Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 628 Doubts
Li Yancheng felt helpless. He thought that by making things clear, he could dispel the Cheng family's idea of ​​giving him money. However, he did not expect that the Cheng family wanted to give him not only money, but also shares of the Cheng Group.

There's no way he'd accept this.

Although there is no regulation prohibiting cadres from engaging in business or running enterprises at present, that is because there are no private enterprises yet, and such a regulation will be introduced sooner or later.

The key issue isn't whether this regulation will be reinstated in the future, but rather that he doesn't want to be too closely tied to the Cheng family.

The Cheng family is large and powerful. If they really do move many of their businesses to China in the future, many members of the Cheng family will inevitably come over.

It is said that dragons have nine sons, each with their own preferences. He did not believe that all members of the Cheng family were outstanding and only focused on doing business honestly.

According to what he knew, the Cheng family controlled gangs in the Ugly Country and also had a Cheng family guard. The couple who came with the Cheng family patriarch and Fu Shuyi this time were two of them. The two of them had a strong smell of gunpowder on them, and they could tell at a glance that they had actually been on the battlefield.

This is enough to show that the descendants of the Cheng family are a mixed bag, with people doing all sorts of things.

When the Cheng family invests more in China in the future, who knows what kind of people will come over? Not everyone will behave themselves, especially since the security situation in China in the 80s and 90s wasn't great. If those people take advantage of their money and his relationship with him to act recklessly, well...

That's going to be a real headache for him.

This is why he doesn't want to be too closely tied to the Cheng family. He doesn't want to take advantage of the Cheng family, nor does he want to pay the price for what might happen to the Cheng family in the future.

"Yan Cheng, or perhaps we should try another approach."

Seeing that Li Yancheng remained silent for a long time, Fu Shuyi spoke up.

"what way?"

“We will give all the property that originally belonged to you to the name of joy and laughter.”

!!!

Li Yancheng was speechless. What was the difference between this and giving it to him? Did he possibly have an illegitimate child to claim these assets? Besides, even if he did have an illegitimate child, according to current laws, illegitimate children have no right to inheritance. More likely, if he actually dared to have one, he would be stripped of all his assets.

Fu Shuyi continued talking.

"Yan Cheng, Xiao Min's share is also part of that property. She married into the Cheng family and, as the wife of the eldest son and grandson, the Cheng family will also allocate her a portion of the shares, and she can receive a considerable amount of dividends every year."

"Mrs. Cheng..."

Seeing that Fu Shuyi was about to continue speaking, Li Yancheng hurriedly interrupted her to prevent her from saying anything more about giving her more property.

“Mrs. Cheng, Xiaomin and I both hold public office, so we can’t possibly take the Cheng family’s assets. The reason I haven’t changed my address since we became family is that we haven’t lived together for over thirty years.”

I'm almost forty years old, and it's hard for me to accept suddenly having to call someone I've never lived with "parents."

I don't know if you can understand that feeling, but now that I'm a parent myself, I can understand how you feel. Because of external reasons, you've been separated from your own flesh and blood for decades, and now that you've finally seen them again, you hope to give your child the best life and make up for it.

You think I've suffered over the years, but that's not actually the case. I haven't suffered much. I'm just like millions of other people living on this land. In fact, my life has been quite good. When I was little, my adoptive grandfather was a doctor, and our family was well-off.

After growing up, we went to school, joined the army, got a job, got married, and had children. Everything went smoothly. Our family's situation may not be the best in China, but it definitely belongs to the upper-middle class.

Even if you give me money now, it would only be icing on the cake, not a lifeline. It would be meaningless, and there's really no need for that.

"Alright, sir, madam Cheng, let's really not dwell on this anymore. Let's just continue like this, slowly building our relationship. If I ever really need money, don't worry, I will definitely ask the Cheng family. I won't treat myself as an outsider."

Hearing this, Fu Shuyi and her father-in-law, Old Master Cheng, exchanged a glance. They both saw a hint of helplessness in each other's eyes. The matter had already been discussed to this extent, and if they continued, even the last bit of affection might disappear.

"Okay, Yancheng, let's not talk about this for now, we can talk about it later."

