Chapter 17: Before the Fall of Estée Danlan
On the outskirts of Taunggyi, the capital of Shan State.
A villa with an ordinary façade and luxurious interior.
A middle-aged man in his fifties took a photo and looked at it for a long time, then put it down and went to a sandbag in the house and waved his fists vigorously.
His sharp fists showed the inner strength of his punches and the anger on his face.
There were all sorts of relatively new gym equipment in the house, but the solid sandbag was a bit old.
The middle-aged man sweated like rain and hit for nearly thirty minutes.
At this time, there was a knock on the door, and the middle-aged man stopped and shouted to come in.
Entering the door was a young man under the age of thirty, standing respectfully beside the middle-aged man.
"Master, the young lady called and said that she wanted to come over in the past few days, I didn't know that it was looking for your call, so I answered, she was a little excited to speak." After speaking, the young man picked up a bottle of water on the table and handed it to the middle-aged man, glancing at the photo on the table.
The title "Lord" is very common among the elderly in Myanmar.
"Man'er is gone, what is she doing here?" The middle-aged man took a sip of water and said hatefully.
"The young master is just gone, and he can't..., maybe he has his own natural appearance!" The young man continued.
"Gengquan, how many years have you been with me?" The middle-aged man stared at the young man and said, the young man's name turned out to be Geng Quan.
"When you first met me, you said that I was about the same age as the young master, so you picked me up, and it has been twenty-one years now." Gengquan bowed his head and said.
"Then do you think that the so-called young lady in your mouth can be rescued, and Man'er is gone, this thing is a bit strange?" The middle-aged man looked at Geng Quan's eyes and said.
Geng Quan obviously didn't expect him to ask this, he grew up with the young master since he was a child, and he knew the young master's character very well, when he arrived at the gambling ship, he would definitely be stuck on the gambling table, and when the Estee Danlan cruise ship capsized, it must be in the casino on the third floor.
"We found out that it was a security guard on the gambling ship who rescued the young lady, they had never met, and the young lady was on the Estee Danlan cruise ship for the first time." Geng Quan didn't understand what he meant, so he had to say what he knew again.
The middle-aged man was silent.
"The tsunami came suddenly, and it didn't take long for the warning to arrive next to the cruise ship, so the number of missing people was relatively high." Geng Quan thought about it and still spoke, but he still replaced the word death with disappearance.
"It's because I've been thinking too much lately!" The middle-aged man sighed after speaking.
"During this time, while we were looking for the whereabouts of the young master, we accidentally found that the young lady was checking the security guard, and we also sent someone to the north." Gengquan said the north refers to the hometown of the security guard.
"What?" The middle-aged man who had been sitting down stood up.
"I don't know the specific reason, and I heard that I didn't seem to find anything special." Geng Quan was obviously taken aback, and he didn't know why the old man in his mouth had such a big reaction.
"You just said that the young lady was a little excited to talk on the phone, what is she happy about?" The middle-aged man thought that something might be going on and spoke louder.
"She didn't say it, and I don't dare to talk and speculate!" Geng Quan replied carefully.
"Alright, you go and get busy with yours!" The middle-aged man waved his hand.
As soon as Geng Quan left, the middle-aged man immediately went to the study and picked up the phone.
"Aya, did you hear that you came over here for something?" After the phone was connected, the middle-aged man spoke.
“Uncle! Why did you call, I want to go to Taunggyi to tell you a happy event in person! The other party was a crisp woman's voice, and her tone was indeed excited.
What other happy events are there at this time? The middle-aged man frowned.
"I have Aman's child, and I just came back from the hospital today, more than a month."
The other party's words made the middle-aged man immediately happy, his own generation, including Man'er, was a single pass, and this news undoubtedly blew away most of his depression in the gym just now.
"Don't come here, I'll go tomorrow, and don't go to work from now on, and don't go out." The middle-aged man got up from the sofa excitedly and said quickly.
"You want to come here, okay, I'll let me wait for you at home tomorrow!" The other party was clearly flattered.
The middle-aged man who hung up the phone pressed another button on the table, and the man who had just entered the gym, also the man named Geng Quan, walked in.
"Go to Leke tomorrow, you go and get ready, and leave early!" After the middle-aged man finished speaking, a smile appeared on his face.
Leke is a base, and people of a certain age are called this.
The master rarely goes out, what is the good thing, Geng Quan went out immediately, and only after stepping into the long corridor downstairs picked up his mobile phone and immediately arranged.
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Early in the morning, the middle-aged man and Gengquan got into an ordinary Toyota car, but a Hummer had started in front, a minibus behind the Toyota, and the same Hummer followed behind.
The curtains of all the cars were tightly drawn, and it was impossible to see who was inside.
"Let's talk about the situation before the downturn of Estee Danlan." There were two middle-aged people and Gengquan in the Toyota car, the middle-aged man sat in the back, and the middle-aged man opened his mouth after the car left the courtyard gate.
"The news I received was that the young lady and the young master were chatting on the ninth deck of Estee Danlan in the morning, and a person was reading a book on a beach chair in the distance, and that person was the security guard who later saved the young lady, and the security guard was watching the game in the casino, and it happened that day to rest, and the matter of his rotation can be checked." Geng Quan said as he drove.
"It's also a coincidence!" The middle-aged man interjected.
"That security guard used to be a sailor." Geng Quan continued.
"What else?" The middle-aged man narrowed his eyes and asked.
"The bodyguard who followed the young master and the young lady was guarding the cabin next to him through the glass, and the security guard went up from another staircase, and when he saw him, he just took a book and the bodyguard didn't go to chase him, and the bodyguard reported the whereabouts of the young master and the young lady at any time, and there was a report from the bodyguard here." Geng Quan didn't understand why the old man asked about this again, so he said.
"Hmm." The middle-aged man snorted.
"You are strict with the young master, when the young master went to the casino, the bodyguard reported to you, I was by your side at the time, you said let him play." Gengquan stepped on the accelerator, followed the Hummer in front of him, and continued.
"And then?" The middle-aged man nodded slightly, but he was a little annoyed, he knew that he would not be allowed to enter the casino, and he would not be allowed to play, and experienced people knew that the space on the deck was open, and it was easier to survive than to move freely in a narrow cabin.
"The young master left the young lady alone and went to the casino, and the tsunami came after a while, and later I heard that it was the security guard who called the young lady, saying that it would be safe on the deck. The crest of the tsunami was higher than that of the cruise ship, and then the security guard brought two life jackets to the young lady, and then you know better what happened after that, and found them the next morning. That security guard is a little capable! Geng Quan praised the security guard when he continued to speak.
The middle-aged man was silent.
"But it just so happened that the Yonggu happened to be in that sea area, and just happened to find the young lady!" Geng Quan glanced at the middle-aged man sitting in the back while looking in the rearview mirror.
"It's not her cousin who is doing those bad things there, you don't want to inquire about them and don't get involved!" The middle-aged man admonished with some disdain.
"I understand, don't worry, sir!" Geng Quan hurriedly replied.
The middle-aged man couldn't get used to the business on the Yonggu cargo ship, and if it weren't for the fact that he was looking for his son, he wouldn't have taken the initiative to call the man he would see today.
He didn't ask again, just kept his eyes closed.