Time flies like an arrow. In the blink of an eye, it was early August.
Liu Yutong's college entrance celebration banquet was scheduled for August 20th. Moreover, she had arranged a coach in advance to pick up all her relatives and friends from the village.
The news had spread like wildfire in the village.
The granddaughter of the Liu family had scored over six hundred in the college entrance examination and was going to hold a banquet at the largest Huangdu Hotel in the county. At first, many people in the village didn't believe it.
After all, everyone in the village knew the financial situation of the Liu family.
Even the village head couldn't afford to hold a banquet at the largest hotel in the county.
It wasn't until Liu Yutong's grandparents went door to door to inform everyone that they finally believed that the Liu family had really made it.
Their granddaughter had been admitted to college and won a bonus. This was the first case in the village.
Although several students in the village had been admitted to college this year, they were all admitted to second - tier universities or junior colleges. Only the granddaughter of the Liu family had won a bonus.
And being able to hold a banquet at a big hotel in the county meant that the bonus was quite a large amount, probably tens of thousands of yuan.
Tens of thousands of yuan! For these rural people, it was no small sum.
There were really not many families in the village that could come up with tens of thousands of yuan at once.
However, some people whispered behind their backs, saying that the Liu family was just being vain. They should have saved the money for their granddaughter's tuition instead of squandering it. What else could it be but vanity?
Liu Jianyi also heard the news that his daughter had been admitted to college and was going to hold a banquet in the county.
He was gambling at the time. Immediately, he rushed back in a hurry.
As soon as he entered the yard of his father's house, he shouted at the top of his voice, "Dad, why didn't you tell me that Xiaotong is going to hold a banquet in the county? How are we going to get there? By tractor?"
Liu Chengjiang, who had been in a good mood, immediately frowned when he saw his youngest son. "You don't need to go. Just stay at home."
Liu Jianyi retorted angrily, "Why not? I'm Xiaotong's father!"
Liu Chengjiang banged his pipe on the table and roared, "I'm your father! I said you're not allowed to go. Don't make a fool of yourself in front of others!"
Liu Jianyi pleaded, "Dad..."
"I'm not your dad. Those dominoes and playing cards are your dads. Get out of here!" With that, Liu Chengjiang picked up a broom and tried to drive him away.
Liu Jianyi wasn't completely crazy from gambling yet, so he didn't dare to go against his father.
After being driven out of the yard, he glanced at the yard and muttered, "You don't want me to go, but I'll go anyway!"
Not to mention anything else, the gift money would be at least a few thousand yuan.
Shouldn't this money be kept by him, the father?
And that dead girl! Now she had the guts to secretly get so many bonuses without even telling him.
When he saw her later, he would definitely give her a good beating to teach her a lesson.
Thinking of this, Liu Jianyi swaggered away, whistling a tune, and went back to the temporary gambling den at Ergou's house in the east of the village.
In this temporary gambling den, there were five or six hooligans from the village sitting around a wooden table, playing dominoes.
When Liu Jianyi entered the door, the others just glanced at him and ignored him.
After all, this guy was already in debt up to his neck. Why bother with him?
Liu Jianyi wasn't angry. He walked straight up to Ergou, who was sitting as the banker, and said, "Ergou, lend me two thousand yuan!"
Ergou glanced at him lazily and said, "Uncle Liu, you already owe me five thousand yuan. Are you still borrowing? Can you pay it back?"
Liu Jianyi replied, "Who says I can't pay it back? My daughter has been admitted to college. Do you think I can't afford this little money? Hurry up and stop talking nonsense!"
Hearing this, Ergou asked half - believingly, "Uncle Liu, is it really true that your daughter is going to hold a banquet at that big hotel in the county?"
"Of course it's true!" Liu Jianyi said proudly, "She scored very high in the exam, and the school rewarded her with tens of thousands of yuan!"
A hooligan with a cigarette in his mouth interjected, "Uncle Liu, doesn't Xiaotong need that money for her studies? Can you get it from her?"
Liu Jianyi said, "I'm her father. If she dares not to give it to me, well, a father's debt should be repaid by his daughter. It's only natural!"
Ergou said, "But isn't that going to delay Xiaotong's studies? She's the first college student in your Liu family."
"So what if she's a college student? She's just a good - for - nothing girl!" Liu Jianyi snorted, "Once she gets married, who knows if she'll even care about me. If it weren't for my father insisting on sending her to school, I would have married her off long ago and got some bride price."
Hearing this, Ergou had an idea in mind.
"Uncle Liu, I can lend you the money, but if you can't pay it back later, you have to agree to one of my requests."
"What request?" Liu Jianyi asked.
"I'll tell you later." Then Ergou took out a stack of money from his pocket, counted out two thousand yuan, and handed it to Liu Jianyi. "Uncle Liu, you owe me seven thousand yuan now."
"Got it. Stop being so wordy!" Liu Jianyi grabbed the money and squeezed into the crowd around the gambling table.
He didn't care about anything else. As long as this guy was willing to lend him money, everything would be fine.
Soon, the loud shouts of Liu Jianyi could be heard again in the gambling den.
"Open! Open!"
...
In the county hotel.
"Miss, we've found it! Finally found it!" Ma Da knocked on the door and came in.
Liu Yutong, who had been looking at the stock trends on the computer, immediately looked up. "Really?"
"Absolutely true!"
Ma Da nodded vigorously, looking a bit incredulous. "I really didn't expect Niu Ben to be so cruel. He actually buried the body under the cattle farm. The smell there was already so strong that the smell of the rotting body was completely covered up. If we hadn't searched carefully, we would never have found it."
Liu Yutong said, "It's good that we've found it. Notify everyone to search for Niu Ben's whereabouts. We must find him!"
"Yes, Miss!" Ma Da immediately nodded and turned around to quickly leave and arrange the search.
After Ma Da left, Liu Yutong picked up her phone and called Qi Wei to tell him the news.
Previously, the evidence they had was only enough to send Niu Ben to prison, but not enough to sentence him to death.
With this new evidence, he would surely be executed.
From July to August, Niu Ben's business empire had almost collapsed.
Liu Yutong had used the evidence provided by Feng Gou, along with the materials secretly filmed by her subordinates, and cooperated with Qi Wei. She also gave some of Niu Ben's businesses to Master Jin and others.
By the way, Feng Gou had been controlled in advance.
Now, both the white - collar world and the underworld were against Niu Ben.
Niu Ben knew that his situation was dire, so he had gone into hiding in advance.
Although Liu Yutong had read the reports from her past life and knew where Niu Ben was arrested, in that life, he was arrested several months later.
In this life, because of her intervention, many things had happened earlier.
So, now she really didn't know where Niu Ben was hiding.
However, every day that Niu Ben remained at large was a potential danger to her.
When a person was cornered, they could do anything.
She must completely eliminate Niu Ben before he strikes back.
