Chapter 17: The original heroine (bug hunting)
The heroine in the book that Yuan Lingling read is named Yang Xi.
Like many heroines in novels, Yang Xi did not come from a good background.
Her grandfather was a master, so her father's generation enjoyed a good life when they were young. But later on, when the poor and lower-middle peasants became the representatives of glory, they naturally became the typical targets of opposition.
Yang Xi's eldest uncle was in poor health, his second uncle lost one eye while picking walnuts, his third uncle's wife died early, his fourth uncle's family was poor and stingy, and his father disappeared when she was still young.
She was able to become a well-known entrepreneur at home and abroad with such a start. Even without the author's praise, Yuan Lingling would still admire her.
And Shen Caisheng also fell into her hands. Like most melodramatic novels, the men in the novel would flock to the heroine. Although the book did not mention the relationship between Shen Caisheng and the heroine, in the end Shen Caisheng was indeed offline because he did something bad to the hero and almost caused social security problems.
The novel is very secretive about the reason why he did this, but based on Yuan Lingling's many years of experience in reading books, it may be related to the heroine. This is also one of the important reasons why Yuan Lingling must divorce.
"Do you know someone named Yang Xi?" Yuan Lingling asked.
Shen Caisheng thought about it and shook his head to deny it, "I don't know him, who is he?"
Yuan Lingling frowned slightly. Could it be that they haven't met yet?
"No one, it's not important." She said casually.
Chen Caisheng raised his eyelids and glanced at her. Since Yuan Lingling didn't say anything, he didn't intend to ask more questions. She would speak when she wanted to.
What now faced him was Yuan Lingling's strange change in attitude.
They just filed for divorce, and now they want to sleep together. What is this?
And the way she was obviously worried but pretending not to care was really a bit funny. If there really was an enemy infiltrating, then this enemy must be looking down on him too much.
Yuan Lingling had been keeping an eye on Shen Caisheng all the time, and the way he looked at her was so unconcealed, it was hard for her not to notice.
She pretended to be calm, soaked her feet, and dawdled for a long time. Then, while Shen Caisheng was washing up, she quickly slipped into the inner position on the kang.
It was late at night, everything was quiet, the moonlight was hidden in the clouds, and it was pitch black nearby, so it was almost impossible to make out the shadows of the people in the yard.
Shen Caisheng picked up a bucket and took a quick shower in the corner of the yard. The cold wind blew over him, and he became more awake than ever before.
He couldn't help but guess what Yuan Lingling wanted to say to him.
After spending two days together, he actually had no idea what Yuan Lingling was thinking. She seemed heartless, but he could tell that she had something on her mind.
However, when he returned to the house with some trepidation, the only light in the house was a dim light and the even breathing of the two people on the kang.
Chen Caisheng stood at the door with his hands on his hips for a long time. He couldn't help but smile. This woman was really careless. He just thought that Yuan Lingling was worried about what he would think if he came to the house in the middle of the night.
Click.
Shen Caisheng turned off the light cord on the wall, and the room suddenly became dark.
“Woo…”
Yuan Lingling was lying on the bed, not knowing whether she had dreamed about something or was uncomfortable because the sudden lights went out. She tossed and turned for a long time and couldn't sleep well.
Shen Caisheng frowned. The closer he got, the more he could feel Yuan Lingling's uneasiness. Then he saw her slowly shrinking into the quilt like a silkworm cocoon, wrapping herself up in it.
The house returned to silence.
Shen Caisheng went forward and wanted to help her lift the quilt slightly, worried that she was suffocating, but the other party held the quilt so tightly that he couldn't pull it open at all.
He didn't dare to use too much force, and he tiptoed around for a long time. He almost knelt beside Yuan Lingling, but he still couldn't get her out of the quilt.
Sleeping with the quilt covered didn't seem like a big deal. He could just mention it to her tomorrow. Shen Caisheng thought, they were about to get divorced, and he was really worried about her.
Just when he was about to give up, Yuan Lingling suddenly threw off the quilt, opened her eyes abruptly, and met Shen Caisheng's gaze. She moved faster than her brain, pushed the person in front of her, and then shrank back with a bang.
"careful!"
"Hiss...what are you doing?"
Five minutes later, Yuan Lingling, wrapped in a military coat, took the hot water handed over by Shen Caisheng.
She reached out and touched the place where her head had just hit, and looked at the man in front of her with resentment.
What are you doing?
"Well, I..." Shen Caisheng was very embarrassed. If he were Yuan Lingling, he might not believe that he was going to help her lift the quilt.
"Didn't you say you had something to tell me?" Unable to explain clearly, Shen Caisheng simply gave up. He tried to be as serious as possible to make himself look more serious.
