Chapter 50 Gold Mine Scam Follow-up

Wen Rongsheng’s reach was not as long as Indonesia, but he was well-informed about Hong Kong.

Liang Yicong was arrested, and he knew about it right after that. He asked someone to call Wen Jiaqi and tell her about it.

Wen Jiaqi didn’t believe it at first, saying how could it be possible, he came to our house for dinner before, didn’t Daddy notice anything wrong? Why was he arrested suddenly?

Wen Rongsheng sneered and said, “I didn’t notice anything wrong, but that doesn’t mean his identity is real. I told you to wait for the news from Indonesia, did you listen?” He also said that if she still didn’t believe it, she would know when she read the news tomorrow morning.

Hearing you being so sure, Wen Jiaqi's face changed even though she believed Liang Yicong. She staggered back two steps, and her expression showed some regret.

Wen Rongsheng saw this and stopped smoking: "You wouldn't have secretly invested in Liang Yicong's gold mining project without telling me and your mother, right?"

"No, no." Wen Jiaqi denied it quickly.

"Then what about you..."

In fact, Wen Jiaqi had a bad feeling in her heart after she made the call to the number Liang Yicong gave her. But she didn't dare to think too much when she thought about how she had argued with her parents for him and how she had repeatedly assured them in front of those people.

Now that she knew that Liang Yicong was a liar, Wen Jiaqi's first reaction was that she was finished. If her father knew that she had verbally guaranteed Liang Yicong, she couldn't even think about the consequences!

She couldn't help but feel lucky, thinking that since Liang Yicong couldn't escape, the money he cheated might be recovered. As long as the hole can be filled, those people should not come to her to ask for repayment, right? Maybe she can hide this from her father.

If it really doesn't work, she can just refuse to admit it. There is no recording, who can prove that she has guaranteed Liang Yicong?

There should be no recording, right?

Wen Jiaqi's heart skipped a beat, and she comforted herself that there must be no such thing.

"Really not, I'm sleepy, I'm going back to my room to sleep." Wen Jiaqi said without looking at Wen Rongsheng's expression, turned around and hurried out.

Wen Rongsheng was certainly not fooled, but Wen Jiaqi refused to say, and he had no choice but to wait until dawn to arrange someone to inquire.

After daybreak, the news published in two entertainment newspapers under the name of Dongjiang Newspapers spread quickly.

Liang Yicong has become quite famous recently. After all, he is the man who has an affair with the daughter of the richest man.

Moreover, the gold mining project he is engaged in is indeed very attractive. If it were not for the timely statement of the Lirong Group, stating that it would not guarantee Liang Yicong's behavior, many ordinary people might have tried to contact Liang Yicong to see if they could buy a share.

Because of the statement of the Lirong Group, most ordinary citizens have been mentally prepared, so they were not surprised when they saw the headlines on the front page today.

Of course, there are also many people who are jumping up and down.

Especially those who were ready to withdraw their investment after seeing the statement of the Lirong Group, but received a call from Wen Jiaqi yesterday and changed their minds and decided to wait and see for a while. They all felt that they had been seriously deceived.

They pushed all the responsibility onto Wen Jiaqi, and called her one after another to ask for an explanation.

Wen Jiaqi answered the first two calls, but then she couldn't say no, so she simply turned off her phone, and the world was finally quiet.

The second generation who couldn't get through the phone naturally became even more angry. Some thought more and felt that although Wen Jiaqi was a fool, her father was Wen Rongsheng after all, and they couldn't really offend him to death, so they chose to wait for news. Some

people were more impulsive, and when they couldn't get through to Wen Jiaqi, they simply called Lirong Department Store to ask for

an explanation. There were also those who were like moms, who went directly to their parents to complain and asked them to help solve the problem, and then contacted Wen Rongsheng in a roundabout way, hoping to ask him to come forward and give an explanation.

As well as a few radical ones, they went directly to the police station to report the case, saying that Wen Jiaqi was Liang Yicong's accomplice.

