Chapter 48: Going Crazy Day 48: This is not your woman, you...
There were many people standing on the platform between the first and second floor stairs.
From Tan Mo's perspective, she could only see Aunt Fengjuan and Master Gao squatting there, surrounding Jiang Qingya and asking her all sorts of questions, asking whether they wanted to send her to the hospital.
Things just bought from the supermarket were scattered around him.
The reason why Tan Mo recognized that the person surrounded in the middle was Jiang Qingya was because the shrill "Ah" was so distinctive, like the winding and tortuous sound of the mountain road with eighteen bends.
In the entire villa, there is no one else who can make an "ah" of this level and height except Jiang Qingya.
In the morning, she was still calling Tan Momo "sister" in a coquettish voice, but in the afternoon, she was defeated and shouted out with the momentum of Wu Song's death. It was really too cruel.
Jiang Qingya cried loudly, cried twice, paused, and shouted in a sobbing voice, "My life is so miserable, my feet hurt so much," and then continued crying.
This was the scene Tan Mo saw when she rushed out of the study.
"How did it become like this?" Tan Mo asked anxiously.
Aunt Fengjuan: "I don't know. Master Gao and I just came back from the supermarket and saw this girl tumbling down the stairs. She said her leg hurt. I think she twisted her ankle."
Tan Mo:?!
"Then have the driver take him to the hospital. What are you waiting for?"
"Oh oh." Master Gao stood up as if waking up from a dream.
Jiang Qingya held him back, shook her head, and sobbed softly: "I'm afraid of doctors."
"Why are you afraid now? It's better than becoming disabled." Tan Mo pretended to help her up, but she gave up after two attempts. "How much did you eat today? You're a bit heavy, I can't lift you."
Jiang Qingya: ...
Tan Mo turned and called to Lu Xingjian on the steps, "Come and help, Assistant Lu."
"No!" Jiang Qingya said urgently, "No Assistant Lu."
Lu Xingjian paused, stood on the high steps, and looked at her quietly.
Tan Mo: "Why? Men and women shouldn't touch each other? The key is that I can't hold you, and Master Gao is older than Lu Xingjian. I can't let the older one do the rough work, so I'll let the younger one watch over you."
Do rough work?
When did she become a laborer?
Jiang Qingya suppressed the resentment in her heart, and grabbed the front of Tan Mo's shirt with trembling body.
Tan Mo felt the shaking in his arms, and had the illusion that he was a strong man protecting a beautiful woman.
Tan Mo: ...
Jiang Qingya said apprehensively, "I don't want a murderer to hug me. I'm scared."
Jin Yuan: "Murderer?"
Jiang Qingya pointed at Lu Xingjian and said, "He was the one who pushed me down."
Tan Mo: ? ?
Jin Yuan:? ?
Lin Yu: ? ?
"I was walking down the stairs when Lu Xingjian suddenly appeared behind me. I felt someone push me from behind, and then I was like this." Jiang Qingya thought, "Lu Xingjian was the only one behind me at that time. If not him, who else could it be?"
Master Gao said in a daze: "When Fengjuan and I came in, Qingya was just rolling down. If I remember correctly, Lu Xingjian was indeed standing behind her. Fengjuan, right?"
Aunt Feng Juan glanced at Lu Xingjian and nodded with mixed feelings, "That's indeed the case."
"But I believe there must be a misunderstanding. Assistant Lu is not that kind of person."
Jiang Qingya cried twice, "If I hadn't experienced all this, I wouldn't believe it. After all, you can only know a person's face but not their heart. I hope Aunt Fengjuan will never experience this kind of situation in her life, woo woo."
Good boy, in the moment of crisis, he actually wished others well, which made people feel even more distressed.
Tan Mo looked at Lu Xingjian and asked, "Assistant Lu, what do you say?"
Lu Xingjian: "I didn't do such a thing. As for how she fell down the stairs, I don't know either."
"Could it be that I fell down on my own initiative?" Jiang Qingya leaned against Tan Mo's chest. "Sister Mo, you must make the decision for me. He is so vicious. I am the only one who truly loves you."
Tan Mo: ...Why does this scene feel so familiar?
She silently distanced herself from Jiang Qingya and said to Aunt Feng Juan, "Then adjust the surveillance footage. We will never wrongly accuse or condone anyone."
