Chapter 2732

At nine o'clock in the evening, Wanliu Mountain Villa.

At this time, the An family had just finished dinner, and they were calling Ya Lin to join them in the living room to analyze the clues they had gathered in recent days.

The old master, An Qishan, had been staying in the villa without leaving these past few days, his physical condition had greatly improved, his memory had not only not deteriorated further but was gradually recovering the forgotten parts.

More importantly, as his condition gradually recovered, his entire way of thinking and logic had greatly improved, and he had regained the poise and vigor of his former strategic planning and commanding presence.

At this family meeting, An Chongqiu first introduced the progress of his cooperation with the Song Group.

An Chongqiu said: "Our cooperation with the Song family has now formally entered the negotiation process; starting today, both sides' legal teams are negotiating the details of the cooperation, mainly to finalize the specific terms of the cooperation; however, since our An family has come with twelve parts sincerity, the negotiation atmosphere is very harmonious, with no need to wrangle over details; as long as the terms are confirmed and the contract signed, we can immediately launch the cooperation."

The old master lightly nodded and said: "Looking at the current situation, this Song Group is of great significance to our An family; since the benefactor actively left this clue about the Song Group, he must not only want to convey some of his identity information through the Song family, but also want us to lend the Song family a hand."

Speaking, the old master glanced at his second son, An Fengfeng, and then said: "In principle, all of our An family's external business collaborations are handled by Fengfeng, but this time the situation is special; the cooperation with the Song Group is not purely a business project, but rather our An family using money as a stepping stone, and moreover, Chongqiu and the Song Group's Miss Song are old acquaintances, so this matter shall be handled by Chongqiu to see it through to the end!"

An Qishan has always pursued harmony and unity within the family, so he assigned different divisions of labor to his several children, making each person's authority clear and distinct.

The purpose of this is that when the children unite, they can permeate and assist each other at all levels; when they are not united, they can monitor and even check each other.

By letting An Chongqiu take charge of advancing the cooperation project with the Song Group, although he knows An Fengfeng has no objections, he still needs to clearly explain the reasons and rationale for doing so.

An Fengfeng naturally also knows his father's intention; fortunately, he has no displeasure about his elder brother taking charge of this project, after all, the An family children have always been very united; under the influence of the eldest sister, An Chengxi, in earlier years, the younger siblings had already become inseparable; although after each started their own families, they have somewhat dispersed the energy and time invested in each other, but the death of An Chengxi and the incident where the An family narrowly avoided extermination by the Po Qing Society have made the An family members even more united.

At this moment, An Fengfeng also cleared his throat and said: "Dad, these past few days, I have been with Youyou, carefully sorting out all industries in Jin Ling, especially the public transportation department, social welfare department, and household registration department from back then, but so far, we have not found any information related to Chen'er."

The old master lightly sighed; this result, he had also anticipated.

Beside him, the old lady An said comfortingly: "Fengfeng, you also don't lose heart; Chen'er has been missing for twenty years after all, it's impossible for us to find him in just a few days; before coming, I told you all that searching for Chen'er might well turn out to be another twenty years."

An Fengfeng slightly nodded and said firmly: "Mom, rest assured; in my heart now, searching for Chen'er has already risen to the top of all matters."

Beside them, An Youyou suddenly thought of something and said: "By the way, Mom, I discovered something rather strange, feeling a bit abnormal; you and Dad, as well as eldest brother, second brother, and third brother, please help me analyze it."

The old lady said: "Youyou, speak."

An Youyou said: "Today I investigated some conditions at the Jin Ling Fuli Academy; I wanted to check whether, among the orphans they have helped over these years, there is any information related to Chen'er; the Fuli Academy's archives currently yield no clues related to Chen'er, but strangely, Jin Ling Fuli Academy carried out a major staff overhaul last year, from the director down to the staff, even the chefs who specifically cook for the orphans, were completely replaced, with not a single old staff member left; I feel this matter seems a bit strange; normally, personnel changes in such welfare institutions are not surprising, but to completely replace everyone at once with a completely clean slate is rather puzzling; what do you all think?"

The old master, An Qishan, frowned and said: "A welfare institution, with its management and execution staff, even at minimum should have over a dozen or even twenty-plus people; even if the entire management layer were replaced, it shouldn't also replace the execution staff, after all, the welfare institution itself still needs to operate; doing so is clearly unreasonable."

