The Devil in the World (11)

"I was surprised that Ruan Mengying agreed. I booked a room in the hotel and she came over in the evening..."

Ruan Mengying was very beautiful, with shoulder-length hair and fair skin. She usually wore a bank uniform and always had a smile on her face. To Zeng Haoqiang, she was just like the poem he described, "a light silk fan with white orchid flowers, a slender waist and a jade belt dancing in the celestial gauze."

This poem has the following two lines, "I wonder if she is a fairy who has come down to earth, her smile is brighter than the stars", and Ruan Mengying is undoubtedly such a girl.

Zeng Haoqiang has a family, but he has long since given up on his aging wife. He likes to have fun outside, but Ruan Mengying is his unattainable dream.

He regarded her as the object of his sexual fantasies and paid attention to her all the time in his life, almost to the point of "seeing the plum to quench his thirst". He would even collect the items that Ruan Mengying abandoned and play with them when he had nothing to do.

That night, Zeng Haoqiang was extremely nervous in the room. His heart felt like it was about to burst out of his chest at any moment. He prepared lubricants, aphrodisiacs, and various sexy underwear for Ruan Mengying. He just wanted to spend a good night with her and fulfill his dream of life.

It was not until Ruan Mengying appeared at the door and knocked that he opened the door with trembling hands. When her beauty appeared through the crack of the door, Zeng Haoqiang felt numb all over.

She was different from usual, her expression was a little cold. After she walked in, Zeng Haoqiang closed the door. When she pulled the door chain, Ruan Mengying stretched out her white hand to block the chain hole.

Zeng Haoqiang's pounding heart stopped immediately. Ruan Mengying was reluctant to lock the door, which showed that she was still hesitant. Zeng Haoqiang was anxious to persuade her: "Mengying, I promise you, as long as you cooperate with me tonight, I will make up the money for you. I will never break my promise."

Zeng Haoqiang's heavy breath hit Ruan Mengying's cheek repeatedly, so that she turned her head away, showing disgust, but Zeng Haoqiang liked the look of her being forced and helpless.

He even had his wishful thinking together. He had something on Ruan Mengying. As long as there was a first time, there would be a second time, and she would have to obey him in the future.

Ruan Mengying said coldly: "I can promise you, but you have to promise me one thing."

Zeng Haoqiang was overjoyed: "Just tell me, don't just say one thing, I can promise you even a hundred things."

At this moment he simply couldn't suppress his inner excitement. He had long imagined what Ruan Mengying would look like wearing sexy lingerie.

The next second, he saw Ruan Mengying take out a pen and paper from her coat pocket. In his curiosity, she said, "Write a document to prove that after today, our affairs are written off. I will pay back the money. I don't need your help."

Zeng Haoqiang knew that he was not a fool, and he calmed down instantly. He realized that what Ruan Mengying wanted to do was nothing more than leaving evidence of his threat and deception. He knew that Ruan Mengying was not willing at all, and maybe after he wrote the document, she would bite back, and then he would not be able to control her at all.

But he couldn't give up on her, so he coaxed her, "Why don't you believe me? I promise you now. Not only will I make up the money, I will also give you another sum. I'll keep my word. But don't keep the receipt. If this gets out, it will be bad for your reputation. You know I have a wife, so I won't do anything rash. I like you, purely. After today, I will never pester you again. I swear to heaven."

"No." Ruan Mengying shook her head indifferently, "If you don't write it, I won't agree."

Zeng Haoqiang could only continue to persuade her with soft and hard tactics, and half-pushed her into the house and to the bed. Ruan Mengying's attitude was firm, which made Zeng Haoqiang lose his patience. He was so angry that he picked her up and threw her onto the bed, and tried his best to take off her clothes.

Ruan Mengying screamed and Zeng Haoqiang grabbed the sexy stockings on the bed, blocked her mouth, and pressed her hands and body hard. At that time, Ruan Mengying struggled desperately, broke free from his arms, and rolled under the bed.

Zeng Haoqiang rushed forward again, but Ruan Mengying suddenly pulled out a surgical knife from her pocket. She put it against her neck, her eyes full of fear, "If you touch me again, I will die in front of you!"

At that moment, Zeng Haoqiang finally calmed down, as if a basin of cold water was poured over his head. If Ruan Mengying died here, then he would be the murderer.

It turned out that she had prepared a knife long ago, and planned to trick him into giving her the document today, and then try to escape in this way.

But he had to stay calm, he panted and urged her: "Yuying, don't be like this, don't be like this, I was wrong, I apologize to you." He tried to get closer to her and snatch her knife.

