"This happened before Jiang Yuze was arrested. In the past few years, my father had been taking health supplements. After I noticed this problem, I sent some of the remaining health supplements to relevant institutions for testing. I found that there were special ingredients in them that had a calming effect."

Chen Shiming lowered his voice and stood in an empty corner with Chen Qizhao. "Afterwards, Dad was diagnosed with three highs, so he stopped taking these health care drugs and switched to antihypertensive drugs. But the oral antihypertensive drugs he placed at the workplace were replaced by Jiang Yuze again, with pills in the exact same packaging and shape, but the ingredients inside were also changed."

Chen Qizhao didn't say anything. He looked at Chen Shiming and listened to what he said.

Chen Shiming briefly told Chen Qizhao how he discovered the problem. "Dad has problems with dizziness and drowsiness from time to time. Now it seems that in addition to the three highs, it is more likely that he has been taking this kind of medicine for a long time. I have asked the doctor about this kind of medicine, and taking a small amount has no effect on the body, but for Dad who handles the group's business on a daily basis, drowsiness is a very fatal problem."

"I suspect that the reason why Jiang Yuze placed such drugs in the place was probably because he wanted to influence my father's decision through the drug factor."

It is very likely that because he realized his energy was limited after taking this type of drug, Chen Jianhong has been handing over the group's affairs to Chen Shiming step by step in recent years, and has also been supporting certain senior backbones within the company. Jiang Yuze may have been operating among them at the beginning, and then made suggestions for himself and Lin Shizhong's layout.

Not long after Chen Shiming finished speaking, he saw the Chen family coming out of the banquet hall. He paused the topic and was about to go back and discuss it with Chen Qizhao, but suddenly he heard a voice in his ear.

"No... that's not necessary."

Chen Qizhao's voice was very calm, but his eyes were filled with emotions that Chen Shiming could not understand.

Chen Shiming paused and looked at him: "What's wrong?"

Chen Qizhao lowered his head, as if he was looking at the ground, but also as if he was looking at something through the ground.

He said: "Lin Shizhong does not need to take two steps."

If Lin Shizhong could take action against Chen Jianhong by replacing health products and other medicines, then why did he go through all the trouble to arrange for Lao Lin to do the aromatherapy? Given Jiang Yuze's position in the company at the time, he would have had many opportunities to attack Chen Jianhong when Chen Jianhong was not on guard.

Change the medicine and the aromatherapy. The more actions you take, the greater the exposure.

And according to the time points mentioned by Chen Shiming, the time of changing the medicine was much earlier than the aromatherapy, and before Jiang Yuze went to prison, the aromatherapy thing was actually already in operation, and Lao Lin had been laying the groundwork for too long...

"Let's talk about it when we get back. It's not convenient to communicate here." Chen Shiming said.

Most of the people at the birthday party had left. Chen Jianhong and his wife said goodbye to the Shen family and left. However, the car was very quiet. Chen Qizhao sat in the back seat and said nothing about other people's discussions.

Chen Qizhao was quickly sorting out all the connections during this period of time.

At this moment, his cell phone vibrated, and when he looked down, he saw an anonymous email.

The anonymous email contained an investigation report about the silhouette of the middle-aged man next to Gu Shen's car that Chen Qizhao had asked to investigate some time ago. The other party had a hard time finding the person, but soon sent the man's information. This person is not very famous. He is a small private detective in S City. He also takes on business and often interacts with all kinds of people.

When I first started investigating, I was not sure about this middle-aged man, but when I started to investigate Gu Shen’s circle of friends in S City, I found that this middle-aged man had contact with people related to Gu Shen, so the other party directly confirmed this person. Chen Qizhao quickly scanned all the information and found that this man had very little contact with the Lin family.

The evidence provided by Lao Lin at that time was this man and Gu Shen’s car. Now that the identity of this man is clear, leaving aside Lin Shizhong... the madman that Lao Lin was talking about at that time could only be Gu Shen.

No, something's wrong.

Chen Qizhao held the phone tightly, replacing medicines, changing aromatherapy, car accidents, Yan Kailin, Shen Yuhuai...all the things seemed to be handed over together. In his chaotic brain, it formed a clear line.

It was silent all the way. Zhang Yazhi kept looking at Chen Qizhao behind her. Maybe it was because of the light, she thought Chen Qizhao was sleepy, so she asked her husband beside her: "Is Xiaozhao tired?"

