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Chapter 685: Sadako Isn’t The Only One at Midnight

Chapter 685: Chapter 685: Sadako Isn’t The Only One at Midnight

After Fan Family’s brothers left, Jiaojiao asked Suizi.

"Sister-in-law, what’s our next move?"

"Stall, and, wait."

Suizi walked a circle around the room, confirming there was no way out, and sat on the bed to plan, her eyes closed.

"Those two annoying brothers, are you really not going to do anything about them?" As a child, Jiaojiao found it hard to understand the power plays among adults, but she knew certain things should only be asked in private.

"Painting a big picture is a skill every leader should master. A boss who can’t do that can’t make big money."

"I don’t quite understand... so you are going to promote them in the future?" Jiaojiao was very much bothered by the two’s treacherous trickery.

"A promise made not to pursue further is one to be kept. Remember, don’t go back on your word, otherwise, we won’t be able to get out of such situations in the future."

"But just now, didn’t you clearly tell them: put sages first, gentlemen second, employ the mediocre, but never the petty?" Jiaojiao, her reading comprehension honed by Suizi, was deeply impressed by this.

She perceived the Fan Family brothers as typical petty men.

They would stoop to any means for a bit of profit.

Suizi looked at her approvingly, her gaze full of satisfaction, and answered her in a voice only the two of them could hear.

"I really like your habit of thinking critically instead of just blindly studying. You’re right, people who can easily betray their previous masters may betray us for better offers. So, we can use these two, but we can’t place them in key positions."

Once she gets through this hurdle and randomly assigns the two brothers to a seemingly decent position where they can’t really gain anything, it signals to the rest of the Fan Family: as long as they show loyalty, Suizi’s family can forgive and forget. This will serve as a model to follow."

Once this period has passed, if they behave well, then let them continue. If not, Suizi will naturally have a strategy to remove them through others, creating the illusion of their incompetence.

Jiaojiao was enlightened and her admiration for her sister-in-law grew. The fear she felt from being kidnapped had somewhat faded because of her admiration.

During the conversation with Jiaojiao, Suizi had made a judgement.

She was going to gamble on three things.

The first gamble was on her blood type following her mother’s, not her father’s.

It was a bit embarrassing that, having lived two lives, she only knew her own blood type, nor her mother’s, let alone her father’s.

If her blood type followed Chen Lijun’s, they probably wouldn’t dare to harm her easily.

After a while, sure enough, two nurses came to draw blood. In less than half an hour, the second grandma, grinning all over her face, led a middle-aged man dressed in robes into the room.

Upon seeing this, Suizi knew she lost the first gamble.

Her blood type must be the same as her father’s.

"Second Grandma, who is this?" Suizi pretended to know nothing and asked.

"This is a friend of our master, you can call him Master Zhang. He’s a fortune teller. Quickly tell him your birth details, and let him see how your financial luck will be in the future."

Yeah, right, I’ll believe in you, a bald old lady, you’re such a wicked one, Suizi thought, but she didn’t show it on her face.

She confidently gave her real birth details. The reason why she gave the real ones was part of Suizi’s strategy.

Since she was kidnapped, it implied that they had investigated her already.

If she gave a fake one, it would arouse suspicion, and she needed to act as if she knew nothing.

As expected, the Master nodded in satisfaction without calculating anything after hearing Suizi’s birth details. It showed that he knew them long ago. Suizi won the second gamble.

"Such great facial features and good birth details. She stirs good fortune for husband, children and herself. If someone were to borrow her luck..." The Master gazed at Suizi and spoke to himself.

Suizi thought his bean-like eyes and split eyebrows gave him a rather lewd look, not exactly what one would expect from a respectable Master, but more like a charlatan from the Jianghu.

Second Grandma, satisfied with the response, only gave Suizi perfunctory responses, and took the Master away with her.

No sooner had she stepped out, than Suizi began to pace around the room again. There was a glass on the table. It could come in handy.

Suizi grabbed the glass and smashed it forcefully. The glass shattered, and the guards outside rushed in at the sound.

"Sorry, I slipped. Could you help me get another cup?"

Once the guards had left, Suizi pulled the hidden glass shards from her pocket, pulled the curtains together, and cautioned Jiaojiao.

"Do not say anything or scream no matter what you see."

She then extended her arm, avoided the veins, and cut herself with the glass shard. Blood gushed out immediately.

Jiaojiao was so shocked that she covered her mouth. In her eyes were the big characters: are you insane?

Suizi, with a blank expression, dripped her blood onto the white bed sheet, then took off her skirt and dripped some blood on the back of it.

After doing all this, she took out a handkerchief and pressed it against the wound to stop the bleeding, making every move seem swift and decisive.

Once the bleeding stopped, Suizi whispered something into Jiaojiao’s ear. Jiaojiao nodded to show she understood.

She then went to the door and knocked hard. The door had been locked with a bolt from the outside, and they couldn’t open it.

After knocking for a while, a guard asked impatiently from the other side of the door.

"What is it?"

"My sister-in-law just got her period, do you have any clean clothes and sheets? She’s too shy to tell."

This was Suizi’s third gamble.

Although she wasn’t sure what these people wanted to do with her, she figured it couldn’t be anything good.

Thanks to her boss Li Youcai from her previous life who believed in the supernatural, Suizi also knew a bit.

Although these mysterious practices varied, most viewed women’s periods as impurity. Though modern science recognizes this belief as ignorant and foolish, what kind of intelligence could you expect from those who believe in such things?

To these ignorant people, menstruation is dirty, and dirt has the ability to dispel evil energies. That’s why in some places, women are not allowed to visit graves or worship gods or Buddha during their periods. Suizi bet that the Jianghu swindler would delay things because of this.

The key to this third bet was the preparation made earlier. Only winning this bet would buy Yu Jingting some time.

Luckily, Suizi won the gamble.

The guard, hearing Jiaojiao, immediately called for Second Grandma. Seeing the bed sheet and Suizi’s skirt, Second Grandma left in a huff. Suizi tried to ask her for a change of clothes, saying it wasn’t decent to see the master like this, but Second Grandma didn’t pay her any mind.

She probably went to discuss a plan with the Jianghu swindler.

After quite a while, when the sky was turning dark, Fan Family’s brothers came with dinner and a change of clothes. They secretly told Suizi, while the guards outside were not paying attention.

"We’ve already contacted your in-laws, but they said your husband wasn’t home. Second Grandma and the Master spent the afternoon discussing. It seems the auspicious time can’t work anymore. They intend to switch to an inauspicious one, saying it’s ’fighting poison with poison’, ’fighting filth with filth."

"When is the inauspicious time?"

"Tonight, at midnight, when the Evil Qi is heaviest."

Suizi closed her eyes. She had done everything she could in the first half.

In the second half, it was up to him.

Midnight, the time when evil is at its peak, is why there’s a horror movie called "Midnight Ring". But Suizi believed that what came out at midnight might not just be long-haired Sadako, it could also be a hero descending from the heavens on a rainbow cloud.