Read Novel Full Chapter 131
Chapter 131 : Tooth for Tooth
“It’s none of your business, don’t worry. Have you counted the items in the store?”
“I checked everything, nothing is missing.”
When this happened, Qi Shaoqiang immediately took leave to accompany Jiang Li to report the case. The police asked neighbors around, but no one had seen the person who threw the paint, so there were no clues at the moment.
The store was in such a mess that they definitely couldn’t open it like this.
Jiang Li decided to close the store for a day and hired a craftsman to renovate the door and repaint it. She also informed the neighbors and offered a large reward for any witnesses.
“Nothing in the store was stolen. I don’t think this person came to steal anything. This was pure revenge.”
Jiang Li thought about the people who might have enemies with her during this period. Sun Yulian was one of them, as well as Du Ling and Zhou Hui, mother and daughter. Were there any others? She couldn’t remember them at the moment.
Qi Shaoqiang asked around at a nearby shop selling decoration materials to see if anyone had bought red paint, looking for suspicious activity.
Hard work pays off. On the third day of asking, a neighbor finally said that he saw a drunk man in the early morning. He was not very tall, about 1.7 meters, wearing white clothes, and his face was covered.
“I went to the bathroom this morning, half asleep, and bumped into this guy. I thought I saw a ghost!”
The neighbor didn’t want to get involved, but the twenty dollars was too tempting. Who wouldn’t want to earn a month’s salary just for saying a few words?
Jiang Li paid the money as agreed, and Qi Shaoqiang also learned some information from him. “The store owner said that a man in white clothes came to buy paint. He saw the man’s face and noticed a mole between his eyebrows. He lives nearby.”
Qi Shaoqiang brought several brothers from the security department to arrest him on the spot, and they also found a can of paint with some paint left and a whole pot of gasoline in his home.
Before handing him over to the police, they beat him up first, specifically in places where people couldn’t see.
The police interrogated him for an entire afternoon, and finally, he uttered a name: “Du Ling.”
Jiang Li went to Xu Haicheng’s house and learned that Du Ling no longer lived there, so she went straight to where Du Ling lived now.
Du Ling, who had finally let out a sigh of relief, was having afternoon tea with some classmates at home. She was laughing and chatting happily, and the people around her, aware of her family background, were praising her in every way.
“Lingling, your family really loves you. The houses near the school are so expensive, so just buy one.”
Du Ling looked very disdainful, “That’s nothing, my family will give me whatever I want.”
“But Lingling, why have you been eating out recently? Didn’t you always eat the food cooked by the nanny at home and say that the food outside was not clean?”
Don’t bring up this matter. Du Ling was feeling upset because she no longer had a nanny to take care of her life recently.
But this matter was brought up by an ignorant lackey, which made Du Ling so angry that she slammed the teacup on the table, “I just want to change my taste. Is it your turn to interfere?”
The girl who was scolded looked a little upset, her eyes red. But Du Ling had a good family background, and her father had told her to maintain a good relationship with her, so she could only endure the grievance, force a smile, and pretend nothing had happened.
Suddenly, the carved white wooden door was kicked open, scaring the girls into a panic. As the door collapsed to the ground, Jiang Li slowly stepped out from behind.
As soon as Du Ling saw her, she was filled with new hatred and old grudges, “Jiang Li, you bitch, how dare you come to my house and act wildly!”
Jiang Li sneered, opened the bottle of pungent red paint in her hand, and splashed it all over Du Ling.
Submerged in the suffocating paint, Du Ling let out a heart-wrenching scream.
Jiang Li splashed the remaining paint all over the house, then threw the empty paint bucket at Du Ling’s feet, “You gave it to me, and now I’m giving it back to you.”
“What did you say? I don’t understand!” Du Ling stamped her feet, and her hand, which was pointing at Jiang Li’s nose, kept shaking. “If you dare do this to me, my mother will not let you go. I’m going to report you to the police.”
“Humph, I’m afraid you don’t dare. You hired an arsonist murderer!”
When these words came out, Du Ling shuddered. She didn’t expect that this matter had been kept so secret and was actually discovered by Jiang Li.
The stinging pain all over her body left her no time to care about anything else. She scolded the girls standing there in a daze, “Are you all dead? Call the hospital and ask them to send an ambulance!”
Jiang Li stood next to the phone, knocking away everyone who came close, “Let’s see who dares to hit me!”
The situation was at a stalemate when Xu Haicheng, who had been following along, sensed something was wrong and rushed in. Seeing Du Ling’s condition, he was so angry that he reached out to hit Jiang Li but was firmly held back by a strong arm.
Qi Shaoqiang smiled, “Uncle Xu, please respect yourself!”
“You, both of you! She is ruthless and extreme, and you actually helped her do evil! Throwing paint on someone? Is this something a normal girl would do? Jiang Li, if your mother knew you had become like this, how angry would she be?”
“Uncle Xu, my wife has always been kind and friendly. If Du Ling hadn’t made the first move, she wouldn’t have suffered retribution. Please discipline your stepdaughter and don’t leave your Xu family house on the street. If you want to pick it up, you won’t be able to get it back.”
Xu Haicheng was a little surprised. “What do you mean Du Ling started it first? Lingling, what did you do?”
Du Ling kept shaking her head, “I didn’t…”
Seeing her like that, Xu Haicheng yelled, “Tell the truth!”
Du Ling trembled with fear. “She ruined my face. I just asked someone to teach her a lesson. What did I do wrong?”
“A small lesson for hiring someone to throw paint on the door of my store and trying to set it on fire? If I hadn’t caught them, my employees and goods would have been burned to ashes, and you tell me this is a small lesson?”
“You are murdering for money!”
“I!”
“Don’t explain. I don’t want to hear it. If you have anything to say, go tell the police.”
Jiang Li felt a little tired. Since she was pregnant, she had less energy than before and didn’t have as much strength to fight as before.
“Jiang Li, this is a family matter. Why did you go to the police? Do you want to embarrass the Xu family?”
Qi Shaoqiang noticed his wife’s fatigue and stepped forward to support Jiang Li. “The one who is ashamed is the one who hired the murderer to set the fire, not the one who revealed the truth!”
“Well said!”
A clear female voice came from outside the door, and Fang Peilan walked in, followed by several police officers.
“Excuse me, she is the murderer of my granddaughter. Please bring her to justice.”
The police mercilessly held Du Ling down. Du Ling kept struggling, “Dad, save me, please save me. My mom saved me!”
Xu Haicheng thought of what happened in the past and subconsciously opened his mouth to beg for mercy, but Fang Peilan coldly rejected him, “If you still protect this cruel beast, then get out of our Xu family from now on.”