Chapter 55: Sleeping Pills, Buy in Bulk
"This woman is really quite skilled!" Xue Han snorted coldly, frowned, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.
He walked to the secret door. The door looked inconspicuous, but it was made of iron sheets and had a large rusty lock on it. It was obvious that it was not a decent place.
"Yaoyao, stand away from you!" Xue Han pulled out a dagger from his waist, fiddled with the tip of the knife in the keyhole, and with a "click", the lock opened.
He kicked open the secret door, and a musty smell mixed with a rotten stench hit him in the face, almost making Xu Yao fall.
"Cough cough...what's that smell? It feels like entering a morgue!" Xu Yao covered her nose, took out a flashlight from her bag, and shone it inside.
The beam of light streaked across the air, raising a cloud of fine dust that drifted slowly like a slow motion shot in a movie.
With the help of the flashlight, the two men could see the scene in the dark room clearly.
This is not a darkroom, it's a garbage dump!
There were a few bulging sacks piled in the corner, and I had no idea what they were filled with.
There were a few shabby wooden cabinets against the wall, covered with dust and spider webs everywhere.
"Could this woman have hidden all her family fortune here?" Xue Han muttered, walked to a sack, and cut open a hole in it with a dagger.
With a "crash", the things inside fell out, and they turned out to be bundles of account books!
"This is..." Xu Yao picked up an account book, opened it, and was stunned.
1968… sleeping pills… bought in bulk…
Xu Yao's pupils suddenly shrank. Wasn't this the year her father started to suffer from coughing? !
She remembered it clearly. That year her father suddenly started coughing. The cough was so severe that he couldn't sleep for whole nights.
All the money in the family was used to treat her father, but his condition became more and more serious.
Later, her father started taking a sleeping pill, saying that it could relieve his cough and help him sleep well.
But who knew that taking too much of this medicine would actually...
Xu Yao didn't dare to think any further. She only felt a rusty taste in her throat, as if something was blocking it, and she was so uncomfortable that she couldn't breathe.
With trembling hands, she touched the old needle hole on her father's wrist, where he once injected drugs.
"Yaoyao, what's wrong with you?" Xue Han noticed that Xu Yao was acting strangely and quickly supported her.
"Xue Han, look at this..." Xu Yao handed the account book to Xue Han, with a hint of sob in her voice.
Xue Han took the account book, looked at it carefully, and his expression changed.
He closed the account book with a snap and cursed, "This vicious woman! She actually started plotting against the Xu family so early!"
He walked to an iron box in the corner and kicked the lid open.
"What is this?" Xu Yao came closer.
I saw a set of tools neatly arranged in the box: ink pad, pens of various sizes, blank IOUs... and even a few yellowed photos.
Xu Yao picked up a photo. It showed her as a child, standing at the door of her home with a schoolbag on her back, looking innocent.
On the back of the photo, a line of words was written crookedly in pencil: Observation record: The target has a weak personality and is easy to manipulate.
Xu Yao's fingertips turned slightly white because of anger.
It turned out that she had become a prey in the eyes of others since such an early time!
This third sister is simply a devil in human skin!
"Hahahaha... Do you think you can bring me down by finding these?"
Just then, a sharp laugh came from the door, like nails scratching on glass, so harsh that it made people's scalp tingle.
The third sister rushed in like a mad woman, holding a shiny kitchen knife in her hand. Under the dim light, it flashed a creepy cold light.
Her face was ferocious and her eyes were bloodshot. She stared at Xu Yao and Xue Han as if she wanted to eat them alive.
"No one else can get what I can't get! Hahahaha..."
Xue Han protected Xu Yao behind him, staring at his frantic Third Sister with a hawk-like gaze, and asked in a deep voice, "Were you the one who planned the downfall of the Xu family and the misfortune of my wife in her previous life?"
The third sister grinned, revealing a weird smile, as if she had heard a big joke: "You...what did you say..."
Before she could finish her words, Xue Han rushed forward.
