By this time, Cheng Yu had already determined that the Maxim in Zhuang Yi's mouth and the mercenary army under his command were the ones who had a violent conflict with him not long ago and lost their troops.

Of course, Cheng Yu would not interrupt Zhuang Yi's narration, and he would not tell him about the fact that he had killed more than 20 people under Maxim.

The inference made by Cheng Yu before was also correct, but he didn't know the origin of this mercenary, and he didn't know that the predecessor of this mercenary was a resistance organization.

This makes Cheng Yu feel at ease, at least, Zhuang Yi is not the kind of ferocious and vicious person, and Cheng Yu does not need to give up the system task, but can help him with peace of mind and avenge him.

But because of this, Cheng Yu became more and more curious. Since when Zhuang Yi left, Maxim still gave him a sum of money for so many years, why did these two people finally turn against each other?

The fuse is a good judgment, it is nothing more than the bag of diamonds, but Zhuang Yi doesn't look like a person who covets the bag of diamonds, and the direction of the story becomes less clear.

And until now, Zhuang Yi has not mentioned that batch of diamonds.

Zhuang Yi's narrative continues......

After returning to China, Zhuang Yi used the money Maxim gave him to rent a piece of land in the countryside near Xixi, and then built his first inn.

The inn's business is not bad, ten years ago, when the inn culture was booming, Zhuang Yi also met his wife because of this.

At that time, his wife Kankan graduated from college and lived in his inn, and became friends with Zhuang Yi. Because he is also from Xixi, his wife also introduced many friends to his inn. After coming and going, feelings developed between the two.

The relationship between the young man and woman quickly warmed up, and after only seven months of acquaintance, Zhuang Yi and his wife went to the Civil Affairs Bureau to register their marriage, and half a year later his wife became pregnant with their child, and the two held a wedding.

Thinking that he would return to a normal life, Zhuang Yi felt that he could finally live happily with his wife and son.

Zhuang Yi's wife is better at running the inn than him, and in just over two years, she helped him expand the inn to three stores.

After the third inn was opened, Zhuang Yi's wife felt that she could breathe a sigh of relief and rest for a while, receiving guests from different places every day, and also heard the stories of those guests traveling around, Zhuang Yi's wife proposed to Zhuang Yi that she wanted to travel to Lake Baikal.

For Lake Baikal, Zhuang Yi still has some knots after all, although it is an extremely vast lake, and the possibility of meeting Maxim is very low, but Zhuang Yi always has an inexplicable worry.

But Zhuang Yi didn't want to disappoint his wife's request, so he agreed to her.

The two planned the route of the trip, and Zhuang Yi deliberately avoided the scope of the main activities of Maxim and his mercenaries, and set the first stop in Irkutsk, where Cheng Yu had just returned. The range of activities of Maxim and his mercenaries was near Ulan-Ude, a hundred kilometers on the other side of the lake.

The straight-line distance between Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude is more than 300 kilometers, not to mention the location of Maxim, which is more than 30 kilometers southeast of Ulan-Ude, which should be relatively safe.

Unexpectedly, just after the couple made a rough travel plan, Zhuang Yi received a call from Russia.

After returning to China for more than three years, Zhuang Yi had already cut off contact with everyone he knew in Russia, and when he saw the familiar area code, Zhuang Yi's heart suddenly became nervous.

He said that he looked at the phone number on his phone and tried his best to speculate that only Maxim might have called him.

Although there has been no contact between Maxim and him in the past three years, after all, the two are two "brothers" adopted by Ivanov who are called sons.

On the eve of his and his wife's decision to take their children to Baikal, they suddenly received such a call that should not have appeared, and Zhuang Yi's heart was suddenly so worried that he couldn't help it.

Although Zhuang Yi actually knew that Maxim's phone call had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that he and his wife were going to travel, he still had extremely heavy worries, so that the mood at that time seemed very strange.

After all, I answered the phone.

On the phone, Maxim's tone was still the same as before, as if the call was just to catch up with his brother who grew up together.

Maxim said that the mercenary business is not good, and he already wants to give up, he said that he is very distressed, since he was adopted by Ivanov, it seems that he has only learned how to shoot for so many years, and now he wants to disband the mercenary, and he doesn't even know what else he can rely on.

The two brothers chatted for more than twenty minutes on the phone, and Maxim finally asked Zhuang Yi if he had ever thought about going back to Russia, after all, that was the place where he lived and fought in his youth and youth.

Zhuang Yi told Cheng Yu that he said something in the phone call that he regretted for the rest of his life, and that he said that he would go to Lake Baikal with his wife and children in the near future.

"At the time, I really thought that Maxim was going to give up the mercenary business, after all, he was also close to forty years old, and he was confused about the future, and the only person he could consult seemed to me at the time. After all, for so many years, among all the people Maxim is familiar with, I am the only one who has lived a normal life. ”

After Maxim learned the news, he said that if he had the opportunity, when Zhuang Yi arrived at Lake Baikal, he would definitely go to see his younger siblings and nephews.

