"Release them!" Ying Chen had no time to appreciate Min Ziqing's mother's intangible cultural heritage performance, and said coldly.
Unexpectedly, Min Ziqing's mother's eyes rolled, and she said, "It's no problem to release them, but not now."
"What do you mean?" Ying Chen frowned.
"To be honest, those two ungrateful wretches are not at the Min family, nor in Jianghai. They were taken to Yanjing by Young Master Hu long ago! If you want to release them, you have to call Young Master Hu."
"How about this, you bring Xiao Qing here, and I'll have Young Master Hu bring their mother and daughter, and we'll exchange hostages face to face then, how about that?" Min Ziqing's mother proposed an idea.
Ying Chen frowned and was about to speak.
Then he heard Min Ziqing on the video suddenly panic, "Mom, how can you let that surnamed Hu take my sister away? Don't you know that the surnamed Hu has always had ulterior motives towards my sister? You're practically sending a sheep into a wolf's den!"
"Bah! What do you know? What kind of status does Young Master Hu have? It's a great fortune for your sister that Young Master Hu fancies her! How did it become a wolf's den in your mouth? As a mother, can I harm my own child? Everything I do is for your own good!"
"The surnamed Hu is not a good thing! Don't think no one knows what he's done! If my sister falls into his hands, she will be in grave danger!" It could be seen that Min Ziqing truly cared about his sister and shouted anxiously in the video.
"Don't talk nonsense! If you slander Young Master Hu like this, what if Young Master Hu blames our family?"
Seeing his mother stubbornly unrepentant, Min Ziqing could only look at Ying Chen helplessly, "Mr. Ying, please hurry to Yanjing and save my sister! Hu Quanan has harmed many good girls over the years! I have investigated several girls who died at his hands. I fear that if we delay too long, my sister will..." Min Ziqing did not continue, but the implication was clear.
Ying Chen's eyebrows twitched slightly and he said, "As expected, if you don't kill a snake, it will bite you back. I should have dealt with him before going to the Fengdun Bureau."
"However, you don't need to worry too much. The surnamed Hu is a eunuch and temporarily lacks the ability to do anything to your sister. And he abducted your sister to use the assassination Gu technique to treat his eunuchism."
"The assassination Gu technique takes at least seven days and seven nights to complete, so there is still plenty of time."
Min Ziqing on the other end of the video was stunned: "Ah? How do you know?"
Ying Chen couldn't be bothered to explain that he had met Young Master Hu long ago and had exposed his scheme. He just said, "It just so happens that I also have some accounts to settle with the Hu family, so I'll pay the Hu family a visit!"
"As for your parents, if it weren't for your and your sister's sake, they would have died more than ten times already!" After speaking, Ying Chen cast a cold glance at Min Ziqing's parents.
Min Ziqing's parents were instantly struck by lightning, and a tremor of facing ghosts and gods surged in their hearts. They who had been about to mock Ying Chen for having the audacity to visit the Hu family suddenly dared not speak.
"Please wait a moment, I'll arrange a car to take you to the Hu family immediately!" Min Ziqing said and hung up the phone. He didn't even say goodbye to his parents! It was as if the people on the other end of the phone were not his parents, but strangers!
"This unfilial son... he's enraging me to death!" Min Ziqing's father said, rubbing his chest.
"He's like this before getting married, if he gets married, will he disown his parents? If I had known, I wouldn't have had him!" Min Ziqing's mother also said indignantly. But while she was angry, she couldn't help but look at Ying Chen pitifully, "Why don't you... let Xiao Qing go? Actually, what I said earlier was just angry words, I was just trying to scare you. How could I really let Xiao Qiong and Nannan be buried with you? When Young Master Hu took their mother and daughter away, I tried to stop him, but I couldn't!"
"In this matter, Xiao Qing is innocent, and I am innocent too, you can't vent your anger on us!" In the blink of an eye, Min Ziqing's mother had become innocent. Her thick skin was simply unprecedented and unheard of!
Ying Chen looked at her coldly and said, "Is the ransom ready? I'll give you another week. If I don't see one hundred million in cash within a week, you can wait to pay for your son's funeral!"
Min Ziqing's mother was startled and instinctively asked, "What is paying for a funeral?"
"Paying for a funeral means: if you pay one million, we'll mail you one of your son's legs; if you pay another million, we'll mail you an arm; if you pay five million, you can receive your son's head..." After listening to Ying Chen's explanation, Min Ziqing's mother was stunned. After a long while, she let out a "wail" and cursed, "You're simply not human! You're simply a devil! You'll be repaid!"
However, before Min Ziqing's mother could finish her sentence, she saw that Ying Chen had already disappeared from the room. And at the entrance of the Min family, a car picked up Ying Chen and sped towards Yanjing.
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Yanjing, Hu family.
Red candles flickered, and shadows danced. On the beast-head wooden door of the Hu family, which existed from the previous dynasty, two large囍 characters were pasted. Two large red lanterns hung from the eaves at the entrance. Several servants bustled in and out of the courtyard, posting red paper strips with the words "Qinglong" and "Baihu". Another group of servants held streamers and paper-cut decorations, making the entire Hu family courtyard look festive. All the pillars in the courtyard were wrapped in red paper and painted with gilded dragons and phoenixes. It was obvious that the Hu family had a happy event!
However, this happy event of the Hu family seemed to have come very suddenly, and very few people knew about it. Even several members of the Hu family who had just returned to the Hu family were confused. They grabbed a servant and asked, "What's going on? Who's getting married?"
The servant replied, "It's Young Master An. Young Master An rushed back with a woman today and said he wanted to get married to bring good luck to the Old Master! Young Master An also said that the wedding had to be held first thing tomorrow morning, and there could be no delay. He's already found someone to calculate the auspicious time. So we're preparing to finish all this overnight!"
"Hu Quanan? What is he up to! What era is this, and he's still doing this kind of thing! No, I have to ask him about it!" Saying that, several Hu family descendants were about to go and question Hu Quanan. But they had only taken two steps when they saw Hu Quanan come out of the house, looking at the Hu family descendants with arrogance, "What? You don't want Uncle Grandfather to live, so you don't allow me to help Uncle Grandfather live? I'm not like you, heartless, unfilial!"
Swish! The anger of several Hu family descendants instantly flared up. "Hu Quanan, who are you calling unfilial? You are just a grand-nephew, not a grandson! Are you flattering a bit too much? Don't think we don't know your little schemes, you just covet the Hu family's property, right? Let me tell you, no way!"
"As a grand-nephew, you have no right to inherit the Hu family's property! Give up on that idea!" Facing the圍攻 and accusations from several Hu family descendants, Hu Quanan was not in a hurry or annoyed. He just smiled and took out his phone and clicked on a wedding blessing video. When the Hu family descendants saw the people in the video, their faces changed dramatically, and they were speechless!