Chapter 68 Miss Guan Yuyan Su is really not to be judged by appearance.
Qin Wangxuan didn't dare to hold on to the shares that Qin Weishu gave him. In addition to his instinctive respect for Qin Cangye, he also felt that Qin Cangye held the evidence that could ruin his and his sister's future.
He just couldn't bear to leave Su Yinuo and just wanted to possess her for a while longer, so he used the only thing he could to threaten her.
"OK."
Su Yinuo agreed without much hesitation, but her face was terribly cold.
Qin Wangxuan panicked and said quickly: "I'm sorry, please don't hate me, I just..."
"Alright!" Su Yinuo interrupted Qin Wangxuan, got off his lap, straightened her clothes, and said, "Go get Li Guogang over!"
"Okay," Qin Wangxuan walked out of the bedroom and returned alone ten minutes later. "Li Guogang said everything you want is in Room 405 of the servants' building. He'll take us there."
As he spoke, he took out a long black down jacket from the dressing room and put it on Su Yinuo. As he put it on her, he said, "It's very cold outside. Don't catch a cold."
Su Yinuo zipped up her clothes and prepared to go out, but Qin Wangxuan stopped her again. He looked at her feet in the plush slippers and said, "And wear socks. You can't go barefoot."
"I'll do it myself," Su Yinuo reached out to take the white cotton socks from Qin Wangxuan's hand. Qin Wangxuan immediately dodged, hiding them behind his back as if he were holding something precious. He pursed his lips and said carefully, "I'll help you put them on. You sit down."
Su Yinuo frowned.
Qin Wangxuan came forward and gently pushed her to sit on the sofa, then squatted down in front of her, holding her ankles, and said sadly: "We don't have much time left, I want to do everything for you."
He took off Su Yinuo's plush slippers and held her white, smooth feet. Her feet were a little cold, so he rubbed them in his palms. He heard Su Yinuo's silent complaint: "You say that as if I'm dying."
"No, that's not what I meant. I'm sorry..." Qin Wangxuan said apologetically.
"Please put on your clothes quickly and don't waste time. Do you know how anxious I am?" Su Yinuo shook her feet irritably.
Qin Wangxuan grabbed Su Yinuo's thrashing feet, gripping them with great force. His eyes became perturbed. He suddenly knelt on the ground, pressing Su Yinuo's feet to his chest. He looked up at her with an eager, deliberate, and provocative expression, "Su Yinuo, why don't you want to make love to me?"
"You..." Su Yinuo was immediately furious. She used all her strength to kick Qin Wangxuan out and cursed, "Are you crazy? If you don't leave, I'll go by myself!"
Qin Wangxuan, who fell to the ground, covered his chest with his hands, a smile appeared on his lips, and he whispered, "It feels so good..."
Afraid of really angering Su Yinuo, he crawled back, hugged Su Yinuo's feet, quickly put on her socks, raised his head and smiled, "Let's go, wife."
Su Yinuo took a deep breath and walked out of the bedroom quickly in slippers.
On the way to the servants' quarters, the cold air extinguished some of Su Yinuo's anger. She walked quickly, making the dry leaves on the ground crunch. With the pent-up anger still lingering in her heart, she didn't notice Qin Cangye quietly following her a few dozen meters behind her.
It was already late at night, and the surroundings were quiet and deserted. The security guard who was supposed to be on patrol had gone to the hospital because of Qin Cangye, and the servants had already fallen asleep, exhausted after the commotion over an hour ago.
Su Yinuo and Qin Wangxuan walked into the quiet servants' building, went up to the fourth floor, and saw Li Guogang squatting in front of the door of 405 with a dejected look on his face.
Li Guogang saw the two people, slowly stood up, bowed to them, then turned around and opened the door of room 405.
After a few people came in, Li Guogang closed the door and turned on the old white woven lamp.
