Sole decision

Two subordinates stood guard at the door. The man kneeling on the ground was wearing worn-out overalls and was hunched. He was missing an ear and had a little finger on each of his hands. He lowered his eyes obediently, and then quickly lowered his head.

Pei Zhaoxue's eyes swept over him, waiting for Qi Huafeng to continue.Qi Huafeng sat on the chair without saying a word, and took back his stove in his hand.The room was terribly quiet, and even the sound of breathing could be heard clearly. After a long time, a drop of sweat remained on the man's forehead.

Qi Huafeng sighed, and then said to the people on the ground: "Many years ago, you went to Lucheng and robbed a child, right?"

"..." the man said, "...yes...yes."

"What's the child's name?"

"Surname..." The man thought for a while and replied, "Surname Zhou."

After hearing this word, Pei Zhaoxue suddenly looked seriously at the person on the ground.The child of the Zhou family who was kidnapped many years ago...could it be Zhou Ang?He couldn't help frowning, and turned to look at Huafeng.His reaction was probably within Qi Huafeng's expectation, but Qi Huafeng deliberately asked, "Did you think of something?"

Pei Zhaoxue avoided Qi Huafeng's gaze, he didn't know what kind of medicine Qi Huafeng sold in his gourd, judging from the current situation, things were developing in a very strange direction.

He fell into thinking, Qi Huafeng didn't give him time to think, he coughed, and said to the people on the ground, "Tell me about your past."

The man swallowed his saliva and began to speak intermittently.

The summer in Lucheng may be a bit unbearable for outsiders, the air is humid, with a little salty smell of the sea, if there is a crying child next to it, it will be even more annoying.

He travels around all the year round, and although what he does is killing people and stealing goods, he never involves the rich and powerful. If it weren't for the fact that this business gave too much money, he really didn't want to get into troubled waters.The little bastard looked weak, and kept crying. He wanted to knock him out or give him some medicine to pass out, but the leader said that the point was not the child.

Before he joined the group, he had inquired about this so-called Zhou family. They were quite powerful in Lucheng, and those who could go against their family were definitely not good people.He has seen many grievances and grievances of this kind of wealthy family, and he also knows the way inside. Just looking at this impromptu gang that doesn't know each other, things will not be so simple.

They hid in an abandoned two-story tube building in the suburbs, and he was responsible for watching the children on the second floor.In order to avoid attracting attention, the building was not lit much, and the light was very poor.There are all their people outside, and the night is already very late, and the people they sent out to join have not returned yet.

The child's mouth was wrapped in tape, but he kept whining, so he simply punched him, threatening to kill him if he continued to cry.The child was sweating in pain, first screamed, and then curled up his whole body.

At this time, there was movement downstairs, he ran to the window to take a look, a black car he didn't recognize stopped at the door, and a few men came down, the leader was wearing a black suit with a stern face, it should be this kid father.

It was very quiet below, and the two sides were negotiating, but he understood that accidents were more likely to happen at this time, so he became more vigilant.I don't know how far they negotiated, and the surrounding area was very quiet. After staying for a while, his accomplice went upstairs to pick him up.

The emergence of hostages can often set off waves and turning points.He secretly clasped his gun, and it was obvious that everyone was very nervous.The child was carried out, and when he saw his father, he froze for a moment, then struggled again.

The leader pressed his palms in the air, and then asked his subordinates to take out more than a dozen boxes, all of which were filled with gold.So much gold is shocking, everyone panicked for a moment.At this moment, some people from the Zhou family appeared out of nowhere, and when the gunshot rang out, the scene immediately became a mess.

The opponent's firepower was fierce, and he drew out his gun to fight, with the smell of gunpowder smoke in his nose.He should have looked at the child, and he couldn't find anyone in a panic.I saw that the child was dragged aside by another person, and then the person was shot and fell to the ground.With so much gold in the middle, no one cares. It seems that everyone is besieging the boss of the Zhou family.He rolled his eyes around, he was just doing business with a partner, there was no reason to go all out, so he grabbed a few gold bars and wanted to take advantage of the chaos and escape.

