The rhino horse had the strength of a dragon. Even when it was carrying Yan Liqiang and Lu Beixin, its hooves still roared like thunder and clanged like iron, splashing mud and snow on the ground. On that freezing night, it galloped wildly on the road, braving the snowflakes and howling wind.
Yan Liqiang drove his horse and headed straight towards Pingxi City.
Although he had a beautiful woman in his arms, Yan Liqiang's mind was not completely on Lu Beixin, and he had no thoughts of love. If it weren't for the fact that Mr. Lu and the Lu family had done a favor to their Yan family, to be honest, the life and death of a young lady from a wealthy family would have nothing to do with him. It was for the sake of Mr. Lu and the Lu family, and not wanting to see anything happen to the Lu family again, that Yan Liqiang couldn't help but take action to wake up Lu Beixin, a girl who had been deceived and confused.
The only way to wake him up is to use drastic measures!
"Is Haofei waiting for me in Pingxi City?" Lu Beixin, who was sitting on the horse, was a little nervous at first, but when the horse started running and she found that Yan Liqiang had no bad intentions towards her, she felt relieved.
After the Rhino Horse left Lujiazhuang for more than ten miles, it ran to the official road. Just by looking at the direction, Lu Beixin could tell where the Rhino Horse was going.
"Well, Brother Wang is in a secret place in Pingxi City. I'll take you there and you'll know..." Yan Liqiang said calmly.
"Thank you so much this time. I didn't expect you to be such a good person..." Lu Beixin said with some emotion.
Is this the legendary good guy card? Yan Liqiang smiled indifferently in his heart, but his face was serious, "I like to help others achieve their goals, Miss Lu, don't worry..."
"I will thank you very much when I have the chance in the future!"
"Um… "
"Tell me, if I just leave like this, what will my father and the others do..." Lu Beixin seemed a little excited about the upcoming elopement, but also a little nervous and uneasy. After feeling that Yan Liqiang was "loyal and reliable", she couldn't help but reveal some of her thoughts to Yan Liqiang.
"Miss Lu, what do you think Mr. Lu and his men will think?"
"My father and the others will definitely be worried about me..."
"If Miss Lu doesn't want to, I will send Miss Lu back now!"
"I won't go back!" Lu Beixin started to get stubborn. "Hao Fei is such a nice guy, why doesn't my dad agree that we can be together? We can't even date. I think my dad is prejudiced against Hao Fei. Why should the grudge between the Lu and Wang families in the previous life continue to our generation? If I can't even decide my own feelings, what's the point of having mountains of gold and silver in front of me..."
"Indeed, I think the so-called sectarianism should have been put aside long ago. I think there is nothing wrong with Brother Wang's character. I don't know what Mr. Lu thinks..."
"That's right!" Hearing Yan Liqiang agree with her point of view, Lu Beixin suddenly felt that Yan Liqiang was more pleasing to the eye, as if she had met a bosom friend. "By the way, if my father knew that you were the one who rescued me and sent me away, what would you do?"
At this point, Miss Lu finally began to care about the consequences that Yan Liqiang, a passerby, would have to bear for doing this.
"I just said that I was impulsive and I'm young. Mr. Lu won't do anything to me..."
Lu Beixin gritted her teeth and said, "I brought some money and jewelry, probably worth more than a thousand taels of silver. If it doesn't work, I'll give you half of the money I brought, and you can go out and hide!"
"Thank you very much, Miss Lu. Miss Lu, you are also a good person..." Yan Liqiang looked touched.
Miss Lu said righteously, "I can't let you get involved!"
The wind was strong immediately. As soon as they opened their mouths, the whistling cold wind almost filled their mouths. After a few words, Yan Liqiang and Lu Beixin stopped talking. Yan Liqiang concentrated on riding the horse, while Lu Beixin imagined the process of meeting Wang Haofei and eloping with both nervousness and anticipation.
At this time, there were basically not many people traveling on the official road. Although no light could be seen in the sky, the falling snowflakes had already covered the mountains and fields with white, which somewhat increased visibility on the road.
Yan Liqiang rode non-stop for several hours and finally arrived at Pingxi City with Lu Beixin at midnight, before the city gates closed.
In terms of her understanding of Pingxi City, Lu Beixin might even be better than Yan Liqiang. However, as soon as she entered the city, Lu Beixin asked anxiously, "Where is Haofei?"
"Miss Lu, don't worry. That place is hard to find. It's complicated and hard to explain. I will take you there myself!"
As Yan Liqiang spoke, he took Lu Beixin around the city for a while, found an inn, and deposited the rhino horse. Then he took Lu Beixin around in circles, and finally, they arrived at the alley behind Ye Xiao's mansion.
