Inside a secluded house in a remote part of the county town.
Lu Kai and Meng Ruyi huddled in a corner of the house, both covered in sweat, suffering from severe abdominal pain, experiencing bouts of blacking out, and bleeding from their mouths, ears, and noses.
Lu Kai groaned, trying to open his eyes wide as he looked at Meng Ruyi.
Meng Ruyi let out a few intermittent groans and lay there motionless.
Lu Kai was in pain and scared. He struggled to move to Meng Ruyi's side. "Ruyi, Ruyi, how are you? Say something, don't scare me—"
Meng Ruyi snorted, her voice barely audible: "We...we're...poisoned! Rice cake...Xu Zhenzhu..."
Lu Kai then remembered that Meng Ruyi had brought half a box of rice cakes with her before they left.
Suddenly, another thing came to mind: "The rice cake, Xiao Bo and Xiao Tao ate the rice cake too, and they were poisoned too?"
Since they were his own flesh and blood, Lu Kai's first reaction was to go back and save them.
Meng Ruyi let out a low groan, and Lu Kai's attention immediately turned to her: "Ruyi, are you in a lot of pain? I'll take you to the hospital, we should both see a doctor, don't die here—"
Meng Ruyi grabbed Lu Kai: "Don't go! The poison in this rice cake isn't much. We, we didn't eat much. Let's hold on! The contact will be here soon. He, they have a way to save us!"
"If we go back, all our efforts will be in vain—"
Lu Kai hesitated and didn't move again, but worry lingered in his eyes: "But what about Xiao Bo and Xiao Tao—"
Despite the excruciating pain, Meng Ruyi rallied her spirits and said, "With Mom and Dad here, Xiaobo and Xiaotao will be alright!"
After saying that, he glanced at his watch: "The contact will be here in twenty minutes! If we leave now, we'll offend them, and then we'll be in a lose-lose situation! Just bear with it a little longer, just bear with it!"
Lu Kai was in so much pain that his mind was in complete chaos. Hearing Meng Ruyi's words, he nodded haphazardly, leaned against her, panting and enduring the pain, waiting for the contact to arrive.
He had never felt time pass so slowly and unbearably; every minute and every second felt like an eternity.
His mind became muddled from the pain, his vision blurred and he couldn't see anything clearly. The world became quiet, as if only he and Meng Ruyi beside him remained.
In a daze, it seemed as if the door was pushed open and a gust of wind blew in.
Someone came in, but didn't come close. They just stood at the door and whispered something.
Lu Kai didn't hear clearly, but Meng Ruyi moved and said something strange in a hoarse voice.
Lu Kai felt a little dazed, as if he had heard the same thing somewhere before. He tried to think about it, but his head ached and he felt dizzy, so he gave up trying.
After exchanging a few words, Meng Ruyi pushed Lu Kai, saying, "The stuff, the stuff, give it to him—"
Lu Kai instinctively reached for the documents he had tucked into his pocket, but as he held them, he suddenly didn't want to take them out.
I stood there, stunned.
Meng Ruyi's urging voice rang in his ears: "Hurry, give it to him!"
The man seemed to chuckle, said something, walked up to Lu Kai, reached out and grabbed the other end of the document, tried to pull it out, but couldn't budge it.
"Let go!" Lu Kai heard the man mutter.
His fingers involuntarily loosened their grip, and he moved his lips as if to say something, but then he heard a loud bang, as if the door had been kicked open, and a somewhat familiar voice shouted: "Here it is! Found it! Someone come quick—"
Then came chaos.
It sounded like a lot of people rushed in, or like a fight had broken out, along with Meng Ruyi's scream and a sharp curse: "Baka—"
Then the cursing stopped abruptly.
Then someone walked up to him, took the document from Lu Kai's hand, and said something. Lu Kai vaguely heard only two words: "...traitor..."
Lu Kai's vision went black, and he knew nothing more.
Gu Zhiyuan looked at Lu Kai, who had already fainted, then at Meng Ruyi, who was barely alive, and the man who had just been captured and spoke Japanese. He held the documents in his hand and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
They've been caught red-handed!
Turning around, Gu Zhiyuan met Sun Zhou's ingratiating gaze and glared at him.
In such a crucial arrest operation, Sun Zhou's side actually messed up, almost losing track of the person.
Sun Zhou was also filled with lingering fear. If he had let the man go this time, he himself would probably have been on his own!
Thanks to Gu Zhiyuan for arriving.
No one expected Meng Ruyi to be so cunning. People say a cunning rabbit has three burrows, but Meng Ruyi had at least six or seven.
He had already identified the person and was waiting outside, ready to catch them red-handed as soon as the contact arrived.
Little did they expect that Meng Ruyi had a backup plan in that courtyard, with a hidden door inside.
With everyone captured, Gu Zhiyuan knew this wasn't the time for reprimands or criticism. He ordered the one who spoke Japanese to be taken away separately, while Lu Kai and Meng Ruyi were sent directly to the machinery factory's clinic.
After all, the machinery factory has a security department, so security is more guaranteed than outside.
With the suspects apprehended, everyone breathed a sigh of relief for the time being. However, the interrogation of these individuals would be a protracted and arduous process.
Gu Zhiyuan was worried about others, so he could only take some time to go home, tell Xu Ningyan to be careful, and then hurriedly went to the machinery factory again.
Although they had tried their best to suppress it, the news that the two Lu family children had been poisoned and taken away, and that Lu Kai and Meng Ruyi had also been sent to the health center, had still spread to a small circle.
Gu Zhiyuan knew that it was better to guide than to block, so he simply had someone spread the word that Lu Kai and Meng Ruyi planned to elope, but were poisoned by Xu Zhenzhu. They were brought back for emergency treatment halfway through their elopement.
In no time, the entanglement between these three people became a hot topic again.
Some say Xu Zhenzhu is ruthless, while others say Lu Kai and Meng Ruyi deserved it; opinions vary.
As for Lin Hong, although she was better informed, she only knew that Lu Kai and Meng Ruyi had eloped and stolen things from the house, but she didn't know anything else.
After listening to Lin Hong's vivid description, Xu Ningyan verbally agreed, but inwardly he had some doubts.
The matter between Lu Kai and Meng Ruyi is definitely not as simple as Lin Hong described.
Something that can keep Gu Zhiyuan from going home must be a big deal.
Considering the traces that Gu Zhiyuan and Sun Zhou had left in the past, it is probably related to the arrest of the entire Lu family this time.
Xu Ningyan dared not think any further and quickly withdrew her thoughts.
After complaining to Lin Hong for a long time about the Lu family and Xu Zhenzhu's audacious poisoning, he finally fell asleep in a daze.
The next few days were peaceful.
Everyone was concerned about whether Lu Kai, Meng Ruyi, and their two children had survived.
Four or five days later, the news finally came out.
Lu Kai and Meng Ruyi were poisoned later than the two children. Being adults, they had stronger resistance and were able to be rescued. Although they will have some aftereffects, at least their lives were saved.
However, Lu Bo and Lu Tao, the two children, were poisoned too late. They were young and their resistance was not strong. Although the health center did its best to save them, they still could not be saved.
When Lu Xing and Sun Chunmei received the news at the security department, Lu Xing remained calm, but Sun Chunmei fainted immediately.
When I woke up again, I was in a daze.
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