Chapter 257 Like telling a story
When Ye Can and Long Yanhua stepped into the Ye Mansion, there were only Ye Chong, Ye Che and Ye Bai, father and son, in the living room.
They had no idea that Han Jianye, Yan Yi and others were hiding in the room, staring at the surveillance screen intently.
Ye Can and Long Yanhua had no idea what would happen next. They just greeted them with a gentle smile as usual, and then waited for everyone to gather and have dinner together.
Ye Bai was the first to break the silence. He smiled and said in a relaxed tone, "Aunt, I heard that you opened another chain of beauty centers?"
Ye Can gently touched the emerald pendant on his chest and responded nonchalantly: "Yeah, what's the matter, Ye Bai, are you interested too?"
Ye Bai waved his hand and said disapprovingly: "No, I'm just asking casually."
Then, he turned his gaze to Long Yanhua, raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked, "Uncle, don't you often follow the news?"
Long Yanhua smiled slightly, adjusted his glasses lightly, and said with an attitude of listening attentively, "Yeah, what's the matter?"
The corners of Ye Bai's mouth rose slightly, his eyes swept across everyone's faces, finally stopping on Long Yanhua and Ye Can.
He pretended to be mysterious and said, "What a coincidence, our police station recently took over a case that is very interesting. Do you want to listen to it?"
Long Yanhua nodded and said, "Okay, tell me about it."
Ye Bai raised his chin slightly, his expression serious, and said word by word: "Here's what happened. We recently caught a suspect. According to his confession, he was commissioned by someone to kidnap a rich kid with a fellow villager."
Ye Chong couldn't help but interrupt, his tone full of indignation: "It's really a sin. How dare they do this in broad daylight!"
Ye Bai gently waved his hand, signaling his father to calm down: "Dad, don't be impatient, let me finish what I want to say."
He turned his head, his eyes fell on Long Yanhua, and continued: "The suspect's fellow villager told him that as long as they caught the child, the employer would give them 5 million to share. They only needed to take the child to the designated location and hand it over to the middleman. But who knew..."
Ye Bai suddenly slapped his thigh, and the exaggerated action scared Ye Can and Long Yanhua.
Ye Can grumbled in dissatisfaction: "Speak nicely."
Ye Che couldn't help but urge, "Who knows what? Come on, tell me."
Ye Bai cleared his throat and continued, "Who knew that the suspects said they had arrested the wrong person. Their target was supposed to be the elder brother, but they took the younger brother away. Of course, the employer and the middleman were not happy and simply abandoned them. The two kidnappers had no choice but to extort 5 million from the child's family. Coincidentally, the child and another child actually ran away from the dog hole. The other party's parents also called the police. During their escape, one of them was shot dead by the pursuing police. The one we caught now is the one who escaped by chance that year."
Long Yanhua smiled slightly and said in a relaxed tone: "This plot is like a movie."
"That's right. When we listened to him, we all felt like he was making up a story." Ye Bai couldn't help but shook his head and smiled. "But this matter is not over yet. We followed the clues and found the middleman between the two kidnappers and the employer. Only then did we learn the whole truth."
Ye Che pretended to be angry and urged: "What's the truth? Tell me now!"
Ye Bai paused, and then continued, "It turns out that their middleman had died a long time ago, but he had a habit of writing a diary. He mentioned in his diary that his employer gave him 800,000 yuan and asked him to kidnap a rich kid. But he didn't dare to take the risk, so he found two kidnappers. He told one of the kidnappers that he would give him 500,000 yuan as long as he caught the rich kid, and he also paid 150,000 yuan in advance, and the remaining 350,000 yuan would be paid after the task was completed."
Ye Chong crossed his arms and snorted coldly, his tone full of disdain: "This middleman is really smart. He knows how to make a profit from the price difference, but he takes the money but doesn't do anything."
Ye Bai looked at Long Yanhua and continued, "The kidnappers who received a 150,000 yuan deposit in advance felt unsure of their ability to carry out the operation, so they found his fellow villager, the suspect we have now arrested, and deceived him into thinking that he would get 5 million yuan for the job. In the end, the job was not done, one of the two kidnappers died and the other ran away, and the middleman embezzled 650,000 yuan. A few months later, he died suddenly at home due to health reasons. What's more terrifying is that we found another thing in his diary."
Long Yanhua raised his eyebrows slightly and asked softly, "What's so scary?"
Ye Bai's expression became serious, and he slowly said, "It turned out that the employer wanted to send the rich kid to a fellow villager's home deep in the mountains for foster care. But because the kidnappers had the wrong target, their plan failed completely. This matter was buried for many years, until we caught the suspect this time, and then we learned about this terrible conspiracy."
After saying that, Ye Bai stared at Long Yanhua and asked him in a puzzled manner: "Uncle, what kind of deep hatred do you think the employer has with this family that they want to send an innocent child to a rural area in the mountains?"
After hearing this, Long Yanhua's face remained expressionless, but his Adam's apple moved slightly.
Facing Ye Bai's blunt words, he just smiled awkwardly, "How would I know?"