"That's roughly what happened. Leng Yingying received a letter saying that Leng Yinghong would be getting married and joining the army in three months. We were thinking... should we remind Battalion Commander Zhou, after all, Leng Yinghong isn't a good person. She even tried to kill someone back then!" Su Yueya said.
After listening, Qiao Shouyan roughly understood what was going on.
He went over it again, confirming that there was no such battalion commander as Zhou in the army, and that if the information was correct, the other party must be in the army unit to the south.
"Xinruo, when did you become someone's white moonlight? He even knows you have a birthmark on the back of your neck? How come Lao Er and I didn't know?" Qiao Shouyan asked.
Qiao Shouyan and Qiao Gaoyang have cherished Qiao Xinruo since she was a child and would never allow any man to make a move on her.
How could they be completely unaware of something so big?
Something's not right, something's very wrong.
That's why they started interrogating Qiao Xinruo.
“No, if he likes you, why do you know nothing about him?” Qiao Shouyan asked again, feeling that the logic didn’t make sense.
"How would I know?" Qiao Xinruo was confused and aggrieved. "Why does he like me? How does he know I have a birthmark on the back of my neck? How am I supposed to know? I don't even know this person. I can't answer you if you ask me!"
Su Yueya guessed the reason.
“That’s normal. There must be some story behind it that Xinruo has forgotten. Maybe it happened when she was a child. It might not be very important to Xinruo, but it is very important to Battalion Commander Zhou. It’s something that he keeps thinking about.”
“If we hadn’t heard Leng Yingying’s inner thoughts, we wouldn’t have known about this. Now, thanks to her new voice, we’ve gained a God’s-eye view.” These were things Su Yueya learned from novels.
The reason she was so certain that it happened when Qiao Xinruo was a child was because Qiao Xinruo had studied abroad for several years before returning and went directly to a military hospital, occasionally working part-time as a teacher at a medical school. During that time, Battalion Commander Zhou should have already joined the army.
If Qiao Xinruo had any dealings with a soldier, she should remember it.
Therefore, Su Yueya guessed that it must have happened before Qiao Xinruo went abroad to study. It was too long ago, and it was very likely that this Battalion Commander Zhou was not a soldier at the time. So even if Qiao Xinruo thought about it carefully, she could not recall having any interaction with soldiers before.
Since they are all characters in the novel Leng Yingying read, the way the story unfolds seems to make sense.
"Crescent Moon is right."
For Leng Yingying, this is a novel; for Su Yueya and others, this is real life.
It's normal that Leng Yingying can see more information from her perspective than they do.
If they hadn't been able to hear Leng Yingying's inner thoughts, they wouldn't have known so much; they would only have faced it when it actually happened.
"Actually, it's not like we can't inquire about the situation of that unit in the south," Qiao Shouyan said.
If it's just an insignificant character, then it's fine not to know.
But now this person treats Qiao Xinruo as his ideal woman, who knows what might have happened between them in the past, we have to find out.
"I've also asked around in our unit to see if we can identify any suspicious individuals. I've also asked around in the southern units..." Qiao Shouyan's expression was grave. "In short, we need to confirm this person's identity first."
Qiao Shouyan thought that he should first check whether this person was qualified to be his brother-in-law.
Back when they found Su Yueya, she and Lu Zhengjun were already married, so there was nothing they could do about it.
Fortunately, Lu Zhengjun is a trustworthy person, and they have accepted this new member of the family.
But Qiao Xinruo's case is different; it also involves Leng Yinghong, who is impersonating someone else. They must understand the whole situation before deciding what to do.
"Crescent Moon, leave this to me and your second brother. We'll definitely find that Battalion Commander Zhou," Qiao Shouyan said.
"Alright!" Then this matter will be much easier. Su Yueya said happily, "Big brother, then I'll leave it to you and second brother. We'll get to know this Battalion Commander Zhou first. If he's an honest man, even if he and Xinruo aren't meant to be, I think we can still give him some pointers."
After all, Leng Yinghong was no ordinary bad person; she had once tried to kill Leng Yingying.
How could someone like that be allowed to use Qiao Xinruo's identity to commit fraud?
"Of course, becoming a son-in-law of the Qiao family isn't that simple," Qiao Shouyan said, quickly contacting people he knew to try and find out about the situation of the troops in the south.
Qiao Xinruo: "..."
Seeing how seriously her older brother was taking it, she felt helpless and also felt that it was unnecessary.
"Sister, do we really need to go to such lengths?"
Since that Battalion Commander Zhou was able to rise to the position of battalion commander, he must not be a fool. Moreover, Leng Yingying's inner thoughts revealed that it was only a matter of time before Leng Yinghong's identity was exposed, so whether they intervened or not didn't seem to matter that much.
To be honest, Qiao Xinruo wasn't completely without curiosity.
After all, she was still a little curious about how she became a stranger's white moonlight, what had happened in the past that she had forgotten.
But I wasn't curious enough to need to deliberately ask someone to find out.
In Qiao Xinruo's view, men were not that important, and she didn't care about them at all.
As for whether the honest man will be utterly deceived by that vicious Leng Yinghong...
That's someone else's fate, what does it have to do with her?
“I think it’s alright, it wasn’t particularly complicated. Besides… I always feel that your connection with Battalion Commander Zhou isn’t completely over yet,” Su Yueya said, though she didn’t know where her intuition came from.
"Huh? Why?" Qiao Xinruo asked, confused.
"Think about it, we met Leng Yingying and happened to hear her thoughts. I think besides letting me know that Zhengjun faked his death, maybe it was also to let us know that Leng Yinghong was impersonating you? Who can say for sure?"
After all, something as strange as hearing someone's thoughts had already happened—
Moreover, no one else could hear it; only the Qiao family could hear it.
If it only concerns oneself, then it's perfectly acceptable for only oneself to hear it. Why should one's brother and sister also be able to hear it?
“What you’re saying… seems to make some sense.” Qiao Xinru shook her head, realizing that things involving men were indeed troublesome. She didn’t intend to put any more effort into it. “Forget it, let my older brothers investigate if they want. I’m too lazy to care. I’ll just go do my own thing.”
She waved and went back to her bedroom.
Upon hearing this, Qiao Gaoyang, along with Qiao Shouyan, enthusiastically investigated their unit's area, but found nothing and confirmed once again that there was no such Battalion Commander Zhou.
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