Chapter 417 - Being Targeted Again
Xu Qingqing froze at her words, she was somewhat caught up in the question.
"What do you mean by that? Who, who abandoned you? Could it be that you had a boyfriend before Jiang Hao?" Xu Qingqing asked, somewhat taken aback.
The way she looked at Xue Yu Ning, she was clearly already very puzzled.
Obviously, a person would only have emotions if they cared, and if what Xue Yu Ning had just said was true, she really did have a boyfriend in the past that she particularly cared about, who had suddenly come back to her one day and asked her to follow her away
When she thought about it, Xu Qingqing was a bit afraid to imagine it, because Xu Qingqing felt that if she continued to think about it, then all of Xue Yuning's beautiful image in her own mind would be ruined.
After all, she and Jiang Hao were in love, and if there was another ex-boyfriend who wanted to take her away, it would be too bloody.
And looking at the situation, Xue Yuning seemed to be hesitating before she acted like this.
But if she had really moved and hesitated, wouldn't that be too bad for Jiang Hao?
As soon as Xu Qingqing thought of this, her attitude instantly cooled down as well, and with a stern face, she said, "Yu Ning, you want to abandon Jiang Hao, right?"
Xue Yu Ning frowned at her words and hurriedly looked at Xu Qingqing, saying, "Xiao Qing, what are you thinking?"
Xu Qingqing sneered, "Yu Ning, you're the one who's thinking too much, right? Your ex-boyfriend has come looking for you? So you want to leave Jiang Hao? Don't you think you're too sorry for Jiang Hao if you need to do this?"
As soon as Xu Qingqing's words left her mouth, Xue Yuning's face immediately changed and she had a speechless expression as she hurriedly said, "Xiaoqing, what are you talking about? What ex-boyfriend? Please don't talk nonsense!"
Xu Qingqing laughed coldly again, "I'm talking nonsense? Oh, isn't that what I'm saying? Why else would you treat Jiang Hao like that? How could you be like that? Yu Ning, isn't Jiang Hao good enough for you? Why are you treating him like this?"
Xu Qingqing spoke from the bottom of her heart to Xue Yuning.
Admittedly, deep inside Xu Qingqing's heart, there was a time when she had once felt such an urge towards Jiang Hao.
So much so that, now that she saw that her best friend had done such a thing to Jiang Hao, she felt unworthy of Jiang Hao in her heart.
After all, in Xu Qingqing's opinion, Jiang Hao had already treated you Xue Yuning so well, and now you are faced with this kind of choice, but you are still going to hesitate, can it be that your Xue Yuning's conscience has been eaten by dogs?
Xu Qingqing really wanted to curse out these words, but at least for the sake of her friend's face, she couldn't open her mouth after all.
But what Xu Qingqing didn't expect was that once she said this, Xue Yuning sighed and looked embarrassed, saying, "Xiao Qing, what are you talking about? What do you mean I have an ex-boyfriend? I don't have any ex-boyfriends, I didn't say that to you because"
Xue Yuning didn't know how to explain, so she finally said, "Forget it, I'll tell you the truth, the person I'm talking about is not an ex-boyfriend, but my father."
"Your dad?" Xu Qingqing was stunned at her words.
It was because she remembered that Xue Yu Ning had once told herself that her father, when she was very young, had abandoned Xue Yu Ning and her mother and left.
It was said that Xue Yuning's father was still the young master of some big family back then and had left home in order to escape from his marriage.
Later on, Xue Yu Ning's father met Xue Yu Ning's mother in her hometown, and they got together after a while.
Not long afterwards, Xue Yuning was born. When Xue Yuning was just a few years old, her father suddenly left her and her mother and was never heard from again, as if he had disappeared.
Since then, Xue and her mother's life has been in complete darkness.
In the past, when her father was around, life was still difficult, but she could barely make ends meet.
According to Xue Yuning, her father was a medical student and had a small clinic in the county, so he was able to get by.
But once her father left, the clinic immediately went out of business, and the family became the laughing stock of the whole county.
Xu Qingqing still remembers that Xue Yuning used to tell herself, while crying, that those who were her little friends once called her a wild child who had been thrown away, and also called her mother a vixen who had hooked up with someone.
In short, during those years, Xue Yu Ning and her mother were subjected to almost all the ridicule and disdain of the people around them, and their lives were miserable.
Even the relatives of her own family had no sympathy for her and her mother after seeing their plight, but instead they tried to find ways to get two taels of oil out of the miserable mother and daughter.
Soon, the family clinic was swindled by a relative, and the family's meagre savings were soon spent.
