Hu Meizi

Chapter 117 Big Shuffle

110 four.

Three days before the trial, when Du Shaoyu was supposed to be in custody, he disappeared.

The people in his company didn't know the situation. The life assistant said that he didn't arrange the recent itinerary. The housekeeper of Du's house also said that he didn't know where Mr. Du had gone, and his whereabouts were often uncertain.

There was a lot of chatter, some people said that he absconded in fear of crime, some said that he had already flown back to the United States, and some said that he hadn't seen him at all in the past few days.

People in City C who received the news were secretly guessing, where did Du Shaoyu go?

When Sun Du got the news, he was having breakfast with Xie Tang.

Hearing this, he stopped to stir the oatmeal with a small spoon in his hand, raised his head and exchanged a glance with Xie Tang.

Just like ordinary people.Sun Du was also a little surprised, because even if Du Shaoyu was convicted, it would not be serious. He hired the best lawyer to defend himself, and he only spent two or three years in it before he came out. There was no need to disappear.

But after being surprised, Sun Du felt that it should be taken for granted. In the dark, he didn't tell anyone, and he probably guessed what Du Shaoyu did.

In order to ensure the normal hearing, the search team worked nonstop for 36 hours, and finally found Du Shaoyu in the basement of a villa under his name.

Du Shaoyu's basement is very special.

It's like a collection room for old utensils.

In the basement, there are white crystal boxes, which are laid out one by one, and many obsolete things are listed.For example, a slingshot with a broken handle, a few broken glass marbles, a half-used box of matches, and a football that has lost its air...

In the middle of these things, in a large crystal coffin, there is a photo that is not too big or too small.

The photos are in color, but the pixels are not very high.

The search team recognized that the person above should be a photo of Du Shaoyu and his father Du Yuxing.

When Du Shaoyu was six years old, Du Yuxing died in a sudden fire in the place where he lived when he was on a business trip.

The search team broke through room by room, searched, and finally found Du Shaoyu in the innermost study.

He was dead, his body was cold.

A pistol fell to the ground.

He sat on the leather swivel chair in the study, with his mouth slightly open, blood spurted everywhere, staining the seat, the corner of the curtain behind, and the wall next to it.

No one figured out why.

But Du Shaoyu committed suicide by swallowing a gun.

He died without glasses and without smiling.

His eyes were open, staring straight at the direction of the door, with a peaceful and calm expression.

When the search team entered this room, they were shocked to see him like this.

After the last round of evidence collection, it was still determined that Du Shaoyu committed suicide.

Because Du Shaoyu's relatives were few and far between, the hospital that collected his body had no choice but to call his ex-wife Li Yu and ask her to come and collect the body.

When Li Yu received the call, he couldn't believe his ears.

For a long time, in her heart, Du Shaoyu, who was tall, powerful, strategizing, and inconspicuous, committed suicide? ?

This news shocked her, and made her forget about Mrs. Fang's domineering and shrill scolding next to her.

After a long time, when Mrs. Fang was so tired of shouting all by herself, she stopped to take a rest, and the living room of the cheap house they rented was quiet and there were no other sounds, Li Yu came back to her senses.

"Brother Yu, committed suicide...?" Li Yu dropped the phone and sat down on the ground slowly.

She always thought that her husband would solve all the troubles as he promised her at the beginning, and then pick her up, and they continued to live in the United States.

It's all gone now.

The husband she relied on for the second half of her life died, and the father she relied on for the first half of her life was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Li Yu was stunned, losing all expression on his face.Her mother taught her to be a stupid woman, but no one taught her what to do in such a situation.

Mrs. Fang, who was nearby, also panicked when she heard the news muttered by Li Yu.

Originally, she planned to wait for Li Yu's husband to come out, rely on Li Yu, and make a good fortune - anyway, she thinks that Du Shaoyu is gentle and elegant, as long as she is ashamed, she may not have a good life.

Unexpectedly, her only way out was gone.

Mrs. Fang was at a loss for a while, she asked her own daughter Li Mei, who had been silent behind her, for help in panic, "Mei Mei, what should we do, mother and daughter?"

She was out of breath for a while, and sat on the ground crying like a spoiler, "Damn God, why don't you give our mothers a way to survive—"

Li Mei looked at Mrs. Fang quietly.

