Chapter 235 Seeking a Fortune Teller to Reconcile Relationships
After hearing Pei Jiuyan's words, Qin Suisui was incredulous.
Surprisingly, those gossipy housewives outside were right.
Since returning from the farm, Xue Jiao has been squandering the money and banknotes left by her brother.
Xue Shan had served in the army for many years and was still a regimental commander. His salary and allowances over the years had been quite generous. When Yang Rucui was still alive, she often did temporary jobs outside and also had a salary. In addition, they lived in the family compound and received subsidies for their daily lives. The supplies from the military supply department were also cheaper than those sold outside, so they left behind a fairly substantial inheritance.
However, Xue Jiao has already squandered all the money she has available on the surface during this period. Based on the clothes, fabrics, cosmetics, food and other items she has bought during this time, it can be estimated that she has spent more than 600 yuan.
However, the assets left behind by Xue Shan, which could be openly used, were far more than these. Therefore, the organization sent people to interrogate him overnight.
Xue Jiao initially kept her mouth shut and refused to say a word. However, the people in the organization were professionally trained, and within a few hours, they had revealed the whole story.
It turns out that when Xue Jiao was undergoing reform at the farm, she met a woman named Zhang Li. Through Zhang Li's introduction, Xue Jiao went to find a sorceress named Zhang San Niang after she was released.
I heard that this fortune teller is skilled in exorcising evil spirits, divination, asking questions, and changing one's fate, especially in predicting the romantic relationships of men and women.
The remaining five hundred yuan or so left by Xue Shan was all spent by Xue Jiao on Zhang the fortune teller.
However, Xue Jiao refused to say what she specifically wanted to ask Zhang the fortune teller about.
She wouldn't talk, but there were others who would. In this era, such superstitious things were naturally not allowed, so the organization sent people to the next town overnight to arrest Zhang the sorceress. Once interrogated, Zhang the sorceress told them everything.
She said Xue Jiao told her that she had a boyfriend. Although they weren't officially dating, they had known each other for several years and were a couple who understood each other implicitly. But last year, her boyfriend suddenly had a fiancée who, relying on the friendship between their families since childhood, forced her boyfriend to marry her.
Her fiancé was a very loyal person, and considering the reasons of both families, he had no choice but to marry his fiancée.
According to Xue Jiao, her fiancé was in great pain after marrying his fiancée because the person he loved was not his fiancée, but her. However, due to the constraints of their social status and moral ethics, he had to sever all ties with her and refused to see her again.
His fiancée, now his wife, is a complete "vixen," extremely skilled at flattery and speaking ill of Xue Jiao to her boyfriend, causing him to develop a prejudice against her. No matter how Xue Jiao explains, he doesn't believe her, and his heart even begins to lean towards that "vixen."
Xue Jiao couldn't accept this outcome, so she went to Zhang the fortune teller in an attempt to salvage the relationship.
Zhang, the fortune teller, claimed to have helped salvage many similar relationships and was very confident. She assured Xue Jiao that if she listened to her, her boyfriend would obediently return to her and beg for forgiveness.
She taught Xue Jiao that if she wanted to win back her man, she had to change herself first.
First, in terms of appearance. Xue Jiao needs to figure out what style her boyfriend likes and try to change herself to suit his taste.
Secondly, it's about personality. Zhang Shenpo saw that Xue Jiao was impulsive and had a bad temper. If she wanted to win back her man, she first had to change this personality. No man likes a tomboy. She needed to become gentle, understanding, and empathetic, and be a comforting presence in crucial moments.
Thirdly, if frequent chance encounters annoy a man, she should learn to appropriately cut off contact. This way, the man becomes familiar with her frequent appearances, and then suddenly she disappears, creating a sense of loss. This loss indicates that the man is starting to pay attention to her, which is the first step to success.
After hearing these words, Qin Suisui fell silent.
It's obvious that she is the "vixen" in the story, and Pei Jiuyan is the man in the story who needs to be won back.
She remarked that around the time before the Lunar New Year last year, Xue Jiao almost always appeared wearing new clothes, and the style and outfits were remarkably similar to hers. It was as if whatever Qin Suisui wore that day, Xue Jiao would replicate it a couple of days later. However, clothing styles were limited in this era, so even though Qin Suisui found it strange, she didn't think too much about it.
Another thing she was wondering was why Xue Jiao, after returning, changed her arrogant and domineering ways and started taking the innocent and pure route. It turns out she had received guidance from a "master"!
There was also the break in contact. On the day of Laba Festival, after Pei Jiuyan said some harsh words, Xue Jiao did indeed rarely appear in front of them. But it wasn't that she didn't appear; rather, she secretly hid to observe, thinking that they hadn't noticed. Was this what she meant by breaking in contact?
Qin Suisui felt that Xue Jiao shouldn't go to the sorceress, but should see a psychiatrist.
The story she fabricated was so infuriating that even she, as the person involved, felt indignant for Xue Jiao. What a terrible "scumbag" and "vixen" she had encountered!
I never knew Xue Jiao had such a talent for writing storybooks!
Because of this incident, "scumbag" Pei Jiuyan was laughed at by his close friends for several months.
However, these are not the main points of Xue Ziming's death.
The key point is that Xue Jiao discovered that the "cut off contact" method provided by Zhang the fortune teller wasn't working, and Pei Jiuyan seemed to be really ignoring her. She quickly went to find Zhang the fortune teller again.
The fortune teller, Zhang, said that the subsequent items would be priced separately and would require additional payment.
But Xue Jiao had no cash on hand, so she set her sights on the inheritance Xue Shan left for Xue Ziming.
After the Xue family's misfortune last year, Xue Shan, with foresight, specifically left a sum of money for Xue Ziming. However, the will stipulated that this money could only be accessed after Xue Ziming turned 18. But if something happened to Xue Ziming, the money could then be inherited by his second-in-line daughter, Xue Jiao.
(P.S.: Of Xue Shan's estate, his biological son Xue Ziming is the first in line to inherit, and Xue Jiao is the second in line to inherit.)
But Xue Ziming is only four years old now, and she has to wait until he's 18, which is another 14 years. In 14 years, Xue Jiao will be old and faded, how could she possibly wait another 14 years? So, driven by her obsession, she simply set her sights on Xue Ziming.
One evening, when Xue Ziming was crying and asking for his father, she told him that his father was in the sea, but he couldn't go to see him during the day because people would see him. However, at night when everyone was asleep, he could sneak over, and she would tell his father to come to the beach to pick him up that night.
Xue Ziming knew about his father's death, but he didn't know what death meant. He only thought it meant what the adults meant by "going to a very far place." His father was in the navy and often worked at sea, so he assumed that his father had gone to work at a very far place. But his aunt said that his father would come to pick him up.
So, after everyone had fallen asleep that night, Xue Ziming went to the beach alone. Whether he accidentally fell into the water or the tide came in and swept the child away, the four-year-old Xue Ziming perished at sea because of Xue Jiao's lies.
Xue Jiao thought she had covered her tracks perfectly. During the two days Xue Ziming disappeared, she even explained to the public that she had sent the child back to his maternal grandmother's house. She thought that the ocean was so vast, and as long as there was no search and rescue operation, who knew where the waves might sweep Xue Ziming's little body away?
But fate had other plans. The waves carried Xue Ziming's small body around in the sea for a while before bringing him back.
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