"… "
silence.
There was a dead silence.
“…Okay, I’ll buy it.”
After a while, Qian Chenghe calmed down, spoke with difficulty, struggled to straighten his upper body, half-knelt and took out a bank card from his pocket: "There should be more than 500,000 yuan in this card. The password is six sixes. It was not issued with my ID card. You can withdraw it without worry."
After he finished speaking in a low voice, he slowly put the bank card on the ground. Then he stopped looking at Xia Xu and the others. As if he was dying, he slowly and dully gathered up the fragments of the Guanyin statue on the ground. He ignored the bloodstains on his hands.
"So generous?"
Xia Xu bent down, picked up the bank card, and asked.
Qian Chenghe did not respond immediately. He was silent for a while, and then he spoke in a low voice: "You can find out the things that happened more than ten years ago so clearly. You must be coming for me. Anyway, I probably won't be able to use it in this lifetime."
"You're not stupid. Even though I guessed a little wrong, the result is the same."
Xia Xu took out the notebook and pen from before, and wrote on them while saying, "It's a pity that if you want to use this method to reduce your guilt, it's useless. Don't you think you're deceiving yourself? If you had known this would happen, why did you do it in the first place?"
"Have you ever tried drowning? People who are sinking in water will desperately grab at even a straw."
The dull conversation between the two ended in silence.
After a while, Xia Xu also finished writing and handed over a newly written transaction contract: "I prefer legal transactions. Do you mind signing it again?"
Qian Chenghe did not refuse. He signed his name on it and pressed a fingerprint with the blood on his hand.
However, he did not return the notebook to Xia Xu. Instead, he tore off the page of the newly signed transaction contract and put it into the inner pocket of his shirt, pressed it against his body, and then wrote another copy of it exactly as it was and handed it to Xia Xu.
Xia Xu put away the notebook. Seeing that Qian Chenghe had no intention of running away, he walked to Xia Xue first, handed over the box of Angong Niuhuang Pills that he had originally used to stimulate Qian Chenghe, and said with a smile: "Here, this is a thank you gift from last time. In addition, I apologize for what I said just now."
"This is… "
Xia Xue was a little overwhelmed.
Just now she was really angry because Xia Xu spoke for the liar, especially since this person was someone she had helped before. The feeling of indignation and injustice was simply indescribable.
But Xia Xu's subsequent behavior just now made her realize that things were not what she thought. At least Xia Xu was not really on the side of the old liar.
Lin Zhengping took the initiative to help explain: "Girl, this Angong Niuhuang Pill is very effective in treating unconscious patients. You said before that your grandfather had a cerebral hemorrhage and was admitted to the hospital. This medicine may be effective."
"This... I'll pay for it."
Xia Xue felt that it was not nice to accept something like this, but her grandfather's illness was obviously more important, so she hesitated for only a fraction of a second before taking the box and holding it tightly to her chest.
"Don't worry about the money. This medicine is very cheap, just a few hundred yuan. I just received hundreds of thousands of yuan. I don't need these few hundred yuan. Instead, the favors and apologies I owe make me feel worse."
Xia Xu winked at Lin Zhengping to signal him not to expose him. He had already mastered the means of dealing with this situation on Little White Flower. After finding an excuse, he directly diverted attention: "The condition cannot be delayed. You should send it to your grandfather as soon as possible and ask the doctor if it can be used first."
After hearing this, Xia Xue could no longer stand still and ran away in a hurry in worry and anxiety.
After dealing with Xia Xue, Lin Zhengping couldn't wait to come up again, looking at Xia Xu eagerly.
"Old man, I can't do this for free. This is a small business, and you don't look like someone who needs this little money."
Xia Xu laughed and teased.
Lin Zhengping's title is a bit scary. As the president of the Xingcheng Antiques Association, he is definitely not someone who is short of money.
What's more, the price of Angong Niuhuang Pills is not that outrageous. There has not been any demonized hype caused by some special event on Aquamarine Star. The actual transaction price of Angong Niuhuang Pills is only tens of thousands of yuan based on the year and quality. The market price of this kind of paper box is more than 10,000 yuan at most.
Without much effort, Lin Zhengping asked Xia Xu for five pills without hesitation, and insisted on keeping his promise and buying them at the price of 30,000 yuan each.
"I'm sorry, boss. I was wrong. I shouldn't have doubted you. It almost ruined everything."
Seeing that Xia Xu had finished talking with Lin Zhengping, Yang Bowen hesitated for a while, then walked over with a look of shame and embarrassment on his face.
Seeing the middle-aged man being so shy, Xia Xu said with a smile: "Why, you're not going to resign?"
"No, no, sorry boss, I was stupid and made a mistake. There won't be a next time."
Yang Bowen denied it repeatedly in embarrassment.
It is true that a small part of the reason why he said he wanted to resign was because of Xia Xu's profit-seeking attitude at the time, but the more important reason was that this was inconsistent with his original intention of changing careers.
Although he became a "detective" with the idea of finding his own strengths and advantages, he wanted his son to be proud of him more.
The so-called detective industry in China already has the connotation of a gray industry. If one follows a boss who is only interested in profit and eventually becomes unscrupulous or even tainted with crime, then it goes against his original intention.
In fact, even if he really got a loophole later and even hit Qian Chenghe, and realized that Xia Xu was just pretending to be nice, he still made the same decision, because no matter what, saying those words to make money is essentially profit-seeking.
But after learning about the effects of Angong Niuhuang Pills, he realized that he had misunderstood his boss, and he was then filled with deep fear and palpitations.
The boss tried every possible means to buy the Guanyin statue, even at the cost of ten times the price, after the little girl told him that her grandfather had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage due to being defrauded.
Judging from the boss's expression after buying the Buddha statue and his familiarity with the old fraudster's experience, he obviously knew in advance that Angong Niuhuang Pills were hidden inside.
Considering the effect of Angong Niuhuang Wan, it is not difficult to understand that the boss is not profit-driven as he mistakenly believed, but bought the Buddha statue at any price in order to save Xia Xue's grandfather.
Even more boldly, since the boss is well-informed and knows the whereabouts of the old man on the construction site, maybe he also knows something about the situation at Mr. Lin's home? Is there also the factor that Mr. Lin's wife had a stroke
The president of the Antiques Association is a celebrity, so if one really wants to get intelligence, this kind of public information is easy to get. And their boss happens to run a "consulting" company, so it's not impossible for him to know this.
After realizing all this, all that was left in his heart was fear.
If the boss had not stopped him and stepped in to calm the old fraudster, and allowed him to drive him away or send him to the police station, I'm afraid these two lives would have been lost.
The fraudulent old man had just set up his stall when the little girl came to his door. She also learned that he almost killed someone's grandfather. He must have run away overnight after leaving, so it would be difficult to find him later.
As for sending him to the police station, given the old man's crimes, he will definitely never be released. Even if the items on his stall are not confiscated as physical evidence, they will never get their hands on them. Even if they can get them through some channel, it is unknown how long it will take. How can a man who has suffered a stroke or a cerebral hemorrhage stand the wait
He noticed that no matter whether he was buying a Buddha statue or not, the boss always emphasized "legality" and required a contract to be signed.
This shows that the boss had no intention of letting the fraudulent old man go from the beginning. He was definitely going to send him to the police station. He probably went to such great lengths to buy the Buddha statue and sign the transaction contract in preparation for this.
After all, if the transaction was not done properly in advance, the Buddha statue might be counted as stolen evidence when the fraudulent old man was taken to the police station. At the very least, it was the old man's own asset and it was impossible to give it to them.