"Cai'er, is that you? Where are you now?"
Ouyang Jue's voice was extremely anxious, because both Han Yuqi and Bai Youya had gone missing, he did not arrange any bodyguards for Ning Caier this time. After Xu Mengyun and him had separated, the first thing he wanted to do was to look for her, but he did not expect that the place that he had arranged for her was empty.
But Ning Caier used a foreign calling card, so she could not pinpoint her location accurately. Luckily she took the initiative to call him, otherwise, he would definitely send all of her family's bodyguards to look for him tonight.
"Mr. Ouyang is with us. Please prepare five hundred thousand in cash." The villagers told Ouyang Jue an address but did not explain the reason. This phone call made Ouyang Jue think that Ning Caier was kidnapped, so he suddenly stopped the car and shouted into the phone.
"Don't hurt Cai'er, I will immediately send the money over. Who are you, and why are you doing this?" Ouyang Jue mistakenly thought that the person who made the call was Han Yuqi's person, but later on, he felt that something was amiss. If it was Han Yuqi, he definitely wouldn't ask for just five hundred thousand, or maybe his goal wasn't money, but something else.
"We just want the money. As long as you can send the money over, we will definitely not hurt Miss Ning."
When the villagers heard that Ouyang Jue agreed to give them the money, they immediately treated Ning Caier as a VIP, and provided the best tea leaves and pastries for her to slowly savor. Some of the women revealed an envious expression, thinking that Ning Caier's life was truly good, to actually have a man like Ouyang Jue as a backer.
If they knew this Young Master Ouyang was so straightforward, they would have doubled the amount. Other than the roof tiles that had not been repaired for five or six years and the drainpipe that had not been repaired for more than ten years, they would have added all the girders of the house to the outside walls. This amount of money was the only thing worth troubling this CEO Tian Ao for this trip.
"You can return the phone to me now, right?" Ning Caier wanted to settle this issue by herself, so she wanted to inform Ouyang Jue that he should not come, but the villagers were not stupid, they still needed to stay in touch with Ouyang Jue using this phone, just in case she failed to find him here.
Ning Caier's head was instantly filled with black lines. She was in an extremely awkward situation, this five hundred thousand dollars had forced her into a dilemma, and it made it impossible for her to boldly ask Ouyang Jue why he was lying to her. But right now, there was nothing she could do. She could only wait for Ouyang Jue's arrival in this house.
She kept on organizing her thoughts, hoping to put it mildly so that they wouldn't hurt each other too much. However, the moment she thought about Han Yuqi's current worrisome situation, she couldn't help but burn with fury, wishing that she could immediately find out where Han Yuqi was.
Ouyang Jue did not dare delay any longer. He immediately took out five hundred thousand yuan of cash and rushed to the place the "kidnapper" mentioned. At the same time, he secretly informed the Ouyang Family's bodyguards to hide there, in case anything happened.
However, the more he looked at this area, the more he felt that he had been here before. It was only when he looked at the charred ground that he realized that this was Han Yuqi's home in the western suburbs.
Ouyang Jue vigilantly stopped the car, and slowly walked into the abandoned house. At the beginning, he thought Han Yuqi had tied Ning Caier up in this place, but the place was completely empty, as if no one had lived here before.
He hesitated to give the "kidnapper" a call and ask for Ning Caier's whereabouts, when suddenly he saw a few villagers walking towards him enthusiastically.
"So it really is the Mr. Ouyang. We are all living in the vicinity, the Miss Ning is inside."
No matter how they looked at it, it did not seem like they had any connections with the kidnappers, and Ning Caier did not have any intentions of locking her up. She sat in the living room of a house with all sorts of refreshments and snacks.
"What's with the 500,000 yuan?" Ouyang Jue placed the money on the table. Seeing Ning Caier's gloomy face, he knew that she was not in the mood to joke around. He did not care about the few hundred thousand, but he still had to understand the reason why.
"Mr. Ouyang, this is the compensation for the burning of our house."
The villagers had already prepared a detailed report as well as the promissory note that Ning Caier had signed. With a single glance, one could tell that it contained a lot of water, but Ouyang Jue did not care anymore, as he knew that he was facing an even more serious matter.
Since Ning Caier knew that Han Yuqi's manor was destroyed, she had probably guessed that had been lying to her all this while.
"The money is all here, you guys can take it." Ouyang Jue threw the money to the villagers, and the surrounding bodyguards immediately rushed in. This was a signal that he and the bodyguards had agreed upon, the black mass of people scared the villagers half to death, they only thought that Ouyang Jue was rich, but they forgot that he still had the authority.
