Royal Gold Medal County Magistrate

Cat Egg immediately felt like an arrow had pierced her heart and habitually lowered her head.

Li Yu also leaned over to look.

One look, and he was shocked.

Good heavens, the newspapers were from over a year ago, full of outdated news, and the enrollment information was long expired.

Fang Chenyu casually pointed to the character '为' (wèi - for/because of) on the newspaper and asked, "What is this character pronounced?"

Cat Egg looked over, biting her lower lip, hesitated for a moment, and shook her head.

"You don't even recognize the character '为'? And you still want to go to school? You can't even lie properly!" Fang Chenyu mocked mercilessly, reaching for the old book on the corner of the table, "Let me see what kind of book you're reading!"

Seeing the book she cherished about to fall into the hands of this bad egg, Cat Egg couldn't care about anything else and immediately reached out to snatch it back.

The moment Fang Chenyu grabbed the book, he suddenly exerted force.

With a ripping sound...

The already fragile old book was immediately torn in half.

Pages scattered...

"Book..."

Cat Egg looked at the torn book in despair, her legs weakened, and she knelt on the ground.

Tears that had been accumulating in her eyes finally fell in large drops.

Fang Chenyu froze on the spot, holding half of the old book in his hand, stammering, "Ah, I'm... I'm sorry, I didn't do it on purpose..."

After saying that, he thought for a moment and felt that something was wrong!

I'm here to interrogate a 'criminal' today, why am I feeling guilty?

"Stop crying! Stop crying! I'll compensate you with ten books like this in the future. Don't say I'm bullying you, besides, you lied first..." Fang Chenyu said sternly, but his voice betrayed his insecurity.

"Shut up!"

Li Yu glared at him and silently stepped forward to snatch the old book from his hand, then followed Cat Egg to collect the scattered pages.

Unfortunately, several pages had already been torn during the struggle.

Looking at the torn parts, Cat Egg wiped away her tears, heartbroken, and cried softly, "My book... my book...."

"Cat Egg, don't cry, I'll buy you even better ones in the future," Li Yu comforted her, then picked up the tattered book and asked, "You read books every day, why don't you recognize the characters?"

"No one taught me how to read, I... I only know how to write..., My dad said he'll hire a teacher when he has money," Cat Egg sobbed.

"I don't believe it, Lao Li, test her," Fang Chenyu whispered.

Li Yu picked up the book with his left hand, covered half of a character with his thumb, and held out his right hand to Cat Egg: "Cat Egg, write this character on my hand."

Cat Egg glanced through her teary eyes at the half-covered character and quickly wrote it on Li Yu's hand.

After testing several characters in a row, although Cat Egg's writing was not accurate, she obviously wrote each character quickly and perfectly.

Fang Chenyu kept swallowing, greatly surprised.

Li Yu was silent, helping Cat Egg to sit on the chair.

Looking at Fang Chenyu, he said seriously, "Stop testing, you guessed wrong, she didn't lie."

Fang Chenyu's breath caught in his throat: "Impossible! Test a few more, she must be pretending... This little liar is so clever, don't be fooled by her. Why doesn't she use pen and ink to write, it's too strange!"

"My family is poor! Can't afford pen and ink!" Cat Egg retorted angrily, raising her head with hatred in her eyes, shouting, "Why do you always bully me! Where did I lie to you... I've never lied to you!"

Saying that, she jumped off the chair and ran to rummage through the cabinets again.

She found two spirit tablets, placed them on the table, and asked with tears, "My family has lived here since I was a child... Why do you insist that I'm a liar?"

Two spirit tablets suddenly appeared before his eyes.

And Cat Egg's resentful eyes were so captivating.

Fang Chenyu suddenly felt like he had been hit hard in the chest!

No one would joke about spirit tablets, the school had taught how important spirit tablets were.

How could it be... He guessed wrong? It turns out he had been self-righteous all along?

Li Yu walked to his side with a heavy heart and patted him on the shoulder: "Chenyu, that's enough."

"No, no, no... Impossible!" Fang Chenyu shouted, flustered, "They must be pretending, how could there be such poor people!"

"They... They don't have to live this kind of life at all..."

"They can rent out the house and exchange it for money... And potatoes, potatoes can be sold for a lot of money in the capital, they can also grow melons and flowers, why are they poor? It's impossible to be poor!"

Fang Chenyu staggered back two steps, his expression panicked.

The two simple spirit tablets on the table were so dazzling in his eyes.

Li Yu said with a worried expression: "Have you said enough? Cat Egg wouldn't lie, then the newspaper is lying, why would you rather believe the newspaper than a living person in front of you?"

"They're farming, where would they have the energy to do anything else? I worked for two days and know what it feels like. After working in the fields, you don't want to do anything, you don't want to do anything, you just want to sleep. How can you do business like that? You're too taken for granted."

"Chenyu... We've all been deceived."

No wonder Lao Li could fall asleep as soon as he came back, he and Zhou Fugui snored one after another, only he tossed and turned, unable to sleep.

Fang Chenyu looked at Cat Egg, who was covering her face and whose shoulders were constantly shaking, without a trace of blood on his face.

She's not a liar... It's all my own imagination.

What the newspaper said is all fake, there are still so many poor people in the world who can't afford meat, and some people live such a hard life.

Does that mean my dad is the number one liar in the world?

Fang Chenyu was distraught.

Li Yu could only silently stand beside him, equally full of sorrow.

At this moment, the utopian world constructed in the minds of the two teenagers was shattered.

The originally beautiful world began to distort and deform, and some strange things were mixed in.

It was like a monster breaking into the originally peaceful room, destroying it wantonly with its ferocious teeth.

What is true and what is false in the world that they previously knew... They couldn't judge for a while.

In a trance, Cat Egg's sobs reached Fang Chenyu's ears.

Fang Chenyu came back to his senses, looking at Cat Egg's weak and lonely figure, his body gradually began to tremble.

Unbearable memories began to emerge in his mind like a revolving lantern....

She is just a motherless, poor child who can't afford meat, has never drunk honey water, has no money but still wants to study... and now she has been teased by him in every possible way.

What... what have I done?

"Ah!"

The next second, Fang Chenyu screamed and fled out the door.

Li Yu hurriedly chased after him.

"Liar! My dad is the liar!!"

Fang Chenyu ran madly in the wilderness, wailing loudly.

Crying uncontrollably, tears scattered in the air.

Li Yu anxiously chased after him, still carrying Cat Egg's tattered book in his hand.

Fang Chenyu's vision was blurred, running aimlessly, suddenly tripped over a stone on the ground, and fell face-first to the ground, eating mud.

Then he remained motionless....

Li Yu caught up in fear, and as soon as he stopped, he heard a burst of sobbing.

When he helped Fang Chenyu up, he realized.

Fang Chenyu's originally fair face was covered with mud, mixed with tears and snot, a mess.

"Chenyu... let's go back and talk, let's go back and talk," Li Yu kept comforting him, helping him wipe the mud off his face.

However, as soon as he finished wiping, Fang Chenyu's gaze fell on the tattered book.

Two streams of tears couldn't stop flowing down again...

A heartbreaking cry suddenly resounded through the fields.

"I... I deserve to die!!!"

.......