That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 1229 If You Don’t Follow the Rules, Then No One Will Follow the Rules

After Li Ye hung up the phone, he couldn't help but curse out loud.

"What you fear will come true! Despite all the warnings, he still fell into their trap. He is old but still a socialist baby."

When he answered the phone just now, he was thinking of exaggerating and saying that it was an important call in order to fool the troublemaker around him, but it turned out that this call was really important.

Lao Jie and Chen Yazhi were actually detained by people from Chinatown and accused of being hooligans.

Who did you say was fooled?

A decent woman?

It's so embarrassing!

When Xiaodouer heard Li Ye cursing, he immediately asked with his big eyes wide open: "Dad, what is a socialist giant baby?"

Li Ye drove his horse back and said irritably: "I am the boss, but I am not as smart as you."

Xiaodouer immediately smiled and said, "Yeah, yeah, my grandma and my aunt both say that I'm a smart guy."

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When Li Ye returned to the manor house, the family was preparing to have dinner.

Wen Leyu saw that Li Ye looked unhappy, and immediately smiled and said, "How is it, have you lost your temper because of your daughter's torment?"

Li Ye shook his head and said, "I'm not troubled by my daughter, but by a few fools. Wu Yan called me just now."

Li Ye briefly explained the situation while calling Qu Qingyou and Jiang Shiqi to drive to Chinatown.

After Fu Guiru heard what Li Ye said, she immediately said with a gloomy face: "This is probably a trick played by fellow villagers. These people are becoming more and more uncivilized nowadays.

But Li Ye, don't be reckless. Let Xiao Jin go over and help you deal with it. He knows a lot of people here. Spend some money to bring the person out, and we can deal with the rest later."

"I have my measure."

Li Ye agreed and rushed to Chinatown with Qu Qingyou, Jin Ge and others.

When they arrived, they found Wu Yan, several colleagues, Jiao Yaqiang and Sister Zhen were anxiously walking around in circles.

Li Ye got out of the car and asked, "What's going on? Did you see anyone?"

Wu Yan shook his head and said, "They just called us and asked us to go to the street corner in front to pay the ransom, but we didn't see the person and we didn't have enough money."

"Not enough money? How much do they want?"

Li Ye frowned, because when he went on vacation with his wife and children, he left 30,000 US dollars for Wu Yan and others. Wu Yan, Lao Jie and others were so stingy that they didn't spend much money in the past few days, so how could it be not enough?
This was in the 1990s when the housing prices in Beijing were only a few hundred yuan, not the 1920s when the bride price was 188,000 yuan. Even if it was a honey trap, there had to be a figure.

At this time, Sister Zhen pulled Li Ye's sleeve and led him aside.

"Li Ye, I think something is wrong. Normally, this kind of thing would only cost a few hundred dollars or a thousand dollars, or two thousand dollars at most. But this time, the other party asked for fifty thousand dollars. This is too abnormal."

"Fifty thousand dollars?"

Li Ye was startled.

Although fifty thousand dollars was nothing to him, what did fifty thousand dollars mean in 1990?
But Li Ye suddenly reacted and asked, "Sister Zhen, how did you know about this? Is this kind of thing common?"

“I don’t know whether it’s common or not, the reason I know is because”

Sister Zhen hesitated for a moment, then said, "Do you still remember the restaurant where Rongrong and I used to work? The proprietress surnamed Chen is now making money on the side, and some of my former colleagues told me some inside information."

Li Ye was surprised and asked, "You said Chen Juming is making money from illegal means now?"

Sister Zhen nodded and said, "I was also shocked when I first heard the news. After Chen Juming's husband died four years ago, she quickly expanded her business. Later, I heard that she even became a director of a listed company.
But she was only successful for less than a year before she suddenly went bankrupt. Then I heard that she had an affair with Mr. Qiao in Chinatown. Mr. Qiao was arrested and imprisoned half a year ago, and Chen Juming took over this business.

"Wow, is she destined to be a husband-killer?"

Li Ye couldn't help but complain, and then whispered: "Sister Zhen, do you think that this time, Lao Jie and the others have fallen into Chen Juming's hands?"

"That's also possible."

Sister Zhen said thoughtfully: "That woman Chen Juming is very smart. I heard that she specifically asked her subordinates to find new flower growers and then empty their pockets.

I think she may have gotten information from Lao Jie and Chen Yazhi, and knew that we were relatively wealthy, and even knew your name. You had some grievances with her back then."

[I didn’t just have some grievances with her back then. Her bankruptcy was also directly related to me! ]

At the beginning, Chen Juming's husband Cao Yuanmao deliberately made things difficult for Zhen Rongrong. Li Ye used a cannon to kill a mosquito and hired lawyer Elena to take action, forcing Cao Yuanmao to pay a sum of money to Zhen Rongrong.

But this little feud was nothing. Li Ye's series of operations in the mainland caused the sisters Chen Juming and Lin Qiuyan to lose all their money and thus formed a mortal feud.

Chen Juming knew that Li Ye was from Beijing Light Automobile Company. If Lao Jie and Chen Juming fell into the hands of someone like her and were trapped out of their workplace, there was a high possibility that they would be ripped off.

Li Ye thought about it for a while and called Brother Jin over: "Brother Jin, you and Sister Zhen go find someone to find out the details and see if it's aimed at me. If not, then pay me back. If it is, then it will be fun."

