Chapter 868 What kind of person do you want to be?
December 24th is Christmas Eve.
Lu Yuanqiu and the other two set off in the early morning and drove all the way from Zhucheng back to Lucheng. The driver was Xiao Li Feibiao.
Having woken up too early, Lu Yuanqiu was extremely sleepy and slept all the way with his cheek buried in Bai Qingxia's chest.
Xiao Li Feibiao is like a beast, he never seems to get tired and is full of energy every day. A few days ago, my third sister said that she saw Xiao Li Feibiao doing a somersault when he got up.
Lu Yuanqiu's first reaction was surprise, followed by confusion. Xiao Li Feidiao was so sensitive to footsteps that it was impossible for him not to notice that his third sister was peeking at him at the door.
So... this guy deliberately translated it for my third sister to see.
What a pervert!
From then on, Lu Yuanqiu discovered a characteristic of Xiao Li Feidart. He was very cold to everyone else, but he only liked to tease the third sister. He seemed to be very happy to see the third sister's shocked reaction every time.
It was already half past seven when they arrived at Baixi Company. As soon as the car stopped at the gate, they were surprised to see Zhang Zhisheng standing outside the company's gate waiting. The employees passing by and the security guard at the door were obviously confused about the situation. They didn't know whether they should greet him or not, so they had to pretend not to see him.
Lu Yuanqiu helped Bai Qingxia get out of the car. Bai Songzhe also opened the door and shouted to Zhang Zhisheng from a distance, "You can go in. They won't stop you outside."
Zhang Zhisheng smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. I'm no longer the master. I should know my limits."
"How is Dai Yidan?" Bai Songzhe asked him after walking closer.
Zhang Zhisheng shook his head silently, and judging from his expression, he seemed not very optimistic.
Bai Songzhe said nothing, but extended his hand in an invitation gesture: "Let's go."
"good."
Lu Yuanqiu and Bai Qingxia were walking behind and looking at the backs of the two people walking side by side. Suddenly they felt a little emotional. When Bai Songzhe had just recovered some time ago, he regarded Zhang Zhisheng as his mortal enemy, but now they can walk side by side relatively naturally.
"Why do we have to keep Old Wu here?" Bai Songzhe asked.
Zhang Zhisheng looked at him and replied, "I can't bear to send him away. After all, he drove for me for a while back then. He's such a good driver that he doesn't even spill the coffee when he turns."
Bai Songzhe shook his head: "Not entirely."
He pointed to his crotch.
Zhang Zhisheng didn't quite understand at first, but he quickly remembered and laughed out loud, "Oh, you mean that time when we were in the back seat and Old Wu was so busy looking at the pretty girl he didn't see the road, and when he made a sharp turn you spilled your coffee all over your crotch."
Bai Songzhe corrected: "It was your coffee that spilled on my crotch."
"Really? That's not right? Why do I remember it was yours?" Zhang Zhisheng frowned and thought.
Bai Songzhe: "It's yours."
The five of them walked to the first floor and got on the elevator together. The moment the elevator door closed, Zhang Zhisheng slapped his head and said, "It seems to be mine. But there was an emergency meeting that day, and you opened it with wet pants."
Bai Songzhe shook his head and smiled bitterly.
Lu Yuanqiu and Bai Qingxia glanced at the two people silently.
We suddenly started chatting. Can we settle the bill later?
The elevator went directly to the top floor, the metal door opened, Xiao Li Feidiao walked in front and opened an iron door. The four of them walked in one by one and walked up the concrete stairs to the rooftop.
There was some wind and coldness on the rooftop. It was very high and you could basically overlook the entire Lucheng.
Lu Yuanqiu took off his coat and wrapped it around Bai Qingxia. He saw a table and two chairs placed in the middle of the rooftop in front of him.
Zhang Zhisheng's expression became more serious.
"Just tell me, Brother Qing, what do you want to talk to me about?"
"Please sit down first."
Zhang Zhisheng nodded, pulled out a chair beside the table and sat down, while Bai Songzhe sat opposite him.
On the empty rooftop, the hair of the four people was blown up, except for Xiao Li Feibiao, because he applied hair cream in a coquettish way. Bai Qingxia took off her coat and handed it back to Lu Yuanqiu. Lu Yuanqiu glared at her, and she put it on herself obediently.
Bai Songzhe: "When did you know that the car accident was caused by Yu Zhimei?"
Zhang Zhisheng responded frankly: "The 20th of this month."
