After Alex calls his father out, he observes Tao's expression carefully.
Tao's eyes subconsciously dodge when she sees her father. Seeing this, Alex narrows his eyes. The two certainly know each other.
Alex is about to introduce, but his father waves his hand and looks at Tao and says cautiously,
"Tao tao?"
Tao lowers her head and dares not look at her father, then she says hesitantly,
"Mr Alexis."
Alex gets confused again since he doesn't understand the current situation. What is going on? It is like the bloodline recognition of relatives in dramatic TV series.
He is really afraid that his father would say something like, where have you been all these years? I have worked so hard to find you.
Alex doesn't know what to say for a moment. Fortunately, his mother is still at home and she asks seriously,
"Do you know each other?"
"Yes." His father nods, then looks at Tao and asks, "Tao tao, where have you been these years?"
Here it comes, Alex gets speechless, and he couldn't hide after all. The most ridiculous scene comes. He is not worried about having a younger sister, but he is afraid that his mother would not be able to accept it.
Turning to look at his mother, he finds that his mother's face has fallen.
Tao also sees her mother's face, and she hurriedly says,
"No, you misunderstand. Mr Alexis sponsored me to go to school before."
Hearing this, his mother's face eases a lot, but Alex's eyes narrow immediately. It is the same sentence, it is too coincidental, and everything is too coincidental, Which is hard for him not to doubt his father.
As Tao tells the story, Alex also knows the whole story. Tao was one of the students sponsored by his father, but she didn't like studying since she was a child. Seeing that children like her all had very good grades, only her grades were poor.
She felt very bad, thinking that she had wasted her father's money, and felt guilty about it, thinking that she had failed his father's expectations of her. Over time, this guilt overwhelmed her, and she began to choose to escape, and then she chose to leave without saying goodbye.
This is also the reason why she didn't dare to look at his father just now, also because of guilt.
After saying this, Tao stands up and wants to leave. However, his father asks her to stay for a meal. Seeing his father's appearance, Tao does not refuse.
After dinner, Alex sends Tao home. When they arrive at her house, Tao suddenly says to him in a firm tone,
"I don't plan to launder money anymore and I plan to surrender. I just picked up the money and didn't commit a crime, so the police won't do anything to me. If the police asks me to pay the money, I will work and pay it back slowly."
It was a self-defeating move, it was really a self-defeating move. Alex never thinks that things would turn out like this, and then he is just about to persuade her.
Tao looks at him and says earnestly,
"I won't persuade you to surrender with me together, and I won't talk about your affairs absolutely, but I still hope that you can stop doing money laundering. As we all know, money laundering is a crime.
You have such a good father, you should feel content, and you are not short of money. I don't know what made you embark on this criminal path, but you are supposed to understand that a prodigal son who returns is more valuable than gold. Don't let your father down please.
That's all I have to say, and I really hope that you take care of yourself."
After saying that, she turns around and leaves without giving Alex a chance to speak.
"You...What the hell?"
Alex points at Tao with an unbelievable look on his face. Was he being taught a lesson? That's right, he has just been taught a lesson by this woman, and he is very puzzled at this moment.
How did things turn out like this?
Alex is now full of desire to complain. He wants to point at her nose and tell her, do you know how he has been living in these years?
Good father? What's good about him?
Dare to speak out without knowing anything?
He would rather be like her without parents, than have a father who is always trying to turn his son into a murderer.
Alex takes a deep breath and calms himself down. This is the first time he feels angry and it is really inexplicable.
After calming down, he returns home. His mother says that his father is waiting for him in the study room, and then Alex narrows his eyes. What does this mean? Want to confront him?
When he comes to the study room, his father is standing by the window looking out the window. His father doesn't turn back when he hears Alex come in.
Neither of them spoke. After a long time, the father turns around and asks,
"Why her?"
Hearing this, Alex pretends to know nothing and asks, "What do you mean?"
"You know what I mean."
Alex frowns and asks, "Do you think that I will kill her?"
The father nods.
Ridiculous! It's so ridiculous! Why and when does he want to kill her?
