729 A Million Times for You 91 (1/2)

”Madam Xu, we're just following the orders given by our superiors. Please don't make things difficult for us.”

The former Military Commander Xu waved his hand and said, ”Forget it, I'll just go with them.”

Madam Xu had no choice but to watch her husband being taken away while her legs turned to jelly. Just as she was about to stumble over, the butler hurriedly held her and said, ”Madam, are you alright?”

She regained her balanced and burst into tears, her hands trembling uncontrollably.

There were no further news after Mr. Xu was arrested, causing Madam Xu and Xu Cai to be flustered and worried.

After much consideration, Madam Xu decided to visit Commander-in-chief Jin, whom she had been on good terms with all along.

She intended to seek their help in finding out more about the current situation, in hopes that they would agree to help her on account of their ties.

Upon hearing her purpose of visit, Madam Jin snapped relentlessly, ”Trust you to have the cheek to show up here yourself. No wonder you randomly asked Sis Mei and I out for a game of mahjong that day. Turns out you were beating around the bush and trying to sound us out to find out Xiaoning's exact birth timing. You're really a vicious shrew. You seem to be so kind and benevolent on the surface, such a pious Buddhist. And yet, you're so evil and ill-intentioned deep down. If it weren't because of your family, Xiaoning wouldn't have ended up in such a plight. How dare you have the cheek to ask us for help? You're really thick-skinned and shameless!”

Madam Xu turned pale and looked at Madam Jin with tears in her red and swollen eyes. ”Please just help Old Xu. It's been days since he was arrested and I've been worried sick. We absolutely regret what we had done to Ms. An too, but it's too late for regret now. What's done cannot be undone,” she pleaded.

With a frown, Commander-in-chief Jin declined politely, ”I really can't interfere with this matter, please go back, Madam Xu.”

However, Madam Xu refused to give up and knelt on the ground to beg him once more, ”Please, I'm begging you!”

Raging with fury, Madam Jin snapped, ”Seems like you have no shame. Hurry and get out of my house. Your family deserved the retribution you got. You brought it all upon yourselves. Just how did Xiaoning offend you in any way? Why did you have to do that to her? You caused her so much harm, yet you still have the cheek to say such shameless things. Hurry and scram!”

Commander-in-chief Jin stood up and said, ”Hurry and leave, we won't get involved in this matter.”

Madam Xu left in the end, after making a wasted trip.

She returned home to see that her son was already waiting for her at home.

Upon hearing that she had gone to visit the Jin family, Xu Cai chastised bluntly, ”Aren't you looking to be humiliated by visiting them at such a juncture?”

”But I was just hoping there would be some hope.”

”Investigations will take more than just a few days for Father's case. Just wait patiently. Mother, just rest well at home and recuperate. I'll inform you right away if there are any news of Father,” said Xu Cai, the only person who was not implicated. At this point, he was not quite sure what else to say, especially since he knew what his parents had done.

Madam Xu expressed assent feebly and lay on the couch to get some rest.

——

At past ten o'clock at night, the winds were chilly on Mount Qingping. The main gate opened all of a sudden, and another car drove in.

The car came to a halt steadily, and four burly men, who appeared to be foreigners, alighted.

The four men were transferred here from the headquarters in M Nation.

Minutes later, another man, who was the leader, strode in.

The man took out his valid documents and said to them sternly, ”Leave with me.”

The four men followed him in a single file.

Their paces were in sync and they kept an appropriate distance between each other.

The man walking behind last had a much better-proportioned figure and was more good-looking compared to the rest. Although they were all dressed in the same uniform, he still stood out strikingly from his peers.

He scanned his surroundings while walking. The man was none other than Jin Qingyan, who had sneaked in.

In order to blend in with them, he'd instructed Fan Shixin to find out more about the system. The latter then discovered that the headquarters in M Nation would often recruit three to four men to add on to their manpower. Fan Shixin managed to get hold of the photo of one of the men who was about to be transferred there this month and who had a similar figure to Jin Qingyan. They then went through painstaking means to make a mask that was identical to the man's features in order to successfully swap him with Jin Qingyan.

The fact that the four men did not belong to the same team gave Jin Qingyan a marvelous opportunity.