Silver Snow Line [Criminal Investigation]

The steamboat on the river bank swam into the afterglow of the setting sun, and the dusk cast a huge black shadow on the river surface. The rolling tide screamed in the wind, and the muffled echoes hit Fan Qiuye's eardrums through the iron box wall one by one.

She opened her eyelids with difficulty, and her blurry vision finally fixed on Tan Wei, who was lying one meter away from her.

Her hands were tied behind her back with hemp ropes, and she couldn't even stand up from the chair. She saw that half of Tan Wei's body was soaked in blood, his chest was no longer moving, and half of the phone in his coat pocket had fallen out, so she gathered her strength and bent over to carry the chair over. It was really hard to maintain balance, and she still tripped herself, but fortunately she fell near the target. She fumbled with both hands to grab the phone and called the police directly.

The special police surrounded the warehouse. Lu Shaohui kicked the door open with his gun raised. He first saw Tan Wei lying in a pool of blood, and then he saw Fan Qiuye, who was in a miserable state with a black cloth covering his head, behind him.

The criminal police who came in later quickly started collecting evidence at the scene. Tan Wei had a wooden stick stuck in his abdomen with sharp ends, and his limbs were stiff when he was sent to the ambulance.

Xie Qingfei and Lu Shaohui untied Fan Qiuye together, helped her sit up, and made sure she had no external injuries. The blood on her clothes was probably splashed from Tan Wei's wound.

"Don't be afraid, it's okay." Xie Qingfei took the blanket Xi Ming brought and covered Fan Qiuye with it. "What happened?"
Fan Qiuye leaned in her arms, trembling, and said with trembling lips: "That man kidnapped me! I was going to the hospital to see Mao Kun this morning, but he suddenly broke into my house and held me hostage. He first forced me to take a video, and then brought me here. I have no idea what he wanted to do."
"Then what happened to his injuries?"
When this was mentioned, Fan Qiuye looked extremely horrified, as if he had experienced a very cruel nightmare.

Xie Qingfei and Lu Shaohui looked at each other and said, "It's okay if you don't want to talk about it now. Let's go to the hospital first."
"No!" Fan Qiuye grabbed her hand and said painfully, "It was me, I killed him by mistake in order to protect myself!"
She turned her eyes to the broken chair where she was tied up. Several wooden sticks on the back of the chair had broken off and fallen off. "When he tied me up, I bumped into him with the chair. I didn't expect..."

Xie Qingfei held the black cloth covering her head in his hand and said meaningfully, "You are really lucky. You can't see and your ability to move is restricted, but you can still catch a grown man all of a sudden."

"Although I can't see, I can feel that he is weak. Maybe he was already injured and that's why I hit him." Fan Qiuye said, rubbing his head tiredly, "Officer, my head hurts."
Xie Qingfei looked at her for a while and said to Lu Shaohui, "Send her to the hospital."

She put on gloves and picked up the hemp rope that she had untied from Fan Qiuye.

Return to the police station.

Before he could catch his breath, a colleague from the Internet monitoring department came rushing over and said that Tan Wei had posted a new video on Xu's account at a scheduled time.

Only Tan Wei's face appeared on the big screen, with a white wall as the background.

"My name is Tan Wei..."

He spoke breathlessly, glanced outside the camera, and cleared his throat again.

This time, his voice was much louder: "My name is Tan Wei, and I'm from Liangtan County, Dongchuan City. I want to sue Xu Maokun for hiring someone to kill my father, Tan Zonghua. I want to sue him... He's usurping the throne, and he's not Xu Zhongyan's real son at all!"

Tan Wei's language was awkwardly organized, but it did not prevent the audience from piecing together a shocking piece of news from his words.

In order to resist the family marriage, Xu Zhongyan ran away alone and met a woman named Fang Xiaoyun in Liangtan County. Fang Xiaoyun's family had been empty for a long time. The two of them fell in love and prayed to heaven and earth in private. Soon Fang Xiaoyun became pregnant. As soon as the child was born, the Xu family found Xu Zhongyan and wanted to take him back. The unfortunate couple had to separate, and the baby in the cradle never saw his father again.

