Chapter 35: A Story Within a Story

At this moment, only the two of them were left in the conference room.

"Why don't you intercede for your son?" He handed Chen Mingrong a cigarette.

"He deserves it, so why should I plead."

The cigarette was lit, and Chen Mingrong took a puff impatiently. This seemingly calm and steady 50-year-old entrepreneur is actually in a panic. He must know in his heart that what awaits him next is not a good result.

"Your Chen family is really weak." Xing Yi looked at him lightly.

It is precisely this point that has achieved the Chen family's decisive killing nature in the business world, cold and unsentimental, and only focusing on interests.

"That's none of your business." Chen Mingrong said, slowly exhaling a puff of smoke from his mouth, "Things have come to this point, and I am also a person buried in the loess to my chest."

Chen Mingrong paused, his face showing tiredness.

"Actually, I knew that hiring someone to beat Zheng Xian would be a disgrace to me, but I did it anyway. You know why? ”

"Why?" Xing Yi leaned back in the chair and looked at him quietly.

Chen Mingrong sneered, stepped forward and said with anger in his words,

"I hate all the women who go out of the wall, and I hate the men who seduce them."

"As for my mother, I am actually a little sad about her death at best, not much painful." Chen Mingrong crushed the burning cigarette between his fingers into the ashtray, "Can you imagine that in a family, mothers hate their children." My mother hated me, and I hated my mother. ”

"It's really rare to see a family like yours." Xing Yi said lightly in agreement.

He snorted coldly and continued as if cathartic.

"Do you know why she hates me? Because I was a product of her being forced by her father, she didn't love her father at all. Even when talking about these shameful things, I saw a hint of indifference on Chen Mingrong's face,

"My father told me that my mother was snatched back from his best brother. He was confident that time would wear it out, and that his mother would give up completely and obey him. In fact, my mother has been haunted all her life, and she has always loved that man. ”

"Even if she dies, I will never forgive her, but I will not risk the world's condemnation." Chen Mingrong slowly finished the last word, and his face seemed to be a few years older.

Xing Yi looked at Chen Mingrong silently, and all the clues were projected in his mind like a series of movies: a pair of gold rings, Ji's gold shop, drugs that cause neurotoxins, cover-ups, and lovers

A guess suddenly arose in his mind.

It's just that this speculation may be a bit too absurd, but only this explanation can make sense.

"Team Xing," Yang Yi didn't knock on the door in advance as usual, but pushed directly into the door.

"Steward Li of the Chen family attempted suicide in the mansion, but he was rescued by our police officers who stayed behind, and he is now lying in the forensic office."

A hint of suspicion flashed in Xing Yi's eyes.

"Steward Li?"

For several days in a row, the "Chen family" who came to the bureau was not broken. Now even the old man who seemed to be an amiable butler was put under suspicion.

When Xing Yi arrived, the frail septuagenarian man was lying on the white push bed.

"Why didn't you go to the hospital?" He frowned and questioned the two officers who came with him.

"I don't blame them, he doesn't want to be treated, he just says he wants to come here and turn himself in." Qiao Qianwen walked to his side and looked down at the old man on the bed, "I have taken emergency measures against him just now, but the medicine has already volatilized in his body, and he may not have much time." ”

"Why kill yourself?" Xing Yi looked at him.

"Because, killed someone." The old man's face was determined, and he seemed to be convinced that he had killed someone, "Drugged in the dining." Phenytoin, which is three times the usual dosage. ”

He was right, and no one had told him about phenytoin before.

"Steward Li, the old lady committed suicide, right?"

Xing Yi looked at Steward Li quietly, and suddenly said something that surprised everyone. In Xing Yi's eyes, the fleeting panic on Steward Li's face completely told him the answer.

Suicide Qiao Qianwen looked at Xing Yi suspiciously, and instantly connected all the clues and evidence in her mind.

Mrs. Chen committed suicide...... Everything seems to make sense, only suicide can explain all doubts, from the beginning they were in the wrong direction!

Mrs. Chen took the medicine that night, and when Chen Xiyun saw her, the medicine had just taken effect, so she was just afraid of the cold. And before going to bed at night, the volatilization of the effect of the medicine caused her to be conscious and confused, after asking Han Qin for cookies, because the drug had begun to make it difficult for her to control her mind anymore, she was afraid that Han Qin would find out that she was abnormal, so she closed the door. She dressed up in fancy clothes and makeup for her suicide, and then walked downstairs and fell down the stairs uncontrollably.

But these seemingly smooth speculations have to be based on one reason. Why did she kill herself? Why did she go downstairs instead of dying in her room?

