gentle reunion

"Why did you secretly take pictures of me?" Li Mingen asked.

Xie Kaiyan was stunned for a moment, and then realized, isn't the man holding his mobile phone that Mr. Li?Did he find his cell phone?

"I, I..." Xie Kaiyan was overly nervous, his mind went blank, and he couldn't think of an excuse.

Li Mingen gave a "tsk" impatiently.

One of his subordinates winked at the security guard, and the security guard quickly walked up to Xie Kaiyan, slapping him with a raised hand.

Xie Kaiyan was dizzy from the slap, and staggered back a few steps. When he looked up again, there was blood on the corner of his mouth.

But the security guard didn't let him go, and slapped him more than ten times.

Xie Kaiyan shrunk his body and put his arms around his head. He was swayed by the fan, like a lonely tree in a typhoon.

Li Mingen finally spoke, he blamed the security guard: "Speak up if you have something to say, why do you do it?"

The security guard stepped aside.

Li Mingen asked again: "Why did you secretly take my photo?"

Xie Kaiyan put down the arm holding his head, sobbing and touching tears, he looks very miserable now, his hair is disheveled, his cheeks are red and swollen, and the corners of his mouth are bleeding.

He lowered his head and whispered tremblingly, "It's not you, it's Sun Zhe."

Li Mingen frowned and looked at his subordinates.

The subordinate said: "Speak up when answering the question, who are you photographing?"

Xie Kaiyan had to increase his volume: "Sun Zhe."

"Oh? You start from the beginning."

Xie Kaiyan started talking about how he and Xu Zan met. He didn't hide anything, and he didn't dare to hide it. He asked what he said.

Li Mingen said after listening, "Let's talk about you, Kong Xichen and Wang Ting."

Xie Kaiyan had a photo of him and Kong Xichen on his cell phone, it was a selfie with their faces pressed together, the two looked very close.

Xie Kaiyan hesitated.

The security guard made a gesture to beat him up again.

Xie Kaiyan yelled in panic: "Wait a minute, I'll say it, I'll say it all!"

What he said was different from what Li Mingen and the others knew, which surprised them.

Li Mingen thought to himself, fortunately Wang Rui has already left, otherwise the current situation might be a little troublesome.

Two hours later, Xie Kaiyan, who was questioned repeatedly, was tired and thirsty. He said tremblingly, "I've told you everything I know, can you let me go?"

Li Mingen: "Take people down first."

Of course, it is not to let people go, but to take people away, so that he is not here to hinder their discussion.

Li Mingen: "Tell me what you think, you can say anything."

Someone said: "It's all because Sun Zhe didn't wipe his ass clean. He used Xie Kaiyan to frame Xu Zan, but he didn't appease Xie Kaiyan, that's why this happened."

Li Mingen also thinks so, but now is not the time to pursue responsibility, he said: "It's meaningless to talk about it now, talk about something else."

Someone said: "Although Xie Kaiyan said he was photographing Sun Zhe, he also photographed Mr. Li. When Xu Zan saw the photo, he also saw Mr. Li in the photo..."

Li Mingen's expression changed. Does Xu Zan know who he is?Has their strength been exposed long ago?

Could Xu Zan have guessed their plan?And figured out how to fight back?

Li Mingen looked at everyone: "What do you think of Liu Jin from Juxin? What is his relationship with Xu Zan?"

Someone replied: "Liu Jin has a wife and children, I haven't heard that he has homosexuality."

Li Mingen glared at him: "I didn't ask that! I asked: Is it true or not that he decided to betray Xu Zan? Didn't Liu Jin meet Xu Zan on the gambling boat before he promised us?"

"They met, but they quarreled and even fought. Xu Zan beat Liu Jin. Liu Jin was so angry that he contacted us as soon as he got off the boat and said he wanted to cooperate with us."

"If Liu Jin doesn't betray Xu Zan, he will have to go to jail by himself. Between the 20 or [-] years in prison and Xu Zan, I don't think he will choose Xu Zan."

"The news that Xu Zan was the original culprit who killed the Wang family was provided to us by Liu Jin, and it is his signature."

These few reasons made Li Mingen calm down. That's right, Liu Jin should be fine. Their plan can continue, but maybe they should speed up?

If the time is too long, it is easy to cause problems, so we have to solve it quickly, so that even if Xu Zan is prepared, he may be caught off guard.

Someone said: "Xie Kaiyan said that Kong Xichen had something to do with Wang Ting's death. Kong Xichen drugged Wang Ting. Is that true? Why didn't the police find out?"

Li Mingen looked at a man in his 50s next to him: "Lawyer Chen, what do you think is going on?"

Lawyer Chen: "The police investigation process is still very rigorous, and there is no problem with the chain of evidence. The only problem is that there were only Wang Ting and Kong Xichen at the scene, and Wang Ting was in a coma, so the police can only rely on Kong Xichen's confession. Speculate on what happened at the time."

"There is indeed medicine in the cake at the scene. This should be the medicine given by Wang Ting. Because he prepared the cake, Kong Xichen is basically impossible to tamper with, and the police have found the record of Wang Ting's purchase of medicine. As for the medicine in the drink, now It seems that the source is indeed doubtful."

Someone asked: "Is the medicine in the cake the same as the medicine in the drink?"

Lawyer Chen: "The ingredients of common ecstasy drugs on the market are basically similar, and Kong Xichen and Wang Ting have contacts, which shows that their circles overlap. Maybe they took the drugs from the same person."

Another asked: "Can you find out who they got the medicine from?"

