Water City, Batong Hotel.
"Do you love me?"
In the dim suite, Ping An lay naked on the bed with his eyes closed.
Qiao Yiyan, wearing a purple silk robe, held a glass of red wine, propped himself on Ping An's side, and whispered into her ear.
"Love, I love you so much." Ping An seemed to be asleep, answering as if in a dream.
Qiao Yiyan was very satisfied with Ping An's answer and even kissed Ping An.
"You wouldn't have really fallen in love with this guy, would you?" What was originally a moment of intimacy between the two was suddenly interrupted by a voice.
Qiao Yiyan seemed unconcerned about the voice, got out of bed, and picked up the tablet computer on the table.
"Didn't our cooperation end?" Qiao Yiyan looked back at Ping An sleeping on the bed, then turned back to the tablet and asked.
"But there's a new problem." On the other side of the tablet, a person wearing a mask said anxiously, "I can pay more, just say the word."
"Speak, what is it this time?" Qiao Yiyan asked.
"Ask Ping An, who is Tong Hua, and where she is." The mask was removed, revealing Yang Jiao's angry face.
"Tong Hua? Who is Tong Hua?" Qiao Yiyan put away his playful mood and began to question seriously.
"My damn mother's illegitimate child, Ping An helped her find him. With him, I'm no longer the sole heir. I'm not reconciled," Yang Jiao said through gritted teeth.
"Ping An is busy with me every day, how could she have time to find that person?" Qiao Yiyan was somewhat disbelieving.
"You'll know when you ask," Yang Jiao said impatiently. "Also, quickly control her and find evidence of Yang Jie's crimes. The old man is also dying, and I can't hide it for a few more days. I want to clear all obstacles."
"You're really ruthless for money," Qiao Yiyan teased, looking at Yang Jiao. "You wouldn't end up killing me to silence me, would you?"
"Your target is Ping An, my target is money," Yang Jiao said. "Oh, by the way, I have good news for you. Su Tang, whom your organization has been wanting, has probably been fooled by me into looking for you. Be careful."
"Su Tang? Interesting," Qiao Yiyan said with a smile. "Then I'll hypnotize her too, make them turn on each other, and fight to the death!"
Ping An, lying on the bed, was no different from a corpse. Only when she heard the name Su Tang did her eyelids twitch involuntarily.
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A piece of white paper, yes, that kind of ordinary white card paper, torn open and rolled into a cone. The tip of the cone was sharp like a needle, but because the paper was not sturdy, it couldn't pierce someone's skin.
Qiao Yiyan performed the above actions with practiced ease, indicating that this was not the first time.
Ping An still lay on the bed like a dead person, showing no signs of waking up.
The paper cylinder, from light to heavy, was precisely pricked onto Ping An's nose tip—in principle, it didn't matter where it was pricked. Psychological hypnosis only needed a trigger. Just like now, the pain on the nose tip instantly drew Ping An's brain nerves to "focus" on that area. Then, under Qiao Yiyan's gradual guidance, he would enter a state of selflessness, neither fully asleep nor fully awake.
"Who is Tong Hua?" Seeing that Ping An had been hypnotized, Qiao Yiyan let go of the paper he was using to prick her and gently stroked her head.
"Tong Hua? He's Liao Yuan's illegitimate son." Ping An's body suddenly trembled irregularly, and she spoke, her eyelids repeatedly opening and closing.
"Who found him? Where was he found?" Qiao Yiyan quietly glanced back at the tablet on the table. On the video, Yang Jiao looked on in amazement.
"I found him. Liao Yuan's commission. My subordinate, Gao Da, Gao Da found him." Ping An's condition worsened, and she spoke intermittently, drool trickling from the corner of her mouth.
"Where is he? How do I find him?" Qiao Yiyan seized the opportunity and asked quickly.
"He's in Water City, Water City, with Gao Da, together." Ping An began to twitch, her hands involuntarily patting the bed, her expression ferocious and in extreme pain.
