The dance party started at 7:00 pm. Before that, the guests gathered together in twos and threes. The men talked about business cooperation and expanded their contacts, while the acquainted ladies and wives gathered together, and the content was more about certain brands. The newly released women's clothing, or the young talents of each family.
And in such a topic, Pei Qingzhi will always be the darling that cannot be avoided.
"Miss Tang, would you like to sit with us? Boss Pei is probably busy right now." A girl in a bright red evening dress came over to invite.
Tang Xi felt that she looked familiar, she must have seen her somewhere, or maybe it was Pei Qingzhi's birthday party last year, but who it was—forget it, give up thinking about it.
"Miss Tang?" The girl smiled awkwardly.
"I have something to do." Tang Xi replied with three words.
The girl's expression froze... What can you do at the dance? You are not a strong woman like Mr. He! Why follow Mr. Pei so closely
Tang Xi ignored her, looked left and right, and finally found the person she was looking for, her eyes lit up slightly.
"I'll come to you at seven o'clock." Pei Qingzhi whispered.
"Understood." Tang Xi waved his hand and walked towards the target, completely treating the person in front of him as air.
Pei Qingzhi glanced over coldly, not only the girl, but also several companions who were obviously waiting not far away were stabbed by his gaze, and turned pale to avoid it.
"Tang, Miss Tang." He Xiaoman twisted his fingers and called out nervously.
"Miss Tang is looking for you, so you girls can go and play by yourself." Mr. He said with a look of resentment.
"En." He Xiaoman responded in a low voice, and led Tang Xi to a corner blocked by indoor bonsai, and then heaved a sigh of relief, then raised his head and smiled sheepishly, "My temperament, probably changed It’s not coming, but every time I see my mother working so hard, I think... try harder, it really doesn’t work.”
Tang Xi just smiled politely, she originally came to He Xiaoman to talk about the girl's concerns, and said: "The suicide case in Tian Ye's live broadcast, after all, you can muster up the courage to come to the city bureau to testify, I think there are some things you should know. "
"This... Isn't the announcement on the official website of the Municipal Bureau confirming suicide?" He Xiaoman was taken aback.
"Suicide is suicide." Tang Xi sighed, and told her the truth in a different way, "She was related to the Internet violence against Ren Lan back then, you can take it as...she felt guilty because of Ren Lan's suicide."
He Xiaoman was startled, silent.
"That's it." Tang Xi nodded to her and turned around.
"So that's how it is..." He Xiaoman hooked the corners of her lips, her smile was uglier than crying, and she hesitated before saying, "Tian Ye... There was an anchor who was also a beauty make-up before, and she was bullying her on the show. The fans were very angry, and ran to the anchor’s live broadcast room to curse people, or Tian Ye publicly stated that they should not say whatever they want through the Internet and keyboard, and people should be responsible for what they have done. I also started to follow after that Hers, I didn't expect it to be because of this reason."
Tang Xi raised her eyebrows slightly. She remembered that on the phone at that time, Ren Lan said that Tian Ye voluntarily went to accompany her—whether Tian Ye really died voluntarily, maybe, maybe not, there is no way to investigate, but Tian Ye did sincerely reflect on his youth. Wrong when ignorant. While rushing to be a mistress, but also feeling guilty about killing someone unintentionally, human nature is really complicated.
Saying goodbye to He Xiaoman, seeing that no one was paying attention, she took a few steps back into the shadows, her black body perfectly concealing it.
Walking out from the side door of the hall, a chill came over my face.
Across the door, the corridor here is empty and there is no one there, the lights are not as bright as the lobby, and the sign of the restroom not far away is quite eye-catching.
On the other side of the corridor are large pieces of floor-to-ceiling glass. Outside is a small garden. You can also see a fish pond with some koi. The rockery in the middle of the pond has a fountain, which is exquisitely designed.
But Tang Xi turned his head after only one glance. Ever since she saw the fish pond burnt with ashes, she really didn't like this kind of thing.
In the corner, behind a piece of glass, loomed a dark shadow.
