Meizong Wealth Life

Chapter 1 Wedge A Special Funeral
"Death is not a cause for sorrow, for their souls will be reunited with the Father in heaven."

"They are only temporarily separated from us. One day, when we arrive in heaven, we will meet them again."

The priest's low voice floated on the wind.

John Dutton put on his cowboy hat and took one last look at the two corpses lying in coffins in the deep pit with a complicated look on his face.

As a retired criminal police officer, I have often dealt with corpses in the past.

But this is really the first time I have dealt with "my own" body.

Especially if you drive and kill "yourself", that would be even more exciting.

Not far away, two state troopers were asking John Dutton's second son, Jamie, some questions.

When the car accident happened, Jamie, who was only ten years old, happened to be sitting in the passenger seat of the car. Recalling the situation when the car accident happened, his face still looked frightened.

"My dad and I were on our way back to the ranch. In such a dark environment, of course we turned on our headlights."

"I swear, I kept my eyes on the road ahead. The car seemed to suddenly appear on the road and hit us head-on. It was so close that neither of us had a chance to apply the brakes. The two cars had already Crash together.”

Ryan, the state trooper responsible for investigating the car accident, interrupted and asked:
"Can you describe in detail what happened after the car accident?"

"I passed out after the collision. Later, my father woke me up. He told me that it was not safe to stay in the car and that I had to get out of the car immediately."

While speaking, Jamie kept his eyes on Ryan who was asking the question, and his tone seemed very nervous.

Of course, this is also consistent with the reaction of a ten-year-old boy after a tragic car accident.

"You guys got out of the car, what happened next?" Ryan continued to ask.

"My dad and I got out of the two people in the opposite car. Their car doors had been damaged and deformed. We could only break the car glass and pull them out of the car," Jamie suddenly shrugged, "But it's a pity. , they are no longer breathing."

Ryan's companion Tom added a question: "When you rescued people, the other party's car was already on fire, right?"

Jamie nodded.

Tom was about to ask why you didn't put out the fire after you saved the people, but Ryan suddenly stopped him.

Sensing the difference in the expressions of the two state troopers in front of him, Jamie turned around.

Sure enough, he saw his father, John Dutton, walking towards this direction.

"Have you finished asking questions?"

Before Tom could speak, Ryan answered first:
"That's it, Mr. Dutton."

John stepped forward and patted Jamie on the back.

"Let's go. Before burial, you can take one last look at the two unlucky guys we rescued."

After saying that, he took his son away from two state police officers without any explanation.

Behind him, Tom complained in a low voice:

"Ryan, there was a lot wrong with the car accident. The child was obviously a breakthrough. Why did you stop me from continuing to ask?"

"Also, we should prevent this burial. There are many suspicious things about the two dead Asians, such as their clothes. I have never seen that style before."

Ryan turned his head and looked at his new partner with a serious face.

"We have searched the two bodies and found nothing useful."

"That's why it's even more suspicious, isn't it?" Tom argued rationally: "Even if they smuggled themselves over from Canada and don't have any documents to prove their identity, they should at least have money on them, right?"

The actual result was that after the state police arrived at the scene of the car accident, they found nothing on the two deceased persons, not even some scattered small items.

Ryan curled his lips disapprovingly.

"Maybe they put everything in the car."

"Then it was completely burned down by a fire?" Tom's eyes widened. "What's even more coincidental is that the Duttons didn't put out the fire and watched the entire car being burned. Can you believe it?"

Ryan turned his head and glanced at the direction the Duttons were leaving.

Mainly to ensure that what you say next will not be heard by the other party.

"The Duttons encountered this car accident while driving normally, so they are the victims. They were able to save the two Asians from the car to the limit. They had no obligation to put out the fire, let alone when fighting the fire. May be in danger!"

"According to your suspicion, if the Duttons really concealed something about this matter, they could have simply not saved the two Asians. Wouldn't it be more troublesome to let the two corpses and the car be burned together?"

Tom was about to retort when Ryan suddenly poked his chest with his finger and warned sternly:
"Listen! I don't care if anyone warned you before you joined the job, it's best to stay away from any cases related to the Dutton family!"

"Yellowstone Ranch has more than 3000 square kilometers of land, which is almost the same size as Rhode Island. The Dutton family's power in Montana is so great that you can't imagine it. Let me tell you this, successive governors and state prosecutors Official, without the support of the Dutton family, I wouldn’t be able to sit in that position!”

"I'm not telling you this to make you fear the power of the Dutton family, I just want to tell you a basic fact, who is the real owner of the land under our feet! John Dutton's words are law here! "

"Do you see that cowboy standing aside? His name is Lloyd, and he is John Dutton's man who does his dirty work. The hospitality of the Yellowstone people is not just talk. Those who are against the Dutton family, Most of those who did not abide by the rules of the Yellowstone Ranch were sent to the 'train station' by Lloyd and never came back."

Tom was stunned.

What train station?

