The boy grinned, showing his white teeth, and he stretched out his hand and said, "I'll help you order food, although I am poor now, I still ate here when I was a child." ”

When Cheng Yu heard this, he glanced at the boy and didn't say anything, but he knew that the boy was also a person with a story.

Moreover, according to this sentence, Cheng Yu took advantage of the young man's ordering process to make a bold guess about him.

The young man was obviously only sixteen or seventeen years old, and he just looked at it from a distance before, and he felt that it was almost this age. And now under the close contact, Cheng Yu is more and more sure that this young man's age will never exceed eighteen years old, and may even be less than sixteen years old.

At such an age, it is obvious that four years ago, it would have been absolutely impossible to do Li Dali's list.

Then, there is another possibility, Li Dali's list was made by the boy's father.

Four years ago, this foreign trade company was probably really a foreign trade company, even if the scale was not as big as Cheng Yu imagined, at least it was not what it is now.

The boy said that he had eaten here when he was a child, and that he was poor now, which seemed to be enough to show that his life was rich enough when he was a child. Even if it's not a rich person, at least it's Xiao Yin's family.

Cheng Yu doesn't know what happened in the past four years, but it seems to indicate that the boy's family has undergone great changes in the past four years, and it is likely to be related to his father.

And because the boy set up a table in that building at such a young age, it is largely an indication that his father must have died.

Therefore, the young boy had to shoulder the burden of the family.

It's just that if the accident happened four years ago, the teenager is not old enough for him to set up a stall here for four years.

But if the accident happens in front of the eyes, the young man's family road seems to be a little bad.

Since the person under house arrest Li Dali is by no means a good bird, Cheng Yu even suspects that the death of the teenager's father is also inextricably linked to that Lawrence Bill.

Seeing that the young man had finished ordering, Cheng Yu glanced at the order menu in the waiter's hand, and there were only three records, so Cheng Yu said, "You order more, who can eat such an order?"

The young man hesitated, quickly ordered two more dishes, and then instructed, speaking in Spanish, but Cheng Yu also understood, which meant that he didn't want alcohol, just lemonade.

Cheng Yu still knew some simple Spanish words, so he asked for a glass of orange juice for the young man, and he asked for a glass of martini.

After the waiter left, Cheng Yu asked, "Now let's talk about the matter between us." What's your name?"

The boy replied, "Vincent Benjamin, what about you?"

"Cheng Yu. Cheng Yu pronounced as slowly as possible so that the boy could understand.

"Vincent, how old are you?"

"Twenty-one. The boy replied without hesitation.

Cheng Yu rolled his eyes and said, "Since we are already sitting at the same table, it is better to be honest with each other." Look at your face, how can you be twenty-one? Say, fifteen or younger?"

Vincent blushed and said, "I'm seventeen...... Well, in a week I'll be seventeen, not fifteen!"

Cheng Yu smiled slightly and said, "Very good, this is a good start." As he spoke, Cheng Yu took out the wallet from his pocket, asked Vincent to see the thick pile of dollars inside, and took out one casually, asking him to confirm that this was the maximum denomination of 100 yuan.

"You should be able to tell that I'm not short of money, so I don't care about the thousand dollars you need. However, this must be based on your honest answers to my questions. ”

Vincent blinked, but did not appear greedy for money, but asked cautiously, "It's just a problem?"

Cheng Yu nodded and said, "It's just some questions." ”

Vincent said, "How can I trust you?"

"A thousand dollars is a lot of money for you, but it's nothing to me. I don't have to lie to you. ”

Vincent thought for a moment, finally nodded, and said, "You ask." ”

Cheng Yu also nodded and said, "Your guess was right, the person who called two days ago was also me." ”

Vincent showed a look of surprise, and muttered: "I just said that the voice I heard will never be mistaken, not to mention that I can't get one or two calls a day, how can I hear it wrong." Your accent is too recognizable. ”

Cheng Yu ignored Vincent's complaints, and continued to ask: "I called you, of course, not really for any labor certificate, I was for something that happened four years ago." At your age, you can't have been in this company for four years, right?"

Vincent thought about it and seemed to be hesitant to tell the truth, but when he saw the wallet that Cheng Yu kept in his hand, he still said honestly: "I only started working last year, but you don't have to worry." This company was owned by my father, so I can find out even if it was four years ago. All the data from my father's company is on my computer. ”

Cheng Yu nodded, and said in his heart If it weren't for Xiao Nie having stolen some of the information from your computer, I wouldn't be sitting here chatting with you. A child, no matter how good his memory is, it is impossible to remember every business his father has done clearly.

"Where is your father now?" In fact, there was already a guess in his heart, but Cheng Yu had to ask, even if he knew that this question might make the teenager feel sad.

