Chapter 58 Chapter 58 A beautiful woman may not be a woman...
Were these two slaps delivered to the wrong places?
The brother and sister looked at Wu Quanfu with the same incredible look. They never expected that the slap that should have been hit by Qiao Yuanshan would fall on them.
"Is it that serious? Ah? Is it that serious for such a small amount of money?!"
Wu Quanfu couldn't bear it any longer. Even though his heart ached with anger, he had to scold these two unfilial people to death!
"How big of a deal? Is this all you need? Are you going to force people to death?"
"I've said it so many times, I'm happy to give him money! He takes care of my food, drink, defecation and urination, I'm willing to give him money, you two say he's a rip-off, fine, you two don't want my money, but have you ever thought about me?!"
Wu Quanfu is old, not stupid or crazy.
At the age when one can "follow one's heart's desire without going beyond the rules", he actually sees things more clearly than before.
It is true that Qiao Yuanshan approached me deliberately because he wanted the money in my pocket, but he did not ask me for money without any effort. At least he accompanied me to dinner and dance, bringing a bouquet of slightly sweet floral scent into my boring life.
And what about his two so-called filial children?
Oh, thinking back to the time when I went to live in the south with them, I had to follow their tastes every day, eating meals that looked sumptuous but were actually tasteless, and it was difficult to even eat something spicy.
Worried that he would get lost when he went out, he arranged for a nanny to take care of him. However, she spoke with an accent, and his hearing was poor, so it was even more difficult for him to communicate with her.
In a sense, it is taking care of himself, but he feels that he is not like a human being, but a sculpture placed on a wooden shelf. They are just "taking care" of him according to their own preferences.
He didn't want to live such a boring life and waste his last few years on their false filial piety.
He would rather spend money on "Qiao Zhenzhu" because at least she would cook his favorite dishes, accompany him to dance in the square, and find a doctor or a Chinese medicine practitioner to prescribe medicine for him to nourish his body and replenish his energy...
He doesn't understand that if his children can't find the right person to take care of them, what's wrong with him going to find someone himself?
Besides, it only cost 100,000 yuan in seven years. Their business can easily cost tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands. Why do I feel so painful when it comes to myself?
Even if "Qiao Zhenzhu" was a man, he would accept her because of the meticulous care he had shown her over the years!
"I'll say it one last time. I won't ask for this money back, not even a penny! If you two keep forcing me, then we can go to court and sue each other. Let's see whether the money you let me get back is more than the pension money I get from you!"
“You, you, you…”
Wu Quanfu was not angry with them, but Wu Hong was almost choked to death by the old man's words.
Seeing that Wu Ming's face was also flushed, the police was worried that they would quarrel, so they quickly pulled the brother and sister out: "Alright, calm down, the old man has said so, so let's respect his decision and don't make things too ugly."
"My dad is not sober. He still doesn't realize he has been cheated!"
"Police comrade, you also saw that the man surnamed Qiao is a man. What's the point of giving the old man the money? No, even if it means venting my anger, I have to get the money back!"
Lost his mind? Oh, Wu Quanfu is more sober than anyone else.
He knows clearly who cares about his well-being and who is after money.
Listening to the cursing outside the door getting farther and farther away, Wu Quanfu took a deep breath, then turned his head slightly to look at Qiao Yuanshan who was sitting in his seat. There was a bit of heartache and pity in his indescribable emotion.
Wu Quanfu liked "Qiao Zhenzhu", but when the person who had been with him for seven years suddenly became a man, he still found it difficult to accept.
Wu Quanfu curled up his fingers hanging by his side. He was a little angry because he felt deceived, but he didn't want to vent his anger on Qiao Yuanshan. Instead, after hesitating for a long time, he took out a lipstick from his pocket and placed it on the table.
“I bought it on the way.”
He originally wanted to give this to "Qiao Zhenzhu", but looking at Qiao Yuanshan's pale and chapped lips, he thought he would need it too.
Qiao Yuanshan didn't reach out to take it, but just shook his head and pursed his lips.
If he was replaced by Qiao Zhenzhu, Wu Quanfu would know how to go forward to comfort her, but facing a man, he could neither hug him nor coax him, nor could he sit back and look at him coldly... This situation of being neither here nor there was really embarrassing.
"I'm sorry for causing you so much trouble."
Qiao Yuanshan shook his head, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with a tissue, and forced a bitter smile: "It's my problem, it has nothing to do with them."
After a pause, Wu Quanfu asked, "How much money was lost in total?"
"It's not much, just a few tens of thousands of dollars. They are all very good people and they are unwilling to take back all the money."
After adapting for a long time, Wu Quanfu was able to accept Qiao Yuanshan's masculine appearance a little, "So what are your plans for the future? Are you still going to continue..."
