Chapter 28

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Protagonist:

Jiang Wenyu

"Thanks, Wang Shener!"

Taking the box of eggs that had somehow survived to the present, Jiang Wenyu said thanks.

The market stall owner also smiled and said, "Be careful on your way back!"

"Ai!" Jiang Wenyu pushed his bicycle back the way he came. He wasn't familiar with the people at the market, but Chen Lan knew many of them; how else could one say Chen Lan was formidable in social interactions? Whether men or women, everyone who saw her felt favorable toward her — this also counts as personal charisma.

"Dad, I want to get down and walk!" Jiang Nuannuan's childish voice came.

Jiang Wenyu smiled and gently lifted her down to the ground; the little child just held Jiang Wenyu's big hand and walked slowly. A month of getting along had made the father-daughter relationship different from before; this was also what made Jiang Wenyu feel most at ease.

The sky had gradually darkened, pedestrians on the road gradually became fewer, clouds on the horizon were red beyond belief, the setting sun slowly sinking at the end of the era.

Just as Jiang Wenyu and his daughter were about to return to their street, sudden urgent footsteps came from behind, drawing closer and closer, until Jiang Wenyu sensed something was wrong and was just about to turn his head when a great force accompanied by darkness suddenly covered his eyes!

"Dad!"

In the darkness he could only hear little Nuan Nuan's anxious calls; the bicycle fell to the roadside; he could feel several people grabbing him, as if a black grocery bag had been pulled over his head.

A sense of crisis arrived; he immediately began to struggle with all his strength!

He didn't know how many people there were, but what Jiang Wenyu worried about most right now was still Jiang Nuannuan.

"Let go of my dad!" In his anxiety he again heard the little girl's tearful shout; he seemed to also hear the sound of something falling over, and at the same time came Nuan Nuan's cry.

At this moment, Jiang Wenyu instantly flew into a towering rage; heedless of everything, he struggled wildly, fists flailing wildly and seemingly striking someone, because he heard a miserable scream, but then wave after wave of great force pinned his limbs, and then severe pain came from the back of his head, dizziness assaulted him, and his body instantly went limp and collapsed.

"Dad!" Little Nuan Nuan climbed up from the ground with difficulty, covered in dust; in the child's view she could only see three or four people dragging the unconscious Jiang Wenyu with his head covered away quickly; before long they vanished at the end of her sight.

"Wuwu..." The child was frightened into crying; there were no passersby around; in her anxiety she didn't know what to do, but she still remembered the direction home; crying, she ran toward that road home.

But as she ran, she ran straight into an adult man, fell on her bottom, and started crying nonstop again.

The man before her squatted down; seeing Jiang Nuannuan, he also showed great surprise.

"If I remember right... you seem to be his daughter?"

Jiang Nuannuan cried while raising her head, big eyes blinking as she looked at this adult man who was slightly familiar yet also somewhat strange.

In his daze, Jiang Wenyu seemed to dream of something; he dreamed of himself shuttling nonstop through the tunnel of the era, dreamed of future wealth, dreamed of his own past depravity. In that long river of the era he kept running, falling again and again, finally submerged.

He jerked awake; severe pain came from the back of his head; he sat on the cold ground with his hands tied; before him was still pitch black.

"Aiyo, awake?" After a familiar voice, the black plastic bag on his head was taken away, and his vision instantly cleared.

Five or six people stood around; this was a dilapidated old earthen house; the light wasn't very sufficient; outside it was already somewhat dark.

Seeing the man in the middle sneering repeatedly, Jiang Wenyu's face instantly bore rage: "Li Zhao!"

Li Zhao heihei sneered nonstop, saying: "Jiang Wenyu ah Jiang Wenyu, the grudges between us truly cannot be counted."

Jiang Wenyu, having figured out what was going on, said coldly: "Grudges? Seems like every time it's you who deliberately picks trouble."

"Tsk tsk." Li Zhao said: "I've decided, I'll start by ruining that mouth of yours."

Jiang Wenyu didn't pay attention; instead he immediately looked around, and finally shouted: "Where's my daughter!?"

Li Zhao spoke while taking an iron rod from someone beside him, sneering: "That little girl? Relax, Li Zhao has never bullied children."

Hearing this, Jiang Wenyu also relaxed slightly; then he heard Li Zhao continue: "Jiang Wenyu, the grudge between us two can be settled separately, but this time I took money to help someone else. That person wants me to cripple you; you say... what to do?"

Jiang Wenyu's gaze was icy; being seized halfway by this Li Zhao was something he hadn't anticipated; in this situation escape seemed unlikely, but his backbone also couldn't be lost.

He also smiled, mocking: "Li Zhao, why so much nonsense."