悬疑小故事(Mystery story)400-500字

Question

中文版的也行，英语版的最好！！谢谢了！
最好是英语版的!

Answer 1

今天在公司又被上司给骂了，
就是那个连在公司女同事之间风评也差到爆的老秃驴。
“唉唉，该不会最近老觉得有人追踪我的犯人也是那老贼秃吧？”
我一面这样想着，一面抵达家门口。
虽然说是家，
但其实也是个只有两个房间的老旧公寓，
就只有起居室厨房和寝室，也只有起居室才有窗户，
虽说是真的很便宜啦。
打开门锁进了房间，
吓了一大跳，起居室的衣橱被翻乱了！
想起来了，今早吃完早餐出门时忘了锁门，
就这样去上班…… 啊啊……窗户都有锁上
也就是说一定是从玄关侵入的！
感觉好差劲！真让人不爽！好想去死！
算了，今天已经这么累了，
晚饭也别吃了，明天再报警吧！
我再次确定玄关已经锁上，往寝室走去。

答：文中所述主角回家时，家门是锁上的，
但早上又没锁，这显示，侵入者此时就在家中。

Answer 2

The Mystery of the Palm-leaf Fan （神秘的芭蕉扇）

How many palm-leaf fans were there in the book "Journey to the West"? This has been a mystery. I personally think there were two, one held by the Supreme Lord Laozi and the other one by the Iron Fan Princess.

Reasons are as following:

1. See Chapter 59 – Tang Sanzang Is Stopped by the Flaming Mountain, Sun Wukong tries to borrow the Palm-Leaf Fan

Lingji smiled: “That woman is called Luosha, also named the Iron Fan Princess. Her Palm-leaf fan was a treasure from the beginning of time, born from Heaven and Earth on the heights of Mt Kunlun. It contains the essence of the sun, so it can extinguish fire. However if a human is fanned, he would be blown away for eighty-four thousand li’s, unable to stop. There are only fifty thousand li’s from my mountain to the Flaming Mountain. It is fortunate you have the ability to stall clouds. An ordinary person would not have been able to stop.”

This explains the Fan’s main function is to extinguish fire, and nothing else! Fanning people is not its main function, hence proving this fan truly belongs to the Iron Fan Princess.

2. Chapter 52 – Wukong upstages Jindou Cave, Buddha hints at his master

Lord Laozi: “My Golden Bracelet is what I used to become an immortal when I passed the Han Gate. I made this treasure when I was a youth. No matter what weapon you may have, or fire and water, none can go near it. Even I will not be able to help you if my Palm-leaf Fan was stolen from me.”

This except shows that the Supreme Lord Laozi had one as well, used to capture weapons. He believes it is even stronger than his Golden Bracelet.

3. If the Fan was the one belonging to Lord Laozi, the Iron Fan Princess would have no reason to fear the heavenly soldiers, she would have the ability to take care of Sun Wukong her self, there would be no need to let her husband the Bull Monster risk his life to fight Sun Wukong.

4. Treasures from heaven basically have two types of resting places. At the end of the book, they must be returned to their owners. But the Palm-leaf Fan was returned to another.

5. If the Fan had belonged to Lord Laozi, only Buddha would have the ability to capture the monsters. However it was Prince Ne Zha who captured the Bull Monster in the book.

Therefore I believe there were two Palm-Leaf Fans in "Journey to the West", two fans with completely different functions!