Chapter 138: Extreme Tendencies
Chapter 138: Extreme Tendencies
When Ning Zhe was in elementary school, he heard such a story from his grandmother.
My grandmother’s family had a very promising cousin who only had a technical secondary school diploma, but he was very smart and had a fighting spirit.
In the early 2000s, he took 200 yuan and a few pieces of clothes and boarded a green train, heading south to the port city of Yanzhou. There, he worked and taught himself foreign languages. With the dividends of the times and his personal efforts, he successfully made a fortune and earned his first pot of gold by manufacturing cheap small appliances for foreigners.
At that time, the foreign economy was still booming. After successfully starting his own business, my grandmother's cousin returned home in glory and brought a few trusted brothers from the town to Yanzhou to continue to expand the original business. These people later made money, bought cars, built houses, and got married and started a family.
Everything was going well, but then, somehow, this cousin who started a business with his brothers suddenly became addicted to drugs. After becoming addicted to drugs, he, who was originally smart and confident, became listless. He made many mistakes and lost a lot of money. He even sold his RV to buy drugs. His wife couldn't stand his drunkenness all day long, so she ran away with the children.
Ning Zhe didn't ask what happened to his cousin in the end, but his grandmother said that her cousin didn't get addicted to drugs on his own. It was other families in the village who were jealous of his family's wealth. When his cousin returned to his hometown to donate money to the town to build roads, they secretly added something to the cigarettes he smoked.
A small boss who originally had a bright future became addicted to drugs, and the family business he had worked hard for in the first half of his life was destroyed, and his wife and children were separated.
Originally, Ning Zhe just treated this incident as a small story for safety awareness education, but who could have thought that the same story would happen to him.
The man who added ice to the wine seemed to be doing this kind of thing for the first time and had no experience. The dosage of the drug added to the wine seriously exceeded the standard, which made Ning Zhe easily smell the strange smell in it.
Even strong young people cannot withstand the damage to their bodies caused by psychotropic drugs, so how can two old and frail elderly people withstand such excessive dosage?
Seeing his grandpa and grandma collapse one after another, Ning Zhe was so anxious that he fainted. He subconsciously called Chen Yaming to call 120 for an ambulance, but he forgot that the house the old couple rented was next to the town clinic of Gubei Town.
Chen Yaming took out her cell phone and dialed the emergency number, then hurriedly ran out of the door and went to the clinic downstairs to call for a doctor.
Boss Chen was a middle-aged man in his prime, and he was busy talking, so he drank little wine. Two sips of the wine only made him feel drowsy and fell into a kind of hallucination that was half dream and half awake. However, the two elderly men who also drank were not so lucky.
As the doctor from the clinic hurried upstairs, Ning Zhe's grandparents passed away quietly in front of him.
They are dead.
Doctor Luo from the town clinic walked in, checked the two elderly people and found that they had no vital signs, and then began to induce vomiting in Boss Chen, who was limp in the chair. Not long after, the ambulance arrived, and Ning Zhe helped the nurse carry the two corpses and a living person into the car and sent them to the hospital. Ning Zhe stayed at home and waited for the police who received the report to come to his house, and went to the police station to help them take a statement.
The hospital conducted standard examinations and symbolic rescue on the two bodies that had no vital signs, and then officially confirmed the death of the two elderly people. The deceased were handed over to the forensic doctor for further examination.
After all the hassles, it was already noon when Ning Zhe finished his statement and came out of the police station. Chen Yaming was also at the scene when the incident happened and was also brought in to take a statement. The two of them came out together.
"Um... Ning Zhe, I just heard from Uncle Liu and the others that Grandpa Ning and Grandma Ning have..." As soon as the words came out of her mouth, Chen Yaming felt something was wrong and waved her hands repeatedly, saying, "I, I'm not, um, I want to say... condolences."
"Yeah." Ning Zhe nodded, walked across the street, went into the small supermarket across the street, bought two bottles of Coco Tree, and handed one to Chen Yaming who followed him.
