Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Chilling Truth

"You just said that Dad was surprised by the result because you haven't figured out how to tell me the truth, right?" I looked at Li Jing and asked, I knew that it must be some unspeakable reason that made him repeat so repeatedly before revealing the truth to me. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Li Jing did not refute my words, on the contrary, he hesitated for a moment and asked me rhetorically, "Well, I didn't know that Uncle Mo would actually talk to you about his experience. ”

"When I was in the hospital with him before, he told me a lot about his experiences when he was younger. However, he didn't go into too many details with me, as if he was afraid that I would have a preconceived prejudice about human interactions, so he just talked about his experience, but didn't give any evaluation to others. "I was a little distressed, but I didn't expect my speculation to be in a word, my father was pitted by his own land. It is conceivable that Dad's mood at that time must have fallen to the bottom the moment he knew the truth.

Mi Zhen noticed the subtle change in the atmosphere, and hurriedly came out to play a round: "That, why did Mr. Luo send himself a vase with a curse?" It feels so weird. ”

Li Jing looked at me when he heard this, hesitating to say what happened next. I could see his uneasiness, and just smiled and motioned for him to continue: "Well, I'd love to know what's next. You shouldn't have promised Dad to keep it a secret, right? ”

Li Jing blinked, and finally lost at my urging: "Since you said you don't mind, there's nothing to worry about." In the beginning, although your father knew in his heart that there was something wrong with his apprentice, I could feel that he was all the time, how to say, deceiving himself. I mean, I deceived myself into thinking too much, and thought too badly of my apprentice. Therefore, Uncle Mo always asked me to wait and then go to Mr. Luo to question him face to face, but proposed to continue to investigate what happened after that with me. Find out what's going on in the antique shop. I could sense your father's depressed and anxious mood. He smoked a lot in those days. Especially in the days after the truth was revealed, he almost never left the cigarette. "I think back to the old days, and I do remember that there was a time when my dad smoked very fiercely, and he always talked to himself while smoking. I won't say the reason for him, but because he later returned to his previous state, the matter slowly became blurred. Now that I know the reason, I can't help but regret it a little, how sad my father was at that time.

Seeing that I was blaming myself, Li Jingdao became cramped: "I'm sorry, I, I didn't mean to make you sad." ”

"I know." I forced myself to smile, "Let's talk about the antique shop." Isn't Mr. Lim's antique shop monitored? "I tried to turn my attention back to the loss of the vase.

Li Jing just shook his head: "If the monitoring is useful, it won't bother your father to go out in person." ”

"Didn't you catch the thieves?"

"The entire record of that night was erased."

"Didn't the surveillance installed by other businesses take any pictures?" I asked unwillingly.

Li Jing shrugged his shoulders with some regret: "In fact, those surveillance cameras can only photograph the situation at the door of their own storefront. ”

After listening to Li Jing's answer, I couldn't help but be a little disappointed, but soon, I was attracted by Li Jing's words just now: "You just said that the surveillance was erased by the whole paragraph?" Does that mean someone has done something to surveillance? In fact, I think this kind of thing can only be done by people in the store who are familiar with video? I remember that surveillance all have passwords, only the people in the store have passwords, right? Could it be that Mr. Luo bought the people in the store to do such a thing? ”

"At first, your father and I guessed the same thing. Even your father, suspicious of this, convinces himself that maybe it was the clerk who stole the vase, making him misunderstand his apprentice. But in fact, a friend of mine who is more proficient in this area rejects the two of us' conjectures. It also completely shattered your father's illusions. ”

"Really?" I guess Dad must have been very chilled at the time.

"It's not that the surveillance was erased, it's that nothing was captured itself. The person who stole the vase had the power cut off before he could enter the store. So the footage wasn't erased, but it wasn't filmed at all. Li Jing's eyes darkened, "As long as the current is too large to exceed the current quota of the air switch, it will cause tripping, and the monitoring equipment will automatically shut down." However, you have to go inside the store to find a way to make the current exceed the set value. However, I remind you that the key is only owned by Mr. Lin himself. And Mr. Lin himself said that on the day the vase was stolen, there was no sign of breaking into the store, and there was no sign of the door lock being broken. And that night, both Mr. Lin and the clerk had exact alibi. I went to check the authenticity and not a single one lied. The keys are usually only held by Mr. Lin alone, and on his face, it looks more like Mr. Lin is guarding and stealing from himself. But Uncle Mo was still suspicious of these clues. ”

"What is he suspicious?" My attention was completely absorbed by Li Jing's words.

Li Jing's eyes tilted slightly to the right: "Mr. Lin's alibi." Realizing that his words made me a little stunned, he hurriedly added: "It's not that he doubts the authenticity, he believes in Mr. Lin's character, and Mr. Lin really didn't disappoint your father." He suspects that all three of them have perfect alibi on the same day, and if you pay more attention to the criminal investigation side, you will find the 'perfect alibi' very abrupt, as if it was a deliberate cover-up. ”

I looked at Li Jing intently and motioned for him to continue.

