Bai Jinyi walked into the small room in her striped prison uniform. She adjusted her gold-rimmed glasses with her hand and said slowly, "Who's calling?"
"… She said she's a lawyer. Her surname is Gu."
"A lawyer with the surname Gu?" Bai Jinyi frowned and immediately thought of someone she hated. She immediately turned around and walked out. "I won't see her."
The prison staff responsible for answering the phone did not stop her. He said helplessly to Gu Nianzhi on the other end of the phone, "Did you hear that? She won't see you. What can I do? "
Prisoners also had human rights. If she didn't want to see you, how could she force her?
Gu Nianzhi chuckled and said, "She won't see me? Tell her I'll ask her brother, Prime Minister Bai, and see if she'll still want to see me if her brother shows up. "
Gu Nianzhi knew that Bai Jinyi's only hope of getting out alive was her brother, Prime Minister Bai Jiancheng.
Gu Nianzhi threatened Bai Jinyi with Prime Minister Bai, so Bai Jinyi would definitely be wary.
As expected, the staff stopped Bai Jinyi, who was walking out, and said, "Lawyer Gu said that if you don't see her, she'll go to Prime Minister Bai and ask him to speak …"
As expected, Bai Jinyi stopped in her tracks and cursed Gu Nianzhi for being too cunning.
But she couldn't let Gu Nianzhi really go to her brother …
She knew that Gu Nianzhi was a stubborn little girl. Not only was she capable, but she also had Huo Shaoheng behind her.
She couldn't afford to offend or hide, so she had to see him.
Bai Jinyi turned around and walked back. She took the phone from the staff with a straight face and said woodenly, "Who are you? What do you want? "
"I'm Gu Nianzhi. You should remember me."
"Oh, Gu Nianzhi? I don't remember. "Bai Jinyi denied it flatly because she didn't want Gu Nianzhi to have an easy time.
Gu Nianzhi didn't mind and said lightly, "You don't remember me? How old are you? You're already suffering from Alzheimer's disease and memory loss? "
"Shut up!" Bai Jinyi was so angry at Gu Nianzhi's words that her chest heaved up and down. She could barely control her temper.
Gu Nianzhi curled her lips and her voice was still calm. "Do you remember? Let's get back to business. I want to see you. The prison guard said that he can only see you if you agree, so I called first to ask for your permission. "
Bai Jinyi's face twitched. She wanted to say "I don't agree", but Gu Nianzhi had already said, "If you don't agree, I'll go talk to Prime Minister Bai. Let's see if Prime Minister Bai will do me a favor and let a busy man like you see me."
His tone was not without sarcasm, but it also carried a hint of threat.
Bai Jinyi's older brother, Bai Jiancheng, was the prime minister, and a prime minister who cherished his reputation.
There were four siblings in the Bai family, and two of them were in trouble. The second brother, Bai Yusheng, had committed treason. She was the youngest sister, but she had been sentenced to death for murdering Luo Xinxue. Although the sentence was suspended for two years, and there was a high possibility that it could be commuted to life imprisonment, if Bai Jiancheng wanted to put justice before family, she would have no choice but to die.
Bai Jinyi didn't dare to gamble, because she knew how many years her brother had worked hard to be elected prime minister.
This was also a position that the entire Bai family was proud of.
Her life had already been ruined, but she couldn't ruin her big brother as well.
If she ruined her big brother, she could just die.
Bai Jinyi suppressed the anger in her heart and said stiffly, "If you want to come, then come. I'll make it clear in advance that I'm just a felon. I can't do anything. I can't help you, nor can I get in your way."
That was exactly what Gu Nianzhi wanted.
"Okay, then I'll make an appointment with your prison and come see you as soon as possible." Gu Nianzhi finished speaking and asked Bai Jinyi to transfer the call back to the staff member.
Because Bai Jinyi had already agreed, the staff member didn't make things difficult for Gu Nianzhi and made an appointment for them to meet.
The Green City Women's Prison was in Green City, more than 200 kilometers away from the imperial capital. In order to see Bai Jinyi as soon as possible, Gu Nianzhi made an appointment at nine o 'clock the next morning.
She put down the phone and saw that it was already dark outside. She went downstairs to eat something and went to bed.
She had to sleep early because she needed to wake up at seven o 'clock in the morning and rush to Green City to meet at nine o' clock.
..
That night, Huo Shaoheng didn't return to the official residence. Instead, he went to the military headquarters courtyard to ask General Ji who handled Huo Guanyuan's funeral after his uncle Huo Guanyuan died, and where Huo Guanyuan's will was.
When he heard Gu Nianzhi's words, he immediately understood.
As a soldier, he would write a will in advance before he went on a major mission.
He had a will, and so did his father, Huo Guanchen. His uncle, Huo Guanyuan, should have a will.
Because 17 years had passed, although the military had detailed records of such matters, for the sake of confidentiality, the records related to the experimental accident were all kept on paper and were not allowed to be entered into the computer network.
Huo Shaoheng could only go to the headquarters' information room to search.
He brought Yin Shixiong and Bai Jinyi all the way from the information room to the basement. Finally, when it was almost dawn, he found the file of the experimental accident.
Yin Shixiong didn't have enough security clearance to open the file.