Sure enough, when Vincent heard this question, a trace of pain flashed in his eyes, but he still replied: "He's dead, he died four years ago." ”

Cheng Yu was stunned for a moment, and became more and more sure that the death of Vincent's father was inseparable from Lawrence Beale.

"Sorry, I don't know ......"

"It's okay, it's been four years, I've been used to it for a long time. ”

"And I go ahead and ask?"

"Hurry up, you ask, I'm going back to cook for my mother, she's still hungry." ”

"Don't worry about cooking, I'll pack some here for you to take home after eating. ”

Vincent was stunned for a moment, and then said with joy: "Really?" He originally planned to eat less by himself, and then asked Cheng Yu's permission to pack the rest of the meal back.

Now it's obviously not necessary, because Cheng Yu nodded affirmatively and said, "It's just some food, it's nothing." ”

After taking a sip of water, Cheng Yu asked again: "I didn't mean to make you sad, but can you tell me the cause of your father's death?"

"A fire burned him to death. Faced with this question, Vincent seemed calm.

"Fire?" Cheng Yu raised his eyebrows, which was more in line with Lawrence Beale's character.

"If my guess is correct, when your father was alive, your family should have been relatively wealthy?"

I thought it would be a positive answer, but unexpectedly, Vincent shook his head and said: "Before my father died, he was already in debt, and that fire became his last funeral song, he died, and he no longer had to worry about those debts, leaving me and my mother ......"

Vincent's voice was a little choked.

Cheng Yu handed over a tissue, ruthlessly, and continued: "Can you tell me about the situation at your home?"

Vincent raised his head, looked at Cheng Yu strongly, and asked, "Why are you so interested in my father's affairs?"

"I said, what I'm going to investigate is something that happened four years ago. It's not enough to rely on those things on your computer, and I'm not afraid to tell you that I've hacked into your computer a long time ago, if it's just for those materials, I'll just copy and download a copy. ”

"So I told you, you're really going to give me a thousand dollars?"

"You seem to be short of money. ”

"My mother needs a sum of money for surgery...... Vincent looked a little surprised, and then said quickly: "Actually, the price of applying for a labor certificate is about three hundred dollars." The reason I asked you for 1,000 was because my mother's surgery cost more than $700. I want to use the rest of the money to get her to eat something good. ”

Cheng Yu immediately counted out a thousand dollars from his wallet, put it in front of Vincent, and said, "Whether I can get enough useful information from you, this thousand dollars is yours." But if you answer well and help me enough, I don't mind giving you more. ”

Looking at the ten hundred-dollar bills on the table, Vincent did not show an ecstatic expression, but said more and more cautiously: "You will really give it to me?"

"Now you can put the money away. ”

"Then you're not afraid that I will lie to you?"

"There's no need for you to lie to me. And, even if it's a scam, between a mother and a little scam, I'd rather believe that you really have a mother who is sick in bed. ”

Vincent's eyes blinked, and he seemed to hesitate, but he grabbed the thousand dollars, carefully folded them in half, and put them in his pocket.

"Ask, as long as I know, I'll tell you. ”

"Let's start with your family. ”

"My dad used to run a company, well, that's the company you know. At that time, our family had close to a hundred employees, and the building you just saw belonged to my father's company. ”

Like all stories with conspiracy behind them, this teenager's life experience also has a strong template meaning.

Chaval Benjamin is a successful man, at least in this land of slums.

Shafarr was admitted to university, got a full scholarship, and worked part-time during college to support his studies.

After graduating, he worked for a large company and earned a decent income.

After five years of work, Chaphal built up his own network and slowly began to have his own ideas.

After the contract with the company expired, even though the company offered him a 50% salary increase, he still chose to resign.

Then there was the company that Cheng Yu knew.

At first, the company did well, and Chaphal quickly grew the company with only three employees to more than 50 people.

It was at that time that Chaphal met Vincent's mother, and soon after the two got married, Vincent was born.

It was supposed to be an inspirational success story, but after Vincent had a good childhood, by the time he was twelve, Chaval's company began to have problems.

First of all, there was a very serious problem in a foreign trade business, and all the goods were finally judged to be smuggled by the local court, although the person directly responsible was finally found, and it was confirmed that Xia Faer was innocent, but the fine and confiscated goods still made this company that was not too profitable and not too rich in money caused extremely serious obstacles to its development.

After Shafar's demolition of the east wall to make up the west wall, and the sale of one of his family's properties, he finally survived.

That is, from that time on, in addition to the normal foreign trade business, Xia Faer will also undertake some business that is on the edge of the law, such as the kind of business that Li Dali did four years ago.

Vincent said that it was at that time that he learned about this business, and said that this kind of business is done by many people in the slums, but some people can indeed find the corresponding company to let the immigration department inquire, and some people's labor certificates are actually no different from a piece of waste paper.

