Bai Wei was dressed in a custom - made Chanel suit. She sat rigidly on a greasy and dirty low stool, looking extremely strange.
When she saw Si Jiangchen come out, she immediately looked up at him with a panicked expression.
"Jiangchen, I heard a commotion inside. Are you hurt? If you hadn't told me to watch this old woman, I would have rushed in long ago!"
Hearing her words, I couldn't help rolling my eyes. This old woman was clearly unable to move. Did they really need a living person weighing over a hundred pounds to sit on her and watch her?
In response to Bai Wei's words, Si Jiangchen just smiled slightly and reached out to pull her up.
"You've worked hard, Weiwei."
Bai Wei stood up and sized me up. She asked, somewhat puzzled, "Mr. Du, how did you end up like this?"
I looked down at myself. During the scuffle with the Feng brothers just now, my clothes were not only dirty and smelly, but Feng Zhuzi also tore my T - shirt. I must have looked really miserable.
"I..."
I originally thought Bai Wei was concerned about my safety and was about to explain, but her next words almost left me speechless.
She frowned and covered her nose slightly. "So this is what a yin - yang master has to do when handling a case. It's really... an eye - opener."
"Jiangchen..." She gently grabbed Si Jiangchen's arm. "Don't you have a cleanliness fetish? How can you stand this?"
I have to admit that Bai Wei is a very smart woman. She never said directly that I was dirty, but her tone was even more infuriating.
I wanted to push away Si Jiangchen's arm around my waist, but then I thought better of it. Instead, I hugged him even tighter. "Men who claim to have a cleanliness fetish usually just don't like people they don't like touching them, right?"
As I said this, I looked up at Si Jiangchen and saw that his dark eyes were looking at me with interest. I quickly withdrew my hand as if I had been burned and then pushed him away.
Feng Qianqian, who came out with us, hadn't seen sunlight for a long time. Although it was already sunset, the light still made her squint for a while. Only then did she finally see the old woman lying on the ground.
"Grandma..."
She hesitated for a moment and then walked over step by step. She gently stroked the old woman's gray hair. The old woman groaned and slowly woke up.
"Xiao... Qian! " The old woman saw her granddaughter groggily and quickly grabbed her hand. "Where's your father? Where's your uncle? Hurry up and call those two scoundrels out. Grandma is about to be beaten to death!"
Feng Qianqian's eyes were pitch - black. She stared fixedly at the old woman lying on the ground and suddenly grinned. "Old... thing! Still expecting those two beasts to save you?!"
The old woman had never seen her meek granddaughter dare to scold her. In a fit of anger, she forgot about her own situation and reached out to grab Feng Qianqian's hair.
Feng Qianqian suddenly erupted. She grabbed the wooden stool on the ground and crazily smashed it at the old woman's head and body.
"Still want to hit me?! Old thing!! You're all a bunch of beasts. You'll all die a bad death!!"
Feng Qianqian roared as the stool rained down on her own grandmother, making the old woman wail.
"What are you doing! Are you crazy?"
Bai Wei was shocked and shouted, "Is that your grandmother? How can you treat her like this?!"
"She's not human. She's an old brute. She let my dad and uncle bully me!"
Feng Qianqian's movements of hitting became more and more skillful from the initial clumsiness. Presumably, after suffering so many beatings, she had memorized those movements. Now she was using them on the old woman to get even.
"Even if they beat you, they're still your elders and relatives. How can you do this?"
Watching the old woman rolling and wailing on the ground, Bai Wei couldn't help but speak out to stop her.
As a well - educated elite, she didn't want to be as indifferent as I was to this kind of unfilial behavior.
Feng Qianqian turned around and sized her up. There was blood splashed on her face and her eyes were full of red blood vessels.
She had been locked in the small hut for God knows how long, suffering humiliation from her relatives. She had thought about running away and rebelling, but all she got in return were more severe beatings and tortures.
She didn't want to die. She had been waiting for an opportunity.
It was not until she saw Si Jiangchen tear her father and uncle into pieces like crushing two bugs that Feng Qianqian realized that those two seemingly powerful guys who had made her feel trapped were actually nothing!
She had just smashed the mastermind of this perverted family to a pulp and finally let out her pent - up anger. Then she heard Bai Wei criticizing her from the moral high - ground. She couldn't help but show a contemptuous smile.
"It seems that you're a great kind - hearted person!"
Feng Qianqian walked towards Bai Wei with the blood - stained stool in her hand.
Bai Wei took two steps back, frightened by her terrifying expression, but still stubbornly said, "Of course. The teachings from the elders in the family are all for your own good! When they beat you, you should just endure..."
"Don't advise others to be kind without experiencing their sufferings."
I watched all this coldly and couldn't agree with Bai Wei's words at all.
The abuse suffered by the women in the Feng family was not just simple teachings. Anyone born into such a family would probably become psychologically distorted!
"How can you be so cold - blooded? So vicious!"
Bai Wei didn't want to argue with Feng Qianqian, but was willing to argue with me in front of Si Jiangchen.
She always thought that my existence was a threat.
Si Jiangchen had broken many of his rules for me.
This was not a good sign!
Before I came along, General Manager Si had treated all women equally—equally gentle but equally distant.
But now...
She couldn't help but take a deep look at the hand around my waist.
"Hehe."
I curled my lips and said, "Coincidentally, I think so too."
Bai Wei didn't expect me to admit so easily that I was a bad person. She was at a loss for words for a moment.
Even though these famous ladies didn't like each other, they would still maintain a harmonious facade and only play dirty tricks on each other behind their backs. Where had they ever seen someone like me who didn't care about their own face at all and openly admitted it?
"You... It's good that you know yourself!" Bai Wei clenched her fists tightly. Her carefully manicured nails had dug deeply into her palms.
"Feng Qianqian, don't waste time. Take us to see your sister."
I noticed that Feng Qianqian was looking at Bai Wei in a strange way. I was really afraid that the girl would knock Bai Wei down and hurt her. Bai Wei was a person of status. Feng Qianqian might end up in trouble because of this.
So I quickly called out to her.
Hearing my words, Feng Qianqian threw the stool on the ground with a bang and pointed outside the wall behind the yard. "It's just outside. There's a big pit."
...
When I walked towards the back of the yard as Feng Qianqian had pointed, I casually picked up an old umbrella leaning against the back of the Feng family's door and held it over my head.
Bai Wei was puzzled. She thought I was deliberately trying to draw attention to myself and gave me a disdainful look.
I didn't bother to care about her. If she had the yin - yang eye, she would probably be scared to death!
Under the shabby black umbrella, two hideous female ghosts were also glaring at her fiercely...
"Forget it."
I murmured softly, "We have important things to do. Don't argue with her."
"Humph!" Hearing my words, Wang Yingxiu finally withdrew her gaze.
Since I helped Wang Yingxiu to transcend her child, she had become even nicer to me. She was like a long - time best friend protecting me.
The backyard of the Feng family was a large expanse of farmland. The wheat had already been harvested, leaving only short, yellow and charred straws standing in the field.
The big pit where Feng Qianqian said her sister Feng Zhenzhen was buried was right under an old willow tree beside the high wall...