The Magnificent Son-in-law Chapter 659: Mistaking a Chicken for a Pig

Outside the door, Hua Ling glared at Xiao Feng as if she was about to breathe fire, and sternly questioned, "Why did you grab 'Little Fragrant Pearl'!"

"???", Xiao Feng looked utterly confused, "What little fragrant pig?"

"I saw it with my own eyes, and you still try to deny it?" Hua Ling retorted confidently.

At this mont, Sun Shijie ca over with the young chicken he brought down from the mountain, gripping it tightly in his hands.

Hua Ling pointed at the young chicken and questioned again, "Why did you grab the Little Fragrant Pearl? And pluck its feathers like this?"

Xiao Feng looked at Sun Shijie, noticing the other looked like he wanted to say sothing but couldn't.

"Are you sure this is a fragrant... pig?", Xiao Feng asked incredulously.

Hua Ling nodded affirmatively, "It's the Little Fragrant Pearl!"

"Don't tell sothing's wrong with your eyesight?" Xiao Feng questioned suspiciously.

In ancient tis there was pointing at a deer and calling it a horse, now this lady wanted to try calling a chicken a pig?

But whether it's pointing at a deer and calling it a horse or calling a chicken a pig, essentially it's lying with eyes wide open.

The little girl looked at Hua Ling disdainfully and said in a knowing tone, "Brother Xiao Feng, she's just looking for trouble, trying to find an excuse to stay here."

"Who's making excuses to stay?" Hua Ling said angrily, "If I hadn't seen the Little Fragrant Pearl, I wouldn't bother coming back."

"If you're not eager to return, then just leave, who invited you back?", the little girl raised her head to the sky and ridiculed rcilessly.

Hua Ling gritted her teeth and said, "I can't be bothered to argue with you, but no matter what, you must give an explanation for grabbing Little Fragrant Pearl."

"Stop, stop, stop, stop!"

Xiao Feng made a tiout gesture, unable to listen any further, and said, "I'll ask you again, are you sure it's a pig?"

"Who said it's a pig?" Hua Ling frowned.

"..." Xiao Feng.

He was genuinely a bit bewildered, what kind of logic does this lady have?

They say you shouldn't argue with fools, or you won't know who's actually the fool?

Just as he was thinking, Hua Ling said, "I have known Little Fragrant Pearl since I was a child, once I got lost on the back mountain, it led out of the bamboo forest.

The na was also given by , 'Little' as in little, 'Fragrant' as in fragrant sll, 'Pearl' as in precious pearl."

"..."

Everyone present was flabbergasted, giving a na with homophonic characters like this, it's just too easy to misunderstand!

Xiao Feng couldn't help but think if soone like Hua Ling worked as a zookeeper, she'd probably be fired on the first day of work.

Just imagine, if this lady nad a tiger as a lion, a lion as an elephant, an elephant as an eagle, and an eagle as a panda, it would certainly cause havoc.

However, Xiao Feng noticed a detail, which was Hua Ling saying she was lost in the back mountain when she was little, and it's the "Little Fragrant Pearl" that led her out.

There are two pieces of information revealed in this sentence.

First, the Little Fragrant Pearl... which is the young chicken in Sun Shijie's hand, already existed on the back mountain when Hua Ling was young.

And if that's the case, then here's the problem.

Typically, the lifespan of a young chicken is about seven to eight years.

Let's say Hua Ling is fifteen years old this year, when she said she was young, she must have been under ten.

In other words, if the young chicken in Sun Shijie's hand is the sa one Hua Ling knew from her childhood, then the chick must be at least six or seven years old.

One commonly known fact is that whether animals or humans, they grow from weak in youth to strong in adulthood and return to weakness in old age.

This process is like a circle, from start to finish, no one or animal can escape it.

Of course, like the five old n tied up in the yard, such are rare exceptions, and can't be considered by normal standards.

Xiao Feng's confusion lay in how a chick nearing the average life expectancy limit could show no signs of aging.

As for the second piece of information from Hua Ling's statent, it was that the young chicken had already started leading people years ago.

After a mont of silence, Xiao Feng asked, "How can you be sure that this is the one you saw when you were little?"

"Why can't I be sure?" Hua Ling explained, "Just a month ago, I would still see Little Fragrant Pearl occasionally, if you don't believe it, look at the copper ring on its right foot, I personally put it on."

Sun Shijie was taken aback upon hearing this, looked down, and pulled the young chicken's right foot up to see a small copper ring as expected.

The young chicken habitually started to struggle, inadvertently turning its head towards Hua Ling.

And at the mont it saw Hua Ling, the struggling of the young chicken intensified sharply, almost escaping Sun Shijie's grasp.

"Little Fragrant Pearl, be good, don't be afraid, with here, no one will dare to hurt you." Hua Ling said gently, comforting it as if coaxing a child.

Seeing her face full of love, no one would doubt that if her leg wasn't broken, she'd definitely take the young chicken to hold it in her arms.

And the young chicken seed to truly understand Hua Ling's words, as it laid quietly in Sun Shijie's arms, not struggling even occasionally.

After calming the young chicken, Hua Ling looked back at Xiao Feng, "Now, please explain why you grabbed Little Fragrant Pearl, what exactly did it do to you?"

Xiao Feng said righteously, "It's because of this leading chicken that we almost lost our lives, and a poor lonely old man died because of it, do you think it shouldn't be caught?"

Saying this, Xiao Feng recounted the grievances and incidents between him and the young chicken.

Of course, the story was modified.

In Xiao Feng's version, Sun Zhong was a man of unwavering devotion to love, willing to stay in the mountain to guard the grave of his deceased wife, enduring loneliness, while the fact of guarding the Sun Family's estate was completely omitted.

The rest was not altered much, the completeness and reasonableness of the story seed free of major flaws.

Hua Ling, after listening, firmly said, "Impossible! Little Fragrant Pearl can't be as bad as you say, it's not a bad person, oh no, it's not a bad chicken.

As for leading people repeatedly to that lonely old man's house, the old man must have done sothing to Little Fragrant Pearl, or it wouldn't behave like that."

"Heh heh." Xiao Feng chuckled, his smile insincere, "Then ask your Little Fragrant Pearl what that poor old man did to it."

"It can't speak, how can I ask it?" Hua Ling rolled her eyes, "Moreover, don't think I'm easy to fool, according to your explanation, those bad people who found the mountain were all targeting you.

To account for it, you bear at least half the responsibility for that old man's death.

If you hadn't gone up the mountain, that old man wouldn't have died so innocently under the gun."

Xiao Feng looked at Hua Ling, slightly surprised how her IQ suddenly seed activated?

Hmm... it must be the principle of 'proximity to wisdom.'

Because she was having a conversation with soone smart like himself, her intelligence naturally heightened.

Xiao Feng thought for a mont, then said, "Actually, I didn't plan to steam or boil it, I just wanted to study if besides leading people around, it had any other abilities."