Chapter 785: Fighting Evil with Evil
Li Rui's eyes were covered with blood, his vision was blurred, and his leather shoes slowly walked to him and stopped.
He looked up and met the young man's gaze, which was as nonchalant as ever, as if he was looking at an ant that could be easily crushed.
As if realizing that this ant had something to say, Jiang Chen squatted down, pulled out the rag stuffed in his mouth, and threw it away in disgust.
Li Rui's mouth suddenly freed, and he dry-heaved twice. After a while, he said in a hoarse voice, "How did you find me?"
Li Rui's visit to Beijing was unplanned.
Since the police have their eyes on him, they will not let him escape easily. If they want to completely get rid of suspicion, they need a scapegoat.
Fortunately, he had found someone to take the blame fifteen years ago, and the song he had kept by his side finally came in handy.
Things went as smoothly as he had expected. After Li Hu knew it was his idea, he gave up struggling and took all the blame for him.
Li Rui can still be a returned overseas Chinese and a conscientious entrepreneur.
But an accident happened, he didn't expect Jiang Chen to find her.
Li Rui's mother died early, and he lived with his grandparents in the countryside. Later, when he grew up and was about to go to school, his so-called father appeared.
The villagers said that he went to the city to enjoy a good life, but the facts were completely opposite to what they thought.
His father was originally a retailer, selling whatever could make money. But when the national policy changed and the production and sales of goods were all arranged by the government, retailers were hit the hardest, and soon his father had no money to make.
When Li Rui followed him, it was the most difficult period for his father Li Guang.
He did not grow up with Li Guang, so Li Guang naturally had no feelings for him.
Li Rui was growing up, and his stepmother Li Wenxin often scolded him because he ate too much.
Later, seeing that Li Guang didn't care about Li Rui, Li Wenxin became more and more unscrupulous in his behavior and often beat and scolded Li Rui to vent his anger.
Li Rui knew that if he wanted to survive, he had to be useful.
Li Guang and Zheng Zhiyuan are old classmates.
When they met again, Zheng Zhiyuan was in a high position and was respected wherever he went, while Li Guang was a despised middleman who hid in the black market to earn some hard-earned money.
After Li Rui noticed his father's jealousy, he immediately came up with his first idea - to report Zheng Zhiyuan.
He asked Jiang Dehai to write the letter of denunciation on his behalf - he was afraid of being discovered, so he deliberately injured his hand and lied that he couldn't write and asked Jiang Dehai for help.
Why look for Jiang Dehai?
Because he saw that Jiang Dehai had a cold heart beneath his good student appearance, he was sure that even if Jiang Dehai knew, he would not report him.
Things turned out just as he expected. After Zheng Zhiyuan was sent to the cowshed, his family immediately moved into Zheng Zhiyuan's house in the name of taking care of him.
Li Rui thought that after he became useful, his father finally paid some attention to him, but his father still didn't care whether he lived or died.
He allowed his stepmother to frame him and use him as a punching bag.
He soon figured it out. His stepmother had an older brother who was an officer, and the reason his family wasn't implicated by the events outside was all thanks to this brother.
So his stepmother was more useful to his father than he was, and he became the one who was abandoned.
On this day, he was once again accused of stealing and hung from the beam and beaten.
He was beaten to pieces and his consciousness was blurred. It was Zheng Zhiyuan's wife Ruan Tingwen, a strange aunt who spoke softly, who pleaded for him with a trembling voice and saved him.
Ruan Tingwen has a gentle personality and is very caring. Li Rui felt the motherly love that he had not felt for a long time by her side.
He began to run to Ruan Tingwen frequently, pushing Li Ping away, trying to monopolize Ruan Tingwen and make her his mother.
But the good times didn't last long, and Ruan Tingwen planned to leave with the children.
Li Rui was terrified after hearing this. He mustered up the courage to ask Ruan Tingwen to take him with him, but was rejected.
From that moment on, Li Rui began to hate Ruan Tingwen.
He is a wild beast tamed by Ruan Tingwen. In order not to hurt the weak keeper, he cut off his sharp teeth and sharpened his claws, disguising himself as the weak and innocent Mianyang, but his nature is still a man-eating tiger.
Li Rui secretly rented a small courtyard without telling anyone.
Then he told Li Guang that Ruan Tingwen was planning to leave.
Li Guang really had no intention of letting Ruan Tingwen leave.
He witnessed his stepmother feeding Ruan Tingwen the abortion pill without saying a word.
That night, Ruan Tingwen suffered heavy bleeding and was in excruciating pain. Zheng Lili wanted to find a doctor but was stopped by Li Guang and her stepmother and was not allowed to go out.
