Having grown up in a large compound in Beijing, Ye Yuan had seen all sorts of formidable figures.
But that eerie feeling made him suddenly unable to look her in the eye, and he turned away and slammed the car door shut in a flustered manner.
The car sped away.
...
Xiang San, who was watching all this through binoculars from the building across the street, sneered and said contemptuously, "That piece of trash Ye Yuan, a woman made him run away in defeat."
but……
From his angle, he could just see most of Ning Yuan's profile through the binoculars.
He saw that her eyes reflected a strange, eerie light from the streetlights, which was unsettling.
But it only lasted for a moment.
Ning Yuan turned back, and as usual, frowned and looked down at her ankle, looking depressed.
It was as if everything was just an illusion caused by the glare of the streetlights.
Xiang San narrowed his eyes: "That woman..."
“That person has probably seen human blood on their hands, I can sense it… and… the aura she exuded just now… is not that of an ordinary person, it’s hard to say.”
Xiang San lowered the binoculars to the tall man behind him and said something in a low voice.
People who have come from the battlefield have seen a lot and naturally have their own judgment.
Xiang San paused, looked at Ning Yuan's slender figure, licked his lips, and sneered: "Seeing blood is seeing blood, even killing a chicken is seeing blood. Speak your mind!"
The man was silent for a while before saying, "It's hard to say, but it's somewhat like the head of a gang in the underworld before liberation."
His master was a leader in the underworld before liberation, and his business was very large. It's hard to describe him as a marginal figure.
Xiang San sneered, "Nonsense, this woman is only in her early twenties. Before Liberation, she was probably still somewhere!"
"You might as well say that she shares the same surname as the Ning family, so she is the eldest daughter of the Ning Group!"
They had investigated this thoroughly back then—
Ning Yuan's adoptive parents were servants in the Ning family. Ning Yuan was a worthless child picked up from who-knows-where, and that's how she got this surname.
Ning Yuan was able to receive financial assistance from the Ning family by taking advantage of her adoptive parents' connections and benefiting from the Ning family's surname!
In the end, he didn't hesitate to betray his adoptive parents in exchange for meritorious service.
He Su and Qin Hongxing also suspected that Ning Yuan had known Rong Zhaonan's identity all along, which was why she was willing to marry him, a guy who was despised by everyone and worked as a cowshed sweeper, even though she was an educated youth.
Deeply calculating.
The man following behind Xiang San didn't respond; he merely glanced at the surrounding crowd.
"Brother Xiang, let's go. There are Rong Zhaonan's men around here. If that vendor hadn't pulled Ning Yuan aside first, they probably would have attacked her too."
Xiang San sneered: "Rong Zhaonan keeps a close eye on this country girl."
But unusually, he stopped cursing and swearing, and just stared intently at Ning Yuan's back through the binoculars.
Watch as she limped over to talk to the man wearing a straw hat next to her.
He said coldly, "I'll find a place to call He Su later and tell her about today's events, which were more exciting than we expected."
He had only inquired about Madam Ning's schedule for the day, and then had someone find a pretext to summon Ye Yuan and incite them to quarrel.
Unexpectedly, Ye Yuan also invited Ye Dong.
Apart from having a face that resembles Sister Qiu, Ye Dong is completely different from Sister Qiu; she's just a cheap imitation.
They really made the scene ugly enough.
Unfortunately, Ning Yuan wasn't seriously injured, and someone blocked her way...
Xiang San put down his binoculars, glanced coldly at Foreman Li, and frowned: "Let's go."
"Yes!" The tall man followed Xiang San away.
...
Ning Yuan watched the car drive away as if fleeing in panic, took a deep breath, and turned to walk towards Foreman Li.
She suddenly felt a malicious gaze fixed on her and instinctively turned her head sharply.
But aside from the onlookers, there were only…
Her uncorrected visual acuity was close to 5.3. Just as she looked up, she seemed to see a familiar figure disappearing behind the glass in a window across the street not far away.
Ning Yuan frowned, then a sudden thought flashed through her mind: Could it be... Xiang San?
Did she see it wrong?
Seeing her condition, Foreman Li quickly stepped forward to help her up: "Are you alright, Consultant Ning?"
Ning Yuan then turned back and shook her head at Foreman Li: "It's nothing, I just twisted my ankle."
She asked, somewhat puzzled, "Brother Li, aren't you looking after the children at the father-in-law's house of the patrolman at Roushan Reservoir?"
The burly, tall foreman Li, with his thick beard, was now hunched over, nervously gripping the steelyard in his hand.
"I'm just sitting around doing nothing... My child is still young, and there are many expenses."
Ning Yuan then noticed that Foreman Li also had a small cart piled with half-sold candy ears, an old scale, a bag of candy ears, carefully cut newspapers, and a bundle of clothes.
She asked, somewhat puzzled, "Didn't you receive your salary and subsidies?"
When Brother Li went back before, she paid him double his salary, not to mention the gift of money to thank him for saving her.
It adds up to several hundred, enough for a rural family to live on for two years.
Li, the foreman, became increasingly uncomfortable and said dryly, "It's not appropriate to stay at my father-in-law's house every day and just eat... My mother-in-law asked me to come out and do some self-employment, and I thought I was just idling around anyway."
Ning Yuan suddenly understood.
Brother Li is an orphan.
His wife died, and his child was fostered by his parents-in-law, but his parents-in-law definitely lived with their son and grandson.
My daughter and grandson are practically outsiders, especially since my daughter is dead.
This son-in-law coming to stay with us permanently is something that people will talk about behind his back.
Even if he gave his parents-in-law money, he still couldn't stay at his parents-in-law's house for long.
Without a letter of introduction, and unwilling to leave the guesthouse, he could only go out during the day to get some candied hawthorns to sell at a stall, and at night he would lean against a cart and find a bridge hole to sleep for a while.
She looked at his bundle containing blankets and old clothes, remained silent for a moment, and then sighed.
“Brother Li, if you don’t mind, you can work as my bodyguard for a while. I’ll figure out where you’ll stay.”
Anyway, one more bodyguard won't make a difference, and one less won't make a difference either.
She only went out to see her brother off, and yet she ran into Ye Yuan and his sister, who both twisted their ankles. It's better to be careful.
Upon hearing this, Foreman Li's eyes flashed with surprise, but then he lowered his head somewhat uneasily: "This...this...is not good. Consultant Ning, you have already taken good care of me and given me a lot of money. I can't take advantage of you."
"You're not taking advantage of me. You saw that I offended someone, and having another person protect me makes me feel more at ease," Ning Yuan sighed.
Ultimately, it was because of her that Foreman Li suffered his misfortune.
Moreover... if the person in that window just now was Xiang San, who knows what kind of scheme that guy is plotting now.
She didn't believe in such coincidences.
If the conflict with Ye Yuan and his sister just now was orchestrated by him, then Foreman Li has already offended him once in Shanghai.
This time, Foreman Li unintentionally interfered again, and that ruthless guy Xiang San certainly wouldn't let Foreman Li off the hook.
"Can you... go in by yourself?" Foreman Li asked Ning Yuan with some concern.
As they were talking, Xiao Liuzi had already rushed out with Madam Ning and her secretaries.
"Xiao Ning, are you alright?" Madam Ning Er came over worriedly and helped Ning Yuan up.
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