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Xiang Chao threw the phone aside, sat slumped at the end of the bed, and pressed his temples heavily and slowly. His dark eyes were still foggy, but his tense nerves seemed to relax a little.

He stood up and opened the bedroom door, and Yi Shaoqing stood at the door with a stern face.

"Brother, the other party is calling again? How are sister-in-law and Xiaoxue? Are you safe?" Xiang Chao asked eagerly.

Yi Shaoqing looked at Xiang Chao, and after a moment of unabashed eyes on Xiang Chao's face, he said coldly, "Who did you call just now?"

"A friend, the activities of the student union in recent days have been funded by him."

Over the years, Xiang Chao has formed a habit of thinking. No matter what kind of attitude his brother Yi Shaoqing asks, he is used to answering honestly first.

Xiang Chao picked up the phone from the bed, turned on the screen and gave Yi Shaoqing a look.It was only after a while that I reacted: "You stood at my door and eavesdropped on my phone call!"

Xiang Chao almost shouted these words.But Yi Shaoqing said calmly and sarcastically: "I didn't do anything wrong, so I'm not afraid of others listening."

Xiang Chao was furious: "What the hell did I do? Tell me clearly, since I got home in the morning, you have been acting weird and guarding against me everywhere. Although you have never given me a good face, I will I want to ask, what the hell did I do to hinder your eyes?"

"Xiang Chao, you dare to yell at me. What the hell do you have the face to yell at me? Don't forget who is paying for your education now, who is raising your useless father!" Yi Shaoqing step by step Approaching Xiang Chao, he poked his fingers in front of his face, then withdrew his hand contemptuously, and tapped on his chest, "It's me, and my mother!"

Xiang Chao lowered his head, and suddenly started to chuckle, but when he looked up, his eyes were red: "Brother, don't forget, she is also my mother."

"You also know that she is your mother, and that I am your brother! You are just like your useless father. Every time you go home, you put on a dead face to show someone. This is my home. If not, it depends on your eyes."

"Yi Shaoqing." Xiang Chao grabbed Yi Shaoqing's front, "Be respectful, he didn't give birth to you, but at least he raised you."

"He raised me? How much did he earn by burning boilers all his life? He raised me? It's ridiculous!"

Yi Shaoqing pushed Xiang Chao away, Xiang Chao staggered a few steps, rushed over and wrestled with Yi Shaoqing.

After hearing the movement upstairs, Yi Lidan hurried upstairs and pulled the two brothers away.

"Are you trying to piss me off?" Yi Lidan cried and pushed Xiang Chao aside, "Your sister-in-law and Xiaoxue don't know what's going on? Your brother is also in a hurry! You can't bear it and be considerate Do you understand your brother?"

"Have I not endured long enough?"

Yi Shaoqing straightened his coat and said with a smile, "So you have endured enough and want to take revenge on me?"

"What the fuck are you talking about!" Xiang Chao made a gesture to approach Yi Shaoqing, but was held back by his mother Yi Lidan.

Yi Shaoqing pointed at him and said, "Don't you fucking think I don't know. The matter of Kuang Jie and Xiao Xue has nothing to do with you. How many people know about their going to Xiping Mountain? Hmm? It's not you, how do outsiders know about you?" My sister-in-law went to Xiping Mountain."

"Shaoqing, don't say that about your younger brother." Although Yi Lidan has always favored the eldest son, she also felt that this was too much.

Xiang Chao stepped back, pulled out the hand tightly held by his mother, shook his arm, and said as if pointing: "Everyone in this family knows. Also, how do you know that your wife didn't tell you?" Anyone else? Do you really know what she did outside behind your back?"

"What the hell did you say..."

"Old Xiang, come up quickly!" Yi Lidan stood between the two sons and shouted to her husband who was sitting silently on the sofa in the lobby on the first floor.

Xiang Songtao's face was sullen, and he still didn't seem to get up.

Suddenly, amidst the noisy quarrels and cries, there was a harsh ringing of the phone.

Yi Shaoqing let go of Xiang Chao's collar suddenly, and rushed towards the hall downstairs.Xiang Chao was stunned and ran down, Yi Lidan took a slow breath, clutched his chest and went downstairs tremblingly.

The landline phone was placed on the coffee table in front of Xiang Songtao. He stared at the landline but didn't answer it.

