The Mystery of the Inner Demon

Chapter 267 The Cold Truth
“That’s right, everything comes at a price,” Qi Dongjun said with emotion. “Li Yang’er was the beginning of my journey in the business world, and also my first lesson. The so-called entrepreneurship is just a fashionable term nowadays. Back then, it was more about making a living than starting a business.”

I know that people are saying that I made my first fortune together with Xu Tong.

This is an honor I bestowed upon Xu Tong, but it is not the truth.

In fact, we made money for the first time by working with Li Yang'er three years ago, when Xi He was born.

This amount of money wasn't much, but it was enough to give Ziyun and me confidence.

We are responsible for domestic supply, while Li Yang'er is responsible for overseas sales channels.

She's fluent in foreign languages, quick-witted, and a natural-born foreign trade professional.

We can make money working with Li Yang'er, that's the reason we're collaborating with her, and the only reason.

Although Li Yang'er was too generous with the money, so generous that it made people uneasy.

But this anxiety is nothing compared to survival.

I need money, and our children need money.

Three years later, she said she had landed a big order and planned to immigrate after completing it.

No one expected that this last deal would run into such a big problem.

At first, they said the fabric being processed was contaminated, making it difficult to deliver on time. Later, after finally finishing the work, Ziyun discovered the trickery in the contract.

Back then, we didn't have the money to hire a professional legal firm to review the contract. We were too naive. The contract was extremely unfair in terms of rights and responsibilities. We became Li Yang'er's scapegoats. Moreover..." Qi Dongjun stopped there.

Zhong Kui didn't give him a chance to evade the question, and went along with his words, saying, "Besides, you discovered that there was a problem with that batch of fabric."

"No, this is just our conjecture. I only confirmed my guess when I saw Xu Tong's health problems many years later." Qi Dongjun tried his best to deny it. "That agreement had a wager. If I didn't deliver the goods, it wasn't just a matter of not getting paid, but that I would lose all the savings I had accumulated over the past few years. You wouldn't understand, but I had to deliver that batch of goods."

"So that's why my mom approached Li Yang'er to negotiate and wanted to withdraw from this deal?" Qi Fei asked.

Qi Dongjun looked at Qi Fei with great surprise: "Ziyun sought out Li Yang'er alone?"

"You don't know?" Qi Fei asked doubtfully.

“He really didn’t know.” Zhong Kui observed Qi Dongjun’s expression and answered for him, then continued, “It’s ironic that Qi Dongjun, as her husband, didn’t know about the conflict between Xi Ziyun and Li Yang’er, but Feng Yongfu did.”

As she spoke, she looked at Qi Dongjun and said, "It seems that there are more things that Xi Ziyun didn't tell you than just Li Yang'er. That year, she met Feng Yongfu."

Perhaps in her eyes, Feng Yongfu was simply a childhood playmate, and she unconsciously confided her recent troubles to him, which were undoubtedly related to the business crisis between you and Li Yang'er.

In Xi Ziyun's view, this was a business problem. In Feng Yongfu's distorted world, it was another obstacle encountered by the person he loved most. Li Yang'er was just like Xi Changhe.

Therefore, he deserved the same fate as Xi Changhe.

However, he was no longer the mischievous child he once was.

He was a meticulous adult, a cunning killer.

If Li Yang'er dies, Xi Ziyun will undoubtedly become a prime suspect. This is something Feng Yongfu doesn't want to see.

So he devised a near-perfect murder plan.

Li Yang'er is a businesswoman, and a key characteristic of business people is superstition, especially since this recent deal has put her under a lot of pressure. Therefore, Feng Yongfu found an opportunity to approach her, using the supposed efficacy of the Wong Tai Sin Temple in Sanwu Town as bait to lure Li Yang'er to the town.

What happened next involved the crimes that Feng Yongfu framed for Feng Yongshou.

He killed Li Yang'er at Wong Tai Sin Temple and, under the cover of night, dragged her body into a kiln and burned it to ashes.

Originally, this killing should have been as secretive as when he killed Xi Changhe back then. Unfortunately, fate played a trick on him. He wasn't the only one present in the dark night; his younger brother, Feng Yongshou, who was also nervous and suffered from insomnia, was also there.

After he was satisfied with completing his murder plan, he discovered that Feng Yongshou's mental state and behavior had become strange.

At first, he didn't think it was related to Li Yang'er's death, until Feng Yongshou said he saw Huang Daxian kill someone, which made him understand immediately.

He pleaded with Feng Yongshou, revealing his long-standing love for Xi Ziyun, hoping his younger brother could understand and protect him.

But he never expected that Feng Yongshou, tormented by guilt to the extreme, would go to Nancheng to find Xi Ziyun and expose everything about him.

This was something he would rather die than accept.

Many years later, Xi He recalled this darkest moment of his childhood to Zhong Xiaoyu in Baicheng.

Actually, Xi Ziyun wasn't home at all that day.

Xi He kept asking for a special kind of cookie, so Xi Ziyun, who doted on her child, braved the heavy rain to go out and buy it.

When Feng Yongshou knocked on the door of the Little White Building, it was the tiny three-year-old Xi He who opened the door.

Before he could find out where Xi Ziyun had gone, Feng Yongfu had already arrived.

The two had a huge conflict, and it was clear that the weak Feng Yongshou was no match for his cold-blooded older brother.

Feng Yongfu told me that Feng Yongshou's death was an accident.

But only he himself knows what really happened back then.

He put on Xi Ziyun's raincoat and buried Feng Yongshou in the flower bed during the torrential rain.

Such is the capriciousness of fate. He went to great lengths to lure Li Yang'er to Sanwu Town in order to protect Xi Ziyun's innocence.

Ultimately, this sin was buried with his younger brother Feng Yongshou in Xi Ziyun's courtyard.

What happened next is what you saw with your own eyes.

However, you mistook someone else for Xi Ziyun, mistaking the short Feng Yongfu for the short Xi Ziyun.

Clearly, Xi He, who witnessed everything, that horrible child saw through you; he had Xi Ziyun plant a tree in that spot. Strangely enough, she didn't even dig to the depth where the body was.

Everything unfolded both intentionally and coincidentally, developing in the direction Xihe desired.

You shut Xi Ziyun out of business, and from then on, Xi Ziyun became Xi He's complete mother, with all her attention focused on her child.

Upon hearing this, Qi Dongjun trembled all over: "It was I who pushed Ziyun step by step into the clutches of Xihe."

Having uncovered this chilling truth, Qi Fei and Zhong Kui left the ward.

Qi Fei silently walked into the elevator. As the doors slowly closed, he finally spoke: "You said Feng Yongfu killed Feng Yongshou, but the two brothers are about the same height. The wound that clearly stabbed Feng Yongshou shows that the other person was shorter than him..."