Tang Xi walked over. This time, although the ghost flinched a bit, it didn't panic and disappeared.
"Can you talk?" Tang Xi asked.
Through the glass, the ghost hesitated for a while, as if trying to discern the meaning of her words, and it took a long time before he made a movement similar to shaking his head.
"His soul has been torn to pieces." Yun Qi appeared beside her.
Seeing this, the ghost jumped up with a "whoosh" in fright, and disappeared.
"Yun Qi, you scared him away." Tang Xi complained.
"It's okay." Yun Qi raised his head slightly, looked at the upper left corner of the glass, and said calmly, "I'm prepared this time. I glued a guide wire to him, so I can't run away."
As he spoke, he moved his fingertips slightly, and he could see a looming golden thread penetrating the glass and floating in the air.
"Don't touch him yet." Tang Xi said distressedly, "I have to think about how to communicate with him."
"Isn't there a machine in pei that can detect ghosts?" Yun Qi said disapprovingly.
Tang Xi was taken aback.
"However, what a ghost said cannot be a testimony, at most it is a reference direction." Yun Qi said again, "Is it better to hand over this case to Pei directly for investigation?"
"No." Tang Xi shook her head and explained, "pei only deals with supernatural cases, and back then, even though the plane crash of Mr. Pei and his wife was man-made, the perpetrators and victims were ordinary people, and they didn't use the slightest supernatural means. The principle of taking over. Otherwise, in any criminal case, as long as the victim's ghost yells at Pei for grievances, what's the use of the serious crime team and the criminal police?"
"Then what are you going to do?" Yun Qi frowned, "Twenty years have passed, and there is no evidence for it."
"That's not necessarily the case." Tang Xi sneered, "If someone did this, twenty years would indeed be enough to erase all traces, but now it seems that there are definitely not many people involved—the more people, the more passionate they are." Not all, who doesn’t want to hold a handle in their own hands to prevent future troubles? The evidence we want may be well preserved in the hands of some people.”
"Then what are you upset about?" Yun Qi was puzzled.
"I'm looking for clues—" Tang Xi spread her hands, "Tell me, among group crimes, who is the easiest to betray teammates?"
"The one with the least crime." Yun Qi replied immediately.
"That's right. Because the crime is minor and fearless, if you betray your teammates first, you probably won't even get punished. It's safe and cost-effective." Tang Xi said, her tone paused slightly, and then changed her tone, "But, it's also possible The one who committed the most serious crimes."
"Why?" Yun Qi looked at her in surprise.
"First, because there is no way out, I don't want to die alone. If I want to die, I drag everyone to die together. The so-called I am not easy, and none of you should think about it." Tang Xi sneered, "Second... the most serious crime The one who deserves meritorious deeds especially needs to reduce his sentence. Others may just save a few years in prison, but for him, it may be the difference between whether he wants to be shot or not."
Yun Qi couldn't help being dumbfounded.
"Let's go." Tang Xi turned around, her high heels stepped on the shiny marble floor, making a crisp and rhythmic sound.
Yun Qi glanced back and followed.
"Miss Tang? Why are you here alone?" At the end of the corridor, there was a side door leading to a small garden. The door was open at the moment, and a gloomy young man was leaning against the door to smoke.
"It's too noisy inside, why don't Mr. Pei go in when you come out to get some air?" Tang Xi laughed.
"Come out and smoke a cigarette." Pei Qinghe shrugged, and conveniently pushed the cigarette butt out on the trash can next to him, and closed the door again to block the cold wind blowing in from outside.
"Is your body okay?" Tang Xi asked casually, "After all, things about the soul can be big or small."
"Miss Lao Tang is concerned, but we are all people under the new education, so it's not good to be weird." Pei Qinghe smiled.
"What Mr. Pei said is true." Tang Xi nodded calmly.
"I just heard that Miss Tang seemed to be talking to someone, but I didn't see anyone—" Pei Qinghe approached and said maliciously, "Could it be that Miss Tang saw something she shouldn't have seen again, or did you say it to yourself? Have you gotten used to the language? It’s not good to hide your illness from a doctor.”
