Li Rui snorted coldly and hung up the phone directly, wanting to use this way to deepen the fear in Kang Chengfu's heart. Because he just said that if Kang Chengfu kept denying it, then he would call the police, and now he hung up the phone, just like he was going to call the police, which would definitely scare Kang Chengfu's soul.

Sure enough, Kang Chengfu quickly called back, and Li Rui sneered twice and answered the phone.

"Hey, Li, don't call the police, this matter is a misunderstanding from beginning to end, you listen to me......"

Kang Chengfu explained in a panicked tone as soon as he came up, but he still didn't forget to hide his sins.

Li Rui said coldly: "You come to the guest house with the painting immediately, I will wait for you in the room, within ten minutes, I will call the police, and all your nonsense will go and tell the police." With that, he hung up the phone.

He looked at the time, it was already half past eight, and there were still more than twenty minutes before nine o'clock, if Kang Chengfu could arrive within ten minutes, then there would still be time to accompany Ling Shuyao out for a walk, thinking about it, his mind became more and more relaxed.

In fact, he never had a bad mood because of the theft of the painting, and the reason is very simple, it all lies in the value of the "Old Temple in the Mountains". He bought that painting back for 3,000 yuan, although Chi Guohua and Liu Shiqi believed that this painting was worth 40 million yuan, but in his heart, it was still only worth 3,000 yuan, and if 3,000 yuan was lost, he would lose it, so what was there to feel sorry for? Compared with the lost painting, he was more concerned about who stole it, and now that he finally caught the mastermind behind it, he showed his excellent reasoning and analysis ability, and he was quite proud.

Back in the room, Li Rui waited patiently, during which he sent a text message to Ling Shuyao, telling her that he would definitely accompany her out at nine o'clock. Ling Shuyao didn't reply either, I don't know if she was too lazy to reply, or if she was already asleep.

"Knock knock...... Knock knock!"

After waiting for exactly ten minutes, there was a knock at the door.

Li Rui walked over and opened the door, and saw that it was Kang Chengfu with an embarrassed face standing outside the house, he was holding a painting scroll in his hand, what was it if it wasn't the "Old Temple in the Mountains"?

Li Rui smiled smugly and got out of the way.

Kang Chengfu walked into the house in embarrassment and said, "Li, I have to explain to you, everything is a misunderstanding, really, a misunderstanding......

Li Rui closed the door, walked into the bedroom with him, and asked with a smile, "What misunderstanding?"

Kang Chengfu first put the painting scroll in his hand into the painting box on the table, turned around and sneered at him: "This painting is worth 40 million, I didn't open the door for a while, and told a good friend, he didn't believe it, he had to raise the bar with me, saying that this painting was not even worth four million, and then he had to bet with me, I didn't agree, how do I know that he came up in a daze, and actually ran into your room secretly, took the painting away, and went to the auction company to identify it." I didn't know about this from beginning to end, it was you who called me just now, and I asked that friend again, and he told me the truth, so it was all a misunderstanding, but I didn't want to steal your paintings, and I ask you to forgive my friend. ”

Li Rui didn't pay attention to his explanation, walked over, took out the painting, unfolded it and looked at it, that's right, it was the previous painting, carefully checked, there was no damage, and then put it back in the box, buckled the lid of the box, turned around and said: "Assistant Kang, please respect my IQ, and also respect your own." ”

Kang Chengfu probably felt that the painting had been returned to him, and he couldn't help himself anymore, so he said: "I didn't disrespect you, what I said is the truth, believe it or not." Of course, it's the same if you love to forgive or not, my friend. Okay, Lee, you can rest, I'll go back too, goodbye. After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave.

Li Ruiyan can let him go, if he honestly admits his guilt and apologizes with tears in his eyes, he may be able to consider forgiving him, but now that he is playing with people as three-year-olds, it can only make people more angry, and he sneered: "Do you think that returning the painting will not constitute the crime of theft?"

Kang Chengfu stopped and turned his head, and said with a gloomy face: "It's all explained, what else do you want?

Li Rui said: "Assistant Kang, if you are like this, then there is no need to talk about it, I will call Principal Chi and my friends from the Municipal Public Security Bureau now, tell them the truth, and see if you can still say that you have misunderstood before the iron evidence and your friend's confession." ”

As soon as the words fell, a text message came from his mobile phone, and when he took it out to look at it, he saw that it was Ling Shuyao who sent it: "I'll go down first, you can find me by the river later." ”

Li Rui raised his head and saw that Kang Chengfu was staring at him with a fierce expression, without the slightest intention of repenting and admitting his mistakes, so he said: "I'll call Principal Chi first, if Principal Chi doesn't believe me, I still have a brother of the deputy director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, and he will definitely be able to administer justice to me." ”

At this time, Kang Chengfu finally panicked, and shouted in a lost voice: "Don't!"

