When the yard was in chaos, two policemen came in at the door.
"What happened? Who called the police?!"
The second aunt-in-law was chased by the mute and ran to the outside. She was the first to grab the policeman.
"Comrade police, help me, comrade police."
The two policemen who came in were both young men who had just been transferred from other places. Knowing that the locals were not easy to mess with, the police were quite restrained when they came to the door. One of them pointed at the mute and said, "Uncle, put your things down first."
The mute looked at Aunt Qiao, who waved her hand and said, "Put it down."
Only then did the mute put down the chain.
"Tell me, what's going on?"
Zheng Qiuxia was not stupid. When the police came in, she knew that they must be the police reported by Bai Yunlian. She hurriedly said, "Police comrade, I am from Wancheng. This is my niece, she is already 18 years old. At such a young age, she was bewitched by someone, stole my money, and ran away to hide here."
The policeman's tone changed, "How much did she steal from you?"
"More than 1,200."
"Is there any evidence?"
"She admitted it to me herself on the phone!"
The police looked at Ye Zhao and asked, "Did you steal her money?"
Ye Zhao shook his head: "No."
"You lied. My entire passbook is gone."
The policeman felt something was wrong, so he asked, "Comrade, did you lose your passbook or your money?"
"Isn't it all the same? The passbook was lost. There was more than 1,200 yuan in it. She took the passbook away."
Ye Zhao explained: "I didn't take your passbook. Your passbook is still in your room, on top of the wardrobe."
When Zheng Qiuxia heard that the passbook she had been looking for was on top of her closet, she immediately became angry, "I knew you were a coward with evil intentions! You did it on purpose!"
When the police started mediating, they found out that it was a family conflict. He lectured Ye Zhao and said to Zheng Qiuxia, "Call back and ask someone to check if the passbook is still there. If it's not there, you can go to the bank to get a new one." Zheng Qiuxia was not stupid. She had already got a new passbook. This was just an excuse.
She only needs to take Ye Zhao away from Shenzhen City, and Bai Yunlian will take care of the work of Ye Xiaozhen and her siblings in the future if she agrees.
In the past few years, Bai Yunlian had not been very enthusiastic about Zheng Qiuxia. It was rare for her to take the initiative to lower her status. Zheng Qiuxia must take advantage of this good sister-in-law relationship. How could she not behave well
Bai Yunlian had discussed it with her before coming, and she was mentally prepared to give it a go!
"No, police comrade, Ye Zhao ran away alone, and she also kidnapped my little daughter."
The passbook issue is still a family conflict, but kidnapping is no small matter, it is a criminal offense!
“Who was kidnapped?”
"My little daughter!"
"What's your name? How old are you? Tell me the details."
"Ye Xiaoqin, 9 years old..."
Another policeman handed Zheng Qiuxia a pen and paper, "You can write, right? Write here."
“Yes, yes, yes.” Zheng Qiuxia took the paper and pen and wrote down Xiaoqin’s name. “Ye Zhao kidnapped her cousin. She threatened me on the phone, saying that she was jealous of her sister and wanted to sell her. I don’t know if she has sold her, police comrade!”
Zheng Qiuxia spouted off a bunch of made-up lies.
Ye Zhao looked at her coldly. There were billions of humans on the earth, which was really too many. There were all kinds of strange people. She had encountered different kinds of strange people before.
Maybe God created this weird thing to show the diversity of human beings.
The police looked at Ye Zhao. The girl in front of them was pretty and attractive. It was said that she looked like a beautiful girl. She didn't look like someone who could kidnap her relatives.
But the police officer still asked, "Did you abduct and sell your cousin Ye Xiaoqin?"
"What are you trafficking?!" Aunt Qiao shouted, "Ye Xiaoqin lives in our house. We treat her like a treasure and serve her well. When she came, her face was sallow and her hair was yellow. I have raised her like a little princess now."
"Ye Xiaoqin is upstairs?"
"Taking a nap."
"Who are you to her?"
"I'm the landlord, and the two sisters are tenants." Aunt Qiao looked at the young policeman helplessly. This place is changing too fast now, and there is a lot of staff turnover. The police are transferred every few days, and the new ones don't recognize her anymore.
