Chapter 22: Old Grudges
Looking at Moretti's back, which was almost deserted, Lydia couldn't help but smile with pleasure. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Zongheng saw her expression in his eyes, and immediately felt that there must be a lot of interesting stories between the two.
With that in mind, Lydia had already made her wheelchair to the bedside with the help of her parents.
"Daddy! Mom! Let me be alone with Nemo for a while, okay? Lydia pleaded.
"Ah...... Good...... No problem. James glanced at him uneasily, and walked out with Marilyn.
When only one of them was left in the room, he asked, "How are your injuries?" ”
Lydia shook her head back and gestured, "The wound on her back still hurts. As a result, the upper body is less convenient to move. Nothing else. ”
"I heard you had a concussion. Why, didn't you feel uncomfortable? ”
Lydia laughed: "Originally, I was still a little dizzy, but after arguing with Moretti just now, I immediately refreshed." ”
To enhance the expressive effect, Lydia also deliberately took a deep breath, revealing the intoxicated expression that can often be seen when hiking in the spring flowers.
Zongheng couldn't help laughing: "I didn't understand what you were talking about just now, but I also knew that you were arguing." What a strangeness! You and Moretti are both FBI colleagues, why do you get into tension and hatred as soon as we meet? Is it because of my relationship? ”
Zongheng's original intention was to ask if Lydia had a quarrel because she and Moretti had a disagreement over the Peace Hotel case. For some reason, Lydia steered the conversation astray. She laughed and said, "You little guy is so interesting! How could Moretti and I quarrel because of you? What exactly do you think? Could it be because you slept in the same bed with me and kissed Moretti just now? Don't worry, a little furry kid like you won't be able to arouse our interest. ”
Zongheng's face suddenly collapsed. He felt that Lydia was simply inexplicable, he obviously didn't mean it, but she misinterpreted it and made it very embarrassing.
Could it be that yesterday's explosion blew her head out? Slandered.
Seeing that Zongheng had a calm face and didn't pick up his stubble, Lydia blinked her eyes and asked, "Angry?" ”
"......" Zongheng still pursed his lips and did not speak.
Lydia smiled evilly. She leaned into the armrest of the wheelchair with both hands, leaned into her ear and asked, "You deliberately took advantage of Moretti just now, right?" ”
Zongheng's heart suddenly "clicked" and jumped violently. He hurriedly argued: "Don't talk nonsense! It was an accident just now! ”
"Come on!" Lydia looked incredulous, "If you were to say that you killed those two gunmen, I would be the first to disbelieve them." But if you couldn't avoid Moretti's mouth just now, I don't believe it. Don't forget, I've seen you in your shoes. ”
Hearing this, Zongheng's mood was quite complicated.
After reading the mysterious note sent by the nurse last night and being interrogated by Moretti today, Zongheng has a clearer understanding of his behavior in the Peace Hotel yesterday. Zongheng's initial fight with the gunman not only saves his own life, but also saves Lydia and the other survivors in the hotel. Such an act can be regarded as justified self-defense, or even courageous action. But then he cut people in two with a single sword, which exceeded the boundaries of legitimate defense. After all, the gunman had already had his hands cut off and lost the ability to resist, and he killed him, which at best was excessive defense, and at worst it could be counted as intentional homicide. If Zongheng is a law-abiding American citizen, prosecutors or judges may turn a blind eye. But he is an Asian of unknown origin, so the consequences of this incident are unpredictable.
So when she heard Lydia say she didn't believe he had killed the two gunmen, she couldn't help but feel relieved. With a current FBI agent exonerating himself, the hope of getting out unsafe will undoubtedly be greatly increased. Lydia said he could get past Moretti's mouth......
"I was just so surprised that I forgot to dodge!" Vertical and horizontal faces, in order to hide the weakness of the heart.
But Lydia didn't believe a word. She glanced slyly at the vertical and horizontal toes, and said, "I could see very clearly just now, when you two fell, your toes kicked right in Moretti's knee tendons. I have an M.D., and I know exactly what happens if that place is struck. ”
"It was just an accident!" Zongheng is still hard-mouthed. He couldn't even say that he was deliberately taking advantage of him just now.
Lydia stared at Vertical and Horizontal with a smirk, and it made him cristful. But he didn't dare to look away, or even blink, so as not to make himself look even weaker.
