Chapter 26 Blocked
Ruan Xiaohui has been a private detective for six years. He has negotiated cases in cafes and taken over cases in hotels, but he never thought that one day he would meet his clients at a roadside fried skewers stall.
The man was wearing a black baseball cap and was half squatting on the ground eating fried skewers. In order to make it easier to eat, he pulled his mask down to his chin. If it weren't for his different face, Ruan Xiaohui would have almost thought he had met another customer.
However, that person was a loner and generous, and he looked like a wealthy and sophisticated person. He would definitely not do something like squatting on the roadside to eat fried skewers.
Ruan Xiaohui walked over and squatted beside him, lowering his voice to call out the secret code: "One, two, three, four, five?"
"Land."
The man eating the fried skewers uttered a word calmly, then stood up and threw the bowl in his hand into the trash can. Lu Yan wiped his mouth with a tissue and finally looked at Ruan Xiaohui: "Is your last name Ruan?"
Ruan Xiaohui looks young, probably in his twenties, with a tuft of dyed yellow hair, and a shabby look. He is not too handsome, nor too ugly. This kind of person is suitable for intelligence work.
Ruan Xiaohui smiled and said, "It's me, Mr. Lu. What do you want to investigate? Your wife is cheating on you or you are investigating your enemy. I promise to do it beautifully for you and the price is reasonable..."
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly felt that Lu Yan in front of him looked familiar. His voice stopped abruptly, and then he thought of his last name, and his expression changed slightly: "It's you?!"
As expected of a private detective, his eyesight is much better than Sawakawa's.
Lu Yan did not try to hide the truth and said directly, "I know someone paid you to investigate me. I asked you to come here today because I want you to help me cover up for a month. Name your price."
Ruan Xiaohui's expression couldn't help but become very interesting. Their business was actually not protected by the law. To put it bluntly, it even violated the right to privacy. They had one-on-one contact with customers through a single line. He couldn't understand how Lu Yan had found him.
Ruan Xiaohui smiled, like a slippery ball: "Mr. Lu, although I don't know how you found me, but eating at two tables at the same time is easy to get killed. I am not well educated, but I know that I have to keep my reputation. If the news gets out, how can I make a living in this industry?"
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly felt a strong force on his shoulder, and was grabbed by Lu Zhanshen's hand. The other party held him and turned around abruptly, then pointed his finger above his head and asked with a smile: "What do you think that is?"
Ruan Xiaohui raised his head subconsciously and found that there was a surveillance camera above his head.
Lu Yan had chosen this place on purpose to meet him. His tone was nonchalant, but Ruan Xiaohui's mood instantly became extremely bad: "It's good to make a living, but if you end up in prison, that would be bad."
"You have been investigating me for so long, this is an invasion of privacy, right? Do you think the police will do anything if I report it? Even if I don't report it, I found you when you couldn't hide well. How can there be such an incompetent private detective? If the news gets out, will you still be in this business?"
Lu Yan patiently helped Ruan Xiaohui analyze the pros and cons. He let go of his shoulders and asked one last time: "How much do you want? I promise I won't bargain."
Ruan Xiaohui knew that he had met a tough opponent this time. Hearing this, he gritted his teeth and stretched out his hand to make a six: "No less than this number!"
Lu Yan raised his eyebrows in surprise: "Six thousand? So cheap?"
Ruan Xiaohui's face froze: "......?"
Is this person crazy?
Ruan Xiaohui gritted his teeth and said, "It's sixty thousand! Sixty thousand!"
Lu Yan thought to himself whether this person was crazy because of poverty: "I just asked you to make up a lie, and you don't have to do anything. I'll give you a discount and pay you three thousand."
Ruan Xiaohui was surprised: "Didn't you say you wouldn't bargain?"
Lu Yan raised his eyebrows: "I only said that I won't bargain, but I didn't say that I am willing to be a sucker. I'll give you a discount this time, and I'll come back to you if there is business next month."
Ruan Xiaohui's face twitched: "Mr. Lu, this is not a discount, it's a discount. Even if you give me a 10% discount, I still have 6,000!"
Lu Yan: "Six thousand then, deal."
Ruan Xiaohui: “…”
Ruan Xiaohui had only gone out to discuss business, but when he returned home he felt as if he had been robbed by bandits. He suppressed his grief and trembled as he found his spare phone and called: "Hello... is this Mr. Yu..."
"I found the person you asked me to look for... He's very far away... I heard that a relative of his passed away and he went back to attend the funeral... He's in a remote mountain valley..."
"I'm not sure... I'll probably be back in about seven or eight days... OK... I'll keep an eye on him... I'll let you know as soon as I have any news..."