So just as Wen Rongsheng learned what happened from the parents who complained, before his anger subsided, the leader of the propaganda department came and asked how to respond to those second-generations. Before he could come up with a solution, he received another call from Chen Baoqin, who cried and said, "Rongsheng! Jiaqi was taken away by the police!"

Wen Rongsheng's breath was stuck in his chest, and it took him a long time to recover. He cursed, "She deserves it! I told you a long time ago that Liang Yicong can't be trusted. Did she listen? Now, my daughter, Wen Rongsheng, is involved in a fraud case, and she has lost all her face! Let her solve it herself, and you are not allowed to hire a lawyer for her!"

After that, Wen Rongsheng hung up the phone.

…

While Wen Rongsheng was getting anxious, Wen Yue was in a very good mood.

With the reminder that the value of eating melons would be credited to the account, work didn’t seem so annoying, and work efficiency seemed to have improved a lot.

Well, this was an illusion. Facts proved that Wen Yue’s work efficiency did not improve that morning, and she left work three minutes earlier.

Lirong Department Store has an employee cafeteria. The cost is not high, but the food is average. Wen Yue couldn’t stand it after eating there for a few days.

It can’t be said that she couldn’t stand it. She just felt that she was a poor bitch before she traveled through time, so eating in the cafeteria was fine. After traveling through time, she became a rich girl, so why should she save this money. She

decisively booked lunch at several high-end restaurants in the surrounding area in rotation, and arranged two bodyguards to run errands every day, so the food level rose rapidly.

Chen Jianping would arrange for someone to pick up the food in advance every day, so Wen Yue could eat directly after work every day.

However, before eating today, Wen Yue checked the melon value first. She remembered that the melon value deposit notifications were quite frequent around 11 o'clock. While looking at the data, she asked the system what was going on.

The system replied: [Because Wen Jiaqi was arrested around 10 o'clock, and TV media began to report it around 11 o'clock. ]

[Wen Jiaqi was arrested? ] Wen Yue was surprised and quickly reacted, [Because I made a phone call for Liang Yicong yesterday and gave a verbal guarantee? ]

[Yes, a rich second-generation recorded the audio. After seeing the news today, he couldn't get through to Wen Jiaqi's phone, so he went to the police station to report the case in anger, so Wen Jiaqi was arrested for suspected fraud. ]

Wen Yue: "..."

She really didn't expect this result.

But it's not that she was completely unprepared, but she thought that Wen Jiaqi would honestly tell Wen Rongsheng when she found out that she couldn't cover it up, and let him help clean up the mess. The

people who were deceived this time were basically the second generation of wealthy families, and their families were all in the business world. As long as the money could be recovered, they would not report Wen Jiaqi.

It was just a verbal guarantee over the phone, and there was no signed agreement. It is likely that such things will not be reported by the people and the officials will not investigate.

Who knew that Wen Jiaqi was stupid, and she didn't even have the courage to come out and take responsibility. She didn't answer the phone, and then she got herself into the police station.

Although Liang Yicong failed to escape, the funds can most likely be recovered, and Wen Jiaqi is not deeply involved in this matter. In addition, the Wen family is rich and can hire the best lawyers for her, so she should not go to jail for this.

But being accused of suspected fraud is enough to make Wen Jiaqi afraid to see people in the next few years.

I just don’t know how Wen Rongsheng will deal with it, whether to keep her under custody, or send her abroad out of sight, or continue to indulge her.

Of course, no matter what the result is, it has nothing to do with Wen Yue, she just needs to sit back and enjoy the show.

It has to be said that the celebrity effect can indeed greatly increase attention.

Especially when this celebrity is suspected of a crime, it can arouse the curiosity of ordinary people.

Among the many celebrities in Hong Kong, Wen Jiaqi is not very famous, but who can blame her for reincarnation? When it comes to the richest family, Wen, to put it bluntly, even passing ants would come to take a look.

The Hong Kong media also loves to report on it, and it's a waste not to take advantage of the free popularity!

