The "in-depth experience tour" that Yan Liqiang prepared for Lu Beixin certainly included more than just Ye Xiao's sealed-off mansion.
Of course, Lu Beixin didn't know what chain of evidence was.
On the next day, Yan Liqiang took Lu Beixin to visit the homes of several people who lived in Pingxi City and whose children had confirmed that they had been killed, to "express their condolences" and gave each family ten taels of silver as a token of their sympathy.
Seeing the pain of those people who had lost their daughters and loved ones, and listening to the parents, brothers and neighbors of ordinary families talking about the scenes when they pulled their daughters' bodies out of the well, Lu Beixin was greatly shocked. It was in this shock that the firm belief in Lu Beixin's heart that Wang Haofei was a good man was slowly collapsing.
On the third day, Yan Liqiang pretended to be a rich young man and took Lu Beixin, who was dressed as a man, to Tianfu Teahouse, the busiest teahouse in Pingxi City.
For the entire day, the two of them sat in the teahouse and listened to all kinds of discussions among the people who came to drink tea.
In that teahouse, almost everyone was discussing the shocking case uncovered by the county magistrate's son Ye Xiao. Now, all the contradictions in that case had been transferred by the county magistrate to the Wang family of Huanglong County, and various pieces of information about it were frequently leaked intentionally or unintentionally.
It was the Wang family who colluded with a few scums among the Shatu people to kill and abduct the women in the city. The Shatu man captured by Yan Liqiang and his men admitted that everything he did was done together with the Wang family, and many of them were directly instructed by the Wang family.
The one who even lured Ye Xiao onto the evil path was, of course, a member of the Wang family, and more importantly, an outstanding representative of the younger generation of the Wang family—Wang Haofei.
According to the news from the Criminal Investigation Office, one of the servants of the Wang family confessed that Wang Haofei had asked the Wang family to kidnap two women from Huanglong County and secretly sent them to Ye Xiao's house...
…
In the evening, when it was getting dark, more people came to the teahouse. Hearing everyone in the teahouse talking about the Wang family and Wang Haofei, Lu Beixin's face became uglier and paler. Finally, she couldn't bear it anymore and rushed out of the teahouse.
Yan Liqiang paid the money and hurriedly chased after him, "Why, Miss Lu, you can't stand it anymore? Don't you want to argue with me about who is right and who is wrong, want to gamble with me, want to prove Wang Haofei's innocence? Why can't you listen to what others say?"
"Those are just hearsay, what kind of news are they..." Tears were already welling up in Lu Beixin's eyes, but she still bit her lip and argued.
"Hahaha, since you don't want to say those things are just hearsay, then I will take you to another place and see it for yourself!"
"Where are you going?"
"You'll know when you get there!" Yan Liqiang said, and then he called a carriage and took Lu Beixin to a place in Pingxi City.
Yan Liqiang took Lu Beixin to the most upscale place for men to enjoy themselves in Pingxi City - "Red Mansion".
When the lights came on, Yan Liqiang and Lu Beixin came to the Red Mansion. After a few scenes, they met the madam of the Red Mansion.
Before he could say anything, Yan Liqiang handed over one dollar and five taels of silver, and the old procuress's eyes immediately narrowed with a smile.
"Call over the girl that Prince Wang ordered when Prince Wang and I came together last time?"
"Prince Wang, which Prince Wang?" The madam smiled and asked carefully, "There is more than one Prince Wang who comes to our place?"
"What? You can't even remember who I came with last time?" Yan Liqiang's face turned pale and he pretended to be unhappy.
“Sir, please calm down, calm down. This Red Mansion has so many people coming and going every day. I am really old and my memory is not very good. Please forgive me…” In fact, the madam of a place like this has to meet countless people every day. Unless they are very familiar regular customers, she can’t remember the normal people who come here to consume.
"Humph, it's Young Master Wang Haofei..." Yan Liqiang said deliberately in an angry tone.
