The group that rushed out captured Zhou Jinbai and Lin Xingwan and brought them to Ding Xinrong's house.
Zhou Jinbai was tied to a pillar, while Lin Xingwan was placed on a large bed with her hands and feet bound.
Their mobile phones had been confiscated. Deng Qi looked at Ding Xinrong, who was tying Lin Xingwan, and kicked him in the backside, saying, "This woman is delicate and tender. Don't you dare break her skin."
Ding Xinrong's lecherous face was full of fawning, "Yes, yes, yes. I will treat her gently."
After he finished speaking, the other men standing in the room, seeing how beautiful Lin Xingwan was, like a celestial being, couldn't help themselves.
"Brother Deng, this woman is so good-looking. Why don't you have your fun with her first? When you're done, we'll have our turn?"
"Yeah, just like twenty years ago. After Brother Deng has had his fill, we'll drink the soup, hahaha."
"This woman is top-notch, more beautiful than those female stars on TV. Look at her skin, it's like a freshly peeled eggshell. I never thought I'd get to defile two celestial beings in my lifetime. I'd die without regret."
...
Deng Qi looked at the men who were practically ready to unzip their pants and said, "What's the fun in knocking them out and sleeping with them? I want to wait until these two wake up and sleep with her in front of her husband, then make him transfer ten million to us. Then we'll kill the man and keep the woman for us to play with!"
Deng Qi's thoughts were extremely cruel. The moment he thought of Zhou Jinbai's disregard and disdain towards him from last night until now, he wished he could pee on him and make him call him 'daddy'.
"Right, it's really not fun when they're unconscious! They won't scream! Our Brother Deng likes women who scream, hahaha."
Deng San, standing beside them, said, "If my son hadn't gone to notify you last night, you would have been in big trouble. You are all safe today because of my son's contribution. If we get ten million, my son gets nine million, and the remaining one million, ten thousand for each of you, is just right."
Deng San had only spoken now because he had already calculated the money in his mind.
"No way, Old Village Chief? Only ten thousand for each of us? That's too stingy. Your Deng family has earned so much money over the years, give us a little more." Ding Xinrong felt that Deng San was too stingy. Although Deng Qi had notified them last night, it wouldn't have been so seamless if it were just Deng San and Deng Qi's father and son today.
"Ding Xinrong, you still have the nerve to say that? Today's disaster was brought to our Anlong Village by you. If you hadn't given the necklace to someone else, would these two have come looking for us? Do you believe I'll make sure you don't get a single cent? Don't forget, the small foreign houses you live in and the cars you drive were all given to you by our Deng family. Otherwise, you would have already been in prison as a labor reform criminal for what happened twenty-five years ago. I hold proof against each of you. Do you believe I'll hand the photos over to the police?"
Deng San's words silenced the others who were initially unhappy with the division of ten million.
Over the years, it was indeed due to the Deng family that they had been able to live comfortably.
In other words, they were all in the same boat, prospering together and suffering together.
The group began to discuss how to abuse Zhou Jinbai and Lin Xingwan and extort ten million yuan.
As time ticked by, Lin Xingwan and Zhou Jinbai, who had fainted, felt a chill and woke up almost simultaneously.
Zhou Jinbai and Lin Xingwan opened their eyes to see each other bound, and their faces showed expressions of extreme fear.
"What... what's going on?" Zhou Jinbai's voice trembled, but no one noticed the fleeting disdain in his cold eyes.
Lin Xingwan was also stunned at first, her mind blank.
But after glancing at Zhou Jinbai, Lin Xingwan also cried out loudly, "Husband, I'm so scared. What's going on? Deng San, Deng Qi, what... what are you doing? Let me and my husband go."
Even in her fear, Lin Xingwan's face was breathtakingly beautiful.
Especially with tears in her eyes, it made the surrounding men wish they could hold her and cherish her.
"Let you go? Hahaha, that's wishful thinking!" Deng Qi walked up to Lin Xingwan and grabbed her chin. "Mrs. Zhou, I was planning to have my fun with you. How could I let you go? As for your useless husband, I plan to chop him up and feed him to the dogs. What do you think?"
Lin Xingwan's eyes widened, her face bloodless, "No, please let us go. We'll give you whatever you want."
Zhou Jinbai, still tied up, spoke weakly, "I have money, I have plenty of money. As long as you let us go, I can give you money."
Deng Qi and the others hadn't expected that they would bring up money themselves before they even asked.
"Alright, as long as you give us ten million, we'll let you go!" Ding Xinrong was too excited and spoke first.
Deng Qi kicked Ding Xinrong again, "Ten million is not enough? Since you have money, then give us fifty million!"
Fifty million?
Deng Qi's words not only surprised Zhou Jinbai and Lin Xingwan but also made everyone else gasp.
In Anlong Village, where the average income was less than a thousand yuan, what did fifty million mean?
"Okay, as long as you let my wife and me go, I'll give you fifty million." Zhou Jinbai glanced at Deng San standing beside him. "Village Chief Deng, didn't I already give you five million? Give me my phone, and I'll have my family transfer another fifty million to your card."
