Chapter 293 Rose Bush

Xu Youyou and the others followed the woman's line of sight and saw the young man walking out of the stairs.

The man was wearing a black baseball cap and a black mask on his face.

In an instant, Xu Youyou's mind suddenly emerged with the investigation of the tenant of the house in Mirador Building.

Young man wearing baseball cap and mask.

The two figures overlapped in my imagination.

Xu Youyou turned around and looked at Lu Jingyao. It was obvious that they had the same idea.

Zhang Sheng frowned slightly, and did not say anything when he saw this group of people.

Xu Fang stepped forward and said, "Hello, Mr. Zhang. We have something we would like to ask for your help."

Zhang Sheng ignored them and took out his key to open the door to his room, then closed the door heavily, keeping the group of people out.

Xu Youyou glanced at the middle-aged woman in confusion.

The middle-aged woman spread her hands and said, "Mr. Zhang is like this. He doesn't like dealing with strangers. If we hadn't known him for a long time, he wouldn't have paid any attention to us."

Xu Youyou asked: "Is there any way to talk to him?"

The middle-aged woman shook her head: "If he doesn't like you at first sight, he won't talk to you anymore. There's nothing we can do about it."

Xu Youyou felt that this matter was extremely tricky. Although Zhang Sheng was unkind, that was his character and they couldn't force their way in just because he didn't like to talk.

After knocking on the door several times with no one answering, I had to return home in disappointment.

She had no intention of playing around, but she kept thinking about Zhang Sheng in her heart. She always felt that there seemed to be something about the other person that she had overlooked.

"I asked someone to investigate Mr. Zhang. He currently has no formal job. He is a registered driver and makes a living by delivering takeout." He said to Lu Jingyao.

Xu Youyou was very confused: "I basically didn't see any deliverymen in the Hongcheng district. I thought people here didn't like to order takeout."

Lu Jingyao said, "It's not that I don't like it, it's because the labor cost in Hong Kong is high, and ordering takeout is more expensive. You don't see deliverymen on the road because deliverymen here rarely wear uniforms."

Xu Youyou nodded and said, "Logically speaking, his uncle is a big rent collector, so he shouldn't be uneducated. As a local of Hong Kong City, with a similar education, he should be able to find a high-paying job, and he doesn't have to be a delivery boy."

Lu Jingyao continued, "This Mr. Zhang does have a bachelor's degree, but he made a mistake in his first job and stayed in prison for three years."

"What kind of job would land me in police station?" Xu Youyou was puzzled.

"finance."

Xu Youyou suddenly felt that it was not so difficult to understand.

Lu Jingyao said: "Speaking of which, his first job didn't seem bad on the surface. It was a subsidiary of the Parkview Financial Group, one of the top financial groups in Hong Kong City, with generous salary and benefits."

Xu Youyou couldn't help but sigh when she thought about the person who once had a bright future but took a wrong path and became the silent and taciturn person he is now.

But now is not the time for her to feel sentimental. The most important thing is to get that house.

She still doesn't know what's in the house, but now she can be sure that the person living in the house in Mirador Building might also be Zhang Sheng.

But she couldn't understand why Zhang Sheng occupied two houses when he clearly had one?

"What kind of person is Zhang Boyuan?" Xu Youyou suddenly asked.

Zhang Boyuan is the landlord and also Zhang Sheng's uncle.

Lu Jingyao picked up the page of information related to Zhang Boyuan again and paused. "Zhang Boyuan... seems to be a man who loves money like his life. The reason why he unplugged the phone line and quarreled with the communication company was because he felt that the communication company charged him exorbitant fees and took his money."

"His son went to England and never came back because he didn't agree with his son marrying a girl from an ordinary family. He felt that the girl's family of five was squeezed into an old house and was from a poor family... He forced his daughter to commit suicide because she fell in love with a poor man..."

Lu Jingyao and Xu Youyou realized at the same time that something was wrong.

It is true that Zhang Boyuan might generously provide his nephew with a property because he is old and has no other relatives around him and is afraid that no one will take care of him in his old age, but he would never give his nephew two houses at once!

More importantly, before last year, it was said that he collected the rent of these houses in person, instead of having his nephew collect it on his behalf as it is now.

"What do you think about Mr. Zhang...will he..." Xu Youyou said hesitantly.

Lu Jingyao nodded gently: "Ask the bodyguards you sent to Lamma Island if they have seen the old man himself."

The bodyguards naturally did not see Mr. Zhang in person. The result of their investigation on Lamma Island was that Mr. Zhang lived alone in a small villa on the island with a separate door and yard. Although there were other neighbors around, the other neighbors only used the houses on the island as vacation homes, and not many people actually lived here.

According to the bodyguards' investigation, Mr. Zhang's nephew is very filial. He comes back every week and brings in a large amount of supplies, saying that they are bought for his uncle.

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With his frequent delivery of supplies, it became normal for Mr. Zhang not to go out to buy things.

Xu Youyou asked the two bodyguards on the phone: "Are there any police on the island? Call the police first. The old man may have died."

"Boss, what's the reason for calling the police?" asked the bodyguard.

"Just say you smelled a corpse." Xu Youyou said.

The bodyguard who was on the phone at Lamma Island at the moment scratched the back of his head awkwardly: "Boss, we didn't smell it."

"It's okay. They have no way to test whether your nose really smelled it. At least in this way, they have to break in to see if anyone is there." Xu Youyou said.

The bodyguards moved quickly, and the police arrived quickly, looking at the two men with questioning eyes.

"Do you really smell the stench of a corpse?" asked the local police in somewhat broken Mandarin.

The two bodyguards tried their best to hide their inner guilt and nodded vigorously.

One of the policemen leaned down and touched the dog he brought over: "Boss, do you think there is any strange smell in it?"

The dog suddenly started barking.

The police's faces instantly became serious. They knocked on the door for a long time, and when no one answered, they took prompt action to break in.

After entering the house, there was still no one in the villa, and the dog that was brought in was circling around the particularly lush rose tree in the yard.

"There is indeed no body in this room. I guess the fragrance of the flowers affected the boss's nose. The boss has always liked roses." The police explained to the bodyguards.

The two bodyguards suddenly looked serious. They had already called the police and were willing to believe Xu Youyou. They also wanted to find something useful so that they could go back and report.

"Could the body be hidden under the rose bushes?"