Chapter 297: Hearing Xie Zhaoyuan's Voice
"Should I know?" Chai Rui frowned and asked in confusion. "I'm just a maintenance worker, responsible for checking the condition of the villa. As for who the previous owner of the villa was, who the current owner is, and when the villa was sold... these are none of my business, and I have no obligation to care."
Chai Rui's reaction was so natural that the suspicion on the big man's face immediately disappeared a lot.
He turned around, looked at his companion and asked, "Are there really maintenance personnel in the villa? Have you ever met them when you were on guard here before?"
"This..." The companion narrowed his eyes and thought carefully, but did not give an answer immediately.
Chai Rui stared at him intently, and a layer of fine sweat appeared on the palms of his hands.
"...It seems so." After a moment, he said uncertainly: "I seem to have run into maintenance personnel a few times when I was on guard before. The clothes they wore were similar to his. They should be from the same department as him."
"..." The big man raised his eyebrows and looked at Chai Rui again.
"Maintenance personnel... Since you are here for maintenance, why don't you come during the day instead of at night? It's almost two in the morning now, which maintenance personnel is still at work?"
"Do you think I want to come so late?" Chai Rui glared at him with a face full of complaints. "I inspected the entire mountain by myself today, and it was almost twelve o'clock in the morning when I finished the work!"
"I was planning to check the remaining villas tomorrow, but my wife is not feeling well and has to go to the hospital tomorrow, and I can't find anyone else to take my place, so I can only finish the remaining villas overnight."
After listening to Chai Rui's explanation, the three men looked at each other, and no one knew whether they should believe him or not.
He quickly glanced at the faces of the three people, and seeing that they were clearly beginning to waver, he took two steps forward anxiously: "Brothers, it's already very late, so don't delay my work! After I finish inspecting this villa, I have to rush to the next place!"
"...Wait a moment," the big man in front of him took out a cell phone from his trouser pocket, "I'll call our boss and ask for his opinion."
Chai Rui's heart skipped a beat and a hint of panic flashed across his eyes.
"Hurry up and fight! Fight me so I can get my job done!" The big man said "um" and dialed a number on his mobile phone in front of Chai Rui.
“Beep…beep…beep…”
The ringing sound was faintly heard in the dark night. After a long time, no one answered the call.
"Tsk, no one answered..." The big man put down his phone and frowned in annoyance.
Chai Rui secretly breathed a sigh of relief and pretended to be anxious and urged: "Are you done? I'm really in a hurry!"
"..." The big man hesitated for a few seconds, and finally moved aside to make way for Chai Rui.
"You go in and inspect it first. I'll contact you later when the boss calls back."
Chai Rui clasped his fist to him and said, "Thank you!"
Then he strode into the villa.
The big man stared at his back, but suddenly called him: "Wait a minute!"
Chai Rui's body froze, and he stood there in a daze: "What are you doing again?"
The big man said: "You two, follow him to inspect it."
"...We two go?" The companion beside him was a little surprised, "If we go to the door, you will be the only one left."
The big man said: "It won't take him long to inspect it. I can stay here alone."
"Okay." His companions were not too worried. After all, they had been working here for half a year and had not encountered any trouble.
"Then you guys stay here first, we'll go with him." The companion patted the big man on the shoulder and followed Chai Rui into the villa.
Pei Xingzhi, who was watching all this in the dark, raised the corners of his lips in surprise.
This was the first time Chai Rui had entered this villa, and he was unfamiliar with every road inside. If the villa was not far from the entrance of the villa, he could guess the way ahead based on the direction of the house lights, and his plan tonight would definitely be exposed because he didn't know the way.
"Look at this street lamp..." He took his cell phone and walked around the street lamp in front of him twice, pretending to check it carefully.
But in fact, he didn't know what exactly the maintenance personnel were going to check. He just checked everything he saw, and he even kicked the stones on the roadside a few times in a pretentious manner.
Then write something down on the phone's memo.
"ha……"
The two bodyguards behind him yawned at the same time, and no one paid much attention to Chai Rui. After working in this villa for more than half a year, they have nothing else to do except standing guard and patrolling.
Long hours of boring work had worn down their vigilance, and they did not have too many doubts about Chai Rui's identity. When the big man decided to let Chai Rui in, they had already begun to believe that Chai Rui was a poor maintenance worker.
Therefore, when Chai Rui was looking around in the villa, they didn't pay much attention to him.
He walked towards the direction of the light, pretending to perform maintenance while observing the surrounding environment. In less than ten minutes, he arrived at the yard outside the villa.
There were several street lamps in the yard, enough for Chai Rui to touch.
"Oh, this street light is a little dim, I need to change the bulb..." He stood under the street light, pretending to be serious about writing something on his phone.
The two bodyguards were watching and slacking off, and paid no attention to him at all. Naturally, they didn't know that he was taking the opportunity to send a message to Pei Xingzhi.
——Brother Pei, I’m at the villa.
Pei Xingzhi replied immediately: How is it? Have you seen Ayuan?
Chai Rui secretly observed the two bodyguards out of the corner of his eye while typing frantically on his mobile phone.
--not yet. The villa was quiet and there was no sign of my sister-in-law yet.
"Get out! Get away from me! I don't want to hear you talk!"
Just as the message was sent, a sharp female voice suddenly came from a room on the second floor of the villa.
Chai Rui turned off his phone reflexively and turned to look upstairs.
“Eh…”
One of the bodyguards sighed helplessly and shook his head, saying, "It's started again. How can this lady be so troublesome... She quarrels a lot every three days and a little every two days. Even if she doesn't quarrel a lot, I am tired of listening to her."
"Tsk..." Another bodyguard touched his arm and winked in Chai Rui's direction, "Don't talk nonsense..."
"...Oh." He shut up angrily and dared not say anything more.
However, Chai Rui instantly determined the identity of the female voice through his two complaints.
He walked away from the street light, turned around and walked to another street light, looking up at the lampshade.
"This lampshade has a lot of rust on it. It needs to be replaced..."
As he spoke, he picked up his phone, tapped quickly on the screen, and sent a message to Pei Xingzhi.
——Brother Pei, I heard my sister-in-law’s voice.
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