False evidence

Chapter 82 Prank

Gao He stepped on the brake and asked me what was wrong.
My eyes were glazed over, and I was breathing heavily.

Gao He's eyes were slanted backward, clearly exchanging glances with Bai Jing.

Realizing this, I leaned back heavily in my chair and shook my head: "It's not what you think, it has nothing to do with Lü Xin."

I looked at Gao and smiled wryly: "I wonder if the Ding Xiu'e I know is the same person Hu Hanlin is talking about."

Gao He asked in surprise, "You know Ding Xiu'e?"

I nodded: "In my hometown, there is a sorceress in the same village named Ding Xiu'e."

Gao He's lips twitched slightly. "What's your relationship with her like?"

I said, "She used to be a midwife, then she became a shaman, performing abortions for people's unborn children. My grandfather and I didn't like her. She... died six years ago."

"Ugh……"

Gao He sighed and turned his face to look out the window.

I understand why he sighed.

The two names Hu Hanlin mentioned before his death were most likely his accomplices when he was a human trafficker.

I was picked up by my grandfather from the back mountain. There was also a Ding Xiu'e in the same village.

Looking back, I only met Ding Xiu'e and Ding Shenpo a handful of times, and every time she looked at me, her eyes always seemed very strange.

Now I think I know why...

"Alright! Stop thinking about it!"

Gao He patted my shoulder and said, "For the past twenty-one years, your grandfather has raised you with his own hands and feet. The debt of giving birth is not the same as the debt of raising. A real man shouldn't be so stubborn!"

He started the car again, his tone suddenly becoming serious:
"The second thing you mentioned is about work, right? Don't worry, the job I found for you is absolutely a perfect match for your major. But there's one thing I have to remind you of; to put it more seriously, I'm giving you a warning!"

"Brother Gao, I know you're genuinely trying to help me. Just say what you want to say."

I tried hard not to think about Hu Hanlin, Ding Xiue, and Ji Jianjun. Mainly, I was afraid I wouldn't be able to control myself and would buy a train ticket back to dig up their graves and whip their corpses.

Gao He gripped the steering wheel with one hand and pulled out a card with the other, handing it to me. "The owner of this shop is a friend of my wife. She... she has a slight intellectual disability."

I glanced at the card: "A pet shop?"

"Yes, this shop isn't far from where you live now."

Gao He poked my arm hard with one finger: "Listen! I swear on these clothes I'm wearing—you're reliable! If you dare to do anything crooked to me, I'll throw away this body and shoot you!"

I assumed he was just joking to comfort me and didn't ask any further questions.

Once outside the gate, Bai Jing hitched a ride with him. I switched to a Jetta and had Jiao Tong take me back to my place.

The car was parked at the street corner. Jiao Tong turned off the engine and gestured to me that he would take a taxi home by himself.

After that, he raised his hand slightly. It seemed he wanted to say something to me. But in the end, he just gave me a meaningful look, got out of the car, and left.

As soon as I entered the street, I quickened my pace, without even going into the monkey's clinic.

I jogged home, and as soon as I opened the gate, a big, fluffy head popped out.

"Pillar! Are you hungry?"

This guy is the wolfhound I brought back from the hospital rooftop.

Under my simple and rough care, its wound has healed.

Although not a purebred German Shepherd, it has a large head, pointed ears, and thick limbs. After a bath, it looks even more majestic.

I gave it a very catchy name—Shuanzhu!
On this trip, I left two days' worth of food for Shuanzhu.

Although it's not a big deal for cats and dogs to go hungry for two or three days, I really get along well with this guy and I'm genuinely worried about him suffering.

As soon as I stepped inside, Shuanzhu rubbed against my legs a few times, then darted off like lightning along one side of the house towards the backyard. "I know you're hungry, but at least have some self-respect!"

I shook my head. Just as I closed the door, Shuanzhu ran back, with something in his mouth.

I was stunned for a moment, then squatted down and roughly saw the appearance of the lump. I rolled my eyes in disbelief.

"I misunderstood you earlier. I didn't expect you, you bastard, to be so carefree. You've been starving for so long, and you still have the mind to show off your treasures to me?"

I simply led Shuanzhu to the eaves and sat down on the steps.

"It's just a broken balloon, probably some unlucky kid let it go. It just fell down when it went flat. Why are you so excited? You like playing with balls? I'll buy you one another day. You should look in the mirror and see your big teeth. Do you think this thing will bite you? If you accidentally swallow it, you'll be dead!"

As I muttered to myself, I pulled the balloon out of its mouth, but when I finally held this lump of plastic in my hand, I froze for a moment, and when I realized what was happening, I was so angry I almost choked.

I jumped up and ran to the backyard.

He glanced at the corner of the wall, then at the object in his hand, and was both amused and exasperated.

I remember the first night after we moved in, foxes started roaming the yard in the middle of the night.

The thing I'm holding right now, although it's been bitten and deformed, is still clearly an animal-shaped plastic balloon.

Its entire body was white, and because it had deflated, its two pointed ears drooped limply; its two green eyes were even fluorescent...

Isn't that the white fox?

No wonder it got bigger, it's inflatable!

Shuanzhu ran to the corner of the wall, spun around twice, and then ran back to me, sticking his tongue out with a "whoosh" sound.

Anyone with a brain would figure out what a fox spirit is all about.

It's obvious that someone threw a broken balloon with a blowpipe attached into the yard in the middle of the night, deliberately trying to play a prank on someone!

Separated by a courtyard wall, the neighbor's house behind was just a mother and her two children.

Pidan's mom would never play such a prank, so who else would be so foolish?

Someone was probably just bored and wanted to use the same trick to play a prank on someone again, but he never expected that this time his trick would be ruined by Shuanzhu, the newly appointed guard of the house.

Thinking back to the days I spent with Pidan in the hospital, I couldn't help but laugh. I walked to the courtyard wall and coughed, "Pei..."

I only uttered one word before I shut up.

Because, without noticing, I saw several silver chains wrapped around my right hand.

It was a silver necklace with the pendant removed.

Bai Jing lent it to me.

In the detention center, Tong Xiangnan used his knowledge and experience to teach me an emergency method that could temporarily stop someone... no, it was some consciousness that didn't belong to me from intruding on and controlling me.

He spoke so urgently, as if I would die in an instant if I didn't do as he said right away.

Bai Jing trusted him a lot, and in order to cooperate with him, she took off her necklace, removed the jade pendant, and wrapped it around my right wrist.

When I saw the chain, it suddenly dawned on me.

Where I was abducted from and who my biological parents are are secondary issues.

The experience at the charcoal kiln, everything Bai Jing said...

I can hold a grudge against Bai Jing, but I can't lie to myself.

I can tell—I've really been infected.

I looked up at the small two-story building peeking through the courtyard wall, then slowly lowered my head, turned around, and beckoned Shuanzhu to come inside.
"If you can't even protect yourself, then don't provoke others."

(End of this chapter)