Chapter 072 Bloody Fingers
Li Guan went to the company on time this morning. The Li family didn't know that he didn't go to the company at all.
The company's employees didn't know what was going on, but as the boss, even if Li Guan didn't come, it wasn't their business.
So, no one noticed that Li Guan was missing for a whole day.
Later, Li Guan's assistant found that he had sent a message, but Li Guan didn't reply. Finally, he realized that something was wrong, so he contacted the Li family and explained the situation.
The Li family didn't care at first. After all, Li Guan also had bodyguards around him, and they would know it first if something happened. However, when they called Li Guan, they couldn't get through, and finally felt that something might have happened.
Not only was Li Guan's phone unreachable, but the bodyguards were also the same. Normally, as long as it was working hours, the bodyguards would answer the calls from their employers' families first.
Li's mother frowned: "No one answered. Did Guan really have an accident?"
"I remember that he had a cooperation to discuss with Wen Xiuyan today. Let's call him and ask him." After all, he was the big boss of a company, so Li's father was not panicked.
However, before they could call, they received a call from an unfamiliar number.
Li's father would not answer unfamiliar numbers, but when Li Guan was missing, he suddenly received such a call. Even if he didn't think too much, his heart couldn't help but skip a beat.
He still dialed the strange number, and a strange male voice came from the other end. The other party should have used a voice changer: "Hello, dear Boss Li, are you looking for your son?"
Father Li exhaled and forced himself to calm down: "Who are you, is A Guan in your hands?"
"Hahaha, you are worthy of being a big boss, and you are still so calm now." The man on the other side smiled and said: "Don't worry, Boss Li, I just invited your son to come as a guest, don't worry, as long as I am satisfied, I will naturally let him go back."
Mother Li's legs were a little weak when she heard the kidnapper's words, but she didn't dare to speak easily, and signaled Father Li with her eyes what to do.
Father Li shook his head and told her not to act rashly. Li Guan was the heir of their Li family, and nothing must go wrong.
Father Li exhaled: "Okay, how much do you want?"
"Tsk tsk, that depends on how much you think your two young masters are worth." The kidnapper said: "By the way, I kindly remind you, don't call the police. Do you remember the grandson of the Zhang family last year? Because the Zhang family didn't obey, the grass on his grave has grown very tall now, hahaha..."
Father Li sat down on the sofa after hearing this. He knew who this group of people were. They didn't know how they did it. They kidnapped many rich people and never got caught.
Until the Zhang family, they secretly called the police. They didn't know how this group of people noticed it and tore up the hostages directly. The Zhang family saw a bloody suitcase at the door early that morning.
Zhang's daughter-in-law was so shocked that she went crazy. The behavior of this group of people was simply outrageous. It has been so long, but the police still haven't caught them, and they don't even know what they look like.
Even Mr. Li, who has experienced many ups and downs, couldn't bear the shock and was stunned for a long time.
Originally, he was still holding on to the last bit of hope and wanted to secretly call the police, but at this moment, he didn't dare to do it. He didn't dare to bet that the police would find Li Guan first, or...
The kidnapper was very satisfied that he had successfully scared Mr. Li, and said, "By the way, I have a buy one get one free deal here, and there is also a son."
"What?" Mr. Li came back to his senses and his heart skipped a beat.
In addition to Li Guan, his most valued son, he also has several illegitimate sons. Although none of them are as important as Li Guan, some of them are more favored by him.
He was already thinking about which son it was.
"Dad! Save me!" A voice came from the other side, and Li's father immediately recognized it. It was Li Teng.
Li's father breathed a sigh of relief. After all, he was his son. Although he didn't value him that much, he still said, "Don't hurt him. How much do you want?"
"Well... this is cheap, how about 50 million?" The kidnapper directly quoted the price this time.
This is not buying vegetables in the vegetable market, so there is naturally no room for bargaining. Since the other party kidnapped his son, he naturally knew about their family's financial strength in advance.