"Oh, now that you mentioned that, Master, it reminds me. Master Wang's favorite girl is Xiangxue. Every time Master Wang comes, he will have sex with Xiangxue until late at night. It was Master Wang who deflowered Xiangxue. Two months ago, when I heard that Master Wang had an accident in the Plum Garden, Xiangxue cried for several days. When Master Wang was here, Xiangxue and the two maids beside her were all hired by him. They didn't receive any customers. But when Master Wang had an accident, Xiangxue had no customers anymore, so she came out to receive customers and make money. It's quite a coincidence. Xiangxue had just been receiving customers for a few days when she was spotted by a merchant passing by Pingxi City and redeemed. She is no longer in our Red Mansion. I heard that she became a concubine..."
Before the madam could finish her words, Lu Beixin turned around and rushed out of the Red Mansion.
When Yan Liqiang found Lu Beixin, Lu Beixin was by the river not far from the Red Building, hugging a tree by the river, crying loudly and heartbroken.
This was the first time in three days that Yan Liqiang saw Lu Beixin cry.
Seeing Lu Beixin like this, Yan Liqiang was asking himself if everything he had done in the past three days was too cruel. He had completely crushed a girl's most beautiful memories in the darkest and cruelest way, and then thrown them into the cesspool, making everyone spit at him.
Lu Beixin cried for almost half an hour before her crying slowly turned into sobbing.
"Compared to those girls who turned into corpses and were fished out of the well, you should feel lucky!" Yan Liqiang sighed, "It's nothing to be deceived in love once, just take it as a lesson, because in this world, there is black and white, good and evil, beauty and ugliness, and life is full of different situations. You will live your whole life and are destined to meet many people and many things. It is impossible for everything to go as you wish. There are many people who approach you with the intention of hurting you from the beginning, and there are some people who will always love you, care about you, and never leave you no matter what you are like. So, forget those garbage and unpleasant pasts, and treat them as the pain of growing up in life. It is precisely because of these ugliness and evil that beauty and goodness are more precious. Then live well for those who love you and care about you, and break out of the cocoon and become a butterfly. This is the most correct way..."
Lu Beixin's sobbing slowly stopped. She turned her head, her eyes swollen like peaches. She looked at Yan Liqiang in surprise, as if she had never expected Yan Liqiang to say such words to her, because such words were totally unlike something that someone of Yan Liqiang's age could say.
"If everything I did to you these days has hurt you accidentally, please believe that it was not my intention. Just treat it as a bitter medicine!" Yan Liqiang smiled slightly, indescribably calm and free. "I have just asked someone to notify the Lu family's people in Pingxi City. They will probably be here soon and will send you back to the Lu family tonight. Grandpa Lu and the others are worried about you!"
A few minutes later, a gorgeous carriage and several armed guards from the Lu family trading company appeared in front of Yan Liqiang and Lu Beixin and took Lu Beixin away.
"Yan Liqiang..." Before getting on the carriage, Lu Beixin, who had been lowering her head, suddenly raised her head, looked at Yan Liqiang with complicated eyes, and called out Yan Liqiang's name loudly.
"Miss Lu, what do you want me to do?" Yan Liqiang smiled.
Lu Beixin bit her lip, "I hate you..."
"my pleasure!"
Lu Beixin lifted the curtain and entered the carriage.
Watching the carriage slowly moving away, Yan Liqiang finally breathed a sigh of relief. After looking at the sky, he walked towards the west of the city.
…
Five days later, in the small building in the courtyard of Wuyang Village where Yan Liqiang rented a house, in the heavy snow, in the attic of that small courtyard, Yan Liqiang, with his upper body naked and his whole body red as if on fire, looked at five red bows, one large and four small, formed by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, which sank into his legs, arms, and spine. Then, Yan Liqiang felt his dantian explode, and an ancient four-legged giant tripod appeared, covering his entire body, and then sank into his dantian qi sea.
Yan Liqiang finally advanced to become a warrior...
(End of this chapter)