Ruan Mengying was very alert. She moved her buttocks back and said, "Don't come near me. I will die at any time."

Zeng Haoqiang noticed that blood had already flowed from her neck. He began to get scared. What if she lost her grip? He took two steps back and said, "I'm sorry, calm down."

He saw with his own eyes Ruan Mengying's chest heaving violently, her hair tangled around her face, and her eyes staring at him through her hair. She slowly got up from the ground, retreated to the door, opened it, and ran out.

Zeng Haoqiang punched the soft bed. Because of the intensity just now, all the sexy underwear under the quilt was exposed, like a rainbow in the sky. He grabbed it and tore it hard...

In the interrogation room, Zeng Haoqiang looked at the incandescent light, and once again faced the serious criminal police in front of him and said, "That night, Ruan Mengying did come to the room. I didn't expect that she made a request to me as soon as she entered the room. She wanted me to write a statement. Do you think this kind of thing can be written? Don't be fooled by her innocent appearance. In fact, she is full of bad water. She wanted to play tricks and catch me. I tried to coax her at the time, but she just wanted me to write a statement. I was a little anxious, so I hugged her and kissed her. She kicked me in the lower part and ran out of the room."

As Zeng Haoqiang described this, his lips turned pale and beads of sweat kept dripping down his cheeks, but there was a hint of hatred in his eyes, as if he was the one who was bullied in that incident.

He said: "The next day, Ruan Mengying told me that if I pushed her again she would sue me for rape. She said she would make up the money. I was reluctant to leave her, but I couldn't push her too hard, so I warned her that if she didn't make up the money within a week, she would have to find another way to solve it. Ruan Mengying seemed to have heard what I said, and she made up the money in three days. That was the day she resigned."

Zeng Haoqiang finished his story and the interrogation room fell silent. Liang Yunfeng, Lin Tao and Cai Shuangxi all looked slightly shocked because they had never expected this story. The starting point of this case was the piano. Ruan Mengying wanted to buy a piano for her brother, and Lu He found the starting point of the matter.

And that compensation money seemed to be an important clue to why Ruan Mengying disappeared for a year.

It seemed as if Lu He had already discovered this clue, and he just wanted to summon Zeng Haoqiang to verify it. The three people couldn't help but look at Lu He with admiration again.

Zeng Haoqiang seemed to be confessing, "I was just possessed by a ghost. If she wasn't beautiful, I would never make the mistake a man should make. But I really didn't do anything to her. What I said was the truth. In fact, if Ruan Mengying didn't pay the money, I would pay it back on her behalf. That money is nothing to me."

Liang Yunfeng clenched his fists, he didn't expect Zeng Haoqiang's true face to be so dirty. What does it mean to be possessed by a ghost? What does it mean that just because she is beautiful, she makes the mistakes that a man should make?

Lu He said coldly, "Don't be hypocritical. If it weren't for you, Ruan Mengying would never have gone down this path of no return. Why are you still pretending to be so? You concealed the bank's illegal behavior and the fact of attempted rape, and you will still be punished by law."

After hearing this, Zeng Haoqiang's face turned pale and he was trembling all over.

The interrogation was over, and Lu He walked outside alone and calmed down in the air for a while. In fact, he didn't like listening to these stories, these sad stories. In this story, Ruan Mengying did something illegal. She did it for her brother, just to buy him a piano.

After Lu He came back from Qingshui City, he tried to profile Ruan Mengying. When Ruan Mengying was in junior high school, her parents divorced. In fact, she wanted to follow her mother and be with her younger brother. She was very young at that time, so she thought she had done something wrong, so her mother didn't want her.

She vented her resentment on her father. If they had not divorced, she could have followed her mother and been with her brother forever. Therefore, she had no contact with her father since junior high school.

But she always longed to return to her mother and live with her brother. This wish continued until she grew up. She wanted to express her love for her mother and brother. She always wanted to buy a piano for her brother. This was her truest emotion.

However, she was cheated by her friend. It was because of the piano that she cared about her family that she lost her basic rationality and tampered with a client's account. From that day on, she was worried and always wanted to pay back the money, but in the end, not only did she not pay the money, but she was also discovered by Zeng Haoqiang.

She was worried about being reported, and she was even more worried that her mother and brother would know about it, which would mean that all her efforts for the family would be in vain. So she agreed to Zeng Haoqiang's conditions, but her strong nature made her escape from Zeng Haoqiang's clutches.

Soon, she replenished the money and left the bank.

And this supplementary money was probably the fundamental reason why she disappeared for a year.