"Quick, quick, give him the phone." Ding Xinrong's mind was filled with fifty million. If the village chief got fifty million, each of them could get five hundred thousand!
Even if they worked their fingers to the bone their entire lives, they wouldn't earn this much money.
Deng Qi was also tempted. He walked up to Zhou Jinbai and said mockingly in an extremely arrogant tone, "I thought you were some big shot, but you're just a coward. Give me the number, and I'll make the call. If you dare to say anything out of line on the phone, I'll kill you!"
Deng Qi then kicked a steel pipe lying nearby, "See this? If you don't want your head to split open, you know what to say and what not to say. Don't try any tricks with me!"
Zhou Jinbai nodded subserviently, "Yes, yes, Brother Deng is right. I'm afraid of death. I won't say anything out of line."
Then, Zhou Jinbai recited a string of numbers, and Deng Qi dialed.
The room suddenly became silent, with only the "beep, beep, beep" of the phone ringing piercingly.
After about ten seconds, a male voice came from the other end, "Boss, what are your instructions?"
"I asked you to transfer five million to Deng San last time. Now, immediately transfer fifty million to him."
"Okay, Boss. It will take about five minutes for the fifty million to arrive. Are there any other instructions, Boss?"
"No."
After Zhou Jinbai finished speaking, Deng Qi hung up the phone with satisfaction.
He was happy that fifty million would soon be transferred to his bank card, but even happier that this man who had been so arrogant was now captured by him like a dog, bowing and wagging his tail.
"Will you let us go after you get the fifty million?" Lin Xingwan's tears finally fell. Her tear-streaked face was most likely to ignite the beastly nature of all men.
Among a pack of starving wolves, she was the delicious little rabbit.
"Baby, don't rush. The money hasn't arrived yet. We'll talk after it arrives." Deng Qi walked over to Lin Xingwan, placed his hand on her shoulder, and then slowly slid down.
Lin Xingwan felt like a toad crawling down her arm. The disgusting, sticky feeling almost made her vomit.
But she still said fearfully, "Don't touch me... Don't... Why did you capture us? We already gave you five million, why are you treating us like this?"
"Of course, it's because you're investigating the incident from twenty-five years ago. You couldn't live a good life, so you had to seek death. What could we do?"
"You... are you involved in the incident from twenty-five years ago?" Lin Xingwan looked as if she had just realized it. "Village Chief Deng, didn't you say last night that you couldn't remember clearly? You were all deceiving me and my husband?"
Just then, Deng Qi's phone rang with a "ding."
Deng Qi quickly took out his phone and looked at it. The next second, he trembled with excitement.
"Fifty million... Fifty million has really been transferred. We actually have fifty million..." Deng Qi's words were like a stimulant to the others, making them excited and agitated.
"Since the fifty million has been transferred to you, can you let my wife and me go now?" Zhou Jinbai asked anxiously.
Deng Qi walked over to Zhou Jinbai and patted his face. "Brat, you're quite rich! But how could I possibly let you go, hahaha..."
Deng Qi's laughter was rampant. "I want you to watch us play with your wife before I send you on your way!"
"No... don't hurt my husband, no..." Lin Xingwan cried out hoarsely, while Zhou Jinbai's expression became even more terrified.
"You want to silence us. Did something truly horrific happen twenty-five years ago? Brother Deng, I know I'm as good as dead, but I came to Anlong Village to investigate the matter from that year. If I don't know the truth, I'll die with regrets. Brother Deng, tell me, please? What exactly happened back then? I can give you all my money. I have billions, and I'll give it all to you."
Zhou Jinbai's tone sounded desperate, and his eyes showed no will to live.
Billions?
Everyone present went crazy. Deng Qi was also excited. Although he felt that things were going too smoothly today, the fifty million had indeed been transferred. If they could get billions more, it was beyond imagination!
"Since you're already facing death, there's no harm in telling you!" Deng Qi's lecherous face was arrogant and conceited. "Twenty-five years ago, a black car drove into our Anlong Village and threw a woman who was unconscious from the car. My father took pity on her, thinking she was crazy, and housed her in a dilapidated tiled house in the peach orchard. She was extremely beautiful and wore a lot of jewelry, making any man's heart flutter. So, she became the outlet for all the men in our Anlong Village. Tsk tsk tsk, that woman was truly beautiful, her face, her skin, it was exceptionally beautiful and smooth."
Lin Xingwan's hands, hanging by her sides, clenched into fists at Deng Qi's words.
"So, that necklace of Ding Xinrong's was snatched from her, right?" Lin Xingwan's tone was no longer as scared, and her eyes even held hatred.
"Of course. That woman wore many pieces of jewelry we had never seen before, clearly valuable. We naturally had to take them. Since we had already had our way with her, her belongings should belong to us too. We even took photos. If only the photography technology back then was more advanced, we should have recorded videos. Such a peerless beauty would have been a sensation online. What a pity."
