The Tale Never Ends Chapter 135 Edelweiss' Wrath

With Edelweiss' ferocity, she could easily take down three people herself. More so, since the thief was merely a petty hoodlum who knew nothing other than to cheat and lie.

But the crowd of onlookers witnessed only how Edelweiss had pummeled the thief; they did not know that he had tried to steal her purse. With all of them being none the wiser, they wilfully made a report to the police and Edelweiss, together with the thief, were arrested and brought to Zheng Shuang's station.

As the clock slowly ticked in the interrogation room, the officer-in-charge's questioning was hardly helped by Edelweiss' restlessness as she was worried about my dinner instead of trying to cooperate. Reluctantly, she merely responded during the interrogation with angered snorts and disdainful chuckles.

What should have been a simple inquiry turned into a lengthy wrangle no thanks to Edelweiss' poor att.i.tude and the accusation by the thief that she carried a knife. The thief had lost no time in taking special care to remind everyone that he was wrongfully beaten and walloped. But after a search on her, the officers did indeed found a knife on Edelweiss! It was the knife that Shang Pei had given her! Seeing as it was a special gift, she had carried it with her at all times. Moreover, it was common for Mongolian girls to carry knives, although it had become an enc.u.mbrance to her this time.

Even the officers could not believe their eyes when they found a knife on such a lovely girl like Edelweiss. They called their superior, Zheng Shuang for instructions, who ordered them to check on her ident.i.ty. Fortunately, a look on her ident.i.ty card revealed that she was indeed a Mongolian and this silenced the complaints of the thief about her knife. A further investigation involving a view at the security camera footage of the KFC branch showed that Edelweiss was indeed there to buy dinner and she only turned hostile when her purse was almost stolen by the thief. Hence, Zheng Shuang had initially wanted to close the case and let her go once the formalities were completed.

It was only then, Edelweiss realized that it was already five in the evening. Upset that she had not got my dinner, she was angry by the delay caused by the whole debacle and the tough female bandit in her demanded that the thief compensated by repaying her with money for dinner! Zheng Shuang, trying to be courteous, could not allow this; but he was also hard-pressed to refuse her since the policemen were also partly in fault for causing the delay. But there was nothing he could do in the face of Edelweiss' seething temper!

All of a sudden, he blurted a blunt question, one which as good as saved his day, "Wait, please, girl. Where are you from?" Without much thoughts into it, she quickly snapped, "The De Chang Center for Paranormal Studies!" An answer that Zheng Shuang could never believe he was hearing! He rushed out of his room to make a quick call to me. But when he came back, he found Edelweiss on another fit of raging frenzy, laying blows after blows again on the poor thief like a punching bag...

This continued until my much-awaited arrival at the station, and Edelweiss finally stopped torturing the man at my insistence. My appearance quickly melted what anger she had and she quickly turned back into the docile demeanor of a wife-to-be, whimpering to me, "s.h.i.+yan, this thief tried to steal my purse and he blamed me for beating him! Look at the trouble he's caused me! Your dinner, I have not got it yet..." I swallowed hard and wave her off at once, "Shush now, we speak no more of this!"

After a long and detailed discussion with Zheng Shuang, I finally knew everything, feeling both exasperated and frustrated. Zheng Shuang could see the irritation on my face, and hesitantly, he asked, "So... Err... Brother, is she... She's really from the Center?" I nodded my head gravely. "She is. You have not come recently so you might not know. She's my girlfriend, Ala." Zheng Shuang's eyes went as large as eggs as he stared at me for seconds silently before he warily eyed the still fuming Edelweiss. Not knowing how to react, there was a palpable uneasiness between everyone in the room. Finally, I fished out my pack of cigarettes and offered one to everyone; first to Zheng Shuang and Edelweiss, before crouching down to give one to the pickpocket. Then I took out my Spirit Gourd and from it, I took out a little pill and gave it to the man. "Well, I guess apologies are in order, mate. My girlfriend is a tad too harsh on you. But you should have slipped away when you were discovered! Look at the trouble you've got yourself into!" With the help of the pill, the thief had much of his health restored, muttering a flurry of incomprehensible "yeses".