However, his sudden look of interrogation frightened Yuan Lingling so much that she lost about 80% of her sleepiness.
Yes, Yuan Lingling thought that she had really been through the gates of hell. She actually dared to treat the villain with that attitude just now. Since he was a villain, what was abnormal about that?
But what he did just now... was too perverted.
Yuan Lingling smiled in what she thought was a dignified way and said, "It's not a big deal, we can talk about it tomorrow. Why are you so stubborn?"
After saying that, she bit her tongue. Her mouth was faster than her brain.
"...I just wanted to talk about Yuanyuan. There is no such thing as a small matter when it comes to children. I wanted to tell you when he came that day."
Yuan Lingling thought about it for a long time. No matter whether Shen Caisheng would change or not, she should not hide what she should say, so as not to regret it later. However, she could be careful about what she said.
"That day he told me that he saw the monkey being stabbed."
Yuan Lingling was always paying attention to Shen Caisheng's expression. When she found that he didn't have any special reaction, she knew that he really didn't take this matter to heart.
"This kind of thing has a great impact on the growth of children. I may be a little nosy in saying this, but the child is still young and his thoughts are not yet formed. If he can receive some correct ideological education, it will definitely be good for his future..."
Seeing that Shen Caisheng remained silent, Yuan Lingling's voice gradually became lower. She was not sure whether Shen Caisheng was unwilling to listen.
"Go on."
Although Shen Caisheng appeared calm on the surface, his heart was actually in turmoil.
He really had a new respect for Yuan Lingling.
Only those who have actually experienced the rain know how important an umbrella is.
If only someone had planned for him like this before...
Shen Caisheng didn't dare to hope for it.
He just felt that Yuan Lingling's face looked extremely gentle under the dim light.
She is totally different from the weak girl before marriage, and also different from the aggressive girl at the beginning of marriage.
"And if a child knew about Uncle Xie's affairs, would he be able to judge right from wrong? He would just think that they all did the same thing, so why can't we do the same thing?"
"Cough." Shen Caisheng coughed lightly, and Yuan Lingling suddenly realized that this was quite strange.
"I'm not saying... Anyway, that's what I mean. Think about it." Yuan Lingling couldn't stand Shen Caisheng's fixed gaze. "Go to bed early. You still have to go to the street office to get a certificate tomorrow."
After saying this, she almost ran away.
Shen Caisheng looked at her back, his lips stretched into a straight line, his eyelids drooped, an emotion growing deep in his heart that he himself had not even noticed.
"That's right!"
Yuan Lingling came back and asked, "Can you please leave the lights on for a while? This way I can keep an eye on Yuanyuan at any time."
She had noticed when she was talking just now that Shen Caisheng cared a lot about Yuanyuan, so it should be okay to use the child as an excuse.
Sure enough, Shen Caisheng hummed softly.
Seeing that he had no intention of talking anymore, Yuan Lingling said, "I'm going to sleep."
Then he dodged and half of his body shrank back.
Shen Caisheng pursed his lips helplessly. Why is this girl different from ordinary people?
Although I seldom hear of people getting divorced around here, if I do get divorced, I have to think about the follow-up. She used to want to give all my money to her, but now not only does she not take the initiative to ask for it, she is also pushing the money to him.
Shen Caisheng sat for a long time without figuring it out, then he stood up and opened the door to the main room.
Yuan Lingling was also awake in the room. After what happened just now, she woke up early. She had prepared herself for a sleepless night. Who could have thought that she would fall asleep before Chen Caisheng came back?
Yuan Lingling was terrified, fearing that she would be locked in a small dark room when she woke up. The more she thought about it, the more scared she became, and she couldn't fall asleep at all.
Thinking of the weird scene just now, she seemed to have pushed Shen Caisheng. How dare she do that?
But...it feels pretty good.
Yuan Lingling suddenly buried herself in the quilt again and held it tightly until she could hardly breathe and then she came out.
She was breathing heavily, and then she heard the sound of a door opening in the main room.
Shen Caisheng is gone?
Chen Caisheng left home and walked carefully south, then turned several turns in the alley next to the South Gate Station and came to a yard. He took two steps back, and with the help of a tree in front of the yard, he jumped over the wall in two or three steps and jumped down with a thud.
He took two steps inside and the door of the main room opened automatically. A young man wearing a dog-skin hat walked out. The man's surname was You and he loved to eat fried dough sticks. Everyone called him Lao You, but he was not very old, only two years older than Shen Caichang.
Old You shivered and half-moved away, asking, "Why are you here at this time of night?"
"How's the interrogation going?" Shen Caisheng found a cup and poured water into it as if he was familiar with it. He gulped down the water without caring whether the water was hot or cold.
