"Now, you can tell me."
Although the arm that was being held by Su Shi was a little stiff, Xian Juan Wei did not forcefully pull her arm away from her hand. She just nodded, closed her eyes, and gathered her words before slowly saying:
"Before, for some reasons, I assigned people to investigate a fraud case, and in the end, several suspects ran all the way to the park over there."
"So when the Xianjuan family's armed forces went to arrest people, there was a firefight. When the prisoners there fled in all directions, some unfortunately lost their lives on the spot for various reasons."
"Mr. Ichinose... was among them. The forensic examination results show that he suffered multiple electric shocks in the last few days of his life. Perhaps his body was too weak at that time, and he was pushed and fell down more than 20 stairs, hitting the back of his head on the ground, and his cervical spine was also..."
"We seized the personnel list from the park, and only after comparing it with the people we could find at the scene did we confirm Mr. Ichinose's identity."
Su Shi nodded unevenly, as if he was about to fall asleep at any moment, but after a few seconds, he hesitated and looked at Xian Juan Wei:
"Classmate Wei, how do you know that's my father?"
"Because after finishing work, the staff at the time contacted the Metropolitan Police Department to check the deceased's social connections and found that he was related to my friend Su Shi-san. So they just compiled the report and notified me."
“…That’s right.”
Su Shi slightly increased the strength of the hand that was pulling Xian Juanwei's arm, and his brows furrowed slightly, making him look even more worried.
Xian Juanwei lowered his eyelids slightly:
"So, Mr. Ichinose's death is related to me. If I hadn't arranged for someone to arrest the suspect, he might have survived and might have found another way out."
"What nonsense..."
Su Shi shook his head, his eyes tinged with sadness: "Once you go to a place like that, you can no longer expect to leave alive."
"But why was father tricked into going to that place..."
Xian Juanwei looked at Su Shi's gentle profile and shook his head slightly with an inconspicuous amplitude.
Was I really being deceived... Could it be that someone who had reached the social status that Ichinose Nakato once held really not know where he was going?
But that doesn't matter anymore.
"This...I'll tell you later."
Su Shi raised her head, her eyes seemed to regain some vitality: "Is it inconvenient?"
“…I’ll tell you today.”
"Well, thank you, I'll remember that."
When the car arrived at the funeral home where Ichinose Nakato's body was kept, Genmaki Yui helped Suyo, who was no longer trembling even when walking but still looked very upset, out of the car, but her arm was still being held.
Xianjuan Wei didn't know if this triggered Su Shi's instinct to grab any support around him when he was confused and helpless, but after sitting down in the car for the whole journey, he inexplicably had a kind of spoiling feeling when standing in front of the funeral home.
Are the genes of all of you Ichinose family members so strong?
Yi Erling didn't dare move her arm, which was held by Su Shi just now, for fear that it would be uncomfortable if it touched something.
I also know that there's a person named Ichinose Honami on the set next door, and they're probably just as well-nourished.
Led by the man in black who was waiting there into a room, Xian Juanwei led the mother and daughter, who walked hesitantly, to the transparent coffin above the center of the room.
"Is he Sushi-san's father?"
"…It's my father. Nothing has changed over the years."
Xian Juanwei, who had not been in such close contact with a corpse for a long time, did not show any abnormality on his face. He just looked at the relatively peaceful face of the man in the coffin with a little curiosity.
He didn't know if it was the genes passed down from the Xianjuan family, but sometimes he always felt that he was the same as Xianjuanxin, and was unexpectedly a little thick-skinned.
The eyes and expressions of Su Shi and her daughter beside him were filled with trance, remembrance, reluctance and many other meanings.
No matter what, this is the family member who has been with them for about ten years. Even if the relationship breaks down, he is still an extremely different and important person.
But now, he has been separated from the living and has turned into a corpse.
In the coffin, white cold air can be seen escaping from the gaps in the cover under the body, giving a feeling of floating fairy air.
Xianjuan Wei patted the back of Su Shi's hand that was holding her arm:
"Before the plane brought him over from Burma, the coffin was filled with nitrogen and some dry ice was placed underneath to slow down decomposition."
"After all, he's your father. Give him some respect when we meet."
Su Shi lowered his eyes, and the strength of his hand holding Xianjuan Wei's arm was sometimes light and sometimes heavy.
The voice no longer had a hint of clamps, but instead was a little hoarse and whimpering.
"I'm sorry to have troubled you, Wei."
"Even if I had many complaints in the past, he is still my father..."
