Under the dazzling sunshine, an inconspicuous old fishing boat slowly docked at a small dock outside Kirov City amidst the noise of its engine.
When the engine turned off, Gorman handed a car key to Jima, "There is a mental hospital van in the parking lot, and there is a flight to Kazan this afternoon. I have bought the tickets for you, and you
All the communication tools are stored in that car. Olga and Olena, your cell phones and tablets are in the hands of your father. He will come to pick you up in person later."
"Aren't you going back with us?" Jima took the car keys and helped Maya step on the gangplank to the pier.
"I'm not going back," Gorman said and looked at Nineel, "What about you? Are you in a hurry to leave?"
"I'm not leaving," Ninel responded and jumped off the pier. "I'm going to see Uncle Leva. Friends, I'll see you again when we have the chance."
Before he finished speaking, he walked towards the road outside the parking lot with his hands in his pockets. At the same time, he said additionally, "Throw away my cell phone, it is useless."
"Hello!"
Olga jumped onto the pier and shouted. Seeing that the other party did not stop at all, she immediately ran after him with her long legs, opened her hands and stopped him in front of him, and then said something into the other party's ear.
After a moment's hesitation, Niner reluctantly took out an atomic seal from his pocket. Ignoring Ivan who happened to be driving the car into the parking lot, he grabbed Olga's little hand and stamped it on the veins of her wrist.
stamped, then threw the seal in his hand and walked out of the parking lot casually.
"It's over!"
Olena, who got off the boat a little later, patted her forehead and looked at her father who was trying to get out of the van, but was held down by Culp and Dalia on the shoulders. Then she looked at her father who was holding his hands.
Holding the wrist of her other hand, she had a silly smile on her face as if she saw her sister Olga at the wedding. In the end, she could only look at Wei Ran for help.
"I'll go back to Kazan and leave immediately."
After Wei Ran finished speaking, he didn't bother to say hello to Ivan, Culp and others, and urged Jima and Maya, who originally wanted to watch the excitement, to get into the van as quickly as possible before Ivan could shout out his
Before the name was heard, he roared out of the parking lot and drove away.
"Oliga, who was that bastard who dared to touch your hand just now!" Ivan, who was blowing his beard and staring, finally jumped out of the van.
"Dad, I think I'm going to fall in love."
The beaming Olga clasped her wrist and said sweetly, "I think I might have fallen in love with that weirdo named Nineel."
"you…"
Ivan was stunned for a moment, turned to look at Olena whose eyes were wide open in the distance, took several deep breaths, and finally said dotingly, "Good boy, get in the car quickly! Dad will take you to chase.
Fuck him! We invite him to our home!"
"You...what did you say?"
Olga, who had already summoned up all her courage and prepared for the worst, looked at her old father in disbelief.
"Invite him to our home and let your mother make him the best mushroom pie!"
Ivan confidently made his old father's promise, "Don't worry Olga, even if he is tied up, I will tie him up at home!"
Olga subconsciously glanced at her sister Olena behind her, then looked at their father, as well as Karp and Dalia who had gotten out of the car and were obviously watching the fun, and finally nodded excitedly,
He got into the car with a happy cheer.
"Do you know who that young man is?" Culp asked slowly, lighting a cigarette.
"Of course I know who that bastard is."
Ivan had already gotten into the cab as he spoke, "But no matter who he is, as long as my daughter really likes him, even if he is an alien, he must come and sit at home.
Okay, that's it! I'll take Olga to chase that bastard first. Olena, you and Dalia...Aunt Dalia go back together first."
After saying that, Ivan stepped on the accelerator, drove the tattered van, violently rushed out of the parking lot, and chased after Nineel.
Watching the father and daughter drive away, Culp also walked towards Gorman, who was still standing at the dock, and Daria, who had obviously put on makeup carefully, waved her hand to Olena who was left behind very gently.
, "Olena, we met at the beginning of the year, do you still remember it? Your mother Yana and I have been good friends for many years."
"Remember"
Olena stood on tiptoes and looked at the direction in which her father and sister disappeared, and finally stopped Dalia's arm affectionately, "Aunt Dalia, should we catch up and have a look?"