Yi Shaoqing glared at him, then hurriedly picked up the phone.

"Is the money ready?" The voice on the other end of the phone was not a normal human voice, but a strange mechanical voice that had been deliberately altered. It was sharp and cold, making one's scalp tingle.

"Get ready, tell me a place and I'll send it to you right away."

"You asked me to talk about a place?" The mechanical voice laughed, "When did you control the right to speak?"

Yi Shaoqing immediately said cautiously: "I was wrong, I will listen to your arrangements, as long as you don't hurt Xiaoxue."

"I'm in a bad mood right now, 100 million seems too easy for you. Two hours later, 200 million in cash, wait for my notice."

"200 million cash! Where can I collect 200 million cash in such a short period of time." Yi Shaoqing exploded instantly.

"300 million. If you call the police, I will chop off your daughter and wife's limbs, goug out your eyeballs, and cut off your tongue."

Yi Lidan, who was trembling all over, couldn't catch his breath, rolled his eyes, and fell backwards in a daze.Xiang Chaobu rushed over to catch his mother, and helped her to the sofa.

Yi Shaoqing took a deep breath, and begged: "I beg you not to hurt Xiaoxue, she is just a child. I will go and borrow the money right away."

The other end of the phone was silent for a few seconds, and said coldly: "Everyone was a child once, but unfortunately, not every child has the opportunity to grow up. However, you always have a choice. 300 million, two hours After that, otherwise prepare for collecting the corpse."

A piercing short tone came from the phone, and the microphone slipped from Yi Shaoqing's limp hand.

After a while, he hurried up to the second floor, and after a while, he ran downstairs in a panic holding the car keys.He clenched his other hand tightly, holding a white mobile hard drive in his palm.

Yi Lidan shouted to his son, "Where are you going?"

"I want money, where are you going!"

Yi Lidan's expression changed, and he stood up suddenly: "Shaoqing, don't go to him, don't provoke him anymore."

Yi Shaoqing didn't listen to his mother's advice at all, the door slammed shut, and a faint voice came from outside.

"If I don't fucking look for him, I will look for someone! Let you sleep for so many years in vain!"

With a bang, Yi Lidan collapsed on the ground at Xiang Songtao's feet, his face turned blue and white, and he looked breathless.

But the owner of that foot was sitting motionless with a livid face.

"dad……"

The words Yi Shaoqing slammed hit Xiang Chao's face like a slap in the face, while his humiliated father still sat motionless.

Xiang Chao felt that anger, shame, and disappointment were intertwined in his heart, like the fire of purgatory, about to roar open his heart and lungs.

The father in his memory was not like this. He used to have a smiling face when he came home no matter how busy or tired he was.No matter how much his mother nagged and scolded him, he happily accommodated.

The elder brother in his memory is not what he is now. He remembers that his favorite thing to do when he was young was to follow behind his elder brother's ass, pestering him to take him to play together.

However, everything changed after he dug out the two paternity test reports that his father had hidden under the mattress.

At that time, Xiang Chao didn't understand what the above numbers represented, nor did he understand why there was such a big difference between his own and his brother's numbers.He just thought it was fun and folded two pieces of paper into an airplane.

The paper plane flew from his house all the way to the opposite bedroom, and hit the back of Yi Shaoqing's head who was studying.

At that time, the bedroom door of the two brothers was always open, and they could see each other when they turned around and looked out.After that, the door of Yi Shaoqing's room was closed.

Later, gradually, Xiang Chao also began to close the door tightly.

……

Ji Shang and Yin Hao drove to Xiping Mountain again, this time they went straight to the 'Lichen Xiaozhu' on the top of the mountain, but they found nothing.

Whether it was checking the surveillance, checking the check-in records, or taking out photos of Kuang Jie's mother and daughter for the staff to identify, the results all confirmed one thing, Lichen Xiaozhu was not the destination for Kuang Jie's mother and daughter to go up the mountain yesterday.

"Going up from the Changping Nursing Home, there is only Lichen Xiaozhu, a normal homestay. And judging from the time the black car driver passed the surveillance twice, it takes 15 minutes one way, which happens to be the time it takes to reach the top of the mountain. Kuang Jie's mother and daughter came On the top of the mountain, it is impossible to spend the night in the wilderness, in the woods."

