The other two men saw their accomplice's painful expression and realized that Qiao Zhixia had escaped from the rope, so they immediately ran over to tie her up again.
But just as the two of them approached, Qiao Zhixia gave them a flying kick. With two screams, the two of them slammed heavily into the wall of the cellar and fell heavily to the ground, groaning in pain.
The slightly plump man grimaced in pain and rushed forward, cursing and trying to kick Qiao Zhixia down.
However, she dodged it nimbly and kicked him in the crotch.
"Ah——" The fat man fell to the ground in pain, holding his crotch. His face turned red and veins bulged due to the pain.
Upon seeing this, the other thinner man immediately grabbed a shovel nearby and smashed it at Qiao Zhixia.
However, Qiao Zhixia caught it steadily with her bare hands. When the man found that he was actually suppressed by a woman's strength, he was dumbfounded.
Qiao Zhixia grabbed the shovel and hit the man on the back. The man felt as if his internal organs were shattered and he fell to the ground with his butt raised high.
The man with the dislocated jaw finally couldn't sit still anymore. He was Chen Lingling's distant cousin.
He didn't expect Qiao Zhixia to be so difficult to deal with. Since forceful tactics didn't work, he decided to attack from behind.
He underestimated Qiao Zhixia's speed. As soon as he got close to her, Qiao Zhixia clamped both of his hands and broke one of his arms.
"Ah——" In the cellar, three men screamed one after another.
The location they found is really hidden, and few people come here usually.
Qiao Zhixia kicked the man to the ground, stepped on Chen Lingling's cousin's face, and smiled: "Did Chen Lingling ask you to arrest me?"
"We don't know what you are talking about?" The three men still wanted to stick to their rules of the road.
Qiao Zhixia didn't waste any more words. She swung the shovel and started beating them up, while naturally she didn't stop talking either.
"You are a fool who only grows in height but not in brains. Do you really think Chen Lingling will let you share my money? They want you to die. She is just using you as an excuse to kill people."
"…What do you mean?"
"You've been asking Chen Lingling for money a lot recently, right?" Qiao Zhixia lowered her eyes and looked coldly at Chen Lingling's cousin, asking instead of answering.
Cousin Chen remained silent. Ever since he was caught for robbing Qiao Zhixia last time according to Chen Lingling's advice, he had no one to target and couldn't even get a job as a temporary worker in the coal factory.
He blamed all his troubles on Chen Lingling and asked the Chen family for money several times, but the Chen family didn't have much money and he couldn't get any.
Since Qiao Zhixia learned that they had come out, she had investigated everything between them clearly, just to make use of them.
"Chen Lingling is so annoyed by you that she hinted to you to attack me even though she knows I'm not easy to mess with. She wants to use me to get rid of you. It would be best if I killed you. Then I can go to jail and she can get rid of both of us at the same time, and she can be free."
"She is also involved in this matter. What freedom does she have?"
"Do you think she's as stupid as you are? Will she clear herself of all responsibility like she did last time when she instigated you to rob money? If I'm not mistaken, she should have told you that I'm rich and said that I'm not going to let you go and I'm going to find someone to deal with you to irritate you, right?"
Cousin Chen's eyes rolled around and his expression became increasingly uglier.
Qiao Zhixia knew that this man had a simple mind, was not good at in-depth analysis of problems, had an impatient temper, and was easily instigated.
As long as she makes good use of this, she can instigate them to fight each other.
What's more, Chen Lingling had the intention of taking advantage of him.
"Did she also ask you to ask me for money and then sell me to the mountains? But have you ever thought that I am now an entrepreneur after all. If I go missing, will the relevant departments pay special attention to it? The net of heaven is vast and nothing can escape it. Can you hide away? Chen Lingling and her daughter just want you to go back to jail and stay there until you die!"
The man's face was already extremely gloomy, and the suspicion in his eyes was tinged with anger.
But in a blink of an eye, he began to doubt Qiao Zhixia again, "Why should I trust you?"
