Chapter 1279 The land is poisonous and the ring is not found

She gave the only sweet dumpling that represented good fortune to Li Jinxing, as a thank you for accompanying her on her 35th birthday.

Worried that Li Jinxing wouldn't be able to eat it, she carefully placed the dumpling on top.

"The dumplings are ready, come and eat them."

It was Jiang Yun's first time cooking here, and she was nervous, worried that Li Jinxing would not be satisfied with the food. She kept staring at his facial features, not missing any small details of his facial expression.

The first dumpling Li Jinxing picked up was a sweet dumpling dipped in vinegar. When it put into his mouth, he frowned and looked unhappy after tasting it.

"Is it not tasty?"

"Why is this dumpling sweet?" He only took a half bite, and the other half of the dumpling was still held by the chopsticks, and the sesame honey inside was flowing out of his mouth.

Li Jinxing said seriously, "I don't like sweet dumplings."

For the first time, Jiang Yun was not afraid of his stern face. Instead, he covered his mouth and smiled: "Don't worry, this one is sweet, the others are salty... Hey, don't throw it away..." Jiang Yun saw that he subconsciously wanted to throw away the half dumpling, and quickly stopped him.

Meeting Li Jinxing's gaze, she explained, "The only sugar dumpling among them represents good fortune. You are lucky enough to have eaten it today, which means you will be blessed for the next year."

Li Jinxing had heard such a statement before, but he never cared about it. Dumplings were only eaten during the Chinese New Year or the Winter Solstice.

What day is today? Li Jinxing didn't know yet, so for a moment he couldn't understand why Jiang Yun took the initiative to make dumplings and gave him this sugar dumpling to eat.

"If you throw away this half-eaten dumpling, your good fortune will be lost."

Under Jiang Yun's eager gaze, Li Jinxing could only stuff half of the dumpling into his mouth and eat it.

"What day is it today?"

After Jiang Yun saw him eat the dumplings, a smile appeared on her face again. She did not tell Li Jinxing that today was her birthday, but said: "Today is the beginning of winter..."

"Winter?"

"Well, it's customary in our place to eat dumplings when winter comes."

Li Jinxing picked up another dumpling and it tasted pretty good.

“Are the meat dumplings delicious?”

"not bad."

"I made many kinds of fillings, including beef and green onions, pork and cabbage, and shrimp..."

Li Jinxing nodded, looked up at Jiang Yun's face, his heart ached, a figure appeared in front of him, and he couldn't help but think of Gu Wanqiu again.

Gu Wanqiu had also cooked for him, but her cooking skills... were not even close to being delicious.

She cooked him a bowl of noodles, which were half-cooked, and put sugar in the bowl instead of salt. He ate it all up, feeling happier and more satisfied than he had with the bowl of dumplings.

"Mr. Li..." Jiang Yun seemed to sense what Li Jinxing was thinking, and couldn't control his emotions. "If, I mean if, there was no Gu Wanqiu... If I was the first person you met, would you fall in love with me?"

Li Jinxing frowned.

"If it weren't for Gu Wanqiu, there wouldn't be who I am today, and you wouldn't appear before me, let alone the question of whether I like you or not... When it comes to things like feelings, it was Gu Wanqiu who taught me first."

So, the answer is very clear. Whether Gu Wanqiu exists or not, Li Jinxing will never fall in love with her.

They are like a crossed line, coming together briefly and then separating further and further away.

Jiang Yun felt a little sad. The dumplings filled with shrimp meat and the delicious soup now tasted like chewing gall, and even the root of his tongue was bitter.

She knew she shouldn't think about her, but she still did. Li Jinxing had reminded her a long time ago not to be so self-indulgent.

At ten o'clock in the evening, just as they were about to go to sleep, He Tian and Zhou Yi tied Li Jinxing to the bed as they did last night, and this time they fed him sleeping pills.

"Boss, did you sleep well last night?"

"Not bad." He was in better spirits during the day than yesterday, so the restraints were still useful.

"That's good……"

As they were talking, the cell phone rang, and the three of them looked at Jiang Yun who was standing at the end of the bed.

Jiang Yun took out his cell phone slowly. When his eyes touched the number, his expression froze, and he said calmly, "I'll go to the balcony outside to answer the call."

Jiang Yun picked up his phone and went out. The bedroom balcony was very large and was separated by a door. When he went out, Jiang Yun closed the door.

He Tian muttered, "What kind of call requires closing the door?"

