Upon hearing that Li Ying's clinic had been vandalized, Li Pei and Li Ting were both furious, and the thought that it was the Jing family who did it made them even angrier.
“It must be that Aunt Jing who doesn’t want to see her son with you, so she had someone smash up your clinic,” Sang Zhi asserted.
"Xiang Ming said that Leng Yan sent people to smash up the clinic." Li Ying was pondering this question.
She believed that Leng Yan would not do such a thing, and that only Aunt Jing could do it.
To avoid contact with Jing Chi, this woman was capable of such extreme measures. I wonder what she wouldn't do.
"Didn't you clearly state that you wouldn't be with Jing Chi anymore? What is Jing Chi thinking, that he still came looking for you?" Li Pei hates this kind of person the most. Since he can't give Li Ying a peaceful life, it's best not to disturb her.
They can't protect you, and they can't keep you away. They're just awful.
"Why don't you take the child back to the capital? You have a house there anyway." After thinking it over, Yang Mei realized that this was the only way to find peace.
"I'm afraid I can't leave for now. I promised Xiang Ming that I would work with him to solve the case of Xiaocao's poisoning. I can only leave after the case is solved."
"We still haven't found the person with half their face burned?" Sang Zhi asked with concern.
"Um."
"Half of his face was burned, which means this person had been in a fire before, and he was targeting the Jing family. So we should look for people related to the Jing family who have been in fires. We might be able to find them soon," Li Pei advised.
Li Ying's eyes lit up: "Big brother, you're so smart! How come I didn't think of that? I'll go find Xiang Ming right away and talk to him about it."
Li Ying left the Li family home and rode her bicycle toward the police station. As she passed the entrance of an alley, she inadvertently saw a man, and the face that flashed by was somewhat terrifying.
Li Ying stopped her bicycle, secured it, and followed after him.
The man had a foot injury, so he walked unsteadily, swaying from side to side.
Li Ying followed cautiously behind the man. As he turned a corner, Li Ying accidentally kicked a pebble.
When I looked up again, the other person was gone.
Li Ying didn't care about anything else and ran to the end of the alley. It was a lane with many houses, and Li Ying couldn't guess which house the other person could enter.
Li Ying pondered for a moment, then turned to leave. Sensing someone behind her, she was knocked unconscious by a swift strike before she could turn back.
When Li Ying opened her eyes again, she found herself tied up in a house that had been burned beyond recognition.
This place must have been abandoned; a strong stench permeated the air.
Li Ying struggled for a moment, but her wrists were tied very tightly.
A soft, rustling sound arose. Li Ying looked up and saw a man with half his face burned limping in, carrying a chipped bowl in his left hand, which was trembling naturally.
Are you sick? You need money for treatment, right?
The other party didn't stuff any cloth strips into Li Ying's hand, so she could talk.
Upon hearing Li Ying say that she was ill, a cool glint flashed in the man's gloomy eyes.
"It's no use, it's too late."
His voice was rough, like someone had stuffed a wad of cotton in his throat.
"I want to know if I have a grudge against you?" Li Ying changed the subject.
The man sat on the other person's tattered chair, took a sip of water from the bowl, and shook his head: "No."
"Then why did you tie me up?"
Why are you following me?
Li Ying answered bluntly: "You rented that house in the village. You used radioactive rocks to contaminate all those grasses, and then used those grasses to kill people. Why is that?"
The man's unburned cheek suddenly twitched violently for a while.
Li Ying realized that this man might have more than one illness; perhaps he had many ailments and knew that there was no cure, which was why he had taken such a desperate step.
"Because you are all related to the Jing family."
As expected, this person was targeting the Jing family, and Tang Long was implicated by the Jing family.
"Why don't you confront the Jing family about your grudges?" Li Ying asked, puzzled.
"You're not from the Jing family?" A deep hatred flashed in the man's eyes. "Isn't the child you gave birth to Jing Chi's?"
"My child's father is Ye Jingchi, not Jing Chi. You've got it wrong!"
The man laughed, a sinister laugh: "Only that stupid woman thinks your child isn't Jing Chi's. I know everything, and I also know the mission Jing Chi is going to undertake."
Li Ying was stunned. What was this person's background?
"I don't care about any of that, I just want that woman Tang Yu to be buried with me!" the man roared furiously, slamming the bowl to the ground. His hand trembled even more violently, requiring him to press it down with his other hand to calm it down.
"Is your illness in your brain? I'm a doctor. If you let me go, I can treat you for free," Li Ying tried to reason with the other party.
The man's eyes were fierce: "It's no use. It's a brain disease, late stage."
"So you're a pitiful person too. Since you don't want me to treat your illness, can you tell me about your grudges with the Jing family? I think you must have a lot of stories to tell, right?"
These words touched the man's heartstrings; his eyes instantly reddened, and he grabbed a chair and threw it to the ground.
Do you know my name?
Li Ying shook her head.
"My name is Kang Jingyan. Do you know the Kang family?"
Li Ying had heard Yang Mei mention that the Kang family and the Tang family seemed to have a good relationship before, and that the two families had even arranged a marriage.
"Is it the Kang family, the ones who secretly supplied medicine to the front lines before?"
Kang Jingyan nodded slightly, her lips trembling even more violently, and there was an undisguised pain in her eyes.
"Just because my mother had worked in a brothel, Tang Yu actually reported that our Kang family was impure. My mother was dragged through the streets and beaten until her face was unrecognizable. When I went to the Tang family, Tang Yu had me kicked out and insulted me, saying that I was born to a prostitute and that the marriage was off."
As the man finished speaking, he squatted down and picked up the broken bowl from the ground.
“My mother was sold to that kind of place. In that cannibalistic era, it was incredibly difficult for her to survive. We're both women, so why did Tang Yu have to humiliate her like that, forcing her to endure such abuse at her advanced age?”
Li Ying listened quietly. The past grievances involved too many background factors. Tang Yu was ruthless in her actions, even exposing her husband, which led to the trial of more than a dozen members of the Jing family. This matter was not a secret in Shanghai.
I never imagined that woman had done such a cruel thing.
"This house..."
“She set the fire, and she burned my face. She also had my legs broken. At that time, she was determined to marry into the Jing family and was afraid that I, as her marriage partner, would affect her, so she brought people to burn down my house and break my legs. I couldn’t crawl out, and half of my face was ruined.”
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