"Thank you for your concern, but even if you care about me so much, I will at most prevent you from being a bug." Tang Xi looked at him and said seriously.
"What?" Pei Qinghe was taken aback.
"Soul Replacement Technique." Tang Xi replied.
Pei Qinghe was about to say something, but his mind suddenly felt hot, and when he regained consciousness, he suddenly found that his whole body was soaked in water! He couldn't help being astonished, could it be that Tang Xi dared to drown him openly on such an occasion! However, when he opened his mouth, what he spit out was a string of bubbles, instead of the pain of suffocation in the water as imagined.
He moved his hands and feet subconsciously, but it felt extremely weird.
At this moment, a giant koi bigger than his people suddenly swam in front of him.
Pei Qinghe was terrified, moved his hands and feet, and swam far away. However, two giant fish surrounded him from the other direction, and one of them slapped him with a flick of its tail.
I - also a fish? What a joke!
Through the glass door, Tang Xi glanced at the fish pond where the koi jumped and splashed, and made a spell: "Soul replacement."
The next moment, "Pei Qinghe" supported the unconscious body of "Tang Xi" and handed it to Su Huang.
"Actually, I think that kind of person is only worthy of being a caterpillar." Su Huang gloated.
Tang Xi, who was using Pei Qinghe's body, took off his bracelets, and took off the miniature law enforcement device pinned to the collar of the dress skirt to fix it on his chest. Fortunately, Pei Qinghe's suit was also black, so it was not conspicuous. She ordered: "Su Huang, take care of my body, follow my instructions, and take my body to the designated location."
"Understood." Su Huang nodded, with a serious face, picked up her body to find a place to hide.
"Next, it's up to the body." Tang Xi smiled.
Originally, it was not impossible for her to exchange souls with Pei Qinghe, but it was a little uncomfortable to let someone like Pei Qinghe stay in her body, not to mention that there was a precedent of Pei Qingzhi waking up early, it was not safe, so she used Jin Carp made a transit. Knocking out his own body, with the weak spiritual consciousness of a koi, it is absolutely impossible to wake up. As for Pei Qinghe—it is quite safe to stay in the body of a koi for a while. After all, birds would fly away, bugs would hide, and it would be troublesome if they couldn't find them after a while. She didn't want to take care of an animal with human consciousness.
The koi is so good, the range of activities is limited to the fish pond, and you can't run if you want to.
Unless Pei Qinghe is unlucky enough to be caught cooking - it shouldn't happen!
It was a quarter past six.
Tang Xi looked at his watch before returning to the hall.
"Qinghe, what are you doing here alone?" A dissatisfied voice came from behind.
"Dad." Tang Xi turned around and called out calmly.
"Your complexion is not quite right, what's wrong?" Pei Yuanli was very perceptive, and he deserved to be the one who killed Pei Qingzhi in the last life—although he didn't get it right in the end. There is a mention in the original book that Pei Qingzhi made a will in advance, if he dies without children, all property under his name will be donated to the Red Cross Charity Organization. And in that world, the heroine Tang Jing simply gave up on Pei Yuanli because he didn't have the financial resources of the Pei family at all.
"I just talked to Xiaoxiao." Tang Xi lowered her voice and said, "What the Fu family means is that it has been twenty years since that matter, can we still make it?"
Pei Yuanli's brows twitched fiercely, and he dragged him to a corner with a gloomy expression: "What did Fu Xiao say?"
Tang Xi made a guess and chose an ambiguous statement: "It's about Pei Qingzhi."
"They still have the nerve to say it." Pei Yuanli gritted his teeth, "They had already tied up people back then, and just tore up the ticket. Once it's done, they didn't know that the people he was looking for from the Fu family were so unreliable and greedy, and they actually wanted to blackmail them from the Pei family." A sum of money was handed over by the police!"
"Money touches people's hearts." Tang Xi raised an eyebrow.
Sure enough, in the face of this kind of temptation, Pei Yuanli, who had a ghost in his heart, would automatically make up the logic and give an answer. After all, the person in front of him was his own son, so he was naturally not vigilant.