Grabbing Xianjuan Wei's arm, Su Shi turned around, misty blue eyes filled with water:
"I'm sorry. I wanted to wait until Wei was willing to tell me, but when I saw my father, I couldn't help but want to trouble you now."
"Can I know why he ended up like that at the end of his life?"
Chapter 127 Fake Medicine Reversal
Xian Juanwei looked at Su Shi's face, which was biting her lips lightly and trying her best to suppress her emotions but still showing determination, and sighed for her in her heart.
In his previous life, when he often took various second-hand fake medicines with his friends, many people teased him that Xiao Sushi, who had to live in an ordinary single-family house two years ago, had moved into a Roppongi flat that was not for sale two years after his parents divorced. It was very likely that the 168 billion yuan that Xiang's father was defrauded of was actually done by Sushi's mother.
Otherwise, unless Su Shi Ma became an important partner of a unicorn startup company, took the company to Nasdaq within a few years, and cashed out a lot before the company went public, it is hard to imagine how she could have made so much money through normal means.
At that time, Genjumaki Wei was also one of those who laughed and joked with everyone and continued to make fake drugs on this basis. However, no matter how much everyone joked, they all knew that this was simply impossible - when Xiangdie's case happened, Su Shi had already integrated into the Moon Forest and lived a life of great material wealth, so the timing did not match at all.
But who would have known that, in the timeline that Xianjuan Wei is in now, Su Shi and Xiangzi would actually be involved in the bad fate of the older generation.
"Su Ma defrauded Xiang Dad" is even more explosive. Although Xiang Dad's responsibility may not be so direct, he did cause Su Shi Dad's death after all.
There's something a little weird going on between your two families.
The fake medicine became real, but the situation was reversed; it was not Su's mother who took Xiang's father away, but Xiang's father who took Su's father away.
Xian Juanwei looked into Su Shi's misty blue eyes, nodded, and turned his gaze back to the man's body, which was barely at peace. He closed his eyes and thought for a moment before speaking:
"Mr. Sushi, did you know that your father went through a job change after the divorce?"
Su Shi slowly shook his head, his eyes also lowered as he looked at the body of his father, Emu Shan, which was surrounded by white mist created by dry ice.
"After my mother divorced him, I stopped paying attention to his news."
"He abandoned my mother and me, what's there to care about..."
Xian Juanwei nodded slightly:
"Your father switched to Fengchuan Real Estate, a subsidiary of the Fengchuan Group."
"Eh? Xiangzi?"
"Yeah. It's one of her family's companies. What a coincidence."
Ms. Nagasaki, who was listening to the conversation between her daughter and Yui Genmaki, felt a little confused.
Genmaki-kun said ToGaWa (Toyokawa), while Suyo said SaKi (Shoko). They were clearly two different words, but they used them like secret codes, as if they knew what was going on just by mentioning them...
Is this the child named Shoko from the Toyokawa Group?
"About a year ago, Toyokawa Real Estate was defrauded of 168 billion yen in land purchase funds. A large number of people, from the president down, resigned in response to the allegations, including Mr. Ichinose, who was a mid-level executive at Toyokawa Real Estate at the time."
"It's that thing..."
Su Shi grabbed one arm, his eyes lowered and looking a little sad.
"I was worried that something might have happened to Xiangzi's family, so I searched for reports about the Fengchuan Group and I think I saw this news."
"But... I didn't expect my father to be involved in this."
"As for what happened later, I think given my father's personality, he might have been unable to tolerate the disparity in status and income, so he was deceived and went to that kind of place, right, Wei?"
Genmaki Yui nodded. "Actually, there was also a futures margin call in between. Although Mr. Ichinose isn't a FX warrior who can use hundreds of times leverage, the volatility of futures is generally much higher than that of foreign exchange. In extreme market conditions, margin calls can actually happen faster."
"..."
Su Shi shook his head silently, not knowing for whom he felt sorry.
He and Xianjuan Wei stood in silence in front of his father's coffin for another two minutes before Su Shi spoke again:
"Classmate Wei, you have been very friendly to Xiaoxiang these days."
"Mr. Sushi is also an important friend of mine."
"But, it's still not as good as Xiaoxiang's, right?"
"...Hard to say."
"Ha, Yui-san always gives ambiguous answers, which is annoying sometimes."
Su Shi placed her hands together in front of her abdomen, tilted her head back, took a deep breath, and then slowly exhaled. She closed her eyes and asked:
"Well, let me ask you again, have you made any progress in finding Xiaoxiang's whereabouts after asking Wei to help me?"
