《Otherworldly Merchant》Chapter 588: Kang Long’s Regret
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I knew where I could start looking for clues. I directly drove to the public cemetery. I wanted to find that gray-haired old man.
He had burned paper money outside the villa, and I suspected that Jiang Teng or Jiang Guanguan had caused the death of one of his family members.
Perhaps he had done that to vent out his grief? My intuition told me that he would come to the cemetery again to worship the dead.
I had been waiting at the gate of the public cemetery until nightfall. Finally, the old man came with a basket of fruits.
When he walked past me, I grabbed his hand. He reacted quickly, just as though he was afraid of me. He threw his basket at me and ran away. Luckily for me, he wasn’t fast enough. He was also limping a lot.
I didn’t chase after him. “Uncle, did Jiang Teng cause the death of one of your family members?”
The old man halted. He turned and shot me a fierce glance. He shouted, but his voice choked with his sobs. “You stand on the same side as that filthy animal!”
I rushed to him. I looked him in the eye and explained, “Uncle, I have nothing to do with Jiang Teng. He invited me here to investigate a paranormal phenomenon in his house. However, I’ve found many things that didn’t look right while working with him. That’s why I’ve come to you.”
The old man looked at me. At first, he didn’t fully trust me. In the end, he waved his hand and said, “Come with me.”
After a short walk, he stopped in front of a grave. Stroking the portrait on the tombstone, he sobbed again. “This is my daughter, Tiantian.”
Under the moonlight, I looked at the portrait. It was an eighteen years old girl with a bright and sweet smile.
“My little daughter killed herself last month.”
Before I asked, he started to tell me the story while weeping. It seemed he had borne this pressure for quite a long time.
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“My wife passed away early. I lived with my sweet daughter. She was my treasure. It was a lot of trouble to bring her up. This kid of mine always had good senses. I never needed to care about her schooling. Last year, she was admitted to a big university. I still remembered the moment she got the letter. She told me, ‘Dad, the hard days are gone. I’ll take care of you!’”
However, no one had expected that an eighteen-year-old girl at the brightest time of her life would encounter her worst nightmare.
Tiantian had a part-time job at a hotel. Unexpectedly, Jiang Guanguan went there for dinner and laid his eyes on her. At first, Jiang Guanguan used his wealth to entice Tiantian. However, Tiantian ignored him and left.
As he had lost his face in front of his friends, Jiang Guanguan was angry. He pulled Tiantian to him and poured her a glass of wine with drugs in it…
When Tiantian woke up, she found herself on the bed with Jiang Guanguan next to her. He was naked.
She knew what had happened to her. As she was scared, she screamed at the top of her lungs. Jiang Guanguan was awoken. He threatened her not to cause trouble if she didn’t want to lose her reputation and dignity completely!
Tiantian told her father about the incident. They went to the police station to report it. However, Jiang Teng stepped in and overturned everything. He said that Tiantian wanted Jiang Guanguan’s money. That was why she slept with him.
At that time, the case created a big commotion. Many netizens helped Tiantian accuse the heartless rich boy. However, Jiang Teng was too strong; he could even buy the police and the judge to create fake evidence. In the end, Jiang Guanguan was acquitted. No matter how hard Tiantian tried to protest and beg the police, it didn’t work.
In the end, Tiantian couldn’t bear such humiliation. She cut her wrist to commit suicide. When she was found, there were dozens of deep cuts on her wrist. At first glance, people knew she didn’t want to live anymore…
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After listening to the whole story, I felt disgusted. Then, I felt embarrassed that I had lived under the same roof as Jiang Teng!
I shouldn’t have saved him. I should have let the Kang Long Jian smash his head!
I had accompanied the old man in the cemetery for a long time, listening to his story of Tiantian. I didn’t feel impatient. However, the more I listened to his story, the sorrier I felt for the girl.
I didn’t want to beat around the bush, so I asked directly, “Uncle, are you the one controlling the Kang Long Jian?”
The old man heard me and was shocked. He looked at me skeptically. I didn’t mind his reaction. “Uncle, what about the other two? What horrible things have they done?”
“One raped a minor, and the other caused a car crash while racing. He killed a family of three. They were all released as they were acquitted. The judge said that they had intermittent mental illnesses.”
The old man simply admitted everything, but the stories angered me. I didn’t know what to say now.
After a long time, I finally calmed down. “Sir, why did you let me go at the critical moment?”
“Didn’t you run away yourself?” The old man sounded confused.
Sure enough, Di Renjie had shown mercy to me.
I sighed emotionally. However, there was one thing important I hadn’t done yet. “Sir, could you help me with one thing?”
“Help you?” He looked at me incredulously.
I told him about the leader who had threatened me.
The old man kept silent for a while. In the end, he suggested with red eyes, “How about killing him, too?”
I was surprised and smiled. “You just need to make the whip cooperate with me to play a show in front of that leader. We want to make him believe that I have subdued the spirit.”
“Of course, afterward, you can’t use it again. To repay your favor, I won’t report your crimes because those people deserved to die. Actually, it wouldn’t be enough even if they had died a hundred times!” I looked at him. My eyes were sincere.
The old man rubbed Tiantian’s tombstone. “Jiang Guanguan is dead and Jiang Teng got his lesson. All right, I’ve taken revenge for my daughter.”
Three days later, I called the leader to go to Jiang Teng’s villa. The Kang Long Jian cooperated with me for a nice play.
After everything was done, the leader gave me the original copy of a document. I opened it and found the evidence of my crimes. I hurriedly burned it…
After the leader was gone, I secretly left the place and went to Tanghuai Park with Tiantian’s father.
Kang Long Jian belonged to Di Renjie. Of course, we had to return it to its rightful owner. The two of us buried the whip in a hidden corner of the ancestral hall.
Although I wasn’t against Tiantian’s father’s deeds, the whip was an otherworldly item. Sooner or later, another otherworldly merchant would come for it.
I didn’t want to destroy it, but I wasn’t sure if the others would do the same. That was why the best solution was to hide it and let it sleep. After burying the whip, I bid farewell to Jiang Teng and took a huge sum from him!
On the way home, I looked at the blue sky and white cotton-like clouds. I felt even more pressure. It was hard to imagine how Jiang Guanguan would have continued his corrupted life if Tiantian’s father hadn’t used Kang Long Jian to deal with him. No one would know how many young girls would have been destroyed in his hands.
The days of officials covering up each other’s crimes hadn’t passed. The transactions of power and money were well covered under a black veil. Cover-ups happened everywhere. This was the ‘beautiful era’ we were living in.
On the other side of joyous singing, dancing, and feasting were hundreds of millions of poor people crowding at the bottom of society. Day by day, they squeezed and cried, but they couldn’t make a sound…
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