"Don't get me wrong, the 'train station' I'm talking about refers to a canyon with a radius of [-] kilometers. It is an uninhabited and uninhabited area. The three nearby states like to throw dead people into that canyon."

Before Tom could recover from the shock of these words, Ryan continued to educate his new rookie partner:
"If the Duttons really had a grudge against the two unidentified Asians, their bodies would have been dumped directly at the train station after the car accident instead of being buried in front of us. They even helped them find it. A priest."

"John Dutton wants to tell us in this way that even though this car accident is highly suspicious, he is not afraid of our investigation at all, so man, don't be so fucking stupid and do those useless things. The only ones who died are two insignificant people. It's just an illegal entry of Asians, we just need to report this as an ordinary traffic accident."

On the other side, father and son John and Jamie, who were walking towards the funeral site, were also discussing the interrogation just conducted by the state police.

John didn't ask what Jamie had told the police, only that Jamie had just made two mistakes.

One is that when Jamie answers questions, he should not keep staring at the police officer who is asking the question. This can easily make the other party suspect that Jamie wants to judge from his eyes what to do next, so as to do better. of lies.

The other one is Jamie's sudden shrug, which actually revealed his inner panic, and he wanted to use this action to increase the persuasiveness of his lie.

Jamie didn't protest.

When he was being questioned by two policemen just now, although he tried to look calm on the surface, he was really panicking in his heart.

The most important thing is that his father, who has been a criminal police officer for more than 30 years, obviously has a better say in how to deal with police interrogation.

The father and son walked silently to the burial pit.

The priest on the side finished reading the eulogy, made a sign of the cross on his chest, raised his head and nodded to John, then turned and left.

He comes from the church in the town, and the Dutton family usually donates a lot of money, so this time he came as a return favor.

The pastor named Bob was completely uninterested in the identities and origins of the two deceased people, and he did not want to know at all.

After the priest left, Jamie finally had time to take a serious look at the two corpses in the pit.

In the pit on the left is a tall, middle-aged man in his 50s with half-white hair and a determined face full of wind and frost.

The one on the right is a young man in his thirties with fair skin. He is thin and has an obvious ring of fat on his waist and abdomen. At first glance, it is obvious that this figure is caused by too little exercise and fat accumulation caused by sitting for long periods of time.

Jamie's eyes finally stopped on the young man.

The last time he looked at his figure and appearance like this was when he looked in the mirror after taking a shower.

It turns out that this is what people look like after death from the perspective of others.

Recalling what happened in the past day and night, Jamie only had the word "outrageous" left in his mind.

Li Jian used to be a European and American film and television UP host in China with more than 30 fans.

On the eve of Qingming Festival, I drove back to my hometown with my father Li Youzhi, who had just retired from the criminal police force, to pay homage.

His mother passed away early, and his father was devoted to his work in the criminal police team. Li Jian has been a "de facto orphan" since he was a child. The relationship between father and son has never been good.

During the college entrance examination, Li Jian deliberately took the exam from his hometown of Meng Province to the southernmost province of Guangdong, where he majored in sociology at a little-known agricultural university.

After graduation, I changed my job several times and finally became a UP owner.

His father, Li Youzhi, had always looked down upon Li Jian's job, thinking that it was just a waste of time and it would be better to go back to his hometown and take the civil service examination.

Because of work matters, the father and son often quarreled on the phone.

When Li Jian was over 30 years old, there was another contention between the two.

Get married and have children.

However, not getting married and having children is the last stubbornness of young people of Li Jian's generation.

So the father and son quarreled even more fiercely.The most serious incident was that the two did not talk on the phone for more than half a year.

It wasn't until Li Jian received a call from the local hospital in his hometown that his father was seriously ill and was hospitalized that he hurried back to his hometown.

Fortunately, it was not an incurable disease and the surgery was successful in the end.

The father and son also reached a reconciliation while in the hospital.

During this period, Li Jian also followed the arrangement and participated in a blind date.

The girl looked okay, and she wasn't the type of girl on the Internet who just opened her mouth and asked about the garage. Unfortunately, they didn't feel much about each other, so they met and had a meal and it ended.

In any case, Li Jian finally obeyed.

After recovering from illness and being discharged from the hospital, Li Youzhi chose to retire from the criminal police force where he had worked all his life, and began to focus on arranging a blind date for his son.

Li Jian promised, but his actual plan was to return to Guangdong Province when Li Youzhi's body was almost recovered. By then, the sky would be high and the emperor would be far away, and he would be free.

The flight tickets back have been quietly booked, and I am ready to "visit" my mother during the Qingming Festival before leaving.

After the car entered the high-speed tunnel, Li Youzhi, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was the first to realize that something was wrong.

All the lights in the tunnel went out.

But it was too late.

A pickup truck with its headlights on suddenly came towards me.

Who knows where this car came from.

Li Jian didn't even have time to apply the brakes before the two cars collided hard.

The father and son drove a Blue Bird that was approaching the end of its service life.

The cars of my childhood were really fuel-efficient, but they were also really not crash-worthy.

