OBS Chapter 424: Was the Answer Wrong?
Chapter 424: Was the Answer Wrong?
This association was like a moment of enlightenment for Chen Xiao.
Jiang Pinggui, this mason, might have built a warehouse for Ye Jiadong!
Back then, Ye Jiadong had already ventured into business.
The so-called venture into business could be explained in another way, which is engaging in trade.
What kind of business was he involved in?
Could his business possibly be connected to the small shop run by the Wu Family Sisters?
The only ones seemingly hard to find a connection with are the idle Wang Brothers.
But Ye Jiadong is from the Provincial City, possibly connected to him!
Although the question wasn’t completely answered, Chen Xiao felt very excited now.
He subconsciously glanced at Lin Xi.
He assumed Lin Xi should be asleep at this time, but unexpectedly, she was wide awake, looking at him.
"Honey, what’s with your expression? Could it be that... you’ve thought of something?"
Chen Xiao nodded, "You’ve been trying to find the connection among the six deceased, right?"
"Yes, wasn’t that mentioned before?"
"Then you must have arranged for people to investigate whether they had any correspondence back then, right?"
"Yes, we’ve already sent people to check, but there are no results yet," Lin Xi replied, getting out of bed:
"Don’t keep me in suspense, quickly tell me what you’ve thought of?"
"Hmm, have you speculated any connection between the Wu Family Sisters and Ye Jiadong?"
Chen Xiao didn’t directly answer but was leading into the topic.
Lin Xi understood his meaning and quickly replied, "Yes, both parties are in business after all."
"Alright, how did you get in touch with Jiang Pinggui?"
"This person cannot be linked to any others at all. During yesterday’s meeting, nobody discussed his issue because it’s too difficult."
"Okay, what place was mentioned in the record of Ye Jiadong’s daughter?"
This question instantly furrowed Lin Xi’s brows.
Of course, she knew Chen Xiao wouldn’t be interested in anything about the family or Ye Jiadong’s workplace.
But besides these places, what else did Ms. Ye mention?
Thinking this, Lin Xi’s eyes widened too, "Warehouse? Mason?"
Chen Xiao snapped his fingers, "Exactly, could the warehouse Ye Jiadong built in the Provincial City have been constructed with Jiang Pinggui’s involvement? Is that how they got connected!"
Lin Xi didn’t respond to Chen Xiao’s words again.
Because her mind was entirely shocked by such speculation.
Before this, anyone who heard about the warehouse would think it was a fortune Ye Jiadong fortuitously left for his children.
No one ever thought about the date and personnel involved in the warehouse’s construction.
Lin Xi could guarantee that no one in the special investigation team thought of this point!
This point was so simple that the warehouse almost reached a level where it went unnoticed.
But Chen Xiao thought of it!
This wasn’t because Chen Xiao was quick-witted; it perfectly demonstrated his panoramic view!
Lin Xi took a deep breath, dressed directly, and said, "Honey, we need to find Liao Group, then contact Ye Jiadong’s family to organize a review of the workers in the warehouse’s construction."
"I know, we need not only the Ye family but also to find Jiang Pinggui’s wife. Many masons tend to keep accounts, and Jiang Pinggui was one who entrusted every income to his wife, so we urgently need to get in touch with her."
Lin Xi didn’t have the contact information, but Liao Cheng did.
Without saying much in the room, they immediately went to find Liao Cheng.
Lin Xi knocked on the door, calling, "Liao Group, are you asleep?"
"Not yet, just lay down." Liao Cheng got up and opened the door.
Seeing Chen Xiao and his wife standing at the door, he was initially puzzled, then asked with pleasant surprise:
"Did you discover something?"
Lin Xi nodded, "Chen Xiao has a hypothesis linking Jiang Pinggui and Ye Jiadong. If it holds, we could identify the instigator of the six’s trip to Jingguang Mountain!"
"Connection between Jiang Pinggui and Ye Jiadong? What’s that!" Liao Cheng asked.
"The warehouse, the warehouse Ye Jiadong built! Jiang Pinggui is a mason!"
Liao Cheng frowned instantly, "Warehouse? What warehouse?"
"It’s what Ye Jiadong’s daughter’s record mentioned, the funding source for her and her brother’s business startup was a warehouse built by Ye Jiadong before his death. Later, when the warehouse was acquired, it compensated them with a sum of money!"
At this, Liao Cheng finally reacted!
Was it Liao Cheng’s bad memory?
Was it Liao Cheng not being sensitive enough?
None of that!
It was just because the warehouse appeared only once in the record, and those two words merely came out as an offhand remark by Ye Jiadong’s daughter during her recording!
If even such a casually mentioned point could be instantly correlated to being an important information point, Chen Xiao would also think the inquirer wasn’t just sensitive but had some sort of cheat code on.
Liao Cheng wasted no time saying more, immediately took out his phone, "So you’re here to get the contact details from me, right?"
This statement was sufficient to reveal Liao Cheng’s response.
Chen Xiao nodded, "Yes, I want to first contact Jiang Pinggui’s wife."
"Alright, I’ll dial, you ask!"
Liao Cheng didn’t say much more, finding Jiang Pinggui’s wife, Jiang Le’s mother’s number, to call.
After more than ten seconds, the phone was answered.
However, the woman’s first sentence was, "Officer Liao, why are you calling so late, is Lele alright!"
A woman widowed for over a decade, perhaps numbed to her husband’s death.
But there was still a deeply cherished person in her world.
That is her son, who came alone to seek justice for his father in front of the task force!
Liao Cheng replied, "Lele is fine, I’m calling you this late with a crucial question that needs to be asked by my colleague."
"Alright." The woman’s tone calmed down.
Chen Xiao took the phone, skipped the small talk, and went straight to the point, "In 1994, did Jiang Pinggui do any work in the Provincial City that you recall?"
"1994? The year before he had the incident?"
"Yes."
"I can’t quite remember, he often worked here for a period and there for a period, having been to too many places."
The woman’s words made Chen Xiao somewhat disappointed, but quickly from the phone it continued:
"But wait a moment, I’ll look for his accounting book. He had the habit of keeping accounts, and I’ve kept it since the incident."
Chen Xiao promptly agreed, hearing the sounds of rummaging on the other end.
After about two to three minutes of waiting, the woman’s voice returned on the phone:
"I couldn’t find it, there’s no record of him working in the Provincial City in his accounts."
Upon hearing this, Chen Xiao could already feel Lin Xi and Liao Cheng looking at him.
This led Chen Xiao to question himself: could his assumption be wrong in the ledger?
The unwillingness in his heart compelled Chen Xiao to ask further:
"Did he calculate the annual income?"
"Yes, he had a ledger every year. I used to complain he was fussy, saying just record each job well, why summarize each year. He said one shouldn’t be muddle-headed, and the money needs clear calculation to guard it well."
Chen Xiao exhaled, "Alright, can we get these accounts sent to us? We want to calculate for 1994!"
"No need to calculate, for all these years I’d recalculate every ledger whenever I miss him. Not to quibble over his earnings, but because calculating makes it feel like he’s still here!"
Speaking of which, the woman paused, then confidently said, "I can say with certainty, his every account in 1994 matched the annual income!"