Volume 2: Living with Ghosts Chapter 029 A Plan Comes to Mind
At this moment, there was a man and a woman in the room. If you ignore the woman's appearance, she is a slender young girl with a perfectly proportioned body. At this moment, she is covering her face and can't suppress the restlessness in her heart. The man is nearly 1.8 meters tall, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. His conversation gives people an extremely comfortable feeling. At this moment, his fair and handsome face is full of strong admiration.
The woman's name was Liu Qin and the man was Chen Ping.
"Miss Liu, I'll go back first. We'll see each other tomorrow. A beauty needs a good rest to become more beautiful. Haha, no need to see me off. I can go by myself."
"Chen Ping, don't say that. I feel embarrassed. You are so mean! You must come early tomorrow to chat with me. I don't like you chatting with others!"
Chen Ping smiled, nodded quickly and said: "You are enough, the others are just floating clouds, you must listen to me and have a good rest."
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The two of them lingered for a while in their parting words, and Chen Ping finally left Liu Qin, who was intoxicated and reluctant. When they left the yard, Chen Ping's expression changed instantly. He was originally full of reluctance, but now he only had a calm and peaceful look.
Chen Ping stood outside the door of Liu Qin's house, turned around and looked to the side. After hesitating for a moment, Chen Ping did not walk in the direction he had just looked, but turned around and walked back.
"These 25 women all showed strong admiration for me. When I asked them privately about their opinions of other women, they all gave very low evaluations of others. Each of them told me the bad side of each other, which is very similar to the women's personalities.
They like me, so when I ask them what other people think of them, their jealousy will naturally come out, and they want to use such words to make me hate other women so that I will choose her in the end!"
If this happened to only one person, or just a few people, I could still make a guess based on this, but it happened to all 25 people. Not only was their performance in this regard surprisingly consistent, but even when I tested them in other ways, their performance was also very similar. Either all of them could not meet my requirements, and none of them could satisfy my heart, or what they said and did was almost the same.
Chen Ping had come into contact with these twenty-five women hundreds of times in the past half month. He had tried almost every method he could think of to identify them, but it was completely ineffective. There was no way to identify their identities at all. Up to now, he had not been able to identify even a single ghost.
"It shouldn't be so difficult to pick out a real human being from among the 25 people. The mission has already passed 16 days ago, but I still can't figure out anything. Could it be that all of these people are ghosts? Or are they all human?"
Chen Ping planned to go back and rest for a while. He wanted to sort out his experiences in the past few days. He didn't feel that he had missed anything. Everything was put into action after his careful planning.
Therefore, it is almost impossible for him to have loopholes and overlook details. But for some reason, all he has done has not achieved anything so far. With only 14 days left in the mission execution period, if there is no progress, his situation will be very bad, even though these women all have feelings for him.
Chen Ping had tried to test the waters during these days by talking to them privately all night, but in the end, no woman agreed. He was rejected before he even thought about what to do, which might also reflect the conservative nature of the women in the village. If things really develop in this direction, then this marriage is definitely not something he can get married with, so he needs to give himself more time to fight for it.
While thinking, Chen Ping passed by a thatched hut. He paused when he saw it, then took a few steps back and knocked on the outer door of the hut.
"Is Xiaomei here?"
Standing outside the door, he called out a few times, and soon the sound of the door opening was heard from inside the courtyard. At the same time, a long-awaited shout was heard: "Chen Ping, wait a moment, I'll open the door for you."
The woman who spoke was Li Mei, the first woman Chen Ping had contact with in private.
Chen Ping had been dealing with other women these days, so he rarely came to Li Mei's house. Today, since it was still early before dark, Chen Ping wanted to eavesdrop again, so he came to Li Mei's door.
Li Mei's hurried footsteps gradually became clearer, and the door was opened not long after. Chen Ping felt that it was very bright. Li Mei was wearing a red long skirt with roses on the lower body and a light green suspender top on the upper body. As for the part above the neck, Chen Ping did not pay attention to it.
