Chapter 224

After Shen Bing was caught, Zhuzi's whole world collapsed; this was not only a matter of 'gratitude', but also a matter of 'financial freedom'.

Shen Bing had once promised him that if he ever didn't want to work anymore and wanted to go home to marry a wife and live, she would give him ten million yuan in one lump sum.

Ten million!

How many lifetimes of reincarnation would it take to make that much money?

That was an astronomical figure he never dared to dream of before.

He once poked his thick fingers and calculated that if he worked as a security guard in a residential community earning three thousand per month, he would need to work 277.777 years to save ten million.

Even adding this life, the next life, and the one after that, he still couldn't save that much money.

Therefore...

He was constantly thinking about how to get Shen Bing out.

Use connections and go through the back door?

This matter is too high-end for him to handle; in reality he only has one friend—Tie Dan, a childhood buddy from a remote northeastern village.

The highest official Tie Dan knows is the village head; he can't pull strings.

He racked his brains for several days.

Zhuzi ultimately chose to take a risky route, deciding to declare war on the instigator Lin Dongfan, thinking: you mess with my woman, I'll mess with yours—quite fair.

In order to obtain detailed information about Lin Dongfan's wife.

He tailed Lin Dongfan for several days.

After learning that Lin Dongfan lived in a heavily guarded military compound, he even went out of his way to obtain a fake ID, disguising himself as a military officer to infiltrate the compound.

Declaring war, he was serious.

He staked out the military compound several times but found no chance to act.

But he wasn't completely empty-handed.

Once he saw members of the Lin Family taking Chu Lingxi to the hospital for a prenatal checkup; he quietly followed them all the way and at least confirmed which hospital Chu Lingxi would give birth in.

In the following days, he changed his attack strategy.

He no longer watched Chu Lingxi, but instead focused on the head of the hospital's obstetrics and gynecology department, Wang Jing.

Wang Jing is a middle-aged woman who divorced early and received a considerable share of the family assets. She has a son named Dou Dou who is in first grade of elementary school, usually cared for by a female nanny at home.

"What's the situation? Why did you come today?"

When he saw Lin Dongfan personally escorting the pregnant Chu Lingxi to the hospital, accompanied by six professional bodyguards; Zhuzi, disguised as a male nurse, couldn't help but feel somewhat surprised.

It wasn't that he hadn't expected Lin Dongfan to increase his bodyguard detail.

But rather that he hadn't expected Chu Lingxi to come to the hospital early.

Could it be that she's going to have a C-section and give birth early?

Zhuzi thought it over carefully and felt he shouldn't be wrong. He had long heard that wealthy people all choose C-sections to prevent women's figures from deforming after childbirth.

"A big beauty like Chu Lingxi, who has appeared on the Spring Festival Gala, would certainly care about her figure."

"A C-section is great, right? You have to cut with a knife anyway; if you cut, having some mishap is quite normal," Zhuzi chuckled happily and turned to go to the changing room.

He took off the white coat, discarding his identity as a male nurse.

He put on a clean, neat white casual outfit, added a pair of modest half-frame glasses, brought along a forged teacher's work ID, and disguised himself as a teacher.

After leaving the obstetrics and gynecology hospital.

He carried a briefcase full of the tools needed for the crime and headed straight for Wang Jing's home.

Today is August 7, 2010, a Saturday, so Dou Dou should be at home doing homework.

"Knock knock."

Zhuzi politely knocked twice on the door.

After the nanny aunt opened the door, she sized up Zhuzi from head to toe: "Who are you looking for?"

"I'm a teacher from the school, surname Wang. I'm doing a weekend home visit; is Dou Dou at home?" As he spoke, Zhuzi deliberately flashed his work ID.

Regardless of whether this ID is real or fake.

Zhuzi is the type who loves whatever job he does; he got deeply into the role and at this moment truly believed he was a teacher.

The nanny aunt had no suspicion at all, invited him in: "Dou Dou is at home, Teacher Wang, please have a seat; I'll call Dou Dou's mom."

"Dou Dou's mom is a doctor, right? With such a busy schedule, she might be delivering in the labor room, so better not disturb her." After entering the house, Zhuzi's gaze began to scan the surroundings, checking for any installed cameras.