Lawyer Chen: "The drug dealer has been arrested, but he sells drugs in a two-way anonymous manner. He contacts online, pays offline, pays the money and delivers the goods. The buyer doesn't know his identity, and he doesn't care whether the buyer is Who, he doesn't know Wang Ting, nor has he met Kong Xichen."

"Wang Ting and Kong Xichen may have asked someone else to get the medicine for them. Maybe the drug dealer can identify them?"

Lawyer Chen was helpless: "You can think of the police as well. The drug dealer doesn't remember anyone. He just accepts the money and takes the money and takes the medicine."

Li Mingen ended the topic aloud: "Okay, you laymen, stop pointing the police to investigate the case."

Someone said: "Mr. Li, do you know that Xu Zan and Kong Xichen know each other? There have been scandals about them."

Another person said: "...If Kong Xichen murdered Wang Ting, then Xu Zan is probably the mastermind behind the scenes?"

Everyone was silent.

Li Mingen was silent, and then said angrily: "Damn, is Xu Zan the reincarnation of Daji? Why did he hook up so many people to work for him? Do you know how the Wang family became enmity with him? I didn’t get the person, and I was almost beaten to death, and I even hurt the family..."

Everyone present listened to the gossip silently, thinking that Xu Zan and the Wang family had some kind of blood feud, and it turned out that the cause was only such a trivial matter?

Li Mingen was only angry for a while, and then he stopped automatically. He leaned back on the sofa as if he was exhausted, and sighed: "Do you think you should tell Wang Rui about Wang Ting?"

Someone said: "It seems that it is useless to tell him. Xu Zan is the mastermind behind the scenes. It is just our guess. We have no proof."

Another person said: "After the Wang family finds out, they may go to pay for Xu Zan's death. This is not beneficial to our plan."

Li Mingen nodded: "Then tell him later."

He also said: "It's definitely not okay to kill Xu Zan directly, but I don't think we can continue to let him do things like this, he makes me feel very uneasy."

Someone suggested: "Then arrest him in advance?"

Li Mingen asked: "What reason?"

"Using Wang Ting?"

Li Mingen was very interested: "Tell me about it."

At noon that day, Xu Zan and Lan Tianran went to eat together, and the two walked to a restaurant in a nearby commercial building.

The two did not take the elevator upstairs, but took the escalator leisurely. Xu Zan stood on the higher step, turned sideways and talked to Lan Tianran, his eyes swept over the other people on the escalator, several women, a couple The couple, and behind them was a young man in a gray coat—this man walked into the commercial building with them, and he had been on the same road with them for a long time.

The escalator is coming to the end, Lan Tianran holds Xu Zan's arm: "Be careful."

Xu Zan looked down at the road, quietly shook Lan Tianran's hand, and said solemnly: "Your hands are a little cold, it's cold."

"I'm not cold." Lan Tianran said, "It's cold, it's already the beginning of winter."

Xu Zan looked at him and smiled.

Lan Tianran: "What are you laughing at?"

"It's nothing. There seems to be no autumn in Mingcheng, and the temperature suddenly dropped."

The two walked half a circle around the corridor, before boarding the next escalator, Xu Zan raised his eyes, the young man in the gray coat was still following them, he stopped for a while, letting Lan Tianran stand in front of him, he was still standing sideways, Talking to Lan Tianran, he looked around like a landscape.

After going up a few more floors, the young man in the gray coat finally stopped walking with them.

After reaching the destination floor, Xu Zan and Lan Tianran walked towards the restaurant they were going to.

A young man in blue came to meet him, he walked quickly, Xu Zan pushed Lan Tianran lightly, and the two moved aside.

But the man still bumped into him, Xu Zan protected Lan Tianran behind him, raised his arm to stop the man's charge, and at the same time grabbed the man's wrist: "What are you doing?"

"I'm sorry." The man apologized in a low voice, then pushed Xu Zan violently, trying to shake him off and run away, but Xu Zan clasped his wrist tightly as if he was on guard.

There was a ruthless look on the man's face, and he pushed Xu Zan again. This time Xu Zan felt a pain in his arm, and then his hand was empty, and the man ran away.

Xu Zan immediately chased after him, and Lan Tianran also chased for a few steps, then turned his footsteps and ran in a different direction - the shopping mall is elliptical, with four rows of escalators, if he uses other escalators, he can outflank that place with Xu Zan people.

The two chased the man madly for seven floors, and finally blocked him.

The man hesitated to break through from Lan Tianran's side, but Xu Zan jumped into the air with the momentum of running without hesitation, kicking the man to the ground.

The man struggled with his hands and feet to get up, Xu Zan went up and kicked the man hard, rolling the man on the ground.

"What do you want to do with us all the way? You don't think I can't recognize you if you wear your coat inside out?"

Xu Zan continued to walk forward, but the man lay on his side on the ground, unable to get up, and could only back away in panic, rubbing against the ground.

"Okay." Lan Tianran held Xu Zan back.

Xu Zan was stunned for a moment, then came back to his senses, and saw many people around them watching them, and some people were holding up their mobile phones, probably taking videos.

The mall security came over and asked everyone, "What's going on?"

Xu Zan withdrew his gaze, lowered his head and pulled up his right sleeve, revealing a bloody arm.

"Hiss, there's a lot of blood..." The people around started talking, and the mobile phone that was shooting the video turned to Xu Zan's side.

"Why..." Lan Tianran was terrified, Xu Zan looked at him, smiled at him, and said in a low voice, "I'm fine, it's just a small injury, it just looks scary."

Lan Tianran took a deep breath and tried to calm down. He looked at the security guards, and then divided them in an orderly manner. You go to get the medicine box, you call the police immediately, and the rest maintain order.