Chapter 177 Investigating accounts in the mortal world, digging up graves in the underworld!
Gu Zhengfeng was so angry that his face turned purple, the veins on his hand holding the chopsticks bulged, and the back of his hand was trembling slightly.
"Well done! Well done, Chu family! They've really gone too far!"
Su Yue felt as if an invisible hand was gripping her heart tightly, the pain making it almost impossible for her to breathe.
She closed her eyes, and her father's blurry but handsome face appeared before her.
The country he protected with his life, the people he risked his life to protect, but in the end, he and his family were devoured by a group of venomous snakes from the gutter, leaving no trace of their remains.
She slowly opened her eyes, her gaze devoid of any emotion, only a cold, lifeless stillness.
"It turns out it wasn't just a frame-up, it was robbery."
Her voice was soft, yet every family-oriented man present sensed a ruthless intent to crush the other party to dust.
Gu Beichen reached out and enveloped her hand, which was resting on the table, in his palm.
His hands were warm and steady.
Gu Beihan looked at Su Yue, a hint of approval flashing in his eyes, and then dropped an even bigger bombshell.
"That's not the most crucial point."
“I found out that Chu Yanran’s lifestyle is extremely extravagant, far exceeding what the rent could support. Every month, she receives a huge remittance from an overseas account.”
He pushed another sheet of paper to the center of the table.
"The bank where the account is opened is in the United States."
Beautiful Country!
These three words instantly brought the atmosphere in the study to a freezing point.
In this day and age, how did an ordinary housewife get involved with the United States?
What this means is self-evident.
This is no longer a simple economic issue!
"Holy crap!" Gu Beifeng was the first to jump up, his eyes wide like saucers. "She's just an old woman, connected to those spies? Could it be related to what happened to my sister-in-law's father back then...?"
He didn't dare to continue, but everyone understood what he meant.
If Chu Yanran is connected to foreign enemy agents, then the annihilation of the "Lone Eagle" squad and the "traitor" charge pinned on Huo Shouzhen have a completely new and more vicious explanation!
Su Yue suddenly raised her head and keenly grasped the thread hidden behind all the fog.
"Brother, this clue is the key!"
Her voice wasn't loud, but it was unusually firm.
"The framing by the Chu family back then may only be the first layer. There are likely deeper forces behind them. This overseas account is the trigger that dug them all out!"
Her thinking was frighteningly clear, and she instantly pinpointed the core of the entire incident.
The three members of the Gu family looked at her with amazement in their eyes.
This seemingly delicate sister-in-law (daughter-in-law) possesses not only beauty and medical skills, but also a sharp and insightful heart that understands people's hearts.
Su Yue turned to Gu Beichen, her gaze intense.
"Beichen, contact my uncle Huo Shouxin immediately and ask the Huo family to help investigate this overseas account from Hong Kong. They have it much easier for them than we do abroad."
"Okay." Gu Beichen nodded immediately without any hesitation. "I'll make the call right away."
Just as the entire Gu family was preparing to launch a new round of deployments around this overseas account, Gu Beifeng suddenly approached mysteriously.
He changed his previous excitement, lowered his voice, and his face showed a mixture of excitement and strangeness, as if he had discovered a new continent.
"Brother! Sister-in-law! Dad! Don't panic!"
"I wasn't idle yesterday either. I was drinking with those rich kids in Beijing who own birdcages and heard something really funny!"
He cleared his throat and began to tell the story vividly.
"A ghost story about the Chu family's old house!"
Gu Beihan frowned: "What kind of time is this to believe such nonsense?"
"Hey, brother, let me finish!" Gu Beifeng exclaimed anxiously. "This isn't just any ghost story! Those people say that the Chu family's old house is incredibly eerie!"
"Especially that abandoned well in the backyard, on rainy nights, you can hear a woman crying from it, faint and indistinct, like a cat in heat, it's really creepy!"
"The old neighbors all say that it was because the old master of the Chu family, Chu Huai'an, filled the well with something unclean back then, and the resentment is too strong to dissipate!"
Gu Zhengfeng frowned as he listened, clearly uninterested in such superstitious and bizarre things.
But Su Yue listened with unusual seriousness.
After Gu Beifeng finished speaking, she suddenly asked, "Third brother, regarding this rumor you mentioned, has anyone said when the strange noises started coming from this well?"
"Yes!" Gu Beifeng slapped his thigh. "I specifically asked! It's said that not long after that young officer's accident twenty-three years ago, the well was sealed off, and then it started to be haunted!"
Twenty-three years ago!
The timing is perfect!
Su Yue's heart skipped a beat.
A bold idea began to grow wildly in her mind.
Rumors that seem baseless may actually have a cause.
The most crucial pages of the original case file were torn out.
Is it possible that the torn-up truth was not completely destroyed, but hidden somewhere?
A place that no one would think of, and one that no one would ever investigate.
For example... an abandoned, dry well!
Chu Huai'an thought that by sinking the evidence to the bottom of the well and then covering it up with talk of ghosts and gods, he could be foolproof.
But no matter how much he planned, he could not have foreseen that twenty-three years later, a Su Yue who did not believe in ghosts and gods but only in science and logic would smell the truth in this absurd ghost story.
Seeing the doubtful or disbelieving expressions on her family's faces, Su Yue slowly stood up.
A cold and dangerous smile curved her face.
"One is investigating money, the other is digging up graves."
She looked at the Gu family members, her gaze calm yet sharp, speaking each word slowly and deliberately.
"The eldest brother checks the accounts of the living, while the third brother digs up the graves of the dead."
"The Chu family owes my father what they owe, and those who are dead... they can't shirk their responsibility either!"
The three members of the Gu family—one investigating the money, the other digging up the grave—had just finalized their plan when Gu Beifeng couldn't contain himself any longer. He abandoned his previous mysterious demeanor and exuded the excitement of having struck gold.
"Brother! Sister-in-law! Dad!"
He lowered his voice, his face bearing a strange expression as if he had discovered a new continent.
"I wasn't idle yesterday either. I was drinking with those rich kids from Beijing who own birdcages and heard something really funny!"
Gu Beihan frowned, feeling somewhat helpless about his younger brother's unruly behavior.
"What time is it? Stop saying these useless things."
"Hey, brother, let me finish!"
Gu Beifeng grew anxious and moved closer to Su Yue, beginning to tell her the story vividly.
"This isn't just ordinary gossip! Those people say that the Chu family's old house is incredibly eerie!"
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