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"Good girl, good girl, listen to my voice..." In just three minutes, Ping An went from initial calm to having difficulty breathing. Qiao Yiyan finally ended the hypnosis, gently stroking Ping An's ears. Soon, Ping An returned to her original state and fell asleep peacefully again.
"There's still one thing you haven't done?" Yang Jiao, on the other side of the video, said displeasedly. "I asked you to subtly imply to Ping An that Yang Jie killed Tong Hua to seize the inheritance, why didn't you do it?"
"We've reached the limit. You don't want Ping An to die now, do you? She's still very useful," Qiao Yiyan said, covering Ping An with a soft quilt. "Besides, if you want to frame your adoptive father, you need to prepare evidence first. How to execute it, how to leave crucial evidence, how to frame—although Ping An is under my control, in the face of absolute evidence, she will change her own mind."
"You haven't developed feelings for her, have you? Don't forget your cooperation with me!" Yang Jiao said sinisterly.
"Do what you need to do! You're not in a position to lecture me. Ping An's transition period is almost over, and she's about to wake up." After speaking, Qiao Yiyan turned off the tablet.
At 2 AM, Qiao Yiyan, with his calculations, precisely rescued Ping An, who woke up in terror.
A person's mental strength is always limited. If subjected to hypnosis for a long time, even an immortal would not be able to withstand it.
Ping An, how much mental strength do you have? Any normal person would have gone mad by now. Holding Ping An, Qiao Yiyan felt the sweat all over her body and gently patted her back, comforting her, comforting her, comforting her...
Ping An did not sleep well that night, and neither did Su Tang.
In fact, she had struggled for a long time about going out on her own. When she returned home that night, her foster father, Gao Xiaofei, was there. After much thought, she decided to tell her foster father everything she had investigated and let the adults handle it. But the words stopped at her lips when she suddenly thought, if her master already knew Yang Jiao's background, why hadn't he told his foster father? She figured her master must have his reasons. If she told everything, would her master have worked in vain? Moreover, what her master was doing would probably not be approved by her foster father, which was why he was going out secretly...
Thinking of this, Su Tang made a decision and prepared to go out herself. Wasn't there the "Big Tree" she had hired outside? Regarding this person, Su Tang judged that he had elders and children, a whole family depending on him. He did have some intentions towards her, but it was only for money. This kind of person was good to use.
Su Tang, who hadn't slept all night, concocted a lie in the morning, saying she was so good at math that the school had arranged for her to attend a five-day autumn camp. The autumn camp was indeed there, and the departure date was indeed that day. Su Tang actually wanted to avoid this event, but to get out, she had to call the math teacher who had always favored her early in the morning and lied that she wanted to attend. Such an activity, which required fees and involved studying math, was rarely voluntarily attended by students unless forced by parents. There were very few students who went. Su Tang's last-minute registration delighted the teacher. Afterward, Su Tang handed the phone to her foster mother and righteously asked her foster mother to speak with the teacher and pay the participation fee of one thousand yuan. Coincidentally, Fei Keqing and Su Tang's math teacher were even distantly related. After they spoke, Fei Keqing had no excuse to doubt. To be honest, she was so busy with her wedding preparations lately that she immediately transferred 1000 yuan to the teacher and gave Su Tang another 1000 yuan for living expenses, encouraging her as she sent Su Tang off.
After dealing with her foster mother, Su Tang quickly went to school and told the math teacher, who was full of expectation, with a crying face that her master, who usually didn't pay much attention to math education, had just called and scolded her foster mother, saying she absolutely could not go. Her foster mother was not her guardian, so even though she really wanted to go to this event, she had to...
The math teacher naturally knew what kind of person Ping An was. Gritting his teeth, he still had to comfort the unhappy and dejected Su Tang.
"Teacher, don't worry about the money. My foster mother said she's giving it to you in advance as a Mid-Autumn Festival gift." Su Tang's little mouth was so sweet. With one "bomb" of hers, the teacher was deeply moved. He rushed to get in the car and leave without bothering to tell Su Tang's homeroom teacher that Su Tang couldn't attend.
