5329-chapter-48-2
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Chapter 48.2
An Ruochen frowned suspiciously. General, what kind of books are you reading in the army?
Big Long poked a finger on her eyebrow: “Nonsense.”
An Ruochen sucked in a breath of air in pain and rubbed her brow. You are the ones having nonsense! She was clearly a dignified woman!
At this time, Zhao Jiahua also sucked in a breath of air in pain. She took a deep breath and looked at Liu Ze before her, who squeezed her wrist.
Liu Ze stared at her fiercely, nothing like the gentle and elegant mask he wore in front of people, but his voice remained soft: “What exactly have you done, my wife?”
Zhao Jiahua looked puzzled and spoke pitifully, “I was locked up here by you. What else could I do? Hubby, what is going on? Why am I being imprisoned? Has Yin’er been found?”
“Imprisoned?” Liu Ze said, “Where have you seen imprisonment as comfortable as this? I wouldn’t have done this if you hadn’t done something stupid.”
Comfortable? Zhao Jiahua laughed coldly in her heart.
This place was not her bedroom but a secret room. The room was quite large. Table, chairs, bed, screen, and other household necessities were prepared and looked quite sophisticated. But this room had no windows, only a door to the outside. On the door, there was a small window with a fence. Zhao Jiahua dragged a chair over and climbed to see a passageway outside the room. Under the torchlight, it was dim and gloomy, plus the air was a bit stuffy. She guessed that here was the underground.
After returning from the courthouse, Liu Ze questioned her. She insisted that An Ruochen had done something and begged Liu Ze to deal with An Ruochen to get her daughter back.
But Liu Ze did not believe her. She cried, hugged Liu Ze, and begged him to find their daughter. But this didn’t work on Liu Ze. Although he was confused about what exactly she had done and her purpose, Liu Ze suspected her.
“Before I can figure it out, I must ensure you don’t make any more mistakes.” After Liu Ze said this, Zhao Jiahua only felt a sting of pain in her neck, and then she knew nothing more. When she woke up, she found herself alone in this strange room.
Zhao Jiahua did not panic. She carefully checked the environment and then sat down. This situation was the worst she could have expected. If she were lucky, she would do more, but unfortunately, Liu Ze didn’t give her a chance. She knew reporting to the authorities was dangerous, but she had to do it.
At this moment, Liu Ze’s expression made her heart quite pleasant, but she still had to pretend not to know anything. “I was a little too impulsive to report to the authorities, but I was afraid. With my daughter missing like this, and you not being there, what could I have done if I didn’t report it to the authorities? The Lord Governor is a wise and good official. He will decide for us. An Ruochen is one of General Long’s people, so how can ordinary people deal with her?”
“Why would she take Yin’er away for no reason?” Liu Ze shouted angrily. “Things have come to this point, yet you still want to pretend.”
“If you don’t check, how would you know she didn’t do it? How would you know she did it for no reason?”
Liu Ze was furious, grabbed her by the neck, and pinned her to the wall.
The back of Zhao Jiahua’s head hurt as her neck tightened, and she instinctively grabbed Liu Ze’s wrist, inhaling hard.
“Don’t lie again, and don’t anger me.” Liu Ze lowered his voice and said word by word.
Zhao Jiahua looked into his eyes and watched his expression, “Since you refuse to believe anything, then I don’t know what else to say.”
“When you reported to the authorities, why did you mention the gambling house?”
“The two households often visit each other, so I had to go there to ask about the child. Since I went there, I naturally made it clear in my testimony.”
“You did it on purpose, didn’t you? You deliberately want to make An Ruochen suspicious, want her to keep an eye on us. She came to ask me and went to the gambling house.”
“How could I have done it on purpose? That was her paranoia. What does it have to do with me?”
“You’ll get us killed.” Liu Ze stared at her with a pained face.
Zhao Jiahua blinked, innocent and clueless: “How can we get killed? Our precious daughter is lost, we are only looking for our daughter, how does this make us kill ourselves?”
“She is not my daughter.” Liu Ze roared out of control. He gasped hard and stared at Zhao Jiahua.
Zhao Jiahua looked at him with eyes that slowly turned cold, with the coldness of understanding and contempt.
“Then whose daughter is she?” Zhao Jiahua asked softly.
Liu Ze stared at her, not speaking.
“You want to kill her, don’t you?” Zhao Jiahua asked again.
Liu Ze gritted his teeth, and his hand around her neck stiffened.
“Or, it would be better to kill her. Maybe you’ll sell her, have the laborers sell her as far away as possible, to a poor, remote place, to a brothel, to a whorehouse. It doesn’t matter where, as long as she suffers and is tortured, right?”
“She’s a bastard! You lied to me! I love you so much, and you lied to me!” No longer able to hide and no longer wanting to pretend, Liu Ze gritted his teeth and shouted harshly, “You lied to me!”
Zhao Jiahua couldn’t contain her anger either. She roared, “I lied to you? You beast with a human face! When you courted me, I told you that I was waiting for Mr. Zhao, that I liked him, that he liked me, and that he would redeem me. I told you! And you? You sent someone to intercept him halfway and pretend to be a bandit. You assaulted him and then asked Xu Matchmaker to deceive me. I waited and waited, but I couldn’t find him. I was sad and desperate, and the sisters in the building kept bullying me. I couldn’t stay in the brothel any longer, so I followed the matchmaker. I said to myself that since I chose you, I would treat you with all my heart and soul. You are the one who is so affectionate, who never forgets me, who is so broad-minded, who doesn’t care about my past, who doesn’t care that I was in love with someone else, who saved me from the fire at that time. I was grateful to you. But it turned out to be all a conspiracy.”
Liu Ze froze, subconsciously loosened his hand, and retreated.
Zhao Jiahua spoke with excitement, and tears flooded her eyes. “I did not lie to you. I told you the truth. I did not expect to be pregnant, but at that time, I had already arrived in Zhonglan City, and we had already married. I didn’t know how to tell you. Several times I wanted to ask you to repudiate me. I would take the baby and live alone, but I didn’t know how to say it. I cherish a peaceful life. I didn’t want to make you sad, but finally, I was determined to say it. I thought of the wording, and I practiced it over and over again. Just before I could open my mouth, I stumbled upon Xu Matchmaker, terrified of you. Then, I found out that you were not as kind as you appeared and that you privately teamed up with the gambling house to kill people. I was afraid that if I told you, I would anger you. I was afraid to lose my life, and that you would hurt my child. So I kept it to myself.”
“Where is Yin’er?”
“Dead.”