Chapter Thirty-two A Sleepless Night

  After Hei Pangzi left for a while, Wu Xianghua's anger slowly subsided, and the onlookers around her also dispersed one after another. Ye Feng finally fulfilled his promise to her.

  Ye Feng accidentally tripped her up, but he also helped her once, so they're even.

  He glanced at his phone and estimated that Qin Yan was almost there, so Ye Feng nodded to her and smiled: "Ms. Wu, I've helped you with your busy work, if nothing else, I'll leave now."

  Wu Xinghua just stared at him blankly, without saying a word, apparently her mind had not yet extricated itself from the events of earlier.

  Ye Feng said another sentence to her, but she still didn't respond. He didn't say anything else and handed the empty soda bottle to the boss, then walked towards the street edge, planning to wait for Qin Yan to arrive.

  Before he could take two steps, Wu Xianghua called out from behind him.

  "Yefeng, wait."

  She walked to Ye Feng's side, the angry expression had disappeared, and she smiled at Ye Feng, saying: "Ye Feng, sorry about that, I was a bit distracted earlier. You tripped me up, but I'm fine, nothing happened. I also believe you didn't do it on purpose, so either way, I should thank you instead. Thank you for cooperating with me earlier, and I'm really sorry to have made you look like a fool."

  Ye Feng wanted to be polite, but before he could speak, the familiar "ding" sound rang out again, and the law prompt informed Ye Feng that he had obtained 20 points of merit value.

  Ye Feng knew that suddenly getting merit points might be because he had just helped Wu Xianghua with a "small favor", but Ye Feng never thought that simply nodding and saying yes twice would actually earn him 20 merit points, which was 10 more than the last time when he indirectly caused Dage's death.

  Is it just a small favor that can make Wu Xianghua feel so grateful to him, someone he doesn't even know well?

  It wasn't until Wu Xianghua called out to him twice in a row that he finally came back to reality.

  "Yefeng, just now you pretended to be my boyfriend and helped me get rid of a big trouble. Alas! I overestimated that dead fat guy after all. If I had known it would turn out like this, I might as well have directly confronted him instead. Yefeng, don't worry about him causing you trouble either. That guy has money and power, but he's not from around here after all. He'll be leaving for Su Province tomorrow anyway. Besides, even if he wants to find you, he'd still need to be able to find you, right? Oh, by the way, Yefeng, do you also live in this neighborhood?"

  Ye Feng shook his head and smiled: "No, I'm just waiting for a friend here."

  "Oh, I see, so Ye Feng, thank you again, you're busy, I'll head home too."

  "Alright, okay, you hurry back home then, goodbye."

  As Wu Xianghua's slender figure gradually disappeared at the entrance of the residential area, Ye Feng's mood suddenly became exceptionally pleasant. He had a chance encounter with her, and unexpectedly gained merit points for the first time after leaving the detention center, which happened to be on such a super beauty, was this also a kind of wonderful fate?

  Just as he was lost in thought, two car horns suddenly sounded. Ye Feng turned his head and saw a small red convertible behind him to the side, its window open, revealing Qin Yan's stunning face.

  "Yefeng, come and get on the car." Qin Yan called out to him.

  Ye Feng walked over and thought of getting into the back seat, but Qin Yan had already taken the initiative to open the front passenger door for him.

  As I sat in the car, I caught a whiff of a refreshing and sweet fragrance that was so captivating, but I couldn't tell if it was the scent of perfume inside the car or Qin Yan's body scent. In any case, the smell was extremely pleasant.

  Qin Yan started the car, turned around and looked at him sideways, saying: "Ye Feng, sorry about that, made you wait for a long time."

  Ye Feng sneered and said: "It's not long, in these days of waiting in the detention center, I've already gotten used to waiting."

  Qin Yan's face fell, saying: "Ye Feng, in the detention center, did you suffer a lot?"

  "You think I look like I've suffered a lot? You also know, those who wanted me to suffer have already been beaten by me until their arms and legs are broken."

  Qin Yan burst out laughing and said, "That's true, but I really didn't see it coming. You look so gentle and weak, yet you can break someone's leg with just one move. Where did you get such great strength from? Do you have a tendency towards violence?"

  Ye Feng knew Qin Yan was intentionally teasing him, so he just smiled and didn't say anything more.

