The villa of Chen Mengqi's family is located in Taohuaao in the eastern suburbs of Xinlang County. It was once one of the most high-end villas in Xinlang.
Three years ago, when Chen Yuanqiao had a premonition that something might happen to Jinqiao Group, in order to leave a place for his daughter, he and Gong Zhichao came up with a way: to price the villa in Taohuaao at three million yuan.
"Sold" to Fu Mengzi's sister Su Dongmei, and the transfer procedures were immediately completed. In this way, even if something happens to Jinqiao Group in the future, because the villa has already been "sold", it will not be seized or confiscated as the property of the Chen family.
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Because Su Dongmei had been working in the south, Gong Zhichao arranged for a subordinate named Li Binghua to live in the villa and protect the valuable furniture and other properties in the villa.
Chen Yuanqiao and Gong Zhichao did not hide this matter from Ye Ming, but they did not tell Chen Mengqi to avoid her worry. At that time, Chen Yuanqiao also asked Ye Ming to tell Qiqi the truth about the villa once something happened to him and Gong Zhichao.
, let her find Fu Mengzi and his sister, sell the villa together, and use the money from selling the villa to start a new life...
Ye Ming came to Taohua'ao today first, just to see the situation and to find out from Li Binghua about Fu Mengzi, Mao Lizi, Ai Donggua and others, and then ask them if there was any news about Chen Mengqi.
Li Binghua is Gong Zhichao's old brother after Fu Mengzi and other "Four King Kongs", and he is also very familiar with Ye Ming. Therefore, after Ye Ming parked the car outside the villa and saw the bright lights inside, he got out of the car and walked to the villa.
He reached the door and rang the doorbell.
The iron door opened quickly, and a shirtless young man appeared behind the door. Using the street lights outside, he looked Ye Ming up and down, and asked in a loud voice: "Which one are you looking for? What should I do?
Don’t know you?”
Ye Ming thought he was Li Binghua's new subordinate, so he said, "Where is Li Binghua? Let him come out to see me!"
Because he heard the commotion in the living room on the first floor of the villa, and the sound of shouting and shouting, Ye Ming estimated that Li Binghua and others were gathering for gambling. With his current status, it was difficult to get in, so he asked the person who opened the door directly.
he called out.
Hearing that his tone was louder, the young man looked at him again in surprise, and asked: "Who are you? What are you doing looking for Brother Hua? He no longer lives here and has bought another house in Phoenix Villa. Where can you go to look for him?"
Him! By the way, your accent sounds like Xin Leng, and you know Brother Hua, don’t you know that this villa now belongs to Brother Wei? Why are you here looking for Brother Hua? "
Ye Ming was shocked. He stared at the young man with wide eyes. He was stunned for a while and then asked: "Who is Brother Wei? Doesn't this villa belong to Fu Mengzi's sister Su Dongmei? When did it become Brother Wei's?"
When the young man heard him mention Fu Mengzi, he glared at him warily and asked, "What is your relationship with Fu Mengzi? Since you know Fu Mengzi, why don't you go to him and ask him about the situation? Let me tell you: If you
He's Fu Mengzi's younger brother. It's best not to come here. If Brother Wei finds out, he will break your legs. You should leave quickly!"
With that said, he took a step back and closed the big iron door with a bang.
Ye Ming wanted to knock on the door again and ask about the situation, but after thinking about it, he held back and decided to find a place to stay first. When he went to pay homage to Brother Chao's cemetery tomorrow, he would definitely meet Fu Mengzi and others. Then he would ask them
Find out the inside story.
So, he drove back to the city and randomly found a hotel to stay for one night.
Because I am concerned about my current status, as a county party committee secretary, if I go to pay homage to a criminal who was shot, and people find out about it, it will have a bad impact after all.
Therefore, around six o'clock the next morning, Ye Ming set off from the hotel and drove for forty minutes to Xiqiao Town, Xinlang County. He bought a set of firecrackers from a shop in the town that specialized in wreaths, birthday clothes, incense candles, paper money, and firecrackers.
I brought incense, two wads of money, a few candles, two packets of firecrackers, and a few small plates for sacrificial offerings. I went to the nearby fruit shop to buy some fruits, and then drove straight to Chenjiaao along a village-level road.
village.
He has visited Chen Yuanqiao's grave twice: last year and the year before last during Qingming Festival. Considering that Chen Mengqi's family was far away in Australia and Gong Zhichao was in jail at the time, there was no one to visit Chen Yuanqiao's grave. Therefore, in the past two years, he used
When I returned to Xinleng during the Qingming Festival to visit my mother's grave, I quietly rushed to Chenjia'ao Village and also visited Chen Yuanqiao's grave, but Secretary Lu and the others did not know about it.
During the Qingming Festival this year, Ye Ming was attending the pre-appointment training for the new county party secretary at the Central Party School. He had no time to go back, so he asked Xia Chuchu to return to Xinlang County as his daughter-in-law and visit his mother's grave. Chen Yuanqiao did not go there...
Ye Ming was very familiar with Chen Yuanqiao's cemetery because he had been here twice. After driving to the entrance of Chenjia'ao Village, he turned right onto an unhardened dirt road and walked for another kilometer along the winding, bumpy dirt road.
To the left and right is a hillside. Chen Yuanqiao's cemetery is halfway up the hillside.
This hillside is also the location of the ancestral graves of villagers surnamed Chen in Chenjiaao. The hillside is densely covered with tombs and tombstones. Many of the tombs are also covered with branches used by villagers to hang money when they sweep their tombs during the Qingming Festival. There are still colorful remains on the branches.
Ghost money.
Ye Ming drove the car to the opposite side of the hillside and stopped. Then he got out of the car wearing a pair of large sunglasses and carrying a bag of memorial supplies. He passed through a lawn at the bottom of the hillside and was about to go uphill when he suddenly found himself about three hundred meters to the west of the lawn.
, I don’t know who built three simple bungalows with red bricks. Looking around, I saw that the three wooden doors of the bungalow were tightly closed. It was quiet and there was no sound. I didn’t know if anyone lived inside.
Ye Ming was a little surprised: this place is just a tomb mountain, with no homes or fields, and it is also far away from the Chen family compound. Who built three bungalows here? What is the purpose of building it here?
However, he didn't think much about it. He climbed up the mountainside with the bag containing the sacrificial offerings, and first found Chen Yuanqiao's grave. Then he looked to the side and saw that there was indeed a new grave with a tombstone.
Ye Ming bent over and looked at the tombstone, which read "The Tomb of the Martyr Gong Zhichao" in large characters, and below it there was a line of small characters that read "The sworn brothers Su Fuchu, Mao Lihua, Li Dongsheng and others stood in tears".
Ye Ming knew: Su Fuchu, Mao Lihua, and Li Dongsheng were the real names of Fu Mengzi, Mao Lizi, and Ai Donggua. They should have been in charge of Brother Chao's funeral affairs, and they also erected the tombstone.
Ye Ming stared at the tombstone, thinking of Brother Chao's care and help for him in the past, and his words in his suicide note telling him to take good care of Qiqi and help Fu Mengzi and others take the right path. He felt extremely sore in his heart and his eyes were filled with pain.
Red, big tears rolled down his cheeks.
At this moment, Ye Ming heard the roar of a car motor coming from the opposite side. He turned around and saw a van driving from the entrance of the village and stopped behind his Toyota Camry. Two young people
The man got out of the car, looked around his Toyota for a while, then turned around and walked up the hillside.