Zhou Yi said, "It might be a work-related call. People like her who are in the entertainment industry and are public figures have to maintain a good image at all times. However, no one is perfect. They rely on their persona to create a good image. They carry many secrets that they won't easily reveal to outsiders."

Li Jinxing looked over with a deep look in his eyes. He gave Zhou Yi a look. After years of tacit understanding, he understood everything without saying anything.

Jiang Yun was inside the room and was worried that what she said would be heard, so she lowered her voice.

"Mr. Liu."

"I forgot today is the beginning of winter. Happy birthday to you."

Jiang Yun was stunned for a moment, not quite reacting. After a while, he responded, "Thank you, Mr. Liu."

"What's there to thank each other for? Was Li Jinxing with you on your birthday this year?"

"I'm at Qiule Manor." This was her answer. She lived with Li Jinxing at Qiule Manor, so naturally she was with Li Jinxing.

"He doesn't know my birthday."

"Is that so..." The man's tone seemed meaningful, and the drawn-out ending made Jiang Yun's heart constantly lifted up.

"Is he nice to you?"

Jiang Yun thought back to the days she had spent with Li Jinxing. It was pretty good... so good that she was almost getting carried away. Thinking about the dumplings they would eat together tonight, Jiang Yun clenched her phone.

"Well enough……"

"Can I get his company's secrets?"

"No, I've been to his company, and there were so many people watching me that I couldn't find him... There were also so many surveillance cameras, I was afraid I'd alert the enemy before I even took action. As for his house, I didn't dare to walk around casually."

"Are you sleeping in the same room with him now?"

Jiang Yun was a little nervous. When she was nervous, she couldn't help but clench her fists, and her nails dug into the flesh of her palms.

"Yes..." She still didn't hide it from him, perhaps because of her deep-seated fear of men.

"Then you should have a chance to kill him now, right?" the man sneered.

Jiang Yun took a deep breath and looked towards the bed. Li Jinxing had been tied up with restraints, and it would be difficult for one person to untie him. It would be easy to kill him like this.

The man didn't know that Li Jinxing was sleepwalking, nor did he know that he now had to use a restraint belt when he slept at night.

Jiang Yun didn't tell him either. After hesitating for a moment, Jiang Yun bit her lower lip, and the slight pain stimulated her nerves.

"Mr. Liu, I'm afraid... I can't kill him... You know, he's very alert and sleeps very lightly. The day before yesterday, I got up to go to the bathroom, and he found me right after I got up... I don't dare kill him..."

"Are you afraid or unwilling?"

Jiang Yun gritted his teeth: "I dare not!"

She was really afraid that he would deliberately make things difficult for her and ask her to kill someone. If she asked herself honestly, killing was indeed terrible. She really didn't dare to kill anyone. Besides, she would also die if she killed Li Jinxing. This was Li Jinxing's territory. If anything happened to Li Jinxing, Zhou Yi and He Tian inside would skin her alive and make her life worse than death.

"Then forget it."

Jiang Yun breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't expect the man to be so easy to talk tonight.

A moment later, the man on the phone spoke again, "Let's kill him with just one blow. It would be too easy for him to die so quickly. I want him to live in pain, to experience the pain I've endured. I want his next generation and descendants to suffer the same pain. Only this is perfect revenge."

In fact, what he wanted to see most was Li Jinxing being in poverty, but unfortunately... every one of them was too useless.

He is not in poverty, but he has lost the love he wants forever, and has been betrayed countless times. One day, everything he holds in his hands will be gone from him.

Jiang Yun's heart started to panic, and a huge sense of unease came over her.

"Jiang Yun, I don't have much time left. Your birthday has passed this year. Come to my place tomorrow. We haven't seen each other for a long time."

Jiang Yun subconsciously hugged his arms: "Okay..."

After hanging up the call, winter was approaching and the weather was getting colder. Jiang Yun looked up at the sky. It was dark after ten o'clock and there was not a single star.

Jiang Yun stood there for a while before going in. In the ten minutes it took her to answer the phone, her whole body was cold and her nose was red from the wind.

"Who were you talking to on the phone for such a long time?" He Tian asked her. It seemed like a normal question, but his expression seemed weird.

"It's the company's call. My agent called me and told me to go back to the company tomorrow to discuss a job." Jiang Yun smiled easily, making it hard to tell what she meant. She looked at Li Jinxing, who was tied to the bed, and asked, "Are you feeling better now? Do you need to take sleeping pills tonight?"

