Inferior by Nature

The canteen of the Red Building is located on the first floor, facing the green garden outside, with a good view, three meals a buffet, and a large TV on the wall, which plays hot news in a loop throughout the day, so that people will not feel bored when dining alone.

"Recently, Jiang Ruantang, director of the Chonghai Urban Construction Administration Bureau, was taken away for investigation due to corruption. During Jiang Ruantang's tenure as the director of the Urban Construction Administration Bureau, he took advantage of his position many times to privately submit urban construction projects without bidding. Assign it to an acquaintance company, and seek benefits from it..."

The spoon paused in mid-air, and the news broadcast the picture of the fallen officials being taken away for investigation.Although the clothes are completely different, but the extremely characteristic silver-gray hair and the mustache curled up at the end made me recognize the haggard former director of the Urban Construction Administration on the TV at a glance. The "Mr. Jiang" who came to the island to meet Mr. Jin.

At that time, this man was so beautiful, with a beautiful woman in his right hand and a cane in his left hand, he looked like a nobleman, and he was taken away for investigation not long after that.

It's true, things are unpredictable.

"I don't want to learn anymore, my hands hurt so much!" Jin Yuanbao pouted and pushed the qin to the ground, rubbing his fingers, already reaching the limit, he refused to learn any more.

I looked at the time, it was good, two hours, much better than the beginning.

"Then let Butler Feng bring some snacks?" Lifting the child's cello from the ground and putting it back into the case, I intend to end today's teaching.

"I'm not hungry, I don't want to eat." The young master jumped off the stool, ran to me, tugged at my sleeve and said, "Teacher, shall we play a game?"

I got dizzy when I heard the game, and hurriedly refused: "No, did you forget the last time you played the game? Your brother got angry."

The child curled his lips, seeming a little unconcerned, but he didn't insist.

With his hands behind his back, he began to walk up and down the room, like a little old man, wondering what countermeasures to take.

I closed the score, put away my piano and planned to leave: "Then I'm leaving..."

Jin Yuanbao seemed to have thought of some good idea, and ran over with bright eyes, and grabbed me: "Teacher, shall I take you on an adventure?"

"Adventure?"

"Brother won't find out this time, let's go through the secret passage." He didn't care about the three-seven-two-one, and dragged me away, and I only had time to unload the cello on my shoulders to the ground in a hurry.

He took me to an oil painting by the wall.It was the largest oil painting in the room, maybe two meters high, and it was a Western biblical subject.

Jin Yuanbao put his hand on the picture frame, pushed it in one direction with some strength, and after a while, a dark intersection appeared in front of my eyes.

"This is..." The cold wind blew from the door, I got goosebumps, and asked Jin Yuanbao beside me.

The child was full of pride: "Amazing, isn't it? I accidentally discovered it when I was a child. It's like a big maze inside. You can go anywhere and avoid surveillance! I often use this to escape outside, and Steward Feng doesn't even know about me. How did you get out?"

I heard that in the past, the nobles always liked to set up such secret passages, allowing servants to move around in them, and if necessary, they would call for servants by knocking on the pipes. If it is not necessary, it is best not to show any servants.

The castle follows the layout and decoration of a hundred years ago. Each wall is covered with exquisite wallpaper and a large number of works of art.Thousands of oil paintings and gouaches may be hung in the entire castle, and even if Holmes is alive, it is impossible to know which paintings will have a hidden door behind them, connecting complicated secret passages.

Or, Jin Feisheng and Jinchenyu knew about these secret passages and kept them for emergencies, but they never expected to be discovered by Jin Yuanbao and used as a playground for all these years...

"Teacher, come in quickly, I'll take you on an adventure!" Before I could express my opinion, Jin Yuanbao had already stepped into the secret passage.

I hesitated for a while, turned on the flashlight function of my phone, and followed suit.

The passage is dark, but there are sensor lights on the wall that turn on a faint light when a person passes by.This further confirms my guess that this channel has been maintained by the Jin family.

Jin Yuanbao seemed to be very familiar with every corner of the secret road, leading me around all corners, but I didn't know where I was.The sense of direction was no longer working, so I had to call up the compass to check and found that we were going west.

There are many forks in the secret path, and I followed Jin Yuanbao closely, fearing that I would accidentally follow someone and lose my way in the secret path.

After walking for about 10 minutes, the passageway began to narrow, spiraling down, and after walking down a long staircase, the gold ingot in front of it finally stopped.

He pointed to the wall at the end and motioned for me to look.