"If you don't believe me, just give it a try. They won't be able to wait for you to come over, so they'll come looking for you, right?"
The men didn't really want to cooperate with Qiao Zhixia to play any testing games. They were all injured and forced to stay in the cellar.
Qiao Zhixia clapped her hands and climbed up easily without any of the clumsiness of a pregnant woman.
She threw down a few bundles of corn and covered the cellar tightly before leaving.
The three men were all covered in wounds, and because of their guilty conscience, they didn't even dare to shout for help. They also had no idea what Qiao Zhixia was going to do. Shouldn't they call for help to arrest them? Then why cover them up?
Just as the three were puzzled, they heard alert footsteps from above the cellar.
Several people were able to move immediately into the deep shadows, ensuring that they were in the blind spot above the cellar.
The cornstalks above the cellar were pulled apart twice, and a ray of light came in, but it quickly disappeared.
"What are those idiots doing? Is it that difficult to catch a bitch?" It was Chen Lingling's voice.
Xia Hongmei deliberately lowered her voice and spoke again: "It would be better for them to kill Qiao Zhixia. In this way, even if she is not shot, she will be sentenced to life imprisonment. Let's see how that bastard can come to us for money..."
"What if they betray us?"
"What are you afraid of? We didn't use our hands at all, so our hands are clean..."
The voices of the two women gradually faded away. In the cellar, Cousin Chen's fists were stiff.
Squatting on the cellar, Qiao Zhixia suppressed her laughter, put away the radio in her hand, and left as if nothing had happened.
This tape recorder was a Chinese product she bought in Guangzhou last time. The recording effect is very authentic, without any noise.
The people speaking in the tape recorder were naturally not Xia Hongmei or Chen Lingling. She just found two people whose voices were 80% similar to those of the mother and daughter. She gave them ten yuan each and asked them to record the tape according to her requirements.
She began to make preparations after learning that Chen Lingling was released from prison. This simple plan was not clever and could not fool smart people at all. But the truth is, cousin Chen was a brainless and reckless man.
After that, she just had to wait for good news and let them fight among themselves.
Xia Hongmei and Chen Lingling kept trying to find out more information in a state of trepidation. After they confirmed that Qiao Zhixia was missing, they were both nervous and excited.
In order to prevent themselves from being implicated if the matter is exposed, they dare not get too involved.
The mother and daughter just waited for them to successfully get the money, and then they would come forward to share the spoils with them.
After a sleepless night, cousin Chen finally brought good news. They found Qiao Zhixia and got the money, a full 50,000 yuan.
They divided the money and wanted to sell Qiao Zhixia to the mountains.
The mother and daughter were very excited when they found out that they had actually made some money. "Then at least 20,000 of the 50,000 should be split among us, right?"
Cousin Chen smiled sinisterly: "I should share the money with you, but isn't twenty thousand too much? Those brothers still need to share, and you didn't contribute much."
"We came up with the idea, otherwise what could you do with your brains and courage?" Xia Hongmei was afraid that she would not get any money, so she didn't care about anything else.
Cousin Chen looked at the greedy faces of the mother and daughter, his eyes full of gloom, "I have no objection to sharing the money with you, but the other two brothers will definitely not be willing to give that much, why don't you go and talk to them yourself?"
Xia Hongmei glared at cousin Chen with disdain, "Look at your cowardly look, I'll go find them myself, if they dare not give us 20,000, then forget about getting any money."
The mother and daughter were afraid that the 20,000 yuan would fly away. Chen Lingling also wanted to see the miserable Qiao Zhixia off, so she immediately asked Chen Laobiao to take them to look for her.
When they arrived at the place, they found that the atmosphere was not right. There was no wolf begging for life in the deserted valley, only three or five men with bad intentions.
No matter how stupid the mother and daughter were, they realized something was wrong. "What do you want to do?"
Cousin Chen slapped him hard, his expression fierce and vicious, "You dare to hurt me, die!"