Su Yinuo looked around and found the room's furnishings somewhat strange. The room had everything: a bed, quilt, pillows, towels, books, paper, pens, teacups...everything necessary for daily life, as if someone still lived there every day. But everything was arranged so neatly that there was no sign of normal life.
Li Guogang sat on the chair next to the desk and asked Su Yinuo and Qin Wangxuan to sit beside the bed.
"My wife's name is Guan Yuyan," he did not mention the evidence, but with a face full of sadness and nostalgia, he talked about some dusty past events, "Yuyan came to the Qin family when she was fifteen years old, and died in the Qin family when she was forty years old. She was the last maid of the Qin family. When she first came, she was responsible for taking care of the mistress. The mistress had a strange temperament and was often weird, but she was very good to Yuyan and would give her a share of all the good things. At first, Yuyan's life was extremely smooth. Although she was very afraid of the master with a cold face every day, as long as she avoided and hid, nothing would happen throughout the day.
One day, after Yuyan finished making the bed for her wife, she was pushed into the closet by her crazy wife. Yuyan was terrified. Her wife pinched her neck and whispered in a very nervous voice: "Yan'er, you stay here and remember everything you see! And don't make a sound, or you will die!"
Yuyan burst into tears, covering her mouth and daring not to utter a single word. The mistress closed the wardrobe door, leaving it a crack, allowing the teenage Yuyan to witness the most horrifying scene she had ever witnessed. She told me that she had seen the master beat the mistress, the young mistress, and other maids many times in her life, but none of them had ever been as terrifying and shocking as that first time.
The master grabbed the wife's hair and kept hitting her against the edge of the bed. The wife was struggling and begging for mercy, but the master turned a blind eye. After he was tired of hitting her, the wife fell silent. He threw her to the ground like garbage, then grabbed the thick quilt on the bed and threw it on her, and kicked her hard. This torture lasted for a full ten minutes. Yuyan even thought that the wife covered by the quilt must be dead. After the master left, Yuyan wanted to go out to save the wife, but she was so scared that her whole body was limp and she almost lost consciousness. It took her a long time to recover. When she was about to go out, the door was pushed open and Uncle Yan walked into the room, lifted the quilt, and carried the dying wife out.
Because the bed was padded with a thick quilt, my wife wasn't in danger of death and was discharged from the hospital covered in bruises. After that incident, Yuyan finally understood what kind of person my master was. She told me that he wasn't a human being, but a demon from hell, and that he had beaten my wife to insanity.
But the wife was strong and survived many beatings from the master. Later, the young mistress, the young master's mother, came to the family. The master transferred his hatred for women to the young mistress.
Yuyan and I met through a blind date and later married. I arrived at the Qin family in 1998, the year our young master was born, and moved into this servants' quarters. I often sneaked into this room to visit Yuyan, and that's when I discovered she always hid a small camera in her clothes before going out to work. It was a cutting-edge model at the time, definitely beyond the reach of servants like us. Later, Yuyan told me it was a gift from the mistress.
In the ten years after my wife passed away, the most luxurious thing Yuyan bought was mobile phones. She would change her phone almost every six months. At first, I had no idea why and just thought she was fond of high-tech products. Until one day, she was severely beaten by her master.
Yuyan was rarely beaten by the master, because the mistress had always protected her when she was alive, and because she had been in the Qin family for so many years that she had already figured out the master's habits. The time she was beaten, it was because she wanted to protect the young mistress who was about to be beaten to death, and wanted to delay until the young master came home from school.
That time, Yuyan, Young Madam Ruyin, Uncle Yan, and the master were the only four of them in Young Madam Ruyin's room, with two bodyguards guarding the door, so I didn't know anything. It wasn't until the young master went home to visit Young Madam Ruyin that Yuyan was rescued.
The room was in chaos. Young Master Qin Cangye picked up a fruit knife and slashed at Uncle Yan and the master like crazy. I rushed in and carried Yuyan out. Yuyan pushed me and shouted hoarsely: "Go save the young lady!"
