Anyone who enters the abandoned villa is familiar with electronic surveillance technology.
They did not show up in front of the villa, but came directly from the other side entrance of the villa.
They were all technicians in this field. After looking for a while, they found the blind spot of the surveillance of this villa. When they came in from the blind spot of the surveillance, Zhao Zhonghe was concentrating on watching the largest screen. As soon as they entered the villa, they immediately rolled into the blind spot of the surveillance, so Zhao Zhonghe did not find the fact that someone had sneaked in.
Mother Xu outside was already at a loss. Although their vegetable market had been open for many years, the stall owners in the market changed frequently. The people mentioned by Zhao Zhonghe were the first batch of people to enter the vegetable market. Their relationship was much better than that between Father Xu and Zhao Xuanming.
After running the vegetable market stalls for several years, they gradually moved out of the stalls and returned to their hometown.
In the first few years, they would wish each other well during the holidays, but as time went by and the distance grew, the contact was cut off. They didn't feel anything before, until this moment, when Mr. and Mrs. Xu realized that they had been in contact with the United States and Europe for a long time.
Father Xu hated himself very much. If he had contacted those old friends more diligently over the years and knew more about their visit this year, perhaps her daughter Si Miao would not have suffered this disaster.
Mother Xu had already stood up with the help of Mother Liu. Zhao Zhonghe urged him from inside, and Father Xu put down the loudspeaker in his hand. Just now, his Simiao must have suffered a lot, and his Simiao needs to see a doctor now. He only hopes that he will do as Zhao Zhonghe asked, and Zhao Zhonghe will release Xu Simiao for the sake of their family's kindness to Zhao Zhonghe in the past.
Xu Simiao was covered in blood and was numb from the pain. Her mouth was wrapped with tape. She watched as father Xu put down the loudspeaker. She guessed in an instant that father Xu was going to do what Zhao Zhonghe said. She shook her head vigorously, tears streaming down her face. She sobbed hard, and her sobs were carried to the outside through Zhao Zhonghe's loudspeaker.
The sun was still scorching hot, and the police were waiting for their colleagues who had entered the villa to give the secret signal. Liu Shuqing's lips were bitten white, and Lin Shuyue's hands were pinched so hard that they hurt.
She was worried about Xu Simiao in the villa, and she was also afraid that father Xu would do what Zhao Zhonghe wanted. She felt that she would cry all her tears on this day. She was having more and more difficulty breathing. Father Liu happened to see this scene, his face changed drastically, and he immediately took out asthma medicine from his pocket and gave it to her.
Liu Shuqing finally recovered. Lin Shuyue was also startled by Liu Shuqing's sudden attack and comforted her softly: "It's okay, don't be afraid, don't be afraid, trust the police, trust the police."
Liu Shuqing nodded, and listening to the soft sobs coming from her ears, she wanted to cry again.
The leaders of the Yangcheng Public Security Bureau and the captain of the Yangcheng Criminal Investigation Brigade arrived one after another. They heard the conversation between Zhao Zhonghe and father Xu from afar. They also had loudspeakers in their hands. A particularly famous negotiation expert in the Municipal Bureau was holding up the loudspeaker, and the loudspeaker that Father Xu had placed on the ground was snatched away by mother Xu and held in her hand.
She raised the loudspeaker to her lips: "Zhonghe, Zhonghe, do you still remember me? I am your Aunt Chunxin."
Mother Xu's name was Li Chunxin, and all the children around Xu Simiao's age called her that. The only exception was Liu Shuqing, who was about the same age as Xu Simiao and loved running after Xu Simiao since she could walk. Then one day, she suddenly started calling Xu Simiao's parents "Mom and Dad".
No matter how the adults corrected her or taught her, it was no use. Mother Xu was cheerful and gentle, so she took Liu Shuqing in as her goddaughter. At that time, Liu Shuqing couldn't speak much, and she refused to call her godmother, so they had to settle for the next best thing and taught her to call Xu Mama and Xu Dad. Liu Shuqing, who had a thick tongue, pronounced the word Xu very clearly.
Later, the two families met again, and this name has been used ever since.
After Mother Xu started speaking, Zhao Zhonghe inside did not speak either. Inside and outside the room, everything fell silent.