In Alex's opinion, it was obviously his father who killed these persons. Now, his father says it lightly, as if Alex did everything by himself. What right does his father have to say that?
"I don't understand what you mean."
"Change someone else, and you are forbidden to kill her."
Alex sneers and doesn't say anything, since he truly doesn't want to engage in meaningless debates. When he finds evidence later, he would personally slap the evidence on his father's face to let him see who killed the person exactly.
Seeing Alex's attitude, his father doesn't speak for a long time, as if he has given up. He changes the subject then and says,
"How did you find her?"
"She works as a waitress in the fast food restaurant opposite my store."
The father nods and says as if recalling a memory,
"Yes, she has no education and can only make a living by doing this. What about now? Is she still working there?"
Hearing his father's words, Alex narrows his eyes and decides to take the initiative,
"No, she resigned."
"Why? Is she unhappy with her work?"
"No, it's because she picked up money, and it's not a small amount, a full three million."
The father frowns and asks in confusion, "How is it possible? Will anyone take so much cash now? Besides, how can a weak girl like her carry three million?"
Alex smiles and says,
"Who said it wasn't? I can carry it, just use a suitcase, but my luck is so bad, it's like someone deliberately gave her money."
The father frowns and looks at him and asks, "Do you suspect that I gave her the money?"
Alex says sarcastically, "I didn't say that."
His father looks at him,
"You think that I gave her the money. If you already knew the relationship between her and me, this guess is reasonable.
But when you brought her back, I noticed that you didn't know the relationship between her and me. Why did you think so? This doesn't make sense.
Unless you thought of it suddenly, but combined with the fact that you suddenly brought her home, it means that you have long suspected that I gave her the money before. The reason you brought her back was actually to test me.
Can you tell me why you have this idea?"
Alex looks at his father and speaks after a long time,
"Dad, we are so alike, even our way of thinking is so similar."
"Because you are my son."
Alex gets silent since his father's words just now makes him feel scared. Just as he said, the two of them are too alike, which would lead to the fact that everything he did might not be hidden from his father, and all his efforts would be fruitless.
He couldn't accept this result at all and he encourages himself. It doesn't matter, and maybe this is also his chance. His father understands him, and he could understand his father too.
Seeing that Alex remains silent for a long time, his father continues to say, "Don't want to say? Okay, then I'll dare to guess."
Alex narrows his eyes and he does not refuse, since he hopes to find some loopholes in his father's words. If there is some information about Dong's case in his father's words, then he could directly determine that his father was framing him.
Because some things can only be known by personal experience, and it is impossible to be completely accurate by guessing alone.
Seeing that he does not refuse, his father begins to say,
"Let's start with Dong, okay?"
Alex narrows his eyes, and his father is indeed very sharp, since Dong is indeed the key to the whole incident. He does not want to give his father any hints now, and he wants to see what tricks his father is playing.
Father smiles and says "From your expression, I can see that you agree. Okay, in that case, let's start with Dong."
"I learns from the police that Dong is the culprit of the recent series of disappearances, and you went to investigate, but you were attacked by Dong and became like this.
Why did you go looking for clues alone? What does Dong's murder have to do with you? There are two possibilities.
First, you feel offended, you are a murderer, and another murderer appears near you, and you want to kill him.
Second, he threatened you and he wanted to kill you, so you had to strike first.
Which possibility is it?"
Alex narrows his eyes and asks, "Which one do you think it is?"
Father smiled, "I think it's the second one."
Alex asks puzzledly, "Why not the first one?"
Father looks at Alex,
"Now I'm sure, it's the second one. I just said that I think it's the second one, but that was just a blind guess. I just wanted to observe your micro-expressions after saying it, so as to confirm my guess. It's a little trick in psychology, not worth mentioning."
Alex suddenly laughs when he hears his father's words, and asks back,
"Dad, do you think I've changed?"
"Changed."
Alex nods, and then his expression suddenly becomes serious,
"I'm not sure if I've changed, but I'm sure you have changed. Listen to the pride in your tone, why are you so proud?"
Then Alex shows a crazy expression,
"Your son is an out-and-out murderer! Are you proud of this?"