"Do you also like that young man named Niner?" Dalia asked with a smile.
"I'm not interested in that kind of weirdo." Olena shook her head without thinking, "I just want to see how stupid my sister is when she falls in love."
"In that case, let's go take a look!" Daria said, looking at Gorman not far away, "Are there any extra cars?"
"The key to the SUV on your left is inside." Gorman said from a distance, "Remember to drive it back to the mental hospital for me."
"Thanks"
After Dalia thanked her, she magically opened her satchel, took out a telescope and handed it to Olena, who had her eyes widened, "Take this, with it, you will definitely be able to see more clearly!"
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"Why do you still carry this kind of thing with you?" Olena took the telescope and looked curiously towards the end of the river.
"Get in the car first, and I'll explain it to you slowly on the way." After Dalia finished speaking, she helped Olena open the passenger door, and then walked to the driver's seat.
Watching the mother and daughter, who were related by blood, also drove away, Culp and Gorman, who were left behind in the end, looked at each other, and then both breathed a sigh of relief.
"Will they recognize each other?" Gorman lit a cigarette and asked a question he already knew the answer to. "Maybe, maybe not."
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Culp said ambiguously, "Before you are not sure how much information the bell ringer has leaked, stay away from your family, and your family will be safer."
"Culp, I have a question."
Gorman blew out a cloud of thick white smoke, pondered for a moment and then asked, "What do you think of this young man, Victor?"
"What do you want to express?" Culp asked with interest. "Is he really just an ordinary person?"
Gorman frowned and asked, "How long have we been looking for? How long has he been looking for? Half a month? I'm afraid it's less than half a month. And what happened to Comrade Apoli last time, Culp, I suspect he is behind it
Maybe there is..."
"Okay, we suspected this two or three years ago." Culp stopped Gorman's speculation. "I don't understand how he found it, but I can guarantee that he is indeed a nobody."
Ordinary people from any background. Or so to speak, at least for now, we are his background."
"So...he's a genius?" Gorman asked, frowning. "A genius in history and missing people?" "A genius in missing people?"
Culp laughed dumbly and shook his head carelessly, "Maybe, but it doesn't matter whether he is a genius or not, nor does it matter how he found them..."
"So about the bell ringer..." "He doesn't need to be involved in that matter."
Culp's tone and attitude immediately became more serious, "Not only him, but young people including Jima don't need to get involved. We can just do this kind of thing ourselves. What's more, Victor is not even a Russian.
No, there is no obligation to take risks for us. But Nineel, what is his condition now?"
"I'm probably still investigating on my own."
Gorman shook his head helplessly, "That little bastard's character is as stubborn and crazy as his mother. I just hope that he can live safely and not become a criminal wanted by the whole world."
"He is already an adult"
Culp sighed, "Okay, go and sit in your hospital. I haven't been here for a long time."
"Let's go." Gorman flicked the cigarette butt and pointed to the road in the distance, "My car was driven away by Dalia.
We can only take a taxi back."
"This pier used to be very prosperous..." Culp looked around with nostalgia and walked towards the road in the distance.
Just when these two middle-aged men, who together were almost a hundred years old, finally stopped a taxi and rushed back to the mental hospital, Jima also drove a van to the airport in Kirov, almost holding hands and waving.
Ticket boarded the flight to Kazan.
"Is Victor, Olga and Olena's father really that terrible?" Jima didn't have time to ask until the four of them walked into the boarding gate.
"Absolutely a hundred times scarier than you can imagine."
Wei Ran couldn't help but grinned and said with some gloating, "Look, our weirdo friend Ninel is probably going to be unlucky. Even if he is put into an oil drum and sinks into the bed of the Vyatka River, I won't do it.
strangeness."
"You should be lucky that my father would never do such a thing." Thorne hugged Jima's neck and gloated.
"Of course I believe that our father would never do this to me." Ji Ma said with a shy face.
"If you didn't call me something else, I'm not sure I would sink you in the river bed."
Maya gritted her teeth and looked at Jima, then glared at her brother Thorne, "And you! Whose side are you on?"
