GBP Chapter 204 Confession
Chapter 204 Confession
The simple and direct answer left Li Xiaonuan stunned. She felt inexplicably moved. At the same time, she resolved not to let Zhou Liufeng go. After all, she shouldn't drag Zhou Liufeng into this mess. Zhou Liufeng was the only heir of Granny Yu's lineage.
“Brother Liu Fei, please don’t go to the capital. I will come back safely, I promise you. When I return, we will get married right away. Of course, if you don’t mind, that’s fine too. If you get married before I come back, that’s okay as well. I’ve always thought about remaining single.” Li Xiaonuan said.
Zhou Liufeng looked into Li Xiaonuan's eyes and said, "I'm going because you're the wife I'm going to marry. So, even if I can only stay by your side, I'm going to the capital with you. My aunt knows about this, and she agrees to let me go with you."
Li Xiaonuan felt somewhat helpless. Since even Grandma Yu had agreed, there was no need for her to persuade her any further.
"Brother Liu Fei, can you tell me about your worries? The worries you've been keeping hidden?" Li Xiaonuan suddenly asked.
Zhou Liufeng looked ahead in anguish, and after a long while, he turned to look at Li Xiaonuan and said, "I only told you this because you will be my wife. Actually, this matter is a disgrace to me for life. At that time, I wished I could kill all the women in the world."
Li Xiaonuan met Zhou Liufei's gaze and encouraged him to continue, "Brother Liufei, you won't meet someone like that again, believe me."
Zhou Liufeng concealed his grief and said in a trembling voice, "That story begins the year I was looking for my mother. When I went to my maternal grandparents' house, they told me that my mother had stolen money from the house and run away. But that's not the truth. In fact, they sold my mother to a passing merchant as a concubine."
Zhou Liufeng, who overheard this, was furious. He returned to the village and asked the clan chief to report it to the authorities, hoping to bring his mother back. In the end, the merchant was found, and he admitted to buying her. However, Zhou Liufeng's mother was too strong-willed, and the merchant resold her.
Because the person being sold was a passing child, the authorities couldn't find him immediately. Later, Zhou Liufeng's maternal grandparents went to the yamen to drop the case, saying they would no longer look for him, and only then did the authorities put the matter aside.
At that time, Xiao Zhou Liufei hated his maternal grandparents' family intensely. He went to their door to make a scene, demanding that they compensate his mother. After several such incidents, his maternal grandparents grew tired of it. They stopped trying to appease him and even came up with all sorts of chilling methods to drive him away.
However, Zhou Liufeng had a stubborn streak; he continued to cause trouble at his maternal grandparents' house regardless of the weather, making it impossible for them to live a normal life. Taking advantage of this, his gambling-addicted uncle suggested sending someone to abduct young Zhou Liufeng.
And so, the still immature young Zhou Liufei was lured away in the middle of the night. At the time, he was carrying all of his family's belongings. But as soon as he left the city with that kind-looking aunt, he was drugged and thrown onto a carriage whose destination was unknown.
When Zhou Liufeng woke up, he was only wearing his underwear. He was curled up in a corner of a small street, surrounded by a group of unruly children. Some threw stones at him, some spat on him, and some urinated on him.
Later, Xiao Zhou Liufei was taken in by a lewd old beggar and taken to a dilapidated temple. At first, the old beggar treated Xiao Zhou Liufei fairly well. But one night, the old beggar's lust was unleashed, and he assaulted Xiao Zhou Liufei.
Xiao Zhou Liufei struggled desperately, and in his panic, he hit the old beggar on the head with a brick, thus managing to escape. Later, on his way back home after begging, Xiao Zhou Liufei encountered a caravan escorting goods northward.
The head镖师 (bodyguard/escort) of that caravan had also been a beggar in his youth, so he took Zhou Liufeng as his apprentice. After learning about Zhou Liufeng's situation, the head镖师 promised to help him find his mother. However, the condition was that young Zhou Liufeng had to accompany the head镖师 on his escort missions for five years.
From then on, Zhou Liufei spent his days learning the skills of a镖师 (bodyguard/escort). Until three years ago, when they passed through Yiyang County, they encountered Zhou Liufei's mother in a hidden kiln. At that time, Zhou Liufei couldn't believe that the person in front of him was really his mother.
To rescue his mother, Zhou Liufeng lingered near the kiln every day. He even made an agreement with the kiln owner to ransom her. Unfortunately, his mother refused. She wouldn't acknowledge him and wouldn't see him.
Later, a prostitute who had a personal grudge against Zhou Liufeng's mother came up with a vicious plan. She bribed the waiter at Zhou Liufeng's inn to drug Zhou Liufeng and then sent Zhou Liufeng's mother to her room.
Fortunately, Zhou Liufei had a master who always watched over him, which prevented a tragedy. However, after regaining his senses, Liufei's mother still hanged herself. By the time Zhou Liufei found her, she was already cold.
Therefore, Zhou Liufeng broke into the kiln and strangled the prostitute to death on the bed. The prostitute was entertaining a customer at the time and was strangled to death naked by Zhou Liufeng. But the matter did not truly end there.
After Zhou Liufeng's master settled the matter privately, he led the entire caravan on their journey. Six months later, Zhou Liufeng encountered a woman being harassed by thugs on the road and rescued her.
This was just the beginning of Zhou Liufeng's nightmare. The woman did everything she could to please Zhou Liufeng, making him fall in love with her. But behind Zhou Liufeng's back, the woman also seduced many people in the escort team, becoming their bedmates.
Later, the woman got Zhou Liufeng drunk, creating the illusion that they had consummated their marriage, and then pinned her pregnancy on him. Only after she had obtained all of Zhou Liufeng's savings did the woman turn her back on him and throw herself into the arms of another bodyguard.
Having given his heart to someone for the first time, Zhou Liufeng didn't die of depression during that period. But after what happened to his mother, Zhou Liufeng became more cautious in everything he did. He began to secretly observe the woman's movements and discovered that she had affairs with many people in the escort agency.
The most ridiculous thing is that the woman was in cahoots with those thugs. The child in her womb didn't belong to any of the镖局 (镖局 is a type of security escort service). She was just a tool used by those thugs to swindle money.
Zhou Liufeng was furious when he learned the truth. He felt that his already wounded heart had been brutally trampled and humiliated. The sense of shame at that moment drove him to the brink of madness.
Single-handedly, Zhou Liufeng wiped out the den of villains. He also found several corpses of passing merchants who had been murdered by them. The incident shocked the local government, and Zhou Liufeng was arrested.
After the case was solved, Zhou Liufeng was exonerated and released without charge. However, from then on, a grudge lingered in Zhou Liufeng's heart. He felt a strong aversion and disgust towards women.
“Brother Liu Fei, you just happened to run into those two bad women. Actually, there are very few women like that in this world. You met them before, but you won’t meet them again in the future,” Li Xiaonuan concluded.
Zhou Liufeng smiled at Li Xiaonuan and said, "I know, and I believe what you say. Because I've seen your good qualities."
Li Xiaonuan smiled and then asked in confusion, "Brother Liu Fei, you're back, but what about your master?"
Zhou Liufei looked ahead with melancholy and replied softly, "My master passed away the year before last."
Upon hearing this, Li Xiaonuan fell silent and quietly stayed by Zhou Liufei's side.