Serious News uncovered the whole story of Wen Jiaqi's suspected involvement in the crime, the entertainment media uncovered the history of Wen Jiaqi and Liang Yicong's love, and the metaphysical newspapers looked at Wen Jiaqi's horoscope to see that her two consecutive husbands were fake rich men, and made various analyses of whether she has had bad luck in recent years.

As for those unscrupulous tabloids, they tried to use the fact that Lin Yongkang and Liang Yicong were successively imprisoned to prove that Wen Jiaqi is unlucky.

It's really stupid.

In such a turmoil, Wen Yue's melon-eating value has always been steadily increasing, and by the time Wen Jiaqi was released home, the harvest exceeded 1.2 million.

Well, although Wen Jiaqi's stupidity made Wen Rongsheng very angry, after the anger subsided, he had to save people.

It was not only because of the father-daughter relationship, but more because of face. Wen Rongsheng has been strong all his life and doesn't want to see more daughters in prison when he grows old.

And no matter how stupid Wen Jiaqi is, she is still named Wen. After her accident, the stock price of Lirong Group also fluctuated. If she really went to prison, even if the stock could be stabilized, the image of the group would definitely be affected.

So after calming down, Wen Rongsheng began to clean up Wen Jiaqi's mess from two aspects.

The first thing is to hire a top lawyer for Wen Jiaqi, and report to the police station that Wen Jiaqi's second generation has handed in the recording. It is definitely too late for him to withdraw the case, and she will definitely be prosecuted.

Now all we can do is to hire a good lawyer to help Wen Jiaqi get rid of the crime as much as possible. She was not involved to a high degree, so this is not difficult to do.

The second thing is to contact the family of the second-generation rich who were deceived, and talk about friendship with those who have friendship, and discuss cooperation with those who have cooperation. Then guarantee that if the funds that were deceived cannot be returned, Wen Jiaqi will make up for it, and try to get the victim's forgiveness.

In the business world, it is important to "leave a line for others so that we can meet again in the future." Wen Rongsheng personally came forward, and the parents of the second-generation rich were naturally willing to show mercy and guarantee that their children would not pursue the matter.

The two-pronged approach worked very well. After the fraud case went to trial, with the victim's letter of forgiveness and the lawyer's eloquent speech, Wen Jiaqi was indeed acquitted.

But social death is inevitable. As soon as she walked out of the court, Wen Jiaqi was surrounded by reporters, who asked her one question after another: "Ms. Wen Jiaqi, what were you thinking when you gave a verbal guarantee for Liang Yicong?"

"I heard that Mr. Wen has always disapproved of your relationship with Liang Yicong, but you love him so much that you are willing to break up with your family. Is this true?"

"Ms. Wen, two consecutive men have ended up in jail. Do you think you have bad luck in your life?"

"Ms. Wen, do you still love Liang Yicong after being implicated? Will you wait for Liang Yicong to be released from prison?"

These two heart-wrenching questions completely broke Wen Jiaqi's defenses. She shouted angrily, "I wait for him? I wait for him to die!" After that, she squeezed away the reporters and left in a car angrily.

Wen Jiaqi's words became the front-page headline of the day, and even the news of Liang Yicong's sentencing became a foil.

Well, Liang Yicong's verdict was also announced on the same day.

Originally, such a large-scale fraud case was not investigated so quickly. For example, Chen Qiaobai's case took more than ten years to investigate.

But the difficulty of this case cannot be compared with Chen Qiaobai's case. To be honest, Liang Yicong's way of fraud this time was quite clumsy. If the victims were not a group of rich second-generations with not very smart brains, he might not be able to defraud so much money.

The fraud process is simple, and the flow of funds is easy to check. In addition, Liang Yicong confessed and did not deny it, so the trial time will naturally not be delayed too long.

The sentence is not short, Liang Yicong does not plan to appeal, but is ready to be extradited back to Malaysia to serve prison.

It's not because of anything else. He has offended so many people in Hong Kong. If he stays in jail here, he will be retaliated against. It's better to go back to Malaysia, it's safer.