Jiang Qingya:!!!
Aunt Feng Juan: "But there are no surveillance cameras in the entire villa except for Sang Biao's room."
Tan Mo: "I remember I asked you to arrange it before."
Aunt Feng Juan thought for a moment and said, "You were just a junior assistant at that time. Of course, you couldn't make the decision. We all had to listen to Nangong Lie."
"Nangong Lie doesn't allow surveillance cameras to be installed at home."
Jin Yuan was curious: "Why? Even ordinary families install a few surveillance cameras nowadays."
What’s more, it is a villa area for wealthy families.
Aunt Feng Juan glanced at Xu Xiaonian sheepishly and said, "Nangong Lie used to really enjoy being intimate with Xiaonian anytime, anywhere. How can we even install surveillance cameras?"
Jin Yuan: “Huh~”
Tan Mo: “Huh~”
Jiang Qingya: “Huh~”
In just a few seconds, there was a burst of exclamations.
Xu Xiaonian and Lin Yu didn't say anything. They buried their heads deeply, revealing the red and hot tips of their ears.
Aunt Fengjuan: "So I didn't install surveillance. Then, as time went by, I forgot about it."
Tan Mo was silent for a few seconds, "I'll have someone come over to install it later."
"OK."
Jin Yuan: "So what should we do now? Qingya said that Assistant Lu pushed her, but Assistant Lu said he didn't, and there's no surveillance footage. Isn't this a Rashomon?"
"How can we solve the case?"
Jiang Qingya groaned weakly, "In this situation, isn't my leg injury the best proof? Would I really fall down from the building just to frame Lu Xingjian?"
Lu Xingjian said calmly, "This speculation is not impossible."
Jiang Qingya curled her lips sarcastically.
"But I remember that when the incident happened, Miss Xu was also there." Lu Xingjian looked at Xu Xiaonian: "Miss Xu, you should have seen something."
Xu Xiaonian was stunned for a moment, as if she was thinking. Then she rubbed her hair vigorously and said painfully: "I can't remember anything. My head hurts. Am I losing my memory?"
Lu Xingjian: ???
Tan Mo: ???
Tan Mo could feel Lu Xingjian's powerlessness and almost laughed out loud the next second.
However, "Oh my god, this crazy plot seems so familiar, but why does it feel so inexplicable?"
Nangong Lie was not present again.
Why did Xiao Nian’s IQ drop offline?
"Bingo!" The system in my mind uttered a lazy voice after days and nights of sleep. "According to the typical romance novel routine, when identifying the vicious supporting character, the heroine will lose her memory. Then, seeing the heroine's miserable appearance, the hero will cry out in distress, saying, 'She's already in so much pain, don't push her any further, I will always believe in her...'"
Tan Mo was puzzled. "But shouldn't this happen when the heroine is framed? I've also read old romance novels. Usually, the heroine is framed by a vicious female supporting character, becomes ill and is hospitalized. When she points the finger at the culprit, she forgets everything."
"Seeing the heroine in such pain, the hero couldn't bear to continue asking her to recall the past. Then, in order to show the hero's care and love for the heroine, the author directly sold out the cannon fodder such as the nanny, housekeeper, driver, and assistant who indirectly caused the heroine's hospitalization. The vicious female supporting role can still continue to get away with it."
System: "Yes, that's right. Creating a pair of stupid, irritating protagonists who can't distinguish right from wrong perfectly achieves the author's true purpose of making money by padding the word count and thus attracting readers."
Tan Mo: ...so real.
"But the problem is, Nangong Lie is not here now, and the plot of the book "The Priceless Little Wife" has deviated from the original book. Why did Xu Xiaonian suddenly lose her memory?" Tan Mo asked.
System: "Although the main plot has deviated, the protagonist's character design has not collapsed. The logic behind Mrs. Shuizhuwanzi's character design for Xu Xiaonian was that if she tried to identify the murderer, she would suffer temporary amnesia."
"That is to say, when Lu Xingjian asked her to identify someone, this logical basis was triggered, and Xu Xiaonian lost her memory."
Tan Mo: ...I'm so tired
After finishing the conversation with the system, Tan Mo asked Lu Xingjian, "Do you have any other witnesses?"
Lu Xingjian smiled bitterly and shook his head: "No more."