Father Li didn't struggle too much. He exhaled and tried to calm his breath: "Okay, don't hurt them. Can I listen to what A Guan has to say?"
"Tsk, don't worry, can I still deceive you?" The kidnapper said: "No need to talk, your son is very cunning, raise money well, and I will tell you the place and time of the transaction."
As he said that, before Father Li could continue to speak, the other party hung up the phone.
Father Li collapsed on the sofa, sweating all over.
Mother Li had been covering her mouth, and finally trembled and said: "Old Li, what should we do?"
"What can we do? Raise money." Father Li wiped his face.
"But how much should we raise?" Mother Li didn't have any ideas, otherwise she would not have allowed her husband to have so many illegitimate children.
"We'll raise as much as we can." Father Li tried to calm himself down: "Take out all the liquid funds in the house, and I'll ask the Wen family to borrow some."
Although they have money, they don't have much liquid funds, and they really can't take out too much money in a short time.
But Father Li knew that the kidnappers would not let them go until they made them suffer.
So, Wen Xiuyan received a call from Father Li. He borrowed the money in a private capacity this time, and it can be seen from the way he addressed it: "Xiuyan, I'm counting on you this time."
"Uncle Li, the best choice now is to call the police." Wen Xiuyan frowned and said.
"I don't dare, I can't afford the risk." Father Li's voice was a little tired: "What if something happens to Ah Guan, what should we do? Even if there is a little risk, the Li family can't afford it."
Wen Xiuyan understood why he was like this, and said nothing more, and temporarily agreed to help him raise money.
Jiang Yiqing listened to the side and shook his head and said: "The greed of kidnappers can never be satisfied."
"Well, I asked someone to check. With the style of this gang of kidnappers..., they have a big appetite." Wen Xiuyan also felt that this matter was not optimistic.
"The point now is that they don't know where the kidnappers hid the person." Jiang Yiqing held his chin and smiled, "What if we can find where the person is?"
Wen Xiuyan looked at him, "It seems that Yiqing has a way."
He used a positive tone, obviously trusting Jiang Yiqing very much.
Jiang Yiqing looked happy because of his trust: "Let's give it a try."
Wen Xiuyan stood up: "I'll take you to the Li family."
On the other side, Li Guan struggled hard, but found that the ropes on his body were tied very tightly, leaving no room for relaxation.
He looked at Li Teng with a gloomy expression, and saw that Li Teng was also tied up and sitting on the ground, his face full of fear. When he noticed Li Guan's gaze, he couldn't help but tremble, and the fat on his face also trembled.
Li Guan looked disgusted and said bitterly: "I really regret that I was soft-hearted and didn't send you in!"
Li Guan is not stupid. Originally, his safety was guaranteed. After all, he always had bodyguards around him. But this morning, he met Li Teng, this idiot.
Wen Xiuyan had reminded him before to pay attention to Li Teng, but he didn't take it to heart. In his opinion, Li Teng was a petty villain, and he didn't need to take him seriously. After all, he was ridiculously stupid.
However, he didn't expect that he would fall for this stupid person. In fact, only a fool like Li Teng would cooperate with the kidnappers.
In order to lure away his bodyguards, the kidnappers put laxatives in the meals of the bodyguards, and the kidnappers took advantage of this gap to kidnap him.
Tsk, it seems that these bodyguards and the chefs who are responsible for their diet should be replaced.
But the premise is that he has to get out of here safely.
What's even more ridiculous is that Li Teng probably never thought that he would be kidnapped by these kidnappers after cooperating with them.
Li Teng is not a patient person. When he was kidnapped, he was scared to death. He struggled and said, "You kidnapped the wrong person! I am Li Teng, not Li Guan!"
Li Guan, who was also kidnapped, heard this. What else could he not understand? His eyes became cold. He was really... his good "brother".
