Age of Legends

Chapter 136 Reincarnation
Liu Bingrong has a younger sister in his hometown in Huang County. There is a bluestone road in front of their house. Next to the bluestone road is a family surnamed Qiao. Grandma Qiao is the head of the family. There are three girls in the family. In order to have a grandson, they adopted a boy from a poor family in Shitou Village.

The boy's original name was He Yingqiang. Because his family was almost starving to death due to lack of food, he was adopted by Grandma Qiao and was named Qiao Yongqiang.

Liu Bingrong and his sister Liu Ying had been playmates with Qiao Yongqiang since childhood. It was he who first said to Liu Ying, "Your name is Liu Ying, and there is also a Ying in my name."

Liu Ying laughed and said, "You are lying. Your name is obviously Qiao Yongqiang."

Qiao Yongqiang said: "Qiao Yongqiang has never been my real name. My real name is He Yingqiang."

Liu Bingrong and Qiao Yongqiang wore slippers and took Liu Ying to the river under the bluestone slabs to dive and swim, playing and growing up together. Although the Qiao family did not discriminate against Qiao Yongqiang, he always felt that he was an outsider. He knew very well how he came to the Qiao family and how he changed his name. He always believed that he was not a member of the Qiao family, and his real name was still He Yingqiang.

The Qiao family was only slightly better than his real home in the village, but not rich. In those years, Qiao Yongqiang was always hungry. Later, he went to school, but because of poverty, he carried firewood to school and cooked his own meals. As a result, he was often looked down upon by his classmates, and Qiao Yongqiang felt very inferior.

After graduating from high school, Qiao Yongqiang worked odd jobs in the county town to make a living. At that time, Liu Ying had grown up and had always been in love with Qiao Yongqiang. However, the old man of the Liu family looked down on Qiao Yongqiang, thinking that he was just adopted by the Qiao family. Both of them knew that they would not be blessed, but Liu Ying was even willing to elope with Qiao Yongqiang.

Qiao Yongqiang has been living under the care of others since he was a child. From the time he grew up to the time he went to school, he was looked down upon because of his poverty, which caused his psychology to be distorted. Eloping with Liu Ying would not make him happy, so he vowed to make a name for himself, earn money, and return to marry Liu Ying in glory.

That year, Qiao Yongqiang took 50 yuan and listened to the introduction of a middleman. A boss in Henan had found a new mine and was recruiting miners with generous salaries. Qiao Yongqiang boarded a train to Henan and then entered the mine through the introduction of a fellow villager.

He originally thought that with the agreed salary, he could earn enough money in two years that many people in his hometown could never earn in their entire lives, and then go back and marry Liu Ying in style.

But he never expected that Qiao Yongqiang inside was precisely a "piglet" in the eyes of a criminal gang.

When Qiao Yongqiang was going down to the mine, he was suddenly knocked to the ground by a pickaxe thrown by his fellow villager. Blood splattered all over the place and he fainted immediately.

This is the method used by this gang. After finding a new mine and scouting the area, they will look for farmers working in some poor areas as "piglets", send them to the coal mine, and then find a way to kill the people when they enter the mine, disguising it as a landslide or a fall. Then the "fellow villagers" will work together with their family members to find the coal mine owner and demand compensation. In order to keep the peace and avoid any deaths that would lead to the mine being investigated and closed down, the coal mine owner can only pay compensation.

This gang often moves from one place to another after each strike, from looking for new mines to looking for piglets. It is a complete process and they commit crimes in a gang.

It was just a small gang, but they found Qiao Yongqiang.

Qiao Yongqiang was lucky. When the other party saw that he was covered in blood, they thought he had been knocked to death and planned to lift him up and throw him into the mine. At this time, Qiao Yongqiang woke up and realized what happened. When the other party was dragging him, he touched a hammer in the mine. He had endured poverty, oppression, discrimination, deception, and humiliation here, but he had endured it all. He just waited to make money and go back to marry Liu Ying. At this moment, reason was overwhelmed by madness, and he smashed the fellow villager to death with a hammer.

Then he sneaked out and beat the four accomplices who were waiting outside to death one by one.

Finally escaped from the coal mine.

Then he spent a few years being frightened whenever he heard a police car, living and eating under an overpass and picking up scraps for a living. Until one day he heard that everything was normal at the coal mine, and it was as if what happened had never happened.

Qiao Yongqiang ran back to Huang County like crazy and learned that Liu Ying, who couldn't wait for him, had already married and had children, and was living a stable life.

After that, Qiao Yongqiang seemed to have completely transformed. He came to Rongcheng. Many people didn't understand why he was so cruel and didn't follow the rules of the underworld. They didn't understand why he would fight with others at every turn. And no one knew his real name. Everyone called him Boss Xiong. Until one time when Boss Xiong finished his business with his brothers and was on his way to a restaurant, a Passat stopped and the people inside got out.

Liu Bingrong looked at his childhood playmate, his sister Liu Ying, whom he could never forget but now seemed like a different person, and called out his name.

"He Yingqiang!"

……

He Yingqiang met Liu Bingrong again, but this time, they were no longer the little kids running around on the small cobblestone road in Huang County.

One is the current executive deputy director of Rongcheng TV Station, and the other is a gangster who has killed several people but no one knows his past or even his real name.

He Yingqiang actually knew Liu Bingrong a long time ago. He was smart since he was a child, and later he was admitted to university. He was also a golden phoenix that flew out of Huang County, and he is still a celebrity in Huang County. It is actually risky for He Yingqiang to work in Rongcheng, but he has also thought about how he will meet Liu Bingrong and his sister again one day, and what they will be like then.

Things have changed and people have changed.

After learning that He Yingqiang was the now famous Boss Xiong in Rong, Liu Bingrong and He Yingqiang had a meal alone in a private room.

The two middle-aged men at this time no longer looked like the teenagers who had played and frolicked by the stream in the small county town.

Instead, Liu Bingrong was asking him to do something.

That is to sneak into Chen Xuran's house, find where Chen Xuran is hiding, and most likely collect evidence of his personal problems.

After escaping from the coal mine, He Yingqiang did everything, including fraud, theft, and robbery. So he was not unfamiliar with theft. How could He Yingqiang stand by and watch the brother of the person he loved so much and his childhood playmate die without helping him?

He Yingqiang spent several days figuring out Chen Xuran's comings and goings patterns, and learned some of Chen Xuran's mission plans from Liu Bingrong. He then found a time when she was not at home as usual, and came to the corner of the wall where it was easiest to climb over the compound. The most troublesome headlight was too bright, and he was worried that he would be seen if he climbed over the wall again, so he smashed the light bulb with a stone and then climbed over the wall.

He Yingqiang opened the door with his skilled lock-picking skills, and then began to search Chen Xuran's home one by one.

But he never expected that Chen Xuran was physically tired today, or was worried about something, and wanted to check the evidence she had collected to make sure it was safe, so she went home to rest early.

After opening the door and entering the house, Chen Xuran didn't notice anything at first. She took a glass of water and walked straight to her bedroom. In a blink of an eye, she seemed to notice that there was an extra figure in the bedroom.

Then her eyes gradually opened wider.

She saw clearly who was coming. It was He Yingqiang, who had pried open her drawer and taken out the folder containing Liu Bingrong's evidence, and was holding a sharp knife.

(End of this chapter)