The police asked Ye Zhao: "Why didn't you take Ye Xiaoqin away without your uncle and aunt's consent?"
Ye Zhao: "It wasn't me who wanted to take my cousin away from home. She insisted on following us."
"This is called kidnapping! Who knows what evil intentions you have. Police comrade, Ye Zhao is over 18 years old. Should we arrest him and interrogate him?"
Upon hearing this, Ye Dingquan hurriedly pulled Zheng Qiuxia, but Zheng Qiuxia shook him off and said, "Either you come back to Wancheng with me, or you go to the police station. You choose one!"
Ye Zhao smiled coldly: "Second mother, is this something you have the final say? She is blackmailing me, uncle policeman."
Aunt Qiao: "Comrade police officer, Ye Xiaoqin is upstairs, you can go upstairs and ask."
The police went upstairs to question her. Ye Xiaoqin said that she was going to run away from home with her sister. The second aunt insisted that Xiaoqin was deceived. The police had to take all the parties involved to the police station for questioning.
Everything was fine at first, but two hours later, Ye Zhao found that the tone and atmosphere of the police interrogating her had changed.
Later she found out that Xiaoqin had changed her confession, saying that her sister had secretly abducted her and that Ye Zhao wanted to sell her.
I don't know what kind of pressure Xiaoqin went through in just two hours, but her change of testimony was like a pot of hot oil poured on Ye Zhao's head. No wonder the original owner had such a hard time surviving, none of her relatives were good people at heart.
The old one is an old bastard, and the young one is a young bastard.
The police asked her if she wanted to notify her family. Ye Zhao didn't want to notify Ye Dingguo. Who knows what his attitude would be.
Ye Zhao shook his head, his tone cold: "I have no family."
The policeman was a wise man. “Think carefully about it. Do you have any witnesses who can testify for you?”
"I have an uncle who should be able to testify."
"tell me the story."
"After my sister and I arrived in Shenzhen, I asked a friend of my father to help find a school for Ye Xiaoqin."
"You are a little girl, and you just came to Shenzhen and asked someone to find a school for Ye Xiaoqin?" The policeman was very surprised. This girl was very unusual.
"Yes, Uncle Su Yingmin helped me find a place for me to study at Zengwuwei Primary School. I can go and submit my application in a few days."
Although it is not direct evidence, it can also be used as auxiliary evidence to prove that not only did she not want to sell Ye Xiaoqin, but she was also trying to arrange a school for her.
The police sighed: "Even if you have no motive or action to sell Ye Xiaoqin, it will still be troublesome if they accuse you of kidnapping instead of trafficking."
Ye Zhao clasped her fingers and asked, "Uncle police, if it is proven that I abducted Ye Xiaoqin, what will happen to me? Will I be sent to labor camp?"
The police officer was reluctant to say more: "I still suggest you notify your parents. I heard from your second uncle that your father is in Shenzhen."
Ye Zhao was firm: "No need to notify him."
"You're still pretty stubborn. Think about it again. Is there any other more direct witnesses?"
Ye Zhao remembered, "Perhaps the conductor and the conductor of Train T392 can testify for me."
Ye Zhao recounted in detail how he met Ye Xiaoqin on the train.
"You mean, Ye Xiaoqin followed someone else onto the train, and then you saw her on the train being checked by the conductor, right?"
"Yes, I only realized Ye Xiaoqin was on the train when we were almost in Shacheng. I had no choice but to send her back but she didn't want to go. I even asked the conductor if Ye Xiaoqin could enter Shenzhen without a border pass."
The police handed her a pen and paper and asked her to write down the details.
"Also write down the fact that your uncle helped me find a school."
It was a very simple matter and the chain of evidence was also clear. The witnesses on the train had not been contacted yet and Su Yingmin was not in Shenzhen. Ye Zhao stayed in the police station until the next day, when the train conductor contacted her. In the end, due to insufficient evidence, no case was filed and she was released.
She stayed in the interrogation room of the police station for a whole night and slept on the table for less than two hours. When she came out of the police station, she felt groggy.
The sun was so bright outside that she couldn't open her eyes.
When she first came out, she was still a little confused about the directions. It was only when she looked up and saw the National Bank Building standing in the distance that she knew which direction to go.
