Chapter 148: The Skeleton Outside The Window (2/2)

”It's fine! Just send Sister-in-law home quickly.” Mu Mingyuan stood inside the pit and glanced at the two of them. Then he called the remaining police officers to gather around the pit. ”Brothers, come down and give me a hand! I'll see if I can lift her straight out of here.” Zhang Nan and Lu Xiaoqiang jumped into the pit and positioned themselves around the skeleton to help Mu Mingyuan move it out. While they were doing so, Jiang Zhengkai left the exhumation site with Jiao in his arms.

After they returned to the car, Jiang Zhengkai turned to Jiao. He put his hand on her cheek and gently wiped away her tears. ”If you want to cry, then cry! There's n.o.body else here.”

”No!” Jiao shook her head. ”I don't think she would want me to cry.” Nonetheless, tears streamed down her cheeks like pearls slipping off of a broken necklace. “Honey, tell me. Do you think that it's really her? Is that really Sister Xiu?”

”I think so?” Jiang Zhengkai leaned back into the car seat. ”A... After all, that's what she personally told us!”

“Mm! But... But how did she become like that?” Jiao cried and turned to Jiang Zhengkai. ”Honey, she didn't look like that before.”

”Mm.” Jiang Zhengkai wanted to laugh but managed to hold himself back in the end. Yeah! People wouldn't look like that while they were alive. Only the dead would look like that. Jiang Zhengkai wiped the tears from Jiao's face and gently told her, ”Do you remember what Xiu said? She said that she wanted to make all the people who hurt her look like her. Now she's successfully done that.”

”Who said so?” Jiao's mouth drooped while she faced Jiang Zhengkai. ”There's still one other person!”

”Me?” When Jiang Zhengkai heard that, he rubbed Jiao's nose. ”But I have you as my lucky star. Surely nothing will happen!”

”Humph! I'm not a lucky star,” Jiao said as she pouted. ”You also lost my Buddha pendant. I want you to compensate me!”

”Oh, that's true!” Jiang Zhengkai fumbled his hand under his s.h.i.+rt and felt the area below his neck. After confirming that the pendant on the chain had indeed disappeared, he looked at Jiao apologetically. “It must have been very precious, right? I'll buy you a better one as compensation! ”

”A better one?” Jiao blinked and looked at Jiang Zhengkai. After a while, she giggled and replied, ”Okay! Then I'll cremate your head to make a pendant!”

”My head?” Jiang Zhengkai looked at Jiao in surprise. ”No! So cruel!”

”Yes!” Jiao turned around, nodding dramatically. ”That pendant is not what you think it is! It's not made of jade at all. It was made from human bones.”

“It's a bone relic?” Jiang Zhengkai opened his mouth wide in surprise.

”Correct!” Jiao turned her head and glanced at Jiang Zhengkai. ”It's not a common relic either. My mother gave it to me as a gift when I was a child. She said that it was made from the skull of a Tibetan Buddhist monk.

”Is that so? Then I won't be able to compensate for your loss.” Jiang Zhengkai shrugged, expressing his inability to do anything about it.

”Nevermind that!” Jiao leaned forward and rapped Jiang Zhengkai's head with her hand. ”Remember! Your head is mine. If you disobey me in the future, you'll have to twist it off and give it back to me!”

”Sure, sure!” Jiang Zhengkai nodded repeatedly like a sycophant.

”Now that you are so obedient, that's good!” Satisfied, Jiao sat back in her seat. She pointed her finger in the direction of her home. ”Drive, Little Jie! By the way, I want you to carry me home.”

”Aye-aye, Empress Dowager,” Jiang Zhengkai answered along with a laugh, and then started the car. Jiao stared ahead and muttered, ”Actually, there's another Buddha statue. It's at my sister's place, though I haven't seen her for a long time. I wonder how she's doing…...”