Chen Jianhong glanced sideways, thinking of what happened at the Shen family tonight, and said, "Too many things happened tonight, let him rest."

Chen Shiming didn't say anything, but looked at Chen Qizhao with a serious look.

"Is there no problem with the Shen family?" Zhang Yazhi also knew the whole story of today's incident. She was next to Chen Jianhong when Chen Shiming said it. It was said that they came for the Shen family at first, but Lin Xuyan got into trouble by mistake. "Yu Huai is a good kid... How could he get involved with such a person?"

The incident was discovered early in the evening, so the person who delivered the wine quickly took control of the situation. When they checked the cell phone on him, they found that he had a phone call with a business rival of the Shen family. It seemed as if the instigator of this incident was a dirty trick played by the business rival, and the point of conflict was found very easily. But both the Shen family and the Chen family knew that this matter was not simple. This business rival was like a scapegoat, using dirty tricks to disguise himself as someone else.

But after a closer look, no other clues were found.

The other party's arrangements were too thorough.

Chen Shiming added, "That call record may not be true."

"Before I left, Old Shen reminded me to be careful. He said that a gift for Yu Huai was received at the banquet hall. When he opened it, it turned out to be a headless rag doll." Chen Jianhong sighed, "There are too many things involved in this matter. The other party clearly came for Yu Huai and sent such a weird gift. The Shen family may also be on guard during this period."

Zhang Yazhi covered her mouth, "Send this kind of thing."

As they were talking, they didn't notice that Chen Qizhao's face turned a little paler when he heard these words.

Chen Qizhao felt his palms sweating and his eyes were fixed on a corner of the car.

One thing he knew very well was that Lin Shizhong's purpose, Gu Shen's and Gu Zhengsong's purpose...these two purposes were different.

Soon, the car arrived at Chen's house.

Zhang Yazhi returned to the living room, and Chen Qizhao went upstairs without saying a word.

Chen Shiming was about to call Chen Qizhao, but was stopped by Chen Jianhong, who told him to go to the study.

Seeing the person walking away, Chen Shiming thought of the topic that he had not finished discussing in the banquet hall just now, and decided to go to Chen Qizhao's room to ask.

The room was very quiet. Chen Qizhao closed the door and did not turn on the light. Instead, he quickly walked to the computer and turned it on.

The screen soon lit up. A large amount of information was stored in the secret disk. Chen Qizhao opened all the information, and paragraphs of text appeared in front of him. The file next to it that Special Assistant Xu had sent in the afternoon had already been opened.

The information about the drug investigation written in the document was detailed and clear, including the time of drug replacement, discovery time, etc. He also took out the documents that originally recorded the details of the aromatherapy, compared them one by one with the timeline, and checked every detail almost paranoidly.

All the doubts along with the replacement of drugs seemed to open up a breakthrough, overturning Chen Qizhao's previous speculations about certain situations.

This matter is unacceptable. The behaviors are repetitive and the purpose is deviated.

If Lin Shizhong was the mastermind behind everything, he planned to bankrupt the Chen family because of the so-called grudges of previous generations 30 years ago, and used the Chen family to make continuous profits during these 30 years... When he found that the Chen family was unprofitable, he began to arrange for the bankruptcy of the Chen family. Given the other party's cautiousness, this matter would only be arranged secretly without anyone noticing.

He had fought with Lin Shizhong before and knew that this person was cautious, valued his life, and loved power and money, so some evidence was difficult to obtain.

Would such a person really use various means to put the Chen family into crisis when he has more reliable methods?

The more we take action, the more vigilant they will become, and in the end they will be completely on guard against the Lin family.

Therefore, there are two contradictions in this behavior.

First, it is impossible for Lin Shizhong to order people to arrange toxic aromatherapy when he had already arranged for Jiang Yuze to replace the drugs.

Second, Chen Shiming had a car accident, which resulted in two extra steps in one move.

Chen Qizhao had a very deep impression of the car accident in his previous life, so when the car accident was prevented in this life, the first speculation that he connected together was that in the previous life, Lin Shizhong's side bribed the driver and then arranged for Lao Lin to take Chen Shiming to crash to ensure that there would be no mistakes, and in this life, Lao Lin was discovered by them in advance, and the other party could only use the GPS locator to contact the truck driver.

