Chapter 879 The crime is manslaughter
Long Liandong turned around, her eyes widening slightly as she looked at him, her expression a little blank, as if she hadn't quite grasped what he meant.
Doesn't this girl know how to catch jokes? She's even dumber than Xiaxia. Lu Yuanqiu raised his hand: "It's nothing... just kidding."
Although they all came from well-off families, Lu Yuanqiu felt that they were the ones who grew up with a silver spoon in their mouths, while he was really down-to-earth... Maybe it was because his father, a real second-generation rich kid, was too down-to-earth. The environment in which one lives is really important, and one's temperament is cultivated from a young age.
Like Liu Wangchun, although she is a bit too arrogant among the rich second generation, which may be related to her father's excessive pampering, many of her words and actions reveal that she has no concept of money at all.
Where is Liu Wangchun?
"I've sent someone to pick her up."
"Sure, sure." Lu Yuanqiu replied, then looked at Bai Qingxia and explained to her by pinching his fingers, "We're throwing a high-class egg today."
Bai Qingxia smiled back. Actually, the environment didn't matter to her, as long as there were no strangers there.
Not long after, Liu Wangchun was led over by a staff member. She looked around, walked directly to the side, grabbed a drink, and started drinking, all the while glaring at Lu Yuanqiu.
"Where are the cards? Are they ready? Have Zheng Yifeng and the others played them yet?"
Liu Wangchun walked to the table and sat down boldly, asking two questions in a row.
Long Liandong also sat down with her cards in hand. Lu Yuanqiu and Bai Qingxia sat next to each other. Bai Qingxia responded to her, "They're getting their makeup done. They should be taking pictures soon."
When playing cards, Lu Yuanqiu and Bai Qingxia are usually on one side, while Liu Wangchun and Long Liandong are on the other. This time was no exception.
Although Liu Wangchun really wanted to be teammates with Bai Qingxia, and Bai Qingxia didn't care that Long Liandong and Lu Yuanqiu were in separate families when playing games, Liu Wangchun cared a lot about it. She was probably the one who cared about this the most among the four, and she would always take the initiative to team up with Long Liandong's family.
Because she cares a lot about Bai Qingxia, and she is a very simple person, she is particularly principled when it comes to her friends' love affairs. Compared to Lu Yuanqiu, many things that Liu Wangchun cares about can be dismissed by Lu Yuanqiu as "not that serious".
The game of Guandan began. Last time, the four of us played together for several hours, and this time we had developed a good understanding. When drawing cards, we handled them one after another, which was very smooth.
Bai Qingxia's hand gestures were very clumsy; she often couldn't hold all the cards with one hand, so she had to put the drawn cards on the table first and then insert them one by one to arrange them.
She was embarrassed to keep everyone waiting, so she held all the cards in her hand in a stack. Liu Wangchun was so annoyed by this that he gave her time to organize the cards.
During the brief pause in her tidying up, Lu Yuanqiu suddenly smiled inexplicably.
Liu Wangchun looked up: "What are you laughing at, Ji... what are you laughing at?"
It wasn't a big deal, Lu Yuanqiu just didn't expect that the thing that would eventually bring the four of them together peacefully was Guandan (a card game).
This sounds as absurd as playing Guandan in this environment.
Actually, his favorite part is now—before each game starts, Spring, Autumn and Winter would patiently sit aside and wait for Summer to slowly build a "two-story building" of playing cards in his left hand. This atmosphere is very healing to him.
"Okay," Bai Qingxia said.
The four players took turns playing cards until the sun outside the window briefly peeked out and then moved away again.
Liu Wangchun swayed his upper body, played a pair of eights, and then said with a smile, "When we're eighty years old, can we play cards together again?"
Long Liandong silently looked up. The word "we" made her feel unexpectedly at ease. Although she didn't speak, she was not transparent either.
Just as Lu Yuanqiu was about to reply, he suddenly heard a noise at the door.
Zheng Yifeng pushed the door open a crack and walked in with Su Miaomiao. The two of them hadn't removed their makeup yet, so it was unclear whether the photo shoot was finished.
Zheng Yifeng's expression was a little off.
“My grandfather just called… to say that Dai Yidan has passed away.”
The four of them paused for a moment, then placed the cards on the table.
Lu Yuanqiu stood up: "Then now..."
"Ms. Su and I went to the hospital first."
Let's go together.
Long Liandong arranged for a minivan, and the six of them traveled to the First Municipal Hospital. In the car, Lu Yuanqiu received another call from Su Xiaoya, who was also talking about the same thing.
"I wonder if anyone has notified Zhang Yifei?" Zheng Yifeng asked.
During this period, Zheng Yifeng's maternal grandparents took care of Dai Yidan at the hospital. Zhang Yifei and Zheng Yifeng would only visit occasionally. When they met, they didn't know what to say to each other, and they hadn't even added each other as friends.
Lu Yuanqiu also saw Zhang Yifei once at the hospital. The guy was in a very low mood. When they met, he only greeted him with his eyes and did not say anything.
His family's situation was a major blow to him.
The death sentence for Zhang Yibin, the older brother, is a foregone conclusion. After the USB flash drive incident, the elders of the Yu family had long since lost their trust in Zhang Yibin, or rather, given up on him. Moreover, the hit-and-run incident made the news, so there was no way to reverse the situation.
Zhang Zhisheng's crime was manslaughter.
The results of his interrogation came out more than a month ago.
The truth is that back then, after learning about Dai Yidan's situation, Yu Zhimei went to Li Yuntan's private residence in the United States to cause trouble. The two women got into an argument, and Zhang Zhisheng rushed to the scene. However, he sided with Yu Zhimei and accidentally pushed Li Yuntan down the stairs, resulting in Li Yuntan's death.
He has confessed to all of these crimes while in prison.
Lu Yuanqiu didn't even know if Zhang Zhisheng had seen Dai Yidan again during this period.
Lu Yuanqiu no longer had the time or the inclination to pay attention to these trivial matters.
All he and Bai Qingxia have to wait for now is Yu Zhimei's trial after the New Year.
With the third uncle's intervention, Yu Zhimei was no longer under the attention of Yu Lao Er. After all, Yu Lao Er was her second uncle, and he was currently in a hurry to secure his current position because of Lu Yuan. How could he possibly have the time to care about his niece, who wasn't even his biological daughter?
"Should I contact Zhang Yifei?" Lu Yuanqiu asked.
Zheng Yifeng nodded: "Okay."
This should have been something Zhang Zhisheng contacted Zhang Yifei about, but Zhang Zhisheng was in prison.
Upon seeing Lu Yuanqiu's message, Zheng Yifeng was about to call his father, but after thinking about it, he decided to send a message instead.
These past few days, Zheng Ye's relationship with Ye Hui at home has been quite subtle. Zheng Yifeng noticed that the two of them have been sleeping in separate rooms and only talk to each other a few words at the dinner table. Even Su Miaomiao felt that something was wrong.
After hearing that Zheng Ye was going back to the United States after the New Year, Ye Hui even stopped talking to him at the dinner table.
What happened to him in the United States over the past ten years is a mystery, but the answer is elusive. Zheng Yifeng doesn't know who his father truly loves, nor does he know if his father is also tormented by something.
He was only in his forties, but almost half of his hair had turned white.
Every time Zheng Yifeng wanted to ask for clarification, he felt he couldn't bring himself to do it.
Lu Yuanqiu: "Zhang Yifei replied to me, he'll be there soon."
"My dad replied to me too, he's coming right now."
Zheng Yifeng looked up and put his phone down.
(End of this chapter)
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