Quick Wear: Reversing Life

Chapter 274: Escape from the Mountains (55)

When Chen Xianhe was young, he was an ordinary migrant worker. Later, when his brother started a business, he helped Chen Xianhua, who was in charge of business, to drive and transport goods.

Later, Chen Xianhua's business grew bigger and bigger, and he helped him build a house, buy a car, get married and have children.

He has always been grateful to his brother, knowing that he is capable and always listens to him in everything.

Chen Bingrui was born the year before Chen Shanshan. The name Bingrui was also given by Chen Xianhua. After he was born, Wu Aiying was found to be pregnant, so Chen Xianhua felt that Bingrui brought good luck.

He had no abilities, but his two sons were smart and clever, and his eldest son was very talented in studying. Chen Xianhua often took Chen Biaorui with him to teach him.

Chen Xianhua treated his two children as his own and treated them as well as he did Chen Shanshan. After Chen Bingrui became an adult, he even put him into the company to gain experience.

Everyone said that Chen Xianhua taught Chen Bingrui as if he were his own son, and Chen Xianhe also thought so.

He is proud of his son and hopes that he will be as capable as Chen Xianhua.

But one year during the Lantern Festival, Chen Xianhe went to deliver the glutinous rice balls that his wife had made to his brother's family, but he accidentally overheard a conversation between his brother and sister-in-law.

The content of the conversation was about Chen Shanshan and Chen Bingrui.

At that time, Chen Shanshan was already 20 years old. The couple had only one daughter, Chen Shanshan, who had no talent for business. The couple were discussing the future of the company and their daughter.

Chen Xianhua said to Wu Aiying, "Although Yunhang is a good student, he doesn't have the acumen for business. Bingrui is smart, capable, and hardworking, and it's worth all my years of cultivating him. I'll let him manage the company from now on, and Shanshan can just wait to collect the dividends after she gets married."

What he said implied that Bingrui should work for Shanshan.

Chen Xianhe couldn't believe that his brother's training of Bingrui was actually for his own daughter.

He ran back home in a daze, with the dumplings scattered all over the place.

Chen Xianhe didn't know how to describe his mood. Disappointment, shame, anger, depression...all kinds of negative emotions mixed together, and he was depressed for several days.

Seeing his eldest son busy at work every day, leaving home early and returning late, Chen Xianhe felt both sad and angry.

He would not be angry no matter how his brother ordered him to do things, but he did not want to see his excellent and hardworking son being ordered around by others.

Although he was upset, Chen Xianhe had been an honest and upright person for half his life and would not do anything bad, not to mention that that was his brother's family.

But unexpected events may come soon.

Someone kidnapped my niece Chen Shanshan and demanded a ransom of 200 million yuan.

She was the apple of Chen Xianhua's eye and his niece who grew up under his care, so Chen Xianhe was naturally worried about her.

In order to raise 200 million yuan in cash within two days, Chen Xianhe helped Chen Xianhua run around to major banks.

The ransom was raised, but Chen Shanshan disappeared.

According to the kidnappers' recollection, one of the people who was watching Chen Shanshan urinated in the middle of the journey. When he turned around, he found that Chen Shanshan had escaped. In the end, they couldn't find her.

At that time, the surveillance did not have full coverage and it was in a small alley, so the police searched for a long time but could not find it.

But Chen Xianhua did not give up any opportunity. He spent money and worked hard, but still got nothing.

At that time, the policy of cracking down on gangs and evil had not yet begun, and many of Chen Xianhe's former coworkers had joined gangs. He found these coworkers and spent a lot of money to help them arrange things and find out Shanshan's whereabouts.

Unexpectedly, this inquiry actually gave him some information.

One of the gang members said that he saw the girl near his home that morning, in the window of a breakfast shop. He was impressed by her because she was beautiful.

Chen Xianhe was overjoyed when he heard this and prepared to call his elder brother to inform him.

But just as he was dialing the number, a strange thought suddenly arose in his mind.

At this moment, he hesitated.

After an entire afternoon of struggling, Chen Xianhe drove alone to the address the man gave him at night, but found nothing.

After that, there was no more news about Chen Shanshan.

Until today, Chen Xianhe has never mentioned this incident to anyone.

He was prepared to keep this matter to himself and take it to his grave.

But today, 28 years later, I heard this from my niece's daughter.

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"My grandfather never knew you had found out about my mother's whereabouts until his death. But because of your hesitation, because of your ulterior motives, she was eventually sold into the mountains, and we lost the only chance to save her."

"I guessed your thoughts correctly, didn't I?"

Xiaocao sat in front of him with an indifferent expression.

Chen Xianhe had a gray and haggard look on his face, and the wrinkles on his face seemed to be deeper.

Xiaocao was right. That night, he searched and asked all the nearby residents, and found out that someone drove a van away from the room where Chen Shanshan was locked up in the afternoon.

He didn't dare tell his elder brother about this, for fear that he would blame him for not reporting it and causing him to miss the opportunity to save people.

He has been suffering from insomnia over the years, fearing that his niece will die because of him, and also afraid that the matter will be exposed and known by his eldest brother.

This incident became a thorn that stuck deep in his flesh, but as the years passed, the thorn and the flesh grew together.

It wasn't until that year when he learned that his niece had been found that the thorn in his heart was touched.

In his eldest brother's nursing home ward, Chen Xianhe's mind went blank for a moment when he saw his niece's pale and thin face, which was completely different from her former blooming appearance.

He quickly thought of that incident and the feeling of fear came back to him.

But he didn't dare show it in front of everyone, so he had to pretend to be heartbroken. When he heard Xiaocao telling him about his niece's hellish life over the years, he felt mixed emotions.

Regret, bitterness, and sadness.

This is the child he has watched grow up.

Now that he has been tortured to the point where only bones are left on his body, Chen Xianhe's grief is not fake.

"I'm sorry to Shanshan and to Big Brother."

"I deserve to die! I deserve to die!"

Chen Xianhe could no longer hold back and burst into tears. He was almost eighty years old, but he cried in front of Xiaocao, even louder than when he cried in front of Chen Xianhua's deathbed.

Seeing his expression, Xiao Cao was unmoved and said indifferently, "You should apologize to my mother."

"You are not the culprit of human trafficking, so I will naturally not do anything to you."

She chuckled, stood up from her chair, slowly walked to the glass window, and turned to look at Chen Xianhe.

"You guessed correctly before. I was the one who killed the trafficker. She and her two sons were all involved in the crime of human trafficking."

"The law may give her a bullet, but her two sons may not receive such good treatment."

“So I just went with the flow.”

"But don't worry, uncle. I won't report you to the court. It's useless even if I do. You're not the mastermind, and you haven't committed any serious crimes. You just missed your niece's chance of survival because of your own selfish desires."

"But I think it's necessary to let our family know about this matter, right?" Xiaocao tilted her head and looked at Chen Xianhe.

Chen Xianhe quickly stopped crying and begged Xiaocao, "Don't! Xiaocao, don't tell them!"

"I beg you! Please don't tell Bing Rui and the others about this... okay?"