Four. The trouble of the plutocrats
Zhu Meng was the developer of the building and the head of the exhibition, and the host of the banquet, so after setting a time with me, he quickly went to greet the others. When Aunt Man was about to explain something to me, I saw a bejeweled woman appear in front of me, she looked to be in her early fifties, and her barely piled up smile made me feel her anxiety.
"Sister Yin, why did you come?" Aunt Man looked at her in surprise, hurriedly pulled her to sit down, and said with a little hesitation in her voice: "It's only been a few months, why are you so haggard?" Did something happen? ”
It was only at this time that I knew that she was Zhu Meng's wife Tang Yin, her eyes were not big, her thick lips were painted with lipstick, even if she was wearing delicate makeup, she could still make people feel her tiredness, but her appearance reminded me of two words: kindness. What struck me even more strange was that she herself didn't seem to be used to the jewelry on her body, so she always reached out and touched the necklace around her neck from time to time. The slightly rough hands make me feel that she usually does a lot of things by herself, rather than a noblewoman.
Tang Yin looked at us hesitantly, and after a while, he reluctantly nodded and said, "It's hard to say." This is Miss Fang and Qin Gongzi that you invited for us, right? It's great that we've had some trouble lately. Ever since we moved to a new home, there have always been some inexplicable things that have been ...... Forget it, let Brother Meng tell you for a while, I haven't slept well these days, and I'm always worried about something happening inexplicably. ”
Tang Yin's brows furrowed. But also because she is the protagonist, she left immediately after saying a few words to Aunt Man. And Aunt Man, who had been silent, hesitated for a while before saying apologetically: "The two of them have always been very low-key, if it weren't for Zhu Meng asking her again and again this time, she wouldn't have come to trouble me." ”
In Aunt Man's mouth, they are a very low-key couple, they are ordinary citizens, because they are willing to endure hardships and have good luck, so the two of them took advantage of that batch of reforms to make a fortune. Even after you have money. They don't look any different from ordinary people. It is said that Tang Yin often carries a basket of vegetables to the vegetable market to buy vegetables alone, although he will not be as calculating as we imagined, but he will never be wronged.
"But such a low-key couple still ran into trouble." Aunt Man looked at me a little hesitantly. "Just about a year ago. They received one letter after another threatening letters. And there are always inexplicable people present at their house...... The family originally lived in an old neighborhood, a house left by Zhu Meng's parents - they bought a high-end villa for safety reasons. But even then, they seem to be in trouble. Originally, they thought that it might be people who had a difficult life and wanted to find a way to live, but they didn't call the police, but recently, it seems to be getting more and more troublesome. ”
Aunt Man didn't say much about the specific details, but mentioned that Zhu Meng was also upset because of this matter, so she took the opportunity of this banquet to ask me to help.
In the spacious office, I saw Zhu Meng again. After his secretary Wang Liran poured tea for me, he naturally closed the door for us. Zhu Meng politely invited me to sit down, still with a sad face: "I know that I should actually find the police, but you can also see that I am a good-looking person, and I don't want my family affairs to be publicized outside." If it weren't for some unexpected things that happened recently, I wouldn't have taken the initiative to trouble you. Here are three threatening letters I received recently, and what was written on them...... I was still surprised. ”
It was not so much a letter as a patchwork, a sentence cut out of a newspaper, but the contents of the three letters were almost the same: five million, for the lives of your children, or else in ten days there would be a plague of blood.
"Why not hand it over to the police? Wouldn't it be better to let them handle it? I still hesitated to say, he really puzzled me like this, "If this continues, it may invite unpredictable consequences." ”
"I know, but I also have my own reasons not to trouble the police, because at the moment my family is fine, there have been no accidents, and I have sent more people to protect them." Zhu Meng nodded and said, "But I don't really trust the police, and I don't think they really tried to catch the person who sent the threatening letter, so I invited you over." I'll put a deposit on your bank first, and I'll thank you when it's over. It's just that...... I still want you to keep this matter a secret. ”
"Just three letters with no beginning and no end? Is there something else going on? I looked at him curiously, he was a man who had seen a lot of wind and waves, and there was no way he would back down from this thing.
Zhu Meng nodded and said, "When we started from scratch, we also encountered similar things. But this time it seems to be more serious than before, because my wife has been followed several times, and she has had a little accident before, and she is so scared that she hasn't slept well for two months. ”
According to Zhu Meng, the first time his wife noticed that something was wrong was when she went to a nearby park to exercise, she would go to the park almost every morning around 7 a.m., run for half an hour and then go home for breakfast. That morning, a young man had been running slowly after her, and when she turned around, the young man had deliberately turned away from her. Then on the second and third days, the young man seemed to be deliberately collecting Tang Yin's portrait, which made Tang Yin a little nervous, so he found a few like-minded people to run together. It wasn't until he saw his companion that he was gone. However, it was precisely because he was worried that there might be another accident that Tang Yin had to cancel his morning exercise plan.
The second accident was on the way to the company. Because this place is not very far from his home, Tang Yin takes the bus here every day. There were a lot of people on the bus in the morning rush hour, and she didn't particularly care about being squeezed back and forth a few times, until she arrived at the company, she found that she had a note in her handbag, which said, "People's Park, see you at 7 o'clock in the evening, otherwise, you know the consequences." (To be continued.) )