At this moment, Bai Songzhe observed the other person's eyes and did not see any lies. Instead, he saw that there were deep wrinkles in the corners of Zhang Zhisheng's eyes. He turned his head away and sighed slightly.
Bai Songzhe: "Give me an explanation for what happened back then. I don't want to waste my energy on this matter anymore."
Zhang Zhisheng looked toward the red sunrise in the distance and murmured, "I guess we won't cross paths again from now on, right?"
Bai Songzhe: “Yes.”
Zhang Zhisheng's gaze returned to the familiar face in front of him: "What if I choose to surrender?"
Bai Songzhe stopped talking.
Zhang Zhisheng smiled helplessly, "I don't know what to say. I'm sorry for you, Brother Qing. Looking at my wife and children, I didn't want to turn myself in, but seeing you, Brother Qing, the thought of turning myself in has become stronger. If I had a choice, I really want to start my life over again."
Lu Yuanqiu didn't expect Bai Qingxia to speak at this time.
Bai Qingxia: "You can live your life again now, and you can still choose what kind of person you want to be next."
Zhang Zhisheng glanced at the girl, feeling that this sentence was familiar, as if Bai Songzhe had asked him a similar question decades ago.
"Xiao Chong, what kind of person do you want to be when you grow up?"
They are indeed father and daughter.
Lu Yuanqiu felt his cell phone vibrating, so he took it out of his pocket. The caller ID surprised him a little. It was Zheng Yifeng.
After answering the phone, Lu Yuanqiu walked to the side.
Before he could say anything, Zheng Yifeng spoke first, his tone somewhat anxiously: "You are on the rooftop of Baixi Company, right?"
Lu Yuanqiu: "Yes, how did you know? Aren't you in the United States?"
Zheng Yifeng: "We and the police will be in the elevator soon. Keep Zhang Zhisheng steady. He's a murderer."
Lu Yuanqiu's eyes changed and he looked at Zhang Zhisheng at the table. He then looked at Xiao Li Feibiao who was standing nearby. Xiao Li Feibiao frowned. From his angle, he could just see several police cars appearing downstairs of the company.
Zhang Zhisheng was still gazing at the fading red sun in the sky, seemingly pondering the question, "What kind of person does he want to be?"
After a long while, Zhang Zhisheng murmured, "Is it too late?"
Bai Songzhe: "It's still in time."
Zhang Zhisheng hesitated again, his fingers tapping lightly on the table. Lu Yuanqiu stared at Bai Qingxia's back and whispered into the phone, "Who did he kill?"
"Li Yuntan, my mother."
Lu Yuanqiu clenched his phone between his five fingers.
Zhang Zhisheng's eyes fell on Bai Songzhe's face. Seeing Bai Songzhe smiling at him, Zhang Zhisheng also smiled after a moment of trance.
At this moment he made his decision.
"Okay, Brother Qing, I'll go..."
Suddenly a roar came from the stairs, and a group of people in uniforms filed out from the entrance.
"Don't move!"
"Don't move!"
The five people on the rooftop immediately turned their heads to look. Zhang Zhisheng stood up, Lu Yuanqiu quickly rushed forward, grabbed Bai Qingxia's hand and stepped back, and Xiao Li Feibiao rushed forward and helped Bai Songzhe stand up.
Zhang Zhisheng stood up from his seat and was surrounded in an instant.
Lu Yuanqiu and Bai Qingxia turned their heads to look at the corridor entrance. Zheng Yifeng, who had not been seen for a long time, and Su Miaomiao, who was absent from the birthday party last night, rushed out one after another.
Behind these two people, there was a middle-aged man who was very handsome but had half-white hair.
Zhang Zhisheng remained silent with a solemn expression, while Bai Songzhe exclaimed, "Old Zheng!"
Zheng Ye looked at him and responded, "Brother Song." Then he said, "Stay away from that murderer."
Hearing these three words, Zhang Zhisheng looked at Bai Songzhe with complicated eyes, revealing a hint of despair. He took a step forward, but was greeted with shouts of "Be quiet and don't move."
"Can you let me go to the hospital to see my daughter for the last time?" There was a pleading tone in his voice.
Bai Qingxia turned around and looked at Lu Yuanqiu, whose expression froze. At this moment, he suddenly understood the thing that puzzled his mother the most.
Why was Zhang Zhisheng reluctant to tell Dai Yidan about Li Yuntan's death?
"Can...can you let me see my daughter? Just the last time. I will go with you obediently and will not resist." Zhang Zhisheng pleaded again.
Zheng Ye walked over and said sternly, "How dare you go see your daughter?!"
