Xu family villa.

In the living room on the first floor, the cook, Old Liu, put breakfast on the table. He looked up and called out to the servant, Mrs. Ren, who was mopping the floor, "Mrs. Ren, breakfast is ready. Please go upstairs and invite the master and mistress down to have breakfast!"

"Okay, I'll go right away!" Mrs. Ren agreed and put down the rag to wash her hands.

In the yard outside the building, two patrolmen were huddled together smoking.

"Xie Laoliu, I woke up this morning feeling a little dizzy. I don't know what happened. We both went to bed early last night, so it shouldn't be that I didn't sleep well. How about you?"

Xie Laoliu took a puff of his cigarette and said, "I also felt a little dizzy and weak when I woke up, but I'm much better now!"

"I'm hungry. Why haven't the director and his wife come down to eat yet? If they don't eat, we can't eat first. There are so many damn rules!"

The maid, Mrs. Ren, came to the door of the master bedroom on the second floor and knocked on the door: "Knock, knock, knock"

"Master, Madam, breakfast is ready!"

There was no answer from the room.

A few seconds later, Mrs. Ren knocked on the door again and shouted, "Master, Madam, breakfast is ready!"

There was still no answer in the room. Mrs. Ren even put her ear to the door to listen, but she couldn't hear any sound.

She knocked on the door again, much harder, and shouted louder, "Master, Madam, it's getting late. It's almost time to go to work, and breakfast is ready!"

There was still no sound in the room.

"What's going on? Even if you were sleeping soundly, you wouldn't be able to miss my loud knocking and shouting!"

Mrs. Ren's face was full of confusion. She wanted to turn the doorknob and push the door open to take a look, but then she thought it was not appropriate to enter the master's bedroom alone. What if something was lost in the room or something happened, she would not be able to explain it.

So Mrs. Ren turned and went downstairs, and said to the housekeeper who was standing at the door, "Housekeeper Pang, I went upstairs to call the master and his wife to get up and come down to wash and eat, but there was no response from the room, not a single sound. I didn't dare push the door open by myself. What do you think we should do?"

Butler Pang turned around and asked, "Master and Madam, are you still awake?"

"no!"

"Where is the young master?"

"The young master didn't come back at all last night!" said Mrs. Ren.

Butler Pang walked into the first floor, turned his head and glanced at the clock on the wall, and said, "Come on, I'll go with you to wake up the master and the mistress. The master said yesterday that there was a meeting this morning, so we can't be late!"

The two of them went up to the second floor one after the other and came to the door of the master bedroom.

Butler Pang raised his arm and knocked on the door: "Knock, knock, knock, knock"

"Master, it's time to get up. You have an important meeting at 9:00 AM. You can't be late!"

The room was very quiet, without any sound coming out.

Butler Pang looked at Mrs. Ren, and Mrs. Ren said, "I told you, there's no way I can wake him up!"

Butler Pang continued to knock on the door and shout loudly, and he shouted many times in a row, but no sound came from the bedroom.

Mrs. Ren said with some concern, "Butler Pang, could something have happened? Why don't you push the door open and take a look?"

Butler Pang swallowed his saliva and shook his head quickly: "How can a man like me enter the mistress's bedroom? You come and open the door!"

"Well, that's fine, but don't leave. If something really happens, I won't be able to explain it!"

"Okay, I won't leave. Open the door!"

Mrs. Ren reached out, grasped the doorknob, turned it, and slowly pushed the door open.

After the door was pushed open, the scene of Xu Gang and Mrs. Xu hanging from the lampstand in the room appeared before his eyes.

The two men's eyes widened, they forgot to breathe, and the expressions on their faces instantly became terrified.

Mrs. Ren was the first to scream: "Ah——"

"Ah—someone is dead, someone is dead, both the master and the mistress are dead!"

Butler Pang's face lost all color for a moment, but he quickly recovered and shouted, "Stop shouting! Go call the police!"

"Oh, oh, I'll go right away!" Mrs. Ren agreed hurriedly, turned around and ran downstairs quickly, almost falling down.

As soon as she went downstairs, the cook Lao Liu, two other servants and two footmen all ran up to the second floor panting. When they saw Xu Gang and his wife hanging from the lampstand in the room, they were all scared pale and couldn't help but screaming.

Seeing the scene in the room, Xie Laoliu couldn't help but swallow his saliva and said, "What's going on? This shouldn't be the case. Why would the master and his wife hang themselves out of despair for no reason?"

Butler Pang said with a gloomy face, "The specific reason is still unclear. I've asked Mrs. Ren to call the police. No one is allowed to enter this bedroom until the police arrive! Xie Laoliu, you guard the door!"

Xie Laoliu nodded and agreed: "Okay!"

Butler Pang said to another patrolman, "Wang Cheng, you spend a lot of time with the young master, so you're familiar with the places he frequents. Go find him and tell him something's happened at home. Tell him to come back immediately!"

"Okay, Butler Pang!"

Not long after, several police vehicles drove into the yard of the Xu family villa.

A middle-aged man in uniform got out of the car with a large group of police officers.

Butler Pang immediately went to greet him: "Deputy Director Lu, you are finally here!"

Deputy Director Lu asked seriously, "Where are the bodies of Director Xu and Mrs. Xu now?"

"In the master bedroom on the second floor!"

"Go in!" Deputy Director Lu waved to the policemen behind him.

As they walked, Deputy Director Lu asked Butler Pang, "You didn't go into the bedroom and destroy the scene, did you?"

Butler Pang quickly said, "No, no!"

"Tell me about the situation. Who discovered it first and how did they discover it?" asked Deputy Director Lu.

Butler Pang said, "Sister Ren went upstairs this morning to wake the master and his wife up for dinner. She called for a long time but no one answered, and there was no response from the room. Then Sister Ren came downstairs and told me about it. We went upstairs together and knocked on the door again. We called for a long time but still no one opened it, so I asked Sister Ren to open the door. When the door opened, we saw the master and his wife hanging from the lamp stand, motionless!"

"We didn't dare go in at the time, so I asked Mrs. Ren to call you. Later, I asked Xie Laoliu, who was on duty here, to guard the door and not allow anyone to enter the room before you came."

"Well, you did a great job!" Deputy Director Lu expressed his approval of the handling of the matter by Butler Pang and others.

Everyone soon arrived at the door of the master bedroom and saw Xu Gang and his wife hanging on the lamp stand in the room.

It took more than ten seconds for everyone to accept the fact that Xu Gang and his wife had been hanged. Deputy Director Lu looked serious on the surface, but he was actually very happy in his heart.

In the police station, he has been the deputy director for more than ten years, but has never been promoted. Xu Gang has always been superior to him and is his sworn enemy. Although their relationship appears harmonious on the surface, they are secretly competing with each other and both can't wait to kick the other out.

Now that Xu Gang is dead, whether he committed suicide or was murdered, he is dead and the position of director is vacant. Deputy Director Lu is the most likely to be promoted to director. As long as the higher-ups don't send a new director to take over, he will be the first choice to succeed him.

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