Chapter 576 Please Answer Truthfully
After all, it was the first time that Shang Lifeng, the relative, came to visit, so Tan Shaowen quickly introduced his father-in-law to Mr. Tan, and then asked him to sit next to him.
Tan Chen and Shang Ruoting did the same. After greeting their elders, they sat in the empty seats.
Mr. Tan looked at the middle-aged man with a slight beard.
"Chen Wei, this is the man Liu Dingbing has held captive for twenty years. Feel free to ask any questions you have."
Chen Wei nodded respectfully towards Mr. Tan, then looked at Shang Lifeng.
"Hello, Comrade Shang Lifeng. I have a few questions for you. Please answer truthfully."
Shang Lifeng said seriously: "Okay, I promise to tell the truth."
Chen Wei: "May I ask what year did you meet Liu Dingbing?"
Shang Lifeng replied, "I met him in Pengcheng in October 1959."
Then, Chen Wei asked Shang Lifeng many more questions, and the middle-aged man next to him was quickly recording every word Shang Lifeng said.
At the same time, he also took another notebook similar to a transcript to compare with each other.
Almost twenty minutes passed before Chen Wei finished questioning.
He looked at Mr. Tan respectfully and said, "Mr. Tan, I have finished asking questions for now."
Mr. Tan nodded: "How is it? Is there anything wrong?"
Chen Wei replied seriously, "Tan Lao, apart from the different way Liu Dingbing learned about Li's Imperial Cuisine, everything else basically matches."
Mr. Tan raised his eyebrows: "What's the difference?"
Chen Wei took a quick look around and realized that everyone in the room was Mr. Tan's relative, so he did not hide it.
"According to Liu Dingbing's confession, he knew about the existence of 'Li's Imperial Cuisine', not from Chen Shurong."
Hearing this, Shang Lifeng became a little impatient. Over the years, his most hated enemy was Liu Dingbing, followed by his ex-wife Chen Shurong.
If she hadn't been so fickle and greedy for wealth, how could Liu Dingbing have known about "Li's Imperial Meals" and caused him to suffer in dire straits for twenty years...
"Impossible. Chen Shurong told Liu Dingbing about Li's Imperial Cuisine." Otherwise, how would Liu Dingbing know about the existence of Li's Imperial Cuisine?
Chen Wei frowned when he saw Shang Lifeng's uneasy look. It was the first time he saw someone interrupting like that in front of Mr. Tan.
If Shang Lifeng was not the father-in-law of Mr. Tan's grandson, he would definitely scold him.
Today, Chen Wei suppressed the urge to scold and handed the initiative to Mr. Tan.
Old Master Tan knew the suffering Shang Lifeng had endured over the years, and he believed that what his family had experienced in the Northwest could not be compared with that.
So the old man looked at Shang Lifeng with a pleasant expression.
"Don't be anxious, take your time to speak."
Shang Lifeng’s years of imprisonment were not in vain. Apart from anything else, he still knew how to read people’s faces.
He knew that he was too impulsive just now and interrupted the other person. The bearded man was obviously angry.
"I'm sorry, I was a little anxious just now."
Seeing that no one said anything, Shang Lifeng continued:
"I hid Li's Imperial Cuisine very well back then. Apart from Chen Shurong and I, there was no way anyone else would know about it."
After hearing what Shang Lifeng said, Mr. Tan turned his gaze to Chen Wei.
"How did Liu Dingbing explain this matter?"
Chen Wei replied respectfully, "Liu Dingbing said he learned about the existence of Li's Imperial Cuisine from a waiter named Wei Santai."
Shang Lifeng widened his eyes, obviously a little bit unbelievable.
"Is it him?"
"Do you know Wei Santai?" Chen Wei asked.
Shang Lifeng nodded.
"When I first arrived in Pengcheng, I didn't have much money and couldn't afford to rent a house with a separate door, so I shared a large courtyard with others. At that time, Wei Santai was also a tenant there. Since we were both from Beihe Province, we were quite close.
Suddenly one day, he told me that he had found a way to go to Hong Kong and wanted to go there to try his luck. He also asked if I wanted to go with him. I promised him that I would think about it. But who knew that after that day, I never saw him again.
Chen Wei raised his eyebrows: "Have you ever told him about Li's Imperial Cuisine?"
Shang Lifeng fell into deep thought, and after a long while he said, "I remember once I caught a cold and had a high fever, Chen Shurong went out to buy medicine for me, and Wei Santai came over to take care of me for a while.
However, I was drowsy at that time, half asleep and half awake..."
Having said that, he suddenly remembered something.
"Did I say something to myself when I was delirious with fever?"
Apart from this, Shang Lifeng really couldn't think of any other reason.
Chen Wei nodded and said, "Wei Santai was killed by Liu Dingbing's men on the day he told Liu Dingbing the news about Li's Imperial Banquet.
In Liu Dingbing's words, he is no longer useful to him, and he knows too much..."
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