She glanced at him and said calmly, “Speak! You’d better tell the truth, otherwise—”
Dog Brother nodded frantically,
“Yes, I’ll talk, I’ll definitely tell you everything—”
He lowered his voice, looking at the woman who was getting closer, Dog Brother slowly opened his mouth, a vicious glint flashed in his eyes, and he threw a punch hard, but—
Xia Canglan grabbed his fist, narrowed her eyes, and twisted her hand hard,
“Ahhhhhh…” Dog Brother let out a shrill scream, the next second, his scream was blocked in his mouth, and he couldn’t make a sound.
“Crack!” A clear sound of breaking bones came out, scaring the rat next to him so much that it trembled and desperately shrank its body.
He opened his mouth desperately, pointed to his mouth, strongly expressing his willingness to tell this time, and
Xia Canglan inserted a needle, and he could speak.
“I said, I really… please let me go this time…” Dog Brother pleaded, his voice trembling with pain.
Xia Canglan curled her lips, her expression unchanged.
She had seen many people like this in the apocalypse. No matter how nice their words were, it didn’t negate the fact that they had harmed many people.
If the original owner’s memories were correct, this thug had previously followed a young woman who was walking home late from work.
Later, something happened, and that young woman was brutally murdered.
And he had tried to argue with the police that he was afraid of the murderer, but judging from his ruthlessness just now, even if he wasn’t directly involved, he was definitely someone who facilitated it.
Xia Canglan stomped on his mouth. “Shut up!”
“…” Dog Brother’s expression twisted.
Xia Canglan tossed a brick, and under the horrified gazes of the two, slammed it hard into Dog Brother’s groin area—
“Ahhhhh…” Dog Brother howled in pain, clutching his crotch, his whole body contorted like a boiled shrimp.
Xia Canglan, whose mood had finally improved, glanced at the trembling mouse beside her. Before she could even speak, he had already slid down and knelt in front of her, telling her everything he knew, including how much money he had received.
“Really, that woman only gave us one yuan, saying she’d give us ten more after it was done. That’s a huge sum…” For street thugs like them, getting a woman was nothing.
Xia Canglan smirked, raising an eyebrow in ‘agreement,’
“I know, this money will keep you entertained for a long time, right? So, you have to make sure you get your money’s worth, right? How can you just let me go so easily?” ”
Snap, snap…”
Under the terrified gazes of the two thugs, Xia Canglan, her fingers snapping and cracking, drew closer.
“Ahhhhh!!”
The two thugs’ screams of pain echoed far and wide in the dead of night.
At the Xia family’s door, Xia’s mother stood anxiously watching the dark night outside, but the person they were waiting for didn’t appear.
“What should we do? It’s so late, why hasn’t Lanlan come back yet? It’s long past her work hours, has something happened?” Xia’s mother said worriedly, looking outside.
The usually kind and approachable Mr. Xia stood up.
“I’ll go out and look for her. Don’t worry, Lanlan might have run into something at the hospital. She should be back soon. You go and cook.”
Grandpa Xia was also worried. “I’ll go with you.” He was also anxious waiting at home.
Just then, Xia Wenlan, who had been secretly watching from outside, walked over with a smile, ‘just in time’ to see them coming out.
“Uncle, Grandpa, why are you out so late? I have something I want to tell you…”
Xia’s father frowned, interrupting her. “We have to go out now. You can come back tomorrow.”
“Uncle, are you going to look for Canglan?”
Xia’s father and the others paused, turning to look at her.
“You saw Lanlan? Where is she now? I remember you went home a long time ago. Why are you only coming to tell us now?”
Xia Wenlan gritted her teeth inwardly, cursing under her breath.
Why? They were both girls, but she was just unlucky to be born into her parents’ family, and she was destined to do everything from a young age, while Xia Canglan, also a girl, enjoyed the family’s pampering?
However—
“Uncle, Grandfather, I…” She deliberately looked around before carefully whispering in their ears,
“I saw Canglan go out with two hooligans. I wanted to bring her back, but she told me not to meddle.”
After saying that, Xia Wenlan cautiously glanced at the two men whose expressions had changed, secretly pleased.
Yes, that’s it. You’ll find out later what a dissolute and frivolous woman Xia Canglan, whom you’ve always spoiled, is. She doesn’t deserve your pampering.
“Xia Wenlan!”
Xia Wenlan instinctively trembled, looking up at her uncle, whose face was stern but whose eyes held barely suppressed anger. “Uncle, don’t be angry, my sister…”
“Why did you say such slanderous things about Lanlan? If you really considered her your sister, you wouldn’t say such things about her. Go back, and don’t come here again. You’re not welcome in my house.”
Xia Wenlan’s eyes widened in disbelief that her father would say such harsh words.
“Uncle, I’m not lying, I really saw it. If you don’t believe me, I can take you there, and you’ll see I’m not lying…”
Her father’s face turned cold, and he grabbed her hand.
“So, you knew Lanlan was there from the beginning? How did you know? Or did you know this from the start? But you stopped us from going to find Lanlan?”
Xia’s mother, who had been listening inside the door, couldn’t hold back any longer and ran out to grab her.
“Xia Wenlan, tell me quickly, where did you take my Lanlan? How could you… She’s your cousin! How could you…”
Hearing the commotion, the neighbors craned their necks to see what was going on.
They whispered amongst themselves,
“What’s going on? Isn’t that Xia Zhaodi from the second branch of the Xia family? What’s she doing here at Dr. Xia’s?”
“Hey, it seems something happened to Lanlan?”
“I heard Zhaodi made Lanlan disappear? This…” This was a big scoop; they were eager to know what would happen next.
However, some clever people realized something,
“Does that mean Xia Canglan hasn’t come home yet?”
“This… Could it really be like Zhaodi said, that she went out with some street thugs and hasn’t come back?”
Xia Wenlan heard the neighbors’ words too.
She felt smug; these people were all big mouths. Once they found out, the whole neighborhood would know within a day.
Then, let’s see how Xia Canglan would have the face to show her face again.
If she could just stall for a little longer—
“Uncle, Grandfather, I didn’t expect you to think so badly of me. I only came to see Canglan because I really cared about her…”
“Oh~ really? It seems Sister Zhaodi really cares about my sister whom I haven’t cared about for years?”
A sneer rang in everyone’s ears, drawing everyone’s attention.
Xia Canglan was wearing a white dress, her fair and beautiful face, even with the simplest braids, made her look like an otherworldly beauty, not at all like someone who had been in trouble.
Xia Wenlan, seeing Xia Canglan completely unharmed and even more beautiful than yesterday, was furious.
What were those two thugs doing?
She had spent so much money, and these people were so useless, letting Xia Canglan run back?
“Zhaodi—Sister, do you seem surprised to see me here? Why do you look so incredulous? Are you that curious about how I got back?”