After a while, Lydia couldn't hold back at first. She laughed and said, "Forget it! I won't tease you! Ha ha! I know you're just taking advantage of it! I don't blame you, why are you so nervous? ”
Zongheng was only half relieved in one breath, and immediately lifted it up again. After a long time, this woman still doesn't believe his defense?! But it's no wonder, who let Zongheng have bad intentions from the beginning?
At this time, Lydia said, "Why do you think I am so sure that you are deliberately taking advantage of Moretti?" ”
Zongheng simply broke the jar and asked, "Why?" ”
"You woke up yesterday morning and your panties were wet, right?"
"......" Zongheng was stunned for a moment, and his whole face, along with his neck and ears, turned red.
Can...... How did Lydia know? Did she see it all?
Lydia continued, "You must be wondering how I know, right? Do you know that you were restless after falling asleep the night before, and I didn't sleep well all night. It's hugging and touching, and it's still arching. I've been underestimating you all along! ”
Zongheng was so ashamed that he wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into. Only then did he understand how Lydia had left the room before dawn. Come to think of it, he must have habitually regarded the person next to him as his wife Youning after falling asleep......
Seeing that Zongheng was so ashamed that she almost hung her head down to her chest, Lydia no longer took advantage of the victory to pursue. She changed the subject: "Do you know why I quarreled with Moretti today?" ”
"Why?" Zongheng asked dejectedly.
"Moretti and I were at the same time when I was training at Quantico. You don't see that she's a few years younger than me, but she's a powerful character. She is a person who often stops at nothing to achieve her goals. Among our fellow trainees, I was the second and she was the third. But after graduating, I was assigned to New York, but she was able to go straight to the General Bureau, which shows how powerful she is. Later, she was demoted to Chicago because some of her methods were too radical in investigating the case. So! I saw her violently using violence against you at the door of the ward, and I quickly kicked open the door to stop her, just to let her know that there was a handle in my hands. When she comes back to investigate you, she will be more or less jealous and dare not mess around. It's just that I didn't expect that to happen. You guy, you look quite honest, I didn't expect to be as good as a monkey, and you know how to follow the trend. Ha ha! There is such a scandal, I see if she will dare to be in front of me in the future! The more Lydia spoke, the happier she became, and her eyebrows fluttered.
"......" is speechless.
He can hear it, this woman may be right to think about him, but the deepest motive is to take the opportunity to take revenge. God knows what happened to these two women, and they are still haunted by it. Isn't that the case for the unfair distribution of work locations?
Zongheng suddenly thought of a question and said, "In this way, Agent Moretti has always been aggressive towards me, how much is it because of you?" ”
Lydia was dumbfounded, speechless for a while.
Zongheng only felt a headache, and it was really uncomfortable to be caught between two women and use it as a tool for struggle. He made up his mind that he would never be in the limelight again like yesterday. If you fight with people again, you must pack up your hands and tails. He had a feeling that Moretti would stare at him because of Lydia. This time, the owner of the mysterious note helped, and if something like this happened again next time, the consequences would be unpredictable.
After all, modern weapons are just too powerful. It's really uncomfortable to be shot!
……
As a suspect, Zongheng was kept under house arrest for the next two days.
For this, both Moretti and Jack seem helpless.
Who made Zongheng only twelve years old? Despite the abundance of evidence at hand pointing to the fact that he killed the two gunmen, he was justified in self-defense, albeit excessively, and secondly, he was a minor, and he was two years away from the minimum age of criminal responsibility in Ohio, where Midwood belonged.
Neither Moretti, who is the FBI, nor Jack, who is the local sheriff, is willing to risk such a risk with his future. As a result, they had to limit their range of movement to hospital wards in the name of protection and treatment.
In this regard, it doesn't matter at all. He had been locked up in a hospital room since he was in New York, and he had long been used to it. And at that time, I basically only had an hour a day to talk to Lydia, the only person around me who could communicate. Now Lydia was in the room next to him, and she would come over if she had something to do and knock on the wall.
Zongheng took this opportunity to learn English from Lydia.
These days, Zongheng is fed up with the pain of not knowing English. There are only a handful of people around you who can communicate, and it is very troublesome to do anything.
In addition to Lydia, an English teacher, taking advantage of Moretti to interrogate the case, Zongheng and her translator Liu Yu are also familiar with each other.