The kidnapper might have been annoyed enough by Li Teng, and kicked him in the stomach: "Shut up, why are you talking so much, we are kidnapping you!"
Li Teng's fat body trembled, it was ridiculous that he still believed that the kidnapper would keep his word: "We...we agreed that you must have kidnapped the wrong person! You, you made a mistake, let me go."
"Tsk, do you think we are stupid? What if you go and tell on us? Otherwise... dig out your eyes?" As the kidnapper spoke, he took out a knife and slowly slid it around his eyes.
Li Teng fainted from fear, and the kidnappers immediately burst into laughter: "Hahaha, this is the young master raised by a rich family, a coward, fainted from fear."
Li Guan was blindfolded and could not see anything. He listened coldly to the voice beside him without any reaction.
They were blindfolded all the way and brought to this place. According to the content of the conversation just now, Li Guan analyzed that there were at least more than ten kidnappers in total.
Thinking of this number of people, his heart sank. With so many people, it would be difficult to escape.
Can we only wait here for the ransom from our family? However, Li Guan didn't believe that these people would be reasonable and let him go quietly after giving the ransom.
Fortunately, maybe because he was confident enough, the kidnappers took off Li Guan's blindfold and he saw the kidnapper's face.
Li Guan was not happy. Since the other party dared to show his face so openly, I'm afraid... he didn't want him to go back.
No, he had to escape.
Li Guan analyzed the current situation. At this time, Li Teng woke up slowly. He was not as calm as Li Guan. When he found that he was tied up and thrown in a dirty house, he was in a bad state. He yelled like crazy and asked the kidnapper to let him go.
The kidnapper outside the door was annoyed by the noise, so he came in with an iron bar and beat Li Teng. Seeing that Li Teng finally calmed down, he stopped his action, spat, and cursed: "If you keep talking nonsense, I will cut off your tongue!"
Li Teng met the other party's vicious eyes and broke out in a cold sweat. No matter how stupid he was, he could see that the other party was not trying to scare him, he was speaking the truth.
Li Teng calmed down completely and did not dare to say anything more.
After the kidnappers left, he looked at Li Guan tremblingly: "Brother, I was wrong, I was really wrong."
Li Guan looked at him coldly without saying anything. Even though Li Teng was crying, he could not be soft-hearted at all. He just felt extremely disgusted: "If you want to blame someone, blame me for being soft-hearted and not sending you in earlier. I didn't expect that I, Li Guan, would end up falling for a fool like you." This was
the first time that Li Teng felt so regretful. He did not refute Li Guan's words, but he still naively held on to the last glimmer of hope: "Wait... wait until my family gives the ransom, they... they will let me go, right?"
"No." Li Guan affirmed.
Li Teng's lips trembled and turned pale: "Why."
He knew that Li Guan was smart. Hearing the other party say no, he was even more scared, but he couldn't help but hold a lucky mentality. What if?
"You have just seen their faces." Li Guan patiently explained: "Those who were kidnapped and released before have never seen the faces of the kidnappers."
Li Teng was so scared that he dared not speak.
Li Guan asked again: "How did you contact them?"
It was not the kidnappers that Li Teng contacted, but he was contacted by the other party. After all, he was a wanted person by the police. How could Li Teng contact the other party?
That day, he just came back from an all-nighter and received a call. The other party said: "Mr. Li, you must hate your brother, right? Cooperate with me and I will make him disappear completely. How about it?"
Li Teng's head was originally groggy, but he was completely sober after hearing this. He thought that the other party was sent by Li Guan to catch him, so he refused without thinking.
The other party just smiled and said, "Mr. Li is probably still drunk. Think about it carefully. I'll call you again."
Later, Li Teng found out that the other party was not sent by Li Guan. Thinking of what the other party said, that Li Guan could be completely disappeared, Li Teng became crazy.
He was a man without any sense. He thought that if Li Guan died, he might be able to inherit the Li family. He never thought that Mr. Li had more than just him and Li Guan. Even if Li Guan died, the Li family could not be inherited by him, an illegitimate son who knew nothing.
