Even if An Hong was naive and inexperienced, she understood what these thugs were up to. She was so frightened that her legs trembled and she could barely stand.
If she lost her innocence, she wouldn't be able to live. An Hong regretted to death why she had gone to the Hu family to rent a house. Why didn't she ask around more? Even if she had rented the house, she could have just let go of the eighty yuan she had been cheated out of. It would have been better than this situation.
Now she's dragged Qian Manduo and Ye Qingqing into this mess, and she herself is doomed. What is she going to do now? An Hong is so anxious she's about to cry. Her mind is a complete mess. All the knowledge she's gained in the past twenty years is useless right now. She doesn't know what to do, all she can do is cry.
Qian Manduo was also panicked, but she knew that panicking was useless. The more critical the moment, the calmer she had to be. She would never admit defeat until the very last moment. Even if she had to die with these thugs, she would not let them tarnish her reputation.
But this was the last road. She had finally managed to get into graduate school, and seeing that her family's life was getting better and better, she was determined to live well and support her younger siblings' education so that they could leave the poor mountain village and come to the big city to see the world.
"Do you know what crime it is to rape a woman? It's at least fifteen years. You're in your twenties now. If you serve fifteen years in prison, you'll be old men when you get out. You've spent the best years of your life in jail. Are you willing to accept that?"
Qian Manduo swallowed hard, his mind a little confused, but his speech became faster and faster, "We will definitely fight back to the death. Maybe in the process of resisting, you will accidentally kill us. Once someone dies, you will not survive either. Rape plus murder, you will definitely be sentenced to death, and it will be carried out immediately. Why do you have to harm yourselves in the prime of your lives?"
The thugs hesitated. To say they were completely bad people wouldn't be accurate. To be precise, they were a group of aimless and morally bankrupt scoundrels who lived a life of utter despair, just going through the motions. They lacked their own opinions and were easily instigated by truly bad people like Hu Zhiwei to do bad things. They didn't even know what they were doing, nor did they consider the consequences.
No one told them what the consequences of doing these things would be, and now that Qian Manyuo had said it, the group was immediately filled with fear.
They were in the prime of their lives and didn't want to die or go to jail. They were so free and easy outside, why should they suffer in prison for fifteen years? In the past, when they were arrested and locked up for half a month, they were so miserable that they wanted to die.
Qian Manduo was secretly delighted and continued, "How about this, I still have more than three hundred yuan on me. That should be enough for you to go to the hair salon. You can have more fun there without worrying about going to jail or getting shot. I'll figure out how to give you the remaining ten thousand yuan. Wouldn't that be a win-win situation?"
The thugs nodded involuntarily, it seemed pretty good, killing two birds with one stone!
Qian Manduo's forehead was covered in sweat, which dripped down onto her eyelashes and blurred her vision. She didn't dare to wipe it away, afraid of provoking these thugs. She took out all the money in her bag, which was her living expenses for the entire summer vacation. Now, in order to clear her name, she had no choice but to give it up.
“All my money is here. Look, it’s about three hundred yuan. I’ll give it all to you.”
Qian Manduo intentionally overstated the amount of money. In fact, she never carried more than a hundred yuan in her bag. She turned her wallet towards the thugs, and the money inside looked like a lot, but it was actually mostly ten or five yuan notes. She didn't let the thugs look at it for long and threw the bag far away. She had learned this method from a book, which could attract the attention of criminals and take the opportunity to escape.
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