After making an appointment with Lu Yuan, Mu Qian was still sitting in the office, lost in thought.
After a while, Mu Qian picked up the phone again, dialed Rong Heng's number, and said straight to the point: "Are you free tonight? I'll treat you to dinner!"
"Tonight?" Rong Heng was slightly surprised, but still said, "I have work on hand, I'm afraid I won't be able to get off work on time."
Mu Qian said: "It doesn't matter. It'll be later. I'll just wait for you. About what time?"
"Maybe around eight o'clock." Rong Heng replied, and then said alertly, "What do you want?"
Mu Qian burst into laughter and said, "We are eating and chatting, what can happen? Don't think too much, just come."
Rong Heng snorted slightly and hung up the phone without comment.
At seven o'clock in the evening, Mu Qian appeared at the Midsummer Club on time and was enthusiastically introduced by the waiter to the riverside box she had designated.
After several bodyguards came in and inspected the room, they all left, leaving Mu Qian alone in the box.
After sitting quietly for a while, Mu Qian stood up, walked directly to the corner, stood on a chair, and covered the camera.
Then, she turned around and walked to the corner on the left, lifted up the huge pot of floor plants in the corner, reached into the basin and touched it, and sure enough, she touched something.
The moment she took out the thing, the corners of Mu Qian's eyes twitched slightly.
It's a blood-stained micro USB drive.
Mu Qian was squatting there. Before she could move, the sound of opening the door suddenly came from behind her. She immediately stood up and turned around to see Lu Yuan.
As soon as Lu Yuan entered the door and saw her standing next to the green plant, he couldn't help but ask, "What are you doing?"
"Nothing." Mu Qian walked back to the dining table and wiped her hands with a paper towel, "That plant is quite beautiful, let's study it."
Lu Yuan frowned slightly and didn't ask any more questions.
Mu Qian put the USB flash drive into her handbag, ordered a few dishes at random, and then looked at Lu Yuan, "What do you want to give me? And you specially invited me to dinner?"
"I didn't give it to you." Lu Yuan replied, opening his handbag and saying, "Dad asked me to give it to you."
Mu Qian took a light-colored envelope, opened it, and saw several photos.
There are four people in each photo - Lu Yuchuan, Sheng Lin, Lu Yuan and her.
In each photo, Lu Yuchuan and Sheng Lin looked like they were when they were young, with different postures, while she and Lu Yuan looked like each other at different times, some when they were three or four years old, some when they were seven or eight years old, and some when they were seven or eight years old.
There are pictures of him when he was a teenager and what he looked like when he grew up.
This is a family portrait, a family portrait completed through post-production.
But this photo was made very naturally, without any trace of Photoshop, as if it was really a photo taken by their family of four.
Mu Qian silently looked through the photos in her hand without saying anything.
"It's a bit silly, isn't it?" Lu Yuan said, "I didn't expect dad to do this, but he did it really well, as if it were real."
Mu Qian quietly stroked the photo in her hand. After a long time, she just said: "Mom is so beautiful."
"Yes." Lu Yuan said, "Fortunately, there are photos left so that we can see what our mother looks like. My father said that I would like to take another series of photos when I have the opportunity. When the time comes, I will add my mother to it, and it will be more natural. That's it.
I don’t know when you will have time...or if you are willing to take pictures."
After hearing this, Mu Qian stared at Lu Yuchuan in the photo in silence for a long time, then put down the photo and stood up, "I'm going to the bathroom."
She turned around and walked into the bathroom, silently washing away the inconspicuous blood stains on her fingertips. After a long time, she raised her eyes to look at herself in the mirror.
At the same time, in a deep and quiet office, someone was also looking at her.
Lu Yujiang stared at Mu Qian on the computer screen for a moment. When his eyes fell on the silent Lu Yuchuan opposite him, he couldn't help but sneered: "You still love this daughter very much, but you chose today."
Show her those photos. But do you think, just based on those photos, she will change her original intention and come to our side?"
Lu Yuchuan smoked a cigarette with his eyes deep and did not look at the screen. He just said lightly: "What she will do will be decided later."
Lu Yujiang said coldly: "As soon as that little policeman steps into the range of Shengxia, I will make her disappear from Shengxia forever! When the time comes, just think that you have given birth to a daughter!"
Lu Yuchuan finally glanced at the screen.
On the screen, Mu Qian had already taken out the USB flash drive and reading device from her handbag.
Soon, Mu Qian saw the contents of the USB flash drive on the device in her hand.
It was a video of less than ten minutes, which was obviously copied from the car's driving recorder. In the video, two snow-white beams of light reflected figures in front of the car.
That's by the river.
In the video, several men were surrounding a woman in the middle. The woman struggled desperately, but in the end she did not escape the fate of being put into a sack.
The moment several people pierced the sack, Mu Qian saw the woman's face.
Cheng Huiru!
Cheng Huiru has been missing for more than a month!
The group of people put Cheng Huiru into a sack, stuffed a few large rocks into the sack, and then threw the sack into the river.
The sack floated up and down in the river several times, then gradually sank and disappeared.
At the same time, a thin and tall figure walked past the car.
It was just a silhouette, passing by in a flash, but Mu Qian could still see clearly who it was.
Land and Sichuan.
This turned out to be a live video of Lu Yuchuan killing Cheng Huiru!