Beep… Beep…
Hearing the sound of a motorcycle horn behind him, Ye Zhao turned around and found Zeng Xiang driving a motorcycle towards him from under the tree.
"My mother asked me to wait for you."
Ye Zhao's nose felt sore, "Why are you so nice?"
There are still many good people in this world, such as Aunt Qiao, Xiangzi, and those people in the courtyard of Xiaoxi Building. They met by chance, but they were able to treat her sincerely.
Sometimes she is easily contented. After being severely hit, she will be revived again with a sweet treat.
Zeng Xiang handed over a helmet, but Ye Zhao was still a little dazed and didn't take it.
He put it on her directly and helped her adjust the cassette.
Ye Zhao stared at Zeng Xiang, not showing any sign of tiredness, but he hadn't changed his clothes. She asked, "Have you been waiting here all night?"
"I've been boxing all night at the gym, and I can't sleep. Get in the car."
Ye Zhao looked around again. Second Mother and Xiaoqin had left last night and no one knew where they went.
She thought about it all night yesterday. How could her second uncle and second aunt, who had just come to this city and were unfamiliar with the place, find Xiaoxilou so accurately
There must be someone helping.
Although Ye Dingguo didn't love his daughter very much, he wasn't cruel enough to send her to jail.
Only Bai Yunlian has this motivation and ability.
Ye Zhao had previously left the landlord's phone number with Uncle Su. Bai Yunlian must have found a way to get the phone number from Su Yingmin, and then found Xiaoxilou based on the address registered with the phone number.
Bai Yunlian, this green tea girl, is hiding behind the scenes and doing bad things!
"What are you thinking about? Get in the car." Zeng Xiang reminded again.
Ye Zhao got on the motorcycle, she was extremely sleepy.
"Can I help you?"
Zeng Xiang was obviously stunned for a moment, not knowing whether to refuse or agree, as he had no experience in this area.
As a result, a pair of slender hands gently rested on his shoulders, and then Ye Zhao sighed. She squinted her eyes and looked depressed.
"Don't fall asleep," he warned.
"Yeah. No. I can't sleep."
In just a few minutes, they returned home. Before they entered the yard, Aunt Qiao heard the sound of a motorcycle and shouted from the balcony upstairs: "Don't come in yet! Don't come in yet! Fatty! Fatty Ying! Hurry up."
Hearing the sound, Fatty Ying took out a brazier, which was filled with pine and cypress leaves and some dry grass.
Lighting the grass in the brazier, Fatty Ying chanted: "Take a big step forward, good luck! Everything goes smoothly, and bad luck stays away!"
Aunt Qiao had already come down from upstairs. She stood inside and said, "Take a big step and cross over."
Ye Zhao took a big step forward, and Fatty Ying smiled and said, "You are lucky. After you pass this hurdle, you will be the top scorer in the college entrance examination next year."
Several other tenants came out to join in the fun, and one of them said, "Your sister looks honest, but who would have thought she would even cheat her sister."
Someone touched her and told her to stop talking.
"Did I say anything wrong?"
Aunt Qiao glared at the gossiper and he instantly fell silent.
Aunt Qiao and the mute were guarding the police station last night. The police promised to release Ye Zhao as soon as they could contact the witness in the morning, so she returned with peace of mind.
"Go upstairs and take a shower first. I'll make you breakfast, and then you can have a good sleep."
"Thank you, Aunt Qiao."
Ye Zhao took a shower and had breakfast, but did not sleep. She sat on the small balcony in the room in a daze, and the more she thought about it, the more uncomfortable she felt.
The system cautiously probed: "Do you want to fight back?"
System: "Should. But..."
"but what?"
"Don't get distracted. You have more important tasks to complete."
Ye Zhao retorted impatiently: "Shut up, you don't need to remind me."
The system shut up obediently.
Ye Zhao bit her lip and got up to go out. She happened to meet Zeng Xiang who was returning to his room after taking a shower. She asked, "You were outside the police station last night. Did you see my second uncle and the others?"
Zeng Xiang was wiping his hair with a towel in his hand. He stared at her and asked, "You want to find them?"
Yes, Ye Zhao guessed that they would take the train back to Wancheng this afternoon at the earliest. Once they left, she would have no chance.
"Did you see it?" she asked.
