Chapter 29 The Secret of the Three Brothers
Zhan Hengyi looked up at the stage and saw several performers in costumes performing acrobatics on the stage.
An old man and two children aged seven or eight, all of them had their faces painted, so their true appearances were hard to discern.
The old man directed the two children while they went through a fire ring and performed the one-legged stand on a dozen stacked stools.
The guests in the audience applauded and threw cash onto the stage as a tip.
Su Zhijie said, "This group of people has appeared in Jiangcheng for nearly a month. They are a group of about twenty people, and except for the old man and two strong men, all of them are children. At first, they formed several groups and performed in the streets. After being stopped by the police, they began to perform in various theaters.
I accidentally discovered that the old man was beating and scolding the young acrobat backstage, using foul language.
I asked someone that day and found out that they were performing everywhere. This stop was Jiangcheng and the next stop was Yuecheng.
I wonder if these kids were kidnapped? Should we-"
Zhan Hengyi moved his jaw, his eyes flashing with coldness, "Let our brothers from the Qing Gang take action. I don't have to go to the base this week, so I can just use this opportunity to resolve this matter."
Let Dongzi take people to check their lair first, and catch them all in one fell swoop if we want to solve the problem.
Don't alert the enemy yet, just take a look today and leave, don't let that old man find out anything."
"Dongzi is outside the city today, let's go find him later!"
"Hmm!"
They insisted on watching the whole performance and only left when the show was replaced by an opera.
As soon as I walked out of the gate of Li Garden, a woman in a red costume, with her makeup still on, was talking and smiling with a man at the door, looking very intimate.
Only when Qi Wei blocked the way did Zhan Hengyi glance at her.
The next second, Zhan Hengyi's face turned pale, and his mind suddenly recalled a scene from one night three years ago.
Su Zhijie looked at the woman and then at his brother, "Are you okay?"
Zhan Hengyi shook his head and got in the car.
"Your reaction just now, was it because you thought that woman looked like Ruan Anruo?" Su Zhijie said as he sat in the passenger seat and handed Zhan Hengyi a cigarette.
Ruan Anruo's father used to work for the Zhan family for many years. Ruan Anruo has always liked Zhan Hengyi. In order to get Zhan Hengyi's attention, she went to learn opera despite her father's opposition and became a famous star in Jiangcheng.
After becoming famous, she pursued Zhan Hengyi madly, but misfortunes kept happening to her: she broke her leg, her voice was damaged, she was injured... The last time she died, her face was disfigured and her head was severed, all due to bizarre accidents.
Not long after Ruan Anruo's death, his father also died, and the Zhan family gave his wife a considerable sum of compensation.
Before meeting Nan Chengcheng, all the girls who actively pursued him were entangled in bad luck, and Ruan Anruo was the worst off.
"Yeah." Zhan Hengyi lit a cigarette and watched the fireworks slowly float out of the window.
The woman just now seemed to be a reminder that the girls in the past were more miserable than each other. If Nan Chengcheng would encounter those... Thinking of this, she felt inexplicably heavy, as if a huge rock was pressing on her heart.
Nan Chengcheng said that the fatal curse on him could be broken, but the fact that he was unlucky with women could not be changed.
Su Zhijie seemed to understand what his brother was thinking and patted him on the shoulder. "Let's go, Dongzi and the brothers are waiting for us!"
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Outside the city, beside the Huai River near Sheshan, several large cypress boats were anchored on the shore.
Zhan Hengyi parked the car nearby and boarded one of the boats with Su Zhijie.
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