Zheng Lili had no choice but to go out through a dog hole to find a doctor. When she came back, Ruan Tingwen was already "dead".
Li Rui successfully stole Ruan Tingwen and hid him away.
This hiding lasted for more than 20 years.
Ruan Tingwen was greatly traumatized by the difficult labor and became mentally disturbed and stupid. At his suggestion, she treated him as her own son.
Li Rui got what he wanted and was in a particularly good mood.
But he didn't expect that Jiang Chen actually found Ruan Tingwen and stole her out!
His subordinates advised him to stay calm and did not support him coming to Beijing.
Li Rui certainly knew the danger, but he did not hesitate for Ruan Tingwen.
However, he was not without preparation. His men followed him to Beijing in batches and brought enough weapons. If the negotiations failed, they would kidnap people first.
But he never expected that he was controlled as soon as he entered Beijing last night, and even his men were captured without a single one left.
He couldn't understand how Jiang Chen knew his route.
Jiang Chen said condescendingly: "Your network of relationships is not unbreakable."
At Director Cui's birthday party, Li Rui thought he had everything under control. He pointed at the Jinshi officials attending the party and showed off to Jiang Chen the network of relationships he had built with money.
Jiang Chen listened silently at the time, and already had a way to deal with him in his mind.
If Li Rui had just hidden in Jinshi, this plan would never have been used.
But if Li Rui was not honest, Jiang Chen would have already set up a big net to catch him.
On the day Li Rui left Jinshi, officials in Jinshi who were afraid of being reported had already informed Jiang Chen of the news.
That night, the jeep was parked outside Li Rui's hiding place.
Wang Honghong, who had been waiting for a long time, stepped forward and opened the car door: "Brother Jiang, the person is here."
Jiang Chen got out of the car and glanced at the lighted yard: "Catch him."
After getting the approval, Wang Honghong suddenly became excited and rushed into the yard with her men.
In less than a moment, Li Rui and his men were tied up and captured.
Before leaving, Jiang Chen glanced sideways at the street corner, then got in the car and left.
In the car at the corner of the street, Cheng Gang stared at the movement not far away, and his fingers on the steering wheel moved unconsciously. It was only today that he discovered that Jiang Chen actually had so many people under his command.
He tried to hold back, but couldn't help asking, "We don't care about this?"
The passenger window was rolled down, and the hand holding the cigarette reached out the window to flick the ash. Jiang Weiguo lazily lay on the reclined car seat: "Control? How do I control?"
"Take Li Rui from Jiang Chen. After a few days of detention, won't he be released eventually?"
Cheng Gang was unconvinced and said, "We are police officers anyway. How can we just stand by and watch..."
Jiang Weiguo asked him, "Who is good and who is bad, Jiang Chen or Li Rui? If the police were to intervene, who would they help?"
Cheng Gang was speechless.
Li Rui smuggled people and cultural relics, and has harmed countless families over the years. The police have evidence but cannot do anything to him because Li Rui had already prepared a scapegoat and cleared himself of the blame.
The police are arresting people now, but if there is no evidence, they will be released in a few days.
Cheng Gang was unwilling, but he had no choice.
Sin is like weeds. It cannot be burned by wildfire, but will grow again in the spring breeze.
Jiang Weiguo said meaningfully, "I've told you before, this world isn't black and white. There are many gray areas that current laws and law enforcement can't touch or constrain. That's when people like Jiang Chen are needed."
Cheng Gang disagrees with Jiang Weiguo's view: "Fighting evil with evil is not justice, it is condoning evil!"
"Heh," Jiang Weiguo scratched his ears and said lazily, "If you don't like it, just go and deal with it. Yelling at me is useless."
Cheng Gang's eyes were determined: "One day sooner or later..."
Jiang Weiguo bit his cigarette and interrupted his boasting, his voice mumbling: "Alright, send me back. I'm so sleepy after watching you all night."
The car started, and Cheng Gang said with a stern face: "I will keep an eye on Jiang Chen. If he does anything evil, I will arrest him myself!"
Jiang Weiguo sneered and poured a basin of cold water on him: "Jiang Chen, the mad dog, has long been tied up by Ye Rou's chain. It's not your turn to stare at him."
Cheng Gang paused with a resolute expression, and said unconvincedly: "What if one day, Ye Rou is not here..."
Jiang Weiguo's lazy expression suddenly turned serious: "That madman will drag us all to our doom. You'd better pray that day never comes."
Cheng Gang realized that he had said the wrong thing, so he shut up and said nothing more.
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