As soon as Qi Shengzhi walked into the Qi family, he keenly noticed that the atmosphere seemed a little unusual.
The huge living room was quiet and deserted. Usually on weekends, Qu Jingyun loved to call her friends and ask her rich friends to come to her house to play mahjong. The house was bustling with people coming and going, but today there was not even a ghost?
Qi Shengzhi couldn't help but feel a little strange:
"Are they all out?"
The servant shook his head and replied in a low voice:
"Master, mistress, and young master are all at home. Master is in the study, and mistress and young master are in their rooms."
Not to mention Qi Shengzhi, the servants also felt that the atmosphere in the Qi family had become a little strange during this period of time.
As soon as they came back, they went straight back to their rooms. They didn't even eat dinner together and didn't talk to each other. The whole house was silent. Even the servants didn't dare to speak loudly for fear of disturbing the master.
Qi Shengzhi frowned and said nothing, then walked towards Qi Mingyuan's study.
This was perfect for him. He didn't want anyone to suddenly show up and interrupt what he wanted to say to Qi Mingyuan.
When he walked to the door of the study, he found that it was ajar. Qi Shengzhi raised his hand and knocked on the door, then pushed it open and walked in without waiting for the person inside to respond.
Qi Mingyuan heard the noise and looked up, somewhat surprised to see the study door being pushed open. After seeing that it was Qi Sheng who came in, a look of surprise flashed across his eyes, and then he frowned and scolded:
"No rules! Did I let you in?"
She even knocked on the door in a pretentious manner, trying to appear well-educated, and then pushed the door open without waiting for his answer. It can only be said that she was a little polite, but not much, and he really couldn't like her.
Qi Shengzhi raised one corner of his mouth, and with a forced smile, he walked a few steps with his long legs to Qi Mingyuan's desk, sat down on the chair opposite him, and sneered:
"If you really don't want anyone to come in, you can just lock the door. If the door is closed, it will be pushed open. Don't be so ungrateful."
Qi Mingyuan widened his eyes:
"Qi Shengzhi! How dare you talk to me like that? You're so disrespectful!"
Qi Shengzhi was not afraid of him at all. Qi Mingyuan's tricks of puffing his beard and glaring could only scare Qi Guangyao, that brat who hadn't even grown all his hair yet. He was used to it.
"Okay, stop being so pretentious. You don't really think that those who behave well in front of you are really that well-behaved, do you?"
Qi Mingyuan frowned, he felt that there was something else behind Qi Shengzhi's words.
"What do you mean? Just say it. What are you doing here today? Have you gotten into trouble again?"
Qi Shengzhi sat opposite, his peach blossom eyes looking at Qi Mingyuan with a look of doubt and caution on his face.
During this period, he went to the Yue family alone several times. Every time Yue Jialiang saw him, although he was not as overjoyed as when he saw Yue Feiying, he was still very happy and affectionate, and would hold him aside to ask about his well-being.
It just so happened that his father rarely saw him, and the atmosphere was always tense. He never showed any concern for him, and always went straight to the point when he spoke, as if there was nothing else to talk about between them except business.
Qi Shengzhi thought he had gotten used to it over the years, but after seeing how Yue Feiying and Yue Jialiang, father and daughter, got along, a hint of bitterness began to rise in his numb heart.
It was precisely because of this hint of bitterness that he did not immediately send the photo given to him by Yue Feiying directly to the police station, but instead returned to the Qi family first.
He still has Qi Mingyuan as his father in his heart, so he still wants to see Qi Mingyuan's attitude towards this matter first.
Looking at Qi Mingyuan with a frown in front of him, Qi Shengzhi raised the corners of his mouth.
Perhaps in Qi Mingyuan's eyes this was another provocation from him, but only he himself knew the bitter taste in this smile.
He took out an envelope and threw it lightly in front of Qi Mingyuan:
"You take a look first."
Qi Mingyuan couldn't stand his frivolous actions, but he also knew that Qi Shengzhi rarely took the initiative to look for him, and whenever he did, it was always an important matter, so he just endured his temper and didn't say much.
He picked up the envelope and opened it. There was only a photo in the envelope.
Qi Mingyuan took out the photo suspiciously and looked at it, his pupils suddenly widened.
The photo shows white walls and black tiles, with the words "Xiefangyuan" engraved on a huge sign. A man and a woman are hugging each other beside the bamboo forest on the right side of the sign. The man has one hand raised high, and an object in his hand is emitting a dazzling green light in the sun!
He was very familiar with this woman and recognized her at a glance. Who else could it be but Qu Jingyun?!
And this man... he was clearly an unfamiliar face, so why did he feel that he looked somewhat familiar?
"Where did you get this photo?!"
After a suffocating silence, Qi Mingyuan spoke in a hoarse voice.
Qi Shengzhi snorted softly:
"Does it matter where the photo came from? What matters is the people and things in the photo!"
After the police came to the Qi family to question them that day, Qi Shengzhi "kidnapped" Assistant Ding to his territory the next day and found out everything that happened in the study.
Assistant Ding was almost crying under Qi Shengzhi's questioning. He kept saying that Mr. Qi asked him to stop investigating the matter and begged Qi Shengzhi not to tell anyone about his leak and not to investigate further. He believed that Mr. Qi must have his reasons for making such a decision.
Qi Shengzhi then realized that the man named Du Anping mentioned by the police was the one who took the "indecent photos" of him and Yue Feiying, and he suspected that he was poisoned to death. The person who found his body was Assistant Ding who was sent by Qi Mingyuan to investigate the mastermind behind the incident.
The police suspected that the Qi family had killed someone to vent their anger, so they went to investigate and showed Qi Mingyuan a photo of the jade bracelet.
Assistant Ding had sharp eyes and recognized at a glance that the jade bracelet was the one he had bought for Mr. Qi at a Shanghai auction house many years ago, but Mr. Qi said he didn't recognize it, so he naturally shut up.
But what he never expected was that the police said the jade bracelet was actually found in a drawer in Du Anping's home. How could Mr. Qi's things end up in the hands of a gangster like Du Anping?!
After Assistant Ding returned home, he became more and more anxious, always fearing that he might be involved in a murder case. He couldn't sleep all night, and was in a state of panic the next day.
So even after Qi Shengzhi "kidnapped" him and didn't interrogate him much, he couldn't bear the pressure in his heart and told everything.
After hearing this, Qi Shengzhi was shocked for a while before he came to his senses.
But he was sure that Qi Mingyuan would not kill anyone, and there must be some secret that he didn't know.
But what he didn't expect was that before he could find a chance to ask Qi Mingyuan for an answer, Yue Feiying handed the answer to him -
The faces of the man and woman in this photo are clearly visible, and the movements of pulling and hugging are obvious. The most important thing is that the man is holding an imperial green jade bracelet!
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