Chapter 215 Arson
There was a lot of gasoline; it was stored in several large barrels.
Qiao Mei found a pipe that could be used to suck up gasoline, inserted it into each of the pipes, and connected them to the main house through the basement.
The place she entered was a high-rise villa.
Someone died upstairs, and the murderer has disappeared without a trace. The servants are probably too scared to carry the coal boss's body down. They're all scrambling to loot the valuables in the villa. When disaster strikes, everyone flees for their lives.
This made it easier for Qiao Mei to get things done. Taking advantage of the chaos, she placed the pipe on the ground and removed the rag covering the pipe opening.
Once the gasoline had almost completely soaked the entire first-floor lobby, she stood at a distance, lit the cut-off piece of fabric with a lighter, and threw it at the gasoline-soaked curtains.
The fire instantly climbed to every corner of the villa at an extremely fast speed.
By the time the servants who were looting realized something was wrong, a third of the entire villa had already been burned down.
Qiao Mei left the villa and stood in the woods staring at the raging fire. She remembered that her biological father was still in the first floor smoking the "good stuff" given to him by the coal boss. Worried that he might escape, she deliberately went to take another look against the flow of people.
Seeing her father, who was unworthy of being a father, sleeping peacefully in a rocking chair through the blazing window, with unfinished white powder still on his lips, she finally breathed a sigh of relief, moved away from the fire, and quietly watched the fire continue to spread.
To satisfy his peculiar hobby, the coal mine owner chose a villa located in a very remote suburb.
It's snowing heavily again today, so it will take the fire department quite a while to get here.
Qiao Mei quietly watched the fire from the woods. She felt that the building had been almost completely burned down, and the people were probably just bones or ashes. Only then did she stand up, her stiff body stiff, and began to eat the pastries she had brought from the villa to fill her stomach.
After so long, the pastries have become hard and dry, making them difficult to chew.
But she felt it was the best pastry she had eaten in years, and she wolfed it down.
After doing all this, she left the depths of the forest, intending to go home and bring her younger brother out, away from that hellish home.
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When Ao Cang arrived at the location following Qiao Mei's scent, he saw flames soaring into the sky and heard the fire brigade's commands to put out the fire.
For a fleeting moment, he thought she had perished in the flames and wanted to rush in.
But to his surprise, he discovered that her scent was strongest not inside the burning villa, but in... the direction he had just come from?!
On the other side, Qiao Mei had changed into the servant's clothes she had brought from the villa, took out the money she had gotten from the coal boss, and hailed a tricycle to return to the small fishing village.
It's late at night, and there aren't many people doing business anymore.
The tricycle driver, seeing that she was alone and seemed to have a lot of money, immediately had other ideas.
Qiao Mei had experienced countless dirty things over the years. After noticing that the driver's eyes were strange, she quietly approached him from behind, placed the cold fruit knife in her hand against the side of his neck, and said in a low voice, "Uncle, you should just focus on your business. Otherwise, I'm not sure if the knife in my hand will move a few more steps forward."
The driver never expected that a fifteen-year-old girl would carry such a thing with her.
He was so frightened that he wet his pants and dared not have any other thoughts. He obediently took Qiao Mei to her destination.
Qiao Mei got out of the car and went inside, expecting to see her younger brother sleeping soundly.
But after searching the house for a long time, they couldn't find a single human hair.
Instead, she found a contract with a bloody handprint on it.
It clearly states that her father voluntarily sold his son for 50,000 yuan.
As for where they were sold, the document didn't elaborate.
The signing was made yesterday.
"How is that possible...?"
She thought that even if he was a bastard, he wouldn't lay a hand on his only son.
But now, the contract in front of her was a slap in the face.
She collapsed to the ground, limp and powerless, watching the snow fall heavily outside. The vision she had built in her heart of living happily with her brother was shattered into pieces.
When Ao Cang arrived, he was delighted to see Qiao Mei sitting peacefully by the bed.
But when he got closer, he found that she was silently shedding tears, clutching a contract with a bloody handprint in her hand.
He wanted to take a step closer to her, but he found that his body was gradually changing into a semi-transparent state.
Qiao Mei noticed someone was coming and looked up warily in the direction of the sound.
Upon closer inspection, she realized that Ao Cang, whom she thought had already left, had reappeared.
"Cangcang?!"
After the initial shock, Qiao Mei's first reaction was to hold the contract in her hand and hand it to him, explaining that her brother had been sold.
"Can you help me? Help me find out where he is? I need to find him; he's my only remaining family member..."
After she finished speaking, she realized that the boy hidden in the white mist looked much more transparent than before.
Ao Cang took the contract and glanced at its contents. She was furious that her biological father could be so beastly. Instead of caring about his poor health, she asked her if there was anything that had her brother's scent on it.
"Yes, there is, but you..."
Ao Cang suppressed the metallic taste rising in his throat and interrupted her, "Go get it quickly, I feel like I'll be leaving here soon..."
After he said that, Qiao Mei had no choice but to go and get her brother's clothes for Ao Cang.
The scent is strongest on the clothes.
However, Ao Cang had very little divine power left to use.
He was about to continue bleeding from his seven orifices, but he managed to suppress it with his divine power so that Qiao Mei wouldn't notice.
If we stay any longer, we'll definitely be exposed.
So, after hastily using Xiao Hai's aura to give Qiao Mei a definite location, he immediately turned into smoke and left.
He hadn't gone far when his weakness became apparent, and he collapsed in a grove near Qiao Mei's small fishing village home.
He watched as the body gradually changed from semi-transparent to transparent, and finally lost consciousness.
Qiao Mei was unaware of Ao Cang's true situation. After noting down the place he mentioned, she rushed there overnight.
On the way, she remembered that she didn't have any money to redeem him.
Unless she calls the police to arrest the family that bought her brother.
But her situation is special now. If she reports it to the police, she will have to continue living as Qiao Mei, and it might even be discovered that the deaths of the coal boss and her father are related to her.
After careful consideration, she decided to go and check on the situation first.
If Xiao Hai is sold to a good family, it will definitely be much better than the days she spent hiding from XZ after following her.
The heavy snow outside stopped in the middle of the night, but then it snowed again all day.
Qiao Mei found her brother on the morning of the third day.
Qiao Mei: Ruthless and taciturn.
A side note: Please do not imitate the behavior described in this article; it was done out of desperation.
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