I put Yuyan aside again and went to pick up the young lady. When I went out, I met the young master, and together we took the young lady to the hospital.
When I hurried home, the servants told me that Yuyan had returned to her room alone. I immediately ran to room 405, opened the door and went in, and found Yuyan hunched over a laptop, with more than a dozen of her cell phones and a pile of memory cards beside it.
There was still blood on her forehead, her face was pale, and her hands were shaking as she operated the computer. She told me, "I feel like I'm going to die."
It was then that I realized she had secretly taken numerous photos and videos of her husband abusing and mistreating women, first with an old digital camera and later with a cell phone. She said, "My wife told me to memorize it, but what's the point of memorizing it? I have to film it. One day, someone will know that he is a beast, a demon!"
She saved all the old videos and photos from many years ago into her new phone. She gathered all the photos and videos stored in each phone together and copied them to more than a dozen memory cards. She did this every year until the year she died. She herself couldn't remember how many copies of the evidence she had kept.
You might be wondering why we didn't just take this evidence and call the police? I didn't dare, and neither did Yuyan. We couldn't defeat the master. We weren't afraid of getting hurt ourselves, but of implicating our child, a son who's been incredibly well-behaved since birth! We've dedicated most of our lives to the Qin family. We rarely spent time with Zimu when he was little. He was a good student and a filial son to his grandparents. He had a bright future; we couldn't let him be harmed.
But then, my family ran into trouble. My brother owed millions in gambling debts, and my father couldn't pay them back, so the creditors came after Yuyan and me. Yuyan and I spent all our savings, but couldn't fill that bottomless pit. During those years, Yuyan aged rapidly. Before she was forty, she already had a ton of white hair. On the morning of her death, she told me that no matter what happened, Zimu must not be harmed. I didn't know what she meant, but later I learned that she had gone to see the master alone. She took a few memory cards, confronted the master, and then, she died at his hands...
At this point, Li Guogang was already sobbing. He covered his eyes and cried for a long time before continuing, "She risked her life to give Zimu a stable future. I, I can't do anything, I can't do anything!"
Su Yinuo understood Li Guogang's situation at the time. Although she understood, she did not sympathize with him.
Because in Guan Yuyan's thrilling and struggling life, he played no role at all, not helping her in the slightest, but instead hindering her, leading her to a doomed tragic end. If he had cared a little more about Guan Yuyan, he would have discovered what she was doing sooner and made plans sooner. Persuading Guan Yuyan to leave the Qin family with her was one option; secretly finding Qin Weishu's rivals with irrefutable evidence was another.
If he could completely break up with his gambling brother, Guan Yuyan would not have resorted to threatening Qin Weishu in order to repay his family's debt.
There are many ways to break the deadlock, but he seemed to have determined that there was no way. He didn't make any effort and ended up doing nothing. He also took it for granted that he could do nothing!
What a useless man!
After cursing inwardly for a few times, Su Yinuo said, "You've wronged Guan Yuyan, but now at least you can make up for it a little. Just think of it as fulfilling her last wish and give me her memory card."
Li Guogang wiped his tears, looked up at Su Yinuo, and said with trembling lips, "No more, all gone."
"What?!" Su Yinuo and Qin Wangxuan were both shocked.
"After she died, the master searched the entire mansion, including this room, our house, and my parents' house. He took away all the memory cards, cell phones, cameras, and computers. There's nothing in this room!"
"How, how is this possible?!" Su Yinuo felt dizzy and supported Qin Wangxuan beside her. Anger and resentment welled up in her heart. The feeling of all her efforts being wasted made her clench her fingers so tightly that she almost pinched his arm.
Qin Wangxuan immediately covered her hand and comforted her, "Don't be like this, don't get excited, there is still a way, there must be a way."
Li Guogang fell to his knees and cried, "I know I'm useless. I feel guilty towards Yuyan and Zimu for the rest of my life. I couldn't even keep the evidence Yuyan left behind. But, if you can just tell me Zimu's contact information and let me talk to him, I'm willing to be a witness and tell you everything that happened back then."