So with the extradition of Liang Yicong back to China, the police returned his fraudulent proceeds to the original owner, and the matter was settled.

Of course, Liang Yicong spent money like water after arriving in Hong Kong, and there must be a difference between the amount of fraud and the amount of money returned. Liang Yicong is a pauper, and his account was empty after the fraudulent proceeds were returned, so the task of making up the money fell on Wen Jiaqi.

It was not the court that made this request, but Wen Rongsheng who couldn't afford to lose face, so he told Wen Jiaqi to pay at home.

Of course Wen Jiaqi was unwilling. She felt that she was deceived by Liang Yicong, so she made a phone call to verbally guarantee for him. But she didn't get any benefits and was also a victim. Why should she pay this money?

If the gap was only a few tens of thousands, she would pay it out of fear of Wen Rongsheng's intimidation, but the gap was several million.

It's not that she can't pay several million.

Although her marriage with Lin Yongkang was strictly speaking not wrong, the Lin family still gave her a sum of money as compensation for the sake of harmony between the two families after the matter was settled.

The compensation was more than a few million, not to mention that she still had the betrothal gifts and dowry from when she married Lin Yongkang.

But she didn't produce anything, and Wen Rong was afraid that she would squander it. After she left the Lin family, she was forced to hand over the money to a professional manager, and she could only receive 100,000 yuan for pocket money every month.

When she had no money to spend, Wen Jiaqi was often depressed because of this, and she wanted to get the money. But now she was asked to use the money to fill the hole left by Liang Yicong, and she was not very happy in her heart.

So that day, Wen Yue just entered the living room of the Wen family and heard Wen Jiaqi making a fuss.

But the farce ended with Wen Rongsheng slamming the table and roaring that he wanted to modify the family tree. After hearing this, Wen Jiaqi compromised and paid the money, and ran out crying.

Wen Jiaqi's eyes instantly turned red when she saw Wen Yue: "Seeing me in such a miserable state, are you finally satisfied?"

Wen Yue asked inexplicably: "Your misery is your business, what should I be satisfied with?"

"Don't think I'm stupid and don't know anything. Liang Yicong was arrested the night before, and the next morning your newspaper published a news report saying he was a fraudster. Do you dare to say that you didn't know about this a long time ago? You deliberately didn't tell me in order to make me fall into the trap?"

"You have paranoid delusions, right?" Wen Yue laughed angrily, "Daddy has so many people working for him, but he still hasn't found out the truth about Liang Yicong's background. Am I so capable that I can find out all of Liang Yicong's past in a few days?"

Wen Jiaqi didn't believe it, and asked with gritted teeth, "Then where did you get those evidences from the newspaper under your name?"

Wen Yue said calmly, "Readers submitted articles. The newspaper under my name has been open to submissions for a long time. If you have information, you can also write to me."

Wen Jiaqi said angrily, "You are lying! How could it be such a coincidence!"

Seeing Wen Jiaqi's clenched fists and tense body, as if she wanted to hit her but didn't dare to, Wen Yue's plan to beat Ye Tianhua up was indeed effective, and she spread her hands and said, "Facts have proved that it was such a coincidence."

"You..." Wen Jiaqi was furious.

"Also," Wen Yue, who was about to walk past Wen Jiaqi, suddenly stopped, "Do you think you ended up like this because I didn't tell you the true face of Liang Yicong in advance?"

"Of course!" Wen Jiaqi answered without hesitation, and then reacted, "Ah, you admitted it! You must have known that he was a liar a long time ago!"

"I don't think so." Wen Yue continued her previous answer, shook her head and sighed, "You are so stupid."

Anyone who is a little smart would not agree to verbally guarantee Liang Yicong.

If Wen Jiaqi is a love-brained person, it would be fine. In this group, everything is possible. But Wen Jiaqi is not, so there is only one word "stupid" to explain it.

