Chapter 158 Jinjiang First Launch

"What's wrong?" Seeing Bai Mian staring at him, the man looked puzzled, "Is there something wrong with what I said?"

Bai Mian said, "Of course there are. There are two problems. First, when you returned home at noon, your wife said she saw the door lock was pried open, but you said it was smashed. How was the door lock opened? Second, your wife said the child was lying on the kang, but you said it was on the bed. These two inconsistencies alone are enough to prove that this story is false."

The man immediately protested: "No, I just remembered it wrongly. After all, so many years have passed. Who can remember it so clearly? Master, just treat me as if I were talking nonsense. My wife's words are the final word."

The woman also stepped forward to defend him, saying, "Yes, Master, our husband is just a fool. What he says is useless. Don't worry about it."

Bai Mian glanced at the couple coldly, and then said, "When you were telling the story just now, you looked very excited and eager to perform, but your husband was the complete opposite. It's obvious that the whole incident was prepared by you in advance, but your husband didn't remember it well. If you are really the parents who lost your child, how could you remember such an important detail wrong?"

The woman was furious, and it was obvious that what he said hit the mark. She crossed her arms and said, "Hey, hey, how can you talk like that? Our situation is already so bad, and you still doubt us. Aren't you just rubbing salt into our wounds? Come and take a look, everyone. This is the master you admire. This is his quality!"

The crowd was silent, no one paid any attention to the woman. Seeing that she was losing the upper hand, the woman softened her tone again: "Okay, Master, we can't remember the details of that year, and we were afraid that others would ask about it, so we made up this story. But no matter what, it's true that we lost our daughter! Don't worry about it so much, just help us find our daughter!"

Bai Mian reminded them, "Since you two came in, not many of the words you said were true. I need to feel your pulse to tell fortunes. Once I feel your pulse, I will know the whole story. I will not show mercy then. Do you want to tell it yourself, or do you want me to tell it for you?"

The woman swallowed nervously and looked at the man, who whispered, "All up to you."

After a moment, the woman sighed and finally decided to tell Bai Mian the truth. She sat at the table and began to tell her story again:

"Twenty-five years ago, I gave birth to a daughter. At that time, my husband and I had just moved from the countryside to the city to work. He worked as a security guard and I worked as a cleaner. We lived in poverty, penniless, and could not afford to raise a child. For the sake of the child, we released her into the wild on a mountain."

Xia Mang was taken aback: "Wait, what did you say? Release them - release them on a mountain?"

The woman nodded. "Yes, I made a swaddling cloth for her with a quilt, and then put her on the mountain, hoping that she would meet a kind person."

Xia Mang opened his mouth wide: "What are you talking about? Throwing a newborn baby into the wilderness, isn't that just leaving her to die? And you're talking about releasing her? You have the nerve to say that!"

Lu Xue also said: "Oh, no wonder you didn't dare to call the police. Are you afraid that the police will find out that you abandoned your child and arrest you?"

The woman rolled her eyes quietly, her eyes full of impatience towards the two sisters, but for Bai Mian's sake, she didn't dare to retort.

At Bai Mian's suggestion, the woman continued, "In short, this is what happened. Twenty-five years have passed, and we have some savings. Then I thought of my daughter. We left her alone there, and we felt really sorry for her. Now that we have money, I want to find my daughter and make it up to her."

Xia Mang was puzzled: "How can you be sure that your daughter is still alive? You threw her into the mountains, maybe she would have been eaten by wild animals. Humph, you still want to make up for your daughter? I think you want to find someone to take care of you in your old age, right?"

Xia Mang's words were sharp, and the old woman blushed. She explained to everyone, "No, I really miss my daughter. I was too young back then and had no experience. Now I know I was wrong. Two months ago, my next-door neighbor went to Guangzhou-Shenzhen for a trip and said he saw a young woman. That woman looked exactly like me, so I had a guess - maybe my daughter is not dead, she was picked up in the mountains and raised well, I want to find her and then recognize her." Xia Mang suddenly realized, "Oh - Guangzhou-Shenzhen, the richest city in the country. If your daughter becomes a resident of Guangzhou-Shenzhen, she must be worth a lot. You don't want to recognize your relatives, but to curry favor with them, right?"

The woman's face turned red again. She was holding back her anger and was about to lose it. The man behind her lowered his head in silence, as if he was dead.

The woman glared at Xia Mang and ignored her. Instead, she turned to Bai Mian and asked, "Master, I'm done. This time I promise that what I said is true. Can you take my pulse?"

Bai Mian nodded and reached out to feel the woman's pulse. After a few seconds, the woman asked anxiously, "How is it? Any news about my daughter?"

Bai Mian let go of her hand and looked at the woman coldly: "You still haven't told the truth."

The woman shook her head desperately: "Impossible, Master, everything I said is true!"

Bai Mian raised the corners of his lips slightly: "What you said is indeed true, but you selectively concealed one part - your son."

After hearing Bai Mian say this, the woman's face turned even redder. She instantly knew that Bai Mian was a real talent and she became much more obedient in front of Bai Mian.

Xia Mang snorted coldly: "I knew there must be a son in your family. Could it be a family of siblings?"

