"Well … all right."
Diba wanted to object. After all, Ding Ning had told them not to get out of the car. But Director Zhang had nothing to do with this matter. It was kind enough that he was willing to help inquire about it. There was no need to involve him.
Director Zhang opened the car door and said worriedly through the window, "You must pay attention to your safety. Li Maoyang is cruel and merciless. There is nothing he can't do."
"Well, I know what I'm doing."
Diba responded, stepped on the accelerator, and sped up to catch up with the police car whose taillights were almost out of sight.
"It's getting late. I'll call Xilin."
Anivar took out his mobile phone and said.
"Don't say so much. She hasn't fully recovered yet. Don't worry her."
Diba said carefully.
"I know."
Anivar sighed and said apologetically, "It's all Xilin's fault. If she hadn't had a car accident, so many things wouldn't have happened."
"You can't say that. Xilin didn't want to have a car accident. No one expected it. She can only blame the Li family for being too overbearing."
Diba comforted her softly, but the sadness between his eyebrows lingered.
"I'm just a little curious. Why does Doctor Ding insist on not treating Li Mingrui? I remember that Li Mingrui is your and Xilin's classmate, right? "
Anivar asked in confusion while dialing.
"Well … I don't know."
Diba's pretty face quietly turned red, and he said vaguely and perfunctorily.
Up to now, she still didn't know that Li Mingrui wanted to drug and rape her and hired assassins to kill Ding Ning. She only thought that he was unwilling to save Li Mingrui because he was jealous. How could she say such words out loud?
"Hey, this seems to be the way to the Municipal Public Security Bureau."
Anivar looked at the familiar road and said with some surprise, "It seems that Director Zhang is right. These policemen are indeed not the same as Captain Sun."
"How do you know?"
Diba asked with some confusion.
"I actually know Captain Sun. I had a drink with him once, but I don't know him. I don't think he even knows who I am. I know that he is the captain of the Security Brigade of the Development Zone Branch, not from the Municipal Public Security Bureau. Now the police car is going to the Municipal Public Security Bureau, so he should not be the same as him."
Aniwar explained.
Diba nodded in realization, then smiled bitterly and said, "Whether it's the branch bureau or the city bureau, isn't it all directed by the Li family?"
"That's true. In the eyes of the city leaders, the Li family is a financial backer. But in the eyes of ordinary people, they are a malignant tumor."
A trace of hatred flashed in Anival's eyes.
"Has the Li family done a lot of bad things?"
Diba had been away from home for many years, so she really didn't know much about Wu City. Her only impression was that Li Mingrui's family was quite rich, but whether that was good or bad, she really didn't know.
"They've done a lot of bad things. In the beginning, Hua Yang Company started off by taking advantage of unscrupulous businesses. They fought for construction sites, engaged in demolition, opened gambling stalls, collected protection fees, gave usury … They did whatever business was profitable, and they kept a large number of thugs."
Anival said angrily, "To put it bluntly, the predecessor of Huayang Corporation was an out-and-out triad gang. They relied on extortion to accumulate their initial capital. Li Maoyang was a well-known triad boss in Wu City."
"What happened next? How did it become a multinational corporation? "
Diba's curiosity was piqued.
"Later on, the government cracked down on the evils. Although this Li Maoyang did all kinds of bad things, he was very far-sighted. He knew that those in the underworld would not have a good ending. After earning money, he began to slowly whitewash his name. But he was an uncultured triad who only knew how to fight and kill. How would he know how to run a business? Hua Yang Company went from bad to worse and couldn't make ends meet. If it wasn't for the previous family supporting it, it would have gone bankrupt long ago."
Anival seemed to be very familiar with the history of the Li family's rise. He said with great familiarity, "Although I really don't like that Li Mingrui, I have to say that this guy is very business-minded. After he returned from studying abroad, he immediately took over the declining Hua Yang Company. In just a few short years, he turned Hua Yang Company into a multinational corporation."
"I couldn't tell that Li Mingrui was quite amazing."
Diba said with some surprise.
"Amazing? Haha! "
Anival did not hide his disdain. "He's indeed amazing. At least, he's much more amazing than his father. He sees further than Li Maoyang. He knows that if he wants to become bigger and stronger, he must have a good relationship with the city leaders. That's why he invested in Wu City with the image of an entrepreneur and won the city leaders' favor."
"That's not bad. At least Wu City has benefited. These years, I rarely come back, but every time I do, I find that there are significant changes in Wu City. This is also partly due to his efforts."
Diba said approvingly.
"Pfft, wool comes from the sheep's back. He's a calculative person. It seems that he has made a lot of contributions to the investment in his hometown, but in fact, he has earned far more than he invested."
Anival curled his lips and said disdainfully, "On the surface, he looks like a legitimate businessman, but in fact, he still pursues the ways of the underworld, dominating the market and taking things by force. It's just that he does it more covertly and cleverly than his father. If his father is a real villain, then he's a hypocrite. He looks great on the surface, but he does all kinds of evil behind the scenes. As far as I know, ever since he took over Hua Yang Group, his business opponents always met with inexplicable accidents. They were either killed, crippled, or inexplicably disappeared. That's how he rose so quickly and developed a second-rate enterprise into a multinational corporation in just a few years."
