Old Commander Han's birthday feast was held in a big hotel owned by his old comrade-in-arms.
When Han Yue arrived at the hotel, it was almost time for the dinner party to start. Not many outsiders were invited to the birthday party this time, and most of the people who came were old friends who had a good relationship with the Han family. Han Yue should have come to greet the guests earlier, but he came later than most of them. The commander's wife was not very happy about this, and her face was pale when she saw Han Yue.
Old Commander Han asked, "What's wrong with you, you look so ugly?"
"...It's nothing," Han Yue wiped his face vigorously, his voice was hoarse after staying up all night, "I'll go to the door to entertain you."
At this time, the guests were almost all here, and there were only a few last few people at the door who were greeting each other. Seeing Er Shao Han come out, they all crowded around and greeted with smiles. Han Yue dealt with it lightly, his eyes darting back and forth at the gate of the parking lot.
Suddenly, his eyes paused, and then he narrowed his eyes slightly. If you observe carefully, you can see that his teeth were clenched suddenly, which instantly made his expression a little strange.
At the gate of the parking lot, Chu Ci put one hand in the pocket of the windbreaker, striding across the road.
When he first heard that Chu Cihui was coming to the birthday banquet, Han Yue lived every day like a year, wishing he could jump to the day of the birthday banquet in the blink of an eye. After touching the shocking truth yesterday, Han Yue felt that if he saw Chu Ci face to face, he might not be able to control himself for a while, and strangled him to death in his arms in broad daylight.
However, the moment he actually saw Chu Ci, he felt very peaceful in his heart, even a little bit empty.
He stretched out his hand to Chu Ci, Chu Ci froze for a moment, as if he wanted to bypass him and enter the hotel gate. But seeing that in full view, it was not easy to be so obvious, so he reached out and shook hands with Han Yue hastily.
Who knew that Han Yue had a smile on his face, but the strength of his handshake was extremely strong. As soon as Chu Ci touched his hand, he suddenly felt pain, and his expression changed suddenly.
Before he could make a sound, Han Yue pulled his whole body into his arms and hugged him tightly.
This hug seems to be very normal, but the strength is almost enough to wring the ribs of the person alive. Only between life and death enemies can there be such a fierce hug, Chu Ci immediately couldn't help but whispered "ah".
"I've been waiting for you," Han Yue whispered close to Chu Ci's ear, "I've been waiting for a long time."
Chu Ci struggled to break free from him: "What nerves do you have!"
Han Yue seemed to smile a little, but didn't seem to have any expression on his face, just stared at Chu Ci straight like that, until he withdrew and strode into the door.
"What are you looking at?" Gao Liangqing patted Han Yue from behind, "Come here quickly, I asked two people to invite Pei Zhi alone."
Han Yue turned his head and smiled, and said, "Okay."
Gao Liangqing saw his expression, and was suddenly taken aback: "Hey, what's the matter? Who messed with you?"
"how?"
"Your face makes me feel chills... It's like someone owes you eight million..."
"Thousands and eight million?" Han Yue sneered lightly, "-what is a thousand and eight million!"
Gao Liangqing was taken aback by the horrific sternness in his tone, but then Han Yue bypassed him and strode towards the hotel.
"...It's a happy day, what are you doing so murderously..." Gao Liangqing shook his head and muttered, and took a few steps to catch up, and at the same time called someone to bring Pei Zhi over.
To be honest, Gao Liangqing didn't believe that Pei Zhi killed Han Qiang. After all, the Pei family and the Han family were friends for two generations. One of the sponsors of this investigation into Han Qiang's murder was Pei Zhi's uncle. He was insane. Only then will Han Qiang's life be wanted.
However, from Han Yue's series of performances, he can also analyze that Pei Zhi has some important connections with Han Qiang's killing. Even after Han Qiang was killed, he tried to take away important clues immediately Carole.
This shows that he must know something, and he doesn't want these clues to be discovered. He may know who the murderer of Han Qiang is, at least he knows who is likely to commit the crime and who is the major suspect.
What's even more suspicious is that Pei Zhi, who was also under house arrest by Long Jiwei, looks much better than A Ling, and his spirit is quite good, almost no different from when he disappeared. It seems that he was only on a business trip abroad during this period, and traveled at public expense once, so he spent a little more time.
But thinking about it, he hadn't heard from him for so long, but no one in the Pei family thought he was missing. Presumably during the time he was under house arrest, Long Jiwei must have allowed him to communicate with his family.
Sitting in the tea room, Pei Zhi even smiled when he saw Han Yue and Gao Liangqing coming in, and said hello relaxedly: "Hi, long time no see!"
Han Yue stared at him coldly, waved his hand suddenly after a while, and said to Gao Liangqing, "Please go out first."
Gao Liangqing hesitated for a while: "You..."
"I'll talk to Pei Zhi alone."
Gao Liangqing glanced at Pei Zhi again, and the latter gave him a very gentle expression. In the end, Gao Liangqing spread his hands helplessly, turned around and walked out of the tea room, and closed the door thoughtfully.
"I came here today because I knew you wanted to find me." When there were only the two of them left in the small room, Pei Zhi said calmly, "I knew this when A Ling ran away from Long Jiwei." Things finally couldn't be hidden."
