After the two entered, they smelled an even stronger stench of blood.
Not only that, but a faint voice came from inside the house. "Miss Nan, Miss Nan, where are you? Come out, quick! Something terrible has happened! Hurry and run with me!"
The voice was very quiet, as though the speaker were constricting her throat, terrified of being discovered.
Sister Hong first cast a wary glance at the strange hanging corpse, then looked upstairs and spotted a furtive figure in the corridor.
The figure also wore a Gu Family employee uniform. She was an old woman, her back bent as she gently knocked on a bedroom door, constantly looking around as though afraid of something.
"That looks like... Aunt Liu."
Sister Hong did not act rashly this time. She looked at Jiang Chen. "Xiao Chen, is Aunt Liu a ghost?"
Jiang Chen shook his head. "No."
Sister Hong breathed a sigh of relief and called softly, "Aunt Liu!"
The old woman in the second-floor corridor flinched in fright. She turned around and studied them for quite a while, her expression gradually turning surprised. "Is that Miss Hongya? Good heavens, you've finally agreed to come back!"
"It really is Aunt Liu. Looks like this is my eldest brother's house." Sister Hong explained to Jiang Chen, "Aunt Liu was hired as a maternity nanny when my sister-in-law was recovering from childbirth. She was hardworking, so the family kept her on."
Aunt Liu hurried downstairs on tiptoe, calling urgently in a lowered voice, "Miss Hongya, hurry, run! Something's happened in the house!"
"What happened?" Sister Hong stepped forward to ask.
Aunt Liu approached and whispered, "The night before last, Xiao Li, who was guarding the gate, suddenly screamed and alarmed the whole family. Master Zhou from the kitchen and I were the