Chapter 42 Retribution "How come you are the one who brought disaster upon my family...
Police station, interrogation room.
"Brother Bao?" Bai Shuxing crossed his arms and looked careless, "I should call you Uncle Bao or Grandpa Bao now!"
Brother Bao looked at the young man in front of him who was too young and handsome, and said nothing.
"Brother Bao, my real name is Zhang Youshun, I'm 65 years old. I've been trafficking people since I was 15, and it's been 50 years now. You're already this old, why don't you do something good for your descendants?" Bai Shuxing's eyes were full of sincere doubts, "You're really not afraid of retribution at all!"
Zhang Youshun remained indifferent and remained silent.
Bai Shuxing didn't care and continued in a chatty tone, "45 years ago, you abducted a 3-year-old girl named Yaoyao and brought her to the mountains in the southwest of Xia Country near the border. You sold her to someone as a child bride. Do you remember?"
Ling Siyan, who was sitting in the back, suddenly narrowed her eyes and looked at Brother Bao in front of her in astonishment.
Bai Shuxing asked himself and answered, "You probably don't remember. And 26 years ago, you kidnapped a 2-year-old boy named Bai Muchuan in City A. You probably don't remember that either."
"How could you remember?" Bai Shuxing chuckled, "I guess you don't even know the names of those children? After all, they are just goods in your hands. You don't ask where they came from, you just care where they go."
"I'm really curious. Over the years, thousands of families have been torn apart because of you. Are you really so at ease with this? Don't you have nightmares at night?" Bai Shuxing spoke gently, as if he was chatting with a good friend.
"I don't think so. I see you're in good spirits now." Bai Shuxing looked Leopard up and down in a pretentious manner. "But sometimes, you really have to believe in the law of nature and the cycle of cause and effect."
"Do you know? The little girl I just mentioned was sold to the mountains by you. More than ten years later, she was rescued by a painter who went to the mountains to collect life. She thought he was a hero who came on a colorful cloud to save her from danger. Little did she know that he was just an emotional liar who was attracted by her beauty and was fickle. She married the painter and gave birth to a boy for him."
Bai Shuxing continued to narrate in a storytelling tone: "Just when she was immersed in a happy life, the boy was kidnapped and disappeared. The woman begged the painter to find their son all day long, but it only made the man tired of him. The painter was tired of the woman, but he was greedy for her appearance and made her pregnant again. After she was diagnosed with pregnancy, he lingered in the gentle countryside outside and began to stay out all night. After ten months of pregnancy, the woman gave birth to a boy again."
"She was very good to the child. She took care of him personally, sang nursery rhymes to him every night, told him bedtime stories, played with him, and taught him to read and count. It would be great if she could raise the child with peace of mind." Bai Shuxing sighed, with a hint of regret in his tone, "It's a pity that she was still thinking about the man whose heart was no longer with her. When she ran out to find him, she was killed."
"When her child saw her, she was still alive. She held on to her breath and told her child, 'In my life, I never hated your father. I only hated the human traffickers.'"
"Say, 'Shuxing, find Brother Bao. He was the one who kidnapped me and later kidnapped your brother. Find him, find your brother.'"
Bai Shuxing took out a handkerchief, put it in his hand, pinched Brother Bao's chin, and said with a smile: "Okay, the story is over. Look at me and guess why I am sitting here today?"
"Do you know why I know that story so well? You are so cunning that you have been roaming around the country for decades without being caught. You must have guessed it, right?"
Bai Shuxing talked to himself: "You guessed right, the girl who was abducted in the story is my mother, and the boy is my brother."
"My mother doesn't remember where she came from, nor her full name, but she remembers your nickname 'Brother Leopard'. Brother Leopard, do you feel honored?" Bai Shuxing applied a little force with his fingers, his smile remained unchanged, but his eyes were cold: "How come you find my family to be a scourge?"
"Well now, retribution has come!" Bai Shuxing let go of his hand and threw away the handkerchief in disgust.
Brother Bao looked at the smiling young man, the muscles on his cheeks twitched, a hint of fear appeared in his eyes, and he said the first words after they entered the door: "Bai Shuxing?"
Bai Shuxing's mouth curled up a little more: "It's me, Bai Shuxing, people call me Jade-faced Shura. It seems you know me."
"Then why do you still dare to stir up trouble in City A?" Bai Shuxing leaned forward slightly, looked into Brother Bao's eyes, and asked softly, "Haven't you heard of my taboo?"
Brother Leopard bit his lips tightly and said nothing.
He didn't even blink when the policeman slammed the table and spoke harshly, but the smiling eyes of the young man in front of him made him feel a little cold in his heart.
"I heard that your wife, children and grandchildren are all in Y City."
Zhang Youshun felt slightly relieved when he heard this, and even a hint of disdain flashed across his face.
What a Jade-faced Shura, nothing more than this.
"My wife is about to retire, my son works in finance at Rongyue Automobile and will soon be promoted to supervisor, my daughter-in-law works as a quality inspector at Dongsheng and is also a team leader. My grandson has a girlfriend and is getting married soon."
