Chapter 29: A Plan Within a Plan
The old man looked at Gu Nankai as he spoke, and Gu Nankai also looked at him seriously: "You know about this trap, right?"
Zheng Yi's father smiled bitterly: "Officer Gu, you can't hide anything..." He took a breath again and said: "But one day Zheng Yi found out that Sheng Yuandong and Zhao Kaichuan were conspiring to plot against him. He found out that they owed the casino a huge amount of money, but everything was too late..."
Gu Nankai thought about what he meant by this, he pursed his lips and said: "Zheng Yi found out after the project failed, right? Now everything is a foregone conclusion, in black and white. Even if he knows it's a scam, it can't erase the fact that he has to bear the debt."
Zheng Yi's father nodded heavily. His voice was a little hoarse at this moment. He said somewhat dejectedly: "Yes, it's too late. Otherwise, we wouldn't have set up a new scheme. Our family has been living in guilt for so many years..."
"Guilt? How can you feel guilty? You are an invisible rich man with both a son and a daughter, and you have no worries about food and clothing. Not only did someone die for your son, but you even don't want his wife because she gave birth to a daughter!" Li Meng couldn't stand people plotting against each other. Although Zheng Yi's family did look very pitiful at the moment, kneeling and feeling guilty, in his opinion, it was all their own fault, and they were not the ones who were truly pitiful.
Zheng Yi's parents couldn't raise their heads because of Li Meng's words, but Xiao Qing was obviously a little confused. She frowned, as if she couldn't believe what she had just heard. Gu Nankai and Wu Qingluan could clearly see her expression. Now they felt that this woman should know very little about the Zheng family's affairs.
She was shocked and hesitant. She no longer had the energy to accept too many things at the moment. She had not been able to digest it since she found out about what this family had done a few days ago. But what could she do? She was already married and had children. She had no choice. Facing her husband who had taken good care of her for many years, and facing this family that she originally found a little strange, she had been full of doubts all these years. When she learned the truth, she had already collapsed, but reality forced her to accept this fact in a short time. But now, she once again couldn't believe what she heard.
She looked at Wu Qingluan in shock. Perhaps because they were both women, she urgently needed a woman to understand her. She looked at her and said tremblingly, "You...you just said...Zheng Yi...did he have a wife before..."
Now Wu Qingluan and the others figured it out. This woman must have been kept in the dark by the Zheng family for a long time, and she had no idea what had happened in the Zheng family in the first place.
Wu Qingluan looked at Gu Nankai, hoping that he would give an attitude. Gu Nankai looked at this woman on the verge of collapse, and then looked at the Zheng couple who couldn't even raise their heads. He sighed and said to Wu Qingluan, "Take her back to the house and explain the situation. The child is still so young, it's better to take her to the house. We can take care of the rest."
Wu Qingluan agreed with his arrangement. Although she wanted to stay and listen to the follow-up, the woman seemed to be unable to hold on now. She needed herself. She was extremely professional at work. She nodded and stood up for Gu Nankai's arrangement. Xiao Qing could no longer tell the truth from the false. She looked at Wu Qingluan woodenly and sadly. Wu Qingluan whispered a few words in her ear. The woman's tears flowed down her eyes, but she still got up and followed her to the inner room. Zheng Yi's mother seemed very guilty. She turned around and looked at him, her eyes full of worry.
After Wu Qingluan and Xiaoqing left, Gu Nankai retracted his gaze and looked at the Zheng family's old couple: "Is it because of the lottery that you set up a new game?"
This was no longer a question, but a definite affirmation. Zheng Yi's father was shocked. He had not expected that the man in front of him had already known about the lottery. He clearly...
"Uncle, don't question the professionalism of our police force, and don't try to hide anything from us anymore." Gu Nankai saw his emotional reaction and reminded him.
"I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I won't hide a word." He seemed to have sweat on his back, and he didn't dare to hide anything anymore, so he told him everything.
"Some things in this world are just incredibly coincidental." The old man smiled bitterly. To this day, he still feels that everything is a joke God played on their Zheng family. It seems to be a blessing, but in fact it is a catastrophe.
"After Zheng Yi's project failed, the entire company was affected. Sheng Yuandong and Zhao Kaichuan asked Zheng Yi to give them an explanation every day. Zheng Yi actually didn't know that we bought insurance for him, but since he knew it was a scam, he was very wary of those two people. He knew their plan, and they hoped to force Zheng Yi to death! Then the insurance money will be enough for them to survive for a while."
Gu Nankai nodded. Up to now, everything was pretty much as he expected. The next step was the highlight. The most important person who had been hiding behind the scenes was about to appear. This was the moment when he was closest to the murderer. He straightened his body and felt a little excited unconsciously. He felt a little excited about the possibility of facing the murderer head-on. Finally, there was a big breakthrough!
He looked at Zheng Yi's father: "What's next? What is the truth behind the car accident?"
"The truth... the truth about the car accident..." He murmured, recalling the events of ten years ago with incredible clarity in his mind.
"It was at that time that I found out that a lottery ticket I bought casually won the prize." Zheng Yi's father now said with a bitter smile: "I don't know whether this is a blessing or a curse, but for us at that time, the lottery money, a full 500 million, we dared not even think about it, we couldn't believe that it was true, it was just like a dream to us..."
Gu Nankai and Li Meng also felt that this matter was just like a dream. With all these things happening together, it was hard to tell whether the Zheng family had a good or bad fate...
"But Sheng Yuandong and his men were chasing us too closely. We wanted to get rid of these two people so badly. They had so many tricks up their sleeves. If they knew about our family's lottery tickets, we could almost foresee the consequences. Zheng Yi would never be able to escape the fate of being manipulated by them, and our family would never be at peace..."
"Oh uncle, then what? How come that guy, what's his name, Qian Hao, died?" Li Meng really couldn't wait any longer. He wanted to know the final truth so much that he was as anxious as if he had to pee. Gu Nankai glanced at him and the young man immediately calmed down. Gu Nankai pressed his hand to signal him to calm down and not to be anxious. His eyes drifted to Zheng Yi's father, motioning him to continue talking.
"Qian Hao is a friend of Zheng Yi. He is a very capable kid. Zheng Yi would ask him for advice whenever he had any questions. That day..." The old man hesitated for a while. The matter was brought up again. He felt more and more guilty and embarrassed. The child was so innocent, but he became their stepping stone. Ten years have passed, and his sense of guilt has not diminished, but has become even deeper.
He made up his mind: "Zheng Yi knew that there was something wrong with the car. At that time, Qian Hao seemed to have some conflicts with his family, so he came to find Zheng Yi secretly. Except for the three of us, no one knew that Qian Hao and Zheng Yi met. In order to escape, Zheng Yi let Qian Hao get in the car."
"Even so, if Qian Hao goes missing, the police investigation will still lead to you, right?" Gu Nankai doubted his words and expressed his own opinion.
"Indeed, but officer, our son died at that time, and Qian Hao would only declare him missing, and the case would be left unresolved." Zheng Yi's father said this with a wry smile. Gu Nankai and Li Meng found that they could not say anything to refute. Indeed, if the police at that time did nothing, who would think that a couple whose child had died had anything to do with a missing case?
