Chapter 564 People's hearts are hidden behind their bellies
Song Peng led Ran Heng to a secret room, which was filled with a dazzling array of gold and silver jewelry, antique jade ornaments, and Wu Sanye was also imprisoned here.
When Wu Sanye saw Song Peng, he was terrified. "Please let me go! I really have no money..."
Song Peng's eyes were fierce as he slapped Wu Sanye across the face. "It's all because of you. If you weren't still useful, I would have chopped you up and fed you to the fish long ago."
Song Peng's men were holding Wu Sanye captive. "Behave yourself, or I'll take your head."
"Chief, when can we leave? We're covered in lice here."
"I'll be leaving soon, just wait a little longer." Song Peng thought about how he had become a wanted criminal and wanted to tear the person who painted his portrait to pieces.
In fact, they had originally planned to escape long ago, but the people of the Great Zhou Kingdom interfered and searched everywhere, so they didn't have a chance to escape and eventually retreated back here.
Now that the situation in the South has changed so drastically, they can no longer leave.
Song Peng now realized that the man surnamed Xie was in cahoots with that group of people from the Great Zhou Kingdom. He had disguised himself as a wealthy merchant to lure Meng Li into his trap.
Ran Heng dared not sell these things; they were all obtained by Song Peng through deception, fraud, and robbery. Keeping them here would only be a hot potato. He couldn't wait for Song Peng to move these things away as soon as possible.
He stared at Song Peng, whose face was contorted with rage, and felt nothing but terror. The longer Song Peng dealt with pirates, the more repulsive he became, having long forgotten all the teachings of the sages.
Song Peng suddenly said, "Go and lure Jiang Ruan here. Only by capturing her can we have a chance to escape."
Ran Heng said, "I don't even know her, how could I possibly fool her? Let's just forget about it!"
Song Peng said coldly, "Didn't you just meet? Her relationship with the man surnamed Xie is unusual. If we use her as leverage, Xie Qiyun won't dare to stop us from leaving."
Ran Heng said, "It was you who left, not me. I still have business to do at Fuguizhai."
Song Peng now saw through his thoughts and said coldly, "You think you're making clean money? Your hands are already stained with blood, and you can't wash them clean."
“You…” Ran Heng clenched his hands, unable to refute.
Song Peng tried to deceive him with earnest words, saying, "Have you forgotten how miserable we were when we left the Great Zhou Kingdom? Who taught us to live such a prosperous life?"
Ran Heng recalled their ordeal; in the end, they chose a blood-stained path to survive, knowing there was no turning back.
“It is the court of the Great Zhou Kingdom that has wronged us. You and I have studied hard for ten years and have been treated so unfairly,” Song Peng said again.
Ran Heng's eyes flashed with a fierce light. If the court hadn't been so corrupt, they wouldn't have ended up wandering in foreign lands, or even associating with pirates.
Seeing his expression, Song Peng continued, "You must have sent a lot of money home to your family over the years! If we hadn't met a benefactor, our family members would have all starved to death."
Ran Heng knew that Song Peng was threatening him with his family members; if he dared to disobey, none of his family members would survive.
He said, "Xie Qiyun is not good to Jiang Ruan. Capturing her won't be able to blackmail him at all. Didn't you see that man's attitude? It was like he wanted to eat the girl. Besides, they were accompanied by a group of people who seemed to be very skilled in martial arts. If I go to approach her, that man will probably kill me. I'm not going. You should think of another way!"
Ran Heng didn't want to deceive an innocent girl, lest she fall into Song Peng's hands and have no way to survive.
Song Peng's eyes were filled with lust; he clearly had designs on Jiang Ruan.
Ran Heng admired Jiang Ruan's talent. Today, he set up a challenge to win prizes, but he didn't expect Jiang Ruan to participate in the quiz. It was really a coincidence that Jiang Ruan made it to the last round and won the prize, which happened to be seen by Song Peng.
Song Peng said coldly, "You're not just being chivalrous and don't want to help me, are you?"
“Song Peng, we’ve been brothers for so many years, don’t you know what kind of person I am? Every time you asked me to do something, I didn’t do it. I opened Fuguizhai just to cover for you. Over the years, we’ve made money together and done business together. I’ve done so many things for you. It’s obvious that you don’t trust me if you think like this.” Ran Heng deliberately got angry.
Song Peng laughed and said, "We've always been sworn brothers, closer than blood brothers. How could I not trust you? Xie Qiyun and Jiang Ruan are both extremely difficult to deal with. Let's discuss this..."
Ran Heng knew he could never wash away his past mistakes. He understood Song Peng; if he dared to harbor any disloyalty, Song Peng would not let him and his family off the hook.
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Xie Shang caught up with Jiang Fenghua, not knowing where he had gone wrong. "That man was so attentive, he obviously had ulterior motives. You wanted to win his hair ornament, and he let you get it so easily. What good luck? He clearly manipulated things intentionally to get close to you and even asked you for an autograph. He definitely didn't have good intentions towards you. If you weren't pretty, would he have bothered to know your name?"
"I think you're judging others by your own petty standards! You're just jealous that others are more talented than you! You're the one with a dark heart, that's why you think so negatively of others."
Jiang Fenghua was furious with him. "They set up the arena just to play a game. How could you tell that they deliberately manipulated the whole thing? They set up the arena to wait for me to fall into their trap, and then deliberately let me win the prize. I, Jiang Ruan, don't have such great abilities that it's worth others going to such lengths to scheme against me."
"You mean I won the hairpin not because of my own ability, but because of my face, and that others let me win because I'm pretty?" Jiang Fenghua questioned him coldly. "You like me because I'm pretty, so you put yourself in my shoes and think the same way about others."
Xie Shang was stunned, and quickly denied it: "I didn't, I didn't have those thoughts. I just wanted you to be careful. You can't tell who's a good person and who's a bad person just by looking at them."
Jiang Fenghua sneered, "Yes, I should be careful and not fall into the trap of some bad people."
She vented her anger and then ignored him, leaving without paying any more attention.
Xie Shang pointed to his own nose, "In your eyes, I'm a bad person, and everyone else is a good person. You buy gifts all over the street and give them to others, but when I go and ask you for them, you won't give them to me. Now I've become some kind of bad person."
He was furious and felt incredibly wronged. When did Jiang Fenghua become so unreasonable? He was just concerned about her.
Seeing his subordinates staring at him in disbelief, Xie Shang said coldly, "Go protect the lady, what are you doing staring at me?"
A group of people quickly chased after them.
Lin Feng, Jiang Jinyan, and the others also found Xie Shang and saw that he looked unwell.
Jiang Jinyan asked, "Where did Ruan Ruan go?"
Xie Shang tried to calm himself down and said calmly, "We had a fight. I made her angry again just now..." He didn't dare to say that he had thrown her things.
He's quite afraid of his brother-in-law now.
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