Farm Girl Becomes Phoenix

A modern culinary family heir dies in a car accident and transmigrates into an ancient farm girl. Xue Hua declares, "No worries!"

An evil grandmother tries to take advantage of the si...

Chapter 997: The Secret in the Painting

Xue Huan first went to the inner courtyard and found Yun Che who was having fun in the sand. She told him that she was going out and was going to put him into the Qiankun Bottle, but Yun Che refused.

"Sister, go ahead. Che'er is waiting for you at home." Yun Che waved his sand-covered hands at her, his eyes fixed intently on a half-built sand tower in front of him. He spoke to her without even looking up.

This little guy has made great progress.

Xue Huan laughed.

But this also proves that the little guy now feels safe, so he is no longer worried that she will never come back and abandon him.

This is a good phenomenon.

Xue Huan leaned over and touched his head. "Okay, then you can play here. I'll be back soon. If you want to eat anything, I'll bring it back for you."

Xue Huan didn't know how to raise a child. Because she felt sorry for Yun Che, she always responded to his requests. Even if Yun Che didn't ask for anything, she would take the initiative to put it in front of him. This led to Yun Che having everything he needed for food, drink, and entertainment here.

After she said this, Yun Che thought for a moment, "Sister, I want to eat candied haws."

"Okay, sister will bring you some candied haws."

Xue Huan instructed the puppets in the house to keep a good eye on Yun Che, and activated the formations and barriers in the house to ensure that no outsiders with ill intentions would break in. Then she returned to the front yard, picked up Guo'er, and took Cheng Yinniang with her on the spirit boat back to the city.

As a mortal, Cheng Yinniang felt that what she saw and heard today was more than what she had seen and heard in the past twenty years combined, and her three views had collapsed.

Doctor Xue can actually control the boat to fly in the sky!

So, he is a god, right?

The spirit boat was very fast, and Yunwu Mountain was not far from the capital, so the spirit boat arrived above the capital in a few minutes.

At this moment, Cheng Yinniang was still immersed in the shock of heaven, until Xue Huan called her several times, she suddenly came back to her senses.

"I'm sorry to have embarrassed you." She looked at Xue Huan with a bit of awe, and became much more reserved than before.

Xue Huan sighed inwardly, "It's okay. I wasn't much better than you when I first flew into the sky. Where do you live?"

Cheng Yinniang hurriedly pointed in a direction.

Xue Huan drove the spirit boat down and came to Cheng Yin's mother's home.

Cheng Yinniang also married a student. Unlike Cheng Xun, an old student who had taken exams all his life but never made any progress, Cheng Yinniang's husband Wang Meng was only in his teens when he passed the exam to become a student. It can be said that he was quite talented in studying and had a bright future. Perhaps he would be able to pass the exam to become a scholar in a few years.

This was what Cheng Xun thought when he married his daughter to him, but what he didn't expect was that Wang Meng was so proud of his youth that he became arrogant. As a result, when he took the next exam, he thought he could get a very good result, but when the list was posted, his name was not on the list from beginning to end.

The ridicule from people around him and the failure in the exam caused Wang Meng to suffer a huge psychological gap. His mentality collapsed all of a sudden and he became depressed. He became cynical all day long and indulged in drinking.

The wound on Guo'er's forehead was caused by the hungover Wang Meng who hit her with a wine jar.

When Cheng Yinniang came back, she saw Guo'er lying in the broken pieces of a wine jar on the ground with blood all over her head. She was so scared that she immediately took her to see a doctor. However, Wang Meng was sleeping soundly there, not caring at all about his daughter who was seriously injured.

The spirit boat landed in the Wang family's courtyard. A sour smell of alcohol filled her nose. Cheng Yinniang apologized: "I wanted to invite you to sit inside, but the house is really a mess. I'll go in and get the painting for you."

Even though she cleaned the house inside and out every day, she couldn't stand Wang Meng's messy meals three times a day and vomiting everywhere when he was drunk. She could never clean up fast enough to keep up with the mess he made.

