Becoming the Villain's Discarded Wife
Chapter 345

Chapter 345: 345

Aze panting heavily, leaned against the door. Upon looking up, he saw Nanzhi rolling up her sleeves, ready for a fight, and was immediately taken aback.

"Master... Master Dong?"

Nanzhi paused midway through rolling up her sleeves, a moment of clarity returned to her mind.

Looking at the severely beaten Shen Zhong before her, Nanzhi gritted her teeth and lowered her arm.

She couldn’t, wouldn’t act impulsively.

Even if she really were to kill Shen Zhong, she would still be in the dark about Miaomiao’s whereabouts.

In that brief moment of clarity, Nanzhi took a few steps back and asked.

"Aze, have you found out anything?"

Lin Ercheng was just as frightened by Nanzhi’s intensity a moment ago.

Perhaps, she was unaware, that the look in her eyes, was akin to a fierce deity’s statue at the back of the village.

The look that passionately wanted someone dead.

Even though he and his brother grew up fighting, they’ve never actually killed someone.

Even if it came to the point where someone had to be killed, they hoped it wouldn’t be their sister that takes the action.

Seeing that she had become calm, the two brothers shared a glance before dragging Shen Zhong to a corner.

"Master Dong, Shen Dong’s mother is at Jihe Hall, there is also a woman, she said Miaomiao is involved with someone called Liao Er."

Panting heavily, Aze quickly divulged what he knew,

Nanzhi wasn’t familiar with Liao Er, but the Lin brothers did.

Being in business in Yan City, they naturally had connections.

If you wanted to gain a firm footing, one needed contacts in both the lawful and unlawful circles, to avoid future trouble.

Having an in-law in the county government was of course inevitable.

The underworld side, they only had brief touches, just befriending a few small hooligans looking to extort protection fees.

There were occasions when men would drink together. Every time they went for a drink, someone would mention Liao Er.

There is an underground gambling house in Yan City, the daily stake could amount to thousands to tens of thousands taels.

Although the actual owner of the gambling house was unknown, Liao Er was infamous amongst the gamblers.

Even they knew of his notoriety.

"Liao Er?" Nanzhi’s eyebrows furrowed as she stared at the lump of flesh that was Shen Zhong.

"Did you give Miaomiao to Liao Er?"

Miaomiao once mentioned that Shen Zhong had a gambling addiction and seemed to owe a lot of gambling debts.

His return to the Shen family was probably to pay off some of his gambling debts using Aunt Guihua and Uncle Shen Three’s money, and currently, Miaomiao was the wealthiest in the Shen family.

Yet, Miaomiao had been driven away by him and had been away from home for many days.

There were many gamblers who sold their wives and daughters, and if Shen Zhong said that he had sold Miaomiao, she wouldn’t be able to disbelieve it.

"Heh heh, you...you can’t find her," Shen Zhong’s face was already massively swollen. As he spoke, it pulled at his face which was extremely painful.

Yet, he was unwilling to say a word, only cynically laying there on the ground.

"Back then, we... we were starving. It... it was my family that gave you grains. If you... if you kill me, you’ll... you’ll be sorry, sorry to my mother!"

"Fatty, this Liao Er fetched people, mostly to...to sell to those places, should we go look for her?" Lin Yicheng’s facial expression was terrible.

What Shen Zhong said was true.

"Liao Da went to report to the authorities." Nanzhi seems to be thinking about something.

Suddenly, she heard a few small stones falling down from the wall of the neighboring courtyard.

Nanzhi jerked her head up.

Right, how could she have forgotten about Tie Dandan?

"Big brother, second brother, let’s go." After glancing at Shen Zhong on the ground, Nanzhi didn’t bother with him anymore. Instead, she hurriedly left the Shen family residence and looked towards the neighboring house.

"Tie Dandan, Tie Dandan!"

She recalled that the last time she came to find Miaomiao, it was this little boy in the neighboring house who had seen her.

The noise just now might have been caused by this little boy.

After calling out for a while with no response, Nanzhi became somewhat anxious. Just as she was thinking about whether to knock on the door, she saw a pair of eyes belonging to a little boy cautiously peering out of a small hole in the courtyard wall.

It was Tie Dandan.

"Sister, are you looking for... for Sister Miaomiao?"

Tie Dandan’s face was somewhat pale. When he asked this question, he carefully looked around to make sure there was no one to scare him. Then, he removed another brick from the wall, revealing the upper half of his face.

"Yes, Tie Dandan, do you know... do you know where Sister Miaomiao has been taken?" As Nanzhi was speaking, she reached into her sleeve and fumbled around. Finally, she took out two taels of silver and quickly stuffed it into the little hole.

"Tell everything you know to your sister. This silver... this silver is a reward."

Tie Dandan looked at the silver and shook his head.

Nanzhi was a little disappointed, but then she heard the little boy talk: "I don’t want the silver. Sister Miaomiao was coming back with food. When she came back, I was playing in the alley. I called out to her and she told me that she would share a bowl of ice with me and asked me to go home and bring a bowl. As soon as I came out with the bowl, I... I saw a man dragging Sister Miaomiao inside."

As he said this, Tie Dandan shivered a little.

"I didn’t dare follow her inside afterwards. But... but I heard Sister Miaomiao screaming. So... so I peeked over the wall and saw that man knock Sister Miaomiao unconscious, then... then he and Sister Miaomiao’s brother, together... together they took Sister Miaomiao out the door."

Nanzhi was getting anxious and quickly asked: "What happened next? Where did they go?"

Tie Dandan’s voice was shaking, and he was about to burst into tears: "They got on a carriage, and... and they left. I didn’t follow them, I was scared."

He likes Sister Miaomiao, and Sister Miaomiao is very nice to him. He even told his mother that when he grows up, he wants to marry Sister Miaomiao. But... but when Sister Miaomiao was in danger, he didn’t even dare to follow!

The little boy started to cry. Nanzhi was a bit at a loss, thinking that she had forced the boy to cry by pressing him too hard.

"Tie Dandan, do... do you remember what the carriage looked like?"

Lin Ercheng quickly interjected.

"It was... it was just a carriage. But... but the curtain was black, and on both sides of the door... on both sides it looked like there were... there were two small stones."

Tie Dandan rubbed his eyes and said.

Nanzhi, Lin Yicheng, and Lin Ercheng didn’t quite understand, but Aze suddenly remembered.

When he was rushing from Shen’s alley to the restaurant, because he was in a hurry, he almost crashed into someone’s carriage. Wasn’t the curtain of that carriage black?

He and Shen Miaomiao left the restaurant less than fifteen minutes apart. Maybe that was when they missed each other!

On the carriage, Shen Miaomiao was lethargic and felt uncomfortably oppressed. She tried to push the weight off her body, but it wouldn’t budge. After exerting a lot of effort, she finally managed to open her eyes.

She looked up to see Liao Er’s fierce face. To intimidate her, Liao Er even deliberately tightened his face, just wanting to see the little girl’s reaction.

Under the man’s playful gaze, the little girl just asked a somewhat dazed question, her voice soft as if it was a gentle breeze brushing over a hill.

"Are you my husband?"

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