allonlinenovel Chapter 111 Returning Home (37)
Chapter 111 Returning Home (37)
In this situation, none of them dared to act rashly.
Pan Meiying herself and the people around her were all highly trained spies, so Morse code was definitely not something they could use.
The three people had a thousand thoughts in their minds, but they had no way to express them.
But in the end, they reached a consensus with their eyes, and decided to wait and see how the situation develops, responding to all changes with the same attitude.
Originally, everyone thought that since Pan Meiying had knocked on the coffin, she would not open it for inspection.
However, when the old lady of the Yang family's coffin was carried to a separate car, the soldiers who carried the coffin did not even avoid the relatives. They directly picked up the crowbars that had been prepared in the back of the car and began to pry open the coffin lid.
Tong Jia didn't care whether the old lady of the Yang family could rest in peace, and immediately turned her attention to the two brothers Yang Jichun and Yang Jixia.
Yang Jichun has been a little confused since Yang Jidong was arrested. If it is said that Yang's eldest sister-in-law is intermittently forgetful, then Yang Jichun is now completely in a state of mental disorder.
No one knows what happened that day. The two children are young and can't express themselves well. The eldest sister-in-law of the Yang family is particularly forgetful. Yang Jidong himself was arrested and has not been seen since then. The old lady of the Yang family also passed away.
So the two workers who were originally hired to take care of the old lady of the Yang family are now taking care of Yang Jichun and his wife one-on-one, and their two children are temporarily left to the care of Tian Ma and Xiao Ting.
Yang Jichun, whose mind was already in a state of confusion, turned a blind eye when he saw someone trying to pry open his mother's coffin.
Looking at Yang Jixia again, his hands were clenched into fists.
The enemy outnumbers us; now is not the time to act on impulse.
He clenched his fists and said to himself: Be patient, a little impatience will ruin a big plan.
Guo Xin also walked in front of Yang Jixia at the right time. It didn't matter whether he could block his sight or not. What was important was that he could let others see that someone was blocking him and he didn't notice that the coffin was being pried open.
Guo Xin blocked Yang Jixia's sight all the way and sent him, Tong Jia and Tao Junle to Pan Meiying's jeep.
Pan Meiying was driving, Yang Jixia was sitting in the passenger seat, Tong Jia was sitting in the middle of the back seat, on the left was the female officer who looked like Song Yuanyuan, and on the right was Tao Junle.
Tong Jia and Yang Jixia had originally prepared themselves for Pan Meiying to chat with them and ask them questions, but on the way from the provincial capital to Yang Jixia's hometown, there were five people in the car, and no one spoke a word.
Only when they arrived at Yang Jixia's hometown did Pan Meiying say anything. She asked, "Has the burial location been decided? Have your housekeeper show those people the way, and leave the digging of the grave to them."
As soon as he finished speaking, the two trucks behind drove in front of the jeep. The three cars stopped only when the road was completely mountainous and no other car could get in.
Because of Pan Meiying's presence, everything seemed to be accelerated.
The process, which was supposed to take at least an hour to complete, was completed in less than 20 minutes.
After burning the paper horse that showed the way to the old lady of the Yang family, half of Pan Meiying's men withdrew one after another.
By the time Yang Jixia finished burning the last "gold ingot", Pan Meiying had already asked the remaining people to leave with the people in the bun shop, including the female officer who looked exactly like Song Yuanyuan.
Tong Jia stood up and left Yang Jixia and Tao Junle to clean up the mess in front of the old lady of the Yang family's grave, while she walked towards Pan Meiying.
They had no choice but to go there, because the location of the Yang family's ancestral tomb was quite close to the cave where they found the statue of Laozi last time.
If Pan Meiying discovered that the lost jeep was in a cave near the Yang family's ancestral tomb, Tong Jia would find it even more difficult to clear himself of suspicion.
Although Pan Meiying is the only one left now, it is easy for Tong Jia to get rid of her.
But things are not that simple. It is easy to get rid of Pan Meiying. If she cannot go back on time, all the people in the bun shop will become hostages.
Moreover, there was a high possibility that she had ambushed people nearby. To be on the safe side, Tong Jia felt that this was not a good place to take action. It would be better to get close to them first and then consider the next step.
Before she could speak, Pan Meiying, who was standing in front of her with her back to her, spoke first.