When I saw it, there was a wooden cross more than one meter long hanging there, which instantly added a bit of horror to the already gloomy atmosphere.

Came all the way here just to show me this?The world of children is really difficult to understand.

I was about to tell him to go back, when suddenly, through the thin wall at the end, I heard a woman's scream.

My hands trembled and I almost dropped my phone on the ground.

Jin Yuanbao was much more courageous than me. He stood on tiptoe and kept backing away, as if he wanted to see something.

I looked again, and there was a small eye in the middle of the cross. The light from the other end was projected through this small eye. Jin Yuanbao wanted to detect what happened on the other end through it.

I hurriedly held him down, trying to pull him away, when more voices came from the woman, crying in despair.

"I'm really not an insider, I didn't betray Mr. Jin, I really didn't..."

Amy?

For the voice, I will never admit to being wrong.With a chill in my heart, I held my breath, approached the cross carefully, and aimed one eye at the small eye on the wall.

It was like...a prison cell.A Mi's hair was disheveled and slumped on the ground, tightly hugging Kong Tan's calf, her body was covered with bloodstains, and her clothes were also torn.

She was crying and begging, with tears all over her face: "Brother Snake, believe me, I really didn't do it. I have younger brothers and sisters to raise at home, I can't die... I am willing to do anything, you can spare my life." , please, please forgive me!"

Kong Tan shook off the blood on the horsewhip in his hand, looked away, and I followed his gaze, only to find a red velvet chair outside the cell.Jin Chenyu rested his chin in one hand and sat on it with his legs crossed. Behind him stood several subordinates in black. At first glance, if he hadn't had a crown on his head, he would have looked like an arrogant king.

"If you didn't have sufficient evidence, why would you be brought here? You were the one who tipped off the smuggled cigarettes last time, right?" Jin Chenyu uttered the most sinister words in the most elegant gesture, "You No, I will ask someone to bring your younger siblings here tomorrow, what do you think?"

"No, no, no, no!!" Ami let go of Kong Tan's legs, scrambled and rushed towards the prison door, and stretched out her hand towards Jinchenyu through the fence, "My lord, don't, don't touch my family, I Admit it, I admit it all! It’s my eyes open to money, it’s my obsession, I dare not, it’s all my fault! This matter has nothing to do with my younger siblings, they don’t understand anything, you... Please don’t hurt them !"

Jin Chenyu lowered his eyes, no matter how much Ami prayed, he was not moved, just looked at her fingers, seeing how she tried to reach him, but she couldn't touch him no matter what.

Finally he smiled, looked up at Kong Tan and said, "Family is always the best. Do it."

With an order, Kong Tan has already bullied Ami from behind, holding a whip with both hands, wrapping it around her neck, strangling her tightly.

With one hand holding the horsewhip around her neck, A Mi still stretched out her other hand towards Jinchenyu, kicking her legs, as if at this moment when life and death were at stake, she still wanted to ask for Jinchenyu's pardon from her family.

Kong Tan knelt down on one knee, his arm muscles bulged, and the coiled snake tattoo on the back of his head looked even more terrifying in the dark environment.

"Teacher, what are you looking at?" Jin Yuanbao was not tall enough to look at it, so he was extra curious, tugging at my sleeve and asking me in a low voice.

I hurriedly covered his mouth, and put my index finger tremblingly on my lips, signaling him to keep silent.

Jin Yuanbao was probably also frightened by me, he nodded in confusion, and obediently stopped making any noise.

My heart was beating violently, and I looked at that small eye again.

Ami's struggle has become weaker and weaker, and after a while, the fingers reaching Jinchenyu fell down feebly.It wasn't until she was completely motionless that Kong Tan let go of his whip and got up from the ground.

"Throw it into the sea when it's resolved." Jin Chenyu raised his finger, his voice was still lazy, it seemed that what died was only a mouse or a bedbug, not a living person.

"Yes." The two people behind him entered the cell and began to process Ami's body.

Kong Tan threw away his whip, opened the prison door and came to Jin Chenyu.

"There is no more than this mouse on the island. At most, this bitch makes a little money by buying and selling information. Some businesses are only known to the company's senior management, and even Sister Hua may not know the inside story. How could she have news?"

"Are you going to call him the youngest?" Jin Chenyu rubbed his forehead and said with a headache.

"On the night of Madam's birthday, it was definitely him I saw!"

"My dad trusts him very much. You always target him. It's hard for me to explain to my dad. My dad already knows who you touched him last time, and he scolded me." Jin Chenyu suddenly changed his tone, imitating He said in the tone of his father, "Ran Zheng and I fought together for many years, and finally died to save you. His only son, who is like the son-in-law of the Jin family, how could he be an undercover police officer?"

