Chapter 373: Long time no see, cousin]

Time goes back to two days ago.

Huo Qingchi picked up Huo Qiuyi from the Red Flag Brigade. Both of them wanted to go home early, so they didn't stop much along the way and hurried to the city.

Seeing that there was still half a day before the train departed, the two were tired and hungry, so they decided to go eat something and take a nap in the guesthouse before going back to the station.

Opposite the guesthouse was the state-owned hotel. The two ordered a few dishes and sat down and waited.

"I haven't been home for almost a year and I want to go back quickly. Why are you in such a hurry?"

Huo Qiuyi suddenly spoke, seemingly unintentionally, but her tone concealed a bit of ridicule.

Of course, she knew that Huo Qingchi and Ye Qingyue were dating each other, and she could guess that Huo Qingchi was in a hurry to go back to see Ye Qingyue.

Huo Qingchi saw through her thoughts, took out his chopsticks and handed them to her, saying, "Eat more later."

Huo Qiuyi: "..." The subject change was too abrupt!

"Auntie, I am the one who helps you with the plan, you should at least tell me how far you have come, right?" Huo Qiuyi said unhappily.

Seeing that she was about to make a fuss, Huo Qingchi had to say, "This time when I go back, I will propose to Qingyue."

Huo Qiuyi's eyes widened: "Really?!" Is the progress so fast?

Huo Qingchi was about to speak when he suddenly felt someone was looking at him. He looked back sharply and saw that the door to the back kitchen had been opened a little bit, but there was no one there.

Was it an illusion?

Just at this moment, footsteps were heard from inside, and a hand pushed the door open.

Then, a waiter came over with dishes and put them on the table.

Huo Qingchi stared at him for two seconds, then suddenly asked, "Where is the waiter who served us just now?"

The waiter who collected the money earlier was a middle-aged woman.

The waiter who served the dishes was a man in his early thirties.

"She..."

the man opened his mouth, "packing up the food in the back... Well, why are you asking so many questions? Just eat your meal."

After saying that, the man rolled his eyes and walked away.

His attitude was so arrogant.

And on the wall of the state-owned hotel behind him, there was a sign prohibiting beating diners.

Huo Qiuyi pulled Huo Qingchi's sleeve and whispered, "When I was in the Red Flag Brigade, I heard someone mention that some people working in state-owned hotels would secretly pack some food to eat at home, but they would do it in private and would not say it openly."

The male waiter probably deliberately gave Huo Qingchi a cold shoulder to hide his guilt because he let the cat out of the bag.

Huo Qingchi glanced at the many diners in the hotel and said nothing. He and Huo Qiuyi were hungry all night, so they ate quickly and went back to the guesthouse to rest.

Huo Qingchi felt sleepy just after brushing his teeth and lying down.

He realized that something was wrong, and immediately supported his body to sit up, took out a purse from his arms, poured out a black pill and swallowed it, and the strange sleepiness quickly faded away.

The medicine in the purse was given to him by Ye Qingyue.

Ye Qingyue knew that no matter how careful he was when socializing outside, there would still be risks, so she prepared various antidote pills for him. What

he just took was an antidote for sleeping pills.

As expected.

Huo Qingchi had seen similar underworld tricks during his years of working outside. He quickly put his purse in his pocket and jumped out of bed, rushed to the next door and knocked on the door, "Aunt! Aunt, are you okay?"

However, he knocked on the door loudly, but no one answered.

Huo Qingchi kicked the door open and rushed into the house.

The moment he rushed in, a dark shadow attacked from behind the door!

Huo Qingchi subconsciously blocked it with his arm, and a sharp pain came from his forearm. He groaned and was about to open his mouth to call for help.

However, a cold wind blew from behind, and there was a stinging pain in his neck!

Huo Qingchi turned his eyes and saw the needle piercing his flesh, and the transparent colorless medicine was pushed into his body.

In just a few seconds, Huo Qingchi felt powerless and couldn't even open his mouth to call for help.

Damn!

Huo Qingchi elbowed behind him, but the man who had just attacked him in front of him raised his stick again and hit him hard on the head!

Huo Qingchi felt a strong sense of dizziness and powerlessness, and his eyes went black and he quickly fell to the ground.

"Did he pass out?"

"Well, but to be on the safe side, give him another shot."

"Okay."

There was another stinging pain in his neck, and Huo Qingchi quickly lost consciousness.

At this moment, there were four people in the room.

Two strange tall men were trying to lift Huo Qingchi up from the ground.

On the bed, Huo Qiuyi, who had fainted at some point, lay.

There was an open purse next to Huo Qiuyi's hand.

No one noticed that her fingers moved.

...

"Bla!"

Cold water splashed on his face, and Huo Qingchi opened his eyes from his coma. The pain in his head and body made his eyes go black.

The moment he regained consciousness, Huo Qingchi struggled subconsciously and found that he was sitting on the ground, his legs were tied tightly, and his hands were tied to a pillar behind his back, unable to move.

If his body recovered to its heyday, he would be able to struggle to save himself even if he was tied like this.

However, the piercing pain in his wrists and ankles made him realize an extremely cruel reality -

his kidnappers actually cut the tendons of his hands and feet!

Now, his limbs are no different from cripples!

"Long time no see."

At this moment, a familiar voice came to his ear, but it was a little hoarse than in his memory, as if it had been smoked. "Cousin."

Huo Qingchi was shocked, and he looked up despite the discomfort. A face that was completely unrecognizable appeared in his sight.

His pupils shrank: "You are... Huo Ze?"

It was different from the young and handsome face in his memory.

The face in front of him was full of burn scars. It looked horrible, but one could vaguely see the shadow of the past.

It was Huo Ze!

"I'm so glad you recognized me at first sight."

Huo Ze said with a hint of sarcasm, "I'm already like this."

Seeing that it was Huo Ze, Huo Qingchi roughly understood what had happened.

He tried to recall what happened before he fell into a coma, and his heart sank.

"Are you here for me?"

Huo Qingchi said, "My aunt is innocent. She was so good to you before. For the sake of our past friendship, please let her go. If you have any problems, come to me."

"It's not up to me to decide."

Huo Ze looked nonchalant, as if he was talking about a stranger. He said, "Mr. Smith likes oriental women very much. I promised to give my aunt to him. Don't worry, Mr. Smith is a good person. My aunt won't die in pain."

Smith?

Huo Qingchi's pupils shrank when he heard this Western name: "You colluded with foreign spies?!"

"I have to thank you, cousin."

Huo Ze emphasized the word "thank you" with a strong hatred, "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have chosen to disfigure myself and leave the capital to find another way out in Shenzhen, but I was targeted by enemy spies and forced to cooperate with them!"

When he left the capital, Huo Ze was determined to find a new way out in Shenzhen.

But he was just an ungraduated college student with no money in his hand. In addition, he needed to buy medicine for his disfigurement, otherwise he would be infected and die. He soon fell into a dilemma in life.

Huo Ze had a crooked idea and made drugs to confuse others and steal money.

He quickly chose a target, which was a small restaurant opened by a foreigner nearby.

But who could have imagined that the small restaurant he targeted turned out to be a den of thieves!