kidnapping
Thump, thump, thump. Guan Shanyue could easily hear her own heartbeat, which was too clear to be felt, pulsating against the pulse on her neck. Her mind was completely unable to think. She snatched the phone and pressed the answer button, impatiently asking, "Is Zhenzhen at your place?"
The person on the other end seemed to have not expected a female voice. After a pause, a specially processed voice came through the receiver, accompanied by an unpleasant humming sound: "Where's Shao Zizhuo? Let him come and talk to me."
Guan Shanyue was so anxious that tears were about to fall out, and she lost her usual carefulness: "I am Zhenzhen's mother, it doesn't matter if you tell me anything. What he can afford, I can also give."
There was silence on the other side. Shao Zizhuo came over and put his arm around her shoulders, holding her in his arms soothingly. He whispered to the emotional Guan Shanyue, "Yueyue, don't worry. Let me try to communicate."
Guan Shanyue's eyes were filled with tears. When she blinked, tears rolled down her eyelashes. She nodded with a sob, staring at the phone intently, her ear almost touching the phone, not wanting to miss any information. Her fingers unconsciously exerted force, causing big wrinkles on Shao Zizhuo's shirt.
The other party became impatient: "This is not the time for you to show your affection!"
Shao Zizhuo sneered: "Speak."
The other side laughed heartily: "Shao Zizhuo, your daughter is in our hands." The receiver was held away, and Zhenzhen's laughter could be heard from afar, seemingly very happy. The voice came closer, "Did you hear that? If you want to see her again, take 100 million in cash, pack it in a suitcase, and leave it under the third pier of Linhai Bridge."
Guan Shanyue sniffed, wiped her tears, leaned over and whispered in Shao Zizhuo's ear: "Promise him, give me two days, I can get 100 million, but Zhenzhen can't starve, and she can't suffer any grievances." As long as the money is there, it will be easy.
She loves money very much, but compared to money, there are more important things.
You can earn money again if you lose it, but you only have one Zhenzhen.
Shao Zizhuo was furious, but he smiled instead: "Go pick it up at 6pm in two days. You must ensure the child's safety during these two days. If anything happens to her, I don't mind making you suffer a fate worse than death."
The voice on the other end trembled, then quickly regained its composure: "Okay, I'll give you two days. I'll take good care of your daughter."
"If we get the money, how do you return the person to us?" Shao Zizhuo's eyes turned cold.
"Just pick her up from kindergarten as usual the next day." The call was quickly disconnected and silence returned to the room.
Everything happened so quickly that Guan Shanyue finally regained consciousness after she hung up the phone. Something was wrong, nothing was right. She analyzed it, trying to extract the essence.
The other end of the phone.
A foolish thief tapped his head and said, "Boss, can we really cheat Shao Zizhuo's money this way?" Thinking of Shao Zizhuo's methods, he couldn't help but shudder.
He was hit on the head, and another person said, "Have you forgotten about the kidnapping of Guan Shanyue a few years ago? Although Shao Zizhuo sent him to jail for a few years, he still made a lot of money. We definitely got the news the fastest this time. It's just a scam, not a real kidnapping. Besides, I've learned a lot in the past few years. I will definitely not let him control us again. Don't worry."
Is that so? The fool felt a chill on his head.
However, Guan Shanyue and Shao Zizhuo, who were plotted against, were not that stupid.
After a while, Guan Shanyue's voice became faint, without any emotion. She looked up and asked Shao Zizhuo, "Is Zhenzhen really in their hands? That voice sounds like a recording." Before Zhenzhen's voice appeared, she heard a playback confirmation prompt. Although it was extremely short, she quickly caught it.
Guan Shanyue's face was expressionless, but his eyes were surprisingly bright. "And they even asked me to pick her up from the kindergarten. That's really too bold. It's easy to trace this phone number. Whether Zhenzhen is in their hands or not, I will make them pay the price."
Shao Zizhuo took a deep breath and said, "I thought so too, but it's better to be prepared. Let's prepare some money and put it in the designated place. We'll find a solution later."
As soon as she finished speaking, Guan Shanyue sent the unknown phone number, along with the call log and recording, to a familiar hacker. Her fingertips had gone cold and red, almost unable to type. Trembling, she finally managed to compose and send the message.
Shao Zizhuo pulled her trembling hand, held it between his hands, and breathed on it to warm her hands.
Shao Zizhuo looked at her face, and the past came to his mind, as if overlapping with the previous time and space. Such a thing seemed to have happened before. He suddenly had an idea: "Could Zhenzhen be at the Shao family?"
Now the Shao family is almost hitting rock bottom. In just a few years, the industry leader has become mud and sand washed away by the tide of the times, and has been beaten to death on the beach. It is estimated that it will file for bankruptcy soon.
The Shao family had people contact him openly and secretly. Lin Wan even brought her grandmother to Qinglian and waited downstairs for a whole day just to see him, but he left directly from the underground garage after he got the news.
He didn't want to have anything to do with this family anymore. He had already cut off everything with the Shao family, both emotionally and financially.
