klisemfg Chapter 126 A Risky Move, Yet a Brilliant One
Chapter 126 A Risky Move, Yet a Brilliant One
noon.
12:20.
When the police received the emergency call and found a large number of original documents related to Xie Jiaoyue's crimes in her email, the police took it very seriously and immediately sent people to Xie's home to investigate the situation.
At the same time, several domestic entertainment media companies and influential entertainment bloggers received an email that revealed information about Xie Jiaoyue.
In addition, Zeng Yue's brother, who had just returned home after being discharged from the army, partnered with his friends to open a bodyguard training school.
That noon, he received an anonymous text message—
Eight years ago, Zeng Yue's rape and assault by thugs was not an accident. Xie Jiaoyue hired someone to commit the crime and then pretended to be passing by and help her. If you don't believe me, you can go find a guy named Brother Lie to verify the situation.
Brother Lie was the thug who hurt Zeng Yue back then. After hurting Zeng Yue, he fled to the remote Jiangcheng to hide.
Five years ago, this man was arrested and imprisoned for injuring someone, and he was released just three months ago.
After his release from prison, he sent threatening letters to Xie Jiaoyue, demanding money.
In order to appease Brother Lie, Xie Jiaoyue gave him 500,000 yuan to settle the matter.
The address Jiang Qingkong gave to Zeng An was the same address mentioned in the letter.
Upon receiving this text message, Zeng An's first reaction was shock, followed by suspicion and anger.
As an antique collector and instructor at a well-known bodyguard training school, he is highly regarded in the bodyguard circle. Popular celebrities in the entertainment industry often hire him as their personal bodyguard when attending important private events.
Just three months ago, Zeng An accompanied Xie Jiaoyue to a film festival abroad.
He was always grateful to Xie Jiaoyue for saving his sister.
Having lost both parents at a young age, Zeng An and his younger sister were each other's only family. When his sister committed suicide due to depression, he had not yet been discharged from the army, and it was Xie Jiaoyue who helped arrange the funeral.
At the funeral, Xie Jiaoyue cried until her eyes were swollen.
For the past three years, Xie Jiaoyue has canceled her work and gone to the cemetery to pay her respects to Zeng Yue on the anniversary of his death.
Therefore, Zeng An also took care of and helped Xie Jiaoyue, and even developed feelings of affection for her.
Staring at the contents of the anonymous text message, Zeng An suddenly gripped his phone tightly. Without saying a word, he grabbed his coat from the chair and bought the earliest direct flight to Jiangcheng!
He was going to find Brother Lie and ask him for clarification.
If it is confirmed that Xie Jiaoyue was indeed behind the assault on his sister Zeng Yue, then he must personally destroy Xie Jiaoyue!
*
Just as Zeng An boarded the flight to Jiangcheng, the internet was flooded with negative revelations about Xie Jiaoyue!
The revelations shocked the entire entertainment industry.
Xie Jiaoyue's fans were incredulous, and few dared to stand up and defend her innocence.
The police arrived at the Xie family home very quickly.
They rang the Xie family's doorbell and waited for about five minutes before a timid-looking nanny came to open the door.
"Hello, is Miss Xie Jiaoyue at home? Our police station has received several reports about Xie Jiaoyue, so we are here to investigate."
Zhang Ma stammered, "Miss Jiaoyue went out to play."
"Play?"
The three police officers exchanged glances, realizing that Xie Jiaoyue had escaped.
"Oh?"
"Do you know where she went to play?"
Aunt Zhang shook her head and said, "I'm just a housekeeper. How would I know about the affairs of my employers?"
"Is her mother at home?"
Xie Mingzong is still being held in a detention center awaiting his fate, while Xie Jiaoyue's mother, Zhang Xiang, should be at home.
Zhang Ma then said, "My wife hasn't been feeling well lately, so she went back to her parents' home in another city to rest early this morning."
"...That's quite a coincidence."
Xie Jiaoyue fled to avoid punishment.
When they fled, they also took all the cash from the house.
Fearing repercussions from the police, Zhang Xiang packed her things and quietly fled back to her parents' home in Jiangcheng.
As for where Xie Jiaoyue fled to, the police are unable to find out her exact whereabouts for the time being.
*
Gu Huaizhou officially succeeded to the Gu Group today, and he has officially transformed from the heir of the Gu family into the young Chairman Gu.
Gu Wentao has completely stepped down and retired.
A celebratory banquet was to be held that evening, keeping the Gu family's housekeeping team extremely busy. Only Du Yusheng had some free time to sit with Gu Wentao in the lakeside pavilion, fishing and warming themselves by the fire.
Du Yusheng is roasting sweet potatoes.
Although he was a very wealthy man, Gu Wentao's favorite food was sweet potato.
The Gu family was an official family more than two hundred years ago, but it declined for a period of time due to the turbulent times. They then changed their business to pursue the path of saving the country through industry.