Perhaps because he thought the following word was too hurtful, Wu Quanfu stopped talking in time.
"Let's take it one step at a time," Qiao Yuanshan wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, exhaled a long breath, and replied with renewed spirit: "But no matter what, I will continue to be Qiao Zhenzhu, because I am Qiao Zhenzhu."
Maybe he will find another way to make a living, but he will not change his identity as "Qiao Zhenzhu".
In his heart, he is not a distant mountain that has to bear the burden of the family, but a shining, free and bright pearl.
Wu Quanfu nodded in understanding. He was very glad that Qiao Yuanshan had allowed his "Qiao Pearl" to survive.
"Comrade police officer, could you please write a certificate for me?"
"What proof?"
"No matter how much money he has to pay, I will pay it alone. I am willing to pay for his mistake!"
police:? ? ?
Qiao Yuanshan: ???
"Brother Wu, you, you..."
The policeman scratched his head and asked him for confirmation: "Old man, you are not kidding, are you really going to pay him back?"
"No, I'm serious," Wu Quanfu said to the police word by word, "Whether he is Qiao Yuanshan or Qiao Zhenzhu, I will pay for all the compensation he needs."
police:……
Now, not to mention Wu Ming and Wu Hong, even the police who were bystanders suspected that he had been brainwashed.
Qiao Yuanshan, a man, once dressed as a woman to get along with him. It would have been fine if he didn't ask for the money back, but why did he even offer to pay it back for him?
"Grandpa, have you really thought it through?" the policeman asked him again.
"Once you write this certificate, you can't go back on it."
Wu Quanfu: "Think it over, don't regret it, just go ahead and write it."
"Brother Wu, why are you doing this?" Looking at Wu Quanfu sitting opposite him, Qiao Yuanshan asked in confusion.
Wu Quanfu just smiled and said, "I am the one who caused you trouble. I should pay for it."
It's just a few tens of thousands of dollars, not a lot of money for him.
He finally figured it out. When people get old, money becomes just a thing outside of their body. The most important thing is to seize the little time left and enjoy life!
Besides, what he needs is not money, but a close friend who is by his side and understands his needs.
"I'm a man, we can't get married."
"I know."
"I can't take care of you forever. Maybe, maybe I will be gone one day."
"Yeah, I understand."
"Then why are you helping me pay back the money?"
Wu Quanfu sighed, "I want to enjoy my life for a few more years while I can still go out and work."
There will be a moment of awakening from the dream, but if money can sustain the dream, then he is willing to close his eyes and prolong this short-lived happiness a little longer. At least it is better than living alone or being hung on a wooden shelf.
He couldn't accept Qiao Yuanshan, but he couldn't live without Qiao Zhenzhu.
He would do anything as long as he could keep Qiao Zhenzhu.
Pushing the lipstick on the table in front of him, Wu Quanfu asked him gently, "I hope I can dance with Zhenzhu again in the future, is that okay?"
Qiao Yuanshan cried because someone was finally willing to acknowledge the identity of "Qiao Zhenzhu".
Taking the lipstick, Qiao Yuanshan nodded affirmatively, "She, she will definitely be willing to dance with Brother Wu!"
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Just upstairs, separated by a wall, Shen Miao, who was sitting in Luo Jialin’s office, was so anxious that she couldn’t control her legs and wanted to shake.
She really wanted to know what was happening downstairs at this moment. Although she had imagined several possible scenarios in her mind, she still felt like she was really experiencing the melon by seeing it with her own eyes.
However, Luo Jialin was not in a hurry at all. He slowly took out the tea leaves and put them into the cup, then plugged in the kettle and waited for the water to boil.
"After being together for so many years, you still can't tell that the other person is a man?"
When he came back, Luo Jialin heard something about the case and asked casually.
Jiang Xiaozhen: "You didn't see the man's appearance. He was dressed really well. If his wig hadn't been accidentally pulled off, you wouldn't have known he was a man."
Come to think of it, Shen Miao should have noticed it, because she felt that there was something strange about Qiao Zhenzhu from the beginning, but she just couldn't put her finger on why.
“It’s mainly because he has a good foundation and is well maintained, so he looks like a woman.” Shen Miao followed up.
"In fact, there are people like this in Southeastern Continent, and they are even more feminine than him."
As a reporter, Jiang Xiaozhen naturally knew some things they hadn't seen, and had also heard news from home and abroad: "This kind of half-male, half-female person is professionally called a shemale. But unlike Qiao Yuanshan, a shemale takes drugs from a young age to increase the secretion of female hormones and suppress the characteristics of being a man. When they reach the right age, they will undergo surgery to completely turn into a woman."
"Can you really change from a man to a woman?"