When Kong Tan heard this, he clenched his fists tightly, and the corners of his mouth were straightened.

Jin Chenyu stood up from the chair, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Of course, it is still necessary to be careful."

"What does the eldest son mean?" A hint of surprise flashed across Kong Tan's face.

Jin Chenyu leaned close to his ear, muttering something in a low voice, Kong Tan kept nodding, saying that he knew what to do.

Hearing this, my heart was already in turmoil, and my knees were trembling.

Looking down at Jin Yuanbao, I led him and ran back and forth, along the winding stairs all the way up, and let him lead the way when we reached the top, and hurried back.

"Teacher, what did you see? Why is that woman crying? I heard my brother's voice, was he there just now?" The young master asked me while running.

I pursed my lips, not knowing how to answer him.

It took more than ten minutes to go, but only a few minutes to come back.After returning the painting, I scanned the room and found no sign of anyone coming, so I was a little relieved.

Pulling Jin Yuanbao to sit on the chair, I squatted down and said seriously and solemnly: "Young master, your brother should have been teaching the servant a lesson just now, maybe...the other party did something wrong and made your brother angry. This You must never tell anyone about this, including your parents and Butler Feng, you know?"

He looked at me stupidly and asked, "Why?"

The strength of the grip on his arm intensified unconsciously, and he showed a painful expression, but I didn't let go.

"Because your brother will be angry. If he knows that you have led me into the secret path, he will drive me away, and I will never be able to teach you again."

He would drive me away to the sea to feed the fish.

The young master was a little scared when he heard this, and nodded hurriedly, expressing that he would never tell what happened today, and if he did, he would have no biscuits for the rest of his life.

After witnessing the murder scene, although I was scared, I was still able to think calmly, and I was able to communicate with Chen Qiao normally while sitting in the car.

But once I got back to the red building, I was left alone, the adrenaline wore off, and all the emotions rushed in.Ami’s blood-stained fingers, pale skin, and eyes that refused to rest in peace before her death, the scenes reappeared before my eyes.They twisted into a ball and rolled in my stomach, making me gag.

When Ran Qingzhuang came back, I had already vomited everything in my stomach and was curled up on the sofa with my knees in my arms in a daze.

"Why don't you turn on the light?"

The living room lit up, I raised my head, and when I saw him appearing in my field of vision, the words "saved" popped up in my mind somehow.

I looked at him and didn't speak for a long time.He walked towards me, threw his coat on the sofa, and said impatiently, "What's wrong with you?"

He is obviously a member of the Jin family and a member of this island, but I feel that he is different from everyone else for no reason.

"Ami is dead." Just now she vomited a little hard, but now she spoke with a particularly hoarse voice.

"Ami?" Ran Qingzhuang thought for a while, "The lucky girl in the casino?"

I nodded.

Lucky girl, but not lucky in the end, how ironic, how ridiculous.

I will truthfully tell Ran Qingzhuang what I saw and heard today, including Kong Tan's suspicion of him and Jin Chenyu's attitude at the end.

Maybe the amount of information was a bit too much, Ran Qingzhuang stood in front of me after hearing it, and there was no movement for a while.

I looked up at him quietly. He lowered his eyes and thought, lost in his own thoughts, until he felt that I was looking at him, he raised his eyes and said: "In addition to the gaming industry, the Jin family also makes money from money laundering, smuggling and contracting projects. The fall of Jiang Ruantang had a great impact on their business, which is why Ami was locked up. What you saw today is enough to kill you three times. If I were you, I would leave tomorrow."

In the past, when mentioning the Jin family and the Union Group, Ran Qingzhuang always said "we" to prove that he was a part of this organization, but today, he said "they".He separates himself from the Kim family, subconsciously believing that he doesn't belong to them.

Blessed to my heart, I suddenly thought of a possibility.

Kong Tan has always said that there is more than one mouse on the island, if his suspicions are not groundless, if Ran Qingzhuang's ideals have never changed...

Grabbing Ran Qingzhuang's hand, the cold palm touched his hot skin, I thought about it, and said hesitantly: "Are you, are you... also an internal agent?"

His muscles tensed instantly, and before I could react, he pinched my cheeks hard to prevent me from speaking again.

"You are not allowed to say such things again." Ran Qingzhuang raised my face, bent down, and said word by word in a terrifying tone, "I will not stop you from looking for death, don't implicate me."