Zeng Xiang returned to his room, threw the towel on the back of the chair, picked up the motorcycle key, and said, "Let's go."
An hour later, Ye Zhao came to the Irene Toy Factory alone. Old Li from the security room saw her and hurried out to greet her.
"Hey, you're here?"
After the last incident, it took Mr. Li a day to find out that the arrogant girl was actually the boss's daughter.
Looking at Lao Li's expression, Ye Zhao guessed that he already knew her identity.
She asked, "Is my dad here?"
"Yes! Yes!" Lao Li pointed to the office building, "Meeting on the third floor!"
"Uncle Li, my friend Zeng Xiang will come to see me later. Please show him the way."
"Zeng Xiang, huh? Okay, okay, no problem."
"Thanks."
It was working hours at the factory and the surroundings were very quiet. Ye Zhao walked to the front of the office building and went straight up the stairs to the second floor. She happened to meet a staff member running down from upstairs. She stared at Ye Zhao and recognized her.
The man quickly turned back, and soon Secretary Liu came out to greet him.
"Xiao Zhao, are you here to see Mr. Su? Mr. Su is in a meeting. Do you want to go to his office and wait?"
"I'm looking for my dad."
"The boss is in a meeting too."
"Is Bai Yunlian here?"
Secretary Liu had sensed the signs of an impending bloody storm when she heard someone calling her by her real name. She was stunned for a moment, then immediately said, "Sister Bai is here too. She's having a financial meeting upstairs."
Bai Yunlian works in the finance department. Of course, she is not the actual finance boss. Her main task is to help Ye Dingguo monitor the financial work. Everyone acquiesces that she is a hurdle in the finance department. Many financial expenditures require her signature before the money can be remitted.
Secretary Liu saw that she couldn't stop Ye Zhao, so she didn't dare to really stop him and went upstairs first.
When Ye Zhao arrived at the door of the conference room on the third floor, the door was already open. Inside, eight or nine heads of various departments were sitting around a conference table made of several old tables, holding a financial meeting. The table was covered with paper documents.
Ye Dingguo glanced at Ye Zhao standing at the door, and his head suddenly felt heavy. "At this time, why are you here instead of going to class?"
"Do you still care whether I go to class or not?"
"How come I don't care about you? You didn't contact me when something happened. Your uncle Su and I just rushed to the police station, but you were gone."
Su Yingmin had already stood up and walked over to pull Ye Zhao away, but he didn't expect the father and daughter to be at loggerheads in front of so many people.
"Xiao Zhao, uncle knows you've been wronged. Calm down and wait for us in my office, okay? We'll be there soon."
At this time, Bai Yunlian was sitting opposite Ye Dingguo. She closed her notebook and looked unhappy. She didn't expect that Zheng Qiuxia was so unreliable and had no way to deal with Ye Zhao.
Ye Zhao glanced at Bai Yunlian, then looked at her father, "Don't you care who harmed your daughter? Who caused your daughter to almost go to labor camp?"
Ye Dingguo: "Your uncle and aunt didn't mean it. The child just talked nonsense. They have already beaten Xiaoqin."
"What's the point of beating Ye Xiaoqin?"
"what do you want?!"
The executives in the conference room were all very embarrassed. Should they leave? There were important financial documents on the table and they had to stay as long as the documents were there. If they didn't leave, they would be afraid of being hated by the boss later because they had to eat the big melon at his boss's house. They were really in a dilemma.
"What do I want? I want to know how my uncle and aunt found where I live right after they got off the train? How did they know where I live? Do you know where I live? My father."
Ye Dingguo asked someone to check where Ye Zhao lived, so of course he knew.
He was not stupid. There were not many people who had the ability and the will to check where Ye Zhao lived. He glanced at Bai Yunlian, but he was still unwilling to think in a bad way. He had been with Bai Yunlian for so many years, and he was confident that Bai Yunlian would not do such a stupid thing.
When Bai Yunlian saw Ye Zhao rushing directly into the conference room, she seemed calm on the surface, but in fact her heart was already in turmoil. Would Zheng Qiuxia sell her out
Ye Dingguo ordered Su Yingmin: "Old Su, take her away quickly."
"If I don't leave, no one here should leave either."
She wants an audience to perform on stage.
