haven’t wanted to mention, that white shadow wasn’t a ghost.”
”Not a ghost?” Chen Ge’s heart lifted, the whole thing was likely to take an unexpected turn.
”Yes, that white shadow is my sister, she’s a psychopath who was just picked up from the hospital.” The woman looked pained and coughed violently for a few moments, “My sister did something wrong when she was very young, and her illness was discovered from that time, from then on she was locked up in a mental hospital, and she didn’t get out until four or five years ago.”
”Wrongdoing? Is it serious?” The woman’s sister’s information basically matched that of the patient in room two, and Chen Ge listened more carefully.
”Very serious, it’s that incident that ruined her life.” The woman felt sorry for her sister, “My sister’s situation is rather special, belonging to the category of patients who need to be isolated for treatment, there is a certain degree of danger, if the police find out, she might have to be forcibly taken away and put back into the hospital.”
”So you hid her in your own home?”
”My sister has recovered well from over a decade of treatment.” The woman’s tone changed as if it was an irrefutable question, “How many decades in a person’s life? She suffered too many sins in the first half of her life, so she should also enjoy her life and the happiness of being born a human.”
Chen Ge always felt that the woman’s words sounded uncomfortable, “You hid your sister in your own home, but didn’t think that she would run out on her own to scare the neighbors, so this is the truth about the haunting back then?”
”Yes, the so-called haunting was all made up by those people who made up their own ideas.”
”Then where did your sister go afterward? You are now seriously ill and she doesn’t come to take care of you?”
”I don’t know where she went, I haven’t seen her since that night.” The woman looked a bit helpless, “She’s my only family member, sometimes I would go to Fang Hua Yuan to look around, hoping to wait for her.”
”We’re all at the same end of the world, I understand your pain. If no one buys it, you can keep your house for me first, I’ll go raise money tomorrow.” Chen Ge spoke with affection, but in his heart, he was thinking about stabilizing the woman for the time being, he now urgently needed to go and determine another thing.
”Good, then we’ll see you tomorrow.” The woman took the initiative to terminate the conversation, she seemed to be a little tired, leaning weakly against the bed.
”See you tomorrow.” Chen Ge carried his bag and got up to leave.
The moment the door to the apartment building room closed, the expressions on the faces of the two people inside and outside the room changed.
Chen Ge stood still and typed the few English words she had memorized from the pill bottle into her cell phone.
”Just like I guessed, there’s a big problem with this woman, those medicines in her room have nothing to do with treating cancer, most of them are drugs to promote wound healing and prevent allergies.”
Taking a taxi to Fang Hua Yuan neighborhood, Chen Ge dialed Team Li’s number on the way and told him about the Xin Kang apartment.