Chapter 316 The Secret Behind
Upon hearing this, Ambassador Liao's expression suddenly turned ugly.
Secretary Jin saw the guard's panic and asked subconsciously, "Is it filled with explosives?"
"Explosives?" The people in the delegation had just got off the car and looked over in surprise when they heard it.
To put it bluntly, the embassy, the highest-level diplomatic institution, is the face of a country.
How could such a thing happen in such a sacred and solemn place?
Secretary Jin didn’t know how to explain it, so she just said a few simple words.
In fact, receiving such anonymous packages is nothing new for the embassy.
Anonymous packages are not scary. What is scary is that no one knows what is inside the package.
Not to mention the distant past, in the past six months alone, the embassy has received three cases of homemade explosives and six cases of small animals being tortured and killed.
There were countless dolls and portraits stained with blood.
At the beginning, the embassy will continue to investigate based on the clues.
But it's no use checking again and again.
What is going to happen will continue to happen, and this has happened not only to the Chinese embassy, but also to the embassies of other nearby countries.
Not to mention reporting the case, the people at the police station are also worried because they receive just as many anonymous packages as those from the embassy.
After hearing this, the delegation didn't know what to say for a moment.
I originally thought that the overall domestic environment was not good, and everyone was living in fear, fearing that they might accidentally offend a villain and bring disaster to their children, relatives and friends.
Who would have thought that the situation abroad was also in such dire straits.
Just when everyone was filled with indignation, the guard shook his head.
"We have checked it, it is not dangerous goods, this is what we found in the package."
He took out two letters from his jacket pocket, one of which was written with the words "From the Ambassador" and the other one was a bunch of keys.
Ambassador Liao was a little surprised. Who would write to him?
Fortunately, the other party stated his identity in the first sentence of the letter.
He didn't reveal his name, only that he and President Xie had been close friends for many years.
Both of them are from Fujian Province and have known each other for more than half of their lives.
Two days before the accident happened to the Xie family, he received a call from President Xie.
The two of them often made appointments to drink tea in a teahouse in Chinatown, but this time President Xie changed the location and the two went to a very remote antique shop in the city.
It was only after he arrived that he realized that this was also one of the Xie family's assets.
President Xie was obviously in a bad mood that day, and he gave him a key as soon as he came up.
When asked what happened, President Xie refused to say.
He just kept sighing and talking about the misfortune of his family.
Later, President Xie told him the location of the entrance to the secret passage in the antique shop and asked him to help keep these things.
As for the ownership of the things inside, President Xie also made arrangements in advance.
What happened to the youngest son of the Xie family was no secret in Chinatown, so he didn't think too much about it.
For the next two days, he went to the neighboring city.
When he came back, he saw the news about the Xie family being wiped out in the newspaper. Thinking about what President Xie had said before, he immediately understood.
What President Xie was worried about was not that his son would squander all the family property, but that the Xie family was being targeted by someone.
He couldn't figure out who the Xie family had offended in order to massacre the entire Xie family overnight.
He chose to endure temporarily until the real culprit was exposed.
Next, he saw Ambassador Liao and his delegation go to the police department to learn about the case.
I saw them go to the crime scene and heard Shao Bin shouting on the third floor that they had made a new discovery.
He also saw the embassy sent soldiers to participate in the arrest.
Until the very end, he saw Ambassador Liao and his entourage coming to the cemetery to pay their respects in person. The entire funeral was not perfunctory due to time constraints, and the embassy did not do it in a perfunctory manner.
At this moment, he saw the embassy's intentions.
I also feel happy for my old friend. At least everything he did was worth it.
At the end of the letter, he said very frankly that it was because of their care for his old friend's family that he decided to step forward and fulfill his old friend's final wishes.
So he left his old friend's key, the address of the antique shop and a handwritten letter from President Xie.
Next, he had no opinion on how to deal with these things.
After closing the letter, Ambassador Liao still couldn't calm down for a long time.
After a pause, he opened another letter.
Ambassador Liao had also seen Chairman Xie's handwriting in the study in the Xie family mansion, but this time the handwriting was obviously much more sloppy.
It can be seen between the lines that President Xie must have sensed the danger in advance.
In fact, as early as when President Xie learned that his son had offended someone he shouldn't have offended, he knew that the Xie family could not escape this disaster.
But he didn't expect that the other party would be so cruel.
President Xie said in the letter that it was not his fault that his son got infected, because after much thought, he felt that the problem lay with himself.
He accepted something he shouldn't have accepted and was remembered by others.
The other party couldn't find a breakthrough in himself, so he set his sights on his son.
It was only when Ambassador Liao saw this that he realized something was wrong. It turned out that President Xie had always had the habit of collecting antiques, so he had been involved in the antique shop business a long time ago.
In addition to daily trading, he would also use his own channels to repurchase cultural relics that had flowed out of China.
President Xie said that a few years ago he accidentally learned a piece of news that a retired veteran had several bronze statues of animal heads.
After hearing the news, President Xie was so excited that he couldn't sleep the whole night.
If he guessed correctly, the old soldier should be holding the bronze statues of the 12 zodiac animals.
It is said that these bronze animal heads were designed by a missionary stationed in China during the Qianlong period. Later, during the Allied invasion of China in 1860, these twelve animal heads were lost overseas.
In other words, these things have been wandering outside for more than a hundred years.
President Xie immediately contacted the veteran and finally purchased the three animal heads for 1,500 pounds each.
The price of the pound was not cheap seven or eight years ago.
Things should have ended here.
Unexpectedly, the veteran last year suddenly found him. He saw the photo of President Xie in the newspaper.
After learning that President Xie was one of the richest men in Chinatown, he started to act like a rogue.
He said that the price President Xie gave before was too low and he wanted to cancel the transaction.
When President Xie was worrying about how to deal with this matter, another group of people came to the door. Ambassador Liao also knew what happened afterwards.
The autopsy report from the police department clearly stated that the youngest son of the Xie family had a habit of smoking drugs.
Judging from the blood test, it should be within one to two years.
So, the Xie family was destroyed because of these antiques.
After sighing, Ambassador Liao informed the delegation members of the situation.
Everyone sighed after hearing this.
No one expected that there was such a hidden story behind the matter.
Lin Siqiao was also silent after hearing this. She didn't know why, but she always felt that this matter was strange...
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