Chapter 512 512: Arrest
"I don't care; you will have to give me an explanation." Madam Qiao brushed her hair off her face and spat on the ground. She pointed at Village head Chu and said to her in a cold voice, "I am being very patient and kind with you but don't take my kindness as something that you can take advantage of. I have paid you a lot of money, haven't I? So unless you want me to make you cough it all out, you better set these things right for me."
When the village head Chu heard the words of Madam Qiao, she was so angry that she wished she could fight with this woman again. She raised her hand and smacked the woman on the face before saying to her angrily, "You want money? I have no money. If you want, then you can take my life! That's the only thought that I have in my hands at the moment. So unless this little life of mine is enough for you, I will suggest you give up!"
Village Head Chu decided to simply play as a hooligan. She pursed her lips and glared at Madam Qiao before saying to her, "I am telling you, you can forget about getting your money back. I don't have even a single penny."
Village Head Chu was very clear about one thing: that there was nothing that madam Qiao could do to her. After all, she had already spent the money and purchased a house in the city. The name on the house deed belonged to her husband and even if Madam Qiao wanted to take the house, she would have to see if she was willing to do it!
"You—"
Madam Qiao was furious with the brazen actions of Village Head Chu. She raised her hand and was about to hit the woman right back, but before her slap could even land, her assistant came running inside the house.
"Madam!" her assistant yelled as she came to a stop next to Village Head Chu and Madam Qiao.
However, just as she raised her head and took a good look at her boss and Village Head Chu, she was stunned. The two women looked like they had spent an hour fighting with chickens. What was going on? How did her boss end up like this?
"What are you staring at?" Madam Qiao was slightly embarrassed when she saw her assistant stare at her. She snapped at the woman angrily and asked her, "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Only then did the assistant snap out of her daze. She hurriedly said to Madam Qiao, "Boss, the village —its surrounded by police officers. They said that they have conclusive evidence that you were the one who was raising the gloom vessel…boss, what should we do now?"
Boom!
When Madam Qiao heard the question of her assistant, she blinked her eyes and asked, "Who—who said that they had conclusive evidence?"
"The police… they are here and waiting for you to surrender; if you don't go with them, they would arrest you," the assistant spoke in a rushed manner. "I asked Xinlei to stop them for the time being and came to look for you. Boss, are we going to surrender?"
In response to her question, the woman rushed out of the house without looking back.
The assistant turned to look at Madam Qiao, who was running away and pursed her lips. "So, we are running?"
She turned to look at Village Head Chu. For two seconds, neither of the women did anything but then both of them ran out of the house without looking behind. Now that the police was here and the main culprit was gone, they couldn't stay behind and watch themselves get arrested, could they!?
Madam Qiao, on the other hand, ran straight to the shack where Gu Qinfan was locked up. She opened the door with the key and then rushed inside. When she saw that the two mers who were sent here as sacrifices were indeed alive and well, she turned to look at Gu Qinfan, who stiffened.
Though he had never met with Madam Qiao before, he had seen her from afar and knew that it was this woman who sometimes sent the gloom essence to Village Head Chu. She even came to visit him a few times.
Back then, he didn't know who she was but Gu Qinfan knew that there was something weird about Madam Qiao's appearance at the village. She was a stranger and yet she came to look for Village Head Chu almost all the time, even though he had never met with that woman despite being the villager of the Chu village.
Because of this, Gu Qinfan became suspicious about Madam Qiao. Now seeing her standing in front of him, he knew that he was right. This woman was really targeting him from the start!
"You–"
"Why didn't you die?" Madam Qiao roared as she charged at the mer. With the syringe clasped in her finger, she looked at Gu Qinfan with a gaze that was filled with burning hatred. "You should have died! Do you know how much money I wasted on you, you bastard?"
She raised her foot and kicked Gu Qinfan in the chest, knocking him down on the ground.
"Argh!"
"What are you doing?" Qi Yongrui shouted upon seeing Gu Qinfan being kicked by the woman. He looked at the woman who was standing in front of him and said to her, "Who do you think you are to raise your hands on him?"
"I am his fucking owner! And he is my slave; I fucking bought him." Madam Qiao turned around and showed the deed that she had gotten from Xiang Zhu after buying Gu Qinfan.
When Qi Yongrui and the rest looked at the deed, they were stunned. They didn't know that Xiang Zhu was such a mer whose heart was so dark. He, being a stepfather, sold the son of his late wife; just what was he trying to do?
Gu Qinfan was not at all surprised. Though the news came out as shocking, he had more or less expected that mer to do such a thing. Ever since his mother was gone, Xiang Zhu had come up with different ways to torment him.
Selling him was the least of the worst things he could have done to him. A few days ago, he heard that mer discussing selling him to traffickers. Thus, selling him to an old woman and using him as a vessel was something that Gu Qinfan had more or less expected Xiang Zhu to do.
A mer who could even sell him to the traffickers and ask them for money according to each organ of his, what else could he expect from Xiang Zhu?
Qi Yongrui, however, recovered from his shock and then said to Madam Qiao, "Madam, it seems like you have lost your head. Selling and buying humans is illegal in the nation. Which means that your deed is not justified. The two of you, the buyer and the seller, are criminals who deserve at least 27 years of prison, according to the law."
"Shut up!" the last thing Madam Qiao wanted was to be told that she was a criminal and she needed to be arrested. She pursed her lips and slapped Qi Yongrui on the face before saying to him, "What will a mer like you who was sold as a sex toy to the Luo family? I will suggest you be quiet. That way I will still let you keep your life; if not hehe —don't blame me for being harsh on you."
After she finished speaking, she didn't forget to spit on Qi Yongrui's face.
This was how much she disdained someone like Qi Yongrui, who was sold to the Luo family.
"Yongrui!" Long Zhong glared at the woman who had spat on Qi Yongrui. He wished to rush ahead and kick the woman on the bottom, but he couldn't because his hands and feet were tied. And they were tied even harder. After he and Qi Yongrui didn't die, the villagers thought that they were doing something in the dead of the night.
Thus, they tied and threw them in the corner.
He couldn't even raise his body with the way he was tied, much less beat Madam Qiao.
Qi Yongrui, on the other hand, was filled with despondence. So this was what others thought about him behind his back? He was just a sex toy in the eyes of others, despite all the work and efforts that he had put in helping the Qi family rise to new heights.
His lips curled up and he smiled derisively. Sure enough, Luo Huian was right.
It wasn't worth it.
By following the Qi family, he only ruined his own reputation and shattered it into nothing but countless pieces with his own hands.
He clenched his fingers and gritted his teeth in anger. This was it; the next time he would never let people like Madam Qiao look down on him.
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