I Have Decided to Go Look for My Real Father

Finding My Father - CH 012

Chapter 12 - She was thinking about how to tell him that he had a daughter her age. (1)

When Zhang Qiang slowly regained his consciousness, he discovered that he was hung up on the door frame. There were no ropes on him, just two benches.

He had no idea how Lin Xi was able to do it but both of his arms where stuck inside the benches. He could bend them, retract them, thrust them forward, or pull them backward. If he only tried to move them just a little, his back and shoulder was painful like his arms were about to be ripped off.

With his upper body controlled, he wasn’t able to run away.

Lin Xi walked in front of him.

Zhang Qiang started shouting immediately. “How dare you tie me up like this. I am going to kill you…”

Lin Xi looked at Zhang Qiang coldly and snickered, “I’m afraid you won’t get the chance to kill me.”

Lin Xi pulled out her cellphone and played a recording to him. The recording started when he was about to take advantage to him and stopped when she shouted out for help.

She purposefully stopped recording where she did as that was the most convincing part of it all.

“So what? Zhang Cui had given you to me. I can do whatever I want with you I please. Nobody could tell me otherwise!” Zhang Qiang wasn’t worried about it.

Lin Xi pursed her lips. “Nobody can tell you otherwise? Are you not familiar with the law at all? Let me tell you something. If I turn this recording in to the cops, they will execute you. Do you understand execution?”

Zhang Qiang’s eyes widened upon hearing that. “You, you are bluffing! You only get executed for murder. I was only going to r*pe you. I won’t be executed for that!”

“I see. You know nothing about contemporary law. So you don’t believe, right? Alright, let’s get down to the bottom of it.” Having said that, Lin Xi went over to the yard.

“Where the * are you going? Let go of me!”

Lin Xi ignored Zhang Qiang and kept on walking.

She had taken her suitcase outside earlier. She pulled out her literature textbook and walked back in front of Zhang Qiang. Pointing at the two characters that said “Literature”, she said to him, “Do you see this? Penal code.”

“Pe..penal code?” Zhang Qiang was taken aback. He was an uneducated person, but he had at least heard of the penal code.

“Why do you have that with you?”

“Oh, I also have with me the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China, Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Minors, Military Science and Technology, and Bio Science. Would you like to see them?” Lin Xi rolled her eyes as she said it.

Having said that, she pretended that she was flipping through it and stopped at a random page that didn’t have illustrations on it. She turned the page to Zhang Qiang, pointed at one of the exercises, and said to him, “Look. It said it right here. Any offender who forces a victim into unconsented s*xual relationship or had the intention of committing such act constitutes a crime. They will be sentenced to death or suspended for execution.”

“For, for real I’ll be sentenced to death?” Zhang Qiang was so worried that he started shuddering.

“I, I don’t believe it. You are lying…”

Lin Xi was bluffing him. She could tell from the fact that the couplets from who knew how many years ago that had all sort of cuss words written all over it by naughty kids that were still left on the door that Zhang Qiang was an illiterate who knew nothing about the law.

“Tsk. It’s printed on paper right here. Why do I need to lie to you?” Lin Xi paused and said, “I will take the recording to the police station first thing tomorrow morning. You just wait to be arrested.”

Lin Xi’s serious look and determined tone stunned Zhang Qiang.

“But, but nothing actually happened to you.”

“Didn’t you see what was written? The intention of committing such a crime counts as well.”

“I…” Zhang Qiangs’s legs started to shake and he began to grovel. “Girl, it was uncle’s fault, alright? I shouldn’t have such an awful idea. Uncle will change. Okay? Uncle will change, I promise. Please don’t report me to the police. I’ll give you good food and drinks in the future, alright?”

This place was backward and Zhang Qiang had never left the village or attended school. He was uneducated and it didn’t take much to intimidate him. All he wanted was to stay alive right now. Not that his life was all that, but it still beat being dead.

Lin Xi stared at Zhang Qiang for a little while, as though she was contemplating, and finally said, “Okay, I can not report you, but I am not going to stay at this awful place.”

“Sure, sure, sure. You don’t have to live here.” There was nothing that Zhang Qiang wanted more than for her to leave right now. He had expected her to be someone that he could push around and bully. She was way mightier than he had expected. In fact, she was like a disaster to him. He had no idea what it was that she had sprayed his eyes with and his face was still stinging right now.

“I’ll go look for my own place to stay,” said Lin Xi.

“Sure, sure.” Zhang Qiang would agree to whatever she says right now.

Seeing that Lin Xi had no more follow ups, Zhang Qiang asked tentatively, “Then… about that recording?”

“I am keeping the recording, just in case you want to retaliate me.”

“But…”

“What are you worrying about? It’s fine as long as I don’t say anything. But you can’t blame me if you have a big mouth and spread the words to others and the cops caught wind about it and came asking me for details.”

“No, no, of course not.” Why would he do that to himself?

“Can you let me go now?” He dared not move anymore. Any move would bring about great pain to him.

Lin Xi ignored Zhang Qiang and went back to the yard. She pulled some snacks out of her backpack and ate them. Looking at the recording in her cellphone, Lin Xi pondered over it a little and renamed it to “evidence”.

This evidence wasn’t only directed against Zhang Qiang; it was also against Zhang Cui and the others. If they objected to her leaving that family in the future, this recording would be the best evidence.