If Xue Yu Ning's second uncle hadn't helped them out, perhaps they would have starved to death on the streets.
From that time onwards, Xue Yu Ning had a natural rejection, sometimes even disgust, of the rich boys.
Xue Yu Ning hated her father even more for abandoning her and her mother and causing her mother endless pain.
But it was at this moment that her own father, to her surprise, came to her door
But after more than ten years, after seeing that man again, Xue Yu Ning found that she could not hate him anymore.
But Xue Yuning still didn't give the other party a chance to explain, just after recognizing the other party, she quickly ran back.
Of course Xue Yu Ning would not go with him, she just had a hard time in her heart, just thinking of all the misfortunes in the past and feeling more and more aggrieved in her heart.
The more she thought about this, the more Xue Yu Ning's tears flowed down with her.
When Xu Qingqing saw this, she was at a loss for words.
It turned out to be Xue Yuning's father who had returned, and she had just wronged her?
Xu Qingqing felt embarrassed and hurriedly hugged Xue Yuning, who was crying, and patted her, comforting her, "Okay, okay, all those things are in the past, let's not think about it, okay?"
"Yu Ning, don't cry, think about Jiang Hao, although your father abandoned you ruthlessly, but now you have Jiang Hao, look how good he is to you, and even bought you such an expensive pendant, one million eight hundred and eighty thousand dollars ah"
Almost at that moment, outside the dormitory, Feng Pingping, who had been wandering around all day but had not even raised a single penny, was about to step into the dormitory.
In the past two days, she had been going crazy with anxiety.
Liu Qiang had only given her a week to raise $800,000, and if she failed to raise $800,000, she didn't know what Liu Qiang would do to her.
She didn't want to die and she didn't want anything to happen to her.
But where was she going to raise $800,000?
At the very moment when Feng Pingping was most worried, she suddenly overheard a conversation between Xu Qingqing and Xue Yuning in her bedroom.
Feng Pingping immediately stopped in her tracks and muttered to herself with a surprised look on her face, "One million eight hundred and eighty thousand?"
Feng Pingping seemed to see a glimmer of hope once again, a pendant of more than one million eight hundred thousand, this would not only give herself an account with Liu Qiang, but she could even keep a sum for herself.
The first thing you need to do is to get your own money, and if you have more than a million dollars, you will never stay in this kind of place again.
Rather than always worrying about being schemed by Liu Qiang, she should leave Chujiang, go to a place where no one knows, spend money to buy a house and set up some properties, and live in peace.
When she thought of this, Feng Pingping couldn't help but be moved again. She secretly pushed the dormitory door open a crack and looked inside along the gap, just in time to see the pendant that was as blue as the deep sky on Xue Yuning's bed.
Chapter 418 - Sapphire Pendant No.
Feng Pingping stood outside the door and watched for a while until she could see clearly where Xue Yuning had placed the pendant before she turned her head and left.
She wandered in the corridor for a while and dove straight into the toilet, then dialed Liu Qiang's number without hesitation.
"Hey Brother Qiang."
"Did you get the money?" Liu Qiang's attitude was still strong.
"No, not yet." Feng Pingping said.
"How dare you call me even if you haven't got the money?"
"No, no, no, brother Qiang, I haven't got the money, but it's coming soon. I," Feng Ping Ping thought for a moment and then added, "I have an ancestral piece of jewellery in my family that I want to sell, it's especially valuable, as long as I can sell it, it will be worth a lot of money, but I hope you can help me out."
"An ancestral piece of jewellery?" Apparently Liu Qiang didn't believe Feng Pingping's rhetoric and said, "You're not lying to me? You didn't steal it, did you? If you dare to lie to me, I will kill you believe it or not!"
Feng Pingping's body was shaken and she hurriedly blushed and said, "No, no, no, how dare I lie to Brother Qiang? It's really our family's stuff. I thought that you know a lot of people and have a wide range of contacts, so you can sell this stuff for a high price."
When she said this, Feng Pingping was still a little nervous, but she was willing to give up, anyway, she was a dead man, if she could not give the money to Liu Qiang, he would never let her go.
If she succeeded, she would take the money and go far away, so that no one could find her and she would still be free.
Liu Qiang hesitated too hesitantly before speaking, "Alright then, I'll go and contact someone, but I still say, you damn well better not lie to me, your stuff better be real and allegedly stolen and robbed, otherwise I'll definitely get you killed!"
Feng Pingping was a little nervous, but still nodded: "Understand understand I understand, you can rest assured"
After she finished speaking, the phone was hung up at the other end.
