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Chapter 1021
He introduced everyone present, one by one, to his wife.
Finally, facing the crowd again, he introduced, “To introduce you all, this is my wife, Xian.”
Kepler and Nina Hua were busy moving forward and politely shouted, “Aunt Shi.”
Mrs. Chen looks like she should also be in her forties, perhaps because of poor health, not too much maintenance, a face is a little pale and haggard, but still can see the bottom is good, features are very clear and beautiful, when she was young should be a beautiful beauty.
She smiled a little and said, “It’s cold outside, so if you want to talk, come in.”
I said, and staggered my body to let them in.
As the group entered the house, the heat baked the whole house in a warm atmosphere, and Mrs. Chen directed the maids to come up and get their clothes for them.
Jenny’s group was in a hurry to get out, and they were still wearing the dresses they had just attended the banquet with only an overcoat on the outside.
But it was good that the house was warm and it wasn’t cold to take off the coat, so one by one they took off their outer coats.
Uncle Chen asked anxiously, “What’s going on?Wasn’t that jade silk left at home all this time?How can you just throw it away?”
Mrs. Chan’s face didn’t look too good at the mention of this.
“I don’t know what’s going on, but everything in the house has always been just where you put it and no one has ever touched it, and you just called me to open the safe to get that out, and I opened it and realized it was gone.”
Chen Shi Bo’s face was gloomy.
“Show me.”
So, a group of people went to the first floor.
That piece of heavenly jade was previously kept in a safe.
Although it was most likely a fake in Uncle Chen’s eyes, that only meant that it was a fake heavenly jade tablet, but that didn’t prevent it from being a really good piece of jade.
So, Uncle Chen still kept it locked up in the safe.
The safe, on the other hand, is kept in the second bedroom.
When a group of people arrived on the scene, they saw that the door to the safe was open, with some cash and documents inside, and next to it was a black velvet box, which was open and empty.
Chen Shi Bo quickly stepped forward and picked up the box.
Jenny Jing asked, “The Heavenly Book of Jade was previously placed in this box?”
Chen Shi Bo nodded.
His face didn’t look too good, and he looked the box over and over a few times, then looked in the safe and said quietly, “Is this how the box was left open when you opened it?”
Mrs. Chan shook her head.
“No, it was closed, I thought something was in there, I was about to take it out, and when I picked up the box it felt a lot lighter and something was wrong, but when I opened it, it was gone.”
Chen Shi Bo sank.
Mrs. Chen was married to him for nearly twenty years and was absolutely trustworthy, but apart from the two of them, the maids usually couldn’t come into the bedroom without permission, so where did that stuff go?
Thinking of this, he turned to look at Gu Siqian.
“Mr. Gu, I’m so sorry, I originally thought I could help you, but now…”
Kusken raised his hand, stopping the rest of his words.
“No one expected this to happen, and I believe in Uncle Chen’s good intentions, but now that the things are lost, we’re willing to accompany you to get them back if you’d like.”
Chen Shi Bo nodded.
“Of course I’d like that, but… how do I find it?”
He is good at business, but this catching thieves, he is foggy.
Gu Si Qian looked at Mrs. Chen.
“When was this thing put in?”
Mrs. Chen said softly, “I put it in a long time ago, really, about five years ago.”
“Has it been left in there untouched?”
“No.”Uncle Chen added, “We do business everywhere, we’ve bought property in every place, and this is just one of them, and sometimes when I need to stay here for long periods of time for my business, I live here, and occasionally when I think of this stuff, I’ll take it out and play with it, but it’s really not very often in total.”
“Can Uncle Chen remember the last time you saw it, when was the last time you saw it?”
“About…three days ago?”
Uncle Chen thought about it and hesitated, “At that time, I originally thought that I would take it to congratulate Old Lady Jin on her birthday, but then I thought to myself that it was a fake and unlucky, so I didn’t give it away and put it back.”
“So that means it was lost within these three days, and has anyone else been in the villa besides you two?”
“No.”
This time, it was Mrs. Chen who opened the door, “It’s just me and Old Chen who live here, we have no children, so naturally no one else will come over, the maids in the house are usually upstairs, and the bedrooms and study upstairs are all taken care of by me, there’s no way outsiders will come in.”
Nina Hua smiled, “That’s strange, no one came in, could that thing have disappeared into thin air?”
“Naturally it can’t just disappear into thin air.”
Gu Si Qian stepped forward, carefully examined the safe, and asked, “Is the combination to this safe something that only you two know?”