Wen Yue recalled that when she first learned about Lin Yongkang's life experience, the system said that in the original novel he had kept it a secret from Wen Jiaqi for his entire life. She was puzzled at the time, wondering how good his acting skills would be to be able to do evil while keeping it a secret from the person next to him.

Now Wen Yue understood that with Wen Jiaqi's intelligence, it was not difficult to keep it a secret from her for her entire life.

But in the original novel, Wen Jiaqi should be considered a fool with good fortune, otherwise, with her jumping around, the Third House would not have kept her until the end.

While thinking, Wen Yue walked into the study room amid the sound of Wen Jiaqi's jumping feet.

In the study, Wen Rongsheng was sitting behind his desk smoking. Wen Yue stepped out as soon as she entered, and stood at the door and asked Wen Rongsheng: "How about we go to another place to talk?"

Wen Rongsheng came to his senses and said, "Let's go to the reception room."

The reception room and the living room are not the same place. The latter is a semi-open space with a larger area, mainly for leisure and relaxation. The reception room is much smaller and the door is very thick. Wen Rongsheng sometimes meets some business partners with whom he is not so close here.

Wen Rongsheng was outside for a while before coming in, so the smell of smoke on his body dissipated a lot when he entered the room, but Wen Yue still opened the window, she needed to get some fresh air.

After entering and sitting down, Wen Rongsheng did not speak for a long time, and his eyebrows were almost knotted.

Now, he is worried about how to deal with Wen Jiaqi.

Wen Jiaqi is not like Wen Jiadong. Although the latter has a messy private life, he still has some brains. He will not suffer any loss if he sends her abroad, and he will not be bothered by it.

With Wen Jiaqi's IQ, if she is sent abroad, she may be tempted to develop bad habits in less than two years.

But if she is left in Hong Kong, he is afraid that she will cause a scandal like this time, which will affect the Lirong Group.

It is really difficult to deal with.

Wen Rongsheng looked at Wen Yue thoughtfully: "A Yue..."

As soon as she saw his expression, Wen Yue knew that he must be up to no good, and it was probably related to Wen Jiaqi. Wen Yue interrupted quickly and asked: "What do you want me to come over for?"

Just kidding, Wen Jiaqi is not her daughter, she doesn't want to get involved in her affairs!

Wen Rongsheng asked Wen Yue to come over because of Wen Jiaqi's matter, but seeing that she clearly showed a refusal attitude, it was a bit difficult to say this, so he could only change the subject according to her wishes: "I plan to go back to the old house to worship my ancestors during the Zhongyuan Festival in a while. You come to prepare this time and go with me then."

Wen Yue raised an eyebrow.

This is a strange thing.

Hong Kong is a strange city. You say it is modern and open, and it is indeed like that. It is normal for men and women to break up and get back together, get married and divorced. No one will wear tinted glasses because a woman has lived with someone or divorced.

But Hong Kong is very conservative and superstitious, valuing boys over girls. It is a basic practice to give birth to a boy. The bad habit of taking the husband's surname still exists, and many people change their names after marriage.

Moreover, the above mentioned things do not mean that if you are rich and have read a lot of books, your situation will improve. In fact, the richer the family, the more serious the phenomenon of favoring sons over daughters.

There are at least a dozen wealthy people in Hong Kong like Wen Rongsheng who have no regard for daughters when they have sons.

In these families, ancestor worship has nothing to do with married girls like Wen Yue. Not to mention married girls, some families cannot even let unmarried daughters enter the ancestral hall.

Wen Yue did not expect Wen Rongsheng to be able to think it through.

After all, he and Wen Jiadong cannot have children. If they insist on their bad habits, it will be a problem whether anyone will come to burn incense for the ancestors of the Wen family in a few decades.

This is something that has to be thought through.

Wen Yue thought to herself and agreed immediately.

In Wen Yue's eyes, ancestor worship has no special meaning. Her family in her previous life did not care about these things. They would go back to their hometown to worship their ancestors every New Year. But for the other daughters of the Wen family who have never been to the ancestral hall, this matter may be of extraordinary significance, because it represents the recognition of Wen Rongsheng.