Lin Yu poked Jin Yuan and asked softly, "Assistant Lu, how can you still laugh?"
Jin Yuan flicked the dust off himself and said, "Because people really do laugh when they are speechless."
Jiang Qingya said quietly, "So I guessed that Lu Xingjian was right in pushing me down the stairs. Sister Mo, don't be fooled by his innocent face. People like him are the best at pretending.
Tan Mo asked the system again: "So what should I do now? Is there any good solution? I can't just leave it alone and affect the team's development, right?"
She naturally knew that Jiang Qingya's assertion that "I wouldn't harm myself to frame others" was untenable. She also didn't want to let the matter get away with it or smooth things over.
The system chuckled, "Of course there is. As long as you give me two million, I can snap my fingers and Xu Xiaonian will return to normal."
Tan Mo: ...
"Are you here to commit fraud? You're not even as good at telecom fraud as you are." Now that she wants to do a gossip variety show, Tan Mo must raise funds. Every penny must be spent wisely. Where can she get two million from?
The system complained, "Just consider this your revenge for not trying to capture Bo Yanli? I'm bored and annoyed. There's a backlog of readers complaining about 'Running With the Ball: The Dark Daddy, the Cool Mommy,' and you're not dealing with it. Of course I'm going to mess with you, too."
Tan Mo took a deep breath and asked, "Besides giving you money, is there any other way?"
The system spit out bubbles: "Then you can also pretend to be a boss like Nangong Lie and try to comfort Xu Xiaonian. Maybe she will remember it."
Anyway, this is the routine in novels. Due to various coincidences, the heroine remembers everything and finally kills the vicious female supporting character, and it has a happy ending.
"Is it necessary to have a crazy overbearing CEO like Nangong Lie?"
"certainly."
Tan Mo: "Is there any monetary reward?"
system:?
"I didn't want to ask you for money, but you wanted to pay me! This isn't a mission I issued, so I won't pay a penny!"
Tan Mo was desperate.
She suppressed the thought of "why not just go and attack the dribbling ball" and put Jiang Qingya down in her arms, stood up, and walked towards Xu Xiaonian.
Jiang Qingya was puzzled: "Where are you going? Sister Mo, I'm so scared."
She frowned and hissed twice, trying to awaken Tan Mo's pity for her, but it was ineffective.
Jiang Qingya could only watch Tan Mo walk over with a fearless step towards death.
Jiang Qingya: What on earth is she going to do?
Soon, she knew the answer.
I saw Tan Mo holding Xu Xiaonian in her arms.
Jiang Qingya:?! It turns out Assistant Lu isn't the only one competing with me for women, Xu Xiaonian, you're one too!
Then he shouted loudly and affectionately, "Don't make things difficult for Xiao Nian. Can't you see how miserable she is? She's not your woman, so you don't know how much you're hurting, right?"
Jin Yuan:…….
Lu Xingjian: ...
Aunt Fengjuan: ...
Master Gao: ...
Lin Yu: ...What kind of operation is this?
"Xiao Nian, I'm glad you're okay. It doesn't matter whether you remember it or not. I will protect you. As long as you are healthy, it doesn't matter how tired I am." Tan Mo continued to comfort.
Jiang Qingya was furious after hearing this: "It's you again, Xu Xiaonian! You come to steal my things again. Sister Mo, I am the one who loves you the most. You are not allowed to say sweet words to her anymore. If you want to say anything, say it to me!"
"Sister Mo, we are a perfect match."
Seeing Jiang Qingya about to get up from the ground, Tan Mo commanded: "Hold her down quickly."
Lin Yu and Jin Yuan immediately pounced on Jiang Qingya, preventing her from moving.
Xu Xiaonian's mind was blank. The harder she tried to recall, the more her head ached. She could only lean weakly on Tan Mo.
She hummed softly, "I don't want to think about it anymore. I'll listen to you in everything."
Tan Mo:?!
I told you not to want to do it, but you really don’t want to do it?
Tan Mo felt like a hypocritical scumbag who used sweet words to deceive a young girl and felt very guilty.
But in order to solve the problem, she still asked: "You were at the scene just now, do you really not remember anything at all?"
Xu Xiaonian shook her head.
But this won’t work.