Li Ye thought that Chen Juming should not specifically target her own people, but her men specifically targeted unfamiliar "fellow villagers" and happened to catch Lao Jie and Chen Yazhi.

Brother Jin and Sister Zhen went to inquire about the news. Li Ye was not idle either and quickly called Elena.

Any evil spirits are afraid of the light of righteousness. We must be prepared for both situations. If all else fails, we must handle it through official means.

As a result, Elena's explanation made Li Ye feel disappointed.

"Mr. Li, this kind of thing is difficult to prove. Your employees must have irrefutable evidence to prove that the other party is maliciously defrauding, otherwise the judge will definitely find them guilty."

"why?"

"Because judges are supposed to protect the weak, this is one of the cornerstones of Lighthouse civilization."

Decades later, Li Ye heard that Australia City had sentenced several rape fraud cases within a year, and instinctively thought that the Lighthouse was the same.

But he misjudged the time. The current Lighthouse is still similar to the mainland decades later, it is just a test server.

Li Ye thought about it and asked again: "What if the other party is an undocumented illegal immigrant? Can the Immigration Bureau intervene?"

Elena said, "If that's the case, I'm sure I can resolve this matter by paying a fine."

"Okay, we'll get in touch."

Li Ye was not sure whether the people who set up the trap to frame Lao Jie and Chen Yazhi were illegal immigrants who had smuggled in, so he had to wait for further news.

More than an hour later, Brother Jin and Sister Zhen came back.

Brother Jin said, "The situation is a bit tricky. The other party refused to budge, so there must be something fishy going on. I asked a few familiar people about it, and it might be the work of Chen, but I can't be sure."

Li Ye took a cold look into the depths of Chinatown, then turned and walked away: "We're not sure, we'll know after we try."

When Wu Yan saw Li Ye leaving, he immediately chased after him and whispered, "Li Ye, we have to save them! I'll write you an IOU and promise to pay you back later."

Li Ye snorted and said, "Don't worry, I promise to rescue them both, but I will also let them suffer for two days so that they will remember their lesson."

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When Li Ye took Wu Yan and others to leave Chinatown, they would never have thought that someone was watching them through the window on an upper floor not far from them.

"Sister Chen, I just sent someone to check. The last few people who came drove a Bentley, so they may not be fat sheep."

Both tigers and sheep have fat on their bodies, but one is a delicious delicacy while the other is a man-eating beast. If you want to make money through illegal means, you must be more careful, because if you make a mistake, you may get into big trouble.

"Don't worry! The people who set up this trap have no criminal record. No matter how they deal with it, they will have to cut off a piece of meat for me."

"Really? Sister Chen, you are really smart."

"It's just making money, it's not smart."

Chen Juming looked at Li Ye's departing back, with a cruel smile on her face.

Ever since she was humiliated by Li Ye, Li Dayong, Hao Jian and others in Beijing during the Spring Festival two years ago, Chen Juming hated Li Ye and his gang.

The life she lived in the past two years is a memory that she cannot bear to look back on in her life.

She originally thought that she would never have the chance to take revenge in this life, but unexpectedly Li Ye came to her door.

[Do you think all I want is money? Hehehe~]

Chen Juming was very proud, so she slept soundly that night.

But early the next morning, she was awakened by a ringing phone.

"Hello? Oh mom, why are you calling me at this time? Is there something wrong at home?"

"Xiao Ming! Just now, one of your friends suddenly came to our house and asked you to help him with a small favor."

"My friends? Which friends? Mom, don't be fooled. I'm in the lighthouse now. How can I help them?"

"I'm also wondering! But they said that a relative of theirs got into trouble with a gang in Chinatown in San Francisco, and they said you could help. Aren't you doing business now? How did you get involved with the gang?"

Chen Juming suddenly clenched the phone in her hand and said in panic, "Mom, don't listen to them. They must be scammers. There are too many scammers these days."

Chen's mother on the other side asked doubtfully, "But what they said is very detailed. The new boyfriend you told me about a few days ago was named Qiao, right? I haven't told anyone else about this."

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Chen Juming didn't know how much effort he had put in to finally convince his mother.

She was not afraid of fighting and killing when doing this shady business, nor was she afraid of police Arthur J. She was just afraid that her family would know her secrets and it would hurt the Chen family.

The Chen family is a scholarly family. If they had a daughter who engaged in this kind of business, her parents would be disgraced.

"Mr. Li, you are such a bastard, don't you know that the disaster will not affect your family?"

Chen Juming was so angry that she was fuming and kept cursing for a long time, but in the end, she still didn't dare to gamble with her last bit of dignity.

So she called her subordinates and asked them to bring $10,000 to redeem the man.

Last night, Brother Jin bargained with Chen Juming's people and was willing to pay eight thousand dollars for the ransom, so Chen Juming thought that ten thousand dollars could easily get it.

Ask for a high price and pay a low price. Test the other party's character first to make sure if he is targeting your family.

But a few minutes later, his subordinate called and said angrily: "Sister Chen, those people are getting more and more demanding. They even want us to give them money in return. Otherwise, I will cripple one of their hands."

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Chen Juming was overwhelmed.

It's probably going to break down.

She was just making money by doing something illegal, not a kidnapper, and Li Ye had already found out about her family, which was clearly a warning to him.

If you don't follow the rules, then none of us will follow the rules.

(End of this chapter)