Chapter 38



Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Dr. Zhao hurriedly came out to stop them: "Hey, stop arguing, Yang Gege, please continue talking."

Yang Ge let out a breath: "I talked to him once in the afternoon, but he just said that he would never change his will. He asked me to attend his birthday party and then take An An back home."

"So I found Butler Chen and persuaded him to help me. I just wanted to knock him out and scare him so that he would change his will, but..."

"But you didn't expect that Butler Chen secretly put another drug in Lin Fuhao's cup without your knowledge."

Shi Jin didn't look at Yang Ge's annoyed face, but looked at Butler Chen instead: "You haven't gotten over the fact that Rich Man Lin took Yang's mother away as you said."

"Mr. Lin already suffers from high blood pressure, and if he takes the drug "Hypertension", he could be hospitalized at best, or even die at worst."

"In Dr. Zhao's room are the medical records of Lin Fuhao. Lin Fuhao was hospitalized for complications of high blood pressure in March, May, and July of this year. I'm sure you wrote all of these."

Butler Chen sneered: "Yes, that's right, so what?"

"It is always said that good people will be rewarded, but I think the evil will last for a thousand years!"

Butler Chen patted the wrinkles on his hem and stood up. "That lecherous scoundrel like Rich Lin, the scum who brutally murdered his first wife, actually managed to escape death several times by luck. He lives disgustingly in front of me like an immortal cockroach."

"In the previous attacks, he was saved because he was found and sent to the hospital in time. This time, I want to see how Lin Fuhao, who was knocked unconscious and had another attack, can escape the scythe of death without anyone to treat him."

"Everyone." Butler Chen looked around at the faces of everyone in the living room and smiled gently: "If you can find him now, perhaps this indestructible cockroach can barely save his life."

Shi Jin frowned and looked at Singer Yang.

Singer Yang shook his head with a pale face: "...I don't know."

At that time, Butler Chen said that his room was too close to Cheng's son. In order to reduce the possibility of exposure, he let Lin Fuhao go back after dragging him from the study to the door of the villa. He didn't know what happened afterwards.

According to the original plan, he should have followed the housekeeper to the place where Lin Fuhao was imprisoned tonight, but something happened early this morning...

Zhong Sisi took advantage of the opportunity to raise the horn:

[Insert a temporary mission: rescue the unconscious Lin Fuhao. ]

After thinking for a while, she added:

【Limited to 30 minutes. 】

Doctor Zhao was a little anxious: "This is so confusing, how can I find it?"

Wan Baojie was calmer. She looked through the information about Butler Chen in her hand and said, "Don't worry. The clue must be with Butler Chen. Let's sort out the time and clues. Maybe we can find some clues."

Shi Jin's brows were furrowed, his face looked grim.

First of all, the rooms on the second floor can be ruled out. When we were searching for evidence just now, we almost turned the room upside down. If there was a secret room or a basement, it should have been discovered long ago.

He had just checked the Buddhist hall and master bedroom on the third floor and found no trace of Tibetans.

The kitchen and living room on the first floor were busy with people coming and going, so it was impossible to hide a living person on the first floor away from the servants' sight.

Then there were only Mrs. Cheng's room on the third floor and the garden of the villa that I hadn't had time to check out just now...

Doctor Zhao had just picked up the photo on the table and was about to take a closer look when he saw Shi Jin stand up and walk upstairs.

She was stunned for a moment, and before she could say anything, she saw Yu's wife and Cheng's son following one after another.

"Let's not go there." Wan Baojie flipped through the photos without even looking up. "Three people are enough upstairs. We'll just be in the way if we go. Why don't we try to find some clues here?"

As he spoke, Wan Baojie picked up a photo and said, "Got it."

Doctor Zhao quickly came forward and said, "What? Let me see."

——

Mrs. Cheng's room was very empty, and it could be seen at a glance.

Apart from the empty big bed right opposite the entrance, the only thing that attracted attention was the shelves lined up along the wall.

There are dozens of porcelain vases on the shelves, tall, short, fat and thin. Judging from the patterns and colors of the vases, they should all be made by the same craftsman.

There is a gap in the upper right corner of the shelf. The porcelain vase originally placed on it should be the one that Wan Baojie broke in the afternoon.

In addition, there is a locked cabinet near the corner in the lower left corner.

Shi Jin squatted down and took a look: "It's not a combination lock, it needs a key."

Yu Ci walked around the room and said, "There's no secret room in the room. It's just an ordinary room."

"Let's go to the garden first." Shi Jin glanced at the locked cabinet and stood up: "The temporary mission has a time limit, let's go find someone first."

“Bang—”

Shi Jin turned around and saw Cheng Ke standing among the porcelain fragments on the ground, smiling: "Isn't this what we found?"

At his feet, a key glowing silver lay among the fragments, silently showing its existence.

Shi Jin and Yu Ci looked at each other and stepped forward.

There is a notebook in the cabinet.

The notebook looks like it was used by Mrs. Cheng to record her daily life when she was bored. The time span ranges from a few years ago to last year, and it talks about her daily experiences in a rambling manner.

