Honest Beta gets scammed

Upon hearing the sound, Li Qing snapped out of his daze and pushed the person beneath him away.

He scrambled to his feet, taking three large steps back to create distance between himself and He Xiangchen.

He Xiangchen was pushed hard by him, and his hands braced on the cement ground. He was not angry. He got up from the ground and patted the dirt off his clothes.

He looked up at the elderly couple on the steps, and his face immediately put on a gentle and polite smile.

"Hello, uncles and aunts, I'm He Xiangchen, Li Qing's..."

"Former colleague!"

Li Qing immediately shouted it out at the top of his lungs.

His scalp tingled as he stared at He Xiangchen.

"He was my former colleague; we used to work at the same place."

When he was at Shengxin, he was a waiter, and He Xiangchen often went there too, so it's about right...

Upon hearing this, He Xiangchen's smile faded slightly, and he glanced at Li Qing.

A few seconds later, He Xiangchen looked away and nodded to Li's parents.

"……Um."

Mr. and Mrs. Li exchanged a strange glance.

Li's father put down his hoe and looked He Xiangchen up and down.

colleague?

The clothes this person was wearing looked expensive, and the watch on his wrist gleamed under the light in the main room, making him look like a wealthy person.

Feeling something was amiss, but since his son had already said so, Mr. Li couldn't say much in front of him. He simply turned his head and looked at the gate of the courtyard.

The door was bolted from the inside, perfectly fine.

In that case, wouldn't He Xiangchen have climbed over the wall to get in?

"Then, this is..."

Feeling the look in Li's father's eyes, He Xiangchen seemed a little embarrassed and cleared his throat.

"Ah, well... it's mainly because it's too late, and I was afraid that knocking on the door would wake up my aunt and uncle, so..."

So you used a VPN to get in?

That's very polite.

Li Qing, who was listening nearby, felt her scalp tingle with apprehension. She was afraid that He Xiangchen would say something else, so she quickly stepped forward and squeezed in between to try and cover it up.

"Oh dear, Dad, Mom, he's such a joker! His timing couldn't be better. You two should go back to sleep! I'll tell him what's on my mind!"

Li Qing was never good at lying, and his demeanor clearly told his parents: there was a big problem here.

However, since their son had said so, they couldn't press him any further.

Li's father looked at He Xiangchen suspiciously for a few moments, then slammed the hoe on the ground and said nothing more.

Li's mother hesitated for a moment before giving a word of advice.

"Then...then please keep your voices down, don't disturb the neighbors."

After saying that, the elderly couple went back to their room, looking back every few steps.

In an instant, only Li Qing and He Xiangchen remained in the courtyard.

Silence returned to the surroundings, broken only by the occasional croaking of frogs from the distant fields.

Seeing that there was no sound from her parents' room, Li Qing's smile vanished.

He turned his head, glared at He Xiangchen, and lowered his voice, but his anger was no less.

"What are you doing here?! What do you want?! Do you know that this is trespassing?!"

He Xiangchen looked at Li Qing's wary face, his thin lips pressed together, and his brows furrowed, as if he was suppressing his emotions.

However, as soon as he opened his mouth, his voice still betrayed his grievances and accusations.

"You came to this remote, impoverished place without a word, and then blocked and deleted me. Do you know how long I've been looking for you?"

"Did I send you to this remote, desolate place? I didn't tell you to come looking for me! Why did you come looking for me? Sneaking into someone's house in the middle of the night, I'm being lenient by not calling the police!"

Seeing the aggrieved look on He Xiangchen's face, Li Qing became even more furious.

What's with this guy acting all aggrieved? Even now, he's still acting! Still pretending!

From the moment she got home, Li Qing tried her best to mentally prepare herself whenever she had a moment to herself.

Forget it, just consider it a bite from a dog. It's not like it's going to bite back, is it? I don't have the strength or the energy for that.

Ultimately, if we set aside emotions, his trip to the capital wasn't too bad.

Regardless of He Xiangchen's purpose in approaching him, he did indeed benefit from it.

That night, when he was doing the accounting, he was shocked to see that his bank card on his phone had nearly a million yuan.

He worked hard for so many years, saving every penny to accumulate 200,000 yuan, but after wandering around the capital for less than a year, he earned far more money than he had in the past ten years.

Sometimes, people should be a little more materialistic and focus more on money; it might make them feel better.

Li Qing relied on this self-deceptive mentality to convince himself.

He felt that if he could stay away from that place and that person for a month, he might be able to get through this hurdle.

But alas! He Xiangchen is like a persistent ghost!

He had already fled back to his hometown, yet this person still managed to catch up with him!

The peace of mind and patience that Li Qing had painstakingly cultivated throughout the day crumbled the moment he saw He Xiangchen.

He was both scared and angry when He Xiangchen put on a victim's act and turned the tables on him.

When he was hitting people in the dark, he had the intention of taking the opportunity to punch them a few times to vent his anger.

But at the last moment, he still didn't dare to go all out. After all, He Xiangchen had already gotten close to his doorstep, and who knew what this madman might do next.

There are two elderly people in the family who are nearly sixty years old. If we really anger them, we will be the ones who suffer.

The principle of yielding to the happy.

He Xiangchen's gaze was fixed on Li Qing. He noticed that Li Qing subconsciously stood in the doorway of the main room, glancing towards his parents' room from time to time.

Upon hearing the word "call the police," their anger froze, and they felt a chill in their hearts, their voices filled with disbelief.

"...What kind of expression is that?"

"I came here specifically to see you... In your eyes, what would I do to your parents? Is that how you see me?"

Having his worries exposed by a single sentence, Li Qing stopped pretending.

He stiffened his neck, wanting to yell at He Xiangchen, but not wanting to make too much of a fuss, so he could only suppress his anger.

"Otherwise what? If you were a normal person, you wouldn't sneak into my house and climb over the wall in the middle of the night!"

"I don't understand why you insist on finding me. I've already told you I won't do anything, I won't cause you trouble, and I certainly won't retaliate against you! I've already run back to my hometown, doesn't that prove I didn't have those thoughts? Are you just going to keep harping on me?"

"...You think I followed you here to cause trouble?"

He Xiangchen's lips trembled slightly.

Li Qing didn't speak, but her eyes clearly conveyed that meaning.

He Xiangchen suddenly felt short of breath.

The villagers' houses in Licun are scattered and there is no discernible pattern to their distribution.

Although the village road has been paved with cement, it is winding and has many branches. When he arrived by plane, he didn't know the location and could only ask passersby one by one.

The elderly people there spoke in their local dialect, which he couldn't understand at all, making communication extremely difficult.

After a day and a night without sleep or food, we finally found this place.

The results of it?

He didn't get a sip of water or a hot meal; Li Qing only questioned and guarded him, and even threatened to call the police to arrest him!