Xue Han moved as fast as lightning. He snatched the kitchen knife from the third sister's hand and threw it into the corner with a "clang". The sound was particularly harsh in the small dark room, like a thunderclap exploding in the third sister's ears.
He pressed the third sister against the wall with his backhand, with such force that the third sister felt her bones were about to break.
"Ah! It hurts! It hurts so much! Let me go! Let me go!" The third sister howled like a pig being slaughtered and struggled desperately, but she could not break free from Xue Han's iron-like grip.
Xu Yao stood aside, watching her third sister barking like a mad dog. There was no pity in her heart, only endless disgust.
She took out a camera from her pocket, turned on the video function, and aimed it at her third sister's distorted face.
"The street office director's car is downstairs, please continue your performance." Xu Yao's voice was terrifyingly calm, like the calm before a storm.
When she heard the words "Director of the Street Office", my third sister's face turned pale instantly, as if it was covered with a thick layer of white powder, and there was no blood at all.
She stopped struggling and looked ahead with empty eyes, as if she had lost her soul.
"You...you guys..." The third sister's voice was trembling, her lips were shaking, but she couldn't utter a complete sentence.
She never imagined that everything she had carefully planned would be exposed so thoroughly.
She also didn't expect that Xu Yao, the soft persimmon whom she always looked down upon, would become so tough and so scary.
"Bang!"
With a loud bang, the iron door of the dark room was knocked open from the outside. The director of the street office and several policemen broke in with handcuffs in their hands.
"What's going on? What happened here?" the director asked seriously.
"Director, you're here at the right time! This woman..." Xu Yao pointed at her third sister who was slumped on the ground and was about to speak, but was interrupted by Xue Han.
"Director, we have found some important evidence that proves that this woman is suspected of multiple criminal activities, including premeditated murder, forgery of documents, theft, etc." Xue Han's voice was low and powerful, and every word was like a nail, nailing the third sister's heart.
"What?!" The director was shocked and quickly signaled the police to control the third sister.
"No! I didn't! You are wronging me! I am wronged!" The third sister screamed like crazy and struggled desperately, but to no avail.
The police handcuffed the third sister and escorted her out of the dark room.
The director of the subdistrict office looked at the mess in the room, then looked at Xu Yao and Xue Han, took a deep breath, and said, "I will personally investigate this matter and give you an explanation."
After saying that, the director also left the dark room, leaving only Xu Yao and Xue Han.
Xu Yao walked to the iron box, bent down to pick up the photos and documents scattered on the ground, and examined them carefully.
Suddenly, her eyes fell on a brown paper bag at the bottom of the iron box.
She picked up the paper bag curiously, opened it and saw a letter inside, signed by Sun Zhiqiang.
The content of the letter made Xu Yao's blood freeze instantly.
"Thank you, Third Sister, for helping to 'solve' the Xu family's hidden dangers..."
This letter turned out to be a "thank you letter" written by Sun Zhiqiang himself, thanking his third sister for helping to "solve" the Xu family!
Xu Yao's hands were shaking so much that she could barely hold the thin piece of letter paper.
She felt as if her heart was being tightly grasped by an invisible hand, and she could hardly breathe.
Just then, she discovered a yellowed baby death certificate in the paper bag.
The three words "Xu Qiuyue" were clearly written in the name column.
"Qiuyue...Qiuyue..." Xu Yao murmured to herself, and the scene of her daughter betraying her in her previous life emerged in her mind.
"My mom is finally dead. Dad, you and mom can finally be together..."
"Qiuyue...my daughter..." Xu Yao's tears burst out. She hugged the death certificate tightly, as if she was holding her deceased daughter.
"Yaoyao, what's wrong with you?" Xue Han noticed that Xu Yao was acting strangely, and hurriedly walked to her side and asked with concern.
Xu Yao did not answer, she raised her head suddenly,
"Yaoyao! Where are you going?!" Xue Han shouted from behind.
Xu Yao ignored him and ran all the way towards home.
She wants to go home! She wants to figure it all out!
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