Zhou Yi said, "We've already eaten. Sorry to bother you tonight. Let's go."

"Okay, no problem."

Jiang Yun watched the two of them leave until they closed the door.

Zhou Yi and He Tian were outside. After they got downstairs, He Tian said, "Was it really her agent who called her? I feel a little weird about this."

"No need to feel anything, she's just weird. Did you get the look in the boss's eyes just now?"

He Tian was confused: "What look?"

Zhou Yi said patiently, "Let's arrange for someone to keep an eye on Jiang Yun these few days. Also, we need to keep a close eye on Si Yan and Si Xu. It's best to ask for leave from school."

Could he comprehend so much with just one look? He Tian began to doubt whether he could hear the voice of his heart.

"Speaking of Siyan and Sixu, I often go to Haicheng to see them. My little girl has grown up now. You said that this daughter looks like her father. It's not a fabrication. She really looks more like the eldest brother. How long has it been since the eldest brother saw them? Doesn't he miss them? Siyan and Sixu went to Haicheng, so why did they bring Xiao Sui with them as well?"

"Maybe he's afraid he'll hurt them again. Besides, it's not appropriate to leave them here right now."

He Tian thought of Jiang Yun upstairs, the same thing!

…

The next day, Jiang Yun took a taxi and left after breakfast without asking for the family driver.

Li Jinxing was resting today and was at home. He sat on the balcony of his study with a computer in front of him. His eyes were fixed on the computer, but his mind had long since flown away.

He looked at the soil downstairs that had not been treated yet. Even he could see that something was wrong. How could there be a piece of land where not even weeds grew?

With nothing to do, Li Jinxing started watching the surveillance camera. His computer was connected to the surveillance camera in Haicheng. It was not like He Tian said that he had never seen his child. He just watched it on the computer every day, watching Xiao Sui grow up slowly.

Every time he looked at Xiao Sui, he couldn't help but think of her cruel mother.

I can usually control myself. Maybe I'm too free today, or maybe it's because I didn't get up and sleepwalk in the past two nights, so my body got a rest and my mental state was good, so I had the energy to think about Gu Wanqiu.

Li Jinxing moved his fingers and adjusted the time of the surveillance video to the day when Gu Wanqiu left. Everything seemed normal. When Gu Wanqiu left, He Tian carried her into the car.

But the video in front... was shaking unnaturally, and Li Jinxing's eyes turned cold...

Just as he was about to take a closer look, there was a knock on the door. Li Jinxing turned his head and said, "Come in."

The person knocking on the door was a gardener, carrying a bag containing a soil test report.

"Mr. Li, the soil test results are out."

"Show it to me."

The gardener handed it to Li Jinxing and said, "The soil contains an unknown toxin, which is why the flowers died and their roots rotted."

When Li Jinxing heard this, his brows furrowed. He took out the report. There were only three pages left and he was about to finish it.

"Poisonous?" Li Jinxing's thoughts drifted away. How could that piece of land be poisonous? Everywhere else was fine except that piece of land.

Is there anything different about that piece of land?

The only difference was that he threw the watch and ring down together, and they fell in that place.

A thought so absurd that it frightened him suddenly popped up in Li Jinxing's mind.

"Now go out and call everyone in the villa to go downstairs and look for the watch and the two rings I mentioned. Even if you have to turn the whole place upside down, you must find them."

When the gardener heard this, he hurried out to notify people. Soon, people gathered downstairs, including the driver and the chef. The area was almost full. The things he threw out were right there, and with so many people looking for them, it was impossible for them not to find them.

Unless... the watch and ring were picked up...

The people in the villa don't have the courage to do that, and it can be detected using surveillance cameras, so he now suspects that it was Gu Wanqiu who went down to look for it from the beginning.

There are some things that you will never know the truth unless you think about them. Once you grasp a clue, you can unravel it and quickly look at the whole situation and see the truth.

Assuming that the watch and ring were found and taken away by Gu Wanqiu, then is the poison in the soil related to her? Why did the flowers die?

In fact, he already had some answers, but he didn't dare to think about it too much. Li Jinxing continued to watch the surveillance video. He pretended not to care before, so he didn't watch it at all, and only found it now.

He is not a fool. He can tell from the tiny details that the surveillance video has been tampered with and edited and replaced, which is why the picture is shaking and the pixels are unstable.