Chapter 616: Check Her Background Details....
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
As soon as the deputy manager shouted in fright, everyone in the Peace-keeping Bureau stared warily at the person who just showed up.
Su Ying thought she might as well take off the mask on her face.
The deputy manager stared at Su Ying in shock for a moment. Then he immediately recovered himself and knelt in front of her.
“Greetings, City Lord. Please forgive my poor eyesight.”
The other people had also recovered from their surprise by now and hurriedly paid their respects to Su Ying.
Su Ying walked over to the chair and sat down without any emotion on her face. She didn’t immediately allow them to get up.
For a while, the hall was so quiet that one could hear a pin drop. An invisible pressure almost suffocated them.
Just as they were about to go through everything they had done in their mind, wondering if they had committed some heinous crime that had angered the City Lord, Su Ying finally opened her mouth.
“You may rise.”
“Thank… thank you, City Lord.”
The deputy manager looked at Su Ying nervously. “I wonder if City Lord has some instructions for us since you have come all the way to the Peace-keeping Bureau?”
Su Ying did not ask about what happened earlier. Instead, she asked, “Did the people from the Tiger Base have any conflicts with the people in the city after they arrived?”
The deputy manager did not dare to hide anything. “City Lord, when Meng Zi and the others came, it was already winter. The weather was cold, and everyone rarely went out. We at the Peace-keeping Bureau didn’t hear of any problems. Even if there were, they were just some small problems which were all properly resolved later on.”
After he finished speaking, he quickly glanced at Su Ying. When he saw no reaction from Su Ying, he continued, “Except… just now. Something happened just now. Meng Zi’s son ran into someone’s courtyard and set fire to it out of the blue. I asked him about the reason, and he said that someone abducted his wife and wanted to force her into prostitution, so he went to take revenge.” “Other than Long Ba, who else is involved in the flesh trade?”
“City Lord, there’s no other people. Lord Chu says that brothels aren’t really good places so there’s no need to have so many.”
“When did Meng Jiang get married?”
The deputy manager didn’t know why Su Ying suddenly asked this question, but he still answered truthfully, “It was not long after you left, City Lord. At that time, all of us also went to the Tiger Base to attend the wedding banquet.” Su Ying tapped her fingertips lightly on the table. “Do you know the background of his wife?”
The deputy manager looked troubled. Meng Jiang was not such an important person to them, so they had never considered in depth his private matters.
“Send someone to ask around and find out where she came from. Don’t let people know.”
“City Lord, is… is there a problem with this Wang Furong?”
Su Ying seemed to have thought of something as she frowned in disgust. “It’s nothing. As things haven’t been peaceful around the mine, it’s better for us to know the background of the people in the city. Go and interrogate Long Ba and his men to see if they have been operating their business honestly.”
“Yes, City Lord. Don’t worry. I will definitely make them behave themselves.”
“Mm-hmm.”
Meanwhile, Meng Zi had already brought Tian Niu and Wang Furong home.
However, because of Meng Jiang’s matter, the three of them were very silent along the way. No one spoke.
As soon as she entered the house, Tian Niu was so angry that she slapped Wang Furong’s face viciously.
Wang Furong stumbled and fell to the ground. Blood began seeping from the corner of her mouth.
Meng Zi frowned and reached out to hold Tian Niu back. “What are you doing? What can’t we talk about this properly?”
Tian Niu glared at Wang Furong furiously. “It’s all her fault. If it weren’t for her, Jiang’er wouldn’t have been arrested! She’s a jinx. I shouldn’t have been soft-hearted back then and should have drowned her in a pig pen!”
Wang Furong’s face was ashen and she appeared very dejected with her eyes displaying an innocent look. “It’s all my fault. I landed my husband in trouble. I shouldn’t have told him about that incident. Mother, just hit me. Even if you beat me to death, I deserve it!”
Back then, Tian Niu took Wang Furong in out of kindness. Later, she felt that Wang Furong’s personality was a little strange, so she wanted to send the girl away.
After that, Tian Niu arranged for her to stay in an empty courtyard house not far from them. Tian Niu saw that she was quite well-behaved when she was living alone in the courtyard house, so she felt that she might have wronged the girl and let her down. Thus, she gave the girl a lot of help, whether openly or secretly.
Wang Furong also knew how to be grateful. When Tian Niu and the others were too busy, she would take the initiative to go over and help them.
Not long after Su Ying left, Tian Niu and Meng Zi came back from work and realized that their son wasn’t home. The young man had his own work to do and they didn’t take it to heart. However, when night fell and he still hadn’t shown up, they felt that something was wrong.
Meng Zi found the friends who often hung out with Meng Jiang and asked where he was, but all of them said that they had not seen him.
Meng Jiang had been living in the Tiger Base since he was young and had never gone outside. It was not likely for him to leave for no reason. He must still be somewhere in the base camp.
However, the search continued until the sky began to turn bright but they still could not find Meng Jiang.
In the end, Tian Niu suddenly thought of Wang Furong. They had searched the entire base camp, but they did not go to Wang Furong’s place.
When she pushed open the door to Wang Furong’s room and saw her naked body lying together with Meng Jiang, Tian Niu felt as if she had been struck by lightning.
At that time, almost everyone who was involved in the search saw that Meng Jiang had slept in Wang Furong’s room for one whole night. It was impossible for those two to maintain that they were still chaste.
Meng Zi was the person in charge of the Tiger Base. If he did not take responsibility for what happened between Wang Furong and his son, he would only be criticized in the future. Thus, he made the decision there and then and confirmed the marriage between Wang Furong and Meng Jiang.
Although Wang Furong seemed to be on the losing end in this matter, Tian Niu felt that something was not quite right. After that, she pulled Meng Jiang aside and asked him for details.
Meng Jiang simply said that he was helping Wang Furong chop wood. When he reached her place, he drank a glass of water. He still had some impression of what happened after that. He remembered that he couldn’t control himself and forced himself on Wang Furong, yet he felt that he wasn’t such a beast, rightfully speaking.
However, since he had already done it, he could only admit it.
Tian Niu felt that something was wrong after listening to him. Even after Wang Furong married into her family, she had always had some reservations in her heart. She kept feeling that Wang Furong was not as simple as she looked on the surface.
This reservation had always been buried in her heart, but today, after this incident occurred, the reservation burst open publicly.
“Both of you keep quiet. Furong, your mother is also worried about Jiang’er.
Tell us in detail what happened yesterday when you were abducted. Why didn’t you tell us immediately after you came back?”
Wang Furong lowered her eyes. “I… I was afraid. I didn’t plan to tell my husband at first, but he found out when I was hiding in the room crying. My husband interrogated me repeatedly, and I… I finally told him… I’m sorry, Father. I’m sorry, Mother. I… I really didn’t expect my husband to go and look for them.”
“I think you did it on purpose. They know you’re the daughter-in-law of the Meng family, so why would they still lay their hands on you!” Tian Niu was still unwilling to believe Wang Furong.
“That fellow Long Ba has always been a bad egg right down to the core. It’s quite possible that he would do something like this. I’ll send someone to investigate this matter. If you have nothing to do, stay at home. Don’t wander around anymore.” Meng Zi’s words were directed at Wang Furong.
“Father, then… then will something happen to my husband?” Wang Furong asked as she choked back her tears..