Now we have to find out where she got the money. As Zeng Haoqiang said, the amount is not much. Maybe she can borrow it and pay it back by working hard.

But according to Lu He's expectation, Ruan Mengying's way of borrowing money was not reliable. She later paid a huge price, which led her to embark on a path of no return.

And the money that Ruan Mengying borrowed from Li Muxiao might have made up for her loss, and everything was connected.

Lu He didn't think Zeng Haoqiang had explained everything. For example, did Ruan Mengying really escape that night? Because of "seeking benefits and avoiding harm", Zeng Haoqiang must have avoided the evidence that was unfavorable to him, but at present he was too busy to do anything else, and he already knew what he wanted to know. As for Zeng Haoqiang, let other judicial personnel judge him. He believed that as long as it happened, the truth of that night would be revealed.

*

Meng Siqi, Feng Shaomin, Zhao Leiting and their party came to a leather company, which was the company of Yao Kunming, the son of Yao Renjun. After explaining the reason, they were taken to a meeting room by the company's front desk lady. The receptionist poured water for the three of them and said that President Yao was holding an emergency meeting and they needed to wait a while.

Feng Shaomin looked at his watch as usual and said, "Okay, let's wait."

After the front desk clerk left, Meng Siqi also raised her watch. It was exactly 9:30 in the morning, and she hoped that the time would not be too long.

Half an hour passed, Zhao Leiting was a little impatient, and stood up, "I say, Yao Kunming must want to delay the meeting. Brother Feng, should I remind him that we are here to handle the case, not to play with him?"

Meng Siqi had already finished a glass of water, but he still felt dry mouth and tongue, the dryness that comes from the boring waiting.

Feng Shaomin said, "Okay, you remind the front desk."

After Zhao Leiting left, Meng Siqi closed the notebook and said nothing. She also knew that she was here for a visit today, and if the person being visited had any special reasons, she could not force him to be summoned.

After a while, Zhao Leiting came back with an unhappy look on his face. "I told you, if you don't show up, we will take coercive measures."

Meng Siqi knew that Zhao Leiting was just trying to scare him, after all, there was no suitable reason to impose compulsory measures. But it was obvious that Yao Kunming did it on purpose today, and even if there was an important meeting, he should come forward to explain.

Less than 20 minutes after I filled up my water bottle at the front desk, Yao Kunming showed up. After he opened the door, he laughed and said, "I'm sorry, Officer Feng was too busy. Please forgive us small business owners for our hard work."

Zhao Leiting curled his lips and put on a cold face. Feng Shaomin nodded and said, "Please sit down, Mr. Yao. I've been waiting for you for an hour."

"I'm so sorry." Yao Kunming took out a cigarette box and handed it to Feng Shaomin. "Thank you for your hard work. I will never neglect you next time. Let's have a quick lunch here at noon. I've already arranged it."

Feng Shaomin blocked his way with his hand, "No need, Mr. Yao, we don't smoke, we'll just ask a few questions and leave, we won't delay you for too long."

Yao Kunming smiled and sat on the sofa. There were a circle of sofas in the reception room, surrounding a marble coffee table. Meng Siqi, Feng Shaomin, and Zhao Leiting sat on one side, and Yao Kunming sat on the other side, basically maintaining a conversational posture.

"Okay, Officer Feng, please feel free to ask me anything. This time you're at my home, I will definitely cooperate with you." Yao Kunming placed the cigarette box on the coffee table and slowly lay down on the sofa.

Meng Siqi felt that Yao Kunming's attitude was much better than last time, but that didn't mean he would agree to the police's proposal. She picked up the notebook and prepared to write something down.

Feng Shaomin said: "We are investigating some things in the textile factory. Your father, Yao Renjun, was once the deputy director of the textile factory and the only one of the main leaders at that time who is still alive. There are some things that may require Yao Renjun to recall. We have contacted some medical experts in the province and want to give Mr. Yao some conservative treatment..."

As he said this, the smile on Yao Kunming's face had completely disappeared, and his expression returned to the same cold and serious expression he had in the nursing home that day. "Do you suspect that my father's Alzheimer's disease is fake?"

Feng Shaomin said: "Mr. Yao has misunderstood..."

"I have no misunderstanding. From the beginning, you were testing him. I really don't understand why you didn't let go of an old man who is almost 70 years old and has severe Alzheimer's disease. You also have elderly people. What would you think if someone kept forcing your father to make unrealistic demands?"

Zhao Lei Ting almost gritted his teeth, Meng Siqi was relatively calm. She knew that Yao Kunming would definitely object, but she didn't expect that he would be so emotional before they even discussed the matter.