"No way? He doesn't look like that kind of person. If it's really like what you said, then the police won't do anything? "
Diba said with some disbelief. Although she didn't like Li Mingrui, they were classmates after all. She couldn't connect this smiling classmate with those sinister murderers.
"Police? Haha, it's a society ruled by law now. Who can do anything to him without evidence? What's more, he's one of the top ten outstanding youths in Wu City and also has the title of a young entrepreneur. Without the orders of the city leaders, who would dare to investigate him? "
Anival sneered. "He's a very cautious person. Every time he sets up a trap, he'll find a scapegoat. Even if someone investigates, they won't be able to trace it back to him."
"Then how do you know?"
Diba still couldn't accept it. After all, Anival was just hearsay and might not be true.
"Any competitor that can threaten the Huayang Group will die in the end. Otherwise, how could the Huayang Group develop from a second-rate enterprise to a multinational corporation in just a few years? Isn't the speed at which they print money? Isn't it obvious enough?"
An obscure pain flashed in Anival's eyes. There were some things he couldn't tell Diba. After all, it was related to his biggest secret.
He had a lover, who was also his good friend, named Qi Mingxian. His father was a very famous real estate businessman and a competitor of Hua Yang Group. He died in a car accident that looked like an accident, but was actually a meticulously planned car accident. The culprit had not been found until now.
Qi Mingxian felt that Li Mingrui was a major suspect and secretly investigated him. He even told Anival that if something happened to him one day, it would definitely be Li Mingrui's doing.
At that time, he didn't care, thinking that Qi Mingxian might be suspicious because he couldn't accept the fact that his father had passed away.
But not long after, Qi Mingxian disappeared from the face of the earth. It had been more than three years, and there was no news of him until now. His family also reported him to the police, but they couldn't find him. In the end, he was listed as a missing person by the police.
He didn't believe that Qi Mingxian would disappear for no reason, so he repeated what he had said before he disappeared to the police, suspecting that it was Li Mingrui who did it.
But as soon as he stepped out of the police station, he was caught, blindfolded, and beaten violently. He was even warned not to meddle in other people's business. If it wasn't for a certain someone's face, he would have been reunited with Qi Mingxian in the underworld.
A certain someone's face? Could this certain someone be Xilin? After all, they were classmates.
After that, Anival had also tried to test Xilin in a roundabout way, asking her about her relationship with Li Mingrui.
Xilin said that their relationship was ordinary, but she had unintentionally helped him once. But as for what exactly she had helped, no matter how he asked, she was unwilling to say more. Her expression seemed to be a little regretful.
He was also sure that this certain someone must be referring to Xilin. Perhaps it was because of Xilin's help that Li Mingrui didn't kill him.
This secret had been buried in the bottom of his heart for more than three years. It was like a poisonous snake that constantly gnawed at his soul, making him feel pain in his heart, but it was also a taboo to him.
He hated Li Mingrui to the bone, but he feared him like a snake or a scorpion, so he didn't dare to provoke him again.
Because the person who warned him clearly knew about his relationship with Qi Mingxian. He was afraid, afraid that his reputation would be ruined after his secret was exposed, afraid that his family would be ruined by Li Mingrui's revenge, so he had no choice but to endure the pain and sorrow of losing his lover and become a coward.
This was also the reason why he always doted on Xilin even though he clearly didn't like women. He owed Xilin, and he had delayed Xilin's happiness for a lifetime. He could only use this method to make up for it.
Diba was silent. Although he couldn't accept that his classmate was such a terrifying person, Anival's words were not unreasonable. All signs showed that Li Mingrui was a terrifying poisonous snake.
What's more, what happened tonight also indirectly proved that the Li family was very domineering and unscrupulous. Even if those things weren't done by Li Mingrui, they definitely had something to do with the Li family.
Municipal Criminal Police Unit!
Ding Ning was fixed on the interrogation chair in the interrogation room. Chen Dafa and a young policeman were interrogating him. The strong light made him squint slightly.
"Name!"
The young policeman held a laptop and asked without raising his head.
"I didn't kill anyone. I'm only here to cooperate with your investigation. You don't have the right to treat me like this."
Ding Ning slowly lit a cigarette, slowly exhaled a mouthful of smoke, and said calmly.
"Pa!"
The young policeman slammed the table and shouted angrily, "The facts are here, and the evidence is conclusive. How dare you still want to quibble? If you didn't kill him, who did?"
Ding Ning glanced at him disdainfully. "A rookie who just graduated from the police academy, right? Since the evidence is conclusive, why bother interrogating me? Just convict me. Anyway, the case can be closed even if there is no confession. "
"Don't be impatient."
Chen Dafa stopped the young policeman from losing his temper and looked at Ding Ning seriously. "Mr. Ding, since I invited you here, I want to get to the bottom of this matter. I hope you can cooperate with me. Can you tell me the details of the matter?" Ding Ning asked.
"Okay, that's the right attitude. Don't play those empty games. In fact, I still don't know who died, and how can it be related to me? I'm sure you've seen the surveillance in the Pearl Hotel. When I left, everyone was alive and well."
Chen Dafa didn't seem to be an accomplice of Li Maoyang. Instead, he seemed more like a policeman who handled the case according to procedure, which made his attitude toward Chen Dafa better.
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