Deng Qi answered with a look of regret.
If that woman hadn't died, and with this woman today, he would be more carefree and happier than an emperor.
Ding Xinrong interjected, "I still remember that woman left bloody handprints on the ground when she resisted. That scene was truly wonderful."
Zhou Jinbai questioned, "When you gave this necklace to the person who helped your child, you were repentant. Why are you acting like this now?"
Ding Xinrong sneered, his face, split in two by a scar, twisted into a ferocious grin. "Because someone was looking for the jewelry of that woman from back then... Do you think only a few of us played with that woman back then? Nine out of ten men in Anlong Village touched her and stole her things. Later, there were frequent accidents in our Anlong Village. When they died, their jewelry was placed in the most conspicuous position. They all said it was the ghost of that woman returning for revenge, that she could use her jewelry to find the men who had wronged her back then and claim their lives. I was scared! I didn't want to die, so I gave the necklace to someone else, and that's how I survived, hahahaha..."
Lin Xingwan and Zhou Jinbai were both disgusted by Ding Xinrong's betrayal. If the old principal knew that he had helped the child of such a beast, how regretful he would be.
"Taking photos, how did you have cameras back then? And who was the person driving the car into Anlong Village?" Zhou Jinbai's tone, which had been weak and fearful moments ago, had returned to the cold and imposing demeanor of last night.
Deng Qi wanted to explain, but when he saw Zhou Jinbai's stern and noble face, he became furious.
"You useless piece of trash, you dare to question me when you're about to die? I'm going to kill you myself today!" Deng Qi said, intending to punch Zhou Jinbai in the face. Unexpectedly, the man tied to the pillar struggled free with force. He not only dodged Deng Qi's attack but also grabbed Deng Qi's hand and pulled hard, executing a beautiful over-the-shoulder throw, slamming Deng Qi to the ground.
Zhou Jinbai quickly twisted Deng Qi's hands behind his back. The sound of dislocated bones, accompanied by Deng Qi's screams, startled Deng San, who was sitting nearby, causing him to drop the tobacco pipe in his hand.
Immediately after, the door of the room was kicked open, and a group of burly men armed with guns rushed in.
Each gun was aimed at one person, and there were even extra guns ready to blow the heads off anyone who dared to be restless.
The people in the room immediately panicked. They instinctively wanted to jump out of the window, but the person who had just climbed to the window had their waist shot through.
Screams erupted. The people who had been so arrogant moments before were now lying in pools of blood.
The others were so terrified that they knelt on the ground like captives. Even the dying Deng San was kicked to the ground by a bodyguard.
Zhou Jinbai walked over to Lin Xingwan and untied her ropes, praising her, "Wife, you are even more outstanding than I imagined. You did a great job. You are indeed worthy of being Zhou Jinbai's woman."
Lin Xingwan couldn't smile at all.
In fact, everything from this morning until now was part of the plan Zhou Jinbai had discussed with her last night!
Lin Xingwan and Zhou Jinbai were both acting. Zhou Jinbai had told her last night that Deng San and Deng Qi were not good people and would not willingly take them to Ding Xinrong's house, so they decided to play along with their plan. The goal was to make them reveal all the truth when they were most relaxed.
Lin Xingwan initially thought Zhou Jinbai was overthinking things, but she still kept a watchful eye.
She never expected that everything Zhou Jinbai had predicted would come true, and she even learned so much about her mother.
She felt as if her heart had been forcefully torn apart. The pain that shook her soul was more intense than any previous hurt.
She had never known that such a heinous tragedy had happened to her mother.
In her memory, her mother was resilient and beautiful.
Why should such a radiant woman, like the sun, endure all of this?
And ultimately end her life by jumping off a building?
Intense hatred consumed Lin Xingwan's reason. She wished she could personally kill these beasts.
She got off the bed, walked over to Deng Qi, and looked down at the man with eyes full of hatred and anger.
"You're plotting against me! You pair of dogs and bitches are plotting against me! I'm telling you, you'd better let me go. If you dare to touch me, the people above me won't let you go. You won't even be able to leave Anlong Village. Your fate will be worse than that woman's back then."
Deng Qi struggled desperately, but he was no match for the well-trained bodyguards. His resistance was futile at this moment.
"Where are the photos in the camera?" Lin Xingwan asked coldly.
"Let me go first, and then I'll tell you." Deng Qi began to bargain with Lin Xingwan. He knew that these two were investigating the incident from that year. As long as he didn't say too much, he could survive.
However, Deng Qi's thoughts were still too naive. The moment he finished speaking, Lin Xingwan picked up the steel pipe lying nearby and ordered the bodyguard restraining Deng Qi, "Let him go."
The bodyguard looked at Zhou Jinbai for confirmation. The man nodded slightly, and the bodyguard indeed released Deng Qi.
Deng Qi instinctively tried to get up from the ground, but both his hands were dislocated, and he couldn't get up for a while.
He looked at the woman standing in front of him with fear, seeing the ruthlessness on her face, and trembled, "What... what do you want to do?"