The child was named Xu Xiangyun, a name that Fang Xiaoyun and Xu Zhongyan had agreed on when she was pregnant. Because Fang Xiaoyun had no one to take care of her during the confinement period, and because she suffered such a heavy blow, her body could not recover. She dragged her injured body to raise her son, and she really could not give him adequate care, so Xu Xiangyun was weak and sickly since childhood. Later, Fang Xiaoyun died of depression due to the pressure of poor life and the longing for her husband, leaving the young Xu Xiangyun to grow up alone and eat at other people's homes.

When Xu Xiangyun's parents were together, they were scolded by their fellow villagers for having an affair without a matchmaker. They gossiped about it behind their backs. After Xu Zhongyan was taken away, the mother and son became a joke. Xu Xiangyun didn't like to get close to others since he was a child. The only person he could talk to was a gangster named Li Hongye who was about the same age as him. When Xu Xiangyun was 26 years old, he was sick and needed medical expenses urgently. He decided to go to Shengzhou to find his biological father. After hearing this, Li Hongye said that he had also decided to go to Shengzhou to work, so the two agreed to go together.
Xu Xiangyun had always hated this so-called father more than he loved him. If it wasn't absolutely necessary, he wouldn't want to disturb his life. But when he was on the road, he suddenly looked forward to meeting him. He wanted to see what this man, who was most closely related to him, looked like. His emotions were always in an excited state, and his pale face became rosier along the way.

However, before he left Dongchuan, Xu Xiangyun died in the room of a small hotel due to a seizure in the middle of the night. The next day, Li Hongye went to look for him and saw only his body. When the police came to inquire about the deceased, Li Hongye somehow hid Xu Xiangyun's bag containing the household registration book and the letter of introduction behind him, saying: The dead man is called Li Hongye.
At the same time, because Xu Zhongyan had no children, the elders in the family had no choice but to send people to look for the son of him and Fang Xiaoyun. The two groups met at the Dongchuan Railway Station. The gangster Li Hongye said: Are you looking for Xu Xiangyun? I am Xu Xiangyun.

Xu Zhongyan felt guilty towards Fang Xiaoyun and devoted all his efforts to finding his son. After hearing from his son that Fang Xiaoyun died in the day-to-day waiting, he could not face the name "Xiangyun" and changed his name to Xu Maokun. In order to compensate for the only blood of the two, Xu Zhongyan not only let Xu Maokun take over the family business against all odds, but also married him to the daughter of Sino-Ocean Group.

Although Dongchuan and Shengzhou are far apart, and the villagers of Liangtan County have no chance to meet social celebrities like the Xu family, Xu Maokun still keeps a low profile and never shows up in public in the early years until he has established a firm foothold in the group. Many years have passed, and most of the villagers who still remember Li Hongye and Xu Xiangyun have aged or passed away, but Xu Maokun never expected that the bricklayer he met during a visit to the construction site was actually his fellow villager Tan Zonghua.

At that time, Xu Maokun was in his prime, having long since washed away the vulgarity and rusticity of a country bumpkin. He wore a tailor-made high-end suit and priceless exquisite jewelry, and his every move was that of a wealthy nobleman. He did not see Tan Zonghua, and Tan Zonghua did not recognize him at first glance, but inexplicably felt that the boss looked very familiar. After returning home, he thought about it and still felt something was wrong. He remembered that the fellow villager was said to be a mother and son abandoned by a rich young master. The son also had the surname Xu, and it was said that he went to the city to recognize his ancestors, but Xu Maokun did not look like that person. If he had to say, he looked more like the country bumpkin Li Hongye.

If Xu Maokun was really a fake, he would feel guilty if he mentioned Liangtan County. Tan Zonghua relied on this to successfully get the opportunity to meet Xu Maokun. The other party's luxurious office was incompatible with the dusty himself. At this moment, he made up his mind. Why should he expose Li Hongye? Even if he didn't become Xu Maokun, he couldn't replace him. But as long as he was Xu Maokun, he would always have a share of the family wealth.

So Tan Zonghua took the hush money and went home to live a carefree life.

After the money was gone, he wanted to ask Xu Maokun for more, but this time he couldn't contact him. As long as the other party was not interested, the distance between them was a chasm. But Tan Zonghua didn't want to expose him, he still needed to ask Xu Maokun for money. So he waited hard, and waited for a big truck that didn't have long eyes, and sent his life with a big secret to his heart away.

