Reborn at 80: From Village Scoundrel to Billionaire

"Click-clack~"

Soon, the man took several pictures in succession.

Liu Bei looked at Wang Fei's wife and said with a smile, "What do you think will happen if I publish the photos?"

Wang Fei taunted his wife: "..."

Her face looked very pale.

Of course I know what the consequences will be.

Not only will she go to jail, but her son will also go to jail.

The entire family of three is doomed.

"I'm asking you one last time: will you confess or refuse?"

Liu Bei narrowed his eyes. "My patience is limited! I'll count to ten. If you still don't confess, don't blame me for not giving you a chance!"

"ten!"

"Nine!"

"eight!"

……

With each count by Liu Bei, Wang Feitan's wife felt as if she were being pricked by a needle, her heart aching even more.

Honestly, she really didn't want to agree.

After all, in her eyes, Liu Bei was just a country bumpkin.

And she is the wife of the vice president of the county's Federation of Industry and Commerce.

They are from a prestigious family.

If she doesn't confess, she, her son, and her man will all be ruined.

What?

She hesitated for a moment, feeling very upset.

"three!"

Soon, she heard Liu Bei count to three.

Only two numbers are left.

Her heart pounded even harder.

"two!"

This is the last one.

What should I do?

She was completely at a loss, her mind a jumbled mess.

"one!"

Liu Bei counted to the last number. "Aunt Wang, time's up. Have you decided how you want to choose?"

"I...I..."

"It seems you still don't want to confess! In that case—"

Liu Bei glanced at Li Dazhuang and the others behind him. "Let's get started! Strip Grandma Wang naked too. Then take some artistic photos of her. Let Grandma Wang become the first female artist in the country to sacrifice herself for art! Let the whole country know that she did it all for art—"

"Wait! Wait!" Hearing Liu Bei's words, Wang Fei's wife became frightened.

Because she was afraid to gamble.

"Oh, Aunt Wang, have you made up your mind? Are you ready to confess?" Liu Bei smiled.

"I...I can tell you. But...but I have a condition."

"Tell me about it." Liu Bei did not refuse.

"If I tell you, will you let my son and me go?"

Wang Feidan's wife suggested.

"Well—" Liu Bei stroked his chin, "That depends on the value of the information you provide. If it's not high, hehe, I'm sorry, I can't meet your request. If it is high, I can promise you and your child! As long as you and your child don't cause us any more trouble, I can guarantee your safety!"

"Okay... I'll talk!"

"Wouldn't it have been better to do this sooner? Tell me, what shady things has Wang Feidan done?"

Wang Fei tugged at his wife's thoughts and gathered them up.

"He's done so many dirty things. I can't list them all in a short time."

"Then let's talk about a few important ones!" Liu Bei urged.

"Okay!" Wang Fei paused, then said to his wife.

"Let's talk about what happened in the last three years!"

"The first thing he did was to collude with people inside the supply and marketing cooperatives and grain depots to hoard scarce goods, such as cotton cloth, cotton thread, bicycles, sewing machine heads, and so on."

"Anything else?"

"The second thing was that he introduced people to buy and sell grain, cotton, livestock, and timber, charging exorbitant commissions from both sides, while secretly suppressing purchase prices and raising selling prices, cheating people on both ends."

"Oh, anything else?"

"The third thing was that he privately bought up ancestral silver coins and gold jewelry from farmers without going through the state-owned medicinal materials company, and resold them at high prices after buying them at low prices; he also traded valuable medicinal materials such as musk and gastrodia elata."

"Is that all?"

"Yes. These are the three dirtiest things he's done in the last three years! Nothing else." Wang Fei's wife nodded. "I've told you everything I need to say. Can you let us go now?"

"Words are no proof!"

Liu Beichao snapped his fingers behind him, and Fan Shitou brought over a piece of paper and a pen, handing them to Wang Feitan's wife.

"Write it down, then sign your name. Then put your son's and your husband's fingerprints on it. I'll release you and your son...no, the three of you!"

"What? We have to sign and put our fingerprints on this?" Wang Fei's wife frowned, clearly unwilling.

Doing that would be like leaving behind a huge weakness.

"You don't want to? Fine. Cat, Big Strong, take pictures of her. Turn her into an artist!"

"Alright!" Fan Mao'er and Fan Shitou went over.

"No, no... I'll do it, I'll do it!"

Wang Feitan's wife was startled, fearing that she would be exposed as an artist. She quickly grabbed a pen and wrote down all the shady things Wang Feitan had done in the past three years. After writing it down, she signed her name and pressed the fingers of her son Wang Tengfei and her husband Wang Feitan onto the paper.

"I...I did as you said. Can you let my child and me go now?"

Wang Fei's wife handed the paper to Liu Bei.

"Okay. Let the family of three leave!"

Liu Bei was very satisfied after glancing at the contents.

"Whoosh!"

The cats made way for them, saying, "Hurry up and get going!"

"Okay...okay!"

Hearing this, Wang Fei's wife breathed a sigh of relief, quickly got up to help her son put on his clothes, and helped him walk outside.

"etc!"

Liu Bei looked over.

"You...you're not going to go back on your word, are you?" Wang Fei's wife's heart sank suddenly.

"You've misunderstood. I always keep my word. I'm just reminding you that your man is still in bed. Are you taking him with you?"

Liu Bei pointed to Wang Feidan on the wooden bed.

"He...he's dead. Let's just...let it go!"

After Wang Fei finished speaking to his wife, he helped his son Wang Tengfei and hurriedly walked out.

She killed the man.

Everyone is gone.

Why take it back?

Is she afraid others won't know she's the one who killed him?

The most urgent and important thing is to take our son and flee the county town to a distant place where no one knows us, and settle down there, never to return.

"Husbands and wives are like birds in the same forest; when disaster strikes, they fly away separately!" Liu Bei sighed, looked at Wang Feidan on the wooden bed, and said with a smile, "Stop pretending to be dead. I know you're still alive."

Wang Feidan: "..."

"What? Still pretending, huh?" Liu Bei squinted. "Ha, he likes to pretend, so why don't you give him a hand? Let him never open his eyes again!"

"This is my specialty," Fan Ha'er licked his lips. "Just put a knife over his neck, and he'll never open his eyes again!"

Upon hearing this, Wang Feitan clearly felt a chill on his neck.

He remembered what Fan Ha'er had said and was so startled that he opened his eyes wide.

"Oh. Not pretending anymore? So you know to open your eyes now?" Fan Ha'er smiled at Wang Fei. "Brother Bei, he's awake!"

Wang Fei glanced down at his neck.

Instead of a knife, there was a broken vase.

He realized he had been tricked.

"Are you kidding me?"

"Yes, Ha'er was just playing you!" Liu Bei stepped forward. "It's good that you're awake! Now that you're awake, I want to talk to you!"

"You heard what your wife just said."

"You know very well what she did to you!"

"A woman like her, after leaving with your son, will definitely go home, collect all your life savings, and then pack up and leave with your son. She'll never come back!"

"If she really only wants to rely on your son for the rest of her life, then so be it. But what if..."

"What if what? You surnamed Liu, what exactly are you trying to say? Stop stammering and just say it!!!"

"What if..." Liu Bei deliberately dragged out his words, "What if she can't stand the loneliness and uses your money to find a new man? Then... hehe, you should know. Women, you know, are all love-struck. Once they fall in love, their brains easily become less sharp. They're willing to give everything for the man they like. Then, for love, will she abandon your son too? If she does, all the money you've worked so hard to earn your whole life will have truly gone to waste!"

"..."