Not to mention that there is a strong and durable American muscle pickup truck opposite.

The moment before the collision, Li Jian, Li Youzhi and his son clearly saw a 40-year-old white foreigner wearing a cowboy hat and a boy sitting in the pickup truck opposite.

The other person's face was also full of horror.

When he opened his eyes again, Li Youzhi found himself lying on the steering wheel, with an inexplicable memory of a white man named John Dutton in his mind.

When he saw his foreigner-like face in the rearview mirror, even Li Youzhi, who had been a criminal police officer for more than 30 years, almost stopped.

The first thing he did when he got out of the car was to run to the opposite side of the Blue Bird, which was knocked out and the front of the car was completely destroyed. He smashed the glass and pulled his son and himself out of the car.

Unfortunately, both of them have expired.

Just when Li Youzhi was holding Li Jian's body and crying in grief, a familiar yet unfamiliar voice suddenly sounded from behind him.

"dad?"

Li Youzhi turned his head with red eyes and found that it was the boy who was sitting in the passenger seat before.

Following the memory in his mind, he knew that the boy's name was Jamie Dutton, and he was the second son of John Dutton.

Just before getting out of the car, out of police instinct, he tested the other party's breathing and found that he had just fainted.

Not only did he wake up now, but he also got out of the car. Li Youzhi had one more headache.

How to explain to the boy Jamie that he has occupied the other's father's body.

However, the other person's "Dad" just now was in English, but his tone was very much like his own son Li Jian.

Li Youzhi's eyes widened, and at the same time an extremely absurd idea came to his mind.

Could it be that his son Li Jian also ended up in the body of the boy Jamie?
Facts have proved that the old detective's judgment is really accurate.

After a brief verbal trial, the father and son had to accept the fact that they had exchanged souls with John Dutton and his son in the pickup truck in the car accident.

And based on the original memory in their minds, the two discovered an even more damning fact.

They crossed.

From China in 2023 to the United States in 1994.

Well, an America that is slightly different from normal time and space.

Without enough time to delve into these matters, Li Youzhi and Li Jian first faced a very thorny problem.

How to dispose of the bodies of their father and son.

Li Jian basically couldn't help in this regard. The idea was all Li Youzhi's.

Li Youzhi searched all the suspicious items on the body, including the father and son's mobile phones that could be turned on normally but could not find a signal at all.

Li Jian grabbed a mate60pro and planned to show it off in front of Li Youzhi when he returned to his hometown.

Unfortunately, before he had time to win, Li Youzhi took out a mateX5 in front of him.

Without any hesitation, Li Youzhi smashed two mobile phones that could prove the identity of the traveler on the spot, preparing to throw them into the fireplace and burn them.

In fact, the clothes on the two men were even more suspicious, but Li Youzhi still couldn't bear to let their bodies be exposed in the wilderness, so he kept them in the end.

This also paved the way for the state police to suspect that there was something fishy about the car accident when they arrived at the scene.

"let's start."

John's voice interrupted Jamie's wandering.

The coffin lid was closed, and two cowboys nearby began to shovel dirt to fill the hole.

Although there was a hint of unwillingness in state trooper Tom's eyes, he was eventually called away by his companion Ryan.

After confirming that the two had driven away, John immediately gave Cowboy Elaud a wink.

The other party understood, turned around and pulled out a horse from the woods behind, carrying two corpses on its back.

The two cowboys who had just filled the soil dug up the coffin again, took out the bodies of Li Youzhi and Li Jian, and then threw down the two bodies that Ellaud had brought.

Cover the coffin again, fill it with earth and bury it.

Jamie watched everything happen in stunned silence.

Turning to look at John, the other man just shrugged and told Jamie that the two corpses were two cattle thieves. They were caught by the rancher's cowboys while stealing cattle from the ranch next door, and were shot and killed while escaping.

The state police didn't know this, and no one was going to tell them.

Because in this land of Montana, there is still a law enforcement department called the livestock police.

They do not need to wear police uniforms to patrol the streets, but as long as they are related to ranch affairs or large and small cases that occur within the ranch, the livestock police have the final say.

The department is overseen by the Animal Husbandry Law Enforcement Division under the state Animal Husbandry Department.

Unfortunately, John Dutton, who owns the largest ranch in the United States, is the head of the Animal Husbandry Law Enforcement Division.

It would be no exaggeration to say that the livestock police throughout Montana are John's "private soldiers."

Under normal circumstances, killing two cattle thieves was nothing to John. He could just throw the bodies directly to the "train station" and be done with it.

This is already considered very civilized.

A century ago, cattle rustlers would not only be lynched if caught, but their bodies would also be hung on the gallows to dry as a warning!

Now, the bodies of two cattle rustlers have a better use.

As for the bodies of Li Youzhi and Li Jian, John had asked Elaud to prepare a firewood pile.

The two corpses left behind have always been a hidden danger, and now this problem must be completely solved.

The firewood pile had been doused with gasoline.

The raging flames quickly engulfed the two corpses.

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