Chapter 2688 - 2750: DNA Test
This was what everyone was thinking, and it was what Li Yifei was thinking too. As for these people, Li Yifei felt that "misfortune shouldn’t extend to the family" was bullshit; it was actually better to drag their families into it. After all... some things can be dug out with just a light check, and if you push a bit harder, you can uncover a lot more.
Cai Shaoqiang’s father, Cai Gang, was then the head of a certain department under a development zone, Deputy Departmental Level. He had embezzled more than thirty million in public funds. Where did that money go? It went into companies set up for Cai Shaoqiang and a few relatives, and all of them were in that same development zone. They’d now grown to a decent size, but the money had never been paid back, still counted as embezzled, which was basically outright corruption. A small-time, shitty department head dared to embezzle over thirty million... Actually that’s not even much. After all, the mother of a certain local celebrity, also a similar type of cadre, dared to steal more than a hundred million, and that celebrity still shamelessly begged pity for his mother, acting all innocent.
Similarly, neither Cai Shaoqiang nor the relatives benefiting from the Cai family felt there was anything wrong with this. As they say, "If you’re an official and don’t make money, you might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes." Since they had the position and the convenience, why not grab more cash? Just from this Cai family line alone, you could haul out more than ten criminals. The charges against these people could be heavy or light, long sentences or short. If someone smoothed the way, then even if they were found out, it’d only be minor charges, minor faults, and when it came to sentencing, there’d be no logic to speak of. But if someone decided to go hard on them, then the charges and sentences would be heavy. Things in this world, same as ever, don’t follow any real logic.
This time, the Cai family was unlucky, and it was all because the affair between Cai Shaoqiang and Song Shuang got exposed. If the two of them had kept a lower profile, maybe it would have blown over. If Song Shuang had just sent Skinny Monkey off properly, hadn’t gotten greedy over the house and car, then Li Yifei and the others wouldn’t have been able to foresee her cheating, and cheating in such a disgusting way at that!
When people get too greedy, bad things come one after another. Of course that’s getting ahead of the story. Right now, Song Shuang was simply furious. Her car had rear-ended the one in front; the Land Rover was too solid, so the rear of the front car got crushed inward. She couldn’t leave for the moment, and just her luck, the other driver was one of those troublesome types, blocking her and yelling for compensation. If it had only been that, she wouldn’t have been this pissed. The reason she hit the car in front was that another car suddenly darted out from the side, startled her, and she hit the gas in shock, the car shot forward and slammed into the one ahead... Of course, there was no one to listen to that kind of explanation.
She just felt the whole day was a mess. Even something as "secret" as what she was doing with Cai Shaoqiang had been discovered by those comrades of Yang Yang’s, and she’d taken a whole pile of insults for nothing. If she hadn’t finally thrown out the matter of the child, she probably wouldn’t have been able to leave today.
After finally settling the car problem, three hours had gone by. She was worried Cai Shaoqiang would be mad—no, with his character he would definitely be mad—so Song Shuang thought that tonight would probably be another round of "torment." When she first started the affair with Cai Shaoqiang, she hadn’t been used to the things he liked to play, but later on even she couldn’t pull herself out. With Yang Yang, she was basically just going through the motions. Only when she was with Cai Shaoqiang, being tortured and ravaged by him, could she feel pleasure.
Of course, in ordinary people’s eyes this kind of thing is perverted. But Song Shuang enjoyed it. Being three hours late, once she thought about what she’d have to "welcome" later, she actually felt a bit excited.
But when she reached the hotel and saw there was no sign of Cai Shaoqiang in the room, she searched around and still didn’t find him, then quickly called his phone—only to find it switched off. This kind of situation wasn’t rare. She knew perfectly well that she wasn’t his only woman. So she cursed a few times, feeling exhausted, took a shower and went to sleep.
Right then, Cai Shaoqiang was no longer being beaten, but he felt like he was in hell. At first, he hadn’t believed these people had that much pull, but there he was, watching them with his own eyes as they kept operating, checking and verifying, uncovering one thing after another that he and the Cai family had done, and also things done by Song Shuang’s parents. Some of those he knew about, some even he had had no idea of. Hearing them now, it was like seeing ghosts.
What they were saying was real. They really did what they said they would do. And they’d already started. Once those things were investigated, it wouldn’t be hard to corroborate them. Some of it was downright direct evidence. How had they pulled that off? Cai Shaoqiang was tied to a chair, unable to move, but his eyes and ears worked perfectly, seeing and hearing everything crystal clear.
Meanwhile, the men of the Yang Family, under Li Yifei’s orders, had tied up all those thugs and sealed their mouths. They were all crammed together, including Zhu the Seventh and Zhu the Eighth. The two of them were regretting it so hard their guts were turning green. If they’d known this job would be such a loss, they’d never have taken it.
The key was that the guy who’d hired them didn’t communicate with them at all. Once he’d asked who was behind them and which gang they belonged to, he just tied them up and stopped talking altogether. For the first time in their lives, Zhu the Seventh, Zhu the Eighth, and all those hooligans were desperately longing for the police, hoping they would descend from the sky and quickly rescue them, so they wouldn’t have to suffer any more torment.
