Zhao Zichen laughed, “Young Chen, there is no need to bother with him. He’s a man who has already died once, no one will know it was you who did it even if he dies again.”
Chen Yu Zhou suddenly realized, “You are right. Zhang Chao, stop daydreaming there, I will send you to your death today. Take him away.”
I glared at Baldy before I left, just hoping he wouldn’t tell Zhao Zichen about my tampering with Shi Sheng’s phone.
I trusted Baldy’s character, but unfortunately he was too dead set against Zhao Zichen.
Shi Sheng said, “Young Chen, take away what for, we all want to see him die, why not let us have fun too.”
He himself was too scared of me to do anything, so he encouraged Chen Yu Zhou to do it.
Chen Yu Zhou froze for a moment, and when he saw that Zhang Mei didn’t stop either, he was swayed.
Shi Sheng handed him the gun, but Chen Yu Zhou didn’t take it, spat on it and asked, “Is there a knife? I don’t want to let this guy die so quickly.”
Shi Sheng laughed and, with his beaten face looking like a pig’s head, said to the man beside him, “Knife.”
Chen Yu Zhou took the knife Shi Sheng handed over and unsheathed it with a brush, his cheeks twitching as his eyes grew on me, wanting to shred me to pieces on the spot.
“Zhang Chao, what else do you have to say? At least we went to school together, don’t say I didn’t give you a chance to beg for mercy.”
Chen Yu Zhou held the knife against my chin, and the tip of the knife immediately stabbed out a bloody mark.
“Come on, beg me not to kill you.”
I laughed, and Chen Yuzhou immediately blackened his face, “You’re still laughing?!”
“At this level you still want me to beg you? You underestimate me too much. You think I’m you, bullying the weak, the best when it comes to bullying the weak, a little beating from me and you’ll be crying and begging your mother. Oh, you can do it, I can’t afford to lose face.”
“You’re still talking tough even though you’re on the verge of death!”
Chen Yu Zhou’s face turned red and he cursed at me, and was about to strike me when Zhang Mei shouted, “Wait!
It was her again, and I felt sick at the sight of her pretty and mean face.
I wasn’t scared of all the people in this booth combined, but this woman gave me the creeps, and I knew how evil her heart was.
“Yu Zhou, it’s useless to force him like this. He’s a b*****d. Even if you break his arms and legs, he won’t beg you for mercy. You haven’t seen him when he was a kid, he wouldn’t even beg me for mercy even though I had his head in the toilet and he was about to drown. He’s the son of Zhang Jun and that B*tch Ji Yanran, that’s how he is.”
I grunted coldly and straightened my back, the guards behind me tried to hold me down, I was too lazy to lie to them now, they couldn’t hold us down anywhere.
I hadn’t seen her in five years, I was already a full head taller than Zhang Mei, she needed to tilt her head to see me.
I had actually begged her when I was a kid, but the B*tch hadn’t let me go, so she didn’t remember either.
Suddenly, Zhang Mei’s words changed, “Zhang Chao, you don’t remember what your B*tch mother looked like after she died, do you?”
My heart thumped with a bad feeling and I said, “Tell me what you have to say, don’t beat around the bush.”
“Your B*tch’s mother left behind a diary that I wanted to burn back then, but I didn’t.” Zhang Mei slowly took out a cowhide notebook from her handbag, then she picked up the decorative candle in a wine gla*s on the table, “After all these years, I guess no one wants it, so I might as well burn it.”
“Stop it!”
I couldn’t think of anything else and shouted hastily, and Chen Yu Zhou immediately showed a satisfied smile from his daze.
“So you’re afraid of this.”
Chen Yu Zhou took the notebook from Zhang Mei’s hand and teased it around on the fire.
The cowhide notebook didn’t quite look like a fake because it was framed by a metal frame that looked like a photo frame, but it wasn’t as simple as a metal frame; there was a rectangular mechanism on the side, not a lock hole.
If Zhang Mei had lied to me, she could not have come up with such a subtle notebook on the fly.
I saw that the cover of the notebook had been licked by the fire a few times and hadn’t even changed colour, so it didn’t look like the cover was necessarily cowhide, but perhaps a more rare material.
Chen Yu Zhou smiled sarcastically, “Want this, beg me.”
I was red-eyed: “Give me this and I’ll trade you everything I have for it.”
“Yo yo yo yo, this is the first time I’ve seen you like this, interesting. Want it, get down on your knees, get down on your knees!”
I took a few heavy breaths and asked Zhang Mei, “After my parents left, you burned all their photos and threw away all the household items that you couldn’t sell for money. Why did you leave this notebook behind and haven’t told me about it for so many years.”
“Why would I tell you? Your parents left my children fatherless and I left you parentless, from the day you were born, and I won’t let you have access to anything that has to do with them.”
“So I didn’t even see the last of them, and you rushed to burn their bodies because you didn’t want to show them to me either.”
“Show you what?! Xiao Qiang and Da Wei didn’t get to see their father one last time either, you know how badly your aunt died, they sewed his face up all night and still couldn’t get his face up. Your aunt was sitting in the pa*senger seat and a load from that big truck hit him right on the head, it was a human skull, it was flattened alive! He was such an image-conscious man, and he ended up dying so tragically that Xiaoqiang and Dawei still blame me for not letting them see their parents. Zhang Chao, your son of a B*tch parents committed such a crime, anything I do to you is their retribution.”
It was like someone had grabbed me by the throat and my breathing became laboured.
But at the same time I unconsciously thought about a very insignificant thing, why was my aunt sitting in the pa*senger seat?
My dad was driving in the main car and my aunt was in the pa*senger seat, so my mum was sitting in the back all by herself?
But my parents were very close, and I vaguely remember something from my childhood when my dad was teased about being a wife slave and hating to be stuck with my mum every day.
And my aunt is our family’s driver, my dad is drinking and still driving, there is only one possibility that my aunt is already drunk beyond consciousness, in that case why not let him sit in the back?
I shook my head for a moment, snapping out of these irrelevant details.
I glanced at Su Xiaoqiang and wanted to tell the truth about her life, but Zhang Mei’s words were still ringing in my ears, so I couldn’t say them again.
I knelt down on one leg and said in a dumb voice, “Give me this.”
Chen Yu Zhou came up and kicked me in the knee, cursing, “Kneel down for me.”
I got down on both knees and straightened my back with red eyes.
Chen Yu Zhou’s eyes were also red and he circled me like a hound.
“Zhang Chao, you have your day too, huh? Dad, did you see, your son I am not a coward, I have beaten Zhang Chao, hahaha!” Chen Yu Zhou finished laughing and used his sleeve to violently wipe away the tears from the corners of his eyes and gave me another kick to the head, “You have your day too!”
Not relieved, he took a few steps back and suddenly emptied the fruit bowl containing the fruit and threw the notebook in the middle, then took the foreign wine and poured it on top.
I panicked: “What the hell are you doing?”
Chen Yu Zhou picked up the candle and laughed fiercely, “Zhang Chao, I’m going to burn your mother’s diary to your mother. Beasts like you don’t deserve parents.”
I didn’t have to worry about anything else, so I sprang up and slammed my shoulders through the two guards holding me down and lunged at Chen Yuzhou.