Ji Shang said with a smile: "You think those two mothers and daughters are the same as we were in school, and they have to be put into the wilderness mountains and forests to learn wild survival skills from time to time."

Yin Hao showed no worries: "Could it be that some link in our deduction is wrong? In short, there are two living people, one big and one small, it is impossible to disappear out of thin air after going up the mountain."

Ji Shangchao Yin Hao shook his hand: "Don't draw conclusions too quickly, follow me."

There is a gravel path behind the parking lot of Lichen Xiaozhu. The two walked down the path and walked half a circle around the homestay.Behind the B&B, under the two-story terraced stone steps, there is a construction site under construction.

Half of the site is exposed to loess and foundations are being laid, and four or five small villas in Southeast Asian style have been built on the other half.

The two walked around to the largest building. Although the facilities inside the glass gate were not perfect, it was the decoration style of the hotel's front lobby. Someone could be seen sitting at the front desk.

"Shall I ask her?" Yin Hao looked at Ji Shang.

Ji Shang said: "It's useless to ask her."

Yin Hao looked at Ji Shang with an air of all ears.

"This hotel has not yet been fully completed, and the opening information has not even been released online. Although several villas have been built, the roads in front of some villas have not been repaired. If Kuang Jie spends the night in such a place, what does it mean?"

Yin Hao said: "She at least knows the management of this hotel, or in other words, this hotel has her family's shares."

"If she has shares in her family, there is no need for her to sneak up to the mountain without telling Xiang Chao. So she probably knows the management of the hotel, and the relationship is not enough to be familiar with outsiders. In this case, let's ask the internal personnel of the hotel, and the other party has a high probability Not telling the truth."

Ji Shang pointed to a few workers who were sitting and drinking water to rest at the construction site in the distance.

"What about the cigarettes I asked you to buy at Lichen Xiaozhu?"

Ji Shang stretched out his hand to Yin Hao, but his eyes glanced at the resting place of those workers.Yin Hao took out the cigarette, but didn't put it in Ji Shang's hands, but slapped Ji Shang's palm heavily: "You are a treacherous and cunning man."

The warm touch of the palm disappeared, and Ji Shang was startled, curled up his palm to gather himself, and then spread it out as if nothing had happened: "Give me the smoke."

Yin Hao smirked, turned around while walking, and said, "I'll do the news, I'm more friendly to the people."

"Do you have any misunderstanding about the word close to the people?"

Ji Shang smelled the smoke, and his addiction fell again.He fumbled a dog paw lollipop in his pocket, put it in his mouth, and followed slowly.

"I'm serious." Yin Hao turned around again and glanced at Ji Shang, "You just stand here and wait for me, this place is dirtier than the mud pit in the school training ground."

Just as Yin Hao finished speaking, one foot had accidentally stepped into the black and yellow mud.Ji Shang looked down at his snow-white sneakers, and silently put down the raised foot.

In less than 10 minutes, Yin Hao turned back.The whole pack of cigarettes went out, but Ji Shang knew from his expression that he definitely did not return empty-handed.

After seeing Kuang Jie's photo, most of the workers smiled secretly and gossipingly.They had met not only Kuang Jie the day before, but also the male owner of this hotel who drove a silver-gray Porsche.

Yin Hao pointed to a villa next to the front lobby of the hotel: "According to the workers, Kuang Jie and the hotel owner stayed there for nearly two hours."

That Kuang Jie is not a gentle and kind person, Ji Shang has already noticed this, but he didn't expect that Kuang Jie could be so dirty that he took his daughter to have a private meeting with a wild man.

Ji Shang scoffed at this kind of person, according to his temper, he just wanted to slap her ass and leave, regardless of whether she was dead or alive, or missing.But, there is also Yi Xiangxue, the little girl is so innocent.

Ji Shang calmed down and continued to ask: "Did anyone see her leave?"

Yin Hao said seriously: "This is even more strange. No one among the workers who are always paying attention to the progress of the gossip saw her leave, but no one saw her again after work started at five o'clock this morning."

"The road down the mountain was ruined, there was no transportation, and it rained all night. A woman suddenly disappeared with a child."

Ji Shang counted them one by one, and felt more and more strange about this matter.It is even more certain that Kuang Jie's family members are lying. Kuang Jie and Yi Xiangxue's mother and daughter have never returned home safely, and they are very likely to be in danger.

"Call Captain Cao. The police must intervene in this matter."