Now that Doctor Xue saw this, she couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

Xue Huan: "Okay, then I'll wait here."

Cheng Yinniang breathed a sigh of relief, picked up Guo'er and walked into the house, put her on the bed first, then opened the cabinet to look for the painting.

But when he opened the cabinet, he found that the painting was gone!

Where's the painting? She clearly put it here.

Noticing the lingering smell of alcohol by the cabinet and the fact that Wang Meng was not in the room, Cheng Yinniang suddenly realized that the painting might have been taken away by Wang Meng!

She hoped that this would not happen, and that she had misremembered the location of the painting and was looking for it somewhere else. However, after searching everywhere in the house, she still couldn't find the painting. At this time, she had to accept that her guess had come true.

"Doctor Xue, the painting was taken away by my husband..." Cheng Yinniang walked out with heavy steps and told Xue Huan about this nervously.

In fact, Xue Huan had already guessed it. She didn't ask any questions and asked directly, "Where is the pawn shop near your house?"

The information Xiao Jue handed over to her was very detailed. In the information about Cheng Xun, the situations of his daughter, son-in-law, granddaughter and others were all recorded, including their birth dates, life experiences, interests and hobbies, and even their portraits.

Therefore, Xue Huan knew that Cheng Yinniang's husband Wang Meng was an alcoholic, and he often took away the little money she had worked so hard to earn and used it to buy alcohol.

Now, the painting is gone, most likely pawned by Wang Meng to buy wine.

Cheng Yinniang was stunned for a moment and subconsciously told her the location of the pawnshop.

Xue Huan: "I'll be back soon."

The figure quickly disappeared in the Wang family's small courtyard.

Cheng Yinniang chased her to the door, but only had time to see a corner of her snow-white dress.

After Xue Huan came out of Wang's house, her spiritual awareness spread like a net, continuously expanding to the surroundings, and she soon found a nearby pawnshop.

In the pawnshop, the shopkeeper looked at the painting he had received not long ago, and his hands began to tremble slightly, because this was not a simple painting. The originally ordinary painting, after being wetted by wine, lines of tiny words appeared in the blank areas.

Those words revealed a shocking secret!

It was precisely because of this secret that the shopkeeper accepted it. What was infuriating was that Wang Meng, who came to pawn the painting, was drunk and could not see the handwriting on the painting that was revealed by the wine. He kept shouting that this was a painting handed down from the previous dynasty and it should be pawned for at least one hundred taels of silver!

The shopkeeper was terrified to discover such a secret. He was afraid that his nonsense would attract onlookers and had no time to chat with him. "Five taels of silver, whether you want to take it or not!"

He knew Wang Meng's character. Asking for a hundred taels was just an exorbitant price. Five taels of silver would definitely make him agree.

As expected, upon hearing that it could be worth five taels of silver, Wang Meng's drunken eyes cleared up a bit and he burped, "Five taels is five taels, hurry up and give it to me, don't delay me, I want to drink, drink."

The shopkeeper threw five taels of silver to him and sent the man away. Then he turned around and took the painting into the inner room. He carefully read the handwriting revealed in the blank space. After reading it, he was shocked and couldn't recover for a long time.

It turns out that the Duke of Zhenguo was wrongly accused! The letter proving his treason was actually forged by that old drunkard Cheng Xun!

As they were all neighbors living in this area, the shopkeeper naturally knew Cheng Xun. However, in the past, he had the impression that Cheng Xun was just a drunkard who only knew how to drink all day long. He didn't expect that he was so talented and could even imitate handwriting!

Now, his son-in-law Wang Meng is also a real drunkard. Could it be that Wang Meng is actually a hidden master in private?

The shopkeeper's thoughts accidentally wandered.

His gaze fell on the painting again, and he couldn't help but feel sad and angry. He thought about how much contribution the Duke of Zhenguo and the Yun family had made to Daxi, but they were all killed along with their entire clan because of such a forged letter!

Cheng Xun, that old drunkard, didn't he fear going to hell after he died for doing such a thing?