Although Ruan Xiaohui didn't know what the relationship between Lu Yan and Yu Zechuan was, he had already failed to do a good job with Yu Zechuan. If it was exposed, he would lose everything. After thinking it over, he finally decided to help Lu Yan keep it secret, not for the damn 6,000 yuan, but for himself.
Yu Zechuan received a call from Ruan Xiaohui, and for the first time he was not angry. He hung up the call and threw the phone aside, but his mind recalled what Lu Yan said that day.
Jiang Boyun is now rich and powerful, and he can easily crush most ordinary people in this city with just one finger. If the lover was forced by him, Yu Zechuan really has no reason to kill him.
Of course, no matter how much he said, it was just an excuse. Yu Zechuan didn't want to admit it, but he had to say that he seemed to be convinced by Lu Yan's words that day.
Today is a rare sunny day. The lingering sunshine of late autumn falls on my body, but it is not as scorching as in summer. It makes my soul relax.
Yu Zechuan suddenly didn't have the heart to pay attention to Jiang Boyun's little lover recently. Most of the real estate projects of Yinchuan Group have been started, and Jiang Boyun is also interested in investing in island development. Everything else will be left to time. Life suddenly became empty and boring.
Yu Zechuan suddenly remembered something and picked up his phone again. He lowered his eyes and stared at the WeChat interface. After hesitating for a second, he finally clicked on the chat column with the note "Ayan".
Lu Yan’s avatar is a little white dog wearing black round-frame glasses, reading a book seriously with its head down. How can I describe it? It looks silly and cute, which doesn’t quite match the image of a real person.
Yu Zechuan couldn't help but smile, and a very slight curve appeared on his lips, which he didn't even notice.
【Are you at home today? 】
What are you doing?
Yu Zechuan tapped his fingertips lightly on the keyboard and typed out the two questions he wanted to ask the most. However, after thinking for a while, he deleted them all and only sent an irrelevant message:
【The sun is shining brightly today. 】
At that time, Lu Yan was sitting face to face with a man whom Yu Zechuan had never expected, drinking coffee. The mobile phone on the table suddenly vibrated, which directly attracted the attention of the man opposite him.
“Who’s messaging you?”
The man across the table was dressed in a suit and looked gentle and refined. He was Jiang Boyun, who was stabbed to death by Yu Zechuan in the previous game.
Last time, Lu Yan lied that he had to go back to his hometown to take care of a sick relative. He had not seen Jiang Boyun for a long time and hung up on him several times. Out of some sharp intuition, Jiang Boyun felt that something must have happened, so he forced Lu Yan to go out today.
Lu Yan glanced at the phone screen without leaving a trace, then muted it manually: "Nothing, a message from a relative."
Jiang Boyun stirred the steaming coffee with a spoon and asked tentatively, "What relatives? I don't think you've ever mentioned them before."
Lu Yan drank his coffee without changing his expression: "My second uncle."
He was so skilled at this that Jiang Boyun didn't even need to speak up. Yuqi opened the screen and showed him the WeChat interface. The words "Second Uncle" were clearly marked on it, and there was only one chat record:
【The sun is shining brightly today. 】
Lu Yan asked, "Do you believe it?"
Jiang Boyun's eyes flickered when he heard this, and he finally put aside his doubts. He saw that the profile picture of Lu Yan's second uncle was a rabbit wearing a black sweater and putting his hands in his pockets. He couldn't help but smile: "Your second uncle's profile picture is quite fashionable. He even told you about going out in the sun."
Lu Yan raised his eyebrows slightly: "It's time to go to the fields to harvest sweet potatoes after the sun comes out. He might want me to help."
He suddenly asked, "I asked you to bring the USB drive that contained the accounting records. Did you bring it?"
When this matter was mentioned, Jiang Boyun's expression became slightly dull: "Why do you want to keep account records?"
Lu Yan thought, nonsense, he didn't want to come over, Xue Jin stole it directly: "Why don't you just delete this kind of thing? What if someone finds it?"
Jiang Boyun sat up straight and away from the table, adjusting his posture, which showed that he was a little impatient with this topic: "There were too many people involved back then, and I kept the account for its own use. I can't delete it now."
Lu Yan also knew that it was unrealistic to ask Jiang Boyun to delete these, and frowned as he stared at him and said, "There are so many people coming in and out of your office every day, what if they are discovered?"
Jiang Boyun didn't take it seriously. Years of pampered life had made him let down his guard: "Don't worry about it. The computer is encrypted. No one knows except me."
Because Lu Yan and he were accomplices at the time, Jiang Boyun did not hide the truth from him:
"I hired someone to write an encryption program. The computer password will be randomly changed at a fixed time period, with a total of 24 sets of numbers. Even if someone is lucky enough to find out one of the passwords, it will be difficult to crack the computer."