The woman hesitantly said, "No, it's... a dragon-phoenix fetus."

There was a sudden silence, everyone was shocked at the cruelty of this couple. Xia Mang paused for a long time before saying, "So, you gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, and you selectively threw away the girl. Your claim of not having money to support her is simply an excuse. You favor boys over girls!"

The woman waved her hands repeatedly: "Oh, no, there was really no other way at the time. We were really poor and had only enough money to support one child, so of course we had to give up our daughter. But, we couldn't throw away our son, could we?"

Xia Mang slapped his forehead, and everyone was speechless about the couple.

Lu Xue said reluctantly, "If you don't want your daughter, why not give her away? It's really cruel to just abandon her in the wild like this."

The woman's eyes suddenly lit up, as if she had heard something exciting: "Hey, you're right, this is just a coincidence. It was because I abandoned her in the mountains that she was adopted by a rich man!"

Bai Mian asked back: "How do you know she was adopted by a rich man?"

The woman argued: "Didn't I tell you that my neighbor went to Guangzhou and Shenzhen for a trip and saw a woman in Guangzhou and Shenzhen? Actually, I lied a little bit. What my neighbor saw was a woman who looked exactly like my son. He said that he thought my son was wearing women's clothes! Although everyone took it as a joke and laughed after hearing it, I paid attention to it. How can there be so many people who look exactly the same in this world? The only people who look the same are twins. Isn't this the girl from the twin pair back then!"

"When my neighbor saw her, she was driving a luxury car, and her jewelry and bags were all luxury goods. My neighbor went to see a concert. Before the concert started, the official opened the door for the girl in advance and let her go in alone to meet the star. Doesn't this just show that she is doing well now? I guess, after I put her in the mountains, she must have been picked up by a rich man. If that's the case, she can't thank me enough! If we hadn't abandoned her, how could she be where she is today?"

Xia Mang was so angry that he shouted, "You are really - really shameless!"

The woman ignored the contemptuous looks around her and said to herself, "It's not that we didn't pay anything for our daughter. To be honest, I've already spent 200,000 yuan to find her. 200,000 yuan!"

"After hearing the news, my whole family went to Guangzhou and Shenzhen and stayed there for more than half a month. We searched and searched, but we couldn't find the girl who looked like my son. I thought it was not a good idea to look for a needle in a haystack. Professional matters should be left to professionals. So I found a private detective on the Internet. The private detective said that they had special hacking technology that could find the personal information of people all over the country. As long as we paid him, he could help us find our daughter's information."

"I was eager to find my daughter, so I transferred money to him. At first it was 5,000, then he asked for 20,000, and then 50,000... Just like that, I was defrauded of 200,000, which is our family's savings. After I realized I was cheated, I quickly called the police, but the police said that the scammer used a virtual account registered overseas, and they couldn't locate his location. My 200,000 was wasted just like that. This is going to cost our family's lives!"

The woman's eyes turned red as she spoke, and it was obvious that she was really sad, but no one around her comforted her. Everyone's eyes said "you deserved it."

Xia Mang immediately saw through the woman's attempt to change the subject: "You didn't spend the 200,000 yuan for your daughter, but for your own greed. You just have a gambler's mentality and want to use the 200,000 yuan to exchange for a chance to change your fate. You say you are good to your daughter, but did you spend a penny of this money on her?"

The woman was speechless. She looked to Bai Mian for help. Bai Mian asked her, "How is your son doing now?"

The woman frowned, "Oh, don't mention it. I get worried when I mention him. He's already grown up, almost 30, and he's still a nobody. He doesn't even have a job. He's idle all day long. He even has a girlfriend who's also a parasite. The two of them lie at home every day, just waiting for us old couple to support them!"

Bai Mian nodded: "So, when you sat down just now, you didn't mean to say 'our daughter is missing', but to say - our son is in urgent need of money."

The woman tacitly agreed with Bai Mian's words, and then complained, "This is not a solution. After two people have been in love for a long time, they must get married, right? My family has not bought a house or a car for our son, and there is no betrothal gift. We had 200,000 yuan before, but now it has been taken away by a liar. Oh my God, if we can't find my daughter, what will our family do? This is forcing our family into despair!"

Xia Mang laughed and said, "No wonder you are so anxious. It turns out that you treat your daughter as an ATM and are anxious to use her to help alleviate poverty! If I were your daughter, not only would I not recognize you, I would also write big-character posters about your deeds and post them all over the streets so that everyone in the town would know you!"

"At first you kept it a secret, describing such an inhumane thing as an ordinary search for a child. If it weren't for the master's metaphysical abilities, we would have believed your lies. You are such a cunning mother of a boy. You have done your best to treat them, so how can they treat you? Look back, your boy and old man are both hiding and pretending to be dead!"

The woman covered her ears and said, "Enough, enough. You little girl, you are young, but you are so vicious and mean. You are not afraid of not being able to get married in the future! Master, look, I have been ridiculed by you since I came in. I have endured it for so long and I have cooperated enough! Now that you have scolded me enough, can you tell me the result? Where is my daughter?!"