Chu Yu specifically instructed Manager Sun to arrange for a top-notch waiter to serve Mi Fei's table.
Mi Fei enjoyed the smiling service, ate teppanyaki and barbecue, ordered abalone rice and steak, and even opened a few bottles of beer with his friends.
Chu Yu originally planned to supply red wine, but these days the price of imported red wine is a bit high, and there isn't any particularly good red wine in China. However, she kept a few bottles of fine red wine in the cabinet for entertaining guests.
Seeing that they were drinking, Chu Yu had two bottles of fine French red wine brought over.
Mi Fei and Ni Chengliang are both experts; they can tell it's a good wine just by looking at its color.
What they cared about wasn't the wine, but the prestige it represented. Chu Yu had given them plenty of face for the opening of such a grand restaurant, not only having people invite them in but also sending over such fine red wine. They felt comfortable drinking the wine.
Mi Fei was drunk. When Ni Chengliang took him home, he opened the door, kicked off his boots, and was about to jump into bed when the phone suddenly rang like a death knell.
"Who is it? It's so late!"
Mi Fei muttered something, answered the phone, and was stunned by the voice on the other end, "Dai Donglin? No? It's so late, doesn't your unit have a curfew?"
Dai Donglin was also a scoundrel. "I sneaked over to make the call."
"What? Are you out of your mind! If someone finds out, they'll definitely tell Uncle Dai, and you'll get a beating."
Dai Donglin frowned deeply. What exactly was going on with Mi Fei?
The older he gets, the more talkative he becomes. He called Mi Fei late at night, probably because he wanted to hear about Chu Yu's restaurant. He was worried that the buffet-style bar wouldn't work in Beijing and that business would be bad, which would upset Chu Yu.
Mi Fei, on the other hand, talked a lot of nonsense, as if he was afraid that his voice wasn't loud enough and that others wouldn't hear him.
Dai Donglin said impatiently, "Alright, I want to ask you about Chu Jiali Restaurant."
"Oh, you mean this..." Mi Fei scratched his head before telling Dai Donglin about Chu Jiali Restaurant. "You can rest assured, Chu Jiali Restaurant is doing very well. The queue is over a hundred people long. It's such a big restaurant, it's always packed with people. Because of the good business, the restaurant is willing to use the best ingredients, and its reputation is quite good."
Dai Donglin nodded. "I understand. Can you do something for me?"
Last night, Beijing had just experienced a heavy snowfall. Inside the Beijing Municipal Detention Center, a woman with disheveled hair and a rosy complexion walked out.
“When you get out, behave yourself and don’t do those swindling and cheating things like before!” the policewoman said coldly.
This woman was Zhou Huilan, who had been implicated by Zhou Fangchun and imprisoned for a long time.
Zhou Huilan was stunned for a moment, then pulled the policewoman aside and asked, "Comrade, I would like to ask, how are my mother, my brother, and my sister?"
The female police officer said expressionlessly:
"What can we do? Zhou Fangchun has already confessed. She transferred all her money to her daughter in Hong Kong. This money can't be recovered, and the country and its people have suffered a great loss. Your brother has run away to Hong Kong. If you have the chance, you should still try to persuade him to come back and confess."
Zhou Huilan was stunned for a moment. She had been in the detention center for so long that her mind was a little foggy.
"And what about my mom?"
"How would I know where your mother is? We released her a long time ago. As for whether she ran away or went somewhere else, you'll have to ask her yourself."
The policewoman was getting impatient; she also had relatives who were involved in the mutual aid scam.
The victims of this scam are scattered throughout Beijing. This family has swindled so much money from others, yet they are all more indifferent than the last.
She despised Zhou Huilan from the bottom of her heart.
Zhou Huilan was still a little confused. She was originally going to be sentenced, but she was lucky. Her husband, Bao Liu, tampered with the accounts so that he could get money to gamble, and in the end, by a twist of fate, Zhou Huilan was cleared of suspicion.
Furthermore, since Zhou Huilan's money was all transferred away by Bao Liu, after investigation, she really didn't have any joint liability.
Even if the police wanted to convict her, the law said she was innocent, so the police could only release her after investigating the case.
Zhou Huilan was still a little dazed that she could get out so quickly.
"Comrade, what about my man, Bao Liu?"
"Bao Liu?" The policewoman shook her head, looking exasperated. "Your man pinned all the blame on you, saying you dragged him down and that he had nothing to do with it. He even asked us to sentence you and release him. Alright, Zhou Huilan, you were released purely out of luck. Don't be so foolish as to keep struggling for a man. Quickly find a decent job, raise your child well, and I don't want to see you do it again."
Zhou Huilan had just come out of there and was a little scared of the police, so she nodded repeatedly.
"Comrade, let me ask one more question... How much money did my brother and sister actually defraud? That mutual aid society they ran does bring in money every day, but it's only around ten or twenty thousand. I've seen the accounts, and their costs are very high. They have to invest the money, so there's not much left. Surely they wouldn't risk their lives for it?"
"Ten thousand or eight thousand? Ten thousand or eight thousand yuan can alarm the central government? This matter has been reported in newspapers and media several times. They defrauded people of over one hundred million! Do you know what one hundred million means? Even our country's banks can't come up with that much money... Yet they actually swindled the people out of their hard-earned money!"
The female police officer's words also carried a hint of complaint.
Zhou Huilan stood there stunned, unable to recover from what she was being said for a long time.
After ten thousand comes one hundred thousand, one million, ten million, and then one hundred million, right? One hundred million is how much money is that?
That would require the combined assets of 10,000 households with 10,000 yuan each to reach 100 million yuan!
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