With few formalities, I walked out of the police station easily.
Outside, the man in the black suit was waiting for me. As he saw me, he said, ” Madam, this way, please. Mr. Hua was waiting for you in the car.”
I followed him to a black business van, with the door being opened, but Leon was not the one in the car.
The man in the car nodded to me,”Sister-in-law.”
He was the young master of the Hua family, Chenxing Hua, whom I just met once before. So the ‘Mr. Hua’ they said was not Leon but Leon’s eldest brother, Chenxing Hua.
“Thank you for helping me, brother.” I greeted him politely.
Anyway, I was Leon’s nominal wife now, so I surely called him brother following Leon.
“You are welcome, Nala. We are family, and we should take care of each other. Get in the car.”
I went to take the passenger seat and opened the door while Chenxing signing me to sit in the back and saying that he wanted to talk to me.
This was the first time for me to have a formal contact with him, and of course, I was nervous.
The relationship between Leon and me was still not good, and the sense of alienation really existed between other people in Hua family and me.
Chenxing is tall and good-looking with a standard square face and beautiful eyebrows and eyes. Although he is not as handsome as Leon was, he looks more reliable.
“Leon should have picked you up personally, but he is busy now. So father told me to take you out. They didn’t embarrass you, right?” Chenxing said.
“No, they didn’t. They just questioned normally.”
I thought that how did the news spread so quickly to Hua family that I got into the police station?
From being taken away by the police to being questioned, it was not long before Chenxing arrived. The reaction speed of him was too fast.
“Do you want to ask that how did we know the that?” Chenxing asked me.
I nodded shyly.
“Early in the morning, a friend of our family in the police station called father that last night, Leon and you implicated in a murder. If the media knows that, both of the reputation of Hua family and the stock price of Hua Group will be affected, so father let me to deal with it.”
I answered gently, “Thank you, brother. Sorry to trouble you.”
At this time, Chenxing’s phone rang and he answered with several ‘Yes’, then said to me,”Father wants to see you.”
As soon as I heard to meet Yaohui Hua, I immediately became nervous.
I thought how could I explain this to Yaohui?
If I came clean, Leon would blame me for telling to parents, and he would hate me more.
But if I didn’t tell the truth, which meant cheating, when they found out, I would offend Yaohui, who just helped me and was the head of Hua family, then I would get into trouble.
Thinking through the whole ride, I still have no solution until we arrived at ‘white house’.
Getting out of the car in a trance, I followed Chenxing into the white house.
He brought me to the study of Yaohui and then walked away.
Standing in front of the window of the study, Yaohui was making a phone call, wearing a black suit.
I stood beside and not dare to say anything or take a seat, waiting him for finishing his call.
“What’s the matter?” His voice expressed kind of restrained blame.
“Mr. Hua…”
He waved to stop me,”We are family and you’ve got married for a long time. You should call me father, or it sounds strange.”
I had to call him father instead.
“In the morning, I received a news that there was a man called you before died, so you are one of the suspects. After that, a person reported to the police that the day before, the man was seriously wounded by Leon after attacking him. Now, the man died, which implicated Hua family. Today, I should have flown to Beijing and met a leader, but now I dare not leave home for I don’t know how much impact this will have on Hua family and how to explain to the media if they know this.”
Absolutely, the reason why Yaohui let me call him father is neither to make a closer relationship with me nor to have an acceptance of me, but to scold me easily as a parent.
“Sorry, father. But we have nothing to do with it. Neither I nor Leon killed him.”
“Who’s the man on earth? Why did he attack Leon and why Leon called people to beat him? Why did the man who offended Leon call you at night? You are a couple, don’t you? And he even offended Mayor Chen and broke the engagement with Ruoxin Chen for you, didn’t he? Why are you going to be like this now?”
So his judgement was that this thing was led by the family conflict between Leon and I.
Actually, the family conflict did exist but was far from the extent of killing someone.
I was confused and didn’t know how to explain it or to explain which part of it.
It’s not suitable to talk out all the things about Nan Lin.
I didn’t want to complain in front of Yaohui, because it’s important for Leon to make a good impression to father in such a big family, which related to his position in family and the distribution of the benefits.
In other words, it meant I couldn’t malign Leon and make Yaohui negate him, which had no benefit for me.
“This… was a little complex. Did you ask Leon?” I asked tentatively.
“No, he said nothing. He was always been like this that to do whatever he wants. And he says nothing after making trouble, every time I only have to deal with the aftermath for him. If he told me, why did I ask you to come here?” Yaohui was obviously angry.
Since Leon didn’t say, then I couldn’t say either, or he would kill me.
“I know little about the dead man in fact. So does Leon. As for the reason why he attacked Leon is that he misunderstood Leon. But his death has no relation with Leon. Leon called people to beat him just because of the attack. After that, Leon let him go. Nobody could know that he would have had an accident at dawn.”
Yaohui snorted coldly,”You’re talking him up. If he did nothing with it, how about you? Why did the man call you at 1 a. m? If you’re not familiar with him, why did he call you? So you must tell the truth. Although I help you out for the moment, if someone still staring at it, we need to face it sooner or later. Whether you or Leon impacts the reputation of Hua family and affects the company, I will never forgive you!”
In spite of Yaohui’s pressure, I was confused but I still couldn’t say.
For Leon didn’t say, which meant he didn’t want Yaohui to know it, so I surely couldn’t say .
“Father, I’m sorry. I don’t want to displease you, but because of, you know, Leon’s temper. The thing he didn’t say, I dare not to say either. Don’t worry, please. We really have nothing to do with the death of the man.”
Yaohui sighed,”You can support Leon like this, then I’m relieved. The most fearful thing for a man is his wife doesn’t support him from heart. I’m delighted that you can do this, which is the character a woman should have. You are really much better than Ruoxin, who complained to me every day in company. It is no wonder Leon chose you.”
I sighed with relaxation. Fortunately, I said nothing!