A few days ago, what happened here shocked the whole Ganzhou, but at this moment, the house had already been sealed off. The once luxurious house was dark and there was no one in sight. Because of what happened a few days ago, many women's bodies were found in the well in the backyard of the house. Many people regarded this house as an ominous place. At midnight, there was no one passing by, and the night watchmen seemed to deliberately bypass the house.
"Is this the place?"
"It's here. We'll climb in from here. The front is too conspicuous!" Yan Liqiang said as he nimbly jumped onto the top of the wall.
Although Lu Beixin felt that this house was a bit strange, she had already arrived here, so she didn't think much about it and followed Yan Liqiang into the house.
"Ah, why did Haofei choose to wait for me here?" Lu Beixin turned to the garden of the mansion and looked left and right. She found that there was no one in the mansion, and she couldn't help feeling strange.
"This house was originally occupied by a friend of Brother Wang, who moved out two days ago, so the house is completely empty. Brother Wang is hiding here, so it's quite secluded, and others won't be able to find him even if they want to..." Yan Liqiang said as he walked towards a room not far away with a familiar look on his face. Lu Beixin didn't think much about it and followed him.
When he pushed open the door of the room, he saw that things in the room were a little messy, and it really looked like someone had just moved. Yan Liqiang pulled a cabinet on the wall, and an entrance to the underground passage was suddenly revealed.
The eternal lamp made of whale oil in the passage was still on, as if someone was there.
"You go down first. Brother Wang is right downstairs. I'll close the door to prevent people outside from seeing the light and discovering that there is someone here..." Yan Liqiang said to Lu Beixin with a calm expression.
Hearing that Wang Haofei was just downstairs, Lu Beixin walked down without thinking.
Yan Liqiang pulled up the cabinet behind him again...
Curious Lu Beixin just walked downstairs and found that the floor of the passage below was covered with a red carpet. The decoration looked luxurious, but it led to two directions. She was about to ask Yan Liqiang where Wang Haofei was, but when she turned her head, she felt Yan Liqiang's hand patting her arm. In just a moment, Lu Beixin felt her whole body completely numb and she couldn't move at all. Looking at Yan Liqiang again, she found that the hand that Yan Liqiang patted her arm had a ring on it, and a black needle popped out of the ring.
"Yan Liqiang..." Lu Beixin was shocked and angry, and she shouted directly. No matter how hard Lu Beixin racked her brains, she couldn't figure out why Yan Liqiang would do such a thing. She lost her ability to move in an instant, and the panic that was difficult to conceal appeared on her face all of a sudden.
"This is underground. Even if you scream at the top of your lungs, no one can hear you..." Yan Liqiang looked at Lu Beixin calmly.
"What do you want to do?"
"You will soon know what I really want to do!" Yan Liqiang's smile became inexplicably sinister in Lu Beixin's eyes. "I forgot to tell you that the original owner of this place is called Ye Xiao. Miss Lu should know Mr. Ye. I heard that Mr. Ye admires Miss Lu very much."
"Ah, you are Ye Xiao's running dog. If you dare to touch me, my father will not let you go!" Hearing Ye Xiao's name, Lu Beixin completely lost her composure and her face turned pale.
Yan Liqiang shook his head, "Wrong, I am not Ye Xiao's lackey, your Hao Fei is..."
"You are talking nonsense. Don't even think about slandering Hao Fei..." Lu Beixin glared at Yan Liqiang.
"Hahaha, you'll soon know whether I'm slandering you or not!" Yan Liqiang smiled and picked up Lu Beixin in a princess hug.
Lu Beixin was so scared that she screamed, "Put me down, what do you want to do, put me down quickly..."
"You can't move now. I'm just showing you around here. After all, your Haofei is a frequent visitor here. If you move or shout again, believe it or not, I will strip off all your clothes and throw you into a rat's nest..." Yan Liqiang gave Lu Beixin a vicious look. His words scared Lu Beixin directly. Lu Beixin, who was held by Yan Liqiang, suddenly became quiet.
Although Lu Beixin is a grown girl, her weight is nothing in Yan Liqiang's hands.
Yan Liqiang was holding Lu Beixin as they walked in the tunnel. Not long after they walked, they came to an underground room. In that room, there were iron pillars as thick as arms everywhere. The entire room was divided into eight cells.
"See this small cell? This is where Ye Xiao imprisoned those poor women he abducted here. If your father hadn't confined you to your home for a few months, one of these small cells would be yours. Your Hao Fei would have personally sent a stupid woman like you here and locked you up in a small cell for Ye Xiao to enjoy..."
"Nonsense, nonsense, Hao Fei is not that kind of person?"
Lu Beixin, who had lived a life of luxury in the Lu family since childhood and was treated as the apple of Mr. Lu's eye, had never seen such a dark place. Looking at the cages in the room, it was her first time to come into contact with the darkest side of the world. Miss Lu was so scared that her face turned pale. The faint fishy smell coming from the room made her want to vomit.
(End of this chapter)