The summer of 1997, in everyone's memory, should be a summer with scorching heat during the day but cool breezes at night.
Shanhai City is located in the plateau area in the southwest of the mainland. The county records state that "it was a county in the Qin Dynasty and flourished in the Han Dynasty." As the ancients said in their travel notes, "it is hidden among hundreds of thousands of mountains, and there are dozens of large and small lakes, so it is called the country of mountains and seas."
Shanhai City belongs to the tropical plateau monsoon climate zone, and with the dozen lakes around it that serve as the lungs of climate regulation, it is warm in winter and cool in summer, with abundant rainfall and sufficient sunshine. The name of the city is very appropriate. Therefore, it was selected into the first batch of national tourist cities.
This year, the city was in a period of confusion, with new things gradually sprouting here with the times, while the traces of the old past still remained. With the reputation of a tourist city and the establishment of the international five-star hotel Fuxing Hotel, many opportunities were also emerging. The overall strategy of the entire Shanhai City was to take advantage of the tourism city's momentum, vigorously develop tourism resources, and create a green cultural corridor. Although not as busy as in later generations, it was still as bright as spring.
The streets smelled of dust, the popular game in the arcade was the King of Fighters, and the walls of the barbershops were mostly covered with posters of Hong Kong and Taiwan stars. In this era when a house in Shanhai City cost only 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, the topics of conversation between people were basically about their own lives, not cars and houses in the future...
The "June 2nd Kidnapping and Murder Case", which is considered one of the 20 major cases in the southwest, unexpectedly encountered this defenseless city where the weather is warm like spring all year round.
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After quarreling with Xie Houming, Xie Feibai watched football at his friend's house all night. When he woke up, he found himself lying on the sofa. There were still many empty beer bottles on the table. He had a splitting headache. Seeing several people snoring around him, he kicked the person next to him away, went to get his bag, walked out of his friend's apartment building, ate a bowl of noodles at a rice noodle shop, and then staggered towards his home.
Knowing that Xie Houming would go to the county today, Xie Feibai went home at this time. Naturally, he did not go to school. He went home to take a shower and planned to ask his mother for some money to go to the arcade for a while. He took out the key and turned the door. When he entered the room, he was filled with a cold atmosphere.
His home was very big, in the staff building of Huagu Company, but it was on the second floor and surrounded by dense vegetation. The lighting was not very good and he had to turn on the lights when entering the house. At this time, Xie Feibai's home could be described as magnificent, with calligraphy and paintings hanging everywhere, new furniture from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and retro European telephones.
After changing into slippers and walking through the long entrance hall to the living room, Xie Feibai lay on the large leather sofa, feeling a little tired. His mother was not at home, but she had a cell phone, so he could call her to ask for money or something.
When Xie Feibai picked up the phone and called, a voice rang out in the corridor, followed by the sound of hurried footsteps.
Xie Feibai hung up the phone. He saw the door open and hit the wall with a thud, revealing his mother. But the next scene made Xie Feibai unforgettable for the rest of his life.
Mother Zhang Wei was holding a bag with the zipper still open. Only the passbook inside was visible. She walked in distraught, "Fei Fei, Fei Fei... Your father seems to have been kidnapped..."
This is really... what a joke!
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The lights in the house were on. Xie Feibai leaned on the sofa and saw people coming and going in his living room. The police had already arrived. A female police officer was standing next to him, holding her mother's hand. Zhang Wei was crying heavily and sobbing as she spoke intermittently about the facts she suspected.
Xie Houming didn't come back after he went out at night. He didn't answer the phone and later turned off his phone. This made Zhang Wei feel abnormal because Xie Houming said he would come back. Zhang Wei's anxiety was also rising because she couldn't get through the phone, but most of it was about whether Xie Houming would cheat when he was out socializing. In recent years, Xie Houming's status and position have become higher and higher. Many bosses who come to him for work, both state-owned and private, can't get money, so some simply start to use women to seduce them... Although Xie Houming has always refused such things, Zhang Wei can't help but worry.
After tossing and turning all night, Zhang Wei received a call from Xie Houming in the morning. Xie Houming's voice was low, tired and hoarse. He said that he needed money and asked her to raise one million and deposit it into a designated account.
He quickly hung up the phone again.
They made several more phone calls, and Zhang Wei could tell that Xie Houming on the other end was asking about the progress, but his voice clearly did not have the energy and spirit of the past.
Zhang Wei became cautious and beat around the bush, saying that Fatty had paid back a sum of money and asked if she wanted to withdraw it... The so-called "Fatty" was the name they privately called the Public Security Bureau Chief Liu Yue.
And when Xie Houming responded affirmatively, Zhang Wei understood.
Zhang Wei first transferred 500,000 yuan to that account, using the excuse of raising money to stabilize the account. Later, Zhang Wei also received a call from Xie Houming's secretary, confirming this incredible fact. Xie Houming did not show up at the dinner last night, Lao Zheng's phone could not be reached, and the special car did not come back in the morning. What was equally strange was that the secretary received a call from Xie Houming, asking him to transfer 5 million yuan of the company's funds to an account he had never heard of before. This was an illegal operation, and before the secretary could continue to ask, Xie Houming hung up the phone.
At this time, Zhang Wei called and learned from the secretary that Xie Houming did not arrive at the banquet venue last night. The secretary called Lao Zheng again, but the phone assigned to the driver Lao Zheng was also turned off.
From various facts and signs, it can be inferred that Xie Houming is now in an abnormal state and his life may be in danger.
So Zhang Wei finally called the police.
While the police were collecting information, they received news that the frontline personnel had found the car of Lao Zheng and Xie Houming in the water under the embankment of Huanhu Road. The scene was being salvaged, and it was confirmed that Xie Houming had been kidnapped...
Xie Feibai just stared blankly at everything in front of him, his mother crying, the police whispering on the other end. He knew that Lao Zheng would greet him warmly when they met him at work sometimes, but according to the police, that person was already dead.
This was the first time he had come into such direct contact with death. The person who might have grinned at him yesterday died today.
Killed.
My father is still in the hands of those desperate criminals...
They want money, but they may not really let you go...
I don't know what Xie Houming looks like now... Kidnapping, there is also a term called "killing the hostage"...
Isn't this kind of thing supposed to happen only in Hong Kong movies
What happened to me
Although they said they didn't want to be father and son in the next life... But at this moment, Xie Feibai was already invaded by absurd and unreal panic, as if there was a black hole under his feet, sucking him in.
That's his father, if anything happens to Xie Houming.
His mother is Zhang Wei.
The sky above their heads... just collapsed.
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