"Who would believe what you say?!" Su Yinuo cursed angrily. After that, she took a few deep breaths, took out her phone, and called Li Zimu. She squatted down, placed the phone in front of Li Guogang, and said, "Whether your son forgives you or not, you should apologize to him."
Li Guogang immediately took the phone and said tremblingly: "Thank you, thank you..."
Li Guogang walked into the bathroom with his cell phone. Su Yinuo sat back on the bed weakly. The crying and apologies in the bathroom made her very annoyed. Her hand was held tightly by Qin Wangxuan, and she was racking her brains to think about her next plan.
All he had at the moment were Old Master Ji's medical records and diary, and Li Guogang as a witness. But decades had passed since the incident, and none of the victims were alive. Even if these few things were exposed online, their impact on Qin Weishu would be minimal.
We can only continue digging deeper, but there are only a few people in the Qin family mansion, so what can we dig out?
Su Yinuo curled her lips and wanted to cry.
Qin Wangxuan put his arm around her shoulders and comforted her, "It's okay, let's take our time and look for other clues. My brother has already arranged for the old man to be admitted to a nursing home. You can investigate wherever you want during this time. We can also search the entire house. The old man has done so many evil things, I don't believe we won't find anything..."
Su Yinuo nodded, feeling a little better.
Not long after, Li Guogang came out of the bathroom and handed the phone to Su Yinuo. Before he hung up the call, he said, "Zi Mu has something to tell you."
Su Yinuo's eyes lit up, and she immediately put the phone to her ear and said, "Hello, I'm Su Yinuo."
Li Zimu's voice was a little hoarse on the phone: "Miss Su, I really didn't expect you to be able to do this. I believe you, I believe you can help my mother realize her wish. Although I still don't know what that wish is, my mother told me before she died that she had a wish, which was buried under the floor tile in room 405, fourth row, fifth column."
"Thank you, thank you!" Su Yinuo stood up excitedly.
"Goodbye, Miss Su, and good luck to you."
After hanging up the phone, Su Yinuo immediately looked at the ground, pointed to the fourth row and fifth column of tiles from the door, and said, "Smash it open!"
Qin Wangxuan and Li Guogang both took action, finding the right tools in the room, but after prying up the floor tile, they found nothing. Undeterred, Su Yinuo started counting from the other side and said, "It could be the fourth row and fifth column from this side, under the bed. Move the bed first."
Qin Wangxuan and the other person immediately moved the bed.
"It must be under the bed," Su Yinuo murmured, thinking of the illusion she had seen not long ago. She felt that it must be Guan Yuyan's wronged spirit pointing her in the right direction!
Sure enough, Qin Wangxuan and Li Guogang dug out a memory card wrapped in layers of paper under the floor tiles. Qin Wangxuan handed the card to Su Yinuo and said excitedly, "I found it!"
"Well! Let's take it back and have a look!" She looked at Li Guogang and said, "Uncle Li, please wait and wait for our news."
Li Guogang nodded. As the two were about to leave, he stopped Su Yinuo and asked, "Miss Su, I'm a little curious. From the first day you entered the Qin family, I felt that you were trying to talk to me, intentionally or unintentionally. Did you think from that day on that I had what you wanted?"
Su Yinuo did not hide it and nodded.
Li Guogang's eyes flashed with surprise and admiration, then he bowed slightly and said, "Miss Su, you really can't judge by appearance."
Su Yinuo clenched the memory card in his hand and opened the door, but just after taking a step, he suddenly stopped in his tracks.
Outside the door, Qin Cangye stood against the light, his outline gilded by the dim corridor light. His face was lost in the shadows, and a chilling, oppressive aura emanated from him. He raised his hand, extended it toward Su Yinuo, and said coldly, "Sister-in-law, thank you for your hard work. Leave everything else to me!"
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