"Of course it's my good brother Jima's side," Thorne said, and he and Jima had already walked into the half-full cabin arm in arm.
We were chatting and laughing all the way back to Kazan by plane. After the flight landed smoothly in the heavy rain, not surprisingly, we received warm applause from all the passengers.
If he was lucky enough to get off the plane alive, Ji Ma naturally wanted to take his brother-in-law Thorne to his home for a sit-down. However, Wei Ran declined their family gathering and took a taxi alone back to his home on the shores of Kaban Lake.
But it was beyond his expectation. When he walked into the house in the rain, he immediately noticed that not only the sisters Suisui and Katenka who had followed the little rich woman Kouko to France a week ago were back, but Miss Kou Kou also brought them with her.
Her legal advisor Horta came back with her. Even Carlos’s lawyer, who had been sent away by Wei Ran, also came back!
However, these people are just like Lola and Sui Xin. Almost all of them have more or less notes on their faces, or they use various colors of lipstick to draw various shapes of little turtles and crabs.
Especially lawyer Carlos, who is nearly sixty years old. His upper and lower lips were painted in Death Barbie pink and gray and black with starry colors respectively.
Looking at the two mahjong tables set up in the lobby on the first floor, and the few lipsticks that belonged to unknown people in the hands of the young genius Korava, Wei Ran couldn't help but patted his forehead, "What are you doing?"
What are you doing?"
"It's raining and we can't go anywhere, so let's play mahjong together." Sui Sui, who drew a pink bunny on the left side of her face and a red turtle on the right side of her face, as if the turtle exempted herself from the referee's duties, explained happily, "By the way, that's the case.
Await your return."
"Waiting for me to come back?" "Aren't I just waiting for you to come back?"
Suisui pursed her lower lip, puffed up her cheeks and blew on the note attached to her forehead, "Uncle Carlos has been waiting for you for two days. If I hadn't called Aunt Anna every day, I would have known you at this time today.
If he could come back, he would have returned to the United States long ago."
"He's looking for me..."
"We can talk about it at the dinner table. We'll be waiting for you." After speaking, Suisui puffed up her cheeks again and blew off the three notes on her forehead in one breath. Then she continued cheerfully, "Anyway, it's quick.
Go take a shower and change clothes, and we’ll go to the basement to eat hot pot later!"
"It's done"
After hearing this, Wei Ran simply suppressed the doubts in his heart, briefly said hello to the returning lawyer Carlos, and then carried his small luggage upstairs.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! When he changed his clothes and came down, lawyer Carlos finally wiped off the various patterns drawn by Corava on his face.
"Why are you back again?" Wei Ran took advantage of the girls to go back to the room to touch up their makeup, sat down next to Carlos's lawyer, and asked in German.
"Remember the deal I mentioned to you last time?" Lawyer Carlos asked while teasing Colava, who was playing a finger-grabbing game with him. "
The business where the illegitimate son of a Vietnam War veteran comes back to fight for the family property."
"The rich man's wife you call Cinderella?" Wei Ran smiled, "Since you can appear here, does it mean that she has changed her mind?"
"Just four...well, it should be five days ago, her son was sued to court by another lawyer representing the illegitimate son on suspicion of paying a murderer, and the key evidence was also notified to several mainstream people.
media."
Lawyer Carlos said with a hint of schadenfreude, "Our Cinderella has been cornered and her glass slipper is about to expire."
"What happens after you find it?"
Wei Ran looked at Suisui who came down from the stairs, and asked in a low voice in German, "What if the investigation turns out that the illegitimate child is indeed the illegitimate child of the Vietnam War veteran?"
"Then it's none of our business."
Lawyer Carlos said bluntly, "We are only responsible for the legal part. In addition, although the investigation fee this time is not as high as last time, it is still 800,000 US dollars."
"The legal part?" Wei Ran smiled and asked more inquiringly, "What about the illegal part?" "Victor, my friend."
Lawyer Carlos stood up and said one last word in German before Suisui walked to Wei Ran, "I am a lawyer, and lawyers always stand on the side of legality."
