Zhang Hongmei sighed, "Five hundred yuan, in addition to being compensation for finding the stones, was also hush money."
"Hush money?"
Wang Xiaolong and Wen Yue both looked puzzled.
It was just a few stones.
It wasn't even a secret, so why the need for silence?
Zhang Hongmei explained, "At that time, when Wang Luqi asked me not to tell anyone about this, I was also puzzled.
Faced with my questions, Wang Luqi was initially evasive, and later on, he told lies that not even a three-year-old child would believe.
Seeing him act that way only made me more suspicious. Our help was out of good will and also for making money.
But if his intentions were malevolent, wouldn't we be complicit in his wrongdoing? Thus, I pushed the money back and decided not to help him."
But just as I was about to leave, Mr. Bai stopped me. He said that the colored stones he needed were to set up a Formation next to Wang Luqi's mother's grave.