Just then, he heard a gunshot in the distance...

"That's all I know..." the man finally said, "That's really all..."

After listening to this person's description, Pei Zhaoxue was sure that what this person was talking about was the day when his father went to rescue Zhou Ang.He was still young at that time, but Zhou Xiangyun told him the whole story when he grew up.The plot of the story is basically the same, but there is a difference.Pei Zhaoxue thought for a while, then asked the person, "Who did you say... who came?"

"It's the child's father." The man said with great certainty, "I was on the scene when the call was made, and we took the lead in talking only to the child's father, asking that the child's father come to redeem him himself!"

Pei Zhaoxue was taken aback for a while, before she could react, she asked, "Are you sure?"

"Of course it is!"

After so many years, this person is extremely haggard and dispirited, and it is very likely that his memory has gone wrong.Seeing that person thinking for a while, Li Ying squatted in front of him, patted his shoulder with one hand, and said, "Master, I'm asking you something. I know what to say. If there are any lies, I'll pull out your hair." Tongue."

He is not fierce, but the way he speaks is more ruthless than anyone else.

The man seemed to be very afraid of Li Ying, so he immediately said: "No... I don't know... I just know that kid called him Dad. How could a kid lie when he was so frightened? We have photos, although at that time The lights are dark, but the car and the person can match, but when you said that, I remembered that the boss of the Zhou family didn't seem to have dealt with that child."

Zhou Xiangyun did not disclose these details to Pei Zhaoxue, only said that his father took the initiative to ask Ying to rescue Zhou Ang, and Zhou Xiangyun regretted this very much, otherwise he would not have lost his cronies.If according to what this person said, they clearly asked Zhou Xiangyun to redeem him, then what happened afterwards?

Someone has to be lying, or they all are.Pei Zhaoxue would not easily believe this stranger's words, even if the details he said were correct.After Zhou Ang went back, there was indeed a very hidden bruise on his body, which didn't fade away for a long time. Pei Zhaoxue knew about it, and the location was almost the same as the person described.

"Why?" Pei Zhaoxue asked.

Qi Huafeng asked Pei Zhaoxue back at this time: "Why?"

Pei Zhaoxue said, "Why do you have to let the child's father come?"

The man said, "Because... because their target was that Zhou."

Pei Zhaoxue immediately looked at Qi Huafeng, and Qi Huafeng said slowly, "Five years ago, this person committed a crime." It was also a coincidence, after the transaction, this person wandered around. His hands and feet are clean and neat, there is no reason to do so, and he is not the main culprit. Even if the Zhou family uses a lot of force, they will not be able to catch everyone in a short while.He melted into the sea of ​​people like a drop of water, unless he committed another crime, it would be difficult to find his whereabouts.

Unfortunately, after he came to the north, the gold bars he stole were quickly squandered, and he had another crooked mind.The owner of a family happened to have some relationship with the Qi family, and the city was within the radiation range of Yancheng, so the Qi family sent people to look for them.At first, there was no clue, but someone informed the Qi family that they saw this person in a dilapidated tavern in the suburbs. When the Qi family rushed over, he was drunk and was bragging about himself. At the beginning, I made a big ticket in Lucheng.

After hearing this, the leader of the Qi family had a clue in his heart, and brought him back to Yancheng. After some torture, the story of the Zhou family was involved.

But it has been many years, Yancheng and Lucheng are far apart, and they don't know each other, so the Qi family detained this person in the mine, fearing that he would have to work his life for the rest of his life, and even die here.

This kind of torture with no hope in life is far more painful than killing him.

Qi Huafeng didn't realize that there was such a thing until he received Zhou Ce's message. He felt that God had arranged for him in the dark. He wanted to give this person to Zhou Ce as a gift, but he met Pei Zhaoxue. After checking Pei Zhaoxue's details, he found that things were not as simple as he thought.

That's why today's meeting happened.

