Chapter 23 The Story Book for Women
After asking the housekeeper to get two bottles of medicine, Yu Qingfeng hurried back to the guest room, opened the door and asked, "How is it? What's wrong with Shen Moli and Zhang Hanzhong in prison?"
The room was unexpectedly lively. Pei Wuyan, Lin Ming and Lian Shurong were all there, sitting around the table, which was filled with delicious food.
It's lunch time.
Lin Ming pointed to the empty seat reserved next to Pei Wuyan, "Miss Yu, let's chat while we eat."
Yu Qingfeng was indeed hungry, so she sat down politely and ate at the same table with the three adults.
Anyway, the four of them have been like this all the way to Qianying County. The difference between them has long been a blur.
"How are you doing? Can you still use chopsticks?" Pei Wuyan pointed at Yu Qingfeng's right hand with his eyes.
"If it doesn't work, you can still feed it..." Yu Qingfeng blurted out without hesitation as she picked up a piece of meat with her chopsticks.
Pei Wuyan coughed and knocked his chopsticks on the table, causing Yu Qingfeng to swallow the last word of the sentence together with the slices of meat.
"Well, he is really spoiled. He doesn't distinguish between superior and inferior, and he still acts as if no one else is around." Lian Shurong joked.
"Zhang Hanzhong refused to admit that he hated Liang Lei because he was rejected for marriage." Pei Wuyan changed the subject and answered Yu Qingfeng's question, "The reason for testifying for Yang Zhi was because Yang Zhi threatened his mother's safety. On the night of the crime, he My mother can testify for him that he was at home all night and never went out."
"As my mother testifies, I might as well say that the heavens can provide me with a lesson." Yu Qingfeng sneered.
"Zhang Hanzhong admitted that he had been secretly caring for Liang Xiaohua, but it was not out of guilt for framing Liang Lei, but out of guilt for being blackmailed into perjuring Yang Zhi, and out of sympathy and pity for Liang Xiaohua." Pei Wuyan continued to report.
"What you say is better than what you sing." Regardless of the truth or falsehood of what Zhang Hanzhong said, these words are indeed pleasant. Yu Qingfeng rolled her eyes to express her preference.
"As for why he lost his job and had an abnormal attitude towards his boss, Zhang Hanzhong said it was because he had been patient for a long time, but happened to have run out of patience not long ago."
"Since you have to support and care for Liang Xiaohua, it means you have one more mouth to eat. At this time, you should work harder to keep your job. How can you be so unbearable and take the initiative to smash your job?" Yu Qingfeng was stunned, "This Zhang Hanzhong can't find a more reasonable reason. stupid."
Lian Shurong nodded first and then shook his head.
"But these two people are indeed honest in prison. Our people disguised themselves as government servants and pretended to be lazy and drinking, but in fact they were closely monitoring them. These two people were very close, but there was no eye contact, language or body communication throughout the whole process. Really It’s like we don’t know each other.”
Now that it has been concluded that Zhang Hanzhong is stupid and Shen Moli does not look like a smart person, it can be inferred that these two people have not yet reached the level of proficient acting skills. If their performance is normal, it can be inferred that they really do not know each other. .
Yu Qingfeng turned to Pei Wuyan, "Where's Yang Siwan? What's the result of the surveillance by the guards?"
Pei Wuyan shook his head slightly, "Nothing happened. You saw Yang Siwan this morning. How was she doing?"
"I'm 80% sure that Yang Siwan is definitely related to the murder case." Yu Qingfeng looked at a table of delicacies and suddenly thought of a trick, "Since Yang Siwan is indifferent, let's help her."
"How can I help?" Lin Ming was curious.
"Find someone to pretend to be a government official and go to Zhang Hanzhong's house to beat up his old mother: her son was arrested and sent to the county government. This matter can be big or small. If you take care of it, the big thing can be reduced to a small matter, and the trivial matter can be eliminated. Let's see what this old mother can do How much wealth do you have to spend?"
"Yes, Miss Yu is a good strategist. This move kills two birds with one stone. It can not only detect whether Zhang Hanzhong has ill-gotten wealth, but also urge his accomplices to take action."
Yu Qingfeng winked at Pei Wuyan proudly.
"You're smart." Pei Wuyan seemed unconvinced, but he still got up in person, opened the door and told the guards guarding the door to go to Zhang Hanzhong's house.