"So, what can I do now?" Pei Yuanli snorted coldly, "Last time, what kind of celestial master said that he was very powerful, but in the end he couldn't beat a teenage girl, and your grandfather noticed it. Fortunately, it didn’t involve the past—”
"Since Grandpa knows about it, it's impossible for him to have a backup." Tang Xi interrupted him and asked, "Dad, have we really cleaned up what happened back then?"
"Of course." Pei Yuanli said without hesitation, "Actually... hey, no one thought of the plane crash. It was really a surprise."
Tang Xi was taken aback. She didn't think that Pei Yuanli still remembered to lie at such a time, but could it be that she guessed wrong, the plane crash was an accident
But at least in the kidnapping of Pei Qingzhi back then, the Fu family and several members of the Pei family were involved, so it would not be a mistake.
"Oh..." Pei Yuanli sighed again, and a trace of fatigue flashed in his eyes, "Don't look at your father like that, let the plane fall, even the crew members died so many people, your father is not so mad."
Tang Xi thought about it, and decided to continue to test it out: "Dad, I want to know the specifics. Fu Xiao seems to know more, and I will suffer a lot from contacting her."
"That girl of the Fu family is not a fuel-efficient lamp, stay away from that black widow." Pei Yuanli paused with disgust on his face, and then said, "Back then, your uncle and aunt went to sign a contract with a foreign-funded enterprise. That is a big order, as long as it is completed, the entire Pei family will be able to go one step further and secure the No. 1 position in Jiangnan City—at that time, your grandfather will not even agree to split the company. It's all his own? Your aunt came up with the idea, as long as he is late and can't sign the contract, that's enough. "
"Late? Why are you late?" Tang Xi subconsciously asked.
Pei Yuanli glanced at him and seemed a little strange, but after thinking about it, he seemed to have nothing to say to his only son, and said, "It's just that the crew members got drunk the night before."
"This..." Tang Xi was dumbfounded.
I've heard of drunk driving, but drunk flying—could it be that the cause of the plane crash was the flight crew who was hungover and forced to fly, resulting in operational errors
Now, I don't know who to blame.
However, she immediately realized the subtleties.
Indeed, the opportunity back then might have been rare for Mr. Pei, but Mr. Pei itself was not weak. Who would be foolish enough to risk his life to snatch a contract that was the icing on the cake? So many people, no one knows the dangers of drinking and flying? There must be other reasons for this.
"What did the Fu family get involved in this kind of thing?" Tang Xi cursed in a low voice, and then said, "Dad, they don't have something against us, do they?"
"Why do you say that?" Pei Yuanli was taken aback.
"Fu Xiao's attitude makes people disgusted just by looking at her, a condescending young lady." Tang Xi sneered, "It's as if we want to see her face, what a mess."
"Fu Xiao was raised by the Fu family as an heir. Maybe the Fu family will not hide anything from her." Pei Yuanli said with some disdain, "Your aunt still wants that girl Qingxue to dig information from Fu Xiao... even that idiot Li Qingxue also plays Compete with Fu Xiao? It would be nice not to be told by her."
"Auntie won't tell her Qingxue's temperament, right?" Tang Xi said casually.
"Of course not." Pei Yuanli said immediately, "Just let her get close to Fu Xiao and Pei Qingzhi. It would be best if she could hear good news. Do you think Pei Qingzhi is stupid? You've been bringing that damn girl with you to banquets all these years."
Tang Xi gritted his teeth, feeling that his fist was a bit hard.
However, Pei Yuanli didn't want to mention it anymore, and said impatiently: "Anyway, Fu Xiao's girl is capable, but she is too young. I'm afraid that she will be eager for quick success. You don't have much contact with her recently, and you can get rid of everything you can. The Fu family It has nothing to do with us."
"Understood." Tang Xi said, turning her body slightly, pretending to see what Fu Xiao was doing, then naturally raised her hand, and lightly tapped twice on the law enforcement instrument on her chest.