Lin Shuyue had been protected by Hang Jiabai behind her. The conversation between Zhao Zhonghe and Father Xu simply shattered her three views. Lin Shuyue claimed that she had seen enough weirdos since she was a child, but this was the first time she had met such weirdos as Zhao Zhonghe's family of three.
She didn't understand how shameless Zhao Zhonghe and his family were to say that they would let their friends lose everything to pay off their family's gambling debts?
There are many people who don't understand as well as Lin Shuyue. Take Zhang Xiaoxiao next to Lin Shuyue for example, her doubts are almost solidified.
Mother Xu blinked her eyes and throat which had become dry from crying too much. Xu Simiao, like her man, was the most important person in her life. She didn't want anything to happen to Xu Simiao, nor to her man, and she was working hard for this matter.
"Zhonghe, Zhonghe, can you hear me?"
Mother Xu's voice was not much different from ten years ago. Zhao Zhonghe inside listened and his eyes changed. His gaze also fell on the woman on the screen who was helped to stand up by Mother Liu. He curled his lips and said, "Aunt Chunxin, long time no see."
Without waiting for Mother Xu to speak, he continued, "Aunt Chunxin, you are good in everything. You are a good person and kind, but your shortcomings are also obvious. You can't judge people. Don't you see that? Your husband is a selfish man without any sympathy!"
"Aunt Chunxin, have you been very tired these years? It doesn't matter, I will help you get rid of it now. Without Xu Simiao, who can't even cook but is a master at spending money, and without Xu Suxiu, a hypocritical man, you can find another man, find one who treats you well."
"Aunt Chunxin, don't be too grateful to me. You have been kind to me since I was a child, and I remember it all."
Zhao Zhonghe's tone and eyes softened. In order to achieve today's goal, Zhao Zhonghe conducted a comprehensive investigation on Xu Simiao, the sister who liked to run behind him when he was a child. He also sneaked into Xu Simiao's favorite outdoor communication group to observe Xu Simiao.
Those outdoor products are not cheap. Take a pair of hiking shoes for example. The cheapest one costs several hundred yuan, and the most expensive one can cost tens of thousands. Even elite white-collar workers who have worked for many years still dare not buy too much of these things. But Xu Simiao, a college student, can easily come up with money. She even buys two pairs of the same style and color at a time, just to give them to good friends and sisters.
Xu Simiao's actions really hurt Zhao Zhonghe's sensitive, fragile and anti-rich heart.
He started working right after finishing high school. A high school diploma was no longer popular when he graduated. In order to make a living, he worked in factories, construction sites, and night clubs.
He didn't want revenge before, but life was too hard. He worked so hard every day to earn so little money. What about the children of those who had watched his parents die without helping them? They were from wealthy families. They were the same age. They went to good schools in the city and lived in spacious and bright houses. They didn't need to worry about life because their parents could plan their future clearly.
Uncle Huang's son was a few years older than him. He had poor academic performance and failed to get into university, but Uncle Huang opened a store for him. He only needed to stay in the store every day to earn money. He was protected from the wind and rain.
Many years ago, they were the same person. Uncle Huang's son was not even as good as him. He had good grades and was well-behaved, while Uncle Huang's son didn't like to study, skipped classes, fought, and did everything. What about now? They have become people from two different worlds. When he went to the store to buy cigarettes, Uncle Huang's son looked at him with such a strange look.
Reluctant and jealous, he began to pay attention to their family's life. When Uncle Huang's son brought his beautiful girlfriend home, he couldn't help it. He took advantage of Uncle Huang's son guarding the store in the middle of the night and killed him when he closed the store.
The store had no surveillance, but the surrounding neighborhoods did have it, but Zhao Zhonghe had already figured it out. He had made all the necessary preparations, wearing gloves and leggings, and after killing the man, he took all the cash in the store. There was a total of 8,000 yuan, which was the first time Zhao Zhonghe had ever seen so much money.
He took the money and the more he thought about it, the more angry he became. They could have saved his father! If they had helped his father pay back the money, he wouldn't be living like this today. So he took the money and started looking for those people.
Xu Simiao was the last one. Before that, he had killed four people.
Zhao Zhonghe looked at Xu Simiao. This girl would be the fifth person to die at his hands. With so many policemen around, he couldn't escape. With so many people accompanying him on the road to the underworld, Zhao Zhonghe was not afraid at all.
