Chapter 113 Setting up a trap
Mo Chen paused, holding his chopsticks, and immediately understood what she meant.
He put down his chopsticks and looked at her seriously: "Miss Jiang, things are far from over yet. Don't be impatient and make a mess of things."
"I don't have time to wait." Jiang Ling said calmly, but her eyes flashed with a thousand thoughts.
"Kang Yong's study abroad procedures are almost complete. Once he leaves the country with his family, it will be like looking for a needle in a haystack if I try to find him again to get the truth! The truth about my father's company will be lost forever!"
“Now… only by controlling Kang Le can we force Kang Yong to hand over the evidence.” As she said this, a resolute glint flashed in her eyes.
In fact, she really didn't want to involve Kang Le unless absolutely necessary.
But the injustice done to my father and the lives lost are right before my eyes.
If the 10% of the USB drive doesn't contain the image she wants, then it will truly be a last resort...
Mo Chen said calmly, "This is the most foolish method. It will turn you from a victim into a perpetrator, and everything will be ruined! Even if the truth comes out, it won't be the result you want."
Jiang Ling remained silent.
She was well aware that she had considered both the best and worst possible outcomes.
Mo Chen pondered for a moment, then lowered his voice: "Give me some time, and give yourself some time too. The results from the USB drive aren't out yet. As for Kang Le... if you trust me, I have a way to make him disappear for a while without harming him or involving anyone else."
Just then, Mo Chen's phone vibrated; it was a message from the studio's technical staff.
The 10% of data fragmentation on the USB drive has been recovered!
Jiang Ling and Mo Chen quickly finished their lunch and rushed back.
Xiao Jia operated the computer to piece the fragments together.
Although there is still no clear footage of the cause of the explosion or Kang Yong's tampering, a brief and blurry surveillance video was recovered, which happened to capture Kang Yong sneaking into the raw material warehouse area alone late at night on the eve of the explosion, behaving suspiciously!
Although this video is short and blurry and cannot directly prove anything, it is enough as a bargaining chip in psychological warfare!
Jiang Ling immediately extracted the most crucial segment of the video and sent it to Kang Yong.
Immediately afterwards, she sent a message: "Uncle Kang, I think we need to talk about this video. I'll be waiting for you at my father's grave at 3 PM."
Kang Yong did not reply after the message was sent.
Jiang Ling wasn't in a hurry. She sent a second message, the contents of which made Kang Yong, who was probably looking at his phone on the other end of the line, feel as if he had fallen into an ice cave:
Even if Uncle Kang doesn't consider himself, he should at least consider Kang Le.
Almost the instant the message was sent, Kang Yong called, his number flashing frantically on the screen.
Jiang Ling neither answered nor hung up, waiting for the phone to ring until it stopped.
She could imagine Kang Yong's panic at that moment.
On the other side.
After the ringing ended, Kang Yong didn't call Jiang Ling again, but instead dialed his son Kang Le's number.
What came was...
"The user you dialed is not in service area."
His heart sank instantly.
I hurriedly called the school, but the teacher only said that Kang Le had been selected to participate in an emergency study tour sponsored by the Mo family and had gone to a mountainous area with poor signal, so they couldn't contact him for the time being.
And all of this was naturally arranged by Mo Chen.
Given the Mo family's support and influence over Wansheng Middle School, arranging for a few outstanding students to participate in a spur-of-the-moment closed-door study tour and temporarily cutting them off from the outside world would not be difficult.
Unable to contact his son and seeing the blurry surveillance footage that could have killed him, Kang Yong completely panicked.
He didn't care about anything else, grabbed his car keys, rushed out the door, and drove to Xishan Cemetery.
When he arrived, he found Jiang Ling already waiting there.
Jiang Ling sat on the cement block next to the tombstone. She stopped when she heard the hurried footsteps. She didn't look at him, but her gaze fell on the photo on the tombstone.
"Uncle Kang, do you still remember when you and my dad left the village together to make a living in the city? When I was little, my dad always loved to tell me that story. I can't quite remember it now, Uncle Kang, could you help me recall it?"
Kang Yong suddenly stopped, looking at his old friend's smiling face on the tombstone. Long-buried memories and accumulated guilt surged into his heart like a tide, instantly making his eyes red.
His eyes were unfocused, as if lost in distant memories, and his voice was hoarse:
"...Of course I remember. Back then, your dad and I...we were so full of vigor and so indomitable. When we had no money, we squeezed into a leaky rented room and ate cold steamed buns. When we had no connections, we went from factory to factory and construction site to ask and beg. Even when we were so poor that we had to share a steamed bun, we still felt that the future was bright."
"That period was the best time of my life..."
As he spoke, tears finally streamed down his face, falling onto the cold stone slabs in front of the grave.
In the cemetery, only the sound of the wind blowing through the pines and cypresses, his murmured murmurs, and suppressed sobs could be heard.
Jiang Ling did not interrupt him, and listened quietly as he finished speaking.
As if he had finally found an outlet, he blurted out everything incoherently.
His wife's serious illness, the fireworks factory explosion, his brother's death, the pressure from the Wang family... all these burdens weighing on his heart finally gave way at this moment.
“Your dad is too stubborn! I’ve told him so many times that you have to be flexible in business, but he always sticks to his rigid rules and has offended a lot of people.”
"Your father firmly disagreed with the deal with Wansheng Company, and the negotiations fell through! The Wang family holds a grudge because of this, feeling that your father blocked their path to wealth and offended them..."
"Later...later your Aunt Li was diagnosed with a serious illness, requiring a large sum of money for surgery and follow-up treatment...I borrowed from all my relatives, but it still wasn't enough...The Wang family somehow found out about this and came to me...First, Wang Jingjing came to me, saying she could give me money, as long as I...as long as I cooperated and caused a small accident at the factory, so your father would suffer a loss and learn a lesson..."
"I was out of my mind... I agreed... I never imagined it would be this serious! I really didn't expect it to explode!"
"Later, when things got out of hand, the Wang family wanted to push me out to take the blame. The hush money they offered was far from enough to cover the cost of going abroad and subsequent medical treatment... I had already guessed that this would happen, so I secretly kept evidence..."
Until his emotions calmed down a little, leaving only a slight tremor in his shoulders.
Jiang Ling slowly turned her head, her gaze turning icy as she looked at Kang Yong.
She silently took out her phone, opened a video recording, and showed it to him.
The video shows Kang Le on a study tour in the mountains, surrounded by a group of classmates. They are fully equipped and in a pleasant atmosphere.
The camera zoomed in, and Kang Le smiled at the camera: "Dad, I'm currently on a study tour in the mountains with my classmates. There's no signal, but don't worry about me."
After the video finished playing, Jiang Ling calmly said, "Kang Le is in a very safe place now. I need the evidence you've preserved."
The moment he confirmed his son's safety, Kang Yong collapsed to the ground, as if all his strength had been drained away.
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