But what if this idea is wrong? He remembered that when Jiang Yuze was in prison and investigating with the truck driver, the other party said that his employer asked him to find a way to cause a car accident, preferably to make Chen Shiming bedridden for a period of time. It can be seen that Jiang Yuze's original purpose of finding someone to cause the accident was just to prevent Chen Shiming from touching the Shengming project, and he did not say that the employer wanted human life.

In his previous life, Chen Shiming’s car accident happened a few years later. The positioning technology at that time could basically achieve real-time positioning. Together with the truck driver, if he had not killed anyone but just wanted to cause a car accident, such an arrangement could have been easily achieved and there would have been no need to involve Lao Lin.

...But if someone is going to be killed, then Lao Lin can't be spared.

When Lao Lin was interrogated in prison, he confessed a detail, that is, he said that he had asked someone to investigate the affairs of his wife and children. Finding someone to investigate is nothing more than finding an intelligence dealer or a private detective, and the middle-aged man who appeared next to Gu Shen's car happened to be a detective.

Lao Lin is an adult after all. Even if there are problems with his mental state, if the other party wants to control such a person, it is impossible that they only have indirect media such as mobile phone communication. It is very likely that they brainwash Lao Lin through other means.

Lao Lin didn't say who was behind the scenes, but he knew clearly that the other person was a lunatic.

The private detective who was in contact with Lao Lin was a suspicious person. The other party used more means than they knew, so he was able to keep the driver Lao Lin stable for several years. But the other party finally missed the madman's bottom line. It is very likely that Lao Lin noticed the private detective and discovered that the private detective had contact with the car. Gu Shen could not be reckless enough to contact Lao Lin directly. It is more likely that he threatened Lao Lin in other ways.

The person who had direct contact between Xiang Xun and Lao Lin was Gu Shen, not Lin Shizhong.

The person who wanted to silence the witness might not be Lin Shizhong, but Gu Shen.

If this is true, the things of this life and the previous life...

How much involvement did Gu Shen have in this?

The room was very quiet. Chen Qizhao pressed the mouse, mechanically reviewing every detail, and checking the truth of his guesses step by step. But the more he read on, he couldn't help but recall some scattered fragments. Certain things he didn't want to imagine kept appearing: Chen Jianhong's cerebral hemorrhage at the door of the operating room in his previous life, the mess at the scene of Chen Shiming's car accident, Zhang Yazhi lying on the hospital bed with a pale face... and the horrific accident in Shen Yuhuai's laboratory reported on the Internet.

At this moment, the cell phone on the table rang.

Shen Yuhuai's name appeared on the phone screen, and Chen Qizhao's chaotic thoughts seemed to stop. He turned his head slightly and his eyes stopped on the phone.

The phone continued to ring until time passed, Shen Yuhuai's name faded away, and turned into a missed call reminder.

After a while, the phone rang again, and Shen Yuhuai’s name lit up again.

This time, when the dialing time was about to end, Chen Qizhao pressed the connect button, and Shen Yuhuai's voice sounded in the receiver.

“Are you busy?” The environment on Shen Yuhuai’s side was relatively quiet, and it seemed that he had finished other things. “I thought you were asleep just now.”

The light from the computer screen reflected on Chen Qizhao's face. He lied, "No, I just went to take a shower."

"Are you tired?" Shen Yuhuai asked.

Chen Qizhao replied: “A little bit.”

In the bright room, Shen Yuhuai's eyes lingered on the exquisite fountain pen on the table for a moment, "I opened the gift, I like it very much."

It is a fountain pen he uses frequently. The different models of fountain pens in this niche store feel different when used. He only likes two models, and the gift from Chen Qizhao is the one he uses most.

Chen Qizhao listened to Shen Yuhuai's voice, but felt dazed. The voice in the receiver seemed to overlap with the voice of Shen Yuhuai in his previous life. When he listened to Shen Yuhuai speaking, the voice of Shen Yuhuai from his previous life seemed to appear in his ears.

In the coffee shop, Shen Yuhuai asked him what kind of coffee he wanted to drink, and Shen Yuhuai, who was waiting for him downstairs in the company, asked him what he wanted to eat in the evening... In the short time they spent together, this man seemed to have gentleness engraved in his bones. Even though he had a cold personality, he never showed coldness and alienation in front of her.

Those memories overlapped with his present memories, and he seemed to recall certain details in a trance.

