Chapter 9: The friend who defrauded my uncle, the murderer Lu Jun
The group left the alley and found a small private restaurant. Since the reform and opening up in 1977 or 1978, these small private restaurants have sprung up like mushrooms after rain.
On the contrary, state-owned restaurants and food companies began to decline. The wave of layoffs in recent years is a case in point. However, this had nothing to do with Xu Heye and her group; they were just looking for a place to eat.
Although the restaurant is small, the owner's cooking skills are very good.
Dong Taohua ordered six dishes: braised pork, sweet and sour fish, meatball and winter melon soup, braised prawns, fried bacon with garlic sprouts, and stir-fried cabbage.
Seven people, six dishes, five of which were meat dishes and one was a vegetarian dish, which was considered a very high standard of entertainment.
Not to mention that Dong Taohua also ordered a bottle of Liuquxiang.
This wine is not cheap.
Huangmao and the others looked at each other and were all surprised by Dong Taohua's generosity.
After the dishes were served, Dong Taohua said, "Fuyun, invite your friends to dinner."
Then he said to the yellow-haired guys, "Thank you for helping me carry things today. Feel free to eat as much as you can. If there's not enough food, we can order more."
"Okay, thank you, big sister." Huang Mao said, "Big sister, my name is Huang Wangcheng, you can just call me Xiao Huang."
Then he introduced Dong Taohua: "Big sister, this is red-haired Liu Tong."
Liu Tong smiled and responded: "Sister, you can just call me Tongzi."
Huang Mao continued to introduce: "Cheng Zijun."
Cheng Zijun, with purple hair, nodded coolly: "Cheng Zijun."
"Xiaolu, Lu Jun."
"...Green hair, Lu Jun." Xu Heye paused while picking up the food. She looked at Lu Jun in surprise, then looked at the extremely dazzling green hair on his head.
Aside from his dazzling green hair, Lu Jun was surprisingly handsome and shy. He smiled at Dong Taohua, his lips even having dimples.
"Sister, my name is Lü Jun. Lü with two mouths means handsome Jun."
Huang Mao patted Lu Jun's shoulder and said with a smile, "Yes, handsome. The most educated guy among our five brothers."
Lu Jun smiled sheepishly and said, "Sister, Fuyun and I were classmates in elementary school. We've been friends since we were little and have always had a good relationship."
"Since you are Fuyun's eldest sister, you are our eldest sister. Fuyun's eldest niece is also the eldest niece of the four of us. Tongzi happens to live nearby. With him and Fuyun watching over the eldest niece, no one will dare to bully her."
"Okay, thank you so much, big sister." Dong Taohua said, raising her glass, "I'll toast to you."
"Sister, you are so polite." Several people said, raising their glasses at the same time.
After dinner, everyone left the restaurant with bulging stomachs. Dong Fuyun had to take his eldest sister and niece home, so they parted ways in front of the restaurant.
On the way back, Dong Fuyun said, "Sister, why didn't you tell me you were going to rent a house? I can't help with the house, can't I paint the walls and sweep the floor? I'm your biological brother, are you alienating me?"
Dong Taohua said hurriedly: "Of course not. How could I be unfamiliar with you?"
She sighed: "After He Ye settles down, I will still go back to Gan Province. Your niece will depend on you from now on."
Dong Fuyun patted his chest and assured: "Don't worry, big sister, I will definitely come to see He Ye from time to time, and I will make sure that no one dares to bully her."
As the brother and sister were talking, Xu Heye remained silent.
Dong Fuyun stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Xu Heye: "Heye, what are you thinking about? Why are you in a daze?"
"Nothing." Xu Heye shook her head, thought for a moment, and then asked, "Uncle, your friend, the one called Lu Jun, does he only have one mother at home?"
Dong Fuyun was surprised: "How do you know?"
Xu Heye was shocked.
Why does she know?
Because she had met Lu Jun in her previous life.
Of course it wasn't a real person, but I saw a report about him in the newspaper three years later.
Lü Jun's father died young, leaving him to depend on his mother for support. Fearing her son would suffer if she remarried, his mother remained single. After raising her son with great difficulty, she herself fell seriously ill.
I got sick but didn't seek treatment. Firstly, my family didn't have much savings. Secondly, the disease was discovered late, so even if I treated it, it might not be cured. What if I spent money but didn't get better? Wouldn't that be a loss of both life and money?
Lu's mother concealed the news of her illness, not even telling her son. She just wanted to find a wife for her son so that he would have someone to accompany him even if she passed away.
However, as the old saying goes, good fortune never comes alone, and misfortune never comes singly. A hemp rope breaks at its thinnest point. The fraudsters took advantage of Lu's mother's urgency, set a trap, and swindled her of her life savings.
She had lost all her money, hadn't brought her a wife home, and coupled with her frail health, Mother Lu was so angry that she died, unable to close her eyes when she died.
Lu Jun was heartbroken and felt guilty that he didn't care enough about his mother and didn't even know she was sick.
Later, when he learned his mother had died of anger after being scammed, he became vindictive. But the gang were professional scammers, roaming around and rarely staying in one place for long. By the time Lu Jun came to his senses, they had already fled.
But Lu Jun did not give up. It took him almost two years to finally track down the fraud gang, who were defrauding another family at the time.
That family was very similar to the Lu family, also a widowed mother with an only son, and the two depended on each other for survival. Lu Jun seemed to see Lu's mother, her eyes wide open, and in an instant, anger surged in his heart, and he accidentally stabbed the gang leader to death.
This fraud case caused a sensation across the country, and Lu Jun, who killed the leader of the fraud gang, also made headlines in Hu City's newspapers.
Whether it is Lu Jun as a victim, Lu Jun as a murderer, or Lu Jun as a detective who tracked down suspects alone for two years and found the fraud gang before the police, they are all very popular.
For a long time, Lu Jun's name was on the headlines of newspapers.
The people around him were all talking about Lu Jun. They were moved by his intelligence and perseverance, but also felt sorry for his final outcome. No matter the reason, murder is a crime.
It was also because of this that Xu Heye knew about this major case and the name Lu Jun.
But the Lu Jun in the newspaper had an old face, with deadness and hatred in his eyes, completely different from the handsome and shy young man just now.
If both of them were not named Lu Jun, and if it were not for the faint dimples at the corners of his mouth, Xu Heye would not have been able to help but think that it was the same person.
Xu Heye thought about it and was shocked.
The Lü Jun murder case occurred three years later, and Lü Jun spent another two years tracking down the killer. This means that during this time, Lü Jun's mother might have become seriously ill and even been targeted by a fraud gang.
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