Chapter 432: The Hope of Escape

The Shen Family.

"Where are my clothes? That plaid one!" Shen Yun fumed while searching for her clothes, "The house is such a mess, can't anyone tidy up?"

"Aren't you a person? Can't you tidy up?" Shen Yuan retorted.

"Hey? You ill-mannered little girl, is that how you talk to your aunt!"

"Come to think of it, when exactly is your mother getting released? If she doesn't come back soon, I'm going to find my brother a new wife!"

This home still needed a woman to tidy it up to feel like a home.

But it couldn't be her, because she was lazy.

"Sigh!" Shen Yuan looked up at the sky, speechless, "She should be back soon."

Before they knew it, Li Xuan had already been locked up for two years.

Originally, she had wanted to go see Li Xuan during this time, but Shen Lan wouldn't allow it.

Half-drunk and half-sober, Shen Lan gave his permission this time; he pointed at Shen Yun, "You two go to the police station and check on Li Xuan, see when exactly she'll be released."

When it came down to it, he still needed a woman.

Even though he and Si Rong were husband and wife in a past life, and he had feelings for Si Rong, now that Si Rong was living a happy little life with Jiang Cheng, he couldn't keep himself chaste for her forever.

"Fine."

Regardless of the reasoning, Shen Yun still went to the police station with Shen Yuan.

However, the staff inside the police station said they hadn't arrested anyone named Li Xuan two years ago.

Then where did Li Xuan go?

Shen Yun hurried home to tell Shen Lan about this.

"Brother, did you see Li Xuan being taken away by the police with your own eyes two years ago?"

Shen Lan:...

He didn't know; he had used an excuse to climb the wall inside the garment factory, and then he was beaten with sticks the whole time, so how would he know where Li Xuan went?

"No."

"Then where did she go?"

Shen Lan clutched his hair; if Li Xuan hadn't been taken by the police, then no one knew where she had gone these past two years.

No, wait, Si Rong, Si Rong would know, but how was he supposed to ask her?

Hey! You were the one Li Xuan plotted to traffic back then, so where is she now?

If he asked that, his image in Si Rong's heart would completely collapse.

Shen Yuan sat beside him, and after a long while, she spoke, "Tell me, is there a possibility that my mother was sold into the deep mountains?"

Otherwise, as long as Li Xuan had a breath left, she would have crawled back.

"Sold by whom?"

"If Si Rong knew we were going to sell her back then, and she played along to turn the tables and sold my mother instead, it's not impossible."

And it was very likely.

"The only people who know my mother's whereabouts now are probably those two human traffickers."

Shen Yuan immediately jumped off the bed, but she forgot that it was impossible for her to contact those two traffickers now.

Because she had been worried that the two traffickers would implicate her if they were caught, she had even left a fake address.

After having Shen Lan go out to inquire, those two traffickers had already vanished without a trace.

"If all else fails, we'll have to go ask Si Rong."

Shen Yuan thought she couldn't go herself, otherwise Si Rong would suspect she had something to do with this.

"You have to go," she said to Shen Lan.

Sometimes she really couldn't understand that couple; they clearly weren't very in love, and sometimes she even felt they were hoping for the other to die first, so she didn't know how they ended up together in the first place.

Shen Lan waited until the smell of alcohol on him had dissipated a bit before going to find Si Rong.

In two years, he felt he had aged a lot.

But Si Rong was still young; she was still an outstanding female entrepreneur in Huaiyang.

Not only was she involved in clothing and home appliances, but it seemed she even had shares in the pharmaceutical industry.

Nowadays, the Si Family could be considered capitalists in the true sense of the word.

Her two older brothers were also remarkable figures in the foreign trade and real estate industries.

Now, one needed an appointment to see Si Rong.

The company receptionist refused him directly upon hearing his name, "I'm sorry, this name cannot be scheduled."

President Si had long since given instructions that this person named Shen Lan was not allowed inside.

"Why?" Shen Lan was stunned.

He and Si Rong were husband and wife in a past life, so now, was he not even allowed to see Si Rong once?

"No reason, it's just not allowed."

The young receptionist knew that President Si had a rare good temper; anyone President Si specifically gave instructions about must be no good.

"You lowly receptionist, are you looking down on people!" Shen Lan felt inferior; he felt he was being looked down upon, so he refused to leave.

"I don't care, if you don't let me see Si Rong today, I won't let you off!"

"Look at how short the skirt you're wearing is, you look like a shameless slut! Do you only let rich and powerful men in?"

The young receptionist was so angry she was about to cry; just as she was about to pick up the intercom to contact security, she saw Manager Wang coming over.

"Manager, someone is causing trouble here!" The young girl cheered excitedly, as if she had seen a savior.

Shen Lan followed her gaze and saw it was a woman; heh, just an ordinary woman, he wasn't afraid at all.

"So you're the one causing trouble?" Wang Jia looked at Shen Lan and felt he looked somewhat familiar; why did he look a bit like the scum that President Ming had mentioned before?

She is the best at dealing with scum.

Shen Lan tugged at his shirt, assuming this woman was attracted by his handsome appearance.

The next second, he was caught completely off guard and thrown to the ground by the woman with a shoulder throw.

Crack—

Shen Lan, who rarely exercised, clearly heard the sound of a bone breaking somewhere in his body.

"Throw him out!" Wang Jia ordered the security guards, "If you dare to come to our company to cause trouble, you had better prepare a few more lives next time!"

Shen Lan:...

Is this really a woman? He had never seen such a fierce, man-like shrew.

He could not find out Li Xuan's whereabouts without seeing Si Rong, but later Shen Yuan told him to wait for an opportunity; the Yuhong Class would soon be holding its final parent-teacher meeting, and Si Rong would definitely go.

Li Xuan was in a cellar, and she could no longer see any windows.

Every day she could only see all kinds of men, and her body had become terribly thin.

From being full of expectation at the very beginning to now, not knowing how much time had passed, she finally understood that Shen Lan would not come to find her.

It was not that she hadn't tried to save herself; at first, she wanted to curry favor with the younger of the two brothers, but no matter how flowery her words were, or how many beautiful women and large sums of money she promised him, that honest and simple man would not let her go.

Moreover, he told his older brother about this, and Li Xuan was beaten severely.

From then on, she was watched even more strictly, and she even had to wear iron chains on her hands while eating.

She felt that these days of darkness passed exceptionally slowly.

Not only that, the two brothers also said she was not a decent woman who lived a proper life, and they used her to make money; any man in the village could enter the cellar as long as he paid.

Li Xuan often cried at night, and during this time she felt that her eyes seemed to be unable to see things clearly.

However, she heard a man from another village say yesterday that he would bring his university student brother to the cellar to play tonight, and Li Xuan realized that this highly educated university student might very well be her hope for escape.

She counted on her fingers, waiting for the arrival of the night.