Anyway, Li Teng was completely blinded by the idea of ββ"inheriting the Li family". His mother had instilled in him the idea that "only by inheriting the Li family can he completely get rid of his illegitimate status and become a real superior person, so that others can look up to him and his mother". As a result, Li Teng had no talent but great ambition.
The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. He even began to look forward to the call from the other party. However, the other party did not call for a long time. Li Teng could not help but feel a little disappointed, thinking that the other party was playing a trick on him.
Just when he was about to forget about this matter, he received another call from the other party. This time, Li Teng was a little excited: "Can you... can you make him disappear completely?"
"Of course you can." The other party smiled happily and said, "However, this requires Young Master Li to cooperate with us to do something. You know, your brother is too scared of death, and he is surrounded by bodyguards."
Li Teng was a little scared when he heard that he needed to do something: "I...what should I do?"
After listening to the kidnapper's request, Li Teng swallowed his saliva: "Kidnap...kidnap? Isn't it just killing him directly?"
The kidnapper smiled: "Young Master Li, we can help you, but you can't let us work for nothing, right? Don't worry, we just need to extort money from the Li family..."
After listening to this, Li Teng felt that the kidnapper was more trustworthy. If the other party helped him for no reason, he would still be suspicious.
So, Li Teng hesitated for a long time and agreed to cooperate with the other party. At
this moment, Li Teng remembered the other party's promise before, that as long as he got the money, he would... kill Li Guan.
His face turned pale, not because he was worried about Li Guan, but because he was afraid that he would be killed along with him.
"Brother... what should we do now?" Li Teng called him brother with great sincerity.
Li Guan closed his eyes. Although he thought Li Teng was stupid, they were now grasshoppers on the same rope: "We have to run."
"How... how to run?" Li Teng was a little scared, but when he thought about what would happen to him when the ransom money came, he mustered up his courage again.
Li Guan looked around for something he could use: "Try to untie the rope."
The two began to grope on the ground. I don't know if it was good luck, but Li Teng touched something sharp, and he quickly began to cut the rope bit by bit.
At this moment, the door was pushed open, and the kidnapper came to bring us food.
Li Guan was still calm. He glanced at Li Teng and quietly attracted the kidnapper's attention to him: "We are tied up, how can we eat?"
"How to eat? Do you want me to feed you?" The kidnapper sneered: "Do you want me to let my good brother teach you?"
As he said, the kidnapper pulled a dog and let the dog eat a bite of their food: "See, this is how to eat!"
Li Guan's forehead jumped and he bit his back teeth.
"Why, you're not convinced?" The kidnapper came over and slapped him. Turning his head, he found that Li Teng was not quite right and was shaking all the time.
The kidnapper narrowed his eyes and walked towards Li Teng.
ββWen
Xiuyan brought Jiang Yiqing to the Li family.
The Li family had long been in chaos. Li's father was anxiously standing with his hands behind his back, waiting for his men to raise funds.
Seeing Wen Xiuyan and Jiang Yiqing coming over, Li's father immediately walked over: "Xiuyan, why are you here?"
He glanced at Wen Xiuyan and found that the other party did not bring any money.
"Uncle Li, under the current situation, if we give the money to the kidnappers, Li Guan will be in more danger." Wen Xiuyan said calmly.
Father Li pursed his lips, turned his back to him, and said, "These kidnappers should keep their word. If we follow their demands, they will release A Guan."
"What kind of people are these kidnappers? Does anyone really believe what they say?" Jiang Yiqing shook his head and looked at Father Li.
Father Li glanced at him with a rather unpleasant expression.
Jiang Yiqing knew that Father Li would not want to hear what he said at this moment, but what he said was the truth. The best thing to do now was to save people first, instead of being led by the nose by the kidnappers. He had read
Li Guan's fortune on the way here just now, and it was a fierce beast.