Lin Wan was so cruel that she kidnapped Guan Shanyue as if he were Yuan Wangshu and forced him to sign an equity relinquishment agreement. Now, will she kidnap Shao Kezhen again and use it to threaten him to return to the Shao family?
Thinking of this, a chill surged through his heart and Shao Zizhuo almost vomited.
Zhenzhen, Zhenzhen cannot have anything to do with them.
Guan Shanyue suddenly looked up: "Yes, the Shao family!" She frowned and thought, "But if the Shao family really wanted to use Zhenzhen, why haven't they contacted us yet?"
Shao Zizhuo hadn't recovered from the nausea yet. He held his forehead and sighed, "It's hard to say. I'm not sure."
Guan Shanyue's phone rang suddenly. She was startled and quickly went to grab the phone.
It was a call from a hacker: "The caller has been found, and I've hacked into the cameras of several companies near the kindergarten, as well as your car's dashcam. All the videos related to your daughter have been sent to your email. Who should I contact to settle the bill?"
Guan Shanyue's heart suddenly tightened, and her emotions, which had just calmed down, resurfaced. She trembled uncontrollably all over: "Ask my assistant for the money." She hung up the phone and went to the study.
Shao Zizhuo directly brought the computer over: "Log in and try it."
Guan Shanyue's fingers trembled unconsciously, and her hand always strayed to another key. She entered the computer password incorrectly several times, which made her even more nervous. She only had one last chance before the computer was about to lock.
Suddenly, a hand reached out and held hers, and the warmth continued to pass on, warming her heart little by little. The computer was also taken away. Shao Zizhuo entered the password with one hand, and the white rotary knob turned, and the screen finally appeared.
Guan Shanyue took a deep breath, tried to slow down his heartbeat, checked his email, and clicked on the video sent by the hacker.
The video looks like a surveillance camera at the entrance of a company next to the kindergarten. It can just see the vehicles coming and going at the entrance of the kindergarten, but due to the limited viewing angle, only one-third of the vehicles can be seen.
The time in the upper right corner of the video is 10:23, which is exactly the morning play time of the kindergarten. The noise of children can be vaguely heard in the video.
The two of them watched intently. After a few seconds, a car drove by. Shao Zizhuo paused immediately: "It's the car Aunt Wang is driving!" After making sure it was clear, he pressed the play button again, but the video suddenly stopped and continued with another one. The time was 10:46, and a car slowly pulled up to the entrance of the company.
Shao Zizhuo narrowed his eyes at the familiar license plate number, as if he had seen it somewhere.
His pupils suddenly shrank, and the answer was about to come out.
The old house of the Shao family.
Shao Kezhen sat on the bed in Shao Zizhuo's room. Her feet could not reach the ground and could only sway in the air. She held a photo album in her arms and was looking at it intently.
A hand reached out from the side, pointed at the photo in the album, and said to her softly: "This is your father when he was a child. Doesn't he look a bit like the baby?"
Zhenzhen's eyes widened. The person in the photo was wearing a small suit and had curly hair. He looked about her age. She leaned in closer, almost pressing her nose against the photo. Then she concluded regretfully, "No, Dad doesn't look like me at all. Mom is more like me."
Lin Wan smiled and couldn't help but kiss Zhenzhen on the cheek: "It's the baby who looks like the mother, not the mother who looks like the baby."
As she grew older, and with the sensational scandal that had plagued her back then, Shaw Brothers was no longer as glorious as it once was, and the housework became increasingly arduous. In comparison, Lin Wan became more down-to-earth, and began to like children and the hustle and bustle of life.
Compared to the annoying Shao Zizhuo, Zhenzhen is so cute. I don’t know when my unlucky son will be willing to get married and have children.
Thinking of the ruined Shao family, Lin Wan's eyes darkened and she sighed heavily.
Grandma Shao came over with a cane, carrying a bowl of rice porridge. She walked unsteadily, which frightened Lin Wan. She hurried over to take it and couldn't help complaining, "Mom, why are you carrying such a hot thing yourself? Just ask me to do it. You might burn your hands later, and it will be troublesome again."
Grandma Shao lowered her head, hid her hands behind her back, and said nothing. She was already very old and no longer looked as decisive and ruthless as she had been in the business world in those years.
Lin Wan blew on the hot rice paste, scooped a spoonful and fed it to Zhenzhen: "Come, baby, try this, it's made by Grandma, it's delicious."
Zhenzhen opened her mouth obediently. Grandma Shao looked at her with a smile on her face: "Your father loved eating this when he was a child."
At that time, the son and daughter-in-law were still alive, and the grandson was a little younger than Zhenzhen is now. The family was happy and it looked like a home. She was still young and was the important General Manager Li in the thriving Shaw Group. She could call the wind and rain and was very powerful.
Thinking of the past, Grandma Shao's eyes became dim, and then her eyes fell on Zhenzhen who was eating.
It depends on her.
The noise outside became louder, coming from far away and getting closer.
Lin Wan and Grandma Shao looked at each other and reached a tacit consensus.
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