After Qi Huafeng finished speaking, Li Ying handed a tablet to Pei Zhaoxue, motioning him to look at the contents.Pei Zhaoxue opened it, and it was a video. The picture was a little torn, and it was very unclear, but it could be seen that the environment was dilapidated, with a sense of age, and there were people walking around inside.

Suddenly, the screen flickered, and another group of people came in. The screen was very dark. Although it was just a silhouette, Pei Zhaoxue definitely could not mistake it. This was his father!

It turned out that the man had been careful when he realized that the matter was not simple, and took away the storage disk of one of the monitors when he fled in chaos. In the end, all this fell into Qi Huafeng's hands.

Too much information impacted Pei Zhaoxue's brain. If he was still suspicious of Qi Huafeng just now, his heart was completely shaken after seeing this video.His father has been dead for so many years, and there is no video or even a few photos left during his lifetime, so there is no possibility of this video being faked, it can only be taken at that time!

He dropped the tablet on the ground, unable to accept it for a while.The man kneeling on the ground glanced at the screen, and immediately said: "Yes, yes, this is the person. I remember it clearly. This person is the one named Zhou!"

"His surname is not Zhou." Pei Zhaoxue said abruptly.

The man was stunned for a moment, not knowing what Pei Zhaoxue was talking about.Qi Huafeng waved his hand, and the guard at the door dragged the man out.Qi Huafeng walked up to Pei Zhaoxue's side and said to him: "Their original plan was to kill Zhou Xiangyun, but the person who died was not Zhou Xiangyun, someone else died for him, and this person didn't know."

"No way!" Pei Zhaoxue raised her voice a bit, and then said in a deep voice, "He won't..."

In a short period of time, Pei Zhaoxue thought about countless possibilities. He thought, is it possible that his father knew about it, that ancient scholars died for their confidantes, and if he were his father, would he do such a thing?If he didn't exist, maybe his father would have done that, but he was still a child at that time, how could his father abandon him?

The memory at that time was too vague, all his knowledge about this matter was told to him by Zhou Xiangyun.Zhou Xiangyun mentioned that his father died for Zhou Xiangyun, but never disclosed information that his father may not have known.Later, Zhou Xiangyun was indeed looking for the people who had participated in the kidnapping of Zhou Ang, and he killed all the people he could find. Moreover, the Zhou family members who participated in that incident were transferred away one after another, or died.

Is all this a coincidence?Now it seems that obviously not.

Except for Zhou Xiangyun, no one knew what happened that night.

What if Zhou Xiangyun knew that the other party's target was him that night, so he pretended to ask his father to rescue Zhou Ang and act as his scapegoat?If so... Does he not care if Zhou Ang is really rescued?correct!Then there was Zhou Ang!According to this person, they had no reason to know who his father and Zhou Xiangyun were, but it was night and the light was not good, and his father was driving Zhou Xiangyun's car, but this was not the point that hindered the identification.

The point is, Zhou Ang called "Father" first.

He frowned slightly while thinking, Qi Huafeng saw the change in his expression, and asked, "Did you think of something?" Pei Zhaoxue was silent for a long time, and suddenly turned around without saying a word and was about to leave.Li Ying wanted to stop him, but Qi Huafeng said, "Send him back."

Li Ying nodded, and sent someone to escort Pei Zhaoxue out of the mine.

Pei Zhaoxue was full of thoughts along the way, old things were dragged out, and many things he believed in were still being shaken. He couldn't accept it for a while, but unfortunately he didn't like to express it. All emotions were stuffed in his heart, and he suddenly felt that his nerves were being pulled.

He sat in a daze on the chair, and Zhou Ce didn't realize it when he came back.But Zhou Ce noticed his absence, looked left and right, and asked if Pei Zhaoxue bought him rock candy snacks.

Pei Zhaoxue had long forgotten about this matter, but at this moment, she was empty-handed, and she was dumbfounded when faced with Zhou Ce's question.

Zhou Ce saw Pei Zhaoxue's helpless expression for the first time, and found it both cute and abnormal.He kissed Pei Zhaoxue's face, then leaned into his ear and asked, "What did you do today?"