"Answer, or not?" Ye Qing's voice was cold, "If you're not willing to answer, then I'll just hang up. There's no need for us to talk anymore!"
As Ye Qing spoke, he tapped his cellphone, making a motion as if he were about to hang up.
"Wait a minute!" Lu Jiangong shouted loudly, gasping for breath, apparently enraged.
"Speak!" Ye Qing's voice was stern, "I don't want to hear any nonsense, either answer , or I hang up now!"
Lu Jiangong gasped a few tis, and with great effort, suppressed the fury in his heart, and said in a deep voice, "I know about that incident, what exactly do you want to ask?"
"I heard that so people in Erhe Village survived the incident. However, to deceive those above, when the provincial authorities sent people to inspect, you locked up those survivors in a village, and you were the leading guard responsible for watching over those people!" Ye Qing's voice was heavy, "Is there such a thing?"
Hearing Ye Qing's words, Lu Jiangong knew he could no longer hide anything and could only say in a deep voice, "Yes!"
"Good!" Ye Qing nodded and said, "Among those who were detained, there was a girl nad Chen Xueru, you should still rember her, right? I heard that you assaulted her many tis and in the end, you even caused her death!"
"You… who exactly are you?" Lu Jiangong's voice trembled a bit.
"I'm asking you, do you rember her?" Ye Qing's voice was stern, "Don't give
any more nonsense!"
Lu Jiangong was silent for quite a while, then said through clenched teeth, "I rember, but she wasn't killed by , she died of illness!"
"Does it make a difference?" Ye Qing's voice was cold, "If you hadn't hard her, would she have fallen ill? After she got sick, why didn't you find a doctor to treat her instead of just watching her die?"
Lu Jiangong protested, "This… I couldn't help it, at that ti we were just watching over them inside, and actually, no one was allowed to leave, no one was allowed to co in. The situation was very complicated then, I couldn't just help her find a doctor!"
"I don't care about that, this debt is going to be on your head anyway!" Ye Qing's voice was cold, "Do you still rember, Chen Xueru had a daughter not long after giving birth, and later you took her away, where did you send her daughter?"
"What?" Lu Jiangong was even more astounded; he did not expect, that after all Ye Qing's tracing and inquiry, it was just to find out the whereabouts of an infant girl.
"Where did you send her daughter? Speak!" Ye Qing's voice was commanding.
Lu Jiangong hesitated for a mont, then said in a low voice, "At the ti, the situation was a bit complicated; people were very poor and couldn't even sustain themselves, no one wanted to adopt a child. I had no choice but to throw her into the sea."
"What!?" Ye Qing roared out, he hadn't expected, that after all his questioning, the answer would be such a result. Chen Xueru's daughter was thrown into the sea by Lu Jiangong; was there any hope for her to survive?
Lu Jiangong quickly tried to justify, "This isn't my fault; I had no other choice. I wasn't married at the ti, how was I to manage with a child? I didn't want to throw her into the sea, but I couldn't take care of her, so I had to go for the lesser of two sorrows!"
Ye Qing knew that Lu Jiangong's so-called explanations were all lies. With his character, he had simply wanted the infant girl dead, and once outside, he threw her straight into the sea. Such a man, utterly inhuman!
Ye Qing gritted his teeth and said word by word, "Lu Jiangong, you must pay for this!"
Having said that, Ye Qing hung up the phone. On the other side, Lu Jiangong had a ferocious look, putting down the phone, he glanced at several people beside him and said in a deep voice, "Have you located the signal source?"
One of them nodded and said, "It has been pinpointed, near the machinery factory!"
Lu Jiangong waved his hand and bellowed, "Send people to surround the machinery factory imdiately, no matter what, bring him back to . If we can't catch him, then kill him on the spot; we absolutely cannot let him leave alive!"
A bunch of policen imdiately stood up and rushed out to handle the situation. These people were all Lu Jiangong's trusted followers; he had no worries about them carrying out the task.
Holding a photo on the table, Lu Jiangong ground his teeth and said, "Dare to threaten , no matter who you are, I'll make sure you die without a whole body!"
"Old Lu, how could you beco so careless with your work these days?" Lu Jiangong's wife said beside him, dissatisfied, "To do such a thing and still get photographed, how could you be so careless? I'm telling you, you need to carefully consider the people around you; it must have been soone close to you who took this photo. You need to be careful yourself!"
Upon hearing this, Lu Jiangong's brow furrowed. He had been too busy being angry and hadn't thought about this yet; her words imdiately made him feel that sothing was wrong.
His wife said suspiciously, "Also, where exactly was this photo taken? It looks to
like it was inside a villa. Did you buy a house outside?"
Her words made Lu Jiangong's heart skip a beat, and after taking a careful look at the photo, he instantly recognized the location where the photo was taken. Without explaining to his wife, he turned and hurriedly ran out of the room.
