Chapter 459: Shattered Worldviews

24 hours to settle Old Lady Huang, I won't drag you down!

——This is Zheng Sanshui's promise.

To climb up, Zheng Sanshui is all talk, completely unaware of his own weight. Yet undeniably, his promise precisely hit Guo Lichun's psychological need.

The key human witness in the current "construction site homicide case" is in Fan Donglin's hands.

Like a sword hanging over Guo Lichun's head.

At this life-or-death juncture, Guo Lichun wants Zheng Sanshui this kind of ruthless, bottomless, dare-to-fight-and-kill tool.

Guo Lichun smiled and appreciated Zheng Sanshui: "What your father couldn't do, you do. Son follows father's trade, reasonable and justified. I have no reason to deny you; I must give you a chance."

"Thank you, Mayor Guo."

At this moment, Zheng Sanshui's excited expression, in Zheng Canghai's eyes, is merely arrogant ignorance.

Zheng Canghai seems to see his son turned into an ultimate idiot, this idiot, determined to push the Zheng family that raised him into an abyss of eternal damnation!

The idiot charges forward, nine oxen can't hold him back.

As a father, I can only sigh sadly: "Alas, the family gate is unfortunate! Heaven wants to destroy my Zheng family."

Powerless to turn the tide!

After returning home, Zheng Canghai gazed at the worth-over-hundreds-of-millions grand mansion, at every blade of grass and tree in the courtyard, at every lamp, wall, and antique inside the house.

This feeling!

Truly like Su Shi wrote in his poetry: "Worldly affairs are a great dream; life knows several autumn chills."

He called his daughter Zheng Qingxuan: "Quickly pack your things, my era has ended, we'll move elsewhere to live."

This low mood left Zheng Qingxuan astonished.

Zheng Qingxuan asked in surprise: "Dad, what's wrong with you today?"

"You told me to wash my hands in a golden basin, retire from the martial world, do good and accumulate virtue? I've already retired from the martial world." Zheng Canghai said.

Zheng Qingxuan smiled with relief: "Washing hands in a golden basin is good, why must we change residence?"

"Sigh……"

Zheng Canghai's this deep, prolonged sigh almost sighed out the feeling of "a family with a rebellious son, ages like Along night!", boundless desolation and sorrow, evident on his face.

He walked to the ancestral tablets.

He confessed before the ancestors: "Blame me for poor parenting, in earlier years I used any means to achieve goals, set a bad example for him, he followed suit from childhood, this is all my fault."

"You mean my brother?"

Thinking about recent events, Zheng Qingxuan already guessed at some inside story, but couldn't be sure.

She urgently asked: "What happened to my brother?"

"He's dead set on becoming the Dragon King, today he volunteered before Guo Lichun, foolishly offering to be Guo Lichun's executioner; I think I can't stop him."

As soon as Zheng Canghai finished speaking, Zheng Qingxuan widened her eyes in shock.

Zheng Qingxuan worried: "Is he planning to kill Huang Laotai's mother?"

"If he had half your wit, I wouldn't be so worried." Zheng Canghai sighed long and short: "Sigh! This is fate; actually, whether or not we kill Huang Laotai, I have no way out."

"……!!!"

Zheng Qingxuan frowned anxiously, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Zheng Canghai muttered to himself: "If Huang Laotai doesn't die, the construction site homicide case will be exposed. Guo Lichun is the mastermind, I'm an accomplice; when the time comes, we can't escape. If Huang Laotai dies, we're still stuck in deep mud, can't pull out. Sooner or later we'll fall into Fan Donglin's hands; that guy isn't a simple role, we can't outplay him."

"You mean Fan Donglin is the key?" Zheng Qingxuan pressed: "Is it just that as long as Fan Donglin lets you off the hook, you'll be safe?"

"Don't talk nonsense, how could he let you off? He only wants to press me to the ground and ride me." Zheng Canghai urged: "Hurry pack your things and follow me; hurry leave, only then can we survive."

"Dad, wait for me at home a moment."

"Where are you going? Come back, the time left for us to flee is already short, come back!"

"I'll be back soon."

Before the words finished, Zheng Qingxuan had already run out of the hall, insisting on not listening to advice.

Falling leaves return to roots, this is a thought ingrained in the Chinese bones. The older one gets, the more attached to the homeland. Father is already old, yet he must leave his hometown and go far abroad.

Thinking of these, Zheng Qingxuan felt uneasy.

She has a very simple wish: hopes her father can escape this fate of nearing sixty and leaving his homeland, so she plans to beg Fan Donglin for a high hand.

She also doesn't know if it will work, just holding a try-it-out attitude.

Thinking, as long as Fan Donglin is willing to show mercy and spare her father, even if she has to cut flesh and offer everything, ending up losing family and wealth, it's worth it.

She drove a Ferrari worth over seven million.

All the way wind-chasing and lightning-fast!

In just over ten minutes she arrived at Zhengtong Capital's headquarters, went upstairs alone to see Fan Donglin, but the front desk told her Fan Dong wasn't in the company……

Fan Dong indeed wasn't there!