She said, “On this journey here, I noticed that you and Lele still have a very good relationship. Whenever you encounter problems, you like to hold each other’s hands tightly.
But I don’t see how much attachment you have to Yang Jixia, the one you traveled thousands of miles and went through so much hardship to find.
Don't say that you are reserved about your feelings for him. I've seen how you look when you are worried about Lele.
Of course, you can also say that love and family affection are different.
Or maybe he cares about you more than you care about him.
But unfortunately, I also didn't observe how much he valued you.
I have just expressed my doubts about you in public, and now you come to me only to prove your innocence.
As a businessman, it is impossible not to understand that in the absence of any evidence, proving one's innocence will make it easier for others to frame you and you will never be able to prove your innocence.
When you came over, he didn't stop you. Doesn't that prove that he doesn't take you that seriously?
For the sake of our acquaintance, as long as you answer the questions I ask from now on truthfully, I will definitely free you from his control and let you regain your life."
"A new student? Like my two sisters, will they all serve you? I don't want to get involved in politics and wars. I just want to live my own life in peace and stability.
You guessed right, there is not much affection between Yang Jixia and me.
When he ran away from his marriage, he didn't actually go to join the army. He had someone in his heart for a long time, and he left to find his sweetheart.
He dared to escape from the marriage, but his sweetheart didn't.
By the time he found his sweetheart, she was already married.
He couldn't accept it, and didn't want others to know that he was abandoned by a woman, so he tried hard to make more money to prove himself.
And I was his way of proving to his sweetheart that he could live well without that woman.
So, when I found him, we reached an agreement.
I was his good wife, Yang, and he gave me two kinds of money every month, one salary and one household allowance.
No matter what happens in the future, before I turn 25, we will just be a couple in name only and will not have any real relationship.
If we hadn't been worried that his family would find out about our apparent relationship, we would have always slept in separate rooms. Even though we live in the same room now, we don't sleep on the same pillow.
He doesn't control me, nor does he restrict my freedom. I'm just tired, and I really think life like this is pretty good." Tong Jia half-truthfully told Pan Meiying about her relationship with Yang Jixia.
There was no other way. When she went to the Northwest, in order to find him as quickly as possible, she gave Yang Jixia a lot of patriotic compliments. Now, in order not to reveal her identity, she could only change his personality and shape him into a love-brained man.
I don’t know if Pan Meiying will believe it, but this is all she can do at the moment.
Pan Meiying said nothing more. She flicked the whip in her hand into the distance and turned to walk towards the jeep, shouting loudly as she walked: "Everyone, retreat to the provincial capital!"
Tao Junle, who was packing up, saw more than ten people running out from around the Yang family's ancestral tomb. He quickly put down his things and ran to Tong Jia.
Tong Jia patted his shoulder and said, "It's okay, it's okay. They are here to protect Commander Pan and they won't hurt us."
Looking at Yang Jixia who had packed up his things, he stood up with a sense of relief and nodded at Tong Jia, agreeing with what she had just said.
It is better to escape from marriage for the sake of your sweetheart than to expose your identity immediately.
In order to get close to Diao Yongting and Shanghai Municipal Government officials, he had arranged his experiences in the years after leaving home. The Shanghai Municipal Government did not find any problems, so he did not believe that Pan Meiying could find any problems.
Moreover, Tong Jia's words also justified the reason why they lived separately before and lived together later.
Now his mother and sister have passed away, his younger brother is locked up, and his older brother is mentally unstable. Without the pressure from his family, he no longer needs to live in the same room with Tao Junle.
Of course, if you want to move back to your original room, you need to get back alive.
At present, he knew nothing about Pan Meiying and could only respond to her moves.
On the way back to the provincial capital, he had imagined several scenarios in his mind, but on the way back, Pan Meiying still didn't say a word.
The jeep drove all the way to the provincial government office building.
Then the three of them followed Pan Meiying all the way to the top floor of the office building - the fifth floor.
There are no offices on the fifth floor, only three meeting rooms of different sizes.
Now, the smallest conference room has become Pan Meiying's bedroom, and the largest conference room is where the subordinates brought by Pan Meiying live. The current supervisor of these people is the person who looks exactly like Song Yuanyuan.
As for the medium-sized meeting room in the middle, it was locked. Pan Meiying did not introduce it, and even though Tong Jia was curious, she did not ask too many questions.