"I killed people, even if they weren't with my own hands." Steward Li glanced at everyone, "I watched her take the medicine." Isn't this indirect murder? ”

His breathing had begun to rapid, and others could clearly feel the effort he was struggling to speak.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem!" Steward Li coughed violently, blood splashing on the sheets.

"Yang Yi, call an ambulance." Xing Yi tightened his eyebrows.

"Don't." Steward Li stretched out his hand and grabbed him gently, shaking his head slightly, "No need, I'm bent on death, and I can't go back to heaven."

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It's really stubborn. Qiao Qianwen looked at the white-haired old man silently, and her heart tightened slightly.

"Team Xing, are you still calling?" Yang Yi asked with the phone.

"You can give up the idea of survival, but we can't die without help." Xing Yi said coldly, "Call 120 to send an ambulance." ”

"Yes."

The old man suddenly laughed, and his teeth were covered with stinging blood.

"Ahem, I'll tell you a story, someone else's story."

Steward Li's old voice came slowly, arousing people's thoughts to drift into the distance.

"Mr. Ji, a painter, Mr. Chen, a businessman, and a beautiful Miss Zhou. The three of them are friends from childhood to adulthood, Mr. Ji likes to paint for Miss Zhou, Mr. Chen likes to send flowers to Miss Zhou, and they both like Miss Zhou. And Mr. Ji is very lucky, Miss Zhou and Mr. Ji like each other, but Mr. Chen is also very lucky, Miss Zhou has a fiancΓ© because of the family relationship, and the fiancΓ© is either someone else or Mr. Chen himself.

With the marriage imminent, Miss Zhou could not disobey the fate of the family, and as a last resort, they thought of eloping.

When Mr. Chen learned that the two of them were going to elope, of course he was very angry, and broke into Mr. Ji's house overnight to arrest Miss Zhou, and made the domestic servant almost beat Mr. Ji to death. In this way, the friendship between the three of them for more than ten years broke up on that rainy night with Miss Zhou becoming Mrs. Chen.

Decades have passed so peacefully, and Miss Zhou has already become a sophisticated strong woman who has created half of the Chen Group. But who knows, in the depths of Miss Zhou's heart, there is still an unforgettable Mr. Ji, she inquired about Mr. Ji's residence through her connections, and found that he had already married and had children, and died of illness half a month ago.

At this time, Miss Zhou was already a ninety-year-old dying old man, and that day she took out a painting that she had secretly hidden behind the fireplace when she was young, which Mr. Ji had painted for her for the first time. She sat there and watched quietly, and suddenly the idea of following him suddenly occurred to her. ”

She originally wanted to die so peacefully, but she still couldn't rest assured in her heart that her stubborn children and grandchildren were confused and ignorant of their interests, and they didn't know that the Chen Group's seemingly powerful exterior was already stormy. The decisive killing of businessmen can be forged for temporary gain, but it must not be a long-term solution. ”

Therefore, she has been planning for a long time, including suicide, and intends to destroy everything she has built with her own hands through the shock of public opinion. Let these high-sounding people reflect on the mistakes they have made. ”

"Her original intention of holding an exhibition was actually to secretly exhibit Mr. Ji's painting." After Steward Li finished speaking, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Qiao Qianwen was silent for a while. So, all of this is based on 'love'? She never felt that love was something that could last forever, and when the passion faded, all that was left was emptiness. If it weren't for the truth, she wouldn't have believed such a weak and fragile reason.

"Then you, Steward Li. What is your role in this story? Xing Yi asked in a cool voice.

Steward Li breathed a sigh of relief, and his voice became softer.

"That night, it was the medicine I brought her, I watched her take it, took the favorite cheongsam of Mr. Ji for her, and watched her put on makeup. Before she died, she said that she wanted to see the painting hanging in the gallery again, and she went downstairs tremblingly, never again. I'm just an impotent bystander, knowing everything, but unable to stop it. ”

"Li, it's not my surname, my real name is Ji Yuzhou."

"My mother gave birth to me when I was 18 years old, five months after marrying Mr. Chen. Mr. Chan spat on me as an illegitimate child and threw me out of the house. After I was 20 years old, I was secretly found by my mother, and I became a housekeeper in the Chen family, and changed my surname to Li. ”

"By the way, you've got a pair of gold rings. Remember to put it on my mother's grave"

His voice grew weaker and weaker until it finally drifted into the air.

"The ambulance is coming!" Yang Yi hurriedly ran over.

"Old sir? Old gentleman! Seeing that his pupils gradually dilated, Qiao Qianwen directly started cardiopulmonary resuscitation for him.

In the sound of the ambulance's horn, Steward Li finally let out his last breath and closed his eyes very peacefully.

The men of the Chen family are indifferent and unscrupulous, and the women of the Chen family have longing and wrong love in their hearts.

The seemingly powerful Chen family has actually collapsed from the inside.

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