Feng Shaomin's tone became much more serious: "Yao Kunming, this is no longer a matter of negotiation. Your father is involved in a missing female worker case in a textile factory. We have the right to make these demands."

Yao Kunming insisted, "What do you mean? You want to arrest people, right? I have never heard that the police can arrest people based on suspicion. Fine, you can show me the evidence. My father has lived an upright life. It is not that you say there is a problem. Now I am still saying that you have a problem. Can you cooperate with me to get mental treatment?"

"Yao Kunming, you are talking nonsense! What on earth do you want to hide? Why do you protect your father like this?" Feng Shaomin's attitude suddenly became serious.

Yao Kunming was stunned for a moment, and his anger seemed to be suppressed all of a sudden. He was silent for a while, and finally calmed down. "I didn't hide anything. Officer Feng, I am a filial son. It's okay for me to fight for some rights for my father. The conservative treatment you mentioned, in fact, I have already arranged it. I run such a big company, would I be stingy with this small amount of money? I don't want to hear my father call me son in person? You don't know the pain in my heart at all."

"I remember that when I lived in a textile factory for a while, the workers praised him from the bottom of their hearts. You don't know him at all. Once there was a heavy rain, the textile factory workshop was flooded, and the products were destroyed. It was my father who took the lead and stayed up all night to clean up the water with the factory workers. To this day, whenever there is thunder and rain, his rheumatism will flare up."

"Another time, the factory encountered difficulties and could not pay wages. My father stood in the middle of the angry workers and begged them to trust the factory and that the factory would definitely pay them back. As a result, within less than a month, thanks to my father's efforts, the factory paid back the wages. They all said that my father was a very good man, one in a million. He hid the award certificates given to him by the workers, saying that he was not greedy. I could only secretly bring them to the company and hang them in my office. You can go and see how much he has contributed to the factory!"

"I know you want my father to get treatment, and you mean well, but as a son, I just don't want him to suffer at this age. I hope you can let him go and let him spend his last days in peace. After all, this is the only time in a person's life that he will survive."

Yao Kunming spoke with great emotion, his eyes were slightly red and moist, which might make people burst into tears if they were not prepared, but Meng Siqi wrote a name on the paper forcefully, "Ding Yinghong".

She was one of the missing female workers in the textile factory. She disappeared when she was still a teenager. Four female workers as young as her also disappeared. There has been no news of them for eight years. Perhaps they have already met with an accident.

Not only does Yao Renjun have one life, but they should also have one. They are so young, their lives should be so short and so insignificant!

Feng Shaomin glanced at Meng Siqi. Meng Siqi knew that her master was asking her if she had any other ideas. Actually, she didn't have any good ideas. Now that Yao Kunming had played all the cards, if she continued, he would probably be moved by himself. It was rare for a grown man to cry during a visit.

But Meng Siqi would never let Yao Kunming feel at ease. She said calmly, "Boss Yao, I remember that the day I went to visit your father was Wednesday. Normally, you would go to the nursing home on weekends, but Director Yao notified you that day. You knew the police were coming, so you rushed to the nursing home without stopping. Mr. Yao has many friends, and many of them visited him. You never asked about the visit, so why did you rush there that day?"

"Things in life are not as calculated as you are. I just happened to pass by that day. Is there a problem?" Yao Kunming retorted.

"Yes, you yelled that we disturbed your father before you even entered the house that day. You also said that we made your father feel uneasy. What does uneasy mean? Because you knew in advance that your father would have an 'accident' that day. Mr. Yao," Meng Siqi said with a faint sneer, "You know a lot about your father's affairs, right? You were so noisy that day. You had ulterior motives. You did it for someone to see, right?"

Zhao Leiting, who was sitting next to him, suddenly found that Yao Kunming's face dropped like a roller coaster. His face was pale, and one could even see cold sweat oozing from his forehead. Yao Kunming was completely defeated by Meng Siqi's calm tone.

Zhao Leiting felt that Meng Siqi was not only good at observation, but also good at grasping the key points. Her tone was very calm, just like her usual quiet personality, but when doing criminal work, she was like a sword out of its sheath, with its sharp edge exposed. He couldn't help but praise Meng Siqi in his heart.

Yao Kunming was also a seasoned businessman. He quickly concealed his uneasiness and smiled, "I don't know what you are talking about."

"Mr. Yao," Meng Siqi said calmly, "I hope you will seriously consider our proposal. Sometimes, hiding something will cost you a huge price."

Yao Kunming turned pale, but soon his expression became very friendly: "Yes, yes, I will definitely consider it seriously."