This matter was a piece of cake for Brother Dong. Not to mention that the sentence hadn't been passed yet. Even if it had, Brother Dong would still have a way.
Li Xiyu had originally prepared a whole bunch of words to persuade Brother Dong to help her.
She had just arrived in this world not long ago. It was already quite difficult for her to muddle through and figure out the rules of this society. She was inexperienced in the ways of the world and didn't have any reliable forces of her own. She was extremely nervous when asking for help for the first time.
However, unexpectedly, Brother Dong was easy to talk to. Before she could even start telling her story, Brother Dong directly asked her, "What do you need me to do for you?"
Li Xiyu replied muddling through, "I need some people."
"How many? What for?"
"Go to prison and teach someone a lesson."
"Okay. To what extent?"
"Just leave him alive until the trial."
"Got it."
Brother Dong acted very quickly. Half an hour later, there was news that his men had been locked up in the same detention center as Song Yunsheng for fighting outside.
Li Xiyu watched in disbelief as Brother Dong arranged everything, and then he could sit there drinking tea as if nothing had happened.
After all this, he slowly asked, "Well, the problem is solved. Now you can tell me that story you wanted to tell."
Li Xiyu was no longer in the mood to tell the story, nor was it necessary.
She looked at Brother Dong and changed the topic.
"Why do people outside all say that you've..."
"Passed away, right?" Brother Dong said the word that Li Xiyu thought was taboo with a smile.
Li Xiyu immediately lowered her head shyly. She was really curious, but she also knew it wasn't appropriate to ask.
Brother Dong was naturally willing to solve his daughter - in - law's doubts. After all, so much time had passed, and there was nothing that couldn't be said. "Back then, I was also young and impetuous." Brother Dong talked about the past with a smile.
"Back then, I was the only son of the Song family. I just muddled through my life. I was probably the kind of person who took advantage and then pretended to be innocent. I hated becoming the heir of the Song family very much. Moreover, there were a lot of intrigues and dirty deeds in the Song family at that time. When I was young, I couldn't leave the family, so I could only express my dissatisfaction by muddling through. Later, I met Xiaofeng."
Li Xiyu nodded. She had also heard something about the story of Song Yian's biological parents.
"I won't talk about those old - fashioned and cheesy plots like getting to know each other and falling in love." Brother Dong joked with a smile, casually recounting the painful years before. "But at that time, my father was also a hot - tempered man. He refused to agree to my relationship with Xiaofeng and privately arranged a marriage for me with a girl from the Mingyue family. Xiaofeng left the child and was so angry that she returned to her hometown. Later, I finally managed to contact Xiaofeng and asked her to come back to Beijing."
Li Xiyu remembered what she had investigated about Li Xiangping. It probably happened around this time.
"I really wanted to die at that time. I once tried to elope with Xiaofeng, but my father blocked all my ways out, leaving Xiaofeng and me with no place to stand. I also tried to persuade my father. I even managed to convince the girl from the Mingyue family, and the Mingyue family agreed to call off the engagement, but my father just wouldn't let Xiaofeng into the family. I thought at that time, since he valued heirs and family wealth so much, fine, I'll make him lose everything."
"So you tried to take your own life?"
Brother Dong nodded.
"In order to completely separate me from Xiaofeng, my father had sent me to a private island in Europe at that time. I couldn't return to China, so I could only use my connections to let Xiaofeng take the child away. I couldn't let the child grow up in such an environment. After knowing that she and the child were safe, I jumped into the sea. I didn't expect to survive at that time."
Hearing this, Li Xiyu was filled with emotion. Before, when she was on a plane in the sky, she had looked down at the sea. Even from a height of tens of thousands of meters, the sea still looked magnificent.
A person in the sea is like a grain of sand in the desert. It was really a miracle that he could survive.
"I was picked up by a fishing boat. I worked as a fisherman for a few years. Later, I saved enough money to return to China and wanted to find Xiaofeng and their son. At that time, I didn't know that they had changed their names. When I found Jiang Yongfeng and found that she was not Xiaofeng at all, I thought I had gone to the wrong place. So I had to look for them in other cities. In order to find them, I started doing my current business. I've been to both the white and black markets. Unexpectedly, while I didn't find them, my small search group grew without my noticing."
"So when did you find Xiaoan?"
"Coincidentally, I told you about the girl from the Mingyue family who called off the engagement with me. She passed away due to illness not long after. She was buried in the cemetery in the suburbs. Although we didn't get married, we at least knew each other, and I was very grateful to her for helping me and Xiaofeng back then. So I went to the cemetery to pay my respects a year ago. At first, I didn't notice anything. It was only when I bumped into Xiaoan at the cemetery gate one time. I always felt that this child looked very familiar. His eyebrows were like his mother's, deep and gentle, and his mouth and chin were like mine. The more I looked at him, the more I thought he was my child. So I investigated his information and found out that he also had the surname Song. I also found a photo of his mother. Only then did I know that he was my Xiaoan."
"Fate is really wonderful."
A year ago was exactly when she had just time - traveled here.
"Yes, I thought at that time that I wouldn't bother the child. I knew I wasn't a qualified father, and I didn't expect him to recognize me. I just thought that if the child needed help, I could do something. Do you still remember? Once, when you went missing, I even sent people to take care of you. At that time, I saw how nervous the child was about you, and I knew that he had fallen in love."
Li Xiyu's face immediately turned red.
"You've misunderstood, sir. At that time..." Li Xiyu originally wanted to say that she had just met Song Yian at that time, but then she thought that there was a lot more to explain, so she changed her words and said, "My relationship with him wasn't good at that time."
"Silly girl, you don't understand. People in our Song family are all stubborn. Once they start to care about someone, it means they're in love. If he doesn't like someone, he won't care whether that person is dead or alive, let alone search for them all over the city through connections."
Was it really like this?
When Brother Dong said this, Li Xiyu almost immediately thought of Li Xiyu.
She had been desperate because she couldn't get Song Yian's love.
It was a pity that she no longer had a chance.
This was also what she, Li Xiyu, owed her.