"I was still a little wary at the time, so I didn't tell Maxim the exact date of my trip, only that I would contact him if I went, but Maxim didn't force it and hung up. But I never imagined that after the phone call was hung up, Maxim sent someone to Irkutsk, until our family of three showed up there. ”

Subsequently, something happened that made Zhuang Yi suffer to this day.

After the family of three arrived in Irkutsk, they first stayed in a hotel in the city, and did not rush to Baikal, but wanted to visit Irkutsk by the way.

Zhuang Yi was eating in a restaurant in Irkutsk with his wife and son when the phone rang, and he received a call from Maxim again.

Zhuang Yi didn't tell his wife about everything he had in Russia before, after all, it was a past that could not be told to anyone, so he left his seat and excused himself to go to the bathroom, but in fact he entered a small alley behind the restaurant through the back door of the restaurant to answer the call.

On the phone, Maxim no longer spoke to Zhuang Yi in a brotherly tone, but instead had a conversation that Zhuang Yi was actually very familiar with.

This kind of attitude of dialogue, Zhuang Yi has seen many times, and it is the face that Maxim will only show when facing those corrupt officials who are about to be "executed" by them.

Although Ivanov's purpose was to kill the former officials, at the same time, they also needed the money in the hands of those people, so it was called an assassination, but in fact it was a kidnapping most of the time. After succeeding, he will inevitably go through some torture in order to obtain that person's personal wealth.

Whether it is Maxim or Zhuang Yi himself, before dealing with these people, they all start by torturing them.

Zhuang Yi is very familiar with Maxim's gesture.

Maxim asked him if he had left a notepad for Ivanov before he died. Zhuang Yi didn't deny it. Maxim asked him again if he came to Russia this time for what was recorded in the notepad, and Zhuang Yi said that he didn't know anything, and he didn't even know what was recorded in the notepad that Maxim said. In his opinion, these are some of Ivanov's diaries, and the main ones are nostalgia for his family.

But Maxim obviously didn't believe this, and he believed that Zhuang Yi's return to Russia this time was to decipher what was recorded in the notepad, and to take away the wealth left by Ivanov.

No matter how Zhuang Yi explained, Maxim refused to believe it, and Zhuang Yi even told him that he was willing to hand over the notepad to Maxim unconditionally, but this would have to wait until he returned to China.

In the end, Maxim smiled and said that since Zhuang Yi was stubborn, don't blame him for being ruthless. Then, Zhuang Yi heard gunshots coming from the restaurant.

Shocked, he returned to the dining room, only to see the abduction of his wife and children by a few people he once knew.

Because the other party had a gun in his hand, although Zhuang Yi was very anxious, he didn't dare to act rashly, not to mention that there were many other customers and clerks in the store, after they learned that the abducted person was Zhuang Yi's wife and children, they desperately pulled him to prevent him from having a direct conflict with those "robbers".

The gunfire just now has already injured the manager of this restaurant, once Zhuang Yi clashed with those "robbers", those customers and clerks were worried that they would anger the robbers, and they were afraid that they would go on a killing spree.

In desperation, Zhuang Yi could only watch as the people he had fought side by side took away his wife and children.

Maxim also understood that if Zhuang Yi's wife and children were abducted for no reason, the police would definitely interrogate Zhuang Yi strictly, so before breaking into the restaurant and kidnapping Zhuang Yi's wife and children, he first robbed a jewelry store next door to the restaurant and robbed jewelry worth 200,000 soft girl coins.

Then, with only the patrol officers arriving, Maxim's men broke into the restaurant and abducted Zhuang Yi's wife and children, as if they were just going to take hostages to ensure that they could leave.

When the police arrived, Maxim's men had disappeared into the city with Zhuang Yi's wife and children, and Zhuang Yi was questioned by the police, who also defined the incident as an accident, believing that the "robbers" were randomly selected to be hijacked at the time.

Of course, the police said that they would do their best to track down and try to bring Zhuang Yi's wife and children back intact, but Zhuang Yi himself understood everything.

After leaving the police station, Zhuang Yi called Maxim back, he repeatedly emphasized that he really didn't know what secrets were in the notepad, he asked Maxim not to embarrass his wife and children, and said that he could go back to China and take the notepad and hand it to Maxim in exchange for his wife and children.

However, Maxim knew that Zhuang Yi at this time could not leave Russia for the time being, and his wife and children were abducted, how could there be any reason for a husband to leave at such a time?

Any normal husband who encounters such a situation should naturally ask to see people alive and corpses when he dies, right? If he leaves in a hurry at such a time, the police should suspect that this husband bought a murderous wife.