"Twenty-one years ago, the house in my hometown was to be rebuilt. I discovered this secret when I was sorting out my father's belongings, so I immediately decided to come to Shengzhou to find Xu Maokun." Tan Wei said in the video.

"It's true... the son follows in his father's footsteps." Lu Shaohui interjected.
Xi Ming said: "No wonder I always felt that Xu Maokun's fawning attitude was so uncomfortable. Even if he didn't grow up in the Xu family, he shouldn't have become so rude. He's not like Xu Zhongyan at all."

Tan Wei's voice continued: "I met Xu Maokun several times when I was a security guard at Xu's headquarters building, but I could never find a chance to get close to him. Later, I found out that he was very close to the female secretary beside him, so I started to follow the secretary, and finally I discovered the affair between the two."

"He has indeed been in contact with Wu Xiuxiu since then." Lu Shaohui turned around and took the lunch box handed to him by his colleague, and gave a pair of chopsticks to Xie Qingfei. "It's almost the same as we imagined, but I didn't expect that he was the first person to discover that Xu Siwei was an illegitimate child. His ability to be a paparazzi can be said to be extremely talented."

"I'm not hungry. Leave it there." Xie Qingfei only took a sip of water and said, "In 02, Xu Siwei was born and Wu Xiuxiu returned to work. It was at that time that Tan Wei worked as a security guard in their company. Xu Maokun kept his mistress and illegitimate child a secret, and his image was so good. That period was also the time when he and Zhu Yichun had the best relationship. The two often appeared together in public, so no one would suspect that he had an affair with another woman. If Tan Wei followed Xu Maokun, he might not find any clues, but he found that something was wrong with Wu Xiuxiu. If he changed his observation object to Wu Xiuxiu, it would be easy to gain something."

"The secretary resigned three months later. In fact, he was just dumped by Xu Maokun. His wife knew that he had a mistress and she didn't want him anymore. She went abroad alone. I was going to use the matter of the illegitimate child to threaten him for money, but he was so useless that he couldn't even keep his mouth shut. He went abroad to chase his wife, but he didn't succeed in coaxing her for more than half a year. After he came back, his whereabouts became even more mysterious. I couldn't find a way to get close to him." Tan Wei tilted his head and recalled, his face full of complaints, "I could only go to his woman."

Wu Xiuxiu chose to be with Xu Maokun just for the money.

But a man's favor is like a discarded battery. Apart from the brief moment it is installed, its life span is almost non-existent. She was ruthlessly abandoned, and then she met Tan Wei, who was considered handsome at the time and approached her with a purpose.
Tan Wei is a caring boyfriend, with a good mouth and is younger and more obedient than Xu Maokun. Wu Xiuxiu has a breakup fee and is not short of money. Seeing that Tan Wei is honest, she keeps him for fun. Later, Tan Wei found a chance to share Xu Maokun's secret with her. Wu Xiuxiu didn't dare to believe it at first, but Tan Wei repeatedly assured her that he was not lying and told her that if she didn't believe him, she could go to Xu Maokun to confront him.

After all, Wu Xiuxiu gave birth to a son for Xu Maokun, so it was not particularly difficult for her to see Xu Maokun. After hearing her purpose, Xu Maokun asked her: Who told you? Wu Xiuxiu immediately said that she had witnesses and asked Xu Maokun to pay her hush money. Xu Maokun denied it and did not pay her hush money. A few days later, Wu Xiuxiu died.

"She wasn't sick, how could she die suddenly? The more I thought about it, the more it seemed wrong. I thought of my dad again. Was the car accident really just an accident? How could such a coincidence happen? It must be Xu Maokun who killed her to silence her! I was so scared. I was afraid that Xu Maokun would find out about me and kill me too. If I lose my life, what's the use of money?"

"I have been hiding like this for more than ten years!" Tan Wei said all this angrily, with a somewhat ferocious smile, "Now Xu Maokun is finally going to die, I am no longer afraid of him, I want to tell you all about the dirty things he has done, and let you see what this Mr. Xu, Chairman Xu, is like! What kind of person is this fake guy who has taken over the magpie's nest!"

(End of this chapter)