The system spoke at the right time, "Although you were loud just now, you are still a gentle and considerate male second. You should learn from Nangong Lie's crazy."
Tan Mo: ...
Ever since Nangong Lie was defeated, Tan Mo hasn't had any contact with Nangong Lie for a while, which means she hasn't seen him go crazy.
She took a moment to recall.
Then she let go of Xu Xiaonian in her arms and said to her, "I'm going to do something explosive to you later, just like Nangong Lie did to you. Can you bear it?"
What did Nangong Lie do to her?
I don’t know what Xu Xiaonian was thinking about, but she blushed for no apparent reason.
She said firmly: "To restore the truth, you come, I will bear it."
"Um!"
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Tan Mo raised her hands, grasped Xu Xiaonian's shoulders, pressed down with her ten fingers, and pinched them hard. Then she shook him madly: "Tell me, do you still have Nangong Lie in your heart?"
"Do you love me or Nangong Lie? Tell me now."
"I gave you my heart and treated you so well, are you still obsessed with Nangong Lie?"
Everyone was stunned.
Jin Yuan: Oh my god, Nangong Lie No. 2?
Aunt Fengjuan: I'm afraid it's a ghost.
Master Gao: So scary.
Lu Xingjian: ...
Lin Yu: ...
Even Jiang Qingya, who was gurgling on the floor, fell silent and gurgled back fearfully: You should have told me earlier, you are as crazy as Nangong Lie.
"Alright, alright." As Tan Mo shook her violently, Xu Xiaonian felt like she was about to have a concussion and was nauseous, ready to vomit. She gritted her teeth and said, "Stop shaking! I remember something."
"I recorded it at the time. Although I don't remember how Qingya rolled down from the upstairs, it must be on my phone."
Jin Yuan: ...Such a shrewd move actually made her remember it. Speechless, really speechless.
Tan Mo let go of Xu Xiaonian, touched her clothes, and finally found her cell phone in her right pocket.
She felt relieved and said to Xu Xiaonian, "Thank you for your hard work."
Xu Xiaonian covered her mouth in embarrassment and said weakly, "It's okay, I'm serving the people. Anyway, I'm used to Nangong Lie shaking me like this."
Everyone: ...
Lin Yu: ...You haven't even passed the civil service exam yet, but your awareness is already so high. It seems that you are the one who will become a civil servant.
Jin Yuan: ...speechless, really speechless, I don't know which is more speechless
Lu Xingjian's words broke their silence. He walked quickly towards Tan Mo and said, "Open it and take a look."
Lin Yu and Aunt Fengjuan also rushed forward.
Only Jiang Qingya sat on the ground helplessly, rubbing her hands, and then dragged her disabled leg in panic to try to escape.
After more than ten seconds, she suddenly felt a chill on her back, as if a thorn was stabbing her.
While escaping, she turned back belatedly and saw seven pairs of eyes staring at her coldly.
Jiang Qingya shuddered: she couldn't escape.
*
The video shows that at first, Lu Xingjian walked in front, and Jiang Qingya followed behind, doing some weird movements such as pinching Jiang Qingya's neck and punching the air. Lu Xingjian probably didn't know about it, after all, it didn't look like normal human behavior. If Lu Xingjian knew, he must have thought about running away.
Then Jiang Qingya took something out of her trouser pocket. She bent down and put the thing on the ground, but maybe because she raised her butt too high or tripped over something, Jiang Qingya rolled down the stairs screaming.
For some reason, Lu Xingjian leaned back slightly, raised one leg, and then walked up a step.
At the same time, Aunt Fengjuan and Master Gao just came back from buying vegetables. In their eyes, Jiang Qingya was about to fall down, and Lu Xingjian was standing higher than Jiang Qingya.
This creates a visual difference.
They naturally imagined that it was Lu Xingjian who pushed Jiang Qingya.
After watching the video, Tan Mo asked Lu Xingjian: "Why did you lift your legs and step back?"
Lu Xingjian: "That's easy to understand. I was frightened, so I leaned back and raised my legs. Then I felt something rolling down from behind me, so I quickly climbed up a step."
Aunt Feng Juan: "Have you ever thought that this thing is Jiang Qingya?"
Lu Xingjian: "No normal person would think of that, right? If I knew it was Jiang Qingya, I would..."