After a while, she asked softly, "Mom, don't you really know why?"

Mrs. Fang looked up at her own daughter in astonishment. Li Mei had a creepy smile on her face, but her eyes were full of numbness.

Mrs. Fang looked at her, she was shocked, as if she was meeting her daughter for the first time.

She stared at Li Mei for a long time, and suddenly lost her voice.

The second trial was postponed.

This was not simply because of the death in the defendant, but after Du Shaoyu's death, his subordinates lost their restraint and began to be impatient, fighting each other and grabbing the territory.

This revealed a lot of things.

This gave the investigation team, which has been carefully collecting evidence, a breakthrough.

In order to catch them all as soon as possible, the second trial was postponed directly.

In the end, the second trial was scheduled to start on the seventh day of the first lunar month, when the Spring Festival was almost over.

This year's Spring Festival really made people in the elite circle in C city panic.

Even the New Year's Eve dinner, many families don't have a big deal, and they just huddle quietly in the ancestral house and eat a meal.

Except for some ignorant children who were having fun with fireworks and firecrackers as always, the adults basically gathered in the study room, discussing matters with frowning faces or dignified expressions.

Once Du Shaoyu died, the overall situation was basically settled.

When the overall situation is settled, some families are happy and some are sad.

Those who are on the right team are naturally happy, those who are on the wrong team are naturally sad, and those who are on the neutral side don't have much to lose, neither sad nor happy, just envious of those who gain power because of it.

Among them, Sun Du really did what he started from the beginning, and he promised Xie Tang "get the biggest share of the pie".

The Du family, the Li family, the Jiang family, and the Fang family's properties left in City C are almost all acquired by the Xie family—it cannot be said to be the Xie family, it is more appropriate to say that it is Xie Tang's Xie family .

"What is this?" Sun Du took the package handed over by the butler, and asked Xie Tang who was reading the newspaper on the sofa with some doubts, "I remember I didn't buy anything online? Is it a letter from Natalie?"

Sun Du knew about the Bute family's special hobby of writing letters.

This year's New Year's Eve alone, he and Xie Tang have received many letters from the Boot family.

He walked over and sat beside Xie Tang.

Xie Tang glanced at the tightly wrapped package in Sun Du's hand, and shook his head, "Natalie's letter has already arrived, and she likes to use parchment for her envelope."

They have already collected a whole bunch of words about Spring Festival blessings, so it is somewhat strange that such a long-overdue letter comes.

The atmosphere of the new year in the house is not strong. At most, the housekeeper ordered the red carpet to be changed, and two red lanterns were hung at the entrance of the mansion. Apart from that, there is nothing else.

Xie Tang and Sun Du don't have any special feelings about the Spring Festival. This year, the Xie family has undergone major changes. Without Xie Tang's leadership, no one dared to rush out to organize the family banquet.

As for Sun Du, it was because he didn't really celebrate this festival. When Wu Moqing was around, it counted as a meal for them to eat dumplings. When Wu Moqing was gone, he was even less in the mood.

Therefore, Xie Tang and Sun Du rarely spent a leisurely Spring Festival together.

Sun Du shrugged, leaned his head on Xie Tang's shoulder, and tore open the outer shell of the package with his bare hands.

"Wow," tearing off the waterproof and rainproof shell on the outside, revealing the kraft paper cover inside, Sun Du raised his eyebrows and continued to tear.

"Du Shaoyu sent it to me?" Sun Du looked surprised, he took out the letter under layers of wrapping paper, and shook it at Xie Tang, "Why did he send me the letter?"

The envelope was neatly written with a pen, recipient: Sun Du... signature in the corner, sender: Du Shaoyu.

Xie Tang closed the newspaper expressionlessly.

"Take a look," he said.

As he said that, Xie Tang wanted to get up and go to the study, leaving Sun Du the space to be alone.

The predecessor's story is a story between Du Shaoyu and Sun Du. Out of respect, he should not participate.

But Sun Du held him back.

"Where are you going?" Sun Du asked with a smile, "Come and watch with me!"

As he spoke, he squeezed in Xie Tang's direction.

Xie Tang looked at him, Sun Du had an obvious teasing smile on his face, and he even blinked at him.

So Xie Tang sat back again.

Sun Du squeezed into his arms with a smile, and slowly opened the letter.