"Thank you"

"Jingle Bell……"

Li Yancheng had barely finished speaking when the phone in the living room rang. He got up and went to answer it.

"Hello, this is Li Yancheng."

"Dacheng, it's me. Are you alright right now?"

The call was from Jin Zhihai. As soon as the call connected, he got straight to the point.

"It's nothing."

"Alright, I'll be there in twenty minutes at most to report on the case in Yangchao District."

"Okay, I'll wait for you."

cheers

After hanging up the phone, Li Yancheng called out.

"dad"

"Make a cup of tea and put it in the study; your godfather will be coming over later."

"okay"

"Dad, is Pengpeng coming over?"

Hearing that her godfather was coming, Xiaoyu ran to her father, her big eyes wide with anticipation as she asked.

Li Yancheng smiled and ruffled his daughter's hair: "If your brother Pengpeng isn't coming, your godfather will come later. I'll have him bring Pengpeng over on New Year's Day, and then you two can play together, okay?"

Xiaoxiao pouted in disappointment that her brother Pengpeng wasn't coming, but she immediately cheered up when she heard that she could see him on New Year's Day.

"Dad, I'm going to do my homework."

"Go!"

"Great-Grandpa, Grandma, I'm going to do my homework."

"go quickly."

The old master of the Cheng family and Fu Shuyi looked at their adorable great-granddaughter with smiles.

This wasn't their first time being great-grandparents. Cheng Jianwen, Li Yancheng's younger brother, already had two sons, one seven years old, the same age as Xiaoyu, and the other five.

The two children received an elite education from birth and were raised to be the successors of the Cheng family. They are small, but more composed than joyful.

Unlike their usual cheerful laughter, when they're not studying, they just play and have fun. Although Li Yancheng has high hopes for his two children and teaches them principles of life, he would never deprive them of the joy they deserve in their childhood.

He felt that life is mostly filled with hardship, toil, sacrifice, and responsibility, while the time truly available for enjoyment is limited to the short span of childhood, about ten years. Therefore, why not let children grow up happily and joyfully?

Of course, the main task for the two children at this stage is still studying. They may play and make a fuss, but they will still be focused on their studies.

Huansheng and Xiaoyu are two very smart children, and they don't need to worry about their studies at all.

……

Jin Zhihai arrived quickly, greeted the Cheng family patriarch and Fu Shuyi, chatted for a few words, played with the two children for a while, and then went up to the study on the second floor with Li Yancheng.

"It seems you two get along quite well, especially with the laughter and chatter."

"After all, they are related by blood. The old man and Mrs. Cheng deliberately tried to get along well with the two children. You know how children are; they are easy to please. Whoever treats them well, they will be on good terms with them."

After entering the study, Li Yancheng asked Jin Zhihai to sit on the sofa. There was tea that Huansheng had brewed in advance on the coffee table in front of the sofa. He opened the window halfway and tossed a cigarette to his good brother.

"Mrs. Cheng?"

After catching the cigarette that was tossed to him and lighting it, Jin Zhihai repeated the word with a hint of amusement.

"What, you're not planning to change your tune?"

“I’m forty years old now. I really can’t bring myself to call someone I’ve barely met and have no feelings for as ‘Mom’.”

His situation is different from calling one's wife's maternal mother. That's because people love their wives and call them that because they love their wives. This one is said to be her biological mother, but she only has the kindness of giving birth to her and has almost no kindness of raising her.

“What you say makes sense. Let’s just live like this for now.” Jin Zhihai nodded and continued, “Just now downstairs, I noticed that Mrs. Cheng looked much better than when she first arrived. You can definitely cure her heart disease, right?”

Jin Zhihai was aware that Fu Shuyi was staying here for medical treatment. He also knew that if his good brother couldn't cure Madam Cheng's illness, the Cheng family's investments in China might run into problems.

He himself might also suffer as a result.

Therefore, the first person Jin Zhihai looked at when he entered the room was Fu Shuyi. Only after confirming that her complexion was indeed much better than before did he breathe a sigh of relief.

"Don't worry, I know what's going on."