An Youyou nodded and said: "I also think so; this kind of mass replacement clearly defies common sense, so I always feel that the previous batch of people must have collectively resigned for some special reason."

At this moment, Ya Lin, who had been distracted due to nervousness, suddenly had his eyes light up, delighted, and slapped his thigh: "Youyou's clue is too important!"

The old master smiled and asked: "Ya Lin, please give us your specific analysis."

Ya Lin looked at the old master's expectant gaze and immediately fell into struggle and hesitation.

He couldn't help but think to himself: "Mr. Ye said, tonight the An family might face danger; if there truly is danger, I believe Mr. Ye certainly would not sit and wait for death; that would also mean, once danger arrives, the An family members might very well have a chance to meet Mr. Ye; but, if tonight something changes, or if Mr. Ye tonight does not reveal his true face, then the An family wanting to recognize him would not be doomed to wait indefinitely?"

Immediately, he thought again: "Youyou this time has clearly grasped the key point, merely she hasn't yet figured out the relationship; if I follow her line of thought to remind her a bit, then even if Mr. Ye does not appear tonight, or continues to conceal his identity, following this Fuli Academy lead, finding him would probably be much easier! And I am merely guiding her with a few words on her viewpoint; Mr. Ye should not blame me for it, right?"

Thinking this through, Ya Lin made up his mind to give the An family some hints, and thus spoke solemnly: "You all have more experience in corporate management than I do; I believe you all certainly understand that such a top-to-bottom, thorough mass replacement, in any enterprise or any unit, is simply impossible to happen;"

"Even if this old team had extraordinary cohesion, it could not possibly achieve everyone from top to bottom being united as one; let alone a welfare institution, even a well-trained military unit would inevitably have deserters and traitors;"

"But like Youyou said, this team collectively resigned last year with not a single person left; upon deeper reflection, one can discover that this team's organizational discipline is extremely strong, possibly even having reached the standard of a quasi-militarized team; however, such a team cannot be forged without long-term, full effort; how could it possibly appear in an ordinary, commonplace welfare institution?" read book la

The An family members hearing this all nodded in agreement.

Ya Lin concluded: "So, in my view, this feeling is more like someone powerful behind the scenes is pushing it; if I haven't guessed wrong, this team must have been arranged here in its entirety by that powerful person, and then last year, they withdrew this team in its entirety from here; and their advancing and retreating together is very likely for the purpose of executing some major mission."

The old lady asked somewhat excitedly: "Ya Lin, do you mean this Fuli Academy might possibly be related to Chen'er?!"

Ya Lin nodded: "Yes, Auntie, I indeed have this suspicion."

An Chongqiu smacked his lips and said: "If we could find out when these people came to Jin Ling, that would be great; we can currently confirm that they left together, but we still have no evidence proving that they also came together."

"That's simple!" An Youyou excitedly said: "Check the previous team's social security records! The Fuli Academy is a public welfare organization, with government funding and private donations; such a unit requiring public supervision must have very complete personnel records; moreover, if they are truly as Ya Lin brother said, existing to execute some major mission, then they must ensure surface compliance and no loopholes, otherwise, once someone finds abnormalities in their personnel records, they would likely immediately detect the problem!"

Ya Lin praised: "Youyou's train of thought is very clear; finding a way to check the Fuli Academy's personnel records from before would probably reveal the clues!"

An Fengfeng excitedly said: "I will now have someone look into this!"

Having said that, he immediately took out his phone and made a call.

The old master, retired for many years, his former connections are dead, retired, old, or fallen; truly usable connections are now few.

While An Fengfeng, as the person in charge of all external business of the An family, has actually been handling the An family's affairs for a long time, so he is actually the one with the broadest connections and strongest influence in the An family today.

In other words, the old master is the An family's Taishang Huang, greatly revered, but An Fengfeng is now the Emperor of the An family, holding the mandate of heaven and earth.

After making the call, An Fengfeng said to everyone: "I have already had someone check; results will come soon."

Everyone present became extremely expectant.

Ten minutes later.

An Fengfeng received the call, he immediately pressed the answer button, turned on the speaker, and asked: "Azu, I had you check that matter; how did it go?"

