conspiracy crime 2

Chapter 3: Looking for a Child (3)
Li Ming looked at the sad smile on his mother's face, and realized that the reason why his mother liked to walk on this mountain was actually because she wanted to miss her father in this way. To this day, she still misses him in her heart. It's my father's.

After dinner that day, Xiao Erlan seemed to suddenly think of something, and asked Li Ming, "Your father, Lu Jinyi, did you leave anything for you?"

Li Ming shook his head and said, "No, Li's father and Li's mother said that when they adopted me, they were afraid that seeing familiar things would bring back painful memories, so they disposed of everything from my childhood."

He thought for a while, and then said, "By the way, Dad Li gave me something, saying that he found it in my dad's safe." He took out the small transparent glass bottle that Li Zegang gave him to show her.

Xiao Erlan asked: "What's in it? Is it peanuts?"

Li Ming shook his head and said, "No, it's the seed. I checked it online. It's a kind of fir tree seed called Colorado blue fir. This kind of tree mainly grows in the United States, and it's very precious in China. It was even rarer in China more than [-] years ago."

Xiao Erlan let out an "oh" and said, "It's such a rare tree species, no wonder your father wants to hide the seeds. This kind of tree should grow beautifully, right?"

Seeing that she was interested, Li Ming turned on the computer, searched the Internet for pictures of this kind of Colorado blue fir, and showed her.

Xiao Erlan just glanced at it, then was stunned, and said, "I seem to have seen this kind of tree somewhere."

Li Ming said: "This is not surprising. Now some big cities have begun to import this kind of tree from the United States as a city landscape tree, so now this kind of tree can also be seen in China."

The next morning, as soon as Li Ming arrived at the unit, Fan Zetian, the team leader, informed him that there was an urgent task, and he should immediately bring a gun to the police!

Li Ming immediately gathered in the yard with more than a dozen criminal policemen, and then followed Fan Zetian into a police car and headed towards the new city.

The police car drove all the way to the foot of Qingyang Mountain before finding a hidden place to stop.

Fan Zetian led everyone up the mountain along a path.

When they came to the mountainside, a colleague from the Criminal Investigation Brigade was waiting for them by the side of the road.

Fan Zetian stepped up and asked, "How is the situation?"

The investigator pointed to the depths of the mountain and said, "About 15 minutes ago, the target moved forward. Xiao Liu has already followed. I told him to leave a mark every 50 meters."

Fan Zetian immediately quickened his pace and led the group into the forest.

This is an inaccessible deep mountain and dense forest. There are shadows of trees in the forest, and among the thorn bushes, there is a sense of gloom.

Everyone pushed aside the bushes and moved forward with difficulty.

Not far away, I saw an arrow drawn with white chalk on a big tree in front, which should be the mark left by investigator Xiao Liu.

Fan Zetian led the crowd to move forward in the direction indicated by the arrow.

After walking for more than an hour in the dense forest that covered the sky and the sun, the chalk arrow suddenly disappeared.

Fan Zetian was feeling puzzled when investigator Xiao Liu suddenly jumped out of the bushes and said, "Captain Fan, the target is more than 20 meters ahead." Fan Zetian immediately signaled everyone to take cover on the spot.

Li Ming thought he was arresting drug dealers in the deep mountains, so he pulled out the pistol from his waist, fell on the ground, gently pushed aside the weeds in front of him, and quietly looked forward, only to see a woman standing not far in front, The woman carries a hoe on her back.Taking a closer look, this woman with gray hair and thin body is actually his mother Xiao Erlan.

He was taken aback, opened his mouth and was about to exclaim "Ah", but Fan Zetian next to him covered his mouth.

Fan Zetian glared at him, and said in a low voice, "Calm down, if it wasn't for the tight manpower in the team, I really shouldn't have called you here!"

Li Ming was completely confused, and asked in a low voice: "Captain, what's going on? What happened to my mother?"

Fan Zetian said, "I'll talk to you later, now you just need to obey my orders."

Li Ming had no choice but to lie on the ground, not daring to make a sound again.

Xiao Erlan stopped, looked left and right, and finally stood in the middle of three strange trees.

The reason why these are three strange trees is that these three trees are obviously different from the surrounding trees.

These are three big trees about ten meters high. The shape of the tree is a bit like a pyramid. The most strange thing is that its leaves are blue.

The site where the three trees were planted formed an equilateral triangle, and Xiao Erlan was standing in the middle of this triangle.

Li Ming suddenly remembered, isn't this big tree with blue leaves the same as the Colorado blue fir he saw on the Internet yesterday?

Xiao Erlan made a rough location among the three Colorado blue cedars, then picked up the hoe and started digging on the ground.The forest was unusually quiet. Apart from the sound of digging, the only thing Li Ming could hear was his own heart beating.

Xiao Erlan dug down about one meter deep, and then heard a "dang", as if the hoe hit something iron.

She carefully dug down a few more times, then jumped down the mud pit, pulled it with her hands for a while, and finally picked up a heavy black iron box from the mud.A large rusty lock hung on the outside of the box.

She found a stone, knocked off the big lock, opened the iron box, and inside was a sealed wooden box, pried open the wooden box, and there was a cowhide bag inside.

She took the leather bag out of the box, opened it, and found that the leather bag was full of golden bars.

Holding the gold bar, Xiao Erlan looked up to the sky and laughed loudly: "Lu Jinyi, Lu Jinyi, I deserve these. You have ruined my life, and these golds can be regarded as a little compensation for me!"

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Before Li Ming could react, Fan Zetian yelled: "Action!" The man jumped out like lightning.