I got up and apologized to Zheng Shuang, "Terribly sorry, mate. What a ruckus we've caused you here." "No problem, man. I too have apprehended your wife without knowing who she was. If I knew who she was, things would never be so..." He remarked feebly and smiled at Edelweiss, "Well, I'm sorry for the ordeal you've had to go through, Sister-in-law! Such a shame. Let me buy you guys a meal next time!" I grinned, shaking my head. We quickly completed all the paperwork and promptly left the station.

On the way back, I merely responded to Edelweiss with miffed grunts and monosyllables. "You're lucky that it was my friend who was in charge of this case! How could you beat a man almost to death! It's all thanks to Zheng Shuang that we don't have to overnight in a jail cell!" Edelweiss' hair drooped over her shoulders dejectedly. In my presence, she had reverted back into her meek and pliable self and offered no insolent defiance. Still, I could see that she was unhappy over what happened. "All right, all right," I switched to a gentle smile and spoke more softly to her, "It's just dinner. I know you're worried that I might be hungry. It's okay. We can just call along Lin Feng and Chongxi. Let's eat outside." I caressed her head and stroked her hair affectionately.

We reached back at the Center and the car eased to a halt just in front of the entrance. A car was just coming in the opposite direction, and behold! It was Chongxi who got down from it! He waved to the person at the wheel was about to slip back into the Center only to have been caught by us! I rushed down the car and ran over to the vehicle he just disembarked. Who else would it be other than the mother of Chongxi's girlfriend! She saw me coming and wound down her window, "h.e.l.lo there, Head Person! I hope business is well!" I flashed a broad smile at her and whispered through her window, "Auntie, there is something that I wish to talk to you about. Well, my boy here has been close with your daughter for some time, yeah? So I was thinking if it would be fine if we arrange a meeting somewhere near this new year. What do you think of it?" She was delighted to hear this! "Of course! That's good! When should we meet?" I could not help feeling the knot in my gut loosen; her earnest reaction could only mean that things would progress well. "I'll set a time then I'll have Chongxi inform you, how's that?"

And so she left, excited and elated as her car vroomed from the curb. Chongxi was standing just outside the door of the Center, staring at our exchange blankly. "Look at you," I said to him, placing a hand on his shoulder and steering him through the door, "Come on, look happy!"

As we stepped through the threshold, I asked if he has had dinner to which he responded with a curt "yes". "But we're planning to go out for dinner now? You wanna come along?" Filled with sudden vim, he snapped, "Of course!"

I went upstairs to get Lin Feng and the six Sisters, and we went to a hot pot restaurant.

As soon as we were seated, and a brief tussle broke out as the Sisters fought for the menu. I ignored the debacle and turned to Chongxi, "Hey, what's going on back there just now? You went to visit your in-laws?" "Course not! You two had just gone out and Xiao Yu's mother came to the Center with somebody with her..."

Apparently, Chongxi was feeling bored being alone at the Center this morning and he chatted with his girlfriend on the phone. Knowing that he was at the Center, she told him about an acquaintance of her mother's whose home was struck with strange and weird incidents. Trying to win his girlfriend's favor, he readily agreed to help, confident that his experiences and encounter would be of use to him now in such "timely" need. This was why his girlfriend's mother then came, bringing along a man with her to the Center.

When they first met, Chongxi saw that the man was both distressed and angry. He put on a profession grin as if he would be able to help solve any problems, and said, "Fret not. Just tell me what your problem is and I'll help you to the best of my ability."

The man then began telling about himself and his predicament: he was a farmer rearing a flock of more than ten chickens. One of the chickens went missing last month. His wife had initially believed that it might have been stolen by some mischievous rascals so they fenced up the enclosure of the chicken coop. But another chicken was found dead this month; its head had been bitten off. This could only be the work of weasels, they surmised. So they waited, until one day, there was a huge commotion coming from the chicken coop. The weasel is here, they realized. The farmer s.n.a.t.c.hed up a pickaxe and rushed into the chicken coop and began thras.h.i.+ng at the predator brutally. But instead of hitting his target, he nearly swooned at strange and noxious fumes emitted by the weasel which then fled from the scene.