Chapter 290 - Eradicate the Roots

In the end, what did he do?

This person actually tried to exploit the Tang family’s weakness by threatening them to come up with tens of billions of yuan! Otherwise, he would hand over the account book to the officials and everyone would go to hell together! Tens of billions was not a small sum. Did he really think that her Tang family’s money came from nowhere? She did not know where he got the guts to ask for so much!

How could a mere ordinary person try to fight against a prestigious family like theirs? What a joke! Hence, the Tang family used all their strength and connections to track him down. Then, when this person was waiting to receive the ransom, they put him in a sack and brought him here for interrogation!

At first, they thought that the account book was with this person, but they did not expect to be tricked by him! In order to prevent a sudden attack from the Tang family, he had placed the account book in a place that only he knew. In his anger, the old master had ordered Tang Yajing to retrieve the account book at all costs!

He had indeed hidden it well. The Tang family had already sent people to search the various properties under his name, but they did not find any traces of the book. They did not expect him to hide it under a brick!

The reason why the Tang family was so nervous was because of the uniqueness of the account book. It would be fine if it was just an ordinary one, but the key was that this book recorded the Tang family’s tax evasion and bribery in detail! If someone else got hold of it, it would definitely be a devastating blow to the Tang family!

Since he dared to do such a thing, he would definitely suffer the wrath of the Tang family!

Hence, Tang Yajing crossed her arms in front of her chest and said, “Before you did it, why didn’t you think about your wife and children? Now you’re telling me to let them live? Mr. Zhang, what right do you have to negotiate with me? You’re no longer useful to me.”

“No… Please… They don’t know… What did I do? Let… Let them go…”

Suddenly, Zhang Hai vomited a mouthful of blood. He tried to reach out and grab the corner of Tang Yajing’s skirt, but she dodged him mercilessly. “This… This is my only wish. Otherwise… I won’t let you off even if I become a ghost…”

“Oh? Are you threatening me?”

Tang Yajing looked at him coldly and said, “You couldn’t beat me when you were alive, let alone when you were dead. Oh right, I almost forgot to tell you something. Actually, right after we caught you, your wife and daughter were killed by our people. Aiya, how could I forget such an important matter?”

She playfully pretended to be nervous. If she was outside, she might be able to fool people into wanting to protect her. However, in this situation, she was scary.

Zhang Hai felt his bones aching from the cold wind!

His eyes widened in disbelief. “No, impossible! Are you… lying to me? They… must be alive! Tell me, you’re definitely lying… right?”

He panted heavily and wanted to struggle violently, but no matter what he did, it was useless. Instead, it affected his hideous wounds. Instantly, blood flowed out, and large beads of cold sweat landed on the dust-covered ground, as if he was fighting a final battle.

Tang Yajing was very satisfied with his expression and said, “To be honest, I really like your desperate look. Originally, I wanted to use them to threaten you, but your daughter was so disobedient that she tried to attack me. I would have given in, but she almost scratched my face!”

She gently brushed the side of her face. She could still feel the swollen wound here. If not for that child’s lack of upbringing, would she need to cover it with such thick foundation? It was a good thing that her sisters weren’t at home at the time. Otherwise, she would have become the butt of their joke!

“And she kept shouting and insisting that we let you go. Everyone knows that I have a bad temper. Since it was useless no matter how much I warned her, I had no choice but to shut her up for the rest of her life. I even took a few photos along the way. As a father, you must want to see what happened to your wife and daughter in the end, right?”

Without waiting for Zhang Hai to agree or refuse, she turned on her phone and showed him a few photos that she had taken not long ago. She said with a smile, “Are you happy? I was kind enough to get someone to throw them in the mountains. I heard that wild animals appear there from time to time, such as wild wolves and pythons.

I’m sure once it gets dark, these two people’s corpses will completely disappear from this world. After all, it has been a long time since those bastards had meat! Mr. Zhang, this is the consequence of offending the Tang family. If you want to blame someone, you can only blame yourself. Who asked you to touch what we’ve been trying to cover up?”

Zhang Hai’s eyes were so red that they seemed to be dripping with blood. He stared fixedly at the vicious woman in front of him and immediately spat out a few mouthfuls of blood! Endless hatred and regret welled up in his heart. If he had not listened to the instigation of others and succumbed to the temptation of a large sum of money, why would he have stolen the account book for no reason? Perhaps… his wife and daughter did not have to die because of him.

But he hadn’t done anything yet, had he? Why did the Tang family have to finish them off so quickly? He had even told them the location of the account book. Couldn’t they spare his innocent wife and daughter on the account of this?! As the youngest daughter of the Tang family, if she was so ruthless, then what was the Tang family that he had been loyal to in the past?

A demon?

The more sorrowful he was, the more Tang Yajing beamed. She said, “Mr. Zhang, if not for the fact that you have been with Old Master for so many years, which led to our carelessness, do you think you could have stolen the account book? Enjoy your last moments! Bye-bye.”

As he watched her leave, Zhang Hai’s consciousness gradually blurred. In the end, he shouted with all the energy left in him, “Tang family…!”

His voice echoed throughout the entire basement. Tang Yajing stepped out calmly and was about to go home to report the situation to the old master when Luo Xiangwen suddenly walked over quickly and said, “Fifth Miss.”

She looked at him and said, “What happened? Why are you looking for me so urgently?”

Luo Xiangwen had always been a meticulous person in the eyes of outsiders, but now his hair had become a little messy. It was unbelievable! Could it be that someone had taken the account book? At the thought of this, her heart suddenly skipped a beat!

He seemed to have read her thoughts and said, “We’ve already taken back the account book. It’s something else. Didn’t you ask me to pay attention to what Lu Ming is doing? I just received news that he and the CEO of Tesla are working together to make smart chips and… cell phones!”