Listening to Jiang Xiaozhen talking about the shemale, Shen Miao couldn't help but wonder, "This surgery is too miraculous!"
Having studied Chinese medicine with Shen Wanshan since childhood, Shen Miao had only heard of the "yin-yang man" who possessed two types of promotion devices.
Hermaphrodites have characteristics of both men and women, and they choose to retain one gender based on the specific situation. However, I have never heard of "changing gender" like a transvestite.
Magic, it's really amazing!
"It's not like they completely turned into women, they just look like women," Jiang Xiaozhen continued to explain, "Shemales are infertile and seem to have a short lifespan because they take drugs when they are young, and most of them die before they are fifty."
After hearing what she said, Luo Jialin also became a little curious: "Then why do they change their gender like this? They can't have children and they can't live too long."
Jiang Xiaozhen: “To make money.”
A dozen or twenty years ago, a war broke out in Southeast Province, and many other soldiers were stationed in Southeast Province. In order to meet their needs, many local women were sent to the military camp.
But how could the country have so many women? So someone came up with the idea of sex change, turning men into women.
Because they have been taking medicine since childhood, transvestites are more beautiful than most normal women. Plus, they are incapable of bearing children, so they are much more suitable to stay in places like military camps than real women.
Although it is a peaceful time now, those countries have discovered that they can make money by transforming transsexuals, so this has become an industry that has survived.
It's just that they live too far away from the border and information is not well developed, so they have never heard of these things.
Shemale?
When hearing Jiang Xiaozhen mention this word, Shen Miao suddenly remembered a name in her mind: Li Shancha.
She seemed to be bought by Li Quntao from the south. Could she be...
"Sister Xiaozhen, you are well-informed. Can you tell whether this is the language of Southeast Province?"
"Hmm? Learn a few lines for me to hear."
It had been too long since the last incident, and everyone around her said that they had misheard, so Shen Miao couldn’t remember exactly what words she had said at the time, and could only imitate a duck’s loud voice and say a few words: “What what lao? mea? ka ka? wai wa?”
“Hmph! Cough cough…cough cough!!”
Luo Jialin was about to drink some water when he was choked by her words.
Jiang Xiaozhen carefully tasted her pronunciation: "Hiss... It sounds like Southeast State, and it's very similar to the pronunciation in Tailan."
After hearing what Jiang Xiaozhen said, Shen Miao became even more certain that Li Shancha might be a shemale.
No wonder she felt his pulse as a man's, no wonder he and Li Quntao had no health problems but couldn't conceive... If that's the case, then he really turned from a man into a woman!
“What’s that hanging around your neck?” Putting down the cup in his hand, Luo Jialin noticed the red string exposed around Shen Miao’s neck.
"It's a Buddha amulet, given to me by Li Shancha's husband." Shen Miao said as she took the amulet off her neck, "I kept it in the clinic and didn't wear it before. Li Shancha kept saying that this Buddha amulet is for protection, so I put it on."
"The quality of this jade looks very good."
Taking the jade from Shen Miao's hand, Jiang Xiaozhen looked at its quality under the light.
Shen Miao took a big sip of water, and then boldly told Luo Jialin her guess: "Uncle Luo, have you seen Li Shancha? Do you think she is a demon?"
After Shen Miao said this, Luo Jialin also felt that this Li Shancha fits the characteristics of a Thai ladyboy: she can’t understand Mandarin, she’s exceptionally beautiful, and she has some weird behaviors and habits…
"The Buddha on this amulet doesn't seem to be from here." Jiang Xiaozhen asked, pointing at the Buddha statue on the amulet.
"Probably not. I have never seen such a Buddha, but Li Shancha knows one."
If Li Shancha is really a shemale, does Li Quntao know?
If Li Quntao didn't know, then if he found out later...
hiss!
Seeing Shen Miao suddenly shudder, Jiang Xiaozhen quickly asked, “What happened?”
“No, nothing,” Shen Miao took another sip of water, “I was thinking that if Li Quntao knew that the wife Li Shancha bought was a shemale, he would definitely be furious, and maybe even…”
Glancing at Luo Jialin from the corner of her eye, Shen Miao did not utter the words “beat him to death” at the end.
But Luo Jialin had sharp observation skills and had already discovered clues from Shen Miao's words.
"Buy? Are you saying that Li Shancha was bought?"
Shen Miao: …
It's over, I'm in trouble...
Shen Miao quickly covered her mouth with the cup, pretending that she hadn’t said anything, but it wasn’t just Luo Jialin, Jiang Xiaozhen was also looking at her with a judgmental look: “Miao Miao, make it clear, human trafficking is not a trivial matter, what is going on here?”
Shen Miao sighed heavily and his shoulders slumped.