Cheng Ke didn't have the patience to read the diary.

Taking advantage of the fact that the camera couldn't capture this side, he tilted his head, moved closer to Shi Jin, and acted coquettishly: "Brother Shi, is there any information in these contents?"

Shi Jin didn't look up. He quickly tore out several loose-leaf pages and put them together separately. He said calmly, "There are numbers in several diaries that are italicized. If we take them out——"

Cheng Ke blinked and leaned over to look.

——

[Today is the first day I started writing a diary. Maybe it’s because I use my phone too much, I always feel that I am not very good at writing when I write. Thinking about it carefully, this should be the 15th year of my marriage to Mr. Lin.]

——

[When I was worshipping Buddha in the temple this morning, three sticks suddenly fell out of the stick holder. I thought about it and thought that maybe I should go to Qionghua Temple, but the No. 7 bus to Qionghua Temple seemed to have stopped running last year. ]

——

[Today, five guests came to the villa. I heard that they were business partners of Mr. Lin. I didn’t understand much, so I asked Mr. Lin to bring his son to entertain the guests. But when Mr. Lin came back, he got angry and said that his son was still immature at the age of 17. I was very sad.]

——

[The food prepared for Dahei in the kitchen today was beef. Dahei had a good appetite and ate 3 pieces. The remaining 2 pieces were dragged to the warehouse in the garden and hidden. My son also liked that warehouse when he was young. Whenever he played hide-and-seek, he would always find him in the warehouse.]

——

"The numbers extracted from these diaries are [1, 15], [3, 7], "5, 17" and [3, 2]." Shi Jin pursed his lips and looked towards the door: "They correspond to the coordinates of the porcelain bottles on the shelf."

Fortunately, Cheng Ke's random smashing just now happened to hit only one of the vases.

Among the porcelain fragments scattered on the ground, there were a few pieces with densely packed small characters printed on the back.

Yu Ci picked up a piece of porcelain and looked at Shi Jin: "It's the same as what we found this afternoon. It's all the records and inventory of illegal goods smuggled by the rich Lin over the years, as well as some evidence of bribery."

Seeing that Shi Jin's attention was attracted by Yu Ci, Cheng Ke said unwillingly, "It seems that these are the evidences that Madam Cheng has collected behind the back of Rich Man Lin over the years. Madam Cheng should have been wary of Rich Man Lin for a long time."

"These are probably all the clues in the room, but we still don't know where Mr. Lin might be hiding."

"No." Shi Jin stood up and said calmly, "We know."

It is impossible for the program crew to let them search without any clues like this. They will definitely give them hints in the conversation or some clues.

According to what Butler Chen said, Rich Man Lin was not taken out of the Lin family.

Since there is no place to hide people in the villa, the only possibility is in the garden.

And just now Mrs. Cheng mentioned a place in her diary...

"Let's go to the garden."

——

The Lin family’s garden is very large. If we search blindly, we will probably not be able to find the rich man Lin in the remaining fifteen minutes.

Wan Baojie, who followed him out, stood in the scorching sun and looked at Lawyer Shi wearing a mask and holding an umbrella. He became anxious and said, "It's already late. If we don't hurry up, the mission will fail."

Dr. Zhao, who was more impatient, had already rushed into the garden and started looking around.

Shi Jin put on his mask and ignored Wan Baojie. Instead, he looked at Cheng's son and said, "Do you remember where the warehouse in the garden is?"

Cheng's son tilted his head in confusion: "Warehouse?"

Shi Jin changed the question: "So where was your favorite place to hide when you were playing hide-and-seek as a child?"

"I remember." Cheng Ke blinked. This paragraph was mentioned in his script: "Follow me."

To be precise, the warehouse should not be called a warehouse. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it a utility room.

The old wooden cottage was located in the most remote corner of the garden. It took a full ten minutes to walk to it from the main entrance of the Lin family villa.

The dusty hut was mostly hidden by a huge old banyan tree. The path in front of the house was covered with weeds, and only if you looked closely could you see traces of being stepped on.

The hut was locked, and some gardening tools such as hoes and kettles were scattered outside. I guess the Lin family's gardener had temporarily placed these tools here.

Shi Jin raised his foot to step into the grass, but was stopped by a big hand.

He paused for a moment and looked at Yu Ci, a little hesitant: "...What's wrong?"

"Since we've already found it, there's no need to go in, right?" Yu Ci tilted his head and narrowed his eyes slightly: "Butler Chen, the key is with you."

Butler Chen, who had come along at some point, stood at the end of the crowd, looking at the wooden house expressionlessly, with a complicated and unclear look in his eyes.

After a while, he walked forward with his eyes downcast, took the key out of his pocket and inserted it into the keyhole.

“Ding.”

The old padlock fell to the ground, and the door opened, revealing the rich man Lin lying on the ground, tied up and his life or death unknown.

The loudspeaker announced everyone's task progress in a timely manner.

【The temporary task has been completed. 】


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