Mother Xu subconsciously looked at Father Xu. She felt that she had heard the funniest joke of the century. Her husband was selfish and had no sympathy at all? Mother Xu felt that if she went to the vegetable wholesale market run by her family and asked, no one would agree with this statement, right?
Before she married Xu Suxiu, she knew what kind of person Old Xu was. He was capable but soft-hearted. If the tenants of the vegetable stalls could not pay the rent and had to delay it for one or two months, Old Xu would agree as long as the situation was true. If something happened to someone at any stall, he would help in any way he could.
But after what happened to Zhao Xuanming, he added another foundation: when he helped others, it must not be illegal. For example, if someone borrowed money to gamble or piao, he would not give a penny.
Mother Xu never blamed Xu Suxiu, because this was what she wanted in the first place. She had no parents and was raised by her grandparents, so when she got married, she wanted to take her grandparents with her. Xu Suxiu was soft-hearted and treated them very well.
What's more, although he was willing to help others, he never let his helpfulness affect her and Si Miao's lives.
The two looked at each other, and Mother Xu gave him a smile that was uglier than crying, and then asked Zhao Zhonghe: "Zhonghe, do you remember when you were twelve years old and had appendicitis? Your parents went out to play cards, and you couldn't find them, so you came to my house in the middle of the night, at three in the morning, and your Uncle Xu carried you to the hospital. There were no cars that night, and it was still cold. When your Uncle Xu carried you there, he even forgot to wear his coat. It was he who paid for your appendicitis surgery that allowed you to have it."
"After your surgery, your uncle Xu got pneumonia and was hospitalized for a month."
"Zhonghe, ask yourself, is your Uncle Xu really selfish and cold-blooded? Your family used to have a good life. Your mother likes to play mahjong, but she only plays small mahjong. At the end of the day, the winnings and losses are no more than three yuan. Your family's daily turnover is almost a hundred yuan."
"When did your family start to lose money? Wasn't it because your father also started to get addicted to playing mahjong? He was so careless. He thought that winning or losing three yuan was too small and not exciting, so he started to play big games, from winning or losing ten yuan, to winning or losing hundreds or thousands. Every time he ran out of money, didn't your father come to your uncle Xu to borrow money? At first, your uncle Xu thought that he couldn't make ends meet, so he lent him money. Later, when he found out that he was gambling, he stopped lending him money. He was afraid that it would hurt him... If something happened to your family, you can't blame us, you should blame your father, it's all because of his gambling..."
Zhao Zhonghe interrupted Mother Xu at this point: "I don't want to hear you say these things. There's no point in saying these things! All the things that happened to my family are because Uncle Xu didn't lend money to my father. If he had lent money to my father every time, he wouldn't have borrowed money from loan sharks! It's all because of him!!!"
As soon as Zhao Zhonghe said this, Mother Xu put down the speaker. She knew that it was useless for her to say anything more. In Zhao Zhonghe's heart, no matter how much they said, it was wrong. He put all the blame for their family's misfortune on others.
Everything Zhao Zhonghe does now is in line with the saying passed down by our ancestors: a little bit of rice will bring gratitude, a big bit of rice will bring resentment.
Zhao Zhonghe's thoughts went back to the past. His parents liked to quarrel. When they quarreled, he would read and do homework in his room and listen, but the content of their quarrel always floated into his ears.
His father blamed his mother, saying that everything was his mother's fault. If it weren't for his mother gambling, he wouldn't have fallen into the gambling path, and he wouldn't have owed so many gambling debts and loan sharks.
His mother retorted, saying why blame her, there is nothing wrong with her playing mahjong, but Zhao Xuanming can play? Is the money he lost less than her when she's playing mahjong? There are many people playing mahjong, and there are many men who win or lose three or five yuan. Why don't they borrow usury because of playing mahjong? What's more, most of his gambling debts were lost playing poker! What does it have to do with her? It's all his own fault. Blame him for being a gambler, blame him for thinking he has many friends, but in the end, no one will do his best to help him.
Every time this happened, his father would angrily recount how much he had tried to help his friends. He would talk over and over again about how he had helped them. After that, the couple would jointly condemn his father's friends who had watched them suffer, and the two would reconcile.
Zhao Zhonghe listened to the couple's words for a long time, and in his heart, he also blamed his father's friends.
"My father has helped you so much. When he is in trouble. Why can't you help him?" Zhao Zhonghe muttered to himself and walked towards Xu Simiao again. He was very angry and irritated now. He had to do something so that he could vent the anger rising in his heart.