It looked like she couldn’t keep it secret today, so Shen Miao had no choice but to tell them about Li Quntao’s family.
Li Quntao went to work in the south more than ten years ago. After his business failed, he returned to the village at the beginning of this year. He also brought back a woman he bought. The woman lived very well in the Li family. Although Li Quntao was a scumbag, Cao Yun took care of her like his own daughter...
Shen Miao emphasized the part about Li Shancha living a good life in the Li family, hoping that by saying that Li Shancha stayed voluntarily, Li Quntao could be relieved of the guilt of human trafficking.
"No matter how happy she is, Li Shancha was trafficked here," Jiang Xiaozhen grasped the point that she was trafficked, "No woman can live happily in a criminal's home."
Shen Miao chose to remain silent, she was speechless, but she chose to conceal it for a reason.
First, it was because Grandpa had always emphasized that she should not meddle in other people's affairs. Second, it was because Shen Miao was afraid that after reporting it, with Li Quntao's temper, he might retaliate against her family. Third, it was because...
Li Shancha lived really well in the Li family. She had countless opportunities to escape secretly. Cao Yun also advised her to leave Li Quntao. It was she who insisted on staying in the Li family, so Shen Miao felt that she could not make the decision for her.
"You're right, he may indeed be a criminal."
Luo Jialin's expression suddenly became serious. He then made a phone call to call his colleague. After briefly telling him what he had just heard, they went to the archives room together.
Sitting in his office, Shen Miao and Jiang Xiaozhen didn’t know whether to leave or continue sitting and drinking tea.
After waiting for about ten minutes, Luo Jialin pushed open the office door again with several files in his hand.
"Take a look, is the Li Quntao you mentioned here?"
The file was faxed, and the black-and-white photo on it looked a little blurry. In addition, it was a long time ago, so some of the words below were also black.
The first one is of a man with a scruffy beard, no;
The second one is a "one-eyed dragon" who also looks fierce, but he is not;
The third one, the fourth one...
“This, this is Li Quntao,” Shen Miao pointed at the man in the photo and said, “Although the man in the photo looks a little younger, it should be Li Quntao for sure.”
Shen Miao looked at the registration date in the file: 1990.
There is no mistake about it. Although the man in the photo has slightly longer hair and a thin face, his eyes and expression will not change. The man in the photo is definitely Li Quntao, but the name is not his.
“Are you sure?” The policeman at the side confirmed with Shen Miao again.
“I’m sure!” Shen Miao nodded affirmatively, “What’s wrong, did he commit a crime?”
Luo Jialin took a long breath and said seriously: "If you are not mistaken, then he is most likely the smuggling murderer that Southern Province has been trying to catch in recent years."
Shen Miao: !!!
These files are photocopies sent from the Southern Province to various provinces last year. Each person on them carries countless lives.
Late last year, police from Southern Province joined forces with police forces from Thailand to capture a group of pests roaming the border.
Most of the criminals were arrested in that operation, and only a small number of them took advantage of the chaos to escape and roam around the country. Because only a few people escaped, the incident was not made a big deal. Only the criminals' files were sent to the police stations in various provinces and cities, and a wanted order was issued.
These escaped criminals are like a group of jackals living in the dark, and few people have ever seen what they look like.
Some of them are from Southern Province, so the photos on the wanted poster will be clearer. For those like Li Quntao who are from other places, the photos are transferred from the prisons where they were detained after committing crimes.
The last time Li Quntao went to prison was in 1990, on charges of provoking trouble. That was also the last photo of him left in the hands of the police.
There was a wanted poster for him posted in Yu City, but the photo was too blurry and was from a few years ago, and the name he gave himself in Nan Province was "Longnan", so even if someone saw the wanted poster, they would not associate him with Li Quntao if they did not look carefully.
"He, he really killed someone?"
Shen Miao felt that her heart had already jumped to her throat, as if she would vomit it out if she wasn’t careful.
The police officer at the side said calmly, "He is the big boss of their criminal group. He has hundreds of subordinates. He must have killed at least 80 people along the way."
Shen Miao: …
No wonder, no wonder he has such a bad temper!
At first Shen Miao thought that he was used to being a boss, but she didn’t expect that it was because he had dozens or even hundreds of lives in his hands…
Thinking of his hands covered in blood, Shen Miao couldn’t help but feel lucky for herself.
Fortunately, fortunately I didn't provoke him, otherwise I might have died in his hands.
Hiss...wait?
If Li Quntao really has a murder on his hands and he just returned this year, then could the murders that occurred in Yu City this year be related to him?
He hurriedly took off the Buddha amulet from his neck and placed it on the table. Shen Miao asked, “Then are you going to catch him?”
"yes."
"When are you going?"
"Now."
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