If there is no answer from Pei Yuanli, it's time to go to Pei Yuan, but Pei Qinghe's identity may not allow Pei Yuan to tell the truth.
She turned her gaze and saw Li Qingxue who happened to be walking to the long dining table to get orange juice alone, and couldn't help smiling.
For things like koi, it is auspicious to come in pairs.
The city bureau and the office of the serious crime team were brightly lit.
Except for Tang Xi, all members of the serious crime team were assembled, and even at the end of the crowd, even Bureau Tan, who was about to leave office, was there.
Although there were so many people there, the office was completely silent and dead silent.
On the high-definition projector, the picture was frozen on Pei Yuanli's face at the end.
It is said that movie actors are better than TV drama actors, because once a person is put on the big screen, a slight expression will be infinitely magnified, just like Pei Yuanli at this moment, with the corners of his lips raised and the corners of his eyes narrowed, showing two Deep crow's feet, the lips seem to feel a slight trembling.
Excitement, fear, tension, pleasure, anxiety, irritability... All emotions can be found on his face, and even the best actors may not be able to shock people with such true performances.
"Bang!" A loud noise woke everyone up.
Tan Ju slammed the thermos cup in his hand. The stainless steel cup could not be broken, and it rolled under the desk, leaving a pool of steaming water on the ground.
"It's so unreasonable!" Tan Ju panted, "This is the businessmen who are pious! Kidnapping and tearing up tickets, causing plane accidents, and conspiring to seize family property—these are all blood relatives!"
"Tan Bureau, calm down." Chu Li patted him on the back to help him calm down, and said calmly, "The plane accident is still undecided. If Mr. Pei didn't want to miss the contract and forced the crew to take off normally, he himself would have to bear the responsibility." Most of the responsibility. However, Pei Qingzhi's kidnapping case can be restarted, and I remember that the kidnappers who were caught are now locked up in Chengbei Prison."
"Captain Chu, why does this video look like it was shot by Pei Qinghe?" Xiao Liu scratched his head and said in doubt.
"Probably Consultant Tang put the law enforcement instrument on Pei Qinghe's body." Chu Li said calmly, "She is very skilled, and the ball scene is not as bright as the hall. It is inevitable that she did not find it."
"Although this video is not enough to be used as solid evidence against Pei Yuanli and others, it is enough to file a case for investigation." Tan Ju calmed down and said vigorously, "Xiao Liu, take the two of you to Chengbei Prison and bring the kidnapper back to the serious case." Team, I will handle the retrial procedures."
"Yes." Xiao Liu responded.
"The Century Hotel, I'll go there." Chu Li said calmly.
"Don't make too much noise, it's enough to just 'invite' Pei Yuanli and Pei Qinghe back to the City Bureau to cooperate with the investigation." Director Tan reminded.
"Don't worry, I understand." Chu Li glanced at the projector, "I still have to put a long line to catch big fish—but maybe there will be surprises in a while."
"What else?" Tan Ju said.
"She can use Pei Qinghe to deceive Pei Yuanli, why can't she use Li Qingxue to deceive Pei Yuan?" Chu Li asked back.
"..." Tan Ju was speechless, and said after a long while, "That girl, she is a little too courageous. It's all right to turn a blind eye to the rules, but if the law enforcement instrument is used like this, if it is discovered on the spot... "
"It's a success if it hasn't been discovered." Chu Li interrupted, "Ju Tan, you also know that sometimes it is inevitable to use some special methods. All subsequent responsibilities will be borne by me."
Tan Ju was silent for a while, then finally shook his head, and said helplessly, "You should bear it all by yourself, Xiao Tang dared to do this, you must have acquiesced."
Chu Li shrugged.
Of course, if he didn't acquiesce, he wouldn't have convened the entire crime squad overnight, and the video data from the bodyguard wouldn't have been directly sent to his phone. Since you want to play, just play a big one. The case of the Pei family is also a hurdle in his heart. Who wouldn't want to seize this opportunity
"Go." Tan Ju waved his hand and let him go, "As for your punishment, we will wait until the case is over."
"Yes." Chu Li saluted with a smile, turned around and strode out.
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