Li Yancheng knew what Jin Zhihai meant by asking this, and smiled to reassure him.

"It's good that you know the situation. Let's not talk about it anymore. I came here today to report on the case at the Yangchao branch."

"You said."

"We've been conducting investigations and interviews these past two days..."

The case Jin Zhihai mentioned occurred in the early hours of the 26th at the finance office of a subdistrict office in Yangchao District, where two on-duty personnel were murdered and their wages were robbed by breaking into a safe.

Both victims died from a single stab wound, and the forensic doctor confirmed that the killer was likely a seasoned professional.

Moreover, based on the situation at the scene, the murderer was very likely acquainted with the two victims, or at least one of them, and was able to get the door opened when he knocked on it in the middle of the night, without the two guards suspecting the murderer's motives.

With this in mind, when Jin Zhihai and his team started their investigation, they mainly focused on the relationships between the two duty officers, such as whether they knew any doctors or butchers.

Of course, the other people in the neighborhood committee and the investigators also investigated them one by one.

However, after three days of investigation, nothing was found.

This left all the frontline investigators involved in the case somewhat bewildered, wondering if the investigation was going in the wrong direction; otherwise, how could they find nothing?

"Zhihai, what are you thinking?"

After listening to Jin Zhihai's report, Li Yancheng pondered for a moment and asked.

"I think the direction of the investigation is correct, but perhaps a certain link was overlooked during the investigation process."

Jin Zhihai said without hesitation, firmly believing that the forensic doctor's judgment was correct.

"What are you going to do next?"

"After reviewing the people we investigated before, I feel that the murderer in this case should be someone closely related to the two victims."

"Are there any people these two people know who are butchers or doctors, as the forensic doctor mentioned?"

"No, not really." As he spoke, Jin Zhihai took out a hardcover notebook from his satchel and opened it to take a look.

"One of the two victims had a brother-in-law named Xing Lijun. He had worked as a temporary worker at the clinic of the boiler factory in Yangchao District for a period of time. However, according to our investigation, he was just doing odd jobs there, such as helping people get medicine according to prescriptions. He probably didn't know anything about medicine, let alone performing surgery."

He took the college entrance exam for the second time in 2007 or 2008 and passed. He is currently studying at school. The criminal police team of Chaoyang District Public Security Bureau visited his school, and his roommates can confirm that he did not go out on the night of the 25th.

This man named Xing Lijun is the only person among the two victims' acquaintances who has any connection to the doctor.

As for butchers, or rather, people who work at slaughterhouses, there wasn't a single one. If you had to say who was connected to a slaughterhouse, the only ones might be the meat vendors near their homes.

At this point, Jin Zhihai shook his head with a smile: "That's almost impossible. I visited the meat stall myself. When I looked at the photo, the meat seller said he looked familiar. He must be a local resident who often buys meat from his stall. He doesn't even know his name."

Furthermore, the butcher had a solid alibi for the night of the 25th.

"If that's the case, why do you still think the direction of the investigation is correct?"

"Well, it's just a gut feeling. This case seems complicated, but you can tell from the fact that the office door wasn't pried open that the murderer must be someone you know. Also, there were no signs of a struggle in the office, and no alcohol or other drugs that could have made them unconscious were found in the bodies of the two victims."

The fact that the two killers were able to easily enter the room and then kill both victims almost simultaneously means I can't think of any other possibility than that they were acquaintances.

Do you have any photos from the scene?

After listening to Jin Zhihai's words, Li Yancheng did not express his opinion, but instead asked him for photos of the scene.

"Have"

When he asked for the photo, Kim Ji-hae took it out of his bag.

Li Yancheng took the photos, found a panoramic photo of the scene, placed it on the coffee table, and tapped the photo a few times with his right index finger.

As he moved his hand, Kim Ji-hae leaned over to look at the photo and asked curiously, "What's wrong? What did you see?"

"I just find it a bit strange. Why did the first victim die next to the safe? What was the murderer doing taking him there? The guard didn't have the key to the safe, nor did he know the safe's combination. In fact, the safe's combination was broken and didn't work at all."

Why was he next to the safe, while the second victim died beside the bed?

(End of this chapter)