The man shook his head, "No progress." After that, he sighed and sat on the bench next to Shen Caisheng, "But the place he went to last night should be his home. The family's surname is Yang. There are five men in the family. The youngest one offended someone in the village in his early years and ran away. It should be him. He also has a daughter."
"Have you checked?"
Shen Caisheng also knew that place. The area west of the city had always been very poor, and the farmers were even poorer. Originally, a factory was planned to be built there, but later on, it seemed that the people living there were unwilling to move, so the factory was never built, and there was quite a stir over this.
"It's too late yet." said Lao You.
Even Hu Ziyang’s identity has just been found out, where would he have the time?
Shen Caisheng frowned and said, "Check it out quickly."
Since I can't get the answer from him, maybe I can get some results by trying a different angle.
"Okay, so you came to me today just to ask this?" Lao You asked him with a joking look on his face.
Shen Caisheng poured another cup of boiling water and said nothing.
"Let me guess, your wife kicked you out, didn't she like the spicy pork trotters?"
"You talk too much. Let's go!" Shen Caisheng stood up and walked out the door.
"Where are you going?"
"Check the person!"
"Fuck! No, it's so late..."
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After Chen Caisheng left, Yuan Lingling felt even more unable to sleep.
She didn't know what the other party meant. Was it just her illusion? She didn't want to gamble. What if Shen Caisheng suddenly came in again?
Fortunately, the divorce will be finalized tomorrow. After the divorce, she can sleep peacefully and sleep however she wants.
wrong!
Yuan Lingling sat up suddenly. No, she forgot something very important.
This house belongs to Shen Caisheng, and she will have to move out after the divorce. Now she doesn’t even know which direction the train station gate opens. Is she going to wander around with only 500 yuan?
People say that pregnancy makes women stupid for three years, and it really is true.
She wants to kill Shen Caisheng!
No, she had to talk to Shen Caisheng again, but it was too cold outside and who knew where the other party had gone.
Yuan Lingling wrapped the quilt tighter around the child, and she quickly lay down. No matter how big the problem was, she could deal with it after she woke up tomorrow.
However, when she closed her eyes, she felt a headache when she thought of Shen Caisheng running out late at night. It seemed as if she had bullied him and that she was occupying his nest.
She cursed Shen Caisheng over and over in her heart until he was speechless.
At this time, Shen Caisheng, whom she was talking about, was confronting a little girl whose half face was swollen.
It's already this day and age, and there are still people in a place like Beijing who only use oil lamps. The flame of the oil lamp flickers with the wind leaking in through the crack in the door. Shen Caisheng looks at the person in front of him with an expressionless face.
He waited until the little girl's crying turned into sobbing before he spoke again.
"What's your name and who tied you up here?" Shen Caisheng asked these two questions for the third time.
"My father tied me up. My name is Yang Xiaoxi."
Yang Xiaoxi?
"What did you say your name was?" Shen Caisheng spoke again.
Lao You next to him glanced at him and continued to stare at the little girl.
"My name is Yang Xiaoxi." This time she spoke much more clearly.
Shen Caisheng's mind raced, and he no longer showed any strange emotions on his face. He asked again, "Then do you know someone named Feng Niang?"
"Do you know my mother?" Yang Xiaoxi finally raised her head and looked at him, her watery eyes gazing at Shen Caisheng.
Chen Caisheng was indifferent. "Is your mother good at making tofu? I heard that she is known as the Tofu Beauty?"
"No, no..." Yang Xiaoxi seemed to be frightened by him. She lowered her head again, "They are just talking nonsense."
That kind of reputation was indeed not a good reputation in an era that advocated hardship and simplicity, so her reaction was normal.
"Where's your mother?"
As soon as Shen Caisheng asked the question, Yang Xiaoxi frowned and spoke in a bad tone, "She is gone." She said.
Shen Caisheng, who was sitting opposite her, didn't respond, which made Lao You next to him anxious. Just as he was about to speak, Shen Caisheng kicked his leg under the eight-immortals table. He immediately shut up without even changing his expression.
After a long while, Shen Caisheng and the other two hadn't spoken yet. Yang Xiaoxi couldn't help it anymore and asked, "Do you have anything else to do?"
"Can you make tofu?" Shen Caisheng slightly relaxed his upright body, as if he was chatting with a friend, with a somewhat lazy posture.
Yang Xiaoxi hummed, and then said modestly: "Not as good as my mother."
"Can you help us make tofu?" Shen Caisheng asked again.
Yang Xiaoxi seemed to think he was saying something incredible. She looked at him in surprise but did not answer.
"Why, no?"
Shen Caisheng already had his own way of scaring people. He said, "You don't have to rush to answer me. You can go to the brewery and ask about Shen Caisheng, and then come back to me."
