Yang Youtian thought carefully for a moment, then asked, "May I ask, Big Brother Jin, who is this Chen Zheng?"
"Little Brother Yang, even if you don't want to tell me, there's no need to toy with me like I'm a fool." Golden Cicada Zi deliberately looked hurt and shook his head. "I'm not asking for your clues for free. We can trade."
"No, why would you think I must know where this person called Chen Zheng is?" Yang Youtian was utterly baffled.
Golden Cicada Zi raised an eyebrow. "You and Ren Daniú are practically sharing a pair of pants. Wouldn't he have told you where Chen Zheng was?"
"We're not quite that close. We still wear separate pants." Looking perfectly sincere, Yang Youtian said, "I'm not human if I'm lying. I really have never heard of this Brother Chen Zheng. Say, what does his disappearance have to do with Ren Daniú?"
Golden Cicada Zi studied his expression and sighed. "Honestly, I've spent over twenty years thinking about it and still can't figure it out. Things were so critical that night. How could Ren Daniú have found the time to make Chen Zheng vanish off the face of the earth? If you say he killed him, Chen Zheng could revive. If you say he imprisoned him, what sort of place could hold Chen Zheng for over twenty years without a single scrap of news leaking out...? It's simply baffling."
"If it's baffling, just stop trying to figure it out," Yang Youtian advised kindly. "Anyway, Chen Zheng is only your brother's brother. There's a degree of separation there. You don't need to worry so much."
Seeing that he really seemed not to know Chen Zheng's whereabouts, Golden Cicada Zi changed the subject. "Fair point. Come, let's leave Chen Zheng aside and