Therefore, after he handed the file to Huo Shaoheng, he walked to the corridor outside the door and stood guard for Huo Shaoheng.
Huo Shaoheng sat alone on the sofa in the basement of the information room. His expression was calm as he flipped through the records related to the list of people who died in the experimental accident, the inventory of their belongings, the list, and the final delivery procedures.
"… Huo Guanyuan, male, 36 years old, senior colonel rank, died in … His belongings are … all handed over to his wife, Luo Xinxue."
However, his will was not listed in the list of belongings.
Could it be that his will was only handed over to his wife? It wasn't recorded?
The receipt signed by Luo Xinxue was also placed in his information room, and there was no separate will listed in it.
This was a little strange.
Could it be that there really wasn't a will?
However, he had a hunch that since Huo Guanyuan had mentioned it to Song Jinning, he probably wasn't lying to her.
Huo Shaoheng frowned and thought for a while. In the end, he put down the information and left the information room.
He saw that it was almost dawn, so he and Yin Shixiong laid down in the lounge upstairs for a while to rest.
When it was seven o 'clock, he and Yin Shixiong left the information room building to look for General Ji.
General Ji had just returned from his morning exercise and met Huo Shaoheng and Yin Shixiong at the door.
"Shaoheng, Big Xiong, good morning." General Ji greeted them with a smile.
Huo Shaoheng and Yin Shixiong stood at attention and saluted. "Good morning, Chief!"
"Good, good, good. Don't be so restrained. Come, have you had breakfast? If you haven't, let's eat together. "General Ji kindly brought Huo Shaoheng and Yin Shixiong into his house.
They didn't stand on ceremony and followed General Ji to his restaurant for breakfast.
General Ji liked old people's tastes. In the morning, he had fried golden fried dough sticks, soy milk, and a steamer of white, fat, and hot tofu skin buns. The fillings inside were all vegetarian. There were tofu, vegetarian chicken, tofu, shepherd's purse, and fresh mushrooms. It was very delicious.
However, although it tasted good, it wasn't enough for Huo Shaoheng and Yin Shixiong.
The two of them ate five tofu skin buns each, but they still felt like they hadn't eaten at all.
They could only eat a few more fried dough sticks.
General Ji looked at the two of them emotionally and said, "It's still good to be young. Everything tastes good."
Huo Shaoheng: "…"
Yin Shixiong almost choked on a mouthful of fried dough stick. It took him a long time to swallow it.
Huo Shaoheng glanced at him, and he immediately understood and said, "What would you two like to drink?"
Huo Shaoheng ordered Colombian black coffee, and General Ji still wanted Pu 'er tea.
Yin Shixiong took the opportunity to leave the restaurant and go to the kitchen to make coffee and tea so that Huo Shaoheng and General Ji could speak alone.
"General Ji, I have a private matter to ask you …" Huo Shaoheng lowered his voice. "If you think it's inconvenient, you don't have to say it. Please don't feel pressured."
"You brat, don't give me that! Tell me, what's the big deal! "General Ji smiled as he took out a cigar and knocked it on the dining table.
Huo Shaoheng quickly took the blade and helped General Ji cut the cigar. He then lit it with a lighter and said, "It's like this. I want to ask, who did my uncle give his will to?"
General Ji was stunned. "Huo Guanyuan's will? He didn't give it to his family? Didn't he have a wife and daughter? "
Huo Shaoheng looked at General Ji without batting an eyelid. "My aunt has already passed away. She was killed by Bai Jinyi. His daughter, Luo Jialan, is not his biological daughter, but the posthumous child of his comrade. "
General Ji slapped his forehead in realization. "Oh, oh, oh, I'm getting old. My memory is really bad. I remember now. That's true. Sigh, your uncle is so pitiful. He sacrificed himself for the country and didn't even leave behind a descendant. "
Huo Shaoheng nodded. "I also just remembered that as a soldier, my uncle would definitely have a will when he carried out that kind of mission. However, I didn't see a will on the list of his belongings."
General Ji took a puff of his cigar and looked at the French window across from him. He said softly, "Shaoheng, in the era when your uncle died, the will didn't specify that it must be listed on the list of his belongings."
Huo Shaoheng: "…"
At that time, he was only twelve years old and hadn't joined the army yet, so he didn't know about these things.
"Because in that era, soldiers who died had a will to leave to their families. This was a convention, and there was no need to specifically mention it. Everyone knew about it, so the military didn't insist that the 'will' be listed as one of the belongings on the list."
Huo Shaoheng understood.
"Then the reason why the 'will' was listed as one of the belongings on the list was because something happened, right?"
"Yes." General Ji said straightforwardly, "Something did happen later. The will of the soldier who died was maliciously intercepted, destroyed, or tampered with, causing a lot of property disputes. Later, the military forcibly stipulated that the will was also a relic of the soldier who died and must be listed on the list of belongings. When it was handed over to the family, the family had to sign to indicate that they had received the will. "
He stared at Huo Shaoheng. "It seems that your uncle's will was also intercepted or destroyed."
Otherwise, it wouldn't have taken them 17 years to track down the whereabouts of the will.
Huo Shaoheng thought for a moment. "Do you still remember who was in charge of the will at that time?"
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