"In less than an hour, I've dealt with the parents, the teacher, and the school. For at least a few days, no one will be able to discover the truth." In a car by the roadside, Big Tree proudly showed off his boss. The two people sitting in the back seat just smiled.
Having gotten rid of the teacher, Su Tang, dragging her luggage, did not get in the car, but waited at the school gate as if for someone.
Jiang Tingting had just experienced the most exciting night of her life and naturally hadn't slept all night. With dark circles under her eyes in the morning, as soon as she reached the school gate, Su Tang grabbed her by the collar and pulled her into a small alley.
"Don't make noise, it's me. Listen to me, after I leave, you'd better keep your mouth shut. We're not done with our business yet!" Su Tang threatened. "Keep your phone on these few days, waiting for my call. If you discover any movement, or any police movement, or any situation with Fengdian Company or the residential area, you leave me a WeChat message. Add me as a friend now!"
Exciting! Jiang Tingting liked being bullied by Su Tang like this, which made her feel very involved.
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"Be careful!" Jiang Tingting didn't say anything else, just urged Su Tang to be careful.
"Don't worry, when I get back, I'll take you to a nightclub every day for some excitement!" Su Tang said, and left without looking back.
Seeing her boss approaching, a bald man sitting in the back seat got out of the car with good timing and helped Su Tang load her luggage into the trunk.
After getting in the car, Su Tang curiously looked at the two guys behind her. Oh, they were both uncles around forty years old. Judging by their physiques, they were both people with stories.
"Can they be trusted?" Su Tang asked in a low voice.
"Brothers who came out of mountains of knives and seas of fire," the uncle said, pointing to the bald man behind him. "His name is Fang Fang, I call him Fang Fang."
Then, pointing to the square-faced man with slicked-back hair on the other side, he said, "His name is Yuan Yuan, I call him Yuan Yuan. You can call them Old Fang and Old Yuan from now on."
Su Tang curiously looked at the two burly men behind her for at least half a minute and nodded, "Round enough, and square enough! Tell them, although I don't have much money, I'll be out for at most a week this time. When I get back, including you, it will be ten thousand each. Don't think it's little, I'll make it up to you later when I have more."
Hearing his boss's words, Big Tree was a little stunned. There was no such money originally...
"Thank... thank... boss, I dare... dare... dare... not to serve..." The boss promised extra money in front of them, ten thousand yuan, which was not a small amount. It would be inappropriate for the two behind to still have stern faces. So, Old Fang spoke first.
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"I heard it. The boss is a sincere person. Big Tree brother asked us to come, and we would come no matter what. We didn't expect any money. Even without this money, I, Old Yuan, would still do it without hesitation. In fact, in the face of friendship, ten thousand or two thousand, or one thousand or two thousand, is just a number to me. There's nothing to say, let's do it..." Well, this guy from Northeast China is also a chatterbox.
Seeing the operandi of the two, Su Tang's expression remained unchanged. She immediately stopped talking about money and decisively turned her head, coldly saying to Big Tree, "Let's go!"
(In memory of the members of the "Pee! Tang is Toxic" organization in the Ping An universe all appearing - for details, please wait for the author's planned work "Pee! Tang is Toxic")
If Ping An knew that her precious disciple was with three men with an average age of forty-five, she would probably have her hair stand on end.
From Shanhe to Chuan Shu, a distance of over a thousand kilometers. The three big men took turns driving and entered Sichuan Province in just one day and one night.
Water City is a small county bordering Sichuan Province and Shanhe Province.
Su Tang once heard her foster father say that the boiled lamb here was super delicious.
Oh, right, Water City is Gao Xiaofei's hometown.
Having been out for a day and a night, Su Tang still couldn't get through to her master's phone. What was annoying was that even Hei Dou and Gao Da didn't answer the phone, and then they simply turned off their phones.
"Are they disregarding my life and death?" Bringing out three big men was still a bit hasty. She had underestimated the situation. She had never expected that her master and Hei Dou would play hide-and-seek with her. Now that they had arrived in the vast Sichuan Province, they were like headless flies.