If Father Li had obediently given the money, what he would get in return might not be a living Li Guan.
The Wen family and the Li family have a good relationship. When the Wen family got into trouble, the Li family was rare in that they did not add insult to injury, and even helped the Wen family.
Wen Xiuyan and Li Guan also have a good relationship.
Therefore, Li Guan getting into trouble is a result that Jiang Yiqing does not want to see.
However, if he tells this to the other party now, the other party will definitely not believe it, so he has to say something that Li's father is willing to believe.
Jiang Yiqing did not speak, but signaled Wen Xiuyan with his eyes.
Wen Xiuyan spoke at the right time: "Uncle Li, before coming here, I investigated some things, you should be interested."
Li's father really didn't have the patience to listen to anything else now, but he had to give face to Wen Xiuyan, so he could only nod patiently.
Before Wen Xiuyan came, he first investigated Li Teng.
It was weird that Li Guan and Li Teng were kidnapped together. Wen Xiuyan knew how much Li Guan hated Li Teng. The probability of the two of them going in and out together was zero, but they were kidnapped at the same time. It was hard not to associate other things.
Wen Xiuyan thought about what he had learned from Wen Junrong a few days ago, that Li Teng was not quite right, as if he was planning something bad.
He was even more certain that the kidnapping might be related to Li Teng.
Also, the bodyguards around Li Guan were given laxatives. According to the chef in charge of their meals, Li Teng had come once while he was cooking.
"So, the kidnappers this time might have "cooperated" with Li Teng." Wen Xiuyan finished his analysis and looked at Li's father.
Li's father looked very bad, and he tried hard to suppress his emotional outburst. Li Teng, this bastard!
He exhaled: "Even if that's the case, what does it prove?"
Wen Xiuyan tapped the table with his finger: "Uncle Li, you should know your son. Do you think Li Teng cooperated with the kidnappers and kidnapped Li Guan just to scare him?"
Li's father's pupils shrank.
Wen Xiuyan's every word hit Li's father's heart: "Uncle Li, he wants Li Guan's current position. He wants Li Guan to die."
Li's father's body went limp and he sat on the sofa powerlessly: "Li Teng, this bastard, he is really crazy, really crazy!"
Jiang Yiqing turned his head and signaled Wen Xiuyan with his eyes: Is it almost done?
Seeing that Wen Xiuyan didn't pay attention, he stretched out his hand and poked the other party. The latter subconsciously held his hand. When he looked at Jiang Yiqing, he realized something. Wen Xiuyan let go of his hand and shook his head.
Now every step is related to Li Guan's safety. Li's father dare not gamble. Sure enough, he said: "Even if so, what can it prove? You also said that the kidnappers are not good people. Can they really help Li Teng get rid of A Guan?"
Wen Xiuyan shook his head: "I can't be sure, but, Uncle Li, do you dare to gamble?"
Li's father's pupils shrank. Yes, that was his son's life. How could he dare to gamble? Those kidnappers were really vicious and extremely evil people.
His lips trembled, and he walked back and forth with his hands behind his back, muttering, "No, I have to think about it, I have to think about it..."
At this moment, the servant outside the door suddenly screamed.
Father Li frowned: "What's going on?"
The housekeeper came over with a pale face: "Sir, we saw a box at the door."
"What box?" Father Li suddenly had a bad feeling, and looking at the housekeeper's face, he knew it might not be a good thing.
"This..." The housekeeper hesitated and dared not speak.
Father Li frowned, walked in front of him, and said, "Open the box!"
Jiang Yiqing and Wen Xiuyan looked at each other and frowned.
The housekeeper's fingers were trembling, he closed his eyes, trembling and opened the box, only to see a bloody cloth inside, and something seemed to be wrapped in the cloth.
Father Li's body shook, but he managed not to faint, and trembled again: "...Open it."
The housekeeper opened the bloody cloth, and inside, a bloody finger was found.