Zhang Youshun asked in a hoarse voice: "What do you want to do? Come to me alone if you have anything to say."
Bai Shuxing ignored him and continued to talk about his own things, "You said you made so much dirty money, why are you so stingy with your family?"
"But it's true. How can a wife who has lived with her husband for so long and has a yellow face and useless children and grandchildren be as pleasing as the concubine in E City who is nearly fifty years old but still has charm, the son of a noble family who has returned from studying abroad, and the chubby and adorable three-year-old grandson who is so cute?"
Zhang Youshun's expression changed completely now. He was no longer calm as before, and his voice was full of panic: "Don't touch them." He even wanted to get up and grab Bai Shuxing, but he was firmly handcuffed on the interrogation chair under him.
Bai Shuxing sighed, "That's a lot of real emotion. What you said just now was as bland as boiled water, so hypocritical that I feel heartbroken for your first wife and her family."
"Don't touch them." Zhang Youshun glared at Bai Shuxing fiercely and struggled on the chair.
"If you keep looking at me like that, I'll dig out your eyes." Bai Shuxing took out a small and exquisite fruit knife from somewhere, still with a smile on his face, and pressed the sharp tip of the knife against Zhang Youshun's eyelids.
Zhang Youshun suddenly didn't dare to move anymore.
Bai Shuxing moved the fruit knife away in boredom, the smile on his face disappeared: "Tell me! Who is your boss, where are you now, and when were the children sold by you over the years, where were they kidnapped from, and where were they sold to. Tell me more, and if you make me feel better, maybe I will let your concubine and her family go. But——"
"If I find out that you are hiding something or telling a lie." Bai Shuxing put the fruit knife to Zhang Youshun's chin, "In a word, I will give you a finger, starting with your youngest grandson!"
Zhang Youshun stared at Bai Shuxing for a while, then leaned back in his chair dejectedly: "I'll say."
"Wait a minute," Bai Shuxing gestured to stop, and raised his head towards the glass on the side wall of the room: "You can turn on the recording equipment now."
He took back the fruit knife and said to Zhang Youshun, "Okay, let's get started!"
"My superior is called Zhao Hu. I only know that he often stays at No. 18 Fenglin Road, Dongcheng District, H City, and No. 158 Luojia Road, Qingyuan Street, D City. There should be other places, but I don't know."
Bai Shuxing tapped the blade of the fruit knife lightly on his palm and said calmly, "Continue."
"I started doing business when I was 15 years old. At first, I worked with a person called Sister Mei..."
"I didn't want to do this deal at first. But Brother Hu gave me 10 million and asked me to just get the person out of City A. I didn't have to worry about the rest. I thought, after this deal, I'll retire."
Bai Shuxing sighed, his tone full of regret: "I have completed the immigration procedures, and I was just waiting for the money to arrive so that I can immigrate abroad with my concubine and family and spend my old age in peace. I didn't expect that I would capsize in the gutter. Tsk, what a pity."
Standing up from the chair and stretching, Bai Shuxing looked at the ceiling and sighed, "So, there is a god above our heads."
Pushing the chair away, Bai Shuxing turned around and asked Ling Siyan with a smile: "Aunt Ling, do you have anything else to ask?"
Ling Siyan lowered her eyes to hide the complexity in them and shook her head: "No more."
The purpose of her coming here today was to force the word "Zhao Hu" out of "Brother Bao"'s mouth.
She wanted Zhao Hu's wanted warrant to be issued all over the country, and wanted Zhao Qian to live in fear every day before facing legal sanctions.
"Then let's go!"
"Wait!" Zhang Youshun shouted from behind, "Do you still keep your word?"
Bai Shuxing paused, turned around, and smiled brightly, but Zhang Youshun felt a chill in his heart.
Swallowing his saliva, Zhang Youshun mustered up his courage and pleaded in his voice: "Don't touch my son and grandson. Yan'er is only 3 years old. He doesn't know anything yet. He still needs his father. If you want revenge, come after me. I'm already in prison. I will plead guilty and pay the price for my previous crimes."
"Only, 3 years old." Bai Shuxing bent down and looked at Zhang Youshun, rubbing the fruit knife back and forth on the tip of his index finger. "I really want to stick this knife into your face and measure how thick it is. You can have the nerve to say such shameless words."
"Isn't my mother 3 years old? My brother is only 2 years old! And those children you took away from their parents, are they not human beings? Don't they need a father and a mother?"
"Shuxing, this is the police station, don't be impulsive." Ling Siyan reminded from behind.
Bai Shuxing turned around and smiled at Ling Siyan, "Don't worry!"
He turned around and threw the fruit knife in his hand away.
The fruit knife, with its sharp silver light, passed through the gap in the fence of the interrogation chair and inserted into the gap between Zhang Youshun's legs.
A foul smell spread along with the water dripping from the interrogation chair.
Bai Shuxing covered his nose in disgust.
"Plead guilty and accept the punishment. Do you think that's enough?"
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