Seeing that Yang Xiaoxi didn't speak, he gave her a cold look and asked, "Did you hear that?"
"Hear...I heard it." Yang Xiaoxi started crying again, and it seemed like her tears would never stop flowing.
"Why are you crying?" Shen Caisheng slammed the table and suddenly said, "Did I hit you?"
It would have been fine if I hadn't said this, but once I said it, the other person cried even harder.
"Alright, alright, I hate women crying the most!" Chen Caisheng stood up and prepared to leave, and couldn't help complaining, "Those who know you were beaten, and those who don't know would think I asked you to make tofu but didn't pay you."
"Don't tell anyone that we came to see Feng Niang tonight. As long as you can help me get things done, I will help you deal with your father however you want."
When Lao You saw Shen Caisheng was about to leave, he glanced at Yang Xiaoxi, took out five dollars from his pocket and threw it on the table, "Go buy some medicine." After that, he quickly followed Shen Caisheng out of the house.
As he stepped out of the courtyard, a gust of wind blew and almost blew away Lao You's soul. He shivered and looked again to see Shen Caisheng had already walked onto the road.
"Wait for me, what are you rushing to do, wait for me." When he caught up with Shen Caisheng, Lao You was almost frozen into a fool.
"Fuck, it's almost the beginning of spring, why is it still so cold!"
Chen Caisheng and he seemed to be in two different worlds. Walking in the wind was like growing in the wind. How could the wind blow him but not him?
"Do you believe what she said?" Shen Caisheng didn't say anything, so Lao You could only say a few words that he was willing to hear.
"I'm asking you a question. Did you treat your wife like this at home? No wonder you were kicked out. Don't you deserve it?"
After he finished speaking, Shen Caisheng picked him up and turned him 180 degrees. Just as he was about to open his mouth, he felt as if he had eaten a mouthful of ice chips in the wind. Only then did he hear Shen Caisheng's voice.
"Can you go back and talk? You're almost freezing to death, and you're still chattering here."
I don't know what happened to the weather tonight. It was fine when we came, but after walking around, we were so cold that our bones ached. We went all the way back and hid on the kang, where we felt much more comfortable.
"Damn, I went there and found nothing, and almost got myself killed." Old You wrapped himself in the quilt, unable to help but vent his anger at Chen Caisheng.
He is good at investigating people, but he is particular about methods and never jokes about his own body.
Shen Caisheng was usually a madman when facing enemies during missions, but he didn't expect him to be so cruel to himself. But when he saw the other party like this, Lao You was surprised and asked, "Did you get anything?"
Of course he knew that what Shen Caisheng said about making tofu was just an excuse. Did they have to find someone to make tofu on such a cold night? Isn't this funny?
"I don't believe a word she said."
"Ah? What do you mean? Are you saying that Feng Niang is not his mother?" Lao You blurted out.
Shen Caisheng glanced at him sideways, thinking that he must have been frozen silly.
"Something's going on in her family, let's have someone keep an eye on it then." He couldn't explain it clearly for the moment, and felt that this kind of thing required him to figure it out on his own.
When the two of them went there today, they had originally intended to investigate secretly, but as soon as they arrived, they found the woman tied up and placed in the kitchen, with a bruised face and nose.
The two of them shouldn't have shown up in this situation, but the weather tonight was extremely abnormal. If they didn't save her, the girl might have frozen to death. It seemed as if God had asked them to save her.
In fact, there was nothing wrong with what she said, and she cried very pitifully, but it was precisely her pitiful appearance that made Shen Caisheng suspicious of her.
Although Lao You felt that there was nothing wrong at all, strictly speaking, Shen Caisheng was his leader, and he himself would never question Shen Caisheng's decisions. This man was very cunning and rarely made mistakes when performing tasks. "Okay, leave it to me."
Shen Caisheng sneered and glanced at him, then stood up and threw the quilt aside, "Don't go up to any girl you see. If you have money to burn, you can give it to me."
"It's only five dollars. I can afford it. Where are you going?" Lao You saw that he had put on his shoes. Was he going to leave?
Chen Caisheng stood up and pulled his clothes tighter, then said casually, "Let's go home."
"It's so cold outside, go home and bring the coolness to your wife. You have a little kid at home." Lao You usually spoke to him in a sarcastic way, but he was very caring when he needed to.
He has always kept the matter of Yuan Lingling and Shen Caisheng in mind, and just hoped that the couple could live a good life. Although it was a bit uncomfortable at the beginning, as the eldest brother said, they are already married, so what is there to be unhappy about?
Chen Caisheng appreciated his kindness, but didn't want to explain more. "I know, you go to sleep," he said.
They have been brothers for many years, and even if he doesn't want to hide it, he can't.
"I have to go back. I have to get a divorce tomorrow."
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