After reaching the fifth floor, Pan Meiying stood at the stairs and gave Tong Jia a rough introduction to the layout. She then said, "Except for very formal occasions, I rarely wear a military uniform. It's too restrictive.
Go to the meeting room at the very top and wait for me. I'll go change my clothes and be right there."
After she finished speaking, she was about to go to the small meeting room at the foot of the stairs. Tong Jia grabbed her arm and asked, "Chief Pan, didn't you say that the people living in that meeting room are your confidants?
If I remember correctly, your confidants should be Mei, Lan, Zhu and Ju and the others, right?
I'll just go in and wait, but isn't it inappropriate to let them both go in?"
Pan Meiying waved her hand nonchalantly and said, "That room is a dormitory at night and an office during the day. You can just go in directly. There's nothing inconvenient to see."
After saying that, seeing that Tong Jia was still hesitant, he walked directly to the door of the conference room and turned the doorknob without even knocking.
Tong Jia followed him in and found that the conference room was divided into two by the original large conference table.
To the right of the table are some double-decker wooden beds. The conference table in the middle serves as a barrier, and is surrounded by chairs. The left side of the table is covered with mats, which are a bit similar to the mats in the training grounds of Taekwondo gyms in my previous life. It is obvious that they are used for practicing martial arts.
Tong Jia carefully observed the conference room and said, "Why is there no one here? Where's that... Officer Song?"
"That person is not Yuanyuan. Yuanyuan was murdered. She is just Yuanyuan's cousin. She looks like her. I asked Huaer to put makeup on her according to the method you taught me. How could you not recognize that she is not the real Yuanyuan?" When Pan Meiying said these words, her eyes kept wandering around Tong Jia's face, trying to see a hint of guilt on her face.
Fortunately, Tong Jia had already prepared herself mentally. Relying on her memory of watching "The Mind Reader" in her previous life, after a brief moment of surprise, she immediately made a regretful expression, sighed, and said, "That's such a pity. I remember she wasn't that old either. She seemed to be about the same age as me, right?
When did this happen? Where is she buried? After all, we knew each other. If I have the chance, I will go and burn some incense for her..."
"There's a chance. She hasn't been buried yet. Now she's been kept in the morgue of the church hospital south of the provincial government together with the bodies of Lan'er and Zhu'er." Pan Meiying continued to stare at Tong Jia and narrated calmly.
"Lan'er and Zhu'er too...ah...life is so unpredictable!" They had not been together for long to begin with, and being too sad would seem fake, so after saying this, Tong Jia did not speak again.
Since there was no one in the meeting room, Yang Jixia and Tao Junle had no scruples and followed him in.
After Pan Meiying and the other two walked in, they closed the door of the conference room and left.
Tao Junle walked directly to Tong Jia. Tong Jia wanted to comfort him, but before she could say anything, she heard Yang Jixia say, "Although this room is big, the beds are too close together. Will it be difficult to breathe when you sleep tonight?"
"You're such a busybody! How long has your sister's body been in the police station? You haven't found a way to get it back, and your brother has been taken away, and his whereabouts are still unknown.
As an older brother, you don't worry about your own siblings, but you worry about people you don't even know. You're just too bored." Tong Jia retorted angrily.
In order to justify what she had said to Pan Meiying, Tong Jia stopped pretending to be virtuous when talking to Yang Jixia and simply returned to their previous way of getting along.
In short, except for not revealing the true identities of the two people, the real destination of Yang Jixia's escape from marriage, and the fact that she was the real murderer who killed those three people, Tong Jia decided to tell the truth as much as possible about other things.
Otherwise, she told so many lies that she could hardly tell who she was talking to and what she was talking about.
Pan Meiyingmei introduced the conference room in the middle. Tong Jia suspected that it might be a monitoring room, so she didn't dare to collude with Yang Jixia here.
Yang Jixia was also worried about this matter and wanted to find a topic to slowly convey this concern to Tong Jia.
But after he was confronted by Tong Jia, he knew that Tong Jia also had such doubts.
So, after being criticized, he really became a useless brother who was hurt internally, sitting on a chair beside the conference table and feeling sad alone.
Tong Jia continued to play with Tao Junle's fingers. Time passed by minute by minute, and the three of them waited quietly for Pan Meiying to arrive.