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At a farmhouse restaurant in the suburbs of Water City, the three big men who had been hungry all day were eating. Su Tang watched the round and square uncles finish noodles by the potful with satisfaction and then, still wanting more, tore open a sheep's head and divided it into three portions, dipping them in chili and eating them with relish.
"Boss, the lamb here is not as good as ours. It's just for novelty. Aren't you going to try some?" After finishing the sheep's head, Big Tree licked his lips and poked Su Tang's lamb trotters with his chopsticks, implying that if she didn't eat them, she could give them to him.
"Get another sheep's head, three trotters, and six steamed buns," Su Tang shouted helplessly.
After they had eaten their fill, the people from Yuan Shang ate meat. Without tea, it wouldn't do. Even though the restaurant owner said it was a small restaurant and only had flower tea, not black tea or fucha, it wouldn't do. Under the intimidating gaze of the round and square uncles, they went to "borrow some" from another place.
The hot water was boiling, and the tea borrowed by the restaurant owner had arrived.
Old Fang picked his teeth, lifted the tea lid, and smelled it. Not bad, it was authentic Rou Gua.
While drinking tea, Big Tree cautiously asked Su Tang if she had a plan for the next step.
"I have no clue. I can't contact any of my family members. I finally got to Sichuan Province, but I don't know where to find them?" Su Tang was anxious, and her lips had even blistered.
"Don't worry. Since you can't find your own people, let's start with ourselves. Don't you want to find those four scoundrels surnamed Gao?" Big Tree refilled Su Tang's cup with some water. "Before coming, I specifically printed out their photos. Why don't we go look for them first?"
According to Big Tree, since they couldn't contact their own people and couldn't pass on intelligence in time, they might as well find the people first. Whether to follow or apprehend them, and how to handle them, was up to them.
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"But how should I look for them?" Su Tang also wanted to look for them, but didn't know where to start.
"Old Yuan, hmm!" Big Tree winked at Old Yuan. Old Yuan, who was sipping tea, immediately put down his teacup.
"Our intelligence said that the last place those four cowards appeared was on the border of Sichuan Province. We've been chasing them all the way. Old Fang and I haven't been idle either. The highway is relatively enclosed, and everyone has to eat and drink. We've been chasing them and asking around with their photos. When we came to this restaurant just now, the boss felt it wasn't upscale or clean enough." Old Yuan looked around and lowered his voice. "But in reality, yesterday, those four scoundrels spent the entire afternoon in this restaurant. They ate lunch and then had an afternoon snack. They left at night. The boss has sharp eyes and said they didn't go on the highway or on the main road. They entered the city..."
Hey! It was useful to bring the old guys out! Su Tang never dreamed that without any instructions from her, the three uncles had already handled it secretly while bringing her along.
"So, those four people are in the county town now? Then my master and them probably..." Su Tang also lowered her voice.
"That's right... that's right!" Old Fang opened his mouth and, after a long pause, said, "Now, it's getting dark... The boss, this girl, is looking for a place to... rest first. I, I, I, I, I—"
"We'll go into the city and search thoroughly for you!" Old Yuan added.
"Oh, right!" Old Fang finally caught up with the rhythm.
"Let's stay here. Boss, you haven't had a good rest for a day and a night either. Let's go into the city first, I'll open a nice hotel for you with my ID, and you can rest well after washing up. We'll inquire outside overnight," Big Tree said. "Water City is a small county with only about twenty to thirty thousand people. They'll be easy to find."
Hearing the detailed arrangements of the big men, Su Tang felt relieved. It was true that money made things happen. She stopped procrastinating and immediately entered the city, staying at a place called Batong Hotel...
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Water City is a small place, but because it is the place where "three rivers converge," it is beautiful and picturesque, making it a favorite destination for many tourists.
Ping An, being a reporter, was naturally an expert photographer. As soon as she arrived in Water City, she insisted on going to take pictures of the "martial world." With her RV sent for major maintenance, she and Qiao Yiyan stayed at a hotel, where they stayed for several days.
Su Tang was a minor and couldn't stay in a hotel without an adult.
