Su Qingqing stepped forward and pulled Sui Huaian: "Wait a minute, how do you know whether what these two people said is true or not? You can't handle this matter, you must call the police."
As Su Qingqing was about to take out her cell phone, a man stepped forward and grabbed Su Qingqing's hand.
With his other hand, he quickly took out a dagger and put it against Su Qingqing's neck: "Don't move, or I'll stab her to death."
He glanced at his companion and said, "Ergou, go into the house and pick up the child."
Ergou hurriedly pushed the bedroom door, but it wouldn't budge. Su Qingqing had locked the door, and it couldn't be opened without a key.
Sui Huaian sneered: "Just the two of you dare to come and snatch the child? Who gave you the courage? I almost believed what you said just now."
Ergou pushed the door twice but it didn't open, and he was already a little panicked.
Sui Huaian glanced at Su Qingqing and kicked Ergou.
At the same time, Su Qingqing bit the man's hand holding the knife and used both hands to grab the knife.
The man let go of his hand in pain, and Su Qingqing turned around and kicked the man's vitals hard. The man jumped up and down in pain, holding his crotch.
Su Qingqing put a dagger against the man's neck: "You can't even beat a woman like me, and you dare to come and steal my child? Tell me! Who told you to do this?"
Sui Huaian had also already restrained Ergou. He tied his hands and feet with plastic bags. He then went to the kitchen and found a rope, tying him to the door frame.
Then he slowly came over and took the dagger from Su Qingqing's hand:
"Do you know how many years you can be sentenced for burglary? Don't you have children? Do you know how much impact your sentence will have on your children's future?"
The man slumped to his knees and kowtowed profusely. "I was wrong. Please don't call the police. I didn't mean to do anything. I was just scared when she said she would, so I pulled out the knife."
"Who was so blind as to ask you to snatch the child? With your abilities, it's no exaggeration to say that Xiao Xinxin is even more capable than you two. How can you not have any self-awareness at all? Those things you just made up were all lies, right?"
"It's not all fake. Except for the kidnapping, everything else is real."
Ergou shouted first: "Let my brother go. He has children at home. I don't care. Just send me to the police station!"
"Xu Lisa asked you to come, right?" Su Qingqing looked at the man: "Are you brothers?"
The man nodded. "Yes, I'm your brother. We haven't received our project payment. Before the Lunar New Year, the guys on the construction site went to the residential complex where Sui Maochang lives to ask for payment, but Sui Maochang never showed up. Later, Xu Lisha gave the guys a portion of their wages, saying she'd give them the rest after they came back after the Lunar New Year."
Su Qingqing asked doubtfully, "Why would Xu Lisha use her own money to pay you? Wasn't this money embezzled by Sui Maochang?"
"Xu Lisa said that as long as we don't make a big deal out of it, she'll help pay off the debt. The prerequisite is that we come back after the New Year and continue to work with the manager she assigned to us."
"Zhu Dayong's health never recovered, and he no longer believed Sui Maochang would give him a profitable project, so he resolutely refused to return after the New Year."
"We had planned to take the remaining money and move to another place, but Xu Lisha refused to pay. Later, we threatened her, saying we knew some of her murder secrets, and she had no choice but to agree."
"He just wants us to follow him and snatch the child away. If we can't snatch him away, we can just pull out a few hairs. There were originally five of us, but three of them backed out halfway through. So, so..."
Su Qingqing asked, "If you can't get the payment, why can't you go through the formal channels? Why do you have to resort to extremes? Did Xu Lisha really kill someone? Aren't you afraid of being murdered by threatening her like this?"
Li Dagou spat, "She has leverage over us, so she doesn't dare to do anything to us. If the formal channels worked, who would take the risk? Everyone knows that Xu Lisha and Sui Maochang are the good cop and the bad cop. Their goal is to find a way to deduct our hard-earned money."
"Sui Maochang said we cut corners and the project was substandard. If we file a complaint again, he'll turn the tables and put us in a difficult position. In fact, the complaint we wrote never made it to the higher authorities before it reached Sui Maochang."
Sui Huaian's face remained cold. Only now did he realize how bold his father and sister-in-law were.
He looks upright and incorruptible, but in private he does some petty thefts.
"You definitely can't take the child away, and we won't give you the child's hair. How are you two going to explain this to Lisa Xu?"
Li Dagou lowered his head in embarrassment: "Well, we can only give up the remaining money! It's not going to come out anyway, so I have to find another job to earn money. There are several people at home who are waiting for food! We can't afford to rely on them anymore."
Su Qingqing asked: "Do you think Xu Lisha can let you go? Has she really killed someone before?"
Li Dagou glanced at Sui Huaian timidly. "We weren't sure originally. We just suspected she was involved in the five people who disappeared in the village five years ago. But the fact that Xu Lisha was willing to give out 100,000 yuan shows that she must be guilty."
Su Qingqing asked in disbelief: "Five people disappeared in the village, but no one reported it to the police? What makes you suspect Xu Lisha?"
"Because last Christmas, I saw a man named Song Yongfa on the street. His father was the foreman among the missing people, and the others were all missing with him."
"I ran up to him and called him, but he seemed very panicked. He didn't say anything, just gestured with his hands. He was probably afraid others would see him, so he told me to leave quickly. I followed him from a distance near Wanda Mall and saw him get into Xu Lisha's car."
Sui Huaian asked in confusion: "Did Song Yongfa disappear with his father?"
"No, he came to the city to look for his father six months after he disappeared, and he never went back. Everyone in the family thought he had met with an accident. His mother cried her eyes out at home.
"At the time, everyone in the village thought Song Changgen's wife wanted to save the child's life, so she asked him to come out to find Song Changgen. Because the other people were brought out by Song Changgen, and when they were gone, they all went to his house to make trouble.
"His parents were forced to commit suicide by jumping into the river. They had already taken away everything they could. They also threatened to exterminate the Song family, so Song Changgen's wife sent Song Yongfa to the city to find his father. But after the child came out, there was no news of his life or death."
Su Qingqing nodded thoughtfully. "So you threatened Xu Lisha, saying you have evidence that she killed those missing people, and asked her to pay you the balance quickly, otherwise you would call the police?"
Li Dagou gave a wry smile. "That's pretty much it. Song Yongfa was a perfectly good guy, but suddenly he can't speak. Xu Lisha must have made him mute because she was afraid he'd reveal the secret. I'm sure those people are long dead, but Xu Lisha isn't sure how much I know yet. She doesn't dare to attack us easily."
Su Qingqing glanced at Sui Huaian and said, "Let them go and have a good meal. I don't think they will survive for many more days."
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