The Gu family had also suffered a devastating disaster. In the critical moment, it was Gu Wentao's mother who led him to hide and escape from Dongzhou City, fleeing to a small mountain valley in a mountain town.
There, Gu Wentao and his mother met a kind and simple mother and daughter, who took them in.
Gu Wentao and his mother hid in the mountains for six years, during which time they stayed with their benefactor. Although life was hard, at least their lives were not in danger.
Back then, the four of them were always hungry. In winter, when a sweet potato was roasted, he and the little girl would each have half.
The two mothers ate some thin porridge mixed with sweet potato chunks...
Later, when the situation stabilized, Gu's mother took Gu Wentao back to Dongzhou City. The first thing she did was send someone to the mountain village to pick up her benefactors, mother and daughter.
But the benefactor had lived in the mountain village her whole life, and the tombstones of her relatives and elders were all in her hometown. She did not want to go to the big city, so she let her daughter leave the mountains with the Gu family.
And this daughter is Chu Qingying, Gu Wentao's lover and Gu Huaizhou's grandmother.
Chu Qingying was born in a poor mountain village. She met Gu Wentao when she was 8 years old, and with the help of Gu Wentao and his mother, she began to learn to read.
When Chu Qingying was 13 years old, she was taken to Dongzhou City by the Gu family, where she began to receive a true elite education.
Chu Qingying is an extraordinary woman. She possesses the kindness and resilience of a rural girl, as well as the elegance and intelligence of a lady from a prominent family.
Chu Qingying later became a historian and writer.
With a mind as vast as a valley and an air of elegance born from poetry and literature, Chu Qingying may not possess stunning beauty, but she has a captivating soul.
Gu Wentao first met Chu Qingying when he was 11 years old, and at the age of 24, he firmly chose Chu Qingying to become the mistress of the Gu family. Until his beloved wife Chu Qingying passed away from illness at the age of 77, he never changed his mind.
Gu Wentao and Chu Qingying are a truly divine couple whose souls are perfectly intertwined.
In the past, whenever it snowed in the depths of winter, Gu Wentao and Chu Qingying liked to gather around the stove in this lakeside pavilion and brew tea.
Chu Qingying reads books and writes books.
Gu Wentao spent his time fishing and working.
Occasionally, when the mood struck them, the two would play chess, with Du Yusheng watching from the sidelines.
But such a heartwarming scene will never happen again.
"Did Li Xi also study history in college?" Gu Wentao suddenly spoke up, interrupting Du Yusheng's recollection.
Du Yusheng flipped the sweet potato over and nodded, saying, "Yes, sir, do you remember? The year your mother passed away, she attended an exhibition of returned cultural relics. The designers of that exhibition were Li Xi and her teacher."
"Oh? Her teacher?"
"You know this person too? He is Mr. Song Chengyi, the old lady's favorite student. He is now the dean of the History Department at University A."
"Song Chengyi? Oh, after all this time, we're all family."
Li Xi is Song Chengyi's student, which means he is Chu Qingying's master and apprentice. Aren't they family?
"Did Huaizhou invite Li Xi?"
Du Yusheng couldn't help but laugh: "Old sir, is there even a need to ask? Huaizhou is willing to hold this banquet today, isn't it so that everyone can get to know his sweetheart?"
"People, whether male or female, young or old, can't hide it when they have someone they like."
Gu Wentao smiled upon hearing this, "Li Xi is a smart, brave, and kind child, and she also cares about Huai Zhou. Qing Ying just left too early. If she were still alive, she would definitely like this girl very much."
Both being elderly, Gu Wentao felt saddened by his wife's passing, but not overly grief-stricken.
After all, he's getting old, and in a few years he'll have to follow his beloved in death; it's only a matter of time.
Du Yusheng felt a warm feeling when he thought of that scene. "The old lady likes girls with a clever spirit the most. When Miss Xie found Huaizhou, the old lady praised the girl for being intelligent."
Xie Jiaoyue's ability to enter and leave the Gu family over the years has all been at Chu Qingying's behest.
But the old lady didn't know that they had mistaken her for someone else.
"Don't mention that Xie family woman." Gu Wentao's expression darkened slightly, his eyelids drooping, making him appear particularly stern. "That Xie family woman is not the real benefactor who saved Huaizhou at all; she has been putting on a very convincing act all these years."
"By the way, what's the situation with the Zhou family?"
When the Zhou family was mentioned, Du Yusheng's expression became somewhat amused. He said, "I heard that around 2 a.m. last night, the second son of the Zhou family fell asleep at the wheel, accidentally hit a roadblock, and overturned the car. He's still in the hospital right now."
"..." After a moment's thought, Gu Wentao guessed that there was something strange about the car accident involving Zhou's second son.
He said, "The Zhou family guessed that the Xie family's actions would bring them trouble, so they risked losing a son to avoid the risk."
"It's a risky move, but also a brilliant one."