Chapter 199: The Middleman

Even at this very moment, Jin Yan's eyes still hadn't lost the shrewdness of a businessman. He weighed the pros and cons and said: "I just bought low-priced diamonds from Su Jing. I didn't kill anyone. This, this isn't illegal, right?"

"Leniency for confession." Qi Fei said those four words again.

"Murder will lead to a firing squad..." Jin Yan muttered, as if convincing himself. "I didn't kill anyone..."

"What exactly happened on March 24th?"

"In Nancheng, we have a circle of people who play with jewelry. Everyone knows Su Jing. You can buy loose diamonds with a very high cost-performance ratio from her. I import goods from her, design and package them, and then sell them to those rich people. I can make a lot of money in one go..." Jin Yan swallowed his saliva. Human psychology is very strange. No matter how much one covers up before, when one intends to confess, one becomes wordy and detailed. "Before, I always went directly to her clothing store to get the goods.

I never asked where her goods came from. According to the normal market conditions, the quality and the quote of her diamonds must be a loss.

Some things, we guessed, but we couldn't break them, right?" Jin Yan said, looking at Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu, as if looking for approval.

The only response he got was two expressionless faces.

He took a snub and had to continue: "In the past two years, Nancheng has been checking this aspect strictly. I heard in the circle that several people who were too high-profile have already been arrested.

This person Su Jing is very careful and deleted many clients.

People like me belong to the big clients. She contacted me and said the way of trading had to be changed.

This kind of online contact is easily monitored, so it must be an offline transaction.

She said she found someone at the airport and told me to wait for that person's message and do as told.

One day I received a call from a strange number, saying he was a ticketing manager introduced by Boss Su, asking if I wanted to book a flight.

I knew what was going on as soon as I heard it, so I followed his words and chose the shortest flight.

That's how I met this Chen Hao.

When I saw this person at the airport, I was quite surprised. Su Jing actually found such an honest person.

Damn it, thinking about it later, she really found the wrong person.

This person is not reliable at all.

Let's not talk about the person's problem first.

Let's talk about Su Jing's method, which is not bad, because Chen Hao picking me up at the airport didn't look like there was anything wrong. There was plenty of time to talk along the way, and the airport was so noisy that no one cared what we said.

At first, it felt pretty good. He was familiar with the airport and would take me to the vicinity of that restroom in Zone F every time. There was no surveillance in the restroom. Every time, we would choose a cubicle. He would go in first, and I would pretend to queue. After he finished, I would go in, and Su Jing's goods would be placed inside.

It was usually disguised as ordinary crafts or daily necessities. The diamonds were mixed in a pile of glass beads and artificial diamonds. Even if others found them, they would only think they were worthless things.

I was responsible for giving him the cash for the transaction while handing over the luggage.

This person was indeed honest. Every time, he only took the agreed portion of the commission and kept the millions of dollars, as agreed, waiting until Su Jing returned to the country next time to hand it to her.

This way, there was no need to go through customs or bank transfers.

As for me, I would take the diamond, go around outside, and come back. Anyway, everyone got what they needed.

I even thought I was overthinking it. It was thanks to Chen Hao being honest. If he were even a little greedy, seeing this cash of several million, wouldn't he have had crooked thoughts?

This matter, it's often like this. Once you relax, eh? Something is bound to go wrong.

On March 24th, like the previous few times, I spent 500 yuan to buy a ticket to Baicheng. When I arrived at the airport, I went to Zone F with Chen Hao to "go to the restroom."

After I went in, I saw the makeup box placed on the phone holder.

I knew this was Su Jing's goods. The problem is, who am I? The most awesome jewelry expert in Nancheng. Damn it, I didn't even need to verify it specifically. The rhinestones on this plastic box, to put it nicely, were rhinestones; to put it bluntly, they were glass beads. It was fake at a glance.

They weren't even worth 20 yuan in total.

This Chen Hao was playing the pig to eat the tiger. After a long time, he didn't look down on those millions of goods and was waiting for this ten-million-dollar order!

I was furious. There was no sign of Chen Hao in the restroom. I thought something bad had happened. Could this guy have taken the diamond and run away?

I rushed out of the restroom in a hurry and saw Chen Hao pushing my suitcase outside, pretending to wait for me.

This is what you saw in the surveillance later. I threw that broken box at him, not caring about surveillance or anything, and asked him where the diamond was.

Damn it, he was still playing dumb with me, saying that this was it, and that this was what he got from Su Jing.

I argued with him a few times, saying that what was on this was glass beads, and not to treat me like a sucker.

He even pretended to look at it a few times, knowing he couldn't deny it, and acted surprised, saying it had been swapped and that he would definitely find it back.

He was adamant, saying it as if it were true.

I was furious at first, but then I thought, didn't I only pay a deposit? Wouldn't it be over if I asked Su Jing to get it back later? The major loss wasn't on Su Jing's side, so why was I arguing with this Chen Hao?

Thinking this way, I didn't bother with him anymore and said that anyway, Su Jing would ask him for this ten million. I left those words and walked away.

When I left, he was still acting, saying he could definitely find it back and give me an explanation." Speaking of this, Jin Yan guaranteed repeatedly, "This was the last time I saw Chen Hao. I didn't kill him.

You should understand after hearing this. The person most likely to kill him isn't me, it's Su Jing. You have to find Su Jing. Why are you looking for me?"

Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu looked at each other. If they hadn't already investigated the process of Chen Hao losing the diamond, they might have actually believed that Chen Hao had embezzled it, based on Jin Yan's vivid account.

Qi Fei knew that Jin Yan wasn't lying; he was just measuring Chen Hao by his own standards and judging him by his own way of doing things.

"Someone did indeed take the wrong thing at the airport and took away the loose powder box embedded with the real diamond," Qi Fei said to Jin Yan. "It sounds bizarre, but it is indeed a fact. Chen Hao didn't embezzle your goods."

"Ah?" Jin Yan was stunned. "Then, then the diamond..."

"Chen Hao did indeed try very hard to find the lost diamond. He was just one step away from finding it before he died," Qi Fei said.

"One step away, does that mean you know where the diamond is?" Jin Yan couldn't help but ask eagerly. Once the words were out, he immediately made a 180-degree turn and started fawning over them. "Of course, this has nothing to do with me anymore. It should be turned over to the public, turned over to the public, hehe..."

He smiled fawningly at Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu.

The response he got was still two expressionless faces.

Having his warm face pressed against a cold butt, Jin Yan pursed his lips: "All in all, the person with the most reason to kill Chen Hao must be Su Jing. The loss of ten million must have driven that woman crazy, right? By the way, have you looked for Su Jing? She should know more about Chen Hao's situation, right?" ===== CHAPTER 200 =====