Chapter 17 It’s her!
Uncle Fu's house is 1,100 square feet, with four bedrooms and a living room. Uncle Fu and his wife live in the master bedroom on the west side, and his son sleeps on his side on the east side.
"Uncle Fu, how are you feeling?" Ye Lin asked as he sat on the accompanying chair beside Uncle Fu's bed. Uncle Fu was so happy to see the young master coming to see him that he couldn't close his mouth. "Oh, young master, what are you doing all this time for? I'm old and can't do it anymore. Are you hungry?"
As expected, the elders all thought you were hungry. Ye Lin motioned for Ah Hui and the others to leave, and soon no one was in the room. "Uncle Fu, I ate before I came. Have you seen anything like this recently?"
Ye Lin took out the aromatherapy from the bag and handed it to Uncle Fu. Uncle Fu took it, looked at it, and thought for a while. "It looks familiar. Oh, right, I saw one in the grass outside the piano room a few days ago. That day, I happened to remember that I needed to weed the piano room, so I took the lawn mower over. I hadn't been weeding for a few times when I bumped into something. It was a bottle and it smelled really good. I don't know who put it there, but it was unfortunately crushed by the lawn mower, so I swept it up and threw it away."
Uncle Fu glanced at Ye Lin guiltily. "Is it the young master's thing? Look at me, an old man. I'll ask that kid Ah Shen to buy another one for the young master."
Seeing that Uncle Fu had misunderstood, Ye Lin explained, "It's not mine. I lost something and am looking for it. It's related to this bottle. Uncle Fu, please don't tell anyone about what I asked you today, okay?"
"Ah! Someone actually stole the young master's things. Who is it? How bold!" Uncle Fu got angry when he heard that someone in the family was doing something dishonest.
"You are the only one in the family right now, Uncle Fu. I can only talk to you. Now we have found out that it might be done by the maid. Which maid in our family do you think is the possibility?" Ye Lin quickly comforted Uncle Fu and asked about the background of several maids. Uncle Fang and Uncle Fu had the longest seniority in the family, and asking Uncle Fang would make Rebecca worried.
Uncle Fu looked at the young master with heartache. He had watched the young master grow up, and had spent more time with him than with his own son. Now that the master and the mistress were gone, the servants in the family actually dared to bully the young master. It was simply outrageous and their consciences had gone to waste.
Uncle Fu calmed down and analyzed the situation seriously with Ye Lin, "Master, do you suspect that it was done by those maids?" Ye Lin nodded, "Nine out of ten."
Uncle Fu closed his eyes and thought, "There are five maids in the family now. Two of them are twin orphans, Xiaoyue and Xiaoxing. They were fourteen or fifteen years old when Madam Irene picked them up. They have been working in the family for almost ten years and have always been very down-to-earth. Another one is Aunt Liu's niece, Amo, who has been working there for four years. Another one is Lillian, the maid Madam Irene brought from Italy. She is almost thirty now. All the maids in the family are under her charge. Oh, by the way, Laogui's daughter, Amei, just graduated and came home recently. I don't know her very well yet, but you, Master Laogui, know her well. I really can't think of who these people are." After Uncle Fu finished speaking, he couldn't help but worry. If there was a thief among these five people, it would be terrible. They were all old acquaintances who had received favors from the Ye family. How worse than beasts they would be! What a misfortune for the family!
Just arrived home, Amei?
Ah Mei was also present at the restaurant last night.
Ye Lin suddenly remembered that the first person he met when he came to the Ye family was Uncle Gui’s daughter A Mei!
Why did she happen to be in the young master's bedroom? Was it really because Rebecca asked her to come? Or was she guilty and wanted to secretly open the window to ventilate and let the aroma of the fragrance dissipate faster?
When there is no suspect, the first person who appears at the crime scene is the suspect!