Running downstairs, he saw the driver still lying in the car. Seeing Lu Jiangong running into the car in a panic, the driver couldn't help but be surprised, "Boss, where are we going?"
"To the station first!" After saying this, Lu Jiangong imdiately took out his phone and called one of his trusted aides, "Send soone to my villa right now to see if that little bitch is still there. Also, check who she's been eting with recently, especially pay attention to any strangers, and gather all the information for !"
After giving the instructions, Lu Jiangong hung up the phone and dialed another number. After a few rings, a man's voice ca from the other end, "Old Lu, what's up? We're at Xibei Lake, do you want to co over and play?"
"Old Tang, there's... there's been an incident..." Lu Jiangong's voice was anxious as he said, "Soone just called , pressing
about that incident from twenty years ago in Erhe Village."
"What?" Old Tang's voice suddenly rose, and he asked urgently, "What happened? Who's asking about that? What does he want? Is it soone from the provincial governnt?"
"I don't know, he just asked about that incident, and I don't even know who he is. But don't worry, I've already sent people to investigate; he won't be able to get away!" Lu Jiangong said gravely, "Old Tang, this might not be a small issue. You need to be ntally prepared. If sothing happens, you have to help
out!"
Old Tang was silent for a while before he gritted his teeth and said, "No matter what, you need to take care of this situation. I'll hold the fort here in the city, but you must ensure that the news from back then doesn't leak out, understand?"
"As long as you can take care of the pressure from the city's end, leave things here to !" Lu Jiangong breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Don't worry, as long as he's in Xishan City, he won't be leaving alive!"
After hanging up the phone, Lu Jiangong's brows were still deeply furrowed. Although he could control what happened in Xishan City, for so reason, he felt uneasy tonight, and this restlessness was relentless!
Over at the chanical factory, after finishing the call with Lu Jiangong, Ye Qing felt thoroughly dejected. He had thought he was on the brink of discovering the lead, but instead, he had received such news from Lu Jiangong. Chen Xueru's daughter was dead? By that account, Zhou Guiting wasn't the child, wasn't Liu Changping's daughter?
Standing there silently for a mont, the news obtained from Lu Jiangong made Ye Qing lose interest in looking for Zhou Guiting's family. However, after thinking it over for a long ti, Ye Qing eventually decided to make one more visit. No matter what, since he had co all this way, even if Zhou Guiting wasn't Liu Changping's daughter, he still wanted to find out why the Zhou family could be so heartless to their own child.
Zhou Binglin was an old employee of the chanical factory, and this area was the residential district for the factory's workers. It was easy to inquire about the location of Zhou Binglin's ho.
Ye Qing walked into a nearby convenience store, casually bought so things, and casually inquired about Zhou Binglin. The store owner had been here for a relatively long ti, also knew Zhou Binglin, and, upon hearing Ye Qing ask about his ho, the owner imdiately pointed out the way enthusiastically.
"Are you a relative of Old Zhou's family?" It was obvious the store owner was quite nosy. Right after pointing out the direction, he imdiately asked about Ye Qing's relationship with Zhou Binglin.
"Not exactly relatives; it's just that a friend asked
to et them," Ye Qing also just happened to want to get so information out of the store owner, and he said with a smile, "It's about their daughter, Zhou Guiting. She asked
to find Zhou Binglin."
"Zhou Guiting?" The owner was taken aback for a mont, obviously not recognizing the na right away. After a good while, he finally ca to a realization and said, "Oh, you an Tingting, right?"
"Yes, their daughter." Ye Qing said, "You've been here all this ti, you must have seen her, right?"
"To tell you the truth, I've really not seen her much!" The store owner waved his hand and said, "That child, she's been living with Old Zhou's mother since she was small, only when she turned eighteen or nineteen and Old Zhou's mother passed away did they bring her over. But not long after they brought her here, they imdiately got her married off. She didn't even live here for a year. Most of the neighbors around here don't even know they have a daughter!"
"Oh?" Ye Qing furrowed his brows slightly; the further he delved into this case, the more peculiar it beca. If it really was their own child, why didn't they raise her themselves, and why didn't the neighbors even know they had such a daughter? Could this be a case of favoring males over females?
"Is their family particularly biased towards sons over daughters?" Ye Qing continued to probe the store owner.
"Nonsense, what bias towards sons over daughters. I reckon, this daughter might not even be their own!" The store owner was the type who couldn't hold back when it ca to gossiping, and once he got started, there seed to be no end as he said, "They have three children, one son and two daughters, and each one is treasured like a precious jewel. Honestly, those two daughters of his are known for being spoilt in the area around the chanical factory; there's definitely no talk of favoring sons. But Zhou Guiting, even though she lived there for a year, she worked every day to make money; she wasn't raised on their money. Moreover, after they married her off, they still demanded a hefty bride price from the groom's family; it was practically like selling their daughter. Real parents, who would do that?"
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