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Jack later learned that just as their young master had started investigating the auction, Sir Chen was also not idle. He had traced back to all the problems in the transactions of Ye Ningyu's account.
It was also because of the suspicion of "framing" the knife that made him focus his attention on Ye Ningyu.
After all, this person's repeated attempts to muddy the waters are in themselves very wrong. He is either stalling for time or deliberately misleading the direction of the investigation.
The knife was passed down from the ancestors of the Ye family and was priceless. However, Ye Ningyu was framed and lost all his money because he secretly used the Ye family's public funds for investment. That's why he came up with the idea of hiding the knife.
According to Ye Ningyu, he had previously asked Chen You for a loan and even offered to pawn the knife, but was rejected because the amount was too large. Ye Ningyu had no other options, and since he couldn't let his father know about this, he sold it at an auction house at almost half the price, and then scraped together some money to finally fill the hole.
Originally, he didn't know who the buyer was, but last night Shen You came to him about the raw materials and believed that he was deliberately trying to frame the Shen family, which led to the two of them arguing very fiercely and even fighting.
When he was pushed away, he bumped into Assistant Cheng, and the backpack that Shen You was carrying in the assistant's hand fell to the ground, and the knife was exposed.
After being brothers for so many years, Chen You watched him die without helping him. He said that he was not interested in his knife but secretly got it at a very low price. This was almost an act of betrayal, which made Ye Ningyu, who had just been threatened by Tanaka, furious to the peak.
Without any hesitation, he stabbed with the knife he picked up.
In fact, it was not a deep hatred. It was just that one person thought he would hide, and the other thought he would not dare to stab him, and the tragedy happened.
"So that's how it is... Then what's going on with Assistant Cheng?"
After listening to this series of stories, Mu Qingyan did not feel much and seemed even calmer than usual.
Jack sighed and continued.
Assistant Cheng's death was of course an unprovoked disaster, purely to silence him.
And the accomplice...
It's Jacob.
Jacob had actually heard the noise and rushed in, but he was still a step too late. He also knew that he could not explain to anyone in the Shen family, so under the coercion and inducement of Ye Ningyu, he killed Assistant Cheng and cooperated with Ye Ningyu to fabricate a series of lies.
It should be thankful that Chen You never revealed to Ye Ningyu and his bodyguard that his heart was on the right side, and the two men were frightened and careless and did not check the fallen Chen You again.
"What happened to Ye Ningyu's injury? It doesn't look like he could have come up with it himself..."
"You're right." Jack nodded. "Ye Ningyu refused to speak at first, but later admitted that the Ye family's lawyer had taught him step by step how to do it, including colluding with Jacob and dragging you and Mr. Tanaka into this. He didn't expect it to backfire in the end. The wound on his arm doesn't match the blade of the knife at all."
Mu Qingyan paused when he heard this, and pondered for a while before showing an expression of understanding, which made Jack a little confused.
"The Ye family's good lawyer didn't advise Ye Ningyu to take the knife away directly. It doesn't look like he really wants to help their second young master clear his suspicion!"
"Yan, what do you mean?"
"I'm just guessing. I heard that Mr. Ye has cleaned up the mess for his second son countless times, beating him and scolding him, but Ye Ningyu still refuses to repent. It's not impossible that Mr. Ye wants to cut his losses in time."
Perhaps we can take it a step further. Even if the Ye family succeeds in stealing the raw materials this time, they will definitely be in trouble after the Shen family suffers. This truth is so obvious that Mr. Ye cannot fail to understand it.
This means that either the Ye family had an accident in advance and was threatened by someone, or Mr. Ye was unaware of it, and Ye Ningyu was threatened and took advantage of his long-term relationship with Shen You to take advantage of his unpreparedness and successfully switch the baby.
No matter which possibility it is, it is worth Mu Qingyan's further investigation.
…
It didn't seem like it took long from the time this happened to the time the dust settled.
Until the end of the trade fair, Shen You stayed in the ICU. His vital signs were stable and he would recover slowly. However, this physical condition could no longer allow the uncles of the Shen family to continue to persuade the board of directors to let him continue to occupy the position of President Shen.
Thus, in line with most people's expectations, Shen Chuxuan officially took over the position of the head of the family.
In fact, Shen You's status has been in name only for a long time, but it did make Shen Chuxuan feel extremely constrained at many times, so this should be the only blessing in disguise of this accident.
Mu Qingyan returned to the laboratory after accompanying Shen Chuxuan to take care of the affairs in the port area.
In addition to feeling uneasy about Dustin's message inviting her on vacation, the most urgent task was to resolve the conflict with Kins first.
Of course, she herself felt that with the high-level human in the loop that she and her teacher had created for Kins, Kins might not care about that little episode.
Everything in the laboratory was the same as before. Mu Qingyan found Kins in the greenhouse area. It was obvious that even though he was injured by a weeder not long ago, his interest in vegetable cultivation remained unabated.
But this time it wasn't quiet inside.
It seems to be the sound of someone reading.
After opening the door, Mu Qingyan stood there and listened for a while before realizing that the electronic voice was reading a book that the teacher once loved very much.
Asimov's "The Two Hundred".
This short story tells the story of Andrew Martin, a household service robot with a body of steel. In order to become a real human being, he has struggled for his human rights for 200 years. In the end, he even gave up his platinum-iridium alloy positron brain, which was regarded as immortal, and decided to die like a human.
Mu Qingyan didn't understand why the teacher liked this book at that time.
She actually didn't quite understand Andrew Martin, because human rights meant nothing to robots.
"For him, Xiaoyan, that's 'freedom.'"
This is how the teacher explained it to her.
"But 'freedom' still means nothing to a robot, doesn't it?"
At that time, she did not think that robots would really understand what bondage, slavery, inequality, and freedom meant.
Because these concepts are only understood by humans.
Only humans can be free.
Finally, the teacher said something that still makes her reflect on it till today:
“Human beings are not free. Only those who wish to be free are free.”
The words in my mind gradually overlapped with the electronic sound of the ending of the reading in the greenhouse. That was the wish Asimov wanted to convey through the novel -
As long as any living being has a sufficiently evolved mind, can understand the true meaning of freedom, and desires a state of freedom, humans have no right to deprive it of its freedom.
—Freedom… huh…
Mu Qingyan looked at Kins who was bending over and working not far away, and suddenly felt a little strange.
Still seeming a little lost?
She couldn't convince herself. Could it be that Kins, who had always been by her side, felt constrained?
"Yan, what are you standing there for? Why don't you come over here?"
Mu Qingyan came back to her senses and looked at Kins who was waving at her while holding some carrots and corn. She shook her head and then walked over.
"You knew I was back?"
Only after asking did she realize that this was nonsense.
"Yan, you don't look well. Are you tired from being outside?"
Kins didn't pay any attention to her sudden brain short circuit. He put the things in his hand into the basket and looked at her with some concern.
I don't know when it started, but he could make these expressions and looks that were full of human emotions without any sense of incongruity.
Not to mention now, the familiar yet slightly strange feeling after a short separation. For some reason, Kins's current expression really makes Mu Qingyan accidentally mistake him for Kinsley.
This is so confusing.
"Yan, why aren't you talking?"
Because of her silence, Kins' expression changed from worry to confusion, and then became as mechanical and stiff as a normal robot.
He suddenly took a step back and distanced himself from Mu Qingyan:
"Perhaps, I shouldn't ask, Yan, don't feel troubled, go and rest..."
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