“No, the other one is my mother’s nephew, because he’s the one who came to help us put this safe in, and the two of us don’t have any children, and we’ve always treated him like our own child, so we didn’t hide anything from him, just in case there was an accident, but at least he could help us with something.”
Kuskan nodded.
He checked the safe, then stepped outside and looked at the bedroom door.
Bella Qiao looked at him curiously, wondering what he was looking at.
Kuskan asked, “Where is your nephew now?”
“Oh, he’s gone to Mrs. Ken’s birthday party, too.”
“He went to the party too?”Nina Hua was surprised, though.
“What’s his name?I don’t think I’ve seen any fresh faces today.”
After all, she has been married to Kepler for so many years, and the Jin family has met all their relatives, large and small.
Let’s not say if she could remember every name, but at least it was a face she had seen and would never forget the next time she saw it.
Mrs. Chen was confused, “Never seen it?No way, he told me himself he’d be there.”
Kepler asked, “What is your nephew’s name, dare I ask?”
“His name is Zhou Shizhen.”
Chow Si-ching?
Nina Hua and Kepler looked at each other.
After all, it’s a birthday party, and all the guests who come to the birthday party give gifts.
When receiving gifts, it is convenient to keep track of favors and usually keep a list of guests as well.
As the only grandson of Old Mrs. Jin, Kepler will naturally go through the list.
Chapter 1022
But he had never seen the name Zhou Shizhen in the guest list.
Thinking of this, Kepler sank down.
“I’ve never seen that name before.”
The words came as a shock to Mrs. Chen.
“How did…”
At that moment, Uncle Chen Shi seemed to remember something and suddenly said, “I hadn’t noticed when you guys didn’t say anything before, but when I thought of it now, I don’t seem to have seen Timothy today.”
Having said that, the truth seems to be clear.
Gu Si Qian said in a deep voice, “I’m only afraid that I’ll have to trouble Mrs. Chen to contact your nephew.”
Mrs. Chen nodded her head incessantly.
“Okay, I’ll call him right now.”
She said, pulling out her phone to call Zhou Lizhen.
However, when the number was dialed, it was found to be coming from the other side with the sound of the phone being turned off.
The two were confused.
“How did this, how did this turn off?You guys take it easy, I’ll fight it again.”
Mrs. Chen said, calling several times in the past.
Yet no matter how much she played, the other side was off.
This time, even Mrs. Chen panicked.
Jenny Jing saw her gesture and wanted to fight again, and went straight forward, stopping her hand.
“No need to fight.”
She turned to look at Kepler, “People either just ran away or something happened, the Book of Heaven and Jade was just stolen and he disappeared, there is no such coincidence under the heavens, Kepler, you are well connected over here and familiar with the place, you send someone to look for him.”
Kepler nodded, and when Chen Shi Bo saw the situation, he said, “I’ll tell you a few addresses he often goes to, so send someone over there to look for them first.”
So, they stepped aside and went on the phone.
On this side, Jenny Jing saw Mrs. Chen’s pale and distraught face.
Although it’s too early to conclude whether or not the stuff was taken by Zhou Lizhen.
But from the evidence and the circumstances at hand, it’s basically not a bad idea.
After all, he’s the only one who has the key to the place, and he’s still out of touch.
The Chen family had no children, they had always treated Zhou Lizhen as their own child, it was clear how sad they would be now if they found out that Zhou Lizhen had done something that betrayed them.
Jenny Jing sighed and stepped forward, comforting, “Mrs. Chen, don’t be too anxious, maybe it’s a misunderstanding, no matter what, let’s find the person first.”
Mrs. Chan nodded.
Soon, Kepler had already arranged for people to split up to find them.
Mrs. Chen took everyone to sit down in the living room and sent a maid to serve tea.
When Uncle Chen saw that she looked bad, he was concerned, “I’m here, so you don’t need to be busy, go back to your room and rest, I’ll come back up to tell you any news.”
Mrs. Chan shook her head.
“Where am I going to sleep now with this?”
She looked at Uncle Chen Shih expectantly and asked, “Do you think this is really what Jeanne took?”
Chen Shi Bo’s eyebrows flashed across the room.
Eventually, I shook my head.
“I’m sure it’s not him, but we’ll have to find him first.”
Only then did Mrs. Chen nodded her head.
The people sent out by Kepler were fast, and it didn’t take long to find the people.
Only to bring the man back again, Zhou Lizhen’s entire body looked extremely wretched and no longer had the graceful demeanor of the past.
He’s like a frosted eggplant.
Son-like, he looked listless, his shirt was torn and messy, his hair was a mess, and there was some dust and blood on his face, he looked like he had been in a war with someone.