Just as he raised his knife high towards Xu Simiao, a bullet shot out from the back door and hit Zhao Zhonghe's left leg directly: "Zhao Zhonghe, put down your weapon, hold your head and squat down!"
Zhao Zhonghe felt pain in his legs and fell to his knees. He turned around and looked at the policemen who were shooting at him. There were four of them in total, and the muzzles of all four rifles were pointed at him.
"I knew it. This shabby villa has no one living in the front and back, and there are no doors. If the police really come, even if I install surveillance cameras, I won't be able to see so much." Zhao Zhonghe knew he was doomed when he was chased to the banyan tree forest by the police officer Hang Jiabai.
Because if the police find him, they will definitely go to his dormitory. If you look forward from the entrance of his dormitory corridor, you can see this community. There are no fools among the police. It is only a matter of time before they find this place.
The reason why Zhao Zhonghe did not kill Xu Simiao was that he was waiting for Xu Simiao's parents to come. Before he died, he had to ask the questions that he had been holding in his heart for so many years!
He had never asked before because those people's businesses were not as big as Xu Suxiu's. If they were to help his father, Xu Suxiu would be the one who got the most!
When Zhao Zhonghe requested that Xu Suxiu should die by hitting his head against the wall. He was betting on his love for the child. Zhao Zhonghe got up and continued to raise the knife towards Xu Simiao.
He had no way back. Rather than being caught by the police, he would rather die. But he couldn't die in vain. He had to take Xu Simiao with him.
In order to take Xu Simiao away, he planned carefully for nearly half a year. In order to be able to work in this school, he used many connections, spent all his savings, and accompanied guests for a long time. How could he be willing to not be able to take Xu Simiao away?
"Bang!" Another gunshot was heard, and the bullet pierced Zhao Zhonghe's hand holding the knife. Blood instantly fell and flowed onto the building on the ground. The dust left behind instantly condensed into a ball.
Seeing this, several policemen rushed over, threw Zhao Zhong to the ground, and handcuffed him directly on his hands.
A group of medical staff who had been waiting for a long time rushed into the villa. Xu Simiao, who was covered in blood, was carried up to the stretcher, and was taken out together with Zhao Zhonghe, who was seriously injured.
Mr. and Mrs. Xu were going to the hospital with the ambulance. They stood beside the ambulance and the police escorted Zhao Zhonghe past them.
Father Xu couldn't help but said, "Zhao Zhonghe, you said that your father helped us a lot, but we didn't help him when he was in trouble. I thought about it again and again, and I want to ask you, when your father helps us, does he help us watch the stall when we have something to do, and then when someone comes to buy vegetables, he takes 1% of the vegetables he sells. Does he help us close the stall when it's time to close, and then take the vegetables that we haven't sold yet and can still sell to his stall?"
Lin Shuyue was right next to them, and when she heard what Mr. Xu said, her whole body broke.
"You call this helping? Isn't this taking advantage?" Lin Shuyue thought she had accidentally said what was in her heart when she heard this. She turned around and saw that the person who said this was Zhang Xiaoxiao, the police officer who ran very fast.
Zhang Xiaoxiao couldn't help but said, "You guys are pretty nice. You knew it was this kind of person, but you still gave him 20,000 yuan!"
Lin Shuyue gave Zhang Xiaoxiao a thumbs up.
Mother Xu smiled bitterly, "At that time, we didn't know about this. It was only after they left that the owners of the surrounding stalls gathered together to chat that we found out. Before that, most of us didn't think about it. After all, it's normal for vegetable wholesalers to have some losses."
Veins bulged on Zhao Zhonghe's forehead. He turned around to refute, but he was right in front of Lin Shuyue. Her actions were faster than her brain, and Lin Shuyue simply waved her hand.
With a slap, a slap with full force landed on Zhao Zhonghe's face, and his face swelled up instantly.
The eyes of the people around looked at Lin Shuyue and they were speechless. Lin Shuyue was also a little embarrassed. She smiled and explained: "This is the bad thing about this unfinished building community. There are many flies and mosquitoes, and now they are here again."
Even Hang Jiabai was speechless. After two seconds of silence, he took out the perfume-scented handkerchief in his pocket and gave it to Lin Shuyue: "There are a lot of mosquitoes, flies and bacteria nowadays. Hurry up and wipe your hands."