In the lobby of the Batong Hotel, Big Tree used his ID to book a suite for Su Tang. Su Tang insisted on booking three more rooms, meaning the big men needed to rest. But Big Tree stopped her, saying that the three of them would be fine in a bathhouse, and besides, it wouldn't be appropriate to live in the same place as Su Tang.
Su Tang, who was always intelligent, naturally understood that the uncles were considerate of her, a young girl who hadn't grown up, and were deliberately avoiding her. She felt a little touched, and her nose tingled as she said, "But you don't have to sleep in a bathhouse! Even a small inn would do! Our budget is still ample."
"The boss is kind-hearted, hehe, but you don't know, according to our information, those four scoundrels probably don't have much money," Old Yuan said. "All the way here, they were reluctant to eat or drink, except for gas. Every meal was instant noodles and bread. Even at that small shop just now, they ate two bowls of plain noodles at noon and in the afternoon. Not to mention meat, there wasn't even a cold dish. What do you think this group of people can afford to stay in a hotel? I thought just now, even a bathhouse is too good for them. They're probably hiding in that internet cafe."
Hearing Old Yuan's analysis, Su Tang no longer insisted. She took the room key, saw the big men off, and felt a sense of relief. She felt lightheaded. Finally, the elevator arrived, and she entered it, intending to wash up and sleep well in her room.
However, if she had entered the elevator a few seconds later, she would have discovered that at the moment she entered, the elevator door next door also opened, and Ping An, arm in arm with Qiao Yiyan, was heading towards the restaurant with a smile.
"Sir, we have fresh crabs tonight. Would you like to see?"
In the restaurant, Ping An was engrossed in the menu. Hearing the waiter's introduction, she immediately requested eight.
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"Eight? Can you eat that much? Be careful not to burst your stomach," Qiao Yiyan teased.
"You wouldn't understand. Gao Xiaofei is from Water City, and his family used to raise crabs. Once, when I was eating hairy crabs with him, he bragged about eight ways to eat crabs. I'll try it today. Even if I have diarrhea tonight, it doesn't matter." Ping An said with a smile.
"No, you've just recovered a bit. You can't be so reckless. Do you really want to have diarrhea in the middle of the night?" Qiao Yiyan frowned.
"Ancient people dared to eat pufferfish at the risk of their lives. Why can't I have diarrhea and eat crabs?" Ping An, who usually listened to Qiao Yiyan, inexplicably wanted to eat crabs tonight.
If she eats, she eats. It's not a big deal, but Qiao Yiyan, who had already revealed her intentions, was planning to "perform a ritual" again tonight. If Ping An woke up because of diarrhea...
Qiao Yiyan couldn't bear to imagine such a beautiful scene. The agreement with Yang Jiao was just the final step tonight.
Frowning, after watching Ping An eat eight crabs in various ways, Qiao Yiyan quickly asked the waiter for a glass of hot water to rinse Ping An's mouth.
"Satisfying!" After finishing the crabs, Ping An pointed to "Candied Persimmons" on the menu and said, "This is a specialty of your Water City, right? Frozen? Not bad, it's perfect for cooling down. Get me three! And also, give me a salmon sashimi!"
Hearing the dishes Ping An ordered, Qiao Yiyan was going crazy. The crabs hadn't been digested yet, and now persimmons and sashimi. Was she afraid of not having diarrhea?
"Can you eat something healthy?" Qiao Yiyan knocked on the table and said displeasedly.
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"What are you afraid of? Even if you have diarrhea, it's not you who will!" Ping An made a funny face, took the persimmons brought by the waiter, and stuffed them into her mouth without even peeling them.
"Eat, eat, eat. Eat yourself to death tonight," Qiao Yiyan had given up trying to persuade her, but was worried that Ping An's eating habits would affect the hypnosis tonight. It was really just the last step. Once this was done, everything would be in vain, and she wouldn't have to torture herself anymore.
"What are you afraid of? Do you have any plans tonight?" Ping An suddenly put down the persimmons and said, half-seriously, half-jokingly.
In that instant, Qiao Yiyan actually felt as if Ping An had seen through her.