The audience who were put on the stage didn't dare to make a sound.
Su Yingmin is a very smart man. He knows that Ye Zhao is coming for Bai Yunlian. This is an opportunity to kick Bai Yunlian out of the company.
In the Irene Toy Factory, on the surface, Su Yingmin seems to be the only one in power, but in fact, Bai Yunlian and her relatives have placed people in every link of the factory. Su Yingmin is extremely disgusted with this kind of complicated nepotism.
Ye Dingguo has always condoned the spread of nepotism in the factory, which makes Su Yingmin suspect that Ye Dingguo did this intentionally in order to check and balance him.
Ye Dingguo is the founder and the big boss. Although Su Yingmin is the second largest shareholder, he only holds less than 5% of the shares. The company gave him a big title - general manager, but he is still restricted in doing things and can hardly achieve much.
"Xiao Zhao, if you have any ideas, please tell us. Uncle Su supports you."
"Thank you, Uncle Su. On Wednesday night, my second mother Zheng Qiuxia received a long-distance call. Someone invited her and my second uncle to come to Shenzhen to play..."
Ye Zhao walked behind Bai Yunlian, and Bai Yunlian closed her eyes.
Ye Zhao continued, "They said they were inviting them to come and play, but in fact they were asking them to find a way to bring me back to Wancheng. The person who made this call was my father's... lover... or girlfriend..."
Bai Yunlian hastily explained: "I am inviting my second brother and his wife to visit Shenzhen..."
"So where did you take them to play?"
"Didn't they just arrive yesterday?"
"Yes, they just arrived yesterday. Why did you buy them return train tickets for this afternoon? When do you plan to take them out to play?"
"They have something urgent to do and need to go home. What can I do?"
Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Do you think I'm a fool? Oh, you think my father is a fool. You said this not to make me believe you, but to make my father believe you."
Bai Yunlian trembled with anger, "I'm not as despicable as you think."
What a peerless white lotus!
"You want me to go back to Wancheng? Fine. Why don't you just talk to me directly? You've been beating around the bush and invited my second uncle and second aunt to come all the way here, hoping to use them to take me back! You let others do the bad things, but you're still innocent and won't do despicable things. In my dad's eyes, you're the best white lotus in the world. Bai Yunlian, you really picked a good name."
"I say it again, I didn't! Don't tell me that you and your second uncle and second mother are teaming up to bully me? Don't you just want me to not marry your father? Your second mother is in cahoots with you, how could I... Old Ye, you know that the second sister-in-law has been secretly ostracizing me, how could I possibly conspire with the second sister-in-law! Am I just handing a knife to someone else to stab myself?"
Bai Yunlian is not very smart. Apart from being good at putting on a mask and pretending to be hypocritical, she is also clear-headed.
"Of course you're not that stupid. You figured out my second mother's mind and promised to help her children find jobs in the future. The condition is that you have to drive me out of Shencheng no matter what means you use."
"You are the only one making this up. What evidence do you have? Are you going to ask your stepmother to testify? She was the one who nursed you, she is closer to you than your own mother. Can her words count?"
"Do you think my second mother is so stupid that you can manipulate her?"
"What do you mean?"
"As soon as my second uncle and his family arrived in Shenzhen yesterday, you asked your brother-in-law to drive to the train station to pick them up, and then drove them directly to this intersection. Do you dare to say that this was not arranged by you? Your brother-in-law also works in the factory, right? He drove the factory car."
Bai Yunlian hesitated for a moment. She didn't know where Ye Zhao's evidence came from, so she didn't dare to refute it immediately.
Su Yingmin whispered to Secretary Liu, "Go and investigate Yuan Hongkang's use of the car yesterday, and then call Yuan Hongkang over."
As the person in charge of personnel, Bai Yunping, who had been sitting next to him without saying anything, knew that the use of the car could not be concealed. She said to Ye Zhao, "My Lao Yuan was a relative and went to pick up your second uncle out of kindness. Once he got in the car, Lao Yuan was only responsible for driving the guest to wherever he wanted to go. Why did it become different when it came to you?"
Ye Zhao sneered and asked back: "Who is your relative?!"
"You!" Bai Yunping was so angry that she was speechless. She looked at her sister, and her sister looked at Ye Dingguo.