Mu Qian watched the video quietly and stood frozen in front of the sink, not moving for a long time.
Until Lu Yuan's voice sounded outside the door: "Qianqian, are you okay?"
Mu Qian came back to her senses, quickly put away the things in her hands, stuffed them into her handbag randomly, turned around and opened the door, "It's okay, my stomach feels a little uncomfortable."
"Then do you still want to eat?" Lu Yuan said, "I'll take you to the hospital for a checkup?"
"No, it's okay." Mu Qian exhaled slightly and said, "I made an appointment with Rong Heng to come here later."
Hearing this name, Lu Yuan paused slightly, "You still made an appointment with him?"
"Yeah." Mu Qian responded, and then said, "Why, you don't want to see him?"
"If you have something to discuss with him, then I'd better leave first." Lu Yuan said, "I'm not hungry anyway, and I have to go back to draw pictures."
While she was talking, Mu Qian's cell phone rang. She glanced at the caller and answered the call.
"Are you here?" Rong Heng said, "I'm going to get off work early, it's almost midsummer."
"Oh." Mu Qian responded, and then said, "I'm here, waiting for you."
Rong Heng listened and replied: "Ten minutes."
Mu Qian responded and hung up the phone.
In the previous office, after hearing Mu Qian's call record, Lu Yujiang raised his eyes and glanced at Lu Yuchuan. His slightly narrow eyes were full of determination to win.
Lu Yuchuan still didn't look at him, but quietly looked at the sporadic glittering river scenery outside the floor-to-ceiling window.
After Mu Qian answered Rong Heng's call, Lu Yuan insisted on leaving. Mu Qian couldn't stop her, so he let her go.
After Lu Yuan left, Mu Qian was the only one left in the private room.
She stood up, walked slowly to the window, and looked at the cold and dark river scenery outside the window, without moving for a long time.
A few minutes later, Rong Heng's figure appeared at the gate of Shengxia Club.
Almost at the same time, Lu Yujiang suddenly stood up and left the office.
Mu Qian stood by the river for a long time. When she finally heard movement from the house, she turned and looked at the door.
However, the door was closed as before, and no one came in?
So where did the noise she heard come from?
When Mu Qian turned around again and looked to her side, she saw a secret door opened on the innermost wall. Two men walked out of the door and rushed over to cover her mouth.
Nose, drag her into the secret door!
Two minutes later, Rong Heng's figure appeared at the door of the private room.
Wu Hao nodded at him and reached out to open the door for him.
As soon as the door opened, the room was empty as far as the eye could see.
Rong Heng couldn't help but paused and turned to look at Wu Hao, "Where is your wife?"
Wu Hao was stunned when he heard it, and quickly walked in to take a look, and then said: "Maybe it's in the bathroom."
After saying that, Wu Hao quickly walked to the bathroom door and knocked gently on the door, "Madam, are you in there?"
No one answered.
Wu Hao and Rong Heng looked at each other, couldn't help but change their expressions slightly, and knocked on the door again and again, "Madam, are you in there? I'm coming in!"
Still no one answered.
Wu Hao didn't dare to delay any longer. He opened the door suddenly and saw that there was no one in the bathroom!
Rong Heng was a little stunned for a moment, "Are you sure she's in there?"
"Yes." Wu Haodeng's face turned pale, "After Miss Lu Yuan left alone, my wife was the only one inside. We have been guarding the door, and she has never gone out at all!"
After hearing this, Rong Heng turned around and looked around in the private room. He took out his mobile phone and called Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan quickly answered the phone.
"When you left, was Mu Qian in the private room?" Rong Heng asked straight to the point.
Lu Yuan was slightly startled by his question, "Yeah...what's wrong?"
Rong Heng's eyes fell on an open window and he said in a low voice: "She is gone."
"What do you mean you're gone?" Lu Yuan's tone suddenly became urgent.
Rong Heng walked slowly to the window, looked up and down at the open window, and said slowly: "She has never walked out of the private room, but now she is gone. Only one window in the private room is open——"
In the previous office, Lu Yuchuan, who was sitting motionless across from his desk, suddenly froze slightly when he heard these words coming from the surveillance video.
The next moment, he suddenly turned the direction of the monitor, adjusted the monitoring angle, and faced the window in front of Rong Heng.
After seeing the open window clearly, Lu Yuchuan quickly adjusted back the monitoring content. After seeing Mu Qian clearly opening the window, he stood up suddenly and walked quickly downstairs.
In the dark room, Mu Qian was lying on the ground, one cheek slightly swollen, and her mind began to feel a little dizzy.
Lu Yujiang squatted in front of her, gently raised her chin, and said gloomily: "It's because you don't know what's good, so you can't blame me, my third uncle, for being ruthless."
As soon as he finished speaking, he put his hand firmly on Mu Qian's neck!
Mu Qian was robbed of all her breath in an instant and could not make a sound. She could only look at Lu Yujiang with difficulty, her fair face gradually turning purple.
The moment she was about to lose all consciousness, a loud "bang" suddenly came from the dark room!
Lu Yuchuan kicked open the door and walked in quickly. After seeing clearly the sobriety in front of him, he kicked Lu Yujiang hard on the back.
Lu Yujiang was kicked to the ground by him. When he turned around in shock and anger, Lu Yuchuan had already protected Mu Qian in his arms, "Qian Qian!"