Chapter 971: Perplexed and Smitten (31)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
With that, she reached out to take a portion of breakfast for herself.
Slapping away her hand, Jin Qingyan remarked, “If you want to eat, go and get food from your captain. I didn’t deliver this especially for you.”
Wen Lele pursed her lips. “I take back the words I just said. Hmph, you don’t act like a gentleman at all.”
He sneered, “To you, I don’t need to act like a gentleman.”
An Xiaoning took the breakfast and sat down in the tent with Jin Qingyan.
“I’ve already made the arrangements last night, the helicopters should arrive at any time.”
“How many did you send?”
“Four is enough.” Jin Qingyan already had it well-planned. “The skeletons will be transported back and buried properly.”
An Xiaoning drank a sip of milk and started eating a glutinous rice ball.
The two sat together side by side and ate breakfast together. As the sun rose slowly, a brand new day was about to begin.
About half an hour later, a loud rumbling sound came from the skies and four helicopters landed on a vast piece of empty land one by one.
Out came twenty people from the helicopters.
Every helicopter could take sixteen people.
That way, there was enough space for all the skeletons to be transported back.
Every single one of them had tools in their hands.
After they went to the place where the skeletons were buried, the group of them started excavating together.
This particular pit where the skeletons were buried was quite intricate. The bodies had not been just buried inside, they were laid on thick and sturdy wooden boards that formed a passive pit. There were two layers of wooden boards above each other, and they were glued together with adhesive cement.
When they opened the first layer of wooden board, everyone was stunned beyond words.
Each set of skeleton was laid closely beside each other and, with one glance, it was to see that it was a sight that was hard to look at.
They were neatly arranged in a row and on each skeleton was a piece of amulet. However, upon having contact with light, the amulets instantly eroded away.
Seeing how Jin Qingyan’s men were about to take the skeletons away, Wang Jinsheng called out, “Don’t touch them yet, let me take a picture!”
Upon hearing this, Jin Qingyan darted a cold glance at him and said in a nasty tone, “Whoever dares to take a picture, I’ll let them be buried inside here after all the skeletons have been cleared out!”
In response to his obnoxious threat, Wang Jinsheng couldn’t help but frown. “Mr. Jin, although you and Ms. An found the skeletons here, they have no relation to you whatsoever. Why do you want to have them buried in a proper place?”
“Who says that these remains have no relation to me at all?” Jin Qingyan’s dissatisfaction was clearly written all over his face. “I’ve never liked to put my nose in other people’s business, unless it’s my own.”
Wang Jinsheng was even more perplexed. “Mr. Jin, can you explain more clearly? What do these remains have to do with you?”
“I have no comment.”
“…”
Attempting to smooth things out, An Xiaoning added, “Captain Wang, what Qingyan said is true. If it isn’t, he wouldn’t have come here or sent people to get these remains buried properly. We can’t reveal more details, but one thing is for sure, when these skeletons have been cleared out, you guys can inspect this place as you wish in the future. There won’t be any issues arising anymore.”
“There’s no big issue, but after these skeletons are transported away, it would make things easier for us indeed. There’s something I’m still puzzled about, but since both of you refuse to say anything, I won’t ask any further.”
The skeletons were contained in plastic bags and brought to land one by one.
Eventually, they confirmed that there were 963 sets of skeletons in total.
This was 963 lives gone…
As he looked at the skeletons, Jin Qingyan’s heart was heavy, as though a huge stone weighted down on it.
After carrying out a ritual, An Xiaoning prepared to leave the place together with Jin Qingyan.
Wang Jinsheng confirmed with her, “Ms. An, there’s really no more problem?”
“Yes.”
“That’s good.”
“Captain, I would like to go back to rest as well.” Seeing as An Xiaoning and the rest were still there, Wen Lele took the opportunity to make this request. “Captain…”
“Alright, alright, alright. Take this chance to go back on the helicopter with them. You had a huge shock the previous time too. Help us to console the family members of the dead as well.”
“Okay.” Wen Lele agreed instantly before following them onto the helicopter, which was to return to A City.
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A renowned paparazzi team in the entertainment industry had reported a piece of important news that caused a huge commotion.
The news about Jing Yang’s cash cow had been released.
A picture of them kissing at a balcony was secretly captured and revealed to the public.
As his cash cow was rich and influential, his face was blurred out. Yet, Jing Yang’s face was clearly revealed to all.
With such concrete evidence and even a caption for the picture, Jing Yang’s Weibo was attacked once the scandal was released.
His loyal fans instantly turned their backs on him and flooded him with all sorts of insults in various languages.
Under such circumstances, his agency tried to handle this public relations crisis by issuing a lawyer’s letter to the paparazzi team to request for them to delete such false news and to issue an apology immediately.
However, not only did the paparazzi team not do so, they actually reaffirmed the authenticity of the picture.
This situation was disastrous.
Jing Yang’s cash cow flew into an uncontrollable rage. Even though many in the industry already knew about their relationship, who would actually dare to publicly release such news? With that, he tried to find out who was behind this.
In less than twelve hours, he was able to track the mastermind of this incident to Mei Yangyang and had a conversation with her.
Just when Jing Yang had thought that his cash cow would stand up for him, he actually clearly expressed that he would cut off all relations with him in the future.
Jing Yang was dumbfounded. Looking at the man before him, he was perplexed. “Why?”
“You still have the nerve to ask me why? How many times have you stirred up trouble with the artiste from her agency that she had to resort to taking revenge on you? You want me to stand up for you, do you think that’s possible? Given how Long Tianze’s wife is dealing with you like that now, she must have expected the outcome. If we still don’t cut off all relations with each other, my face won’t be blurred out next time, it will simply be revealed to the public. Let’s end it here. I’ve provided so many valuable resources to you that I’ve probably done my part. Don’t look for me anymore from now on. It won’t be good if we get captured together.”
Jing Yang was speechless. Returning to the car, he started cursing furiously.
Even then, he still sent out a post on Weibo to deny the authenticity of the news.
By this time, many fans had started to lose faith in him.
Following the cancellation of his various advertisement, spokesperson, and filming contracts, Jing Yang locked himself up at home and started intoxicating himself with alcohol. After drinking, all he did was sleep.
All the rage in his heart had nowhere to be released.
He pinned all the blame on Fang Erlan.
He felt that if Fang Erlan had not made any complaints about him, would her work studio have dealt with him so mercilessly like that?
….
Toward this matter, Fang Erlan only felt that her anger had been vented out. In addition to that, her filming was about to end and it would mean that she could rest for a period of time. That lifted her mood by a lot.
After filming fifteen scenes today, she felt lethargic all over. When she went to remove her makeup, an auntie entered carrying something in her hands. She walked all the way to Yan Ge, who was resting aside.
“Mother, why are you here?”
Mrs. Yan grinned as she passed the item in her hands to his assistant Xiao Li. “You can’t come home often, so can’t I come and visit you? Didn’t you previously say you wanted to eat the snacks I make? I figured you finished the last batch, so I made some more and brought it here for you.”
Snacks?