"Wait a moment."
Shen Liannuo waved her hand, "Take the three of them to the dog house in the backyard first."
A few brothers looked at her in confusion, "Don't you need to interrogate them?"
"No, leave them alive for now. Then you take the other brothers to the hospital and deal with the bodies that need to be handled." Shen Liannuo instructed Chen Tie.
The brothers who stayed at Xishan Residence today had fought alongside Qing Muye, and while they could fight one against a hundred, they were all skilled.
Chen Tie would arrange the aftermath even if Shen Liannuo didn't explicitly tell him to.
"If we're taking the injured brothers to the hospital, who will guard Xishan Residence?" A brother scratched his head, looking uneasy.
Shen Liannuo's eyes narrowed, and her unfathomable gaze swept over the three people kneeling on the ground. She said calmly and confidently, "After the fierce battle just now, they shouldn't come back."
"But..."
Chen Tie and the others wanted to say more, but Shen Liannuo raised her hand to interrupt, "There's no 'but'. Hurry up and go."
With that, she walked past them and straight into the grand hall of the Xishan Residence villa.
In the courtyard, many brothers followed Shen Liannuo's orders and began handling the aftermath, while Shen Liannuo ascended the steps to the second floor.
The eastern end of the second floor was Madam Qing's room, but Shen Liannuo headed towards the western side of the second floor.
She walked unhurriedly along the second-floor corridor and stopped at the door of the third room on the west side.
Standing at the door, Shen Liannuo looked at the half-ajar door and the faint bloodstains on the white floor. Her brow furrowed slightly, and after a few seconds of hesitation, she pushed the door open.
Beep, beep, beep—
In the bedroom, the medical equipment placed by the bedside was still beeping. An IV bag hung on the bed, its drip tube dangling. The fluid in the bag dripped from the needle tip, drop by drop, onto the floor, forming a puddle.
Seeing this scene, Shen Liannuo didn't show much surprise. Instead, she calmly took out her phone and dialed Lu Yanming.
After the phone rang twice, the other party answered, "What is it?"
Lu Yanming asked.
He had just left Xishan Residence, and Shen Liannuo's call made him a little worried.
"Ma Ke was also taken away," Shen Liannuo said.
"He was taken away too?" Lu Yanming's slightly furrowed brow tightened into the character 'Chuan' upon hearing Shen Liannuo's news. "Tang Nian has really gone mad. He wants to kidnap all of Meng Jingwei's relatives. Don't worry, I'm about to contact Qing Kangyu. After all, Madam Qing and Qiao Ziqian are his old mother and son respectively, and Qing Kangyu will certainly not stand idly by."
"What about Ma Ke?"
Shen Liannuo was worried about Ma Ke. "He is, after all, an innocent person."
As early as yesterday, they had discovered suspicious people lurking outside Qin Xin Ju. Although Qin Xin Ju had increased its security, Shen Liannuo and Meng Jingwei still wanted to test the true intentions of those people. So, they chose a bodyguard from Qin Xin Ju who resembled Meng Tianhua and had Shen Liannuo apply makeup to make him look exactly like Meng Tianhua, then sent him out to test the waters.
Considering that the other party was likely Tang Nian's people, Tang Nian was familiar with everyone except Du Juan and Meng Tianhua. And since the bodyguards were all men and there were no women, they could only disguise themselves as Meng Tianhua.
Of course, their true intention was to find a legitimate excuse to engage Tang Nian in a head-on confrontation.
Otherwise, Tang Nian might take covert action and disrupt the upcoming auction of Zhuo Rui Technology.