It's Cheng Zhiwen!
Shen Qing was both surprised and delighted, and ran over.
Qi Zhenheng saw her first and stood up: "You've come over."
She didn't have time to answer him, and looked at Cheng Zhiwen expectantly: "You've come to Jiangzhou? I just sent you a telegram."
Cheng Zhiwen looked up and smiled at her.
Her curved eyes, as bright and deep as ever, resembled stars.
Shen Qing's heart suddenly raced.
"What's the matter that you're sending me a telegram about?"
Shen Qing snapped out of her daze, lifted her jacket and sat down, and said, "The machine was smashed, and I wanted to ask you if you could fix it."
Cheng Zhiwen glanced at Qi Zhenheng with a serious expression: "Brother Zhenheng has told me everything. Let's go to the factory together later."
Recalling everything she had experienced during his absence, Shen Qing felt both angry and aggrieved.
"Gao Laosan's son said I killed his father, so he's taking revenge on me! His father died at the hands of a prostitute, okay? Do you expect me to bribe that prostitute to kill his father?"
Cheng Zhiwen didn't say anything, but poured her a cup of tea as she listened.
Qi Zhenheng frowned and said sternly, "How can a woman speak so rudely?"
Shen Qing awkwardly shut his mouth, exchanged a glance with Cheng Zhiwen, and silently complained: He's just old-fashioned, I didn't lie to you, did I?
Cheng Zhiwen understood immediately, smiled slightly, and considered it a response.
“Brother Zhenheng, it’s alright. She’s used to being wild, so she’s just a bit rude.”
"How is this rude?" Shen Qing raised her hand and pushed him, displeased. "I'm just telling the truth, okay? Gao Laosan died because of a prostitute!"
Qi Zhenheng coughed lightly and turned his face away, looking embarrassed.
Cheng Zhiwen smiled at Shen Qing: "Alright, alright, you're not rude, you're just being genuine, okay?"
"That's more like it..."
After arguing with Cheng Zhiwen for a while, Shen Qing finally looked back at Qi Zhenheng: "Lord Qi, has Gao Yuanqi's poisonous snake been summoned?"
Qi Zhenheng frowned and shook his head: "We tortured him all night last night, but he just wouldn't tell the truth!"
Shen Qing picked up his teacup, drank it all in one gulp, and stood up: "I'll go take a look!"
"Together!"
"Together."
Cheng Zhiwen and Qi Zhenheng spoke at the same time.
Shen Qing glanced at the two of them and said, "Let's go together then." After saying that, she walked familiarly toward the dungeon in the side courtyard.
Cheng Zhiwen and Qi Zhenheng exchanged a glance but said nothing.
In the dungeon, in the last cell, Gao Yuanqi lay resting on the straw-covered floor.
Shen Qing walked over, lifted the hem of her jacket and skirt, and kicked the cell door hard. The iron chain lock made a loud, jarring metallic clang.
“Gao Yuanqi!” she roared, “Thanks to you, my factory is gone! You are truly wicked!”
Gao Yuanqi woke up upon hearing the sound, struggled to his feet, and limped over to her.
"You killed my father, aren't you wicked?"
"If I had the ability to kill your father, do you think you would still be alive today? Would I have left you alive to take revenge on me?"
Gao Yuanqi remained silent.
Cheng Zhiwen walked over, pulled her behind him, and faced Gao Yuanqi herself.
"You won't talk? I have plenty of ways to torture you." He smirked and produced a short knife from who-knows-where.
The sharp blade gleamed with a chilling white light.
He squinted at the blade and chuckled, "I'll peel off all your skin, hang your body and skin on the city wall to dry in the sun, pour chili oil on them, and let them dry for forty-nine days, so that your mother, wife, and children can stand under the city wall and watch every day."
Gao Yuanqi's expression gradually changed, but he still gritted his teeth.
Cheng Zhiwen raised an eyebrow and glanced at him: "Still not going to talk? Then we'll cut off your limbs, put your torso in a jar, and leave only your head sticking out."
"Throw the jars outside the school where your children go. When they come out of school and see their father turned into a pile of jars, do you think they should go up to you and call you 'Dad,' or walk around you? With a jar-like father like you, will they be ridiculed for the rest of their lives?"
Gao Yuanqi closed his eyes, his lips trembled, and his whole face twitched.
Cheng Zhiwen's smile vanished, replaced by a cold expression: "In truth, you also acknowledge Shen Qing's kindness and that your family won't be implicated by your framing and revenge; and Lord Qi is benevolent, so his crimes don't extend to his wife and children. That's why you dared to act recklessly, and even after your crimes were exposed, you remained unrepentant!"
As he spoke, his left hand swiftly reached through the cell bars and restrained Gao Yuanqi's body, while his right hand drew a short gun.
Blackie pressed the muzzle of his gun against Gao Yuanqi's thigh and pulled the trigger.
Gao Yuanqi was startled and opened his eyes to look at him.
Cheng Zhiwen smiled wickedly: "Shen Qing is kind, and Lord Qi is indeed benevolent, but I am not..."
A muffled "bang" was heard.
The bullet entered Gao Yuanqi's leg.
The excruciating pain caused his face to contort, and his body lost its support, causing him to slowly slide down.
Cheng Zhiwen grabbed his limp body, moved the gun muzzle up, and pressed it against his abdomen.
He was drenched in cold sweat and broke down crying, "I confess! I'll confess everything..."
Cheng Zhiwen was satisfied. He tossed the man back and put the pistol back into the holster on his lower back.
He turned around and raised an eyebrow at Shen Qing: "The rest is up to you."
After saying that, he walked out of the dungeon.
Shen Qing was still reeling from the shock she had just experienced, and stared at Qi Zhenheng with a deathly pale face.
Qi Zhenheng nodded to her and said softly, "Go and ask." After saying that, he also stepped back.
Shen Qing swallowed hard, still deeply shocked.
Although she came from the modern era, she had never seen a real gun fired before...
She forced herself to calm down and looked at Gao Yuanqi lying on the ground.
There was a clear gunshot wound on his thigh, from which blood was gushing out.
Shen Qing shifted her gaze, not daring to look at the gun hole any longer, and asked in a low voice, "Who ordered you to harm me?"
Gao Yuanqi clutched his injured leg and cried out in pain, "Master Zhao...it's Master Zhao..."
"Have you seen the person behind Master Zhao? He must be a high-ranking official."
Gao Yuanqi shook his head: "No... It's always been Master Zhao's men who contact me... It's very difficult for me to see Master Zhao..."
Shen Qing sighed.
That makes sense. The person behind Master Zhao has done countless dirty deeds and has never revealed his true identity. Why would he easily show himself for a mere Gao Yuanqi?
I noticed he was unusually calm the other day, not even afraid of Qi Zhenheng, and I thought he had met that person before.
It was all just a bluff!
Since Gao Yuanqi didn't know who that person was either, Shen Qing didn't want to waste any more words with him and didn't even bother to look at him again.
She turned to leave.
"Once... I heard them say... Master Zhao has always been thinking of you... and he's said..."
Shen Qing stopped and turned around: "What are you saying?"
Gao Yuanqi clutched the bleeding gunshot wound and cried out in anguish, "If you get Lord Qi to release me... I'll tell you... I can even tell you... the secrets of your family's house..."
The house's secret?
So that's why both Master Zhao and Old Man Gao were scheming to take advantage of the Gao family's house.
The question that had been lingering in Shen Qing's mind was opened up a little.
She looked at Gao Yuanqi: "What secrets does my house hold?"
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