The nanny aunt thought what this 'Teacher Wang' said made sense, and added: "Then Teacher Wang, please sit; Dou Dou is doing homework in his room, I'll go call him out."

"Okay."

Just as the nanny aunt turned to go to the room.

Smiling, Zhuzi clapped a hand over the nanny aunt's mouth with lightning speed, regardless of how she mumbled and struggled, he forcibly dragged her into the bathroom.

He taped her mouth shut and bound her tightly.

"Mmm! Mmm..."

The nanny aunt was still struggling on the floor, fear evident on her face.

"Big sis, we're both workers, not easy; I won't need to hammer you with a sledge—just cooperate and let me give you a shot, and we'll be done."

Saying this, Zhuzi took out a syringe and anesthetic that he had prepared beforehand from the briefcase.

Everything was stolen from the hospital.

During the two days he posed as a male nurse at the hospital, he also loved his job, self-taught how to prepare medicine and give injections. However, his technique was still a bit clumsy, and the needle went into the nanny aunt's vein.

It made the nanny aunt kick her legs in pain, uttering muffled cries.

But the anesthetic's effect was still top-notch.

Total anesthesia!

Before long, the nanny aunt was unable to struggle and drifted into sleep.

Ah! I'm really a genius.

Zhuzi shook their head with a sigh, gathered their things and came out of the toilet, and casually locked the toilet door.

No cameras were installed at home.

One could give full play.

Zhuzi pushed open the door of the first room, saw no one, then pushed open the door of the second room, and saw a little brat lying on the bed playing with a mobile phone, doing jack‑shit homework.

"Dou dou, is the phone fun?" Zhuzi asked.

Dou dou glanced askance, then continued playing with the phone: "Who are you? How did you get into my home?"

Zhuzi pushed up their glasses with their middle finger and replied solemnly: "I am Teacher Wang, the school's director of student affairs, on a home visit to check homework."

As soon as the words fell, Dou dou was so frightened they threw the phone away.

In less than three seconds they ran from the bed to the desk, sat down, swiftly rummaged through their schoolbag, first pulling out the pencil case, then looking for the homework notebook.

They were so nervous they didn't dare to fart.

So…

When parents leave their children at home, they really need to put in place security measures against theft, kidnapping, and the 'old six'; a limited‑capability nanny auntie may not be reliable.

"I've confiscated your phone; I'll come check your homework later—you're not allowed to come out until you finish it!"

Zhuzi stepped forward and confiscated Dou dou's phone.

After turning around, they closed the door.

They returned to the living room.

Using Dou dou's phone, they called Wang Jing: "Doctor Wang, has Chu Lingxi already been taken to the delivery room? Please cooperate and send an urgent notice to her husband, Lin Dongfan. Just say the situation is dire—first ask him whether he wants to save the mother or the child, to give him a sense of tension."

"Who are you? Why is my son's phone in your hand?" Wang Jing was not in the delivery room at that moment but in the hallway of the inpatient department, having just finished checking the wards.

Zhuzi gave a cold warning: "I'm a bad guy; your son is in my hands right now. If you don't want your son to fall from the twelfth‑floor window, do as I say. Also, don't call the police."

"What have you done to my son? I warn you, don't mess around!" Wang Jing is a fiery woman; when she divorced her husband earlier, she also slapped him out of the house.

Zhuzi knew she was a fiery woman.

Zhuzi immediately raised their voice: "Now I'm warning you! It's not your turn to warn me! In ten minutes I'll call you again. If you don't cooperate, you'll be waiting to collect your son's corpse!"

Without waiting for Wang Jing's reply, Zhuzi hung up the phone directly.

In their plan, by pressuring Lin Dongfan with the 'save the mother or the child' approach, they aimed to make Lin Dongfan realize he could hold Chu Lingxi's life and death in his hands.

If Lin Dongfan still does not release Shen Bing.

If Shen Bing cannot survive, then Chu Lingxi had better not think of walking out of the delivery room alive.

At that point he will further threaten Wang Jing, forcing her to devise a way to make Chu Lingxi's death in the delivery room seem reasonable and justifiable.