Now Lin Dongfan is personally interrogating Old Lady Huang at Hai'an Guoji Dajiudian; Chen Shaokang, who just got promoted three levels, is accompanying the interrogation on the side.

This guest room has already been turned into a heavily fortified interrogation chamber.

From the door to the elevator, fire exit, corridor corners, every key position has sharp-eyed security guards standing guard, each stance firmer than a nail.

The air is filled with silent tension.

Inside the interrogation room, yet unaware this is an interrogation room, Aunt Huang is also nervous. But she isn't nervous because of the solemn interrogation atmosphere, but because she hasn't seen her son Huang Tao, feeling a bit anxious.

She anxiously asked Lin Dongfan: "Fan Dong, you said you'd bring me to see Taozi? Where is he?"

"Your eldest son Huang Hai is suspected of murder, still detained in the detention center. Your second son Huang Tao is suspected of abusing power, taking bribes, currently already arrested."

Before the Haishan series of major cases is closed, Lin Dongfan doesn't plan to let the old lady go.

Therefore there's no need to hide from her the fact that Huang Tao was arrested.

Lin Dongfan threw a set of photos of Huang Tao being interrogated at the provincial anti-corruption bureau onto the table: "Before the case is closed, you can only look at his photos."

Aunt Huang picked up the photo, looked at it, and was dumbfounded on the spot, her hands trembling.

She choked back tears and protested: "They must have made a mistake; how could my little Tao possibly be corrupt? He's been obedient since childhood, he could never do something like this."

"Obedient since childhood? Being obedient is right!"

"Your eldest daughter-in-law was forced by you and your son to hug her child and jump into the sea to kill herself! Your second son's wife was forced by you and your son to take her child and go work elsewhere!"

"The eldest took money to kill, and you wanted that heinous blood money, hiding it carefully in the cabinet!"

"With someone like you, Aunt Huang, what kind of good son could you raise?"

Lin Dongfan took back the photo with a cold face, spoke solemnly and sternly: "Whether Huang Tao embezzled or not, the law will give him a fair trial! Now tell me about your eldest son Huang Hai's affairs—on the night before the accident at the construction site, Zheng Canghai came to your house to see Huang Hai; what did he say to Huang Hai?"

"I... I don't remember..."

Aunt Huang's gaze wandered, her words halting, she didn't dare look Lin Dongfan in the eye.

"Obviously guilty!"

Chen Shaokang, who was taking notes beside them, tapped the table and warned Aunt Huang sternly: "Tell the truth! Don't think that if you say nothing, your son will be fine! Now not only is your son Huang Tao suspected of murder, you are also suspected of harboring and covering up! Bringing you here today is to give you a chance to confess and receive leniency!"

That tap frightened Aunt Huang out of her wits, making her tremble and shed tears.

Aunt Huang cried out in anguish: "It's all that heaven-taken Zheng Canghai who ruined our whole family!"

She lowered her head and wiped away a tear.

She continued: "That night he came to see my son, saying Mayor Guo wanted to establish authority, wanting my son to operate the crane and cause an accident, preferably resulting in death; if someone died, he would give my son two hundred thousand."

Lin Dongfan pressed: "What else did Zheng Canghai say?"

"He said a lot more; he told my son not to worry, saying Mayor Guo would protect him if anything happened." Aunt Huang wiped her tears and angrily cursed: "These beasts are all liars; they tricked my son into killing!"

"You said Zheng Canghai gave your son two hundred thousand, so why is there only one hundred thousand here?"

Lin Dongfan threw a black plastic bag onto the table, the bag still stained with greasy fingerprints; it was taken from Aunt Huang's house and contained cash.

Aunt Huang looked at the black bag and replied weakly: "My son isn't home; I feared thieves, so I kept the other hundred thousand in a jar, buried in the courtyard..."

"Why didn't you bury that hundred thousand?" Lin Dongfan asked curiously.

Aunt Huang said: "My eldest and second sons have no sons, the Huang line is ending. I originally wanted to give this hundred thousand to my second son, telling him to divorce Miao Cuicui and buy a wife who can bear sons."

"......!!!"

Such shocking values left the well-informed Lin Dongfan stunned, eyes wide, wanting to punch him.

Using murder money to buy a daughter-in-law to continue the Huang lineage.

How vicious this is!

Lin Dongfan, suppressing anger, asked: "If she can't bear a son, how is that her fault? You're a woman too—how dare you put a shit pot on her head, don't you think that's excessive?!"

"I didn't put a shit pot on her head; she's the problem!" Aunt Huang swept her sleeve, wiped a tear, and emphasized firmly and angrily: "Back then I gave birth twice, both times to sons! She can't bear a son, so she's the problem, almost causing our Huang line to die out! Now that she's gone, it's better—I don't have to chase her away."

At that moment Lin Dongfan really wanted to say: "Your family ending its line—heaven cannot tolerate it!"

But his position didn't allow him to be so unrestrained.

Just then……

Lao Ba suddenly pushed the door open a crack, standing outside to relay: "Fan Ge, Yu Youwei called, saying Zheng Canghai's daughter wants to see you, she's lingering at the company and won't leave."