The affairs of the Chen family have always been a thorn in his bones. After the Chen family went bankrupt, he lived in hatred day and night, and all he thought about every day was how to make Lin Shizhong pay the price... He once had more extreme ideas, looking for an opportunity to drag Lin Shizhong to die together, but every time this idea surfaced, when he was about to fall into the abyss, Shen Yuhuai reached out and pulled him up.

'Lab accident, no one survived. '

'Shen Yuhuai was also in that laboratory, and the Shen family had already gone there. '

…

Many voices overlapped each other, and he had to concentrate to distinguish who was speaking.

Chen Qizhao suddenly said, "Brother, there is a question I have always wanted to ask you."

Shen Yuhuai asked: "What?"

Chen Qizhao's voice was a little hoarse: "About the aromatherapy...why did you help me check so much?"

Shen Yuhuai was silent after hearing this, “You like to ask why.”

He put the pen into the gift box, "Do you need a reason to help you?"

Chen Qizhao's chest trembled slightly. "If you hadn't gone to the parking lot with me and hadn't discovered the aromatherapy incident, would you have helped me?"

"Yes, as long as I know, I will definitely help you." Shen Yuhuai heard Chen Qizhao's voice tremble a little on the other side of the phone. He frowned slightly and asked, "What's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"

Chen Qizhao controlled his tone and explained: "...No, I'm just sleepy."

Shen Yuhuai: “Then go to bed early.”

Chen Qizhao said good night and hung up the phone.

Shen Yuhuai heard the long tone of hanging up on the other side, suppressed his inner doubts, and sent a message to Chen Shiming on VX.

On the other side of the Chen family, Chen Shiming came out of the study and noticed Shen Yuhuai’s message when he was clearing the messages on his phone.

Shen Yuhuai asked him if Chen Qizhao had rested.

Chen Shiming had originally planned to talk to Chen Qizhao about changing the dressing, so he walked towards Chen Qizhao's room.

But when he knocked on the door, there was no response from the room. In the softly lit corridor, it seemed as if the lights in the room were off, with no light leaking out.

Turn off the lights?

Chen Shiming hesitated slightly, looking at Shen Yuhuai's message, is he asleep?

In a room full of cigarette smoke, a boy sat in front of a computer. The file transfer on the computer screen indicated that it had been completed. He pressed the cigarette butt into the ashtray, and his dark eyes seemed to see something through the screen.

The room was quiet. Chen Qizhao seemed to hear Chen Shiming talking to the housekeeper outside the door. It was also as if through this voice, he heard the angry condemnation of Chen Shiming in his previous life. The scene that emerged in his mind was the paralyzed Chen Shiming and the sleeping Chen Shiming sitting on the sofa...

Chen Qizhao leaned back in his chair, staring at the ceiling with empty eyes.

The lighter in his hand flipped open and closed again, the machine moving like the images playing in his mind.

The scene on the day of Chen Shiming's death, the police coming in and out, the autopsy report and conclusion, and every word of condolences from him became particularly clear at this moment.

The news of the laboratory accident spread all over the Internet, the black clothes and white flowers at the funeral, and the news that there was no response ever came to light.

Some secrets will always remain silent in the unknown years, just like his absurd half-life, so absurd that in the end he actually had no face to see anyone. His previous life came to an abrupt end at a certain moment, laughing at his worthless revenge and his life full of jokes.

The chaotic memories gradually deepened, and the words of the people around him in his previous life seemed to re-echo in his ears: Zhang Yazhi hoped that he would be sensible, Chen Jianhong hoped that he would achieve something, and Chen Shiming hoped that he would be more sober...

There is also Shen Yuhuai.

Until the ash in his hand fell on the skin of his fingers, the burning feeling brought him back to his thoughts.

Chen Qizhao rubbed the burning cigarette butt with his fingers expressionlessly.

The crackling sound, along with the falling ash, gradually disappeared into the silence of the room.

Chen Qizhao's eyes were half-closed, his gaze fixed on the cigarette butt in his hand, and an irresistible feeling seemed to be gradually rising.

Unable to tell whether it was hatred or excitement, chaotic images occupied his mind. He pulled his lower lip, suppressing the hatred and contempt that burst out of his chest.

What's the point of considering the overall situation? All he wanted now was for this group of people to be put in prison shackles in public.

An ending more painful than death is to let them watch with their eyes open their so-called great cause turn into dust and rotten stones on the ground.

Scattered in the wind and vanished into nothingness.

