Nanako listened to Ye Chen saying he wanted to stay in Australia. She subconsciously asked him: “Ye Chen-kun, if you want to find Madam Xiao as soon as possible, shouldn’t you hurry back to China?”
Ye Chen sighed: “By coming to Australia, I’ve already fallen into the trap. They must have a tightly knit organisational structure and action plan. Perhaps Chu Ran is no longer in China now. If I go back now, it might not make any difference. But I can be sure that Tang Sihai is the mastermind behind all this. No matter where Chu Ran is, as long as I find him, I can find Chu Ran!”
Nanako suddenly realised and said: “I understand, Ye Chen-kun. On the China side, I’ll cooperate with Ruo Li as much as possible. You can rest assured.”
“Good!”
Ye Chen’s mind was in turmoil. He didn’t say more to Nanako and hung up the video.
Feeling a slight coolness on his face, he reached out to touch it, only to realise he had already been crying.
So he quickly wiped the tears away with his palm and immediately pushed the door to get out of the car.
The Ye family didn’t have much connections in Australia, just the three hotels in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane. Most of the hotel staff were ordinary people. To truly track someone like Tang Sihai, they wouldn’t be of any use.
Thus, the first person Ye Chen thought of was the Chinese detective Li Yalin.
Li Yalin’s criminal investigation skills were almost unmatched. Through the operation to transfer the dead soldiers in Morocco last time, Ye Chen discovered that his anti-detection awareness was even stronger than his detection abilities.
The reason for this inference was that Li Yalin had handled all the clues from that incident extremely cleanly. The only small loose end left was the boss of that food factory. As long as the food factory boss didn’t reveal everything, no one would ever find out that the food factory was the key transit point for those dead soldiers in their lifetime.
However, Li Yalin had cleverly trapped the food factory boss in an interest snare, making the boss a guilty beneficiary. As a result, he would guard the secret himself and not let anyone know.
In such a case, although clues theoretically still existed, in practice, the clues were broken. Continuing the investigation would lead nowhere.
This also meant that if Li Yalin were to investigate such a case for clues, he would find nothing.
So Ye Chen felt that whether it was finding Tang Sihai or finding Xiao Chu Ran, he needed Li Yalin’s help.
Thus, he immediately created a group on WeChat and added Li Yalin, as well as his eldest uncle An Chongqiu and second uncle An Kaifeng to the group.
Ye Chen used the simplest language to send the entire story from beginning to end in the group, then also sent his hope for Li Yalin to come and help.
The first to reply was Ye Chen’s eldest uncle An Chongqiu. He said in confusion: “Chen’er, from what you’re saying, it seems Tang Sihai hasn’t been loyal to your father all these years. He must be loyal to someone else!”
Then, he sent a voice message: “If this Tang Sihai was acting on your father’s orders to take care of you and protect you, then his duty is equivalent to that of an ancient entrusted minister. He should fully protect you and, after you successfully succeed to the position, wholeheartedly assist you. How could he suddenly disappear when you need him most? Disappearing is one thing, but secretly arranging for the Xiao family to leave you?”
Ye Chen sighed: “Eldest uncle, I think the same as you. Butler Tang must be loyal to someone else.”
An Chongqiu smacked his lips and said: “Tsk tsk… This is strange! I know something about his character. He was absolutely loyal to your father. With your father and mother already gone, besides being loyal to you, who else could he be loyal to? Being loyal to someone else doesn’t make sense!”
Second uncle An Kaifeng sent a voice message: “It indeed doesn’t make sense. From what I know of Tang Sihai, he only obeyed my brother-in-law, at most plus my elder sister. With elder sister and brother-in-law gone, he must obey Chen’er. How could he make these small moves behind Chen’er’s back?”
Even An Chongqiu and An Kaifeng, who knew An Chengqi best, didn’t dare to consider the possibility that An Chengqi was still alive at this moment.
Even Li Yalin, who had solved lifelong unsolved and doubtful cases, didn’t guess that An Chengqi might still be alive when he saw these messages.
After simply analysing the matter, he sent his thoughts: “I’m thinking, could it be that Chang Ying knew back then that the Po Qing Society wanted his life, so when arranging posthumous affairs with Tang Sihai, he had already arranged all this?”
An Chongqiu said: “Old Li, what you’re saying doesn’t make sense. Chen’er entering the orphanage was indeed arranged in advance by Chang Ying, but Chen’er marrying the Xiao family girl could never have been arranged by Chang Ying. So how could he have arranged in advance for Tang Sihai to take Chen’er’s wife away behind his back?”
Li Yalin explained: “I think it’s very likely he didn’t simply leave Tang Sihai as an entrusted minister to Young Master Ye, but gave Tang Sihai certain authority to secretly establish a team? After all, this matter is meticulously planned and tightly connected. It’s definitely not something a few people could achieve.”
“And the core philosophy of this team, although still revolving around helping Young Master Ye, the specific actions are all executed according to Tang Sihai’s subjective judgment. When Tang Sihai feels that the Xiao family girl and her parents staying by Young Master Ye’s side will indeed affect Young Master Ye’s grand revenge plan, then him trying every means to make the Xiao family leave Young Master Ye makes sense.”
An Chongqiu and An Kaifeng simultaneously sent a thumbs-up emoji.
An Chongqiu said: “I think Old Li’s analysis is the closest to reality.”
An Kaifeng said: “I also support Detective Li’s analysis.”
Ye Chen also felt that Li Yalin’s analysis was correct. His father was far-sighted, leaving Tang Sihai to execute a task of protecting him for twenty years. It was impossible not to give him autonomy. Thinking this way, Tang Sihai might have secretly established a team loyal to him all these years. The existence of this team, he hadn’t told anyone except himself and the team members. Even he himself didn’t know.
Thus, he spoke: “Detective Li, right now Butler Tang has already disappeared in Australia, but I speculate he hasn’t left Australia yet.
