At ten o'clock at night, Qin Yulian returned to the Jiang family's west district villa with two old men.
These two old men were the exorcist master and the Gu poison expert that Qin Yulian had asked her maiden family to find.
"You two masters have a good rest tonight. Tomorrow, I will ask you to check whether our old man is possessed by evil spirits or poisoned by Gu!" Qin Yulian said and shouted, "Lao Zhao, take the two masters to rest."
Jiang Yangxu, walking up from behind, reminded her, "You forgot that Lao Zhao has already been fired."
"Oh, right." Qin Yulian suddenly became angry when she remembered this. Just as she was about to complain, Jiang Xing stood up from the sofa and said, "Mom, I'll take the two masters to rest."
Qin Yulian waved her hand, "Alright, you go arrange it."
After Jiang Xing took the two old men upstairs, she said resentfully, "That wild girl Jiang Youli is overstepping her bounds! She actually fired Lao Zhao, who has worked with us for over a decade!"
Jiang Yangxu picked up a pack of cigarettes from the coffee table, pulled one out, lit it, and held it in his mouth.
"Don't worry, Lao Zhao will soon be back to continue working for us. I have already told him to kidnap Zhang Susu."
His words held no trace of emotion, as if Zhang Susu wasn't his sister-in-law at all.
Learning that her husband had the fired branch butler Lao Zhao kidnap Zhang Susu, Qin Yulian felt very satisfied. "We should have done this long ago! Zhang Susu is getting more and more insatiable! If we don't teach her a lesson, she and eldest brother really won't take us seriously! They only have themselves to blame for insisting on acknowledging that wild girl Jiang Youli!"
Qin Yulian gritted her teeth and said, "Since that wild girl Jiang Youli refuses to obediently go to the hospital to treat Zhao'er, we have no choice but to use forceful methods to make her submit!"
Jiang Yangxu blew out a smoke ring and said, "Yulian, are you sure you have made foolproof preparations regarding the old man?"
Qin Yulian guaranteed, "Don't worry! Whether the old man is really poisoned by Gu or not, I have already made it clear with that Gu master and made arrangements in advance. Jiang Youli won't be able to escape this time!"
Jiang Yangxu emphasized again, "There can be no mistakes in this operation, otherwise we will be the ones kicked out of the Jiang family."
Qin Yulian nodded.
Seeing that Jiang Xing had arranged for the two old men and come downstairs, Jiang Yangxu looked at his eldest son, "Jiang Xing, tomorrow morning you go to the hospital to arrange for Jiang Zhao's discharge, bring him back home, and also call the child Yonghe back together."
Jiang Xing snapped back to reality, "...Okay."
Qin Yulian patted her thigh and said, "Tomorrow I will also call Jiang Li and Second Master Long over! Yesterday Jiang Youli went to the Long family and made a scene, she must have offended Second Master Long. Today let them all see how Jiang Youli gets kicked out of the Jiang family!"
Jiang Yangxu agreed, "Alright."
Having arranged all this, Jiang Yangxu made another call to Zhao Zhigang.
It connected quickly.
"Lao Zhao, how is the matter I asked you to handle?"
The other side answered: "Second Master, it's done. I have her in my hands now."
After saying this, Zhang Susu's voice came from the other end,
"Let me go, Zhao Zhigang, let me go right now!"
Hearing Zhang Susu's voice, Jiang Yangxu finally felt relieved, so he said, "Very good. Chop off the ring finger on her right hand that wears her wedding ring, and bring it to me tomorrow morning."
Hearing this, the other side fell silent for a moment.
Jiang Yangxu thought Zhao Zhigang couldn't bear to do it, so he frowned, "What? You don't dare?"
The voice on the other end became a bit panicked, "...Understood, Second Master."
Jiang Yangxu said, "As long as you understand. Get this done, and I'll let you come back, and I'll increase your salary by half!"
"Thank you, Second Master..."
Even though he mentioned letting him come back and raising his salary, Jiang Yangxu didn't feel much excitement in Zhao Zhigang's answer. He just assumed it was because Zhao Zhigang didn't really dare to touch Zhang Susu, so he didn't think much of it and hung up the phone.
...
By a remote path in an urban village.
"Great-aunt, I have followed your orders, can you let me go now?" Zhao Zhigang knelt on the ground, looking at Ye Ying, trembling.
Ye Ying took back his phone, and with her other hand, she pulled out a knife from her waist.
She turned her head and reminded, "Madam, please look away. The following scene might be a bit bloody."