The Wen family is in the stage of competing for inheritance rights. Wen Yue suddenly entered the ancestral hall. Will the people in other rooms be anxious?

When people are anxious, they will want to do something.

Therefore, this is a good opportunity to catch some people.

...

Chinese people attach great importance to posthumous mourning, so funerals must be grand, and large cemeteries must be selected. When they go to worship their ancestors during festivals, they also compete to see whose descendants set off bigger firecrackers and more gorgeous fireworks.

What's more, Wen Rongsheng is the richest man. When he returns to the old house to worship his ancestors, the battle must not be small.

So even though it seems like a simple matter, there are still many things to pay attention to.

Fortunately, there is still some time before the Chinese Ghost Festival, and Wen Yue has a lot of people at her disposal. She can just call them to direct them to do anything, without delaying their work.

The "Service Star" program has been implemented for half a month. Although it encountered some resistance at the beginning, as the results were shown, the resistance gradually disappeared.

The attitude of Hong Kong's service industry is worrying, but major shopping malls are still crowded, not because customers are masochistic, but because they have no choice.

At that time, there was no online shopping platform in the country, and everyone could only go shopping on the street. The service attitude was similar wherever they went, so they naturally didn't care which mall to go to.

But then a shopping mall appears whose service is miles ahead of other places and the shopping experience is very pleasant. They have a choice and will naturally prefer to go to this mall next time they go shopping.

As the celebrity effect brought by Wen Yue faded, the customer flow of Li Rong Department Stores in other places began to decline, but the customer flow of these three pilot malls not only stabilized, but also

showed an upward trend. With a large number of customers in the mall, the business of each store will naturally increase.

Merchants are all profit-seeking. Seeing the benefits, the heads of each store will naturally strictly require the store employees to compete to become service stars.

When the awards came out in July, the store advertisements of the stores that won the "Service Star" were put on the outer walls of the malls, and the certificates were hung inside the stores. The heads of each store became more concerned about this matter. Seeing that

the performance of the three pilot malls was booming, the managers of other malls began to sit still and applied to join the training.

Wen Yue was basically busy with this matter in the first half of August.

However, no matter how busy she was, she still took out half a day to watch the trial of Ye Tianhua's gang.

Every time Ye Tianhua's gang showed up, there was a big fight. The crimes they committed were all recorded by the police. Even after so many years, it was still convenient to check the files, so the trial was not delayed too long.

There were many people who came to watch the trial, and the audience seats were full. According to the system introduction, many of the audience were victims or victims' families during the robbery by Ye Tianhua's gang.

Therefore, when Ye Tianhua was brought out, there was a commotion in the audience seats, and spitting became louder and louder, until the judge asked for silence.

The trial went smoothly. Ye Tianhua and others robbed and murdered in public, and there were all kinds of evidence.

But the result of the trial was not satisfactory. Ye Tianhua, the leader, was sentenced to only fifty years.

Fifty years sounds very long. Ye Tianhua is already in his forties this year. In fifty years, he will be in his nineties. It is highly likely that he will not be able to walk out of prison upright.

But many of the victims' families thought that their relatives had already died, while Ye Tianhua could still live for a few more decades. They could not help but get angry and curse.

Unfortunately, Hong Kong law is like this. The death penalty has been abolished long ago, and they can't change anything no matter how angry they are.

In such a farce, Wen Yue quietly walked out of the court and decided never to come to the court to watch the trial again.

Hold your breath!

With the sentencing of Ye Tianhua's gang, the Ghost Festival is approaching. In order to worship the ancestors, Wen Rongsheng deliberately postponed his work and took the Wen family in Hong Kong back to the old house one day in advance.

Although everyone returned to the old house, only Wen Yue entered the ancestral hall with Wen Rongsheng.

Chen Baoqin and her daughter had already recognized the reality and had no reaction to this. But the mother and daughter of the third room in London were a little restless after receiving the news.