Taking the coconut milk, Chen Yaming looked at Ning Zhe with concern. His expression was so calm, without any trace of grief or sorrow for having just lost two loved ones. His heart was as calm as a mirror, reflecting the clear cloudless sky.
"Ningzhe, are you...are you okay?" Chen Yaming asked in a low voice.
"It's true." Ning Zhe opened the pull ring with a click, took a sip of coconut milk and said, "Do you remember what I told you yesterday?"
"...You said a lot of things to me yesterday, but I don't know what you meant specifically." Chen Yaming shook her head.
Ning Zhe smiled slightly and said, "I said, the reason why I used that method to help you get the opportunity to go to college was not because I had any bad intentions towards you. I just wanted the two old people to feel that they already had a granddaughter-in-law, so that they would not die with regrets on their deathbeds in the future." Chen Yaming thought for a moment and continued, "You also said that you would be free after the two old people passed away."
"Bingo." The smile on Ning Zhe's face gradually disappeared: "I am free."
Although it is not the end of life.
Chen Yaming opened her mouth slightly, but didn't know what to say. She stood there in a daze. She saw Ning Zhe raise his head and drink a can of coconut milk in one gulp. The black can was casually thrown into the green trash can, and then he turned and left.
The young man's departing back was clear and upright, like a dead tree in the wilderness, like a marble statue drenched by rain, like a ghost wandering in a cemetery...but it didn't look like a 'human'.
"Okay... okay... let me think about what to do next."
It had just rained this morning. Ning Zhe wandered aimlessly on the wet streets of Gubei Town, silently sorting out the messy memories in his mind.
When Ning Zhe saw his grandparents falling down in front of him, he subconsciously thought that his identity had been exposed. Fen Wu, who had been watching him secretly, finally started to attack the people around him. The moment of life and death had arrived...
But after finishing the statement at the police station, Ning Zhe realized that he was worrying too much.
The cause of this murder was not the intrigue among the ascenders, but a mundane emotion called "jealousy".
——The two bottles of wine were asked by Boss Chen’s brother-in-law who was doing business in Yanzhou to bring back from the seaport. He was going home in the next two days and happened to bring some things for his brother-in-law on the way.
Boss Chen told his brother-in-law on the phone how Ning Zhe's family became rich overnight because of the demolition. Unfortunately, his homestead was not included in the demolition plan of New World Group. Fortunately, he had a beautiful daughter who fascinated the young man of the Ning family. So he decisively went to the house and quickly arranged a marriage for the two...
Boss Chen boasted about his wisdom and decisiveness on the phone, saying that only those who are prepared can seize opportunities... However, what the complacent Boss Chen didn't know was that his brother-in-law had not been doing very well in the harbor in the past two years.
His business suffered losses in the past two years, so he had to sell two properties in the county and Gubei Town to make up for the losses. The losses there had not been made up yet, and the factory was about to go bankrupt. Here, he heard that someone in his hometown became rich overnight by relying on demolition and earned more money than he could earn in more than ten years of running the factory without doing anything.
What made Boss Chen's brother-in-law even more upset was that he found out that the house in his hometown, which he had to sell last year in order to make ends meet, was within the demolition planning range of the New World Group's tourism development project.
Burned with jealousy, he lost his mind and got ice from underground channels, and secretly added it to the two bottles of wine that his brother-in-law asked him to buy, intending to use drug addiction to destroy this good son-in-law who allowed Boss Chen to show off all the time.
Is this guy an idiot? He does things without considering the consequences. Does he really think he can't be found?
Ning Zhe thought this was nonsense.
It's just as ridiculous as the case of the garment factory employee who killed his supervisor and dumped the body into the sewer because he was being bullied at work.
"Wait a moment……"
Suddenly, as if he thought of something, Ning Zhe's aimless and scattered steps slowly stopped.
(End of this chapter)