Hearing this, Jiang Yehan, who had received the news and rushed over, cast a cold glance at Zhao Zhigang, put his arm around his wife Zhang Susu, and turned to walk back to the back seat of the car.
Ye Ying played with the knife in her hand, squatted down and said, "Since Jiang Yangxu wants one of Madam Jiang's fingers, I'll just have to take one from your hand."
Saying so, without waiting for Zhao Zhigang to beg for mercy, Ye Ying raised the knife and brought it down. Relying on brute force, she sliced off Zhao Zhigang's ring finger alive. The pain made Zhao Zhigang almost pass out.
Ye Ying pinched the finger with a handkerchief, wrapped it up expressionlessly, then tied Zhao Zhigang up securely, lifted him from the ground, and threw him into the trunk of her car.
After finishing all this, Ye Ying turned to Jiang Yehan and Zhang Susu and said, "Tonight, I'll have to trouble Mr. and Madam Jiang to stay outside for one night, and return to the Jiang family tomorrow morning."
But Jiang Yehan held Zhang Susu tightly and said, "I still need to make a trip back to the Jiang family. I'll trouble you to settle my wife down for me first, miss."
As he spoke, his eyes were exceptionally cold.
He never expected that his own younger brother, Jiang Yangxu, would actually lay his hands on his beloved wife, Zhang Susu!
This had crossed his absolute bottom line!
This time, he could not forgive Jiang Yangxu!
Ye Ying looked at Jiang Yehan and nodded, "Okay."
Jiang Yehan let go of his wife and said softly, "Susu, you go eat with Miss Ye Ying first, then have a good rest. I'm going back to the Jiang family for a bit, and I'll find you later."
Zhang Susu frowned, some worry in her eyes, but she still nodded gently and said, "Okay."
...
Approaching dawn, the lights in the living room of the Jiang family's west district villa were still on.
At this moment, the doorbell rang.
Hearing the sound, Jiang Xing, who was sitting on the sofa in the living room, looked at the video intercom. When he saw that it was his uncle Jiang Yehan standing outside the door, his heart leaped into his throat.
He hesitated whether to go and open the front gate.
Obviously, his uncle must have come because of his aunt's matter!
The doorbell rang continuously as if tireless. The crisp and urgent sound pierced the tranquility of the night, startling Jiang Yangxu and Qin Yulian, who had already returned to their room to rest.
The two walked out of their room, holding the railing on the second floor and looking down at the living room on the first floor.
"Who is outside ringing the doorbell so late at night?" Jiang Yangxu frowned and asked with a hint of dissatisfaction in his tone.
Jiang Xing, sitting in the living room, stared nervously at the door. Hearing his father Jiang Yangxu's question, a trace of unease was revealed in his eyes, and he replied, "It's Uncle."
As soon as he heard that it was his eldest brother Jiang Yehan ringing the doorbell outside, Jiang Yangxu's face instantly turned gloomy. The corners of his mouth turned up slightly, revealing an imperceptible sneer.
It seemed that this eldest brother had come specifically to demand an explanation for Zhang Susu's disappearance.
"Ignore your uncle. Let him keep ringing the bell outside!" Jiang Yangxu said coldly, a flicker of disdain crossing his eyes. His expression then shifted to one of displeasure as he scolded, "Why haven't you gone to bed yet? You have a mountain of tasks waiting for you tomorrow. This is no time for you to be distracted!"
Faced with his father's reprimand, Jiang Xing hesitated for a moment before slowly nodding. "I know."
With that, he stood up and headed toward the stairs to return to his room to rest, his footsteps heavy.
However, he had barely taken a few steps up the staircase when a violent crashing sound erupted from outside. The entire villa seemed to tremble under the force.
As the deafening noise grew louder, Jiang Xing stopped in his tracks and said hurriedly, "Dad, I'm going outside to see what's going on."
He turned around, hurried down the stairs, and opened the front door of the villa. A chilling sight greeted him: a dark mass of over a dozen bodyguards was gathered outside the main gate. Some were relentlessly smashing the large iron gates with heavy sledgehammers, while others were slicing through the metal bars with cutting machines.
Jiang Yangxu frowned. Unable to ignore the escalating commotion any longer, he made his way downstairs.
Qin Yulian quickly returned to her room to drape a coat over her shoulders before following them down.
The very second they reached the entrance of the villa, the massive iron gate came crashing down with a deafening roar.
The dozen bodyguards parted to make way, and Jiang Yehan stepped through the opening and into the villa.
His expression was downright lethal, devoid of even the slightest trace of warmth in the cold night air.