Li Rui said: "Then you put on an attitude of repentance and confession for me, tell the truth, I may forgive you, but if you don't admit your guilt, I will definitely not forgive you." ”

Kang Chengfu's face was blue and red, his eyes were full of remorse and sadness, but more of grief and indignation, and after half a sound, he suddenly sighed, and then told the truth.

It turned out that the assistant principal had a hobby, gambling, and a gambling habit, just like some gamblers described in "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", he was deeply involved in it, unable to extricate himself, and after losing all the money in the family, he also exported the house, if it were not allowed by modern law, he might even lose his wife to the creditor, but although he did not lose his wife, his wife was also disappointed in him, and divorced him angrily. Up to now, he owes a lot of gambling debts outside, with a total amount of nearly three million, which is a sum that ordinary family owners can't earn in a lifetime, and even if Kang Chengfu is an assistant principal, it is difficult to pay off such a huge amount of money.

Recently, those creditors were extremely fierce in debt collection, calling Kang Chengfu every day to ask for money, and threatening him to go to the campus of Agricultural University to settle accounts with him. Kang Chengfu was afraid that the creditors would come to the campus, destroy his image and affect his future, so he agreed with the other party to pay off the debt within a month. Although the other party agreed, Kang Chengfu was extremely troubled, because he couldn't get so much money in a month, but if he couldn't pay the arrears, he would face an even more terrible end, what should he do?

As we all know, gamblers can do anything if they lose a red eye, and in the same way, they can do anything when they are chased by debt collection, Kang Chengfu has reached the point of red eyes, and he will do whatever it takes at any time, even to take risks. It just so happened that today, Chi Guohua and Liu Shiqi set a market price of 40 million for Li Rui's painting, and after Kang Chengfu learned about it, he immediately had the evil idea of stealing this painting as his own. He thought that if he got this painting and sold it, even if he only sold it for half of the money, 20 million, he could easily pay off his debts, and he could still squander more than 10 million at will, so he took advantage of his own power to open a house for Li Jing and others, and Chi Guohua invited Li Rui and others to a banquet at night, and designed a stealing painting operation.

First of all, Kang Chengfu found his cousin, Chen Hongwei, who was a physical education teacher at Agricultural University through his connections, and asked him to find a way to touch Li Rui's room and steal the painting from 6:10 to 7:30 in the evening, and promised to give him a benefit fee of 10,000 yuan after the matter was completed. Chen Hongwei agreed, but he was worried about how to enter Li Rui's room. Kang Chengfu told him not to worry, and said that he would arrange it for him. Chen Hongwei didn't ask any more questions and went to prepare.

Then, when Kang Chengfu rushed to the Provincial Agricultural University Guest House to open a room for Li Jing and his party, he specially chose a room on the top of the porch for Li Rui, entered his room in advance, opened the window lock, and also opened an additional room, next to Li Rui's room, to borrow it from Chen Hongwei. In fact, Kang Chengfu originally wanted to arrange for Li Rui and them to live on the first floor, so that Chen Hongwei could jump out of the window and enter Li Rui's room to steal paintings, but unfortunately the first floor was full, and there was no choice but to choose a room on the second floor. Also in order to facilitate Chen Hongwei to enter the room, Kang Chengfu deliberately arranged the two rooms on the top of the porch.

After Kang Chengfu opened the room, he personally issued the room cards to Li Jing and his entourage one by one, and deliberately matched the other male cadres in twos first, leaving only the room card selected for Li Rui's room, and then handed it over to Li Rui.

After Li Rui and the others checked into the room for a short rest, Kang Chengfu called his cousin Chen Hongwei outside the guest house, gave him the room card for that room, and told him to wait until it was dark, jump to the top of the porch outside through the window, and then go around to the window of Li Rui's room, open the window, and get into the room to steal paintings. Chen Hongwei did as he was told, first entered the room to hide, and when it got dark at seven o'clock, he jumped out of the window and went out to the top of the porch below...... Eventually, he succeeded in stealing the painting. Chen Hongwei then took advantage of the unpreparedness to jump directly from the top of the porch, then put the painting into his cousin Kang Chengfu's car, returned to the front desk of the guest house to check out, and then fled.

At that time, Kang Chengfu was still at the banquet with the wine, and after receiving Chen Hongwei's good news message, he was very happy, but he did not end the whole operation, but found Li Rui after the banquet, and lied that Liu Shiqi had fallen in love with the painting and wanted to spend money to buy it, so as to show that he did not know about the theft of the painting and was an innocent outsider. And this performance did deceive Li Rui at first.

Kang Chengfu thought that this plan was seamless, there were no loopholes from beginning to end, and he also added anti-reconnaissance methods, even if Li Rui reported the case afterwards, the police did not know why. For example, in order to prevent Chen Hongwei from leaving evidence of his crimes, he was specially instructed to wear gloves; for example, in order to prevent Chen Hongwei from being discovered when he went downstairs with a picture scroll, he was specially asked to jump from the top of the porch to the ground and quickly leave the scene; for example, in order not to be suspected by Li Rui afterwards, he also deliberately created a false transaction.