"No, I promised Xiangzi that I would keep her whereabouts secret."
"Huh, it's still like this."
"But I have another outdated piece of news that might be of some use to Sushi-san. Do you want to hear it?"
Nagasaki Suyo turned her head and looked at Genjutsu Yui deeply.
Rubbing his thumbs together, Su Shi said something that seemed a bit off topic:
“Not answering is itself an answer; not directly stating the matter itself while simultaneously clearing away everything else is not much different from speaking directly.”
"The former is Xiao Mu, and the latter is you. You two really get along well in this regard."
Xian Juanwei put his hands behind his back and sighed:
"Just think of me as this awkward person. No matter what the reality is, at least I want to keep my promise in the letter."
"Then I'm all ears."
Xianjuan Wei explained:
"The president of Toyokawa Real Estate, who resigned and was later essentially fired, was Toyokawa Kiyoshi, Shoko's father... The Toyokawa family's bloodline is passed down through the maternal line. As a son-in-law, Kiyoshi might have been able to shoulder the blame, but perhaps someone didn't give him the chance."
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"Eh? The president is, Xiangzi's...father? So, is that because?"
Su Shi quickly took out his cell phone to confirm the specific date of the original report on the fraud case.
Finally, we were concentrating on the days leading up to crychic's debut performance.
"No, that's not right. Even if I'm a son-in-law, I still have to consider the master's family's face..."
"Shoko's mother...died earlier, and now her grandfather is the one in charge of the Toyokawa family."
"But isn't Xiangzi the only direct descendant of the Toyokawa family? I've asked my classmates about this. As long as Xiangzi is still alive, who would have forced her father into such a desperate situation..."
"Mr. Sushi, you said it yourself, as long as Xiangzi is still here... In other words, as long as Xiangzi is here, that's enough."
Xianjuan Wei shook her head and continued, "As for her father, he doesn't have the blood of the Toyokawa family, and he hasn't shown any strong ability to save the Toyokawa family or lead it to a higher level. To many people, he isn't a necessity."
Su Shi held the coffin in a daze, wanting to say something but shaking his head.
With his handsome brows tightly furrowed, Su Shi shook his head violently and subconsciously patted the coffin lid beside him.
"But Xiangzi is the only hope of the Toyokawa family! Even if someone wants to drive Xiangzi's father away, it shouldn't be just because of 168 billion!"
Xian Juanwei looked at Su Shi silently, nodded, and waited for her next words.
"When I read this news before, I didn't know Xiaoxiang's father's name, and I didn't think too much about the president of Fengchuan Real Estate... After all, the Fengchuan Group is so large and complex, so it's normal for Xiaoxiang's uncles to be in charge of Fengchuan Real Estate. How could I have imagined that it would be Xiaoxiang's father..."
"Also, 168 billion is an unattainable figure for ordinary people, but that's the Toyokawa Group! Even for Toyokawa Real Estate, they have so many high-quality assets in Tokyo alone. Even if they suffered such a huge loss, it's far from a serious blow to Toyokawa Real Estate. Wouldn't it be easy to make up for it by selling a small portion of their assets?"
"Just because of such a loss, they forced the father of the only daughter of the Fengchuan Group out of the house. Isn't that too much? Xiaoxiang has already lost his mother, but they still want to force his father out. What do they think of Xiaoxiang? Haven't they considered that Xiaoxiang can take revenge on them in the future?"
"I just can't imagine that just because of 168 billion, such a gentle Xiaoxiang said goodbye to everyone with such a hurtful look on his face that day. I thought Xiaoxiang would change so much, at least when the Fengchuan Group was about to collapse..."
There was nothing wrong with what Su Shi said. After living in the Moon Forest for a few years, she had become able to subconsciously ask, "What is 168 billion?"
Almost 8 million RMB can be put into several large real estate companies next door. Even if the cash flow is tight, the hole can be solved by moving things around. What's more, Fengchuan Real Estate has not been to the point of being unsustainable before.
To truly break the capital chain of a giant enterprise of this size, it would have to be at least 100 billion yen.
Seeing that Su Shi was a little excited and the originally calm expression on her face was difficult to maintain, Xianjuan Wei reached out and patted her shoulder.
"Although there may indeed be some external factors, the losses caused by market misjudgment and decision-making are indeed different from the losses caused by fraud."
Chapter 128 Is Xiang Dad...still alive?
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