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The other three present were not stupid and immediately understood what Chen Tinghan meant. Only You Shenyu seemed a little slow to comprehend. However, Cai Rongcheng seemed to have been prepared. He covered his chest, sighed slightly, and said with a wry smile, "You know, I don't know who this person you're talking about is, whether it's a man or a woman, but he is indeed very foresighted. He told me that no matter what the situation, I should not argue with you."
"Then you shouldn't have invited me here today and shouldn't have brought up this matter." Chen Tinghan shook his head and said.
"I just don't believe in evil." Cai Rongcheng said, "Or rather, I really want to hear other people's opinions."
Chen Tinghan was puzzled and asked, "Why? Is she not nice to hear?"
"On the contrary, what that person said was too nice to hear." Cai Rongcheng said with some melancholy... or confusion: "I am a veteran criminal investigator. I think I have heard and seen everything. I can recite all the rhetoric, whether good or bad. To be honest, I have heard what that person said before. When I heard people say these words before, the other person's voice was more pleasant, not that modulated mechanical sound.
But, it was that mechanical sound, the noise that made my ears sore, but the content made me, to say something that will make you laugh, unable to extricate myself. "
Chen Tinghan smiled slightly and said, "That's normal. Veteran detectives are human beings too. They all have their own emotional preferences, their own life experiences, and even their own shortcomings. It's not difficult for her to tailor a set of words you want to hear to shake your outlook on life based on these shortcomings."
"The scariest thing is, I'm still happy with it." Cai Rongcheng said with a wry smile, "But I don't regret it. I'm willing to believe that person is right. And it's not because of the money, but because I believe that person must have the ability to change the current situation."
Zhou Jinwei couldn't help but ask: "Even if you haven't even met her?"
"If you've communicated with that person, you'll understand," Cai Rongcheng said. "He's not just any ordinary person. Even if it were you, you'd subconsciously want to trust him."
Zhou Jinwei was in great pain, his brows furrowed. "So you were brainwashed by someone you've never even seen."
"No, he was brainwashed by himself." Chen Tinghan said lightly.
"Haha, it turns out that Boss Chen really understands me." Cai Rongcheng said, "I always felt that it wasn't that person who convinced me, but that he or she clarified many of the ideas in my mind and made me know what I wanted.
Take you, for example. You are now the captain of the criminal police brigade, with people and guns at your disposal, but for so many years, your biggest enemy, Wang Kai, has been sitting peacefully in his mansion, drinking tea and entertaining guests, making money one after another.
"We all know he's guilty, but we just can't do anything about him." Cai Rongcheng said, "Tell me, isn't this a kind of helplessness?"
Bang!
With a crisp sound of shattering, the teacup in Zhou Jinwei's hand was thrown out in anger, smashing to the ground and unable to escape the fate of being shattered into pieces.
He gasped, obviously furious, and said, "I don't want to hear your nonsense!"
The scene was frozen in time. The sound of the teacup shattering attracted the attention of Cai Rongcheng's fiancée. She came out of the kitchen and saw the broken pieces on the ground. She was stunned for a moment and said, "What's going on?"
"It's okay, it's okay. I just slipped and accidentally knocked the cup over. You go ahead and cook, and I'll clean up later." Cai Rongcheng quickly suppressed the impact and said tactfully, "There's nothing wrong here. Take your time."
"Okay, then be careful, there's broken glass all over the floor."
Having said that, she went back to the kitchen, just as if nothing had happened. Cai Rongcheng then turned around and said, "Okay, let's not talk about it. I didn't intend to convince you today. I just wanted to tell you two that even if we have different paths, we are definitely not enemies. We have different paths but the same destination.
You won't find anything valuable in me, and I think you understand."
"I understand." Chen Tinghan was not annoyed. He smiled and said, "You emphasize your poverty and your wife, oh, your fiancée just returned home, to emphasize that all your illegally acquired assets have been transferred abroad and all traces have been washed away. That's why you dare to hold this banquet."
"That's not what I said. You can't rely on recordings to accuse someone of a crime they don't actually commit." Cai Rongcheng said jokingly.
"There's no recording. You think too badly of us." Chen Tinghan smiled, patted his butt, stood up and said, "It's okay. There's a long way to go. Let's go first."
Cai Rongcheng sincerely asked, "Stay for dinner."
"Yes, let's have a meal before we go."
The person who said this later was Zhou Jinwei, which surprised all three of them. They hadn't expected Old Zhou to give Cai Rongcheng such a favor. Cai Rongcheng smiled happily and said, "Okay, okay, okay. I'll go open a bottle of good wine."
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After dinner, it was already sunset and the village paths were pitch black with only stars dotted in the sky. Zhou Jinwei drank a lot of wine, one glass after another, and they were all old aged wines with a high alcohol content. In the end, he was quite drunk and had to be carried to the car by Chen Tinghan and You Shenyu.
He was lying alone in the back seat. Neither of them could see his expression clearly, so they assumed Zhou Jinwei was unconscious. However, after getting in the car, he seemed much more lucid than they had imagined. He said quietly, "Tell me, in this world, are there really things that remain unchanged?"
Chen Tinghan shrugged and said, "Are you sober, or are you drunk?"
Zhou Jinwei's voice was muffled and deep, as if his chest was oppressed. "Who knows?"
"I thought I couldn't eat today." Chen Tinghan said with a smile: "Or you will embarrass him in front of his relatives and friends."
"I wouldn't do such disgusting things." Zhou Jinwei's voice was sometimes louder and sometimes softer. He didn't know if it was because he was too sleepy, but he still insisted: "No matter what, he is my master. And, Boss Chen, I really want to believe that he has done nothing wrong, nothing evil.
And I'm still thinking, if he does something wrong now and I forgive him, will someone also forgive me if I make a mistake in the future?"
Chen Tinghan turned back from the passenger seat, but couldn't see Lao Zhou's expression. He smiled and said, "Why, do you want to be bribed like him?"
"Fuck you, I never make deals with others."
After saying this, he didn't make any more noises. They both heard Zhou Jinwei's snoring. Chen Tinghan and You Shenyu looked at each other. He said, "He's exhausted."
"During this period, he's been very concerned about Cai Rongcheng's case and has been looking through a lot of files," You Shenyu said. "I thought his friend was in trouble, but I didn't expect he was the trouble himself."
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