Back home.
To be precise, it should be Yu Mengzhi's villa.
Chen Jinzhao found that Yu Mengzhi hadn't gotten off work yet. The company probably had a lot of things to busy with. After sitting in the living room for a while, he still called his mother, Li Qiurong, to ask what had happened that night.
"Mom, have you gotten off work?" Chen Jinzhao asked.
Li Qiurong said happily, "Son, why are you calling Mom? I just got off work and am going to the vegetable market to buy some vegetables. Have you eaten?"
Chen Jinzhao shook his head, "Not yet. I called you mainly to ask about something."
"Well, tell me."
"About a week ago, did something happen at home?" Chen Jinzhao asked.
Li Qiurong still wanted to hide it from her son, not wanting him to worry, "What could have happened? Everything is fine, calm and peaceful."
Chen Jinzhao acutely caught the hesitation in Li Qiurong's tone and his voice deepened, "Mom, do you need me to spell it out before you tell me? That night, did seven people cause trouble for you?"
"Son, you already know?" Li Qiurong was surprised and knew she couldn't hide it anymore.
Chen Jinzhao hummed and waited for his mother's explanation.
Li Qiurong hesitated for a moment, then said, "I didn't tell you before because I was afraid you'd worry. I was almost asleep that night when seven people came to the house and woke me up."
Chen Jinzhao became instantly tense, "Did they lay a hand on you?"
"No, they didn't. Later, someone helped me deal with them, and it's been much quieter since then." Li Qiurong didn't hide anything from Chen Jinzhao and also told him that the helper was sent by Li Qiutao.
"Do you know what happened afterwards?" Chen Jinzhao asked with a frown.
Li Qiurong said she didn't know, only that two people took the seven away that night, and after that, it had nothing to do with her.
"What happened to them?" Li Qiurong asked.
Chen Jinzhao's words reached his lips, then he paused and decided not to tell his mother the truth, "Nothing much. A friend at the police station told me they solved a case of home invasion and robbery, and said they had been to your place."
"Oh, I see..."
Li Qiurong's reaction was normal.
"Son, when will you be free? I want to come to the city to see you and my future daughter-in-law."
Chen Jinzhao hesitated for a moment, then said, "This week. Let me know before you set off, and I'll pick you up at the station with her."
After hanging up the phone.
Li Qiurong muttered to herself, her son had grown up and actually learned to lie.
That was clearly not a burglary, and those people were most likely targeting Chen Jinzhao. Li Qiurong hadn't seen much of the world, but she wasn't that foolish.
On the other side.
Chen Jinzhao felt that his mother was still hiding something from him, but he didn't press further, only sighed inwardly, "Who exactly is this uncle of mine, who resolved seven people without anyone noticing and without causing any disturbance? It's strange, every time I want to meet this uncle, he always finds excuses to brush me off."
Everything about him seemed peculiar.
If there's a chance in the future, I must investigate this uncle's background.
Half an hour later.
Yu Mengzhi returned home and found that Chen Jinzhao had already prepared the meal. A happy smile appeared on her face.
This was a scene she had longed for, and now it had finally come true.
While eating, Chen Jinzhao suddenly mentioned that his mother was coming to the city this weekend, which startled Yu Mengzhi so much that she almost couldn't eat. Chen Jinzhao looked at her strangely, "Why are you so nervous?"
Yu Mengzhi bit her lip and glared at Chen Jinzhao, "How can I not be nervous?"
"Oh dear!"
"Will I look bad meeting your mother like this? Should I get my hair done and do some facial treatments? No, no, I also need to pick out a suitable outfit, so I don't leave a bad impression on your mother."
"Chen Jinzhao, why are you still eating? Hurry up and think of a solution for me!"
Chen Jinzhao held back a laugh and said, "Alright, my mom will definitely be very satisfied with you. You don't need to be so nervous."
Despite what he said,
Yu Mengzhi was still extremely nervous, feeling the awkwardness of a shy bride meeting her mother-in-law.
That night, she was so preoccupied with choosing clothes that Chen Jinzhao was dazed. She then asked Chen Jinzhao to choose an outfit. As soon as Chen Jinzhao picked one, Yu Mengzhi rejected it again and almost dragged Chen Jinzhao to the mall to shop.
No choice.
Chen Jinzhao had to use another method to distract Yu Mengzhi, and it worked quite well...
While the two were happily engaged in their game, Ning Fei was smoking in his office.
The desk in front of Ning Fei was covered with cigarette butts, and the entire office was filled with an extremely strong smell of smoke. He didn't even know how many packs he had smoked, only that this method could numb the restlessness in his heart.
Chu Zixiong was dead.
Of course, Ning Fei arranged it.
Ning Fei had already decided to take action when Chu Zixiong went to meet Chen Jinzhao.
As Chen Jinzhao had said, if Chu Zixiong had gone towards the police station at that time, Ning Fei would not have been able to kill Chu Zixiong, because dump trucks could only pass within the city after midnight.
The police station was within the first ring road, while Chu Zixiong's several residences were outside the second ring road.
Chu Zixiong's luck had cost him his life.
"We trusted you so much, my father and I, and this is how you repay us? If I didn't kill you, it might have been me who died." Ning Fei ruthlessly stubbed out the cigarette butt. As he was about to light another, he found the pack was empty.
Damn it!
Gone again!
Ning Fei took a deep breath and opened the window to get some fresh air.
His current annoyance wasn't about Chu Zixiong's life or death, but about what Chu Zixiong had revealed to Chen Jinzhao. If Chu Zixiong had obtained any substantial evidence against him, he would be finished!
The fact that Chen Jinzhao hadn't called him yet made Ning Fei even more agitated.
After pacing back and forth in the office for more than a dozen laps, Ning Fei decided to call that person. Before he could even finish dialing, Ning Fei stopped and instead asked his secretary to prepare a car to go to that person's residence.
Before his father went to prison, he had said that if he wanted to contact that person, it was best not to do so by phone, but to visit them in person.
Ning Fei's car left Ninghai city. After about half an hour's journey, it turned onto a national highway at the border between Ninghai and Jiangning. After driving along the highway for about ten minutes, they finally arrived at a mountain villa built on the mountainside.
To be precise, the entire mountain was included in the villa.
The entire villa covered an area of a thousand mu, enclosed by an iron fence. The outer perimeter was a dense forest, where many national protected animals lived.
In the middle of this forest stood a Western-style castle with a medieval architectural style, as magnificent as a royal palace of old.
What was even stranger was that this villa could not be found on any map software. When Ning Fei arrived at the gate of the villa, he thought the navigation was wrong, as it was his first time here; his grandfather used to come alone.
When the car reached the villa gate, it was stopped.
The person who stopped them seemed to be the villa's steward. Dressed in a tailcoat, he said politely, "The master knows you are coming and has prepared a banquet for you at home. Please alight from your car and walk inside."
Ning Fei hummed, with no objection.
He knew that in front of this master, he was nothing.
After taking a deep breath at the entrance, Ning Fei followed the steward through the villa gate, hoping that this master could show him a way out!
If he could show him a way to kill Chen Jinzhao, that would be even better!