After Cheng Yu told Vincent the date of issuance of Li Dali's labor certificate four years ago, Vincent said: "My father encountered the fire a month after the date you said. I didn't believe it was an accident, I always thought it was someone targeting my father, but the police didn't believe it. Mr. Cheng, your words now make me even more sure that my father's death was not an accident. ”

Cheng Yu was stunned when he heard this, he didn't expect that this question would lead to such a paragraph.

"Why do you think your father's death was not an accident?"

"My father's company was struggling, and the building wasn't what you see now.

At that time, the building was still very shiny, there were only three companies in total, and the first floor was the warehouse of these three companies.

My father owed a lot of money at the time, but most of those creditors were tolerant of him getting the company back up and down.

Almost all of the illegal things he did at that time relied on the help of his creditors' companies, otherwise, how could so many companies that could afford to be verified can issue labor certificates?

I'm telling you that I can issue a legal labor certificate, which is true and valid, also because of those creditors.

They are willing to help me until now.

Before my father's accident, the family's debts were almost repaid.

If it weren't for that fire, our family would have turned over. ”

Cheng Yu frowned, feeling that this young man's words had little to do with his question.

Vincent continues: "The day after the fire, one of my father's creditors was in a car accident.

Of course, his family was not as miserable as mine, he just died, and all his property was left behind.

As for the fire that my father encountered, the police investigated and said that the fire was in my father's office, and the entire building was not spared, and the insurance company refused to pay compensation.

My mother and I had to sell the last of our houses and lose all our money to the companies on the second and third floors.

And the creditor who was in a car accident, on the night of the fire, went to my house and gave my mother a lot of money, and it was he who told my mother that the fire was not an accident.

Because, he made an appointment with my father to meet at that time, but after he went, my father did not arrive.

He made a lot of calls, but my father's cell phone never answered. About two hours after that, a fire broke out at my father's company.

My father, who doesn't smoke and never has anything flammable or explosive in his office, said he went there after the fire was extinguished and found traces of gunfire in my father's office.

The police must have known the truth, but they did not continue their investigation. They must have been in the same league as the arsonists. ”

"And then he died too?" Cheng Yu asked.

Vincent nodded and said, "As I said earlier, a car accident, a truck hit his car, it was very miserable, the whole car was almost completely smashed to pieces. It was broad daylight, and there was no way that any car could go that fast on our part of the road, and that was a murder. But the police said it was an accident, and even the driver who caused the accident could not be found......"

Cheng Yu was silent, and he suddenly realized that although he had guessed that Shafar's death had something to do with Lawrence Beale, it seemed that he was still thinking too simply.

"At the beginning, several of my father's creditors said that it was too coincidental, two people died in a row, and there were so many suspicions, but the police did not continue to investigate. But then they didn't talk about it anymore, and even when I asked them, they wouldn't say. There is only one person, he said, in this city, who can cover the sky with such a hand. ”

Cheng Yu couldn't wait to ask, "Lawrence......?"

Vincent was also talking about the name: "Lawrence Beale ......" suddenly found that Cheng Yu also said this name, and he said in confusion: "How do you know this person? Although this person can cover the sky in San Diego, he is not a famous person." ”

"Because, the thing I want to check is also related to this person. At first, I thought it was a fake name, but I didn't expect that he could be so unscrupulous that he could use his real name. If his father's death and the creditor's death really had something to do with him, then I think I probably know why he was so unscrupulous. ”

Vincent may not be able to digest the content here for a while, and looks at Cheng Yu dumbfounded.

Cheng Yu stretched out his hand, patted Vincent on the shoulder across the table, and said, "Okay, kid, let's not talk about it for now, you finish the meal first, and then we will bring some food back to your mother." You don't have to worry about the cost of her surgery, I will send her to the best hospital in San Diego and have the best doctors do the surgery for her. I still have a lot of questions, and I may not be able to finish them in a day or two. ”

Vincent looked at Cheng Yu, nodded and said, "Okay." ”

After a few bites of food, Vincent seemed to suddenly remember something, and said, "By the way, let me confirm that my father did not die in an accident, and there is another reason." ”

Cheng Yu looked at him, and Vincent said: "Before my father's accident, I heard him answer a phone call, and on the phone, he had an argument with the other party.

Although it was only two or three sentences, I still remembered the person's voice.

When I learned the name of that Lawrence Beale, I managed to find that person's phone number a year ago.

Then, I called from a pay phone and I heard his voice.

It was the sound of an argument with my father, and I couldn't get it wrong. ”

Cheng Yu immediately typed out a phone number on his mobile phone, handed it to Vincent, and said, "Is this it?"