Feng Pingping stood in place, her eyes a little obsessed, she dropped a cigarette but couldn't get the lighter to work, obviously nervous.
Although she had stolen Xue Yu Ning's things last time herself, this time was different from the last one, which was, at best, a few tens of thousands of dollars.
But this time, it was worth a million or so, which was probably enough to get shot if one was caught.
So you must be careful and careful again, get the stuff and leave it to Liu Qiang, and after you get the money, you will turn your head and leave Chu Jiang
The first thing you need to do is to get the money.
But at that moment, a voice suddenly came from behind Feng Pingping.
"What are you doing? Gnashing your teeth."
Feng Pingping was taken aback, and her body shivered involuntarily. Looking back, she saw Xu Qingqing looking at herself with a puzzled expression.
After the previous incident, Feng Pingping had always been afraid to look at Xu Qingqing directly.
After all, she had almost been sold out by herself, and although it hadn't worked out in the end, Feng Pingping still felt a little unsure of how to face Xu Qingqing.
And most crucially, in the past, she herself could do whatever she wanted thanks to Liu Qiang, but now she is like a dog in distress, instead it is Xu Qingqing, who is on Jiang Hao's lap, who can clean up after herself whenever she wants. She could clean up after herself whenever she wanted to.
So now every time she saw Xu Qingqing, Feng Pingping would also look a little nervous, because she was afraid that Xu Qingqing would find an opportunity to turn over old scores with herself.
"I don't have anything." Feng Pingping said radiantly, "I'm just uh, here for a cigarette."
Xu Qingqing snapped at Feng Pingping, obviously not believing her words, and warned flatly, "Feng Pingping, I know what you are, but I'm warning you not to think anything crooked, have you forgotten what happened last time?"
Feng Pingping smiled and hurriedly said nervously, "No, no, no, I haven't forgotten anything, I was really smoking, but I just thought of something"
Feng Pingping threw away all the crushed cigarettes in her hand, then said, "I still have something to do, I I I'll leave first."
After saying that, Feng Pingping left the toilet in a hurry.
Looking at Feng Ping Ping's back, Xu Qingqing always felt that there was something wrong with her, mysterious, and as Xu Qingqing knew Feng Ping's persona very well in the past, she was of course even more aware that there was absolutely no way that Feng Ping Ping was not up to something when she behaved like this today.
The time soon came at night, and Xue Yu Ning tossed and turned in bed, never falling asleep.
With a sigh, she sat up from the bed, then simply dressed and wanted to leave.
"What are you going to do, it's so late." Xu Qingqing hurriedly got up as well and asked.
"I can't sleep, I'm going out for a walk." Xue Yu Ning replied simply.
Xu Qingqing looked at the time, it was already 11:30 midnight, she was really worried about Xue Yuning when she went out at this time.
She looked at Feng Pingping, who was on the top bunk of Xue Yuning, and heard a faint snoring sound coming from Feng Pingping before she said, "I'll go with you then."
Having said that, Xu Qingqing also hurriedly put on her clothes and followed Xue Yuning to leave.
Not even five minutes after they left, Feng Ping Ping's faint snoring suddenly stopped abruptly, then she opened her eyes and looked around to make sure that Xue Yu Ning and Xu Qing Qing had indeed left, before she quietly got out of bed.
She then rummaged around in Xue Yuning's purse for a while before finding the sapphire pendant.
The moment she saw the pendant, Feng Pingping was excited, not only at the beauty of the pendant, but also at the fact that such a small thing could provide her with food and clothing for half of her life.
Without saying a word, she stuffed the pendant into her bag and quickly filled her backpack with her belongings and left in a hurry.
Half an hour later, in a private room of Liu Qiang's hotel.
There were three people sitting in the room, Liu Qiang and Feng Pingping, and another middle-aged man.
The man was sober and appeared to be very educated.
He used a magnifying glass and carefully looked over the sapphire pendant that Feng Pingping handed over, finally nodded and said to Liu Qiang, "Young Qiang, this thing is indeed real and worth a lot of money, I think it's at least this much!"
The man held out five fingers, and Liu Qiang was immediately shocked at his words, "Half a million? That much?"
The man smiled, "You're joking, I'm talking about a million and a half!"
When the other party said this, Liu Qiang almost didn't sit down in his chair, strolled around and asked back incredulously, "How much? One and a half million? Really?"
The middle-aged man nodded and whispered, "Young Qiang, this is already the most conservative estimate I can make, the price of sapphires is now insanely high, like this piece of such good quality, the texture belongs to the very best, the most crucial thing, is its workmanship, it's simply perfect, so the price is naturally very high"