Li Mei welcomed Chen Ping in with a chuckle. It was not difficult to hear her excitement from her pleasant laughter. Looking at the gentle Chen Ping, Li Mei kept rubbing her hands back and forth, and was stunned for a while.
Feeling the excitement coming from Li Mei, Chen Ping felt even more disgusted, but he chuckled and asked, "Xiao Mei, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"
"No, no, are you thirsty? I'll go get you some date juice!"
"No, come and sit down."
Chen Ping stopped Li Mei from panicking, gently placed his hands on Li Mei's shoulders, and then helped her sit on the chair. Observing Chen Ping up close and being very close to Chen Ping's actions naturally made Li Mei even more upset.
Her heart seemed to be beating so fast that it almost jumped out of her chest. She was very nervous, fearing that Chen Ping might catch her.
" Xiaomei ?" Seeing Li Mei's shy look, Chen Ping asked tentatively.
"Oh! Sorry, I was distracted just now."
"Haha, I suddenly missed you today, so I came to see you. I've been busy meeting other women these days, so I didn't have time to take care of you for a while."
"Oh, I see . Is there anything you think is suitable?"
Chen Ping could sense the sour taste in Li Mei's words, and his originally shy expression suddenly became normal. Chen Ping smiled in his heart, and then put on a disguised face again, sighing and answering: "Let's not talk about whether there is a suitable one. Except for you, the other women almost don't like me. Their attitude towards me is very cold."
"Really? That's great!" Li Mei suddenly laughed, as if what she had just heard was a funny joke.
"Um?"
Chen Ping pretended to be suspicious. Li Mei realized that she had said something wrong and quickly shook her head to explain, "No, I was wrong. I think you are so outstanding that this kind of situation shouldn't happen to you."
"Not all of them."
Chen Ping lowered his head with a melancholy look, and continued in a low voice: "Liu Qin has a good impression of me. The reason why I haven't come to see you these days is also related to her. She said that she doesn't want me to have any contact with other women anymore, and also said..."
Chen Ping deliberately kept the question in suspense here and looked at Li Mei in embarrassment, not knowing whether to say it or not.
Chen Ping stopped talking halfway. Li Mei naturally wanted to get the result, so she asked Chen Ping: "What did Liu Qin say? You can't leave your words unsaid. Don't worry, I won't be angry with her."
"Alas!" Chen Ping seemed to have made up his mind. He clenched his fists and continued, "She also said that she was the only one with both talent and beauty here, and the others were just useless people, and asked me not to destroy my own reputation. I even argued with her about this, saying that Li Mei was not like that. Who knew that she would just sneer and ignore me from then on."
Hearing Chen Ping's words, Li Mei simply stood up in anger and said sharply: "Liu Qin is really too much. She actually prevented the man who hired a wife from contacting other women. This is against the rules! How can she do this!"
Li Mei's complaint immediately caught Chen Ping's attention, which made him feel somewhat fortunate.
He originally wanted to provoke Li Mei and thus promote the fight between Li Mei and Liu Qin. After all, both of them liked him, so it was not impossible for them to fight over him out of jealousy.
If the two of them fought, then it would be possible to determine whether they were ghosts. He thought that there should be no fight between two ghosts. Even if they did not fight but just caused a quarrel, then he had some clues. But Li Mei just said that Liu Qin broke the rules, which meant that Liu Qin was very likely a human, because the custom of this women's village was equivalent to supplementary tasks, equivalent to hidden rules.
Ghosts cannot break the rules of the mission, so this is not nonsense. Although Liu Qin did not say it so directly, it cannot be denied that she meant it, which can be regarded as barely touching the edge of the rules.
Chen Ping has always been a cautious person. Although this can increase the probability, it is not 100% certain that Liu Qin is the person.
Chen Ping glanced at Li Mei in front of him intentionally or unintentionally, and came up with a plan during this brief period of hesitation.