"By the way, Mr. Lin," Yu Qingfeng said as if she was having a dinner with colleagues and friends, not showing up at all. She even lost her honorific title as she ate, "Didn't you go out to inquire about the legend of the fox fairy? What did you gain?"
"The Legend of the Fox Fairy began a year ago, originally from a storybook."
"The storybook? Who wrote the storybook?" Yu Qingfeng immediately caught the key point.
"Miss Yu really hit the nail on the head. The key lies in the author of the story..." Lin Ming unconsciously started the flattering mode again.
Pei Wuyan interrupted Lin Ming's praise again and asked: "Who wrote it?"
"No one knows." Lin Ming glanced at Pei Wuyan and understood why Pei Wuyan liked to interrupt him so much. He just didn't want to hear him praise Yu Qingfeng.
"Then where did this statement come from?" Lian Shurong asked.
"No one can tell the exact origin. It's just that someone initially read this storybook and introduced it to acquaintances. More and more people read it, and they spread it by word of mouth.
This is not a groundless fabrication, but a true story with traces to follow.”
"What is the story?" Yu Qingfeng was curious.
"The story tells the story of a fox demon who cultivated human form in Canglian Mountain and fell in love with a scholar from Qianying County. However, their marriage was blocked by the scholar's parents. In the end, the scholar did not hesitate to die to prove his ambition in order to fight against his parents. Fox
The demon took the scholar's body back to Canglian Mountain, cast a spell to protect the body from decay, and slept with the scholar's body every day, expressing his love for him."
"This story should be widely circulated among women in Qianying County, right?"
Yu Qingfeng smiled bitterly. Women in ancient times were just like that. They liked to read men's loyal love stories. If there is a market, there will be creations. If women like to read them, there will be people who will write them.
"Yes, most of the people who were moved to tears by this story and believed that the story was true were women."
Lian Shurong urged Lin Ming: "Tell me quickly, what happened next?"
Yu Qingfeng covered her mouth and snickered, "I think most of the people who are eager to know the ending of the story are women."
Lian Shurong rolled his eyes at Yu Qingfeng, making Yu Qingfeng smile even more.
"Follow up!" Pei Wuyan urged impatiently.
"There was a woman who was in the same situation as the fox demon. The man she loved deeply was rejected by her family for being poor and opposed the marriage. So on the night of the full moon, she and the man went to the mountains to die in love, but the fox demon rescued them. The fox demon moved the two of them.
Sincerely, I didn’t want them to end up like me, separated from their lovers, so I cast a spell to get their parents to agree to the marriage.”
"Oh, I understand, that's why more people, to be precise, more women went to the mountains to make wishes to the fox demon." Lian Shurong suddenly realized.
Pei Wuyan sarcastically said: "If the wish for promotion and wealth can be so effective, the queue of men will surely reach the bottom of the mountain."
"That's right, in the storybook, those who make wishes later are all women, and the things they wish for are all important matters of marriage. And none of their wishes come true, they are all lovers who eventually get married. According to legend, as long as they truly love each other, the fox demon will
He can cast spells to make things come true. If the fox demon fails to make things come true, then it means that this couple is not really in love."
Yu Qingfeng sighed: "Then this fox demon has become the touchstone of love?"
Lin Ming once again looked at Yu Qingfeng with admiration, "Miss Yu, that's exactly what happened. Later, the people who went to Canglian Mountain to make wishes were no longer limited to women whose marriages were blocked. More women came, just to let the fox demon help prove.
Are men sincere to them?"
Yu Qingfeng shrugged, "It's indeed very attractive, and I'm a little moved. For a woman, the most important thing is to verify the sincerity of the person you love."
"Nonsense." Pei Wuyan snorted disdainfully, stretched out his left hand and rubbed the teacup on the table.
Yu Qingfeng saw the scars on the back of Pei Wuyan's hands again. She felt emotional in her heart. Instead of trusting the fox fairy to verify her sincerity, she should pay more attention to details in life and react instinctively in times of crisis.
Lin Ming continued to introduce: "In the end, the fox demon became the fox fairy in the mouth of women. After all, the fox fairy has limited magic power and cannot fulfill other people's wishes endlessly, so they set a rule that only on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month
She transforms into a human form every day and lives in a fox cave. The rest of the time, she will practice as a fox, either searching for food in the mountains or staying with her lover."
Chapter completed!