Zhang Zhisheng was stunned. This sentence seemed to be the final weapon that defeated him.
He fell to his knees, and felt a knife-like pain in his heart again. Zhang Zhisheng covered his face with his hands and cried inconsolably. The police swarmed over and handcuffed him.
Lu Yuanqiu looked at Zheng Yifeng, and Zheng Yifeng was also looking at him.
The complex emotions in the two people's eyes when they looked at each other were difficult to describe in words for a moment.
Bai Songzhe stared blankly at the scene of Zhang Zhisheng being taken away, and had never expected this result.
The car accident was caused by Yu Zhimei.
Li Yuntan was killed by Zhang Zhisheng.
On Christmas Eve, the lights in the chairman's office remained on for a long time.
The six people sat in different positions in the office, listening to Zheng Ye quietly narrating the whole incident.
That year, after performing an autopsy on Li Yuntan, Lao Zheng discovered that the cause of Li Yuntan's death was a fatal injury to the back of the head. He was not hit by a heavy object, but by falling to the ground.
Although this result doesn't mean anything, Lao Zheng still doesn't believe that this is a simple burglary.
He therefore went to the United States and contacted the local police, but learned that the DNA test results of the human tissue in Li Yuntan's fingernails could not be found, as if they had disappeared out of thin air. The police's response was also vague, which really aroused his suspicion.
And by coincidence, because Zheng Ye had agreed to help Bai Songzhe collect evidence that he was framed by Zhang Zhisheng and his wife in the United States, he accidentally learned that during the time when Li Yuntan was in trouble, the IP address of Zhang Zhisheng and his wife was also in the United States, and their location was highly consistent with Li Yuntan's.
This suddenly made him suspect a new person in Li Yuntan's death, that is Yu Zhimei. Yu Zhimei had every reason to kill Li Yuntan, and the reason was that illegitimate daughter.
So Zheng Ye returned to China to investigate Yu Zhimei. After that, Bai Ruoan had a car accident. Zheng Ye and Bai Songzhe both suspected that Zhang Zhisheng was responsible, but the investigation of Yu Zhimei had made new progress at that time. Yu Zhimei went to the United States again that month. Zheng Ye was struggling between the two options of whether to stay and help Bai Songzhe investigate the car accident or continue to follow Yu Zhimei to the United States. After repeated consideration, he chose the latter.
Because he knew that there would be no results if the car accident was investigated domestically. The Yu family controlled everything, both in the black and white worlds. Yu Zhimei and Zhang Zhisheng were husband and wife, so the key to solving the problem still lay with Yu Zhimei.
Zheng Ye went to the United States for the second time and never returned.
How he approached Yu Zhimei in the United States and what he did after approaching Yu Zhimei, he kept silent on Christmas Eve. When Zheng Yifeng asked him why he didn't contact Ye Hui even once, Zheng Ye didn't explain, but only said that he was trying to collect evidence from Yu Zhimei every day.
Hearing this, Lu Yuanqiu looked at Zheng Ye.
The only reason why Zheng Ye could get close to Yu Zhimei was that he also hated Li Yuntan for not telling him about giving birth to an illegitimate daughter. In this matter, he and Yu Zhimei were common victims and it was easy for them to find resonance.
But he had been with Yu Zhimei for nearly ten years, and even rose to a senior position in Zhilian Company, and in the meantime he had cut off all contact with Ye Hui... Lu Yuanqiu stared at the handsome man with half-white hair, as if he had guessed something.
Faced with his son's questioning, Zheng Ye obviously did not want to elaborate on this topic.
Lu Yuanqiu suddenly felt a little sympathy for Ye Hui, as if she was the biggest victim.
Let’s get back to the topic.
Zheng Ye later learned that the DNA test results of human tissue between fingers collected by the US police were bought by Yu Zhimei at a high price. After that, he tried every day to get the test results. Unfortunately, the process was extremely difficult and long. It was not until Yu Zhimei was arrested and returned to China that he really had the opportunity to get the test results.
The result shocked Zheng Ye. The human tissue between Li Yuntan's fingers did not belong to Yu Zhimei.
In addition to the test results, the surveillance video that was lost in the apartment that year was also with Yu Zhimei. Zheng Ye didn't know why Yu Zhimei collected this evidence. In short, in this surveillance video of only a few seconds, it clearly showed the moment when Zhang Zhisheng pushed Li Yuntan down the stairs.
At this point, the truth is revealed.
As for what exactly happened in the apartment at that time, we now have to wait for the police to interrogate and find out the truth about the scene.
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