"I don't guarantee that we will be able to find a result that satisfies Cinderella." Wei Ran also stood up and said in a very formal manner, "Just like lawyers always stand on the side of legality, historians always stand on the side of objective historical truth.
"
"I'm very happy that you can say that."
Lawyer Carlos's smile was full of confidence, "You only need to be responsible for finding out the historical truth, and leave the rest to me."
"800,000?" Wei Ran asked again. "Finding the historical truth is worth 800,000."
Lawyer Carlos paused and said, "Help our Cinderella keep her glass slipper, which is worth four million."
"Let me think about it first. Is it too late to make a decision tomorrow morning?"
"Of course, of course there's time." Lawyer Carlos nodded easily, took the umbrella from Lola, and walked out of the room into the rain.
"Do you know the purpose of lawyer Carlos' visit?" Wei Ran switched to Chinese and asked Suisui, who had washed his face and stood beside him.
"I know," Suisui nodded, "the story of an illegitimate son worth one million robbing the family property."
"What do you think?" Wei Ran asked Suisui with great interest. "Kama has found the illegitimate child," Suisui whispered into Wei Ran's ear.
"What did you say?!" Wei Ran looked at Suisui in surprise. "Really"
Suisui deliberately waited for Carlos' lawyer to go far away, and then she and Wei Ran walked into the rain holding an umbrella and continued to explain in Chinese, "On the day Carlos came, he explained the general situation of the incident and
We talked, and then Kamei hacked into the attorney's mailbox and easily found the location of the illegitimate child.
Hmm... maybe it's not that easy. Anyway, after working all night long, the little Cam girl told me early the next morning that she had roughly determined the location of the illegitimate child."
"So simple?" Wei Ran frowned subconsciously when he heard this. If it were so simple, that "Cinderella" might not have to ask for anything at all.
"Kama also thinks it's a trap."
The proud expression on Suisui's fair little face became more and more obvious, "So yesterday I asked for some information about the illegitimate child in the name of being your assistant, and then we discovered a big melon.
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"What the hell?" Wei Ran moved his umbrella closer to the other person's side, "Say what you have to say all at once."
"Kamei said that the illegitimate child was probably a fake, because she saw traces of disguise in several photos of him."
Suisui gave a thumbs up as she spoke, "At this point, I think you can completely trust Kamei's makeup skills and eyesight. In addition, she also investigated the Cinderella."
"What did you find?" Wei Ran asked.
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How did Carlos relate to the Vietnam veteran you described?" Suisui asked a question before answering.
"Let me think about it..."
Wei Ran slowed down slightly and recalled for a moment before replying, "Her husband participated in the Vietnam War and was a helicopter pilot. He was later captured. It was not until the second year after the Vietnam War ended that he came back intact."
"Although this is indeed the case, in fact, the Cinderella may have concealed a very crucial piece of history."
Suisui lowered her voice and said almost close to Wei Ran's ear, "According to Kamei's online research, Cinderella's husband is indeed a helicopter pilot, but the helicopter he drives is actually used to spray a kind of orange..."
Something like a potion."
"What did you say?!" Wei Ran's eyes immediately widened. "It seems you know that kind of thing."
Suisui didn't know whether she thought of something or shivered uncontrollably because the rain curtain made her feel cold, "Besides, Cinderella's husband returned to China in the second month after the war.
I have become an employee of Monsanto Company. You must also know about Monsanto, right? "
"I know." Wei Ran nodded, "That company is dumping genetically modified soybeans."
"That's the company"
Suisui simply stopped, hugged one of Wei Ran's arms, got closer and continued to share the information Anfiya had investigated, "Cinderella's prince worked at Monsanto for 11 consecutive years, and then left to set up his own company.
chemical company, and achieved financial freedom in a very short period of time, becoming a real millionaire."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After a short pause, she greeted Kou Kou and Anfisa with a smile, and then waited patiently for Anfiya to push Sui Xin.
He also walked over and then continued, "Last year, Bayer, which sells cockroach poison, acquired Monsanto. In the second month of this incident, the stock price of the girl's company doubled.
