Love letters are not allowed in the exorcism notebook!-Chapter 478 - 56 Wang Yunxiao’s Little Confusion

Veronica was a trustworthy person, the kind of sibling—sorry, sister—that you could give your trust to unreservedly.

I must emphasize this point again.

When she said she had a beautiful sister, she truly had a beautiful sister, the kind that wasn’t slightly overweight, didn’t use beauty filters, nor watered down.

A big sister in her late twenties, speaking the soft dialect of Jiangnan, had even permed her hair, looking quite refined.

As for being blind in both eyes and a bit mentally unstable, that didn’t change the fact that she was a beautiful sister.

The bathhouse owner also had her charm, and one could vaguely discern the beauty of her youth in her features.

Wang Yunxiao comfortably took a bath, spent some money on a basket of steamed buns and two bowls of tofu pudding, then after eating, lay in his underwear on a bed upstairs, called the beautiful sister to massage his foot, and dozed off.

He really was quite exhausted from the journey.

The physical fatigue was secondary; it was mainly the mental strain that was tiring.

Waking up, he saw that the clock on the wall showed it was already noontime.

Wang Yunxiao turned his head and saw Veronica lying on the bed next to him, wearing a bathrobe and soundly asleep, while the beautiful sister had gone over to her side and continued to massage feet, conscientious and uncomplaining.

Well... Although he’d seen it many times before, it must be reiterated that Veronica had really nice legs.

Truly nice legs didn’t need any accompaniment of black or white stockings; they were impressive in their natural state. Without needing to make any deliberate movement, just placed there, they could make a man’s back experience phantom pain.

Slim and straight, skin taut, not an ounce of excess fat, they resembled the barrel of a sniper rifle.

Her vigilance was high, at the slightest stir from Wang Yunxiao’s side, she woke up, opening her eyes and letting out a big yawn.

"Sorry, I pulled an all-nighter again last night."

"So it was actually you who wanted to take a bath, right?"

"Anyway, I needed to sleep for a bit, just say if there is a beautiful sister or not."

"There is."

Wang Yunxiao was very honest but also quite puzzled: "Do nuns really not have to attend morning prayers or anything, allowing you to stay up all night as you please?"

"No one dares to control me, so of course I do what I want."

Veronica sat up and patted the beautiful sister on the shoulder, "Sister Mei, you go down first, order two dishes from across the street, we have some serious stuff to talk about."

The beautiful sister didn’t react at first and continued to massage diligently, and Veronica wasn’t in a hurry, just watching her. After a good while, she suddenly realized, and lifted her head with a frightened face.

"It’s okay, no one is rushing you."

Upon hearing Veronica’s voice, she relaxed a bit, her face breaking into an apologetic smile. She picked up the foot-washing basin and edged backward out of the room, carefully closing the door behind her.

Wang Yunxiao silently watched all this.

If not for the new government, girls like Jiang Yinyin and Zhou Qing would have almost no chance of going to school, choosing their own life paths, and in a few more years, if they were lucky enough not to be ruined, they would probably end up in circumstances such as these.

"What exactly did you encounter on your trip out? Why do you look like you’ve been heavily hit by reality, filled with deep contemplation?"

Veronica asked curiously.

"It wasn’t too bad, just experienced a little more of human species diversity."

Wang Yunxiao shrugged his shoulders and briefly recounted what he had seen and heard while following Old Master He back to Cangzhou.

"The Imperial Jade Seal, huh... What happened after that?"

"After that, I followed the Human Skin Painter and came upon a local noble family."

Wang Yunxiao continued his story from where he had left off that night.

"Although Cangzhou County City is not exactly prosperous, there are quite a few gentry and noble families in the region. The Shen Family is one of them, said to be a distant branch of the Tianmen Shen Family. It is said that in the early years, they had a Scholar and held official government positions. After the new government was established, the family might have declined, but they were still one of the top households in the area."

"Tianmen Shen Family?"

Veronica thought for a while, "Is there really such a family? I’ve never heard of them."

"Have you ever heard of Shen Jianzhen?"

"No, what does he do?"

"The founder of the Northern Times, a philosophy professor at Northern University, and also... one of the veteran figures who originally supported the President, an advocate for the introduction of Western learning, translating foreign literature, and often publishing articles in the newspapers."

"A leader in the literary world? I don’t really like reading newspapers, I’ve never heard of him."

Veronica asked curiously, "Is this person from a noble family?"

"That depends on what the standard for a noble family is. Since even you have not heard of them, they probably aren’t all that famous."

After all, the tall, white-haired girl who looked like a foreigner was in fact a genuine top-tier lady from King Mu’s Mansion, with a proper Chinese name, Mu Yusha.

If she says she doesn’t know them, then the Shen Family probably can’t really be considered a noble family.

"I didn’t dig up much information, but the key point is, from what I can see, people of the Shen Family are indeed working for the President."

"Working on what?"

"Pacifying the borderlands."

"What is that?"

"Essentially, their job is to placate the foreigners."

Wang Yunxiao explained, "Back then, Tianmen’s overseas trade thrived, and the number of emigrants increased year by year. Due to cultural barriers, many disputes arose, so the President specially issued a household registration policy; you know about this, right?"

"Are you talking about the good citizen certificates issued back then?"

"Yes, after the new government was established, it was changed into an official household registration policy. If certain conditions were met, one could obtain a permanent residence permit with long-term residence rights, but the conditions were quite strict..."

"The conditions aren’t strict at all; those who find them strict are mostly people with certain issues."

Veronica scoffed, "If they think it’s too strict, they can go to Edo, where the conditions are quite lenient. It’s their own fault for clinging to Tianmen and refusing to leave."

"This is the problem that people of the Shen Family had to solve. The work Shen Jianzhen was initially responsible for was to pacify and guide these overseas immigrants to prevent them from causing trouble and adding to the President’s burdens."

"Such a dirty job is never easy to do. You have to deal with misery and even filth, and if something really goes wrong, you might be the one sacrificed to quell public anger. So I can understand it if they don’t follow the rules precisely or have some shady dealings when they handle matters." 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

"But the problem is, when it comes to a specific issue, how can you determine their true intentions? Are they truly selfless and willing to bear any hardship for the public good, or are they causing harm to the nation and the people under the guise of the President’s authority..."

Wang Yunxiao sighed, "People like me, ordinary citizens, can’t figure out these issues."

Veronica, puzzled, asked, "After all these reflections, what exactly happened? What did the people of the Shen Family do? Based on that Demon God Statue you brought back, it’s pretty clear they can’t wash their hands clean, right?"

"It’s nothing much; I just learned from their mouths that Professor Shen is compiling new teaching material. Advocating for universal harmony and valuing peace above all—it sounds quite good, doesn’t it?"