"What will happen?" Aunt Fengjuan caught up.
"Two more kicks."
This calm and nonchalant tone made Aunt Fengjuan and Master Gao lean back tactically with a hiss.
So cold.
But this tone really resembles someone.
"Lu Xingjian, you're going too far. I told you you were treacherous, but no one believed me. Now you finally know!" Jiang Qingya, who was slumped on the ground, forced herself to stand up. "Don't look down on me because I'm young and poor. I'll fight you to the death!"
"Leg!" Tan Mo, Aunt Fengjuan, and Lin Yu, who were concerned about Jiang Qingya's injury, shouted the order.
"Ouch." As if under a spell, Jiang Qingya fell back to the original place.
Lu Xingjian said confidently: "I don't bully young people because they are poor, but I bully you because you are poor."
"you!"
"Hmm?" Tan Mo approached Jiang Qingya. "Still angry? How dare you be angry? What reason do you have to be angry? I advise you to consider your current situation first. After all, as a villain who destroyed the unity of the team, if you don't reform yourself and become a person who contributes to socialism and has a conscience, then on behalf of the entire team, I must expel you and expel you! Eradicate you!"
"I...I..." Jiang Qingya, who was lying on the ground, began to tremble in fear.
"Reporting to Mr. Tan," Jin Yuan raised her hands high and began to complain, "I found something on this prisoner that might be physical evidence."
Lin Yu: "Present it quickly as evidence in court."
Master Gao: "Mighty, powerful, and ascending to the hall!"
The piece of evidence was passed from one "constable" to another, and finally to Tan Mo through Xu Xiaonian, Lin Yu, and Lu Xingjian.
It was exactly the same thing Jiang Qingya held in the video: a small zombie wrapped in hemp rope, with empty eyes and a mouth. Most importantly, there was a piece of paper with Lu Xingjian's name on it taped to the heart, and the paper was covered with dense needle holes, but the needle was missing.
Tan Mo took a closer look and said with certainty, "It's voodoo, the African witchcraft!"
"ah!"
"You are such a cruel woman."
"They actually put a curse on Assistant Lu!"
Tan Mo raised her voice and asked, "With all the evidence, how can you still argue?"
Jiang Qingya raised her eyes: "Just argue quietly."
Tan Mo: ...
Lu Xingjian: ...
Others: ...
Lin Yu tried hard to suppress his laughter and said, "Do you think you are very humorous?"
Jiang Qingya: "It's okay."
"Serious!" Tan Mo clapped her hands. "You won't be allowed to quibble in court."
Jiang Qingya whispered: "I didn't do it, it really wasn't me..."
It is not a good idea for several people to try a case together, as it is easy to have divergent thoughts and divert the topic.
When Tan Mo was judging Jiang Qingya, Jin Yuan suddenly asked Xu Xiaonian, "Come to think of it, why did you record it with your phone?"
"Because..." Before Xu Xiaonian could finish, Jiang Qingya pointed casually, "She asked me to do this."
Xu Xiaonian breathed a sigh of relief. "Well, it's to prevent her from framing others."
Jin Yuan: ...
Tan Mo, who was casually pointed at by Jiang Qingya: ...
Xu Xiaonian said in a very prescient tone: "I was wondering why it sounded familiar to me when I heard her call Tan Momo sister. She used to call Nangong Lie the same way and then destroyed the relationship between me and Nangong Lie."
"Of course, once she called me that, all the framing and slander followed. I've suffered a lot in the past, but I learned my lesson this time."
Tan Mo clicked her tongue and shook her head: She is indeed the vicious female supporting role.
Finally, she concluded her statement, "Alright, I, the judge, sentence Jiang Qingya to be deported for sabotage."
"Expel, fire, strangle, beep." Lin Yu and Jin Yuan slapped Jiang Qingya twice in the air, and then imitated the appearance of Jiang Qingya about to be hanged or strangled.
Jiang Qingya was so frightened that she almost fainted, and she weakly shouted, "I'm not going to live anymore."
"God has pushed me to this point. I have no way to retreat, and I can't attack either. Woohoo, I don't want to live anymore. I'd rather die."
Unexpectedly, the fake crying turned into real crying. Jiang Qingya gave up and started crying in front of so many people, with tears streaming down her face.
It sounds really sad.