Then in the fifth month, there were actually rumors that the illegitimate child came to divide the family property, but this matter was quickly suppressed. At that time, the illegitimate child's nominal father, who was Cinderella's husband, was actually still alive.
, and live very healthily.”
"And then Cinderella's prince dies?" Wei Ran asked with a frown.
"right"
Suisui nodded, "Just last Christmas, the old guy passed away very suddenly, and he was cremated on the day of his death."
"There are a lot of stories here..." Wei Ran muttered with raised eyebrows, and then said, "Tell me what you think."
"I think it's best not to mix in."
Suisui expressed her attitude simply, "You, a little historian like you, can't even make a splash about this kind of fight between gods. And regardless of whether the illegitimate child is real or fake, if there is no point behind him
How could the people who supported him dare to jump out and fight for the family property?"
"So you rejected lawyer Carlos?" Wei Ran asked with interest.
"No!"
Suisui proudly gave a contradictory suggestion, "Promise him! Negotiate the price with him, talk about one million US dollars! Then we will go investigate!"
"just…"
"It's an investigation, and I didn't say that we must find out a result." Suisui smiled and thought about her little calculation, "It doesn't matter even if you can't find anything, but someone has offered you one million to investigate, just this
The gimmick is enough. Of course, don’t sign any confidentiality agreement this time like Mr. Dominic did that time.”
"Aren't you afraid of that Cinderella's revenge?" Wei Ran asked, dumbfounded.
"Even if we don't promote it, the other party will help us promote it." Suisui said confidently, "Anyway, as long as you don't produce results, they don't have to pay. And they are sure that they won't let you produce any results."
"Why?"
"It's just a bluff. How could he not know if Cinderella's prince had an illegitimate child? If he really didn't, how could he die so suddenly and burn so cleanly?"
Suisui curled her lips and explained with an example, "Just like those celebrities, if someone exposes their big melons, if it is a rumor
Naturally hard steel goes to the bottom, but what if it gets poked?
Their studio will say, "We! We have found some well-known big law firm to make preparations! We have called the police! You are finished! Just wait! We will sue you soon!"
"You can see clearly." Wei Ran shook his head dumbfounded. "Business is nothing more than a few tricks."
Sui Suihun said nonchalantly, "The first time I saw you use this trick for skydiving, it's a pity that you didn't scare Aunt Dalia and the others." You're just a little girl? You still want to scare them?
Wei Ran twitched the corner of his mouth, but he found helplessly that it seemed that this was actually the case! And Suisui's analysis made him see clearly that he could indeed take this job, but that
One million U.S. dollars is indeed a life that can be earned or spent.
But...
Wei Ran couldn't help but glance at the tattoo on the tiger's mouth on his left hand. It seemed that there was no way he could get it, but the bell ringer might just be able to meet and have a chat.
Thinking of this, he held Suisui's slim waist and walked towards the entrance of the basement and said, "In that case, should I go to the United States for a walk?"
"go together!"
Suisui raised her chin towards the entrance of the basement, "Sister Kou heard that we have a cooperative farm in the United States, and she wanted to take a look. If possible, she would like to hand over a large farm under her name to me.
Use whatever you want."
"That silly girl is about to be deceived by you, right?" Wei Ran shook his head helplessly.
"Sister Kou is much smarter than you think."
Suisui was extra serious this time, "She obviously doesn't want to be bound by that Elk Foundation for the rest of her life, so she wants to work hard to build her own business. Otherwise, why do you think she came to our house? Do you think she sees it?"
Fucked you?"
"Then we have to struggle for decades?" Wei Ran joked with a playful smile.
"No!"
Suisui glared at Wei Ran, then said with a smile, "But many people have struggled for decades and just found a place with good feng shui to plant you in one step!"
"Forget it, I'll just fight on my own."
Wei Ran wisely changed the subject before entering the basement, "When are we going to the United States?"
"How about the day after tomorrow?" Suisui asked with a smile, "We have already bought our tickets. We will go directly to Houston and Lawyer Carlos's law firm."
"The day after tomorrow will be the day after tomorrow!" Wei Ran nodded happily and agreed, but in his heart he began to look forward to what kind of story he would hear from the bell ringer.