Ah Mei graduated from the Hong Kong Health Girls' School last year, studying nursing. She heard from her uncle that she had excellent grades and was qualified to enter major hospitals in Hong Kong. Although the Ye family's servants earned higher wages than white-collar workers and could get a share of Hong Kong housing after working for 5 years, it was not good to say that she was a servant. It was just like in the future, whether to be a civil servant and earn a few thousand yuan a month or to be an anchor and earn hundreds of thousands of yuan a month. It was difficult to say which was better, and it was not surprising to choose either one. Ah Mei was in such a situation. Her choice was not surprising in the eyes of others. After all, the Ye family had a lot of money and little work, and she could work with her father, so Ye Lin did not doubt her at the beginning.
Ah Mei was actually in cahoots with Ji Yuanping. After figuring it out, Ye Lin stood up and said goodbye. "I understand, Uncle Fu. I'll take care of the rest. You can rest and recuperate. Just pretend I didn't hear what I asked you today."
"I know, young master, you have to be careful. This heartless man will get his retribution!" Uncle Fu looked at Ye Lin worriedly as he left. Alas, his poor young master.
Uncle Fu asked Shenzai to take the young master out. Before leaving, Ye Lin took advantage of Shenzai's inattention and put a check for 1 million Hong Kong dollars on the shoe cabinet. After all, it was because of him that Ah Mei was thinking about Uncle Fu. He had suffered this at his age, and he had nothing to compensate Uncle Fu, so he could only give him some money.
When Ye Lin came to Mong Kok for the first time, he looked at the prosperity of Mong Kok in the 1970s. The streets were brightly lit and tall buildings stood in rows. He turned around and said to Ah Hui, "Let's take a walk."
Ah Hui followed behind Ye Lin, and Uncle Gui drove slowly behind them. There were people coming and going on the street, including shoe shiners and white-collar workers carrying briefcases. Cloth shoes and leather shoes made a clear distinction between the rich and the poor. Looking at the vendor selling fruits with a shoulder pole and hawking in thin clothes, Ye Lin's thoughts drifted away. What kind of life did the Ye family's relatives in the mainland, Ye Errong's parents and siblings, live?
When Ye Lin came to his senses, he had already reached a fork in the road. Forget it, it was useless for him to think about his Ye family now. The full opening of the mainland was just over a month away. I heard that Xiang Jiang could also return to the mainland to visit relatives before that, but the procedures were a bit complicated.
Like the young master, Ye Lin was worried that his Italian ancestry would bring trouble to the Ye family in mainland China. Now, if someone in the mainland was found to have overseas connections, it would be no joke, especially since he was now a big capitalist, which meant he had fallen into all five black categories.
Ye Errong didn’t contact his family before because he was not only a capitalist but also married a foreign wife. In recent years, the investigation of the “five black categories” in the mainland was so intense that he didn’t dare to contact them.
Therefore, he decided to wait until the situation stabilized after the opening before going to the mainland. In a few days, he could inquire about the current address of the Ye family. The address Ye Errong left for the young master was an old address from more than 40 years ago. He didn't know whether the Ye family had left.
Back in the car, Ye Lin looked at Uncle Gui who was driving and pretended to chat and asked, "Uncle Gui, why didn't I see Amei today?"
"She's got a cold and is resting at home." Speaking of his daughter, Uncle Gui couldn't stop talking. "This morning she told me she wanted to come visit Old Fu. Little kids are always willful, but I talked her out of it."
The murderer wanted to come and see the victim, which was really like a weasel paying New Year's greetings to a chicken. Ye Lin took over the conversation and said, "Uncle Gui, where did Amei go to middle school?"
Uncle Gui began to talk about his education methods. "Oh, I put a lot of effort into her schooling. She was at Mingde Secondary School before Form 5, and then she transferred to St. Andrew's Private School in Form 6. Otherwise, how could she have gone to a private girls' college?"
From memory, Ji Yuanping told the young master that he had studied in Mingde, and it seems that the two of them got in touch from that time.
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