Including Tan Mo, the people present were a little confused.
Master Gao seemed to have done something wrong and muttered quietly, "Did we go too far? This child can't handle it?"
Jin Yuan and Aunt Feng Juan had always been on good terms with Jiang Qingya, and they helped her up with some regret. "Okay, okay, we were just joking with you. We forgive you. Don't cry as if we were deliberately bullying you."
"Cough cough." Tan Mo coughed as a warning.
Jin Yuan and Aunt Feng Juan looked at Lu Xingjian in the same way as Tan Mo, feeling a little guilty. "Of course, our words don't count. Forgiveness is still up to the victim."
Jiang Qingya's tear-red eyes also drifted towards Lu Xingjian. Lu Xingjian snorted softly but did not express his opinion.
It looked like he had no intention of forgiving her. Jiang Qingya started crying sadly again, "Then I'd better pack up and die."
"You have parents who love you, and so much money you can't spend. Don't keep talking about death. It's unlucky." Lin Yu wanted to help her up. "You don't know how much I envy you for not having to worry about money. You should get up first."
"What does it look like to sit on the ground?"
Jiang Qingya was exhausted, but she still felt more comfortable sitting than standing. She shouted, "If your father forced you to marry someone you didn't like just for the sake of family interests, regardless of their character or appearance, would you still think he loved you?"
Lin Yu was dragged by Jiang Qingya and sat on the ground. "What do you mean?"
"That's exactly what it means." Jiang Qingya said, "I never felt that my parents liked me, nor did I think our family's money had anything to do with me. I was just better off than ordinary people in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation."
"To put it bluntly, I'm just a fat pig raised by a farmer. In order to sell the pig for a good price, doesn't the farmer need to feed the pig well? Otherwise, how can he sell it for a good price?"
Tan Mo: "Wow! Such insightful words."
But comparing myself to a fat pig means killing one thousand enemies but losing eight hundred of my own.
"Well." Jiang Qingya sighed, "My wealth only looks good to outsiders, but who knows the hardships I've gone through?"
Tan Mo: "Wow, this sounds like gossip."
"Do you want to listen?"
Tan Mo: “Yes!”
After all, there is money to be made.
Tan Mo asked everyone to sit in a circle. Master Gao came downstairs, pulled up the supermarket snacks that had been discarded on the floor, and distributed them to everyone.
Everyone did their job, and two minutes later, they sat neatly opposite Jiang Qingya.
Tan Mo handed the yogurt to Lu Xingjian, nodded at her and said, "Okay, let's start now."
And at the same time let the system pay attention to the money.
The system sighed with an expression that said, "At least I made millions of dollars in the past, but now I have to bow down to these small things." It was really going from bad to worse.
Jiang Qingya took a deep breath, adjusted her mood, and said, "When I was little, I also thought my parents loved me, but I realized something was wrong when I was in high school. At that time, in addition to attending classes at school, my mother also signed me up for art classes like ballet and piano, but my brothers and sisters were studying programming and AI. My father was very busy, and I usually only saw him during holidays."
"I called my dad and told him I missed him and wanted to see him, but he said he was too busy and told me to wait and see him when he got home on the weekend. But my two brothers were different. They could go directly to my dad at the company. The three of us had dinner together, and they told me that when they went to the company, my dad introduced them to his right-hand man."
"Of course I knew these capable assistants, but they were the kind of names that parents casually give to their children, like this is Uncle Li, this is Aunt Fan, and they never introduce their job titles. At that time, I thought they were similar to the staff from various luxury brands that often visited our house, and we were not close to them."
"We didn't officially meet until we were in college. There was a funny little incident. My dad only revealed their identities at a party during my sophomore year. Actually, it wasn't really a formal introduction to me, but I was already in college by then and not as stupid as I was when I was younger. I was a little scheming and kept a close eye on them."
"I vaguely sensed that my dad wasn't planning on letting me take over the family business. After he introduced them to me, I started to have some ulterior motives. I felt the need to impress them, flatter them, and observe them to see if I could eventually win them over to my side."
"Then my eldest and second brothers came over and easily attracted their attention. They were immediately chatting and laughing. There was such a relaxed and familiar atmosphere, as if they were a close family."
"This makes me, who's just trying to suck up to them, look like a fool."
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