The others jumped out and rushed towards Xiao Erlan.

When Xiao Erlan saw the policeman descending from the sky, he couldn't help being startled, and wanted to run away with the gold bars on his back.

Fan Zetian raised his gun and shouted, "Stop, put down your bag, or I'll shoot you!"

Xiao Erlan had no choice but to stop, put down her purse, looked up and saw that Li Ming was also in the police team, and a look of panic flashed in her eyes.

Li Ming looked at her, then at Fan Zetian, and couldn't help but ask, "Captain Fan, what's going on? My mother..."

Fan Zetian said: "Your father, Lu Jinyi, used his position to contract the infrastructure projects of many schools in the city to some construction companies related to him. It was safe, so he bought all the more than 300 million yuan from bribery in gold and buried it secretly. Unfortunately, when the Commission for Discipline Inspection was about to investigate him, he was suddenly killed by Xiao Erlan, and the bribery case was over. The whereabouts of the gold has become a mystery. In the process of handling the case, our police got two clues. First, Lu Jinyi liked to come to Qingyang Mountain to study the plants on the mountain. , through some indirect evidence, we have reason to believe that he buried the gold on this mountain. However, Qingyang Mountain covers an area of ​​more than 100 square kilometers, and there is no clear mark left by him, so no one can find the gold The second clue is that Lu Jinyi's lover, that is, Xiao Erlan, probably knew about the gold. But after she was arrested for murder, she has been refusing to explain this issue. The police can't rely on this Keep looking for more clues. But there is an old saying that goes well, green wine and red face, gold touches people's hearts. We have reason to believe that after Xiao Erlan is released from prison, he will definitely look for this gold. From the moment Lu Jin buried the gold to Now, the price of gold has tripled or quadrupled, and the gold worth more than 300 million at that time can be sold for at least 1000 million now. Facing such a huge fortune, Xiao Erlan cannot be indifferent."

Li Ming stared at him and asked, "So you sent two investigators to follow up and investigate my mother?"

Fan Zetian said, "Yes."

Li Ming gradually understood that his father buried the gold on the mountain back then, in order to avoid being found by others, he made a very clever and hidden mark.

He planted the seeds of three Colorado blue firs where the gold was buried.

This imported tree grows very slowly for the first few years, so if anyone is looking for this gold at this time, there are almost no traces to find.

After a few years, the Commission for Discipline Inspection stopped staring at him, and the wind passed, and these Colorado blue cedars grew up, which became an excellent mark for him to search for these golds in the future.

Mother may know that father buried the gold in Qingyang Mountain. She wandered up the mountain every day, in fact, looking for gold, but she couldn't find the exact location where the gold was buried.

Perhaps in the process of wandering up the mountain, she had discovered these three strange Colorado blue cedars, but they did not attract her attention at that time, until she saw the bottle of Colorado blue cedar seeds left by her father, she Only then did he guess that these three trees were most likely the marks left by his father, so he decided to take a hoe up the mountain to dig for gold.

Xiao Erlan glared at Fan Zetian bitterly, and said, "You are right, I have been looking for these golds since I was released from prison. I have devoted my whole life to Lu Jinyi, and I deserve it. But I only listen to As soon as Lu Jin said that the gold was buried on Qingyang Mountain, he wanted to find out the specific burial location, but there was no clue. At this time, I thought of Lu Jinyi's son. Maybe Lu Jinyi left some clues for his son. .”

Fan Zetian raised his eyebrows and asked: "So you started to approach Li Ming? Originally, after you knew that Li Ming was Lu Jinyi's son, you could tell him that you were his biological mother, but you were afraid that he would not believe it, and If you just recognize each other rashly, it will indeed attract suspicion. So you staged a bitter plan, first admitting that you want to kill him, and then saying that you are his biological mother. After so many twists and turns, naturally no one will Suspect."

Xiao Erlan said: "That's exactly the case. It's a pity that nothing escaped the eyes of your detective. It's also God's will. But Lu Jinyi should have given me the gold, and I will take it away even if I die."

Li Ming stared at her blankly, like a child, with tears of grievance in his eyes, and asked, "You, tell me clearly, are you my biological mother? You only came here to get the gold. Deliberately pretending to be my biological mother to approach me, right?"

Xiao Erlan didn't answer him, but just looked at him with complicated eyes, and showed him a strange smile. The good boy was caught off guard, and suddenly mentioned gold and ran away.

"Stop!" Fan Zetian immediately chased after him.

How could Xiao Erlan run fast while carrying dozens of catties of gold?Not long after, he was chased by the police.

"The gold is what I deserve, and none of you can take it away!"

Shouting, Xiao Erlan suddenly turned around and rushed towards a cliff not far away.

With a "bang", Fan Zetian raised his gun and fired.

But because both he and the opponent were running fast, the bullet did not hit Xiao Erlan.

After this delay, Xiao Erlan had already run to the cliff, carrying the bag of gold, and was about to jump down.

Li Ming hurried to catch up, gritted his teeth, and raised the pistol decisively. The moment he pulled the trigger, he involuntarily cocked the gun.

The bullet roared out, and did not hit Xiao Erlan's fatal spot, but hit her wrist. The leather bag she was carrying could no longer hold it, and the gold fell to the ground with a bang.But the man couldn't stop, and rushed straight down the cliff.

"mom--"

With a cry of grief, Li Ming rushed to the cliff and looked down. Under the cliff tens of feet high, there was the surging Yangtze River. He could only see the tumbling waves on the surface of the river, and the rapid current. Nowhere could he see the shadow of Xiao Erlan...

(End of this chapter)