As soon as Mrs. Chen saw him like this, she was shocked.
“Lizhen, what’s wrong with you?Who hit you?”
She said as she rushed up to him and hugged him heartily.
Zhou Lizhen was upset, “No one hit me, I made it myself.”
“How did you get this on yourself?”
At the end of the day, Mrs. Chen was still heartbroken for him.
Zhou Lizhen looked up and took a glance at the few people present, a guilty conscience flashing deep within his eyes.
“I…” he hesitated before whispering, “I saw them coming to get me, and I tried to run away, and I just… I fell.”
At this point, Kepler stepped forward and explained, “The people under my hands did not have a sense of priorities and scared Young Master Zhou, please forgive Mrs. Chen.”
Only then did Mrs. Chen realize it.
Her heart dropped for a moment, and then her face became immediately serious.
“Lizhen, tell me the truth, did you take the piece of jade in the safe?”
Zhou Lizhen was stunned.
He was about unaware of the fact that his aunt and uncle, who were so vociferous in pursuing him, were doing this.
He barely smiled, but didn’t deny it.
“I took it.”
In the next second, and then busy begging, “Auntie, I really have no choice, I’m not trying to steal your things, I’m just temporarily lending them over as collateral, and when I have enough money together sometime, I’ll definitely redeem them for you.”
Mrs. Chen’s face changed.
“Mortgage?Who did you mortgage to?”
“Just a business friend.”
Speaking of which, Zhou Lizhen seemed to feel guilty again.
By this time, where else would Uncle Chen not know what had happened.
His face paled and he said in a stern voice, “Tell me the whole story, from beginning to end, as it was!”
Zhou Lizhen’s heart was shaken, realizing that he couldn’t get by by fooling around today.
There were several young men there, and he recognized two of them, though not all of them, and they were amazing people.
Such a character, yet he appeared in his aunt’s house today, so it must be something important.
Is it because of the jade pendant?
I don’t think it’s possible, that jade pendant doesn’t feel like anything special except that it’s better jade.
If you’re really looking for good jade, it’s not exactly top-notch good jade.
Thinking that, he let his mind down a little.
Immediately afterwards, the reason why he wanted to take the jade pendant was told in full.
It turns out that this Zhou Lizhen had been working for Chen Shi Bo’s company before.
But in the past two years, he has grown wild and doesn’t want to work for his aunt anymore, so he wants to go out and start a business.
His parents were two ordinary people, and it was only because he had a good aunt and uncle that he had gained a lot of insight over the years.
Mrs. Chen and the others had no children and treated him like their own child, seeing that he had that entrepreneurial spirit, they thought it was a good thing.
The kid who has been relying on the family is obedient and good, but if he can go out on his own and make something of himself, it shows that’s what he’s got.
They then gave him a large amount of start-up capital to go out into the world.
In the past two years, Zhou Lizhen has opened two film companies, but his business is booming, and every day we see him too busy to see anyone.
Chapter 1023
But people are so busy, they just don’t see the money coming back.
Mrs. Chen and Uncle Chen, too, didn’t think much of it.
Just think of it as the kid growing up and having his own little mind, and they don’t object if he wants to save some money for himself.
So, it’s surprisingly not much of a question about his finances these past two years.
Some time ago, Zhou Lizhen listened to her friends and cast several big-budget films in one go.
Unexpectedly, the film suffered a series of flops, and in the end, let alone making money, it didn’t even get its money back.
His company was already short-lived, so where could he afford to go through this?
He was tens of millions of dollars in debt all at once, and in order to save face in front of his family, lest they find out about his financial situation, he also insisted on not borrowing money from the bank, all looking for private loan sharks.
Interest rates for loan sharks are naturally high.
At first, Zhou Lizhen was able to bite the bullet and pay it back, but when he got to the back, the profits were higher and higher, and he gradually couldn’t pay it back.
By this time, the friend who had introduced him to the movie and the loan he was taking out reveals their true colors.
They kept forcing him to pay his debts, threatening to make a mess of him if he didn’t.
When did Zhou Lizhen experience something like this?All at once, I panicked.
He tried to explain to the others a hundred times, but they were obviously prepared, so where would they listen to him?
In the end, not only did they take all of his belongings, but they even took his girlfriend.
Claiming that if he doesn’t come up with the money soon, they’re going to make him regret it for the rest of his life.
Zhou Lizhen and his girlfriend, who had been dating for three years, had been in a deep relationship since school.
Knowing that his girlfriend, Xue’er, was in their possession, Zhou Lizhen panicked all of a sudden, but he couldn’t get so much money out at once.
