Chapter 233: The Vicious Road to Wealth
Facing the questioning director, Qi Tao found a proof.
"I followed the formal procedures to allow the production team to come and film. My family can't cause you any trouble."
The director breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the official seal clearly printed on the certificate, and quickly placed the certificate in front of the camera to show that their production team had not trespassed into a private residence.
After the misunderstanding was clarified, Zhu Jixun was still puzzled.
"If your sister is in this house, wouldn't it be more convenient if you told your family to come look for her together?"
After the program started recording, he never saw Qi Tao deliberately trying to get in the camera or do anything to attract attention. He didn't think that Qi Tao's visit to his sister was a deliberate plan to build momentum for himself.
If it wasn't an intentional design, Qi Tao's sister was really missing, but Qi Tao's behavior was also very strange. Although he was anxious about his sister's disappearance, he was not so eager to find her, which was a bit contradictory.
Qi Tao clenched his fists, his hands hanging at his sides. "I suspect they kidnapped my sister."
These words shocked the guests and the audience in the live broadcast room.
"Your family kidnapped your sister? Why? Did they want to use your sister to get money from you? That doesn't make sense. With such a big house, it can be worth hundreds of millions if it is sold easily. There is no need to kidnap someone." Zhu Jixun grabbed his hair, still unable to figure it out.
If Qi Tao's expression wasn't so serious and there was a reason for his suspicion, he would have thought that Qi Tao was here to make fun of them.
[They don't need to kidnap someone for money, but what they want is a steady flow of money that can provide their family with a lifetime of enjoyment.]
Jiang Ning's inner voice rang out faintly.
Finally, the sound of her eating watermelon was heard. Everyone turned their eyes over and Qi Tao also stared at her closely.
Jiang Ning did not keep everyone waiting and started to release melons continuously.
The Qi family's story is quite metaphysical. After the eldest daughter passed away, the servant avenged his lover by poisoning the old lady, and then killed the eunuch who had insulted his lover.
[After the servant went to the underworld to meet his beloved, the palace waited for a long time for the concubines and eunuchs to enter the palace. After investigating, they learned all these things. In order to prevent people from ridiculing the emperor for welcoming a woman who had lost her virginity into the palace, they exterminated the entire Qi family.]
[However, there was another child that was previously sent away by the eldest daughter. The child she had with the servant was not aborted with the medicine. After she gave birth to the child, she had the maid send it away to be raised elsewhere. This person is Qi Tao's ancestor.]
Everyone who was still wondering how Jiang Ning continued the story looked at Qi Tao when they heard the familiar name.
"Didn't you make up this story?"
Qi Tao looked away from Jiang Ning's face and shook his head, "No, this is something that really happened to our ancestors."
He wanted to use this story to trick Jiang Ning into eating melons, so that everyone would know what those people did, be punished by law, and find his sister. How could they make up a fake story?
[However, the only true descendants of that child are Qi Tao and his sister. Those with the surname Qi are simply farmers who were hired by the eldest daughter to adopt the child at great expense.]
How could this farmer not be tempted by the money, which they couldn't earn in three generations? However, with the Qi family still around and the Qi family's intimidation, they dared not touch the money.
After the entire Qi family was wiped out, they grew bolder, squandered their money, and went looking for the Qi family's mansion. But whether out of guilt or if there were genuine Qi family members lurking around to guard the house, they failed several times. Later, rumors spread that members of the Qi family had died in vain, and that ghosts were terrifying.
Although the farmers were afraid, they still wanted money. They conspired with the Taoist priest and devised a sinister plan: every twenty years, they would kill the descendants of the Qi family to appease these scoundrels. After this plan was completed, the farmers actually entered the Qi family mansion and took away some gold, silver, and jewelry. They then believed that this method was effective and continued it, using the lives of the Qi family to pave their own road to wealth and prosperity.
As these thoughts rang out one by one, everyone looked at Qi Tao with sympathy, and roughly guessed what would happen next.
Human desires are endless. Once opened, the probability of closing them again is very small.
And after so many generations, the only ones with the Qi family bloodline are Qi Tao and his sister. It is no wonder that Qi Tao would be suspicious of those so-called family members.
"Those people are so cruel, what are we waiting for? Go find my sister quickly!" Zhu Jixun became anxious.
Qi Tao smiled bitterly, "I was surprised to learn that they weren't my real family. I also found out about this method of appeasing the ghosts in the house by accident. They were able to do this so flawlessly, how could they be easily found?"
"I've searched this house at least thirty times before, but I still haven't found my sister."
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