Unfortunately the police wouldn’t be coming, because nobody had called them. The Yang Family had been very worried at first, but seeing how calm and collected Li Yifei was, they chose to trust him. Skinny Monkey’s parents now understood the whole story. They were furious—Song Shuang had actually done something like this. But when they thought of the child in her belly, they could only grit their teeth and endure.
"Uncle, Auntie, I’ve already arranged things with a DNA testing institute. We can go for the test tomorrow, and the result will come out in a few days. By then we’ll know whether the child is Yang Yang’s. Don’t worry—if it is Yang Yang’s, we brothers will help take care of the kid, and make sure he grows up healthy. If he’s in trouble in the future, he can come to me!" Li Yifei said as he put away his phone. He’d already contacted a provincial hospital that could do the relevant test. Pausing for a moment, he went on, "But if the child isn’t Yang Yang’s, Uncle, you’ll need to be mentally prepared. When the time comes, we’ll make sure they’re punished."
If the child wasn’t Skinny Monkey’s... his parents would probably find it hard to accept. That would mean their last shred of hope was gone. Even so, after hearing Li Yifei, they still nodded and said, "We understand. It’s thanks to you being here. Otherwise we’d all have been beaten today."
"Uncle, Auntie, get some rest. You don’t need to worry about all this. We brothers are here. You don’t need to be afraid of the Dragon Gang either!"
"You should rest too. You haven’t slept since yesterday. Yang Yang has comrades like you—that’s his good fortune. Down there, he can rest easy." Skinny Monkey’s father said.
As for Song Shuang, the lover behind her, Cai Shaoqiang, and even the Dragon Gang, the Yang Family clearly had no ideas of their own. They had no ability to fight back against them. If Li Yifei and the others hadn’t arrived, then this time the Yang Family would definitely have taken the loss. Everything Skinny Monkey had earned after leaving the army would have been completely swallowed by the other side, leaving nothing behind. In their eyes, he would have become a sucker, a punchline.
The Yang Family knew this too, so they could only count on Li Yifei and the others. Luckily the latter were just as enraged, determined to avenge Skinny Monkey. This kind of grudge couldn’t wait overnight; it had to be avenged immediately, especially with the Dragon Gang involved.
Zheng Mingrui and the others had already taken control of Cai Shaoqiang. Whenever the thought struck them, they’d beat him a bit, making sure it hurt without leaving visible injuries. Of course that was secondary. The evidence they were digging up behind the scenes was enough to send Cai Shaoqiang and his family inside—that was the key. Destroying someone’s body was nothing compared to destroying his belief. Once the latter collapses, a person is just a walking corpse.
Over on Song Shuang’s side, she hadn’t slept well at all. You could call it a night of nonstop nightmares. In them, she dreamed that Skinny Monkey came back, covered in blood, to confront her—asking why she’d done this, why she’d betrayed him, why she’d treated his family that way. Just those few questions were enough to leave Song Shuang speechless. Facing the Yang Family, she could be ruthless; facing Skinny Monkey, she couldn’t. She owed him too much and felt guilty as hell.
Or else she dreamed of bloody hands reaching for her again and again. So in her dreams she woke up several times in fright, and every time she fell asleep, the nightmares started up immediately.
When she woke up, she still couldn’t reach Cai Shaoqiang. She’d just finished tidying herself up when she heard a knock on the door. She thought it was room service bringing breakfast or coming to clean, but when she opened the door and saw the two faces in front of her, she instinctively tried to shut it—only for them to block it.
Dumb Guy and Zheng Mingrui didn’t waste words with her. They chopped her on the neck to knock her out, then carried her to the next room. Ten minutes later, everyone came out, quickly got in the car and headed for the provincial capital. On the way, Song Shuang woke up. Realizing her situation, she naturally struggled, but squeezed between two big men, no amount of struggling did any good. Once she understood what they were going to the provincial capital for, she shut up.
"You remember this—I am not having this child. I don’t care whether Yang Yang has offspring or not. With his family and people like you treating me this way, I definitely won’t keep this baby!" Song Shuang threatened.
Zheng Mingrui looked at her coldly and said, "First prove the child is yours. If the child is yours, then you’re lucky. If the child isn’t yours... heh, Song Shuang, you’re going to have very bad luck."
"Bad luck? I really want to see what you can do to me!" Song Shuang shot back.
Zheng Mingrui didn’t say another word. As for Song Shuang... she thought it over carefully in her heart and felt that this child was basically Zheng Mingrui’s. Even though he’d always pulled out, that didn’t mean it was completely safe. As for her and Cai Shaoqiang, they actually hadn’t been together that often during that stretch of time. Every time was "inside"—oh no, every time it was a different place: in the back, or mouth, or whatever. Anyway, he played however he wanted. But afterward, Song Shuang would immediately take the pill, which had made her period extremely irregular the past two months. Over the phone, Skinny Monkey had even reminded her to rest more, take care of her body, and stay away from cold things... Thinking about it now, it was all bitterly ironic.
One way or another, the car was getting closer and closer to the provincial capital, and the result would come out as fast as possible.