"Come on!" The old man put his hands in his hands, waiting to be handcuffed, "I'll just go with you! After so many years, I thought you wouldn't come!"
"What are you..." The young man named Xiao Ming realized something and hurriedly looked at Zhao Yu and Ding Lan in surprise and asked, "They... are they police officers? Dad, what happened?"
"It doesn't matter, it happened in the past!" the old man said to Xiao Ming, "Just take care of the supermarket these days when I'm not here. If I don't come back, the supermarket will be yours!"
"Go back... can't come back..." Xiao Ming was stunned, "No... no way? Is there any misunderstanding here?"
"If there is any misunderstanding, you will know as soon as you tell me!" Zhao Yu pointed to the supermarket door and said to Xiao Ming, "If you want to know, then close the door!"
Zhao Yu's meaning was obvious. He wanted the old man to explain the matter now.
"This..." The old man was slightly surprised, but he still waved his hand to Xiao Ming.
Xiao Ming immediately went to the door and put up a closed sign.
"Mr. Zhang," Zhao Yu turned to the old man and said, "We have been looking for it for a long time. I am impatient to know the truth, so you can tell it here!"
"Alas!" The old man sighed heavily.
"Mr. Zhang..." Xiao Ming was surprised again, "You... your surname is Zhang?"
"Yes! That's right, my surname is indeed Zhang!" The old man gestured to the stool next to the counter, then leaned on the counter with his elbows and said with difficulty, "I know... why you two are here!
"Magic City... is my home! My home is in Magic City..."
Originally, Zhao Yu wanted to send the young man away, but considering that there was no need to keep the case secret, he still let him stay where he was.
Afterwards, Zhao Yu and Ding Lan sat on the stools, waiting for the answer to be revealed.
However, the old man's first words surprised the two of them.
"My real name is Zhang Xingkui, and my brother is Zhang Haoren. Because of the homophony, everyone calls him Zhang Haoren..."
Holy shit!
Zhao Yu and Ding Lan exchanged glances. They thought the old man in front of them was Zhang Haoren, but unexpectedly, he turned out to be Zhang Haoren's younger brother Zhang Xingkui.
"My brother is three years older than me. He opened a financial company in the center of Shanghai. After I graduated, he called me to help.
“The company’s business was very busy and we both couldn’t handle it, so I called three more of my classmates over.
"This safe belongs to our company!" The old man pointed to the photo, "But I have never seen my brother open it!
"I... um..."
At this point, the old man actually didn't know how to continue his narration.
Zhao Yu often dealt with unsolved cases, and he understood that the reason why the old man couldn't go on was because he was about to get to the point.
So, Zhao Yu gave him a hint at the beginning: "You didn't see the safe opened, but you know what's in the safe, right?"
Hearing Zhao Yu's question, the old man shuddered first, then nodded with relief and said:
"Yes, I... I found out later! Originally, before we ran away, my brother wanted to open the safe, but I don't know whether it was the wrong password or something wrong with the safe, but he couldn't open it. !
"At that time, the police could find us at any time, and we couldn't carry the safe out of the building, so... so we had to go to the basement and hide it!"
I strangled...
Zhao Yu sighed in his heart. Unexpectedly, Cui Lizhu's guess came true. The reason why his arm was left in the safe was actually because they couldn't open it!
"Then what's in the safe?" Zhao Yu asked again.
"My brother said..." The old man swallowed dryly and said, "He cut off the man's hand and put it in the safe!"
"That person..." Zhao Yu caught the important word and asked, "Which person?"
"It's that vicious woman..." At this point, the old man's face twitched and he said excitedly, "When we started to escape, my brother told me everything!
"At first, I just thought that we were simply committing economic crimes. When the news passed, we could go home and live our previous lives, but... I didn't expect that the matter would be so serious... "
"Who is that vicious lady?" Zhao Yu reminded, "Let's start with this vicious woman!"
"Well..." the old man adjusted his thoughts and said, "When I opened a financial company in Shanghai, my brother made a girlfriend. Well... how should I put it
"They seem to be classmates in junior high school, and we are from Xianzhou! At that time, Xianzhou was still a rural area, and most of our children would choose to go to the magic city to develop after graduation...
"Then, my brother met this female classmate, and the two of them got along very quickly..."
"What's the name of the female classmate?" Zhao Yu asked, "What kind of job do you do?"
"Her name is Youran, I don't know what her surname is," the old man said. "She works as a nanny for a rich family in Fuxing Community on Wen'an Road!"
nanny…
Zhao Yu nodded secretly, and all the clues finally came together.
"The evil woman I'm talking about is the mistress of that house!" The old man suddenly clenched his fists and said with great excitement, "That evil woman had a priceless watch. One day... the watch was lost, and she Just frame it... frame my brother's girlfriend, saying that the watch was stolen by her, and she must pay compensation...
"Later, they called the police and took Youran to the police station. The situation was very serious...
"The most vicious thing is that they also informed Youran's family, making everyone in Youran's family aware of it..."
"No way!" Ding Lan couldn't help but question, "Without evidence, how can you frame someone like this?"
"The evidence is," the old man said angrily, "the evil woman's child, her son said, saw with his own eyes that the watch was taken away by the nanny! That's very certain...
"So, the police will also be biased towards their family..."
"Then... what happened next?" Zhao Yu seemed to have understood the whole story and asked immediately, "How was this matter resolved?"
"How can we solve it..." the old man said regretfully, "The evil woman's family is rich, she said she would hire a lawyer to litigate the case, and threatened to put Youran in jail...
"Youran is a thin-skinned girl. Coupled with the rumors and pointing fingers from her hometown, she was so overwhelmed that she jumped off the building and committed suicide!!!"
At this point, the old man had tears in his eyes and his body was shaking.
"Ah?" Zhao Yu frowned and asked, "Where did she jump from?"
"Hometown, a hospital in Xianzhou," the old man said. "Under the heavy pressure, Youran's mental problems began to appear, so her family admitted her to the hospital. Unexpectedly, she jumped off the building before the examination was completed. Already…”
"You... where is your brother?" Ding Lan asked, "Why doesn't your brother accompany her?"
"My brother... Sigh..." the old man said regretfully, "Our family has a bad reputation, and they haven't dared to disclose their relationship to the family yet!
"So after what happened, my brother couldn't get close to Youran at all...
"When my brother heard about Youran's death, alas..." As a teardrop fell, the old man finally couldn't control it and burst into tears...
(End of chapter)