Ye Dingguo just stroked his forehead and said nothing. How could we rely on him at this time
Ye Zhao: "I haven't contacted my second uncle's family since I came to Shenzhen. They don't even know where I live."
Bai Yunlian: "I was the one who told them where you lived. They specifically asked me, how could I not tell them? Xiaoqin was taken away by you, and they came to pick up their daughter."
"Didn't you say you invited them to Shenzhen City to play? How did it become that my second uncle and second aunt came to pick up Xiaoqin?"
Perfect logic!
The executives who were forced to stay at the conference table and watch the show exchanged cautious glances with each other.
"Is this a contradiction? It's not contradictory, right? I invited them to come and play, why did they want to come? It's because they wanted to find a chance to take Xiaoqin back home. As parents, we are anxious." Bai Yunlian felt guilty and her excuses seemed extremely pale.
"If my second mother and the others were really anxious, they wouldn't have waited until now to pick me up."
"Whether you are really anxious or just pretending to be anxious, I don't care."
As they were arguing, Secretary Liu came in with someone, who should be Yuan Hongkang. Secretary Liu whispered something to Su Yingmin and then left.
Su Yingmin asked the person who came in: "You drove the factory car to the train station to pick up Ye Dingquan and his wife yesterday, right?"
Yuan Hongkang glanced at his wife, who didn't know how to wink at him, so she just shook her head. He didn't seem to understand, thinking that Bai Yunping asked him not to admit it, so he quickly denied it: "No."
Bai Yunlian closed her eyes helplessly. What the sisters had just admitted, Yuan Hongkang, the pig, directly denied. Anyone could tell that the Bai family was lying.
Ye Dingguo had a stern face and said nothing. The people on the stage felt very uneasy. They all understood that this was the story of the boss's daughter beating up the boss's mistress.
At the moment, it seems that the boss' mistress is a little inferior to others in skills.
Bai Yunping was anxious: "Didn't my sister ask you to pick up the boss's second brother and second sister-in-law?"
"Yes, yes, yes." Yuan Hongkang quickly changed his mind, "I didn't know that my second brother's name was Ye Dingquan."
Ye Zhao stared at Yuan Hongkang: "I heard from the police that it was you who called the police?"
How could the police tell her who called the police? In fact, even the police didn’t know who called the police.
But Yuan Hongkang was deceived by Ye Zhao and thought the police had already found out. He hurriedly explained: "I saw that a fight was about to break out in the house, so I went to a newsstand and called the police."
"You're lying. The fight in the yard hadn't even started yet, and the police came." Ye Zhao said word by word, "It only means that after you sent my second uncle and second mother to the Little West Building, you turned around and called the police. Otherwise, the police wouldn't have come so quickly. You had planned to call the police a long time ago."
Bai Yunlian: "Don't spit blood at me."
"When did I spit blood on you?" Ye Zhao walked behind Bai Yunlian and whispered in her ear, "You forced an eight or nine-year-old child to give false testimony. Are you still a human being?"
"It wasn't me who forced the child to give false testimony, it was your second mother!"
"Didn't you just say that my second mother and I conspired to harm you? How come it's my second mother who wants to harm me now?"
Haha! That's some great logic!
Bai Yunlian's palms were sweaty. She had been secretly observing Ye Dingguo's expression. Apart from his initial opposition, Ye Dingguo just watched his daughter making a fuss here. She was anxious and angry: "Please don't drag those messes in your family into my hands, okay? Xiao Zhao, I know you have a big misunderstanding of me. If you don't want me to marry your father, then I won't marry you, okay?"
"Shut up!" Ye Zhao was fed up with listening to it. "My dad loves to watch sad dramas, but I don't. Don't perform them in front of me."
Bai Yunlian: “…”
As he was speaking, a figure appeared at the door. It was Zeng Xiang. He stood there against the light, like an envoy sent from heaven.
Ye Zhao looked at Zeng Xiang, smiled, and then said to Bai Yunlian: "Don't you love acting? Then let's all enjoy your performance! Come on!"
Seeing Bai Yunlian's face gradually turn pale, Ye Zhao reminded her kindly: "You called the police for me yesterday, and I will call them for you today too."
(End of this chapter)