The muscles of Han Yue's whole body seemed to stiffen for a moment, and when he spoke again, his voice was very dry: "... You already knew that the teacher who was killed by Han Qiang was Chu Ci's adoptive mother, but you deliberately concealed this matter, right? You already knew Knowing that Chu Ci will kill Han Qiang one day to take revenge, but you have been watching with cold eyes, haven't you?!"
"I didn't know about it a long time ago. I knew it was about a year ago." Pei Zhi said calmly, "When you commissioned me to investigate Chu Ci's family relationship, I really only found out that his parents died early. University work-study program; after all, Li Weili had been transferred at that time, and they were not the biological mother and child, and the adoption relationship was not indicated on the household registration book. Besides, the person belongs to you and has nothing to do with me. Why should I pay so much attention to the investigation? Do you have to take care of the trivial things that can't be hit by the pole?"
"...Then why didn't you tell me when you found out about it later?!"
"Because you have always taken pleasure in torturing him." Pei Zhi said coldly, "About a year ago when you returned to Beijing on vacation, you sent him to the hospital three times in just one week. In the end, he developed an acute gastric ulcer due to emotional depression. It was the doctor I drove him to see. At that time, I was really surprised. You have been away from Beijing for a long time, and he has hands and feet. Why didn’t you escape while you were away? Because of this question, I deliberately re-investigated his situation. file, and finally discovered the relationship between him and that teacher. I didn’t dare to tell you when I found out that you had already tossed him half to death. If you found out that he stayed by your side for a purpose, wouldn’t you Want to eat him alive? So I kept it a secret, didn't tell anyone, just kept paying attention to whether he would really do anything to Han Qiang."
Han Yue stared at Pei Zhi without blinking, nodded repeatedly but couldn't say a word, and after a while he gasped and said, "Okay, okay... So in the end, he really did something to Han Qiang..."
"Do you feel very angry?" Pei Zhi smiled, the smile was very short, and there was no smile at all: "Actually, I was also very angry. When I first met Chu Ci, he was gentle and kind. , an engineer who treats people politely, speaks in a low voice, and has a three-point smile on his face when he sees everyone. But that Chu Ci has now become a murderer, and was forced by your Han family to have bloody hands. He has been suppressed in the abyss all his life. How did he become like this? He went to school in Beijing, found a job after school, and was planning to reunite with his family to share the family relationship. Take away all his family members and destroy his life?"
Han Yue wanted to refute Pei Zhi, but found that his throat was so congested that he couldn't say anything.
"When Han Qiang killed his adoptive mother and younger brother, the Han family bribed the relationship and forcibly cremated the victim the next day. The ashes were thrown into the cemetery. Han Qiang later went to court, and your mother asked Zhao Ting to retract the confession in court. , and asked your buddy Gao Liangqing to tamper with the evidence and forcefully changed Han Qiang's drunken driving to Li Weili's mother and son crossing the road and running a red light. In the hotel land in the urban area, Gao Liangqing has been promoted to three levels in a row, and the whole of Beijing is not as fast as he is!——Han Yue, please tell me, is this what your family does? It’s not as good as an animal!"
Pei Zhi paused, took a deep breath and suppressed the trembling in his tone: "Without the Han family, without you, Chu Ci would be a million times happier than he is now. His life is all controlled by your family, or it is all It was destroyed by you. Han Yue, I also tried to stop him from taking revenge. I even wanted to beg him to settle down and live a peaceful life, but I failed. When I realized that he had killed When Han Qiang was killed, the only thing I could do was to do my best to help him destroy the evidence, and then send him to a corner abroad where you can't find him. I couldn't do it and expose him, because I and your family People are different, but at least I am still a human being, and I don’t want to be reduced to the level of a beast!”
In the end, his voice became louder and louder, and the ending was even a little shrill.
There was no blood on Han Yue's face, as if he was in a world of ice and snow. For a moment, he even lost his breath and couldn't even feel his heartbeat.
Pei Zhi stared at him closely, subconsciously grasping the armrest of the seat with one hand, trembling slightly.
As if it had been a long time, like a whole century, Han Yue asked in a hoarse but unusually calm voice: "—Pei Zhi, you have done so many things for Chu Ci, and you even did not hesitate to cover up his crime of murder. Can you tell me the truth about what the real reason is?"
Pei Zhi let go of the armrest abruptly, and sat down deep in the seat.
He looked up at the dust slowly floating in the air, and after a while he said, "I..."
It was completely different from the anger and reprimand just now, it seemed that something was stuck in his throat, and after he only said one word, he couldn't make any more sounds.
Han Yue asked slowly but firmly, "Do you like him?"
"..." Pei Zhi took a breath and said in a low voice, "Yes, I like him."
Han Yue laughed, the indescribable coldness of that smile made people feel a chill run down their spines just by looking at it.
He said, "—a pity."
At the same time outside the door, Gao Liangqing straightened up from the crack of the door with a livid face, turned around and walked out in a hurry.
One of his subordinates was coming in from the hall to look for him: "Vice President Gao! Where did Second Young Master Han go? The guest list for the banquet..."
Gao Liangqing interrupted him: "Where is Commander Han?"
That subordinate was taken aback: "Oh, in the small reception room of the hotel..."
Gao Liangqing pushed him away, and hurriedly strode towards the reception room.