  After a moment of silence, the car drove onto the highway. Qin Yan turned her head several times to look at Ye Feng, then turned back, her expression of wanting to speak but stopping herself extremely obvious.

  "Mr. Qin, is there something you want to ask me?" Ye Feng said dryly.

  "Yes, you've noticed." Qin Yan smiled and said: "Actually, I wanted to ask you a long time ago, but I couldn't find the opportunity. Now that you're finally free, I decided to formally ask you, Ye Feng, tell me, why were you so certain that Liu Yong and Liu Mei would voluntarily confess everything they did on that day? I've been puzzled by this question all along, it's simply unthinkable, those two were like they were hypnotized or something, the whole thing looked very strange. Ye Feng, do you know that your case has become the number one mystery in our lawyer community?"

  Ye Feng knew that Qin Yan would eventually ask him this question, but he was absolutely not going to tell her the real reason. So Ye Feng could only spread his hands and smiled helplessly, saying: "Attorney Qin, when I said those words back then, it was more of an emotional outburst. I don't know why they suddenly confessed in court that day, maybe it was just a coincidence, or maybe after framing me, they couldn't bear the psychological pressure and finally burst out in public."

  Qin Yan slowed down the car, turned her head to look at Ye Feng and asked: "Ye Feng, this case is the strangest, most bizarre and most dramatic one I've encountered since I became a lawyer. If you really don't have an answer in your heart, then I can only say that your fate and luck are really too good. But what puzzles me is why did you want to make that bet with me in the first place?"

  Ye Feng continued to respond to her, "Because at that time in that situation, I said to make a bet with you was also to make myself mentally balanced. The emotions I had been suppressing for so long had no way to be released, and could only be released and balanced through the method of making a bet, which seemed absurd but had a very good effect."

  Qin Yan sighed and stopped asking Ye Feng questions, falling silent.

  Ye Feng knew that Qin Yan still had too many questions in her heart, but there was no way, some things he absolutely could not give her the correct answer directly.

  Qin Yan's home is located in a high-end community in Xihu District, Mingzhu City. The entire community consists of high-rise buildings, and the name of the community is Century Garden. Coincidentally, when Ye Feng first came to Mingzhu City to work, his first large-scale construction site was also Century Garden, but at that time it was still a vacant lot with only rough houses. Now, after several years have passed, this place has basically been fully occupied by homeowners.

  Life is sometimes wonderful, turning around in a circle, Ye Feng unexpectedly returned to the starting point of his journey in Mingzhu City once again.

  Ye Feng didn't know if this also meant that his life would be embarking on a new starting point.

  Qin Yan's home was on the sixth floor of Building 6, a very large room, estimated to be nearly two hundred square meters in size. At that time, Ye Feng had just arrived at Mingzhu to work as a laborer, carrying bricks and sand, and it was unknown whether there was also his sweat left in the steel and concrete of Qin Yan's house.

  As soon as Ye Feng and Qin Yan returned, their mother came out to greet them. Just as Qin Yan had said, she had been worried about Ye Feng all evening.

  That night, Ye Feng and his mother slept in the same room. For the first half of the night, they didn't sleep. His mother had too many questions to ask Ye Feng, and Ye Feng also had a lot of thoughts and hardships that he wanted to tell his mother about.

  That night, Ye Feng didn't cultivate or collect soul flags. He lay beside his mother, holding her hand, counting the white hairs on her head, and listening to her endless nagging.

  A child travels a thousand miles, and his mother worries; only now did Ye Feng truly understand the meaning of these words.

  Her mother's words were hinting at only one thing, wanting Ye Feng to follow her back to their hometown, wanting him to get married and settle down early, living a stable life, even if it meant working hard on the farm, which was still much better than suffering all sorts of hardships in the big city.

  Ye Fengyan refused his mother's good intentions and told her that he wanted to support the whole family, so he had to go out to work.

  The mother finally didn't persuade him to go back, because the mother also understood that if she lost her son's economic support from working outside, their whole family would have a hard time making ends meet.

  In the second half of the night, his mother fell asleep, but Ye Feng still couldn't sleep. He got up and walked to the window, looking at the dark night outside with flashing lights. In his heart, he made a decision: tomorrow, he would send his mother back home. Qin Yan was not related to them after all, and they couldn't continue to trouble her like this. They also had to rent a house and find a job as soon as possible to start a new life.