Pretending to be crazy is not an easy task.

Every moment, countless pairs of eyes are staring at you.

Strangers, relatives, friends...their eyes are like surveillance scanners, trying to find flaws.

They even try any means to test and torture.

Therefore, few people really stick to pretending to be crazy.

But Guardian Qu did it.

She has been acting crazy for twenty years.

A person who can pretend to be crazy for twenty years may mean that to a certain extent... she is really crazy.

But she is the most sober one.

She was sober that she could tell who was good to her and who was bad to her, whether that person was her daughter, who could tell who could be used, and who should be wary of...

But emotionally, she is really ‘crazy’.

The broken wind chimes under the eaves, the old cloth dolls in her arms, the baby clothes on the ropes... all these objects torture her nerves and emotions.

Alternately torture her from memories and reality.

Even though she is very sober, her "crazy" is real to a certain extent.

This is also the reason why we can hide it from everyone.

Chen Mu looked at the woman's godless and empty eyes and said lightly:

"I found that place, and I believe that you actually know that your daughter is dead. The one that appears in front of you...is just a copy."

The woman seemed to have not heard of it, quietly holding the doll in her arms.

It seems to be holding your own life.

The "ding" sound from the wind chime outside the house seemed to be whispering.

Chen Mu squatted down, thought about it and took out an extremely expensive and high-end talisman next to it:

"This is a talisman. There may be a storm in Destiny Valley next, and there will be a lot of people bleeding. I don't know if you have any plans, but I still hope you can live."

He sighed softly: "I'm not out of sympathy, I just want to ask a question from you, you must know this."

The woman still looks like she is immersed in memories, and occasionally shows a foolish smile.

"That night twenty-two years ago... Dugu Shenyou insulted Mrs. Han. Did you smell it when you heard the movement and entered their room? "

As soon as these words were spoken, the eyes of the woman who was originally in a daze suddenly contracted slightly.

But then, she returned to the situation she had just done.

Chen Mu, who had been observing the other party, did not miss this detail. He curled a small curve slightly at the corner of his mouth, and stood up and whispered to himself: "I understand."

After leaving the courtyard, Chen Mu went to Fenghua City again to pay homage to the prefect Deng Wensheng.

Seeing Chen Mu who came uninvited, Deng Wensheng's disgust became more and more serious, and his tone was extremely stiff: "Has Mr. Chen found Mrs. Gui?"

"No."

Chen Mu shook his head.

Deng Wensheng's words were mixed with a hint of sarcasm: "Seeing that the Marquis looked good, he thought something good happened."

Chen Mu didn't care about the other party's ridicule, glanced at the patches on the other party's clothes, and said straight to the point: "Do you remember the last time I took you?"

Deng Wensheng frowned: "What about Dugu Shenyou and Mrs. Han?"

Chen Mu nodded: "That's right."

Deng Wensheng said lightly: "If Lord Chen wants to know more, he may be disappointed. The subordinates don't know their affairs."

"You definitely don't understand."

Chen Mu smiled and said, "You told me at that time that they were lovers, but in fact Dugu Shenyou and Mrs. Han are brothers and sisters, and belong to half-brothers."

Deng Wensheng stood there in a daze with a look of shock.

After a few seconds, he reacted and shook his head and retorted: "Impossible, I saw it with my own eyes..."

“What did you see?”

From the other party's expression, Chen Mu was sure that Deng Wensheng didn't know the inside story, but it also aroused his strong interest.

If he is not sure about a person like Deng Wensheng, he will not draw a conclusion.

So I must have seen something.

Deng Wensheng's face changed. Under Chen Mu's burning gaze, hesitated for a while, and finally said: "I have seen with my own eyes that they have been close to each other, so I think they are lovers."

"Explanation more clearly."

Chen Mu continued to ask in an interrogative tone. "Is it because they are close to each other? Or is Dugu Shenyou taking the initiative to get close to each other? Or... Mrs. Han taking the initiative to get close to her brother."

Is there any difference?

Deng Wensheng frowned, a little disliked Chen Mu's attitude.

But for some reason, when facing the other party's burning eyes at this moment, I felt an unspeakable pressure.

He relieved some of his emotions by pouring tea and said lightly: "It was Mrs. Han who took the initiative to get close to him. At that time, Mrs. Han had not married Han Dongjiang yet."

Chen Mu took out the small notebook and remembered it, saying, "So, when you saw their close behavior, you mistakenly thought it was lovers. After all, you didn't know that they were actually brothers and sisters. Have you ever asked Dugu Shenyou about this?"

Deng Wensheng shook his head: "I am not a friend of Dugu Shenyou, but I am just getting closer to some official business matters. I don't want to pay attention to his personal matters."

Hearing this, Chen Mu was both annoyed and speechless at the man in front of him.

This guy relied on his own imagination and guesses, which made him look in the wrong direction and was ridiculed by the goddess.

If I hadn't been concerned about my identity, I would have slapped it with a big mouth.

"Why did Mrs. Han marry Han Dongjiang?"

"I don't know."

"You really don't know?" Chen Mu smiled. "Didn't you say before that because Dugu Shenyou had an affair with another woman, Mrs. Han married his junior brother Han Dongjiang in anger?"

"Yes, I thought so at that time. But now since they are brothers and sisters, there is no way to marry in anger."

Deng Wensheng pinched his eyebrows and said a little tired.

Chen Mu gently put down the charcoal pen in his hand, took out the handkerchief and wiped his fingers: "I'm very curious, who was the woman who had an affair with Dugu Shenyou at that time? Don't say you don't know him."

"I don't know you." Deng Wensheng replied.

Chen Mu said: "You know each other."

"..." Deng Wensheng was silent for a while, but still shook his head. "I really don't know him."

"Mrs. White."

Chen Mu suddenly gave an answer.

The room suddenly fell into death silence, and the sunlight that casted dust through the window bar seemed to stop.

Looking at Deng Wensheng's shocked expression, Chen Mu showed a very proud expression: "Actually, I guessed it randomly, but from your expression... I understand that I guessed it right. That painting... was brought to Tiande Valley by Dugu Shenyou."

Deng Wensheng didn't say anything, but just looked at Chen Mu with a complicated look.

Although there is still disgust, there is a little more appreciation and admiration.

Chen Mu brewed a cup of tea on his own, blew off the residue on the water surface, and drank a few sips without fear of being scalded, and stood up.

He raised his right hand to cover his forehead, blocking the light outside the window: "Mr. Deng, you did not regard Dugu Shenyou as a friend. But he treated you as a friend. Except for the fact that he has always kept his brother and sister, he will inadvertently reveal some other secrets to you."

"Yes, you're right."

Deng Wensheng breathed in a turbid breath and said, "The Master Dugu liked a woman at that time, but I really didn't know this woman. He showed me a portrait. Later, he called her Mrs. Bai."

Things will be clear here.

The woman who had an affair with Dugu Shenyou back then was the woman in the wedding dress in the portrait in the cave.

It wasn't the ghost bride who kept track of him.

And the woman eventually married into the Bai family for various reasons, and Dugu Shenyou could only miss her with that painting.

As for the time when Miss Yan'er said she didn't know who the person in the painting was.

Maybe she really doesn't know, or maybe she deliberately conceals it.

But none of these matters anymore.

At least the clues obtained from Deng Wensheng today allowed Chen Mu to further infer more truths.

"Mr. Deng, it's going to rain soon."
Chapter completed!