Originally, he was thinking that if he couldn’t do it, he would ask his aunt for their help.
But just then, the other side made a condition.
They said that if he could steal the piece of jade from his aunt’s hand and give it to them, they would let him off the hook for a while.
That jade pendant, Zhou Lizhen has seen it before, self-conscious that it’s not too rare of a contraption, looking at the colour, take it out to sell, at most several hundred thousand.
So he agreed without even thinking about it.
Today, he had originally wanted to take the jade out quietly while Uncle Chen was at the banquet, but he hadn’t expected to be caught before he was able to make a deal.
Thinking of this, Zhou Lizhen was a little dejected.
After hearing this, Uncle and Mrs. Chen were furious.
“Why didn’t you tell home when something so big happened?How well can you handle that yourself?”
Zhou Lizhen hung her head, not speaking.
Mrs. Chen asked, “Did you give that to someone?”
“Not yet.”
“Where’s that thing?”
This time, Zhou Lizhen stopped talking.
Obviously, he doesn’t want to put anything out there right now.
When Uncle Chen saw this, he was about to get angry, but was stopped by Biden Lu.
Biden Lu looked at him and said, “You can’t be naive enough to think that you’ll be able to bring things out again after you enter here today.”
Zhou Lizhen shuddered slightly at the news, her fingers subconsciously squeezing her trouser pockets.
Then, looking up at Biden Lu, he looked miserable, “But Xue’er is still in their hands, I can’t let anything happen to Xue’er.”
The Chen couple’s faces became even uglier at the news.
“Even if she’s in trouble, don’t take this out!Besides, how did you know you had anything to do with her kidnapping?Maybe she had offended someone herself?That girl is not an honest person, so don’t be foolish enough to be fooled by her.”
Mrs. Chen also said in a soft voice, “If you really can’t, you can think of another way to save her.”
Jenny was very keen to see that they didn’t seem to like the girl called Xue’er very much.
But those things are out of her hands.
She just said in a deep voice, “Young Master Zhou, if you’re willing to give us your stuff, how about we help you get your girlfriend out?”
Zhou Lizhen looked at her suspiciously.
“How are you going to save it?”
“Don’t worry about that, we naturally have our ways, you just give us the stuff.”
“No.”Zhou Lizhen immediately became alert and stared at them fiercely.
“What if I give you guys something and you don’t help me save someone?”
When the Chen couple saw this attitude of his, they were furious.
“What are you babbling about?Would they lie to you?Who are you to talk to people like that.”
Zhou Lizhen was instantly shocked.
At this time, Kepler stepped forward.
“Lizhen, you don’t believe them, trust me?”
Zhou Lizhen looked at him.
He did know Kepler, after all, when he had just started a film company over here before, he had encountered a little trouble and it was Kepler who helped him out.
So he hesitated and nodded.
“If you believe me, then you’ll bring the stuff out, you can suspect people will lie to you, I’m not going to lie to you.”
I have to say, when Kepler said that, Zhou Lizhen really believed a few of him.
He looked at Kepler with some uncertainty and tried to ask, “You promise?”
“I promise.”
“That’s…okay.”
He clenched his fingers, half-heartedly, before pulling the jade pendant out of his pocket.
Kepler took it and handed the jade pendant to Gu Si Qian.
Gu Si Qian was busy looking at it, and sure enough, it really was a heavenly book of jade.
He nodded towards Kepler, who then let his men out and sat back down on the couch next to him.
Long legs folded over each other and looked up at Zhou Lizhen.
“Now you can tell us what the group of people who pressed you for the debt were like, who they were, and how they kidnapped your girlfriend, one by one.”
In the next few moments, Zhou Lizhen described to him the identities of those people and the location where they had negotiated the deal.
After Kepler heard this, he immediately called and ordered someone to do it.
In their eyes, it wasn’t a big deal, and it didn’t even require him to do it himself.
It was only because the people hadn’t been rescued yet that they were inconvenienced to leave so as not to make Zhou Lizhen doubt their words, so they sat here together and waited.
Kepler’s men quickly checked out the other party’s whereabouts.
They were instructed to save people and nothing else, so they also really didn’t care who those people were.
Zhou Lizhen originally had some doubts about him.
But it wasn’t until his own phone rang and he personally heard Xue’er’s familiar voice from across the street that he believed that Kepler hadn’t lied to him and that he had really rescued the person.
Zhou Lizhen was so excited that he stood up as he asked the other side about the situation.
The Chen couple, however, did not look too good.
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