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The living room was a mess. Lin Xuyan, who was sober, swept away a lot of furniture. There was anger on his face, especially when he saw the greetings from other people on the phone. He had no place to vent the anger in his chest.

Lin Shizhong said with a sullen face, "Have you had enough of the trouble?"

Mother Lin calmed him down, "It's not the child's fault. He doesn't know what happened. Who would have thought that Champagne was tampered with? Did the Shen family find out the problem? Who did it?"

Lin Shizhong: “The Shen family’s rival mistakenly gave the wine given to Shen Yuhuai to Xiaoxu.”

Mother Lin: "How could this happen?"

Looking at his angry son, what came to Lin Shizhong's mind was Chen Qizhao, who was standing in the corridor with a look of watching the show, and the Chen family members around him. The whispered discussions still linger in my ears. Behind this arrangement, countless people were gloating.

He left the living room and made a phone call.

"Hello?" Gu Shen's voice on the phone was calm, and he didn't seem surprised by his call.

"You were the one who messed up the Shen family's birthday party, right?" Lin Shizhong got straight to the point. He had been working with Gu Shen for so many years and was familiar with Gu Shen's methods, including the aromatherapy he arranged for the Chen family and the driver, Lao Lin, which were all planned by him.

"The Shen family helped Gu Zhengxun, and Shen Yuhuai also found out about me. I did arrange it. But what happened to Xu Yan was beyond my expectation. It should be that someone else in the venue discovered it and replaced the spiked drinks." Gu Shen did not deny it, "I will ask someone to help deal with Xu Yan's matter, you don't have to worry about it."

Lin Shizhong frowned and said, "Gu Shen, we are in a cooperative relationship. I hope you will tell me before you take any action next time."

This is not the first time that Gu Shen has done too many things to root out the problem when it is clear that he has other plans.

Just like when Gu Shen just heard from Lin Xuyan that Chen Liyao pushed the Yan family into trouble when they were young, he used this news to threaten Chen Jianting's wife Sun Runing, and then plotted against Chen Jianting and seduced Chen Liyao... He made Chen Laosan's family completely under his control, and carefully arranged the matters of the driver Lao Lin.

Gu Shen only told him about this matter during a phone call two years after he had arranged it.

"The Chen family incident happened once, and this time it happened again." Lin Shizhong frowned: "I won't stop you from doing anything, but at least you have to tell me your arrangements."

If this matter had been told in advance, Lin Xuyan could at least have been more vigilant instead of being harmed by others for no apparent reason.

Gu Shen felt a little dissatisfied when he heard what Lin Shizhong said. "Don't you know about the Chen family? This incident was an accident. The people who were replaced behind the scenes were either from the Shen family or the Chen family. Is it useful for you to tell me this now? The Shen family would not go to this level. It was probably done by the Chen family. The other party is now maintaining a superficial peace with you, and Chen Shiming probably knows everything you did."

He laughed: "They could have just replaced the drinks, but they wanted to replace the drinks with your son's. Don't you know what they mean?"

Lin Shizhong said nothing, his eyes were dark.

After a long time, he said, "I have already arranged the Chen family's affairs."

Gu Shen: "Why didn't you do this earlier? Lin Shizhong, since you are cooperating with me, don't think about those careful plans. You are already half a foot in the ground. If you had been more decisive at the beginning, the Chen family would have been gone long ago."

"Evidence is dead, people are alive. Only when people are in the grave will we be safe."

"I'll notify the others tonight."

Lin Shizhong's tone was slightly heavy: "But I hope you won't hide it from me this time."

Gu Shen was very happy, "Don't worry, we are allies."

After the call was hung up, the corridor was silent. Lin Shizhong looked at the strange number on his mobile phone and had other plans in mind.

His original purpose was to bankrupt the Chen family. The things that the Chen family stole from their family should have been returned in full, but the Gu family thought differently.

After working with Gu Shen for many years, many of Lin's industries have been incorporated into Gu's, including the multiple channel lines that used Chen's channels as a platform. Although this matter has nothing to do with Chen, if Chen finds out about these and continues to investigate, they will definitely find Lin, and then through Lin, they will find Gu, the most important family behind the industrial chain.

Only when the Chen Group does not exist will these things not be exposed to the public.

But Gu Shen is even more ruthless. Not only does he want the Chen Group to disappear, he also doesn't want any member of the Chen family to stay.

The dead cannot speak, and this desperado only wants to wipe out the roots.