But Xue Jin of the previous generation happened to have deciphered it.
Lu Yandun felt that Jiang Boyun was not an easy person to deal with, so he suddenly asked, "But you seem to have a lot of computer talents under you?"
Jiang Boyun subconsciously raised his eyes and looked at him: "What do you mean?"
The nutty aroma of Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee filled his nostrils, making his nerves relax unconsciously. Lu Yan lowered his head and took a sip of the coffee. It had a balanced taste of sour, sweet and bitter, and a rich and long taste, but he found it a bit unpalatable.
Maybe it was because he felt like he was an accomplice to the evil?
As long as Xue Jin is exposed, Jiang Boyun will definitely be cautious, but at the same time, Yu Zechuan and his men's revenge plan will fail.
The name "Xue Jin" came to his lips, but Lu Yan swallowed it back half a beat late: "Nothing, I just feel that there are a lot of computer talents in the company, and they are not very reliable. If they are really discovered and the police find out about you..."
Lu Yan paused and looked at him with pretended worry: "Everything you got today is destroyed."
It's all destroyed.
These three words made Jiang Boyun look a little uncomfortable, even ugly. He had climbed from the bottom to the top, and what he cared about most was everything he had now. Even though he felt that this possibility was very small, he still felt uneasy for some reason.
Lu Yan saw his intention and continued to add fuel to the fire: "How about this, you give me the USB drive with the account, delete the files in the computer, and come to me for the account when you need it. If anything happens, it won't be implicated to you."
Jiang Boyun did not doubt Lu Yan. After all, they were the ones who did this together. He frowned and thought for a moment before saying, "Okay, but I have to give it to you tomorrow. The USB drive is locked in the company safe. I didn't bring it out."
Lu Yan thought, "Then I'll go to the company to find you tomorrow."
He was about to get up and leave when he was suddenly stopped by Jiang Boyun, who looked at him with deep eyes and said in an ambiguous tone, "It's rare for us to meet, and you're leaving just like that?"
Subtitle: Don’t you want to fire a shot?
Lu Yan: “…”
Lu Yan always felt like he understood something he shouldn’t have understood. He deliberately covered his waist and said, “Well, I went back to my hometown to move things some time ago and accidentally sprained my waist, so…”
Jiang Boyun understood what she meant and looked away awkwardly. Although he was a little disappointed, he didn't say anything. After all, bed partners were not a rare species. "Then let's watch a movie. Anyway, there are no meetings in the afternoon and I don't know what to do."
Lu Yan: “Ah?”
Jiang Boyun had already paid the bill. He took his things and walked out the door first: "Let's go. I have a dinner at 7 o'clock in the evening. Don't waste my time."
Lu Yan silently raised his middle finger at him in his heart: Just waste time, do you really think that the master wants to watch a movie with you?
However, Lu Yan really didn't dare to refuse. His recent behavior had been very abnormal. If he refused Jiang Boyun again, he would probably anger him. He would get the USB flash drive tomorrow, so it was better to mind his own business.
Lu Yan gritted his teeth and watched a movie with Jiang Boyun.
A suspenseful revenge drama was recently released, with many twists and turns, and stimulating scenes and language, which the audience enjoyed watching with great interest. Only Lu Yan had a blank expression throughout the whole show, holding a bucket of popcorn and eating it from beginning to end, like a hamster digging for food.
It’s not that Lu Yan likes to eat, but Jiang Boyun has been making moves in the dark and trying to grab his hand. If he doesn’t do something, he will be taken advantage of.
Alas, Lu Yan sighed silently in his heart, being too handsome is also a sin.
The movie ended at 6:30 pm, and Jiang Boyun had a dinner party, so he didn't have time to do anything he wanted to do. He and Lu Yan walked out of the cinema together, and the driver was already waiting on the side of the road. The smooth lines of the car made it look expensive, and attracted many people's attention.
Jiang Boyun looked down at his watch and said, "I have something else to do. I'll leave first. Do you want a driver to take you there?"
Of course Lu Yan would not let him send her off: "It's okay, I'll just take a taxi back, it's quite close."
"Okay, be careful on the road then."
Jiang Boyun was just being polite. Hearing this, he opened the car door and signaled the driver to drive away. The dark blue sky showed the coming of night. The streets gradually became crowded, full of people but noisy.
Lu Yan's apartment was not far away. Seeing that the road was congested, he simply walked home. When he went upstairs, he was still thinking about what to eat for dinner. Unexpectedly, he was blocked by Yu Zechuan as soon as he arrived at the door of his house.
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