"It means nothing. I can give you the money this time, but I won't allow you to do extortion a second time." Ouyang Jue gave these villagers a few sentences to prevent them from finding trouble with Ning Caier again. However, he knew that the most troublesome thing right now was himself. Seeing Ning Caier who was standing at the side, he suddenly pulled her arm, "Cai'er, let's go back.
Ning Caier did not question Ouyang Jue in front of everyone, but once they reached the intersection, she could not help but start arguing with him, "I will return the money to you, can you tell me where Yu Qi is now?"
Ning Caier did not get on Ouyang Jue's car, but started to argue with him at the intersection. Ouyang Jue should know how important Han Yuqi was to her, why he had to lie to her about such an important matter.
His lover, her boyfriend's life and death was unknown, yet Ouyang Jue did not say a single word. He even made up such a beautiful lie to deceive his.
"I don't know. He went missing after the fire. I sent people to look for him, but they couldn't find him."
Ouyang Jue helplessly spread his hands. Although he had some understanding of Han Yuqi's current situation, he was even more unable to say it out. He was swindling, so naturally, he would not let Ning Caier off, but Ouyang Jue did not expect her life, which had just returned to normal, to be ruined like this. Thus, he would rather let her feel that he was heartless.
"Cai'er, you don't have to be responsible for the promotion of the Xu's in the country. I will arrange for you to be back abroad as soon as possible." Ouyang Jue didn't want Ning Caier to stay here anymore. He wanted her to sit on the carriage and send him back home, but Ning Caier struggled with everything she had not wanted to accept his good intentions.
"I won't go back. If you won't go looking for Yu Qi, I'll go looking for him myself. I'll definitely think of a way to find him." Ning Caier planned to walk back by herself, but Ouyang Jue didn't force her. He knew that she would need a period of time to calm down, so he just drove the car and slowly followed.
At that time, he really admired her stubbornness, but now he cared a little about her stubbornness. If only she wasn't so stubborn towards Han Yuqi.
"Don't follow me anymore, I want to be alone!" Ning Caier could feel Ouyang Jue's presence and the lights that were constantly shining down on her made her even more frustrated. She turned around and roared at Ouyang Jue, hoping that he would stop disturbing their lives.
"I will find him. I will definitely find him." Ning Caier said while crying. She knew how helpless she was right now, she couldn't even get a simple compensation out, much less finding someone to come out from the sea of people. But she had to make herself do this, only by continuously searching would she feel at ease.
"Cai'er, right now, I want to find Han Yuqi even more than you do, and right now, I can't even find him. With your own strength, you won't be able to find him."
Ouyang Jue did not want Ning Caier to continue messing around. If he and Xu Mengyun could not find out what had happened, it would be impossible for Ning Caier to find out, unless someone had deliberately leaked the information to her.
It was just that Ouyang Jue's words were very weak now and he had already lied to her time and time again in Ning Caier's world, so no matter what he said now, she was not willing to believe him.
Ouyang Jue had no choice but to ask Xu Mengyun for help. Right now, she was probably the only one who could control Ning Caier, if she could use his identity as the boss and creditor to force her to return to a foreign country, maybe it would still be useful.
"Mengyun, there's something …" Ouyang Jue didn't know how to reply. He had already understood how Xu Mengyun felt about him, and now he still had to ask her to help him with his emotional matters. He felt extremely sorry, but he really couldn't think of any other way.
"Ouyang, you'd better come over to my place right now. Something's happened."
Xu Mengyun was not in the mood to discuss anything with Ouyang Jue. It was very easy for her to find Han Yuqi now, and it was not something the two of them could force her to go abroad to solve.
"They want to invite us to that private equity party?"
When Ouyang Jue saw that invitation card, he really wanted to tear it apart. Han Yuqi actually came back as the group's chairman, and even invited all of the leading businesses in the entire business world to attend. Did he really think that those methods of deceiving ordinary citizens could also deceive the elites of the business world?
Ouyang Jue felt that what Han Yuqi was doing was just a child's play, the people in the business world could see that there was something fishy about it. No one would want to touch him on this sort of thing, they probably wouldn't even attend this banquet.
I've already decided to go and take a look, how can a lonely family still have the power to fight back? I'm really interested in the things that happened behind their backs, the others should be the same, in our position, we must investigate everything that went wrong, otherwise, we might get replaced by someone else.
Xu Mengyun was surprised that she was actually prepared to participate in such a banquet. He did not expect that Xu Mengyun would actually want to host Han Yuqi and a large majority of the people in the business world had made the same decision. They did not care where Han Yuqi's money came from, as long as there was an opportunity to make money inside, they would not mind.
"You are just too sensitive to Han Yuqi. If it was anyone else, you would also go." Xu Mengyun felt that the three words Han Yuqi was like a ticking time bomb to him. As long as she mentioned the name, she would immediately fly into a rage.