Chapter 0284 – Jiang Ling
The little girl stopped crying and turned around to look dully at Chen Ge, her palm-sized face was hung with teardrops, her eyes were red and swollen, hazy with a layer of water mist.
This child’s pitiful eyes seemed to be able to melt everything, even if one’s heart was cold and hard, one could not help but unconsciously soothe their expression when facing her.
The female nurse could no longer control herself, and hugged the little girl heartily, pressing her face against the girl’s head and gently patting her back.
Just looking at the nursemaid and the two children inside the bedroom, one would feel very cozy, just like the sister working alone, who was strong and raising her two young siblings, who were poor and hardworking, but always longed for happiness and beauty.
However, if Chen Ge was added, the picture inside the house became a little weird.
He stood in the doorway, his whole body’s muscles tensed, as if he was alone in the middle of a dense forest and was being watched by a wild beast.
”According to the proportions in Fan Yu’s painting, that monster is three times the size of an adult man.”
Chen Ge, who had dealt with Fan Yu, clearly remembered that Fan Yu’s eyes were able to see ghosts and monsters, which meant that the huge spider monster in Fan Yu’s painting was really behind him at this moment!
His fingers pressed on the switch of the repeater, and green veins surfaced on his arm.
Before he came, he hadn’t even expected to encounter a ghostly creature in this cozy orphanage.
”Fan Yu and the little girl seem to be on good terms, and Fan Yu and I are sort of acquaintances, is this an indirect way of assuming that the little girl and I are also friends?” Chen Ge stood alone in the doorway muttering, his voice was not loud enough to just reach behind himself.
”Don’t cry, sister has already left, I’ll take you to her tomorrow.” Fan Yu stroked the little girl’s head, he was extraordinarily kind to this little girl.
”En.” The little girl rubbed her red and swollen eyes, broke away from the female nurse’s embrace, and reluctantly sat down on the small cushion in the bedroom, still holding the spider’s corpse in her hand, not willing to throw it away.
Hearing Fan Yu say that the girl’s sister had already left, Chen Ge relaxed, walked into the house, picked up the broom behind the door and swept the glass slag on the floor to the corner.
Standing in the middle of the three, the female nurse was a bit embarrassed, she always felt as if she was being ignored and no one cared about her.
”Mr. Chen, let me sweep it.” The nursemaid swept the glass shards into the dustpan, then dragged Chen Ge from the house.
”You’ve seen the situation inside.” The female nurse’s words were filled with helplessness, “Jiang Ling has been under my care since she came to the orphanage, half a year has passed, and in the past, she used to call me mom and was very clingy to me, just like a little angel. But since Fan Yu’s arrival, everything has changed, this child follows Fan Yu’s ass all day long and only listens to him alone.”
”Why do I hear a hint of ‘jealousy’ in your words?” Chen Ge leaned his back against the wall, this orphanage gave him a good impression that it was doing something practical.
”I’m not!” The female nurse glared at Chen Ge, “If Jiangling played with other children, I definitely wouldn’t stop him, the key Fan Yu he’s very abnormal, you’ve seen the things he drew, do you think it’s appropriate to let a five or six year old girl look at that kind of stuff every day?”
”This is a bit excessive.” Chen Ge didn’t know how to explain to the female nurse, he couldn’t say that what Fan Yu drew was true.
”More than excessive!” The nursemaid closed the bedroom door and pulled Chen Ge to the corner of the living room, “Jiang Ling was found by the police at the scene of the murder, you have no idea what this child has been through. When she was first sent to the orphanage half a year ago, Jiang Ling couldn’t even speak and held a deep fear of anyone, which only improved under Dr. Chen’s six-month-long psychological counseling treatment.”
Chen Ge’s expression became serious: “Can you tell me about that child’s past?”
The female nurse lowered her voice: “I also heard it from the police, Jiang Ling originally had a very happy family, a family of four living in the remote countryside, although the family was not rich, they lived a very happy life.”
”Her father was an honest farmer, her mother didn’t seem to be a local, she was white and clean looking, she also had an older sister who inherited her mother’s genes and was very good looking.”
”About a year ago, her father borrowed a sum of money, contracted a piece of peach forest, specializing in growing peaches, the family lives far away from the village, and usually does not interact with people.”
”Seeing that the peaches were about to be harvested and their family’s life was about to improve, something happened as a result.”
Sighing, the female nurse had a hint of sympathy and anger in her eyes, “First, Jiang Ling’s sister disappeared, and not long after that, Jiang Ling’s father and mother had an accident, and there was a large amount of rat poison sprinkled in the rice soup and dishes, the murderer was determined to kill them.”
”Has the murderer been caught?”
”No.” The female nurse shook her head, “The police didn’t disclose much information, I only know that the murderer didn’t touch the family’s money, nor was it for sex. I suspect that the murderer is those villagers who are jealous of the happiness of Jiangling’s family! That area is relatively remote, and very few people would go over there except for other villagers. There was also the fact that a few days before the accident, the village next to it often had people stealing peaches that hadn’t grown ripe, and once the thief was caught by Jiangling’s father, and there was a fight in the peach forest.”
After listening to the female nurse’s description, Chen Ge also felt that the villagers were a bit like murderers, murder usually comes with a purpose, deliberate revenge, this reason made sense.
”After the police investigation no one was found in the village to have poisoned the village, the only survivor at the scene was Jiang Ling who didn’t drink the soup, but she was also stunned after seeing her parents collapse after eating. The police suspected that Jiangling had seen what the murderer looked like, but struggled to communicate with Jiangling, a little girl who has had some mental problems since that incident.”
”As you can see, when she sees a spider, she calls her sister, what others are afraid and intimidated by, she excitedly runs over to it instead, can you imagine her adorable face plastered near the spider web, close to the spider?”
”After spending time together, I realized that there are other problems in her.”
”This child is somewhat cognitively confused, often asking for the quilt on the bed to be called mommy and the rope hanging up to be called daddy. When people ask her why, she can’t tell them why.”
The female nurse was a bit frustrated, it could be heard that she was really worried about the girl, “Our orphanage has been trying to correct Jiang Ling’s wrong cognition, she is now no longer calling mommy and daddy to the ropes and quilts, as long as we change her cognition about spiders again, this girl will be able to live like a normal person. As a result, who knew that Fan Yu came and destroyed all our efforts with a few words.”
”Let’s not talk about Fan Yu for now.” Chen Ge had to face the Weird Tales Association, so he was more interested in ghosts now, “Have the police investigated Jiang Ling’s sister? Why did she disappear? Is it possible that the murderer is her?”
”Before the accident, Jiang Ling’s sister disappeared, and the police suspected for a while that the murderer might be the sister who went and returned, but so far they haven’t found Jiang Ling’s sister.”