The middle-aged man called Azu respectfully said: "Mr. An, I have just reviewed the personnel files of the Jin Ling Fuli Academy; their previous batch of staff indeed resigned together last year; as for when these people joined, it is not entirely consistent."

Upon hearing this, everyone felt a few points of disappointment; An Fengfeng pressed further: "Could you roughly introduce to me the employment situation of these people?"

That Azu said: "Mr. An, this Fuli Academy's organizational structure is extremely stable; it includes the director, teachers, aunts, and cleaners, totaling sixteen people; these sixteen people, the one with the shortest tenure has already been there for nearly twenty years; frankly, I have never seen such a stable team; in twenty years, not a single person added, not a single person reduced."

"Twenty years?!" The expressions of all An family members instantly froze!

This time point is too sensitive for them.

Because, the heavenly beauty An Chengxi and her husband Ye Changying, died in Jin Ling twenty years ago.

And their only son Ye Chen, also went missing twenty years ago……

Everyone felt that they had been searching the world with closed eyes for twenty years, and this time they seem to have grasped something.

Eldest son An Chongqiu urgently blurted out: "Please detail the employment times of these sixteen people!"

That Azu hurriedly said: "Among these sixteen people, fourteen joined in late winter February twenty years ago; while their former director Zhang Youde joined in autumn November twenty years ago; besides these fifteen people, the latest joiner, a female worker, joined in winter December twenty years ago; in three more months, it will also be twenty years."

The old lady An's expression changed dramatically!

She almost instantly burst into tears, chokingly said: "Chengxi and Changying came to Jin Ling from Yanjing in March twenty years ago, and their incident…… happened at the end of October…… Chen'er also went missing at the end of October……"

The old master, An Qishan, excitedly stood up, somewhat incoherently said: "This must be Changying's arrangement! He has always been skilled at preparing for contingencies; those fourteen people joined before he and Chengxi arrived, which proves that he had already begun laying out in Jin Ling before he even set out!"

Speaking, his voice grew more excited, trembling: "He must have known that his coming to Jin Ling with Chengxi would be more ominous than auspicious, so he arranged his own people into the Fuli Academy in advance; after he and Chengxi met with misfortune, the other side undoubtedly used a method rehearsed countless times in advance to send Chen'er into this Fuli Academy! For so many years, so many people have come to Jin Ling searching for Chen'er, but no one would have thought that he lives in Jin Ling, lives right under the eyelids of these people!"

Having said this, he felt deeply moved: "Who could have imagined that Chen'er, whom everyone dug three feet deep to find, was actually arranged into a welfare institution that shows no abnormality on the surface; this move not only can deceive all those searching for Chen'er, but Chen'er himself, probably, was also deceived for a very long time!"

An Laotai tearfully exclaimed, "That means Chen'er has been in Jin Ling all along, even right now in Jin Ling!"

Lao Ye Zi shook his head and poured a basin of cold water: "I can confirm Chen'er should have lived in Jin Ling for a long time; otherwise, the over ten people at Fuli Academy wouldn't have stayed here until last year's withdrawal, but whether Chen'er is still in Jin Ling now, I'm not sure—after all, those people left last year; could it mean Chen'er has also left Jin Ling?"

An Chongqiu blurted: "Dad, Mom! Tomorrow we'll follow the identities of these sixteen people and dig deep! If what you said is true—that these people raised Chen'er into adulthood—I refuse to believe we can't uncover Chen'er's whereabouts from them!"

"Yes!" An Chongqiu also exclaimed joyfully, blurting: "Tomorrow, oh no! Tonight I'll have someone provide all their materials right away!"

"Good! Good!" Lao Ye Zi also became emotional, tears streaming, murmuring: "Twenty years... my great-grandson, Grandpa finally found a clue to you!"

After speaking, he looked up and sighed: "Chengxi, Changying, you left a backup plan for Chen'er twenty years ago, yet you didn't even tell me—what in your hearts makes you distrust me so much?"

Just as Lao Ye Zi An Qishan sighed in regret, a sudden cry came from outside the window: "Assassins! Quickly protect the old lady!"

As the words fell, a clear, pleasant sword cry rang around the villa; in an instant, multiple people screamed simultaneously, and the smell of blood instantly enveloped the entire villa from all sides!

Li Yalin's heart skipped a beat, and he thought in shock: "The formidable rival Mr. Ye spoke of has truly arrived!"