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Chapter 149: Chapter 149: Sister-in-law, Don’t Scare Me
Wu Sao laughed awkwardly from the side, and said in a soft voice, "Yanmei, Dr. Si’s wife isn’t easy to provoke. It’s better if we refrain from discussing her behind her back. Otherwise, we’ll stir up more trouble than we can handle."
Tong Yao has made a reputation for herself at the faculty housing. Everyone knows that she is not easy to mess with. Right now, in the human world, she’s the equivalent of ’Brother Pingtou’. Who wouldn’t be afraid upon seeing her!
There were many rumors going around about how Tong Yao stood out at the hospital at noon. Even the professors from Kyoto complimented her in front of the Dean. They seem to like Tong Yao a lot. At the time, both Shiya and Director Zheng’s faces turned green with envy.
Think about it, Shiya and Dr. Si’s affair had caused a major buzz in the hospital, and now Tong Yao is so high-profile in the hospital. Isn’t this a blatant slap in Shiya’s face?
Given Shiya’s temper, it’s unlikely that she’d tolerate that.
"Others might be afraid of her, but I’m certainly not." Chen Yanmei snorted coldly, and said with a snub, "No matter how capable she is in Kyoto, she will have to bow down now that she’s in Li City. Being powerful now is useless; it will only ruin her husband’s future. After all, the Dean and Dr. Yu Shiya are actually family. For now, the Dean may not be able to make a move because they are in the spotlight. But after some time, when everybody forgets about Shiya’s affair with Dr. Si, wouldn’t the Dean find an opportunity to discharge Dr. Si?"
Moreover, even if the Dean doesn’t dismiss Si Chen, he won’t train Si Chen as his son-in-law as he used to. Si Chen could only be a surgeon in Li City Hospital for the rest of his life. He should not even think about climbing higher.
Wu Sao said, "That’s true, but we’d better talk less. The people from the Kyoto hospital haven’t left yet. It’s better to mind our own business."
Nowadays, only fools would stir up trouble. For us who live in the staff residence, we can’t help our men much on a daily basis. All we can do is try our best not to be a burden. If our men lose their jobs, we’ll all be left out in the cold.
"She’s a little demon, always stirring up trouble. She will get her comeuppance one day." Yanmei knew that Wu Sao’s words made sense, but she wouldn’t feel better if she didn’t mock Tong Yao. If it weren’t for Tong Yao’s nosiness, she wouldn’t have offended her brother and sister-in-law, and even her uncle.
Hearing the term ’little demon’, Wu Sao suddenly had a start and her face became very strange, as if she had thought of something bizarre.
"Yanmei, your mention of ’little demon’ reminded me of something. Don’t you think that Dr. Si’s wife is a bit strange? The last time I was doing laundry downstairs, I heard her talking to someone in the bathroom, but there was only her voice. I found it strange. But when she left, I went into the room to take a look. Guess what I saw?"
"What did you see?" Yanmei asked curiously.
"Nothing. If there’s no one else in the bathroom, who was she talking to?" The look on Wu Sao’s face was still somewhat frightened when she talked about this incident, as if she had encountered something unclean.
"Are you saying that she talks to herself in the bathroom?" Yanmei turned pale with fear, and felt a chill running through her back, "You are right. That reminds me. Sometimes when I take Baodan to play in the corridor, I also hear her talking alone in the room. I didn’t pay attention to it at that time, but now that I think about it, it feels wrong. What could she possibly be muttering to herself in the room?"
That’s how people are. When nobody mentions anything and you don’t think about the negative, there’s no problem at all. But once you start to assume the worst, you find faults everywhere.
In this era, who hasn’t heard of some eerie stories since childhood?
Out of the ten people you pull out, at least eight are superstitious. A dog barks a few more times at night, and people could imagine a bunch of things. Regardless, anything that science can’t explain is attributed to ghosts and spirits.
Especially when a few women get together, even trivial matters could turn into something as real as if it actually happened. The more they talked, the more they felt something was off about Tong Yao.
Wu Sao thought carefully for a moment, and then pointed to her forehead, guessing, "Do you think there’s something wrong with her here?"
Having lived in the faculty housing for so many years, she had never heard of any strange incidents happening here. If she had to explain it, she felt the problem was still with Tong Yao.
"I don’t think so." Chen Yanmei shook her head, denying this assumption, "No matter how stupid Dr. Si is, he wouldn’t choose a woman with a mental illness."
If it’s not a mental illness, then there’s only one explanation left.
Wu Sao and Chen Yanmei looked at each other, and they both showed a terrified expression. Could it be that Tong Yao is possessed by some evil force?
Their conversation was broadcasted to Tong Yao verbatim by number seven mosquito. Tong Yao, who was having her meal, almost choked. She never thought that her conversations with flies and mosquitoes would be heard. She was even considered mentally ill.
Fortunately, the ability to understand animal tongues is too far-fetched for them to believe.
Tong Yao was deep in her thoughts, when she suddenly heard a crisp ’pop’. She looked up to see Xiaohui complaining while rubbing her stinging palm, "Ouch! I missed it. Sister-in-law, why does the mosquito keep hovering around you? The buzzing is so annoying."
"Oh my god! That was scary. This woman is so evil. I was almost slapped to death." Number seven mosquito was so freaked out that its wings almost broke, and it immediately flew up to the ceiling.
"Cough, cough...." Tong Yao choked a little due to the shock, but quickly said, "Don’t use your hands to smack mosquitoes. Some mosquitoes are very toxic and if you slap them on your hand, you could get skin diseases."
"Sister-in-law, don’t scare me." Xiaohui looked terrified.
Tong Yao said half-jokingly, "I’m not trying to scare you. Some mosquitoes are poisonous, and when they are smashed on the hand, the venom in their bodily fluid can cause the hand to blister and rot. As long as the mosquito doesn’t bite you, just ignore it."
"But their buzzing is so annoying." Xiaohui looked around, but couldn’t see where the mosquito had flown. She then casually added, "Speaking of which, these mosquitoes are really strange. They don’t seem to suck blood and they always fly around you."
Xiaohui had never paid much attention to this before, but now thinking back, it seemed that she had never been bitten by mosquitoes here. However, mosquitoes were often seen, and each time, the mosquitoes liked to circle around Tong Yao.
"Sister-in-law is educated and knowledgeable, she knows a lot. If she said don’t smack you, don’t smack. It would be troublesome if blisters really popped out. Have you forgotten what happened in the Wang Village a few years ago?" Si Boyi believed that what Tong Yao said was based on her extensive knowledge and education. As for Xiaohui saying that the mosquitoes were circling around Tong Yao, he didn’t take it to heart at all. Don’t mosquitoes like to circle around people in general?
After being reminded by Si Boyi, Xiaohui suddenly felt a chill. She indeed remembered hearing about an incident a few years ago in the Wang Village. A person had smacked a mosquito on his hand, and later, many blisters appeared on his hand, which became severely swollen. At first, he didn’t take it seriously. But later, his hand condition worsened. By the time he reached the hospital, his hand was already ruined, and in the end, he barely survived by undergoing an amputation.