"A perfect alibi generally refers to the proof that the suspect is not at the first scene of the crime, and the perfect alibi includes the evidence of the suspect's alibi when the four conditions are normal. No one deliberately lied, no deliberate time changes, no pre-set mechanisms and no shortcuts or another crime scene. Often, it's hard to happen to multiple suspects by coincidence, and in fact, there's always less than perfect evidence to emerge. For example, in terms of witnesses, there may be family members testifying, and the suspect was resting at home at the time of the crime, which cannot be regarded as a perfect alibi, because it contains a certain possibility of family cover-up. But none of the suspects in this theft case had such a situation. No one gave vague evidence, and that confused your father. ”

"I don't think it's reasonable." I guessed what my dad was thinking, "The real world will always have flaws." ”

Li Jing nodded and confirmed my guess.

"But." Again, I wondered, "What's the point of that?" If what you say is a perfect situation happens, there are no shortcuts, no perjury, no mechanism exists, then you are putting yourself in the way. There is no one who can leave in front of everyone and return to the store to steal the vase. ”

After listening to my words, the corners of Li Jing's mouth raised slightly: "But there are people who can do this, but it's a pity that it's not a few of them." ”

"Huh? But the others don't have the key. But as soon as I finished saying this, I had another guess, "Could it be that there is a clerk who colluded with Mr. Luo to steal from the guard." ”

"That's not what I meant." Li Jing smiled and shook his head, "Too many people are involved, and a single arrival will make things worse." There will always be people who leak the news, which is very unsafe. In this kind of theft, the more single the person, the less likely it is to show the pepper, at least you will not be afraid of someone telling you. But if you really do it alone, it is actually impossible, and Mr. Luo finally fell on his own negligence. He self-righteously thought that he really didn't ask anyone to help. ”

I heard Mi Zhen take a breath of cold air next to me, and then her playful words came in my ears: "When I hear this again, I will still feel intimidated by Mr. Luo's dirty humanity." ”

"Li Jing told you about this?" I looked at Mi Zhen curiously.

Mi Zhen leaned lazily on the back of the chair: "After all, Li Jing and I both know your father." Usually we talk about the process of getting to know each other, so it's not strange to mention it, right? ”

"Then you just acted like you didn't know anything." I whispered.

Mi Zhen didn't care: "But it's the first time I've heard Li Jing take the initiative to mention this matter, and I used to hear what your father said." However, your father gave all the credit to Li Jing, saying that it was thanks to Li Jing's help that he cleared his suspicions. It's not the same as Li Jing's version just now. ”

"But what I'm talking about is the real thing. The reason why Uncle Mo said this was because he didn't want me to be embarrassed. To be honest, when I listened to Uncle Mo, I was very grateful that he didn't embarrass me in public, but he always took the credit of others, which also made me feel very guilty. At that time, I really caused a lot of trouble for Uncle Mo. But I still want to recreate what really happened at the time. In the end, your father solved the theft himself. Li Jing looked me in the eye.

"It's very much in line with my father's character, he always feels that things have been solved and everyone has a happy ending, whose credit is more, and what does it matter." I gave my dad a thumbs up in my heart, "But then again, I'm still surprised by Mr. Luo's logic." ”

"Bad friends." Mi Zhen whispered.

"What?" I was puzzled by Mi Zhen's abrupt speech.

"I mean, Mr. Luo is a bad friend." Mi Zhen repeated, "It's a friend who takes advantage of and makes a bad friend." ”

"I also feel sad about that." I watched Mi Zhen express my doubts, "Why is he using my dad?" My dad's other lands are good for my dad. "I think this Mr. Luo, if it weren't for the bond he had with my dad and did such an unreasonable thing, he could be directly defined as a bastard with a brain.

Li Jing's smile disappeared completely after revealing the truth, and he frowned slightly and said, "So I just asked you if you really know your father's experience, just hoping that my words will not have any bad impact on you." Where there are people in this world, there are all kinds of complex relationships, some of which are very good memories, but some of which are not so good. I always felt that your father didn't want you to see the evil side of human nature, so he brought the pain of his own conduct. But what I'm going to say next will make you face the evil of human nature, and I'm not sure if your father would let us talk to you about that. ”

I knew what Li Jing was worried about, and I patted the back of his hand gently: "I know that Dad always wants to protect me, so he will do everything possible to make me feel that there is more happiness than pain in this world." But not every day is a warm spring, every grass will wither with the change of seasons, and everyone will experience happiness and pain. It's just that Dad always wants to keep those pains behind him like Superman, and I know that Dad has always protected me from being swallowed up by the darkness. However, one day I will still see it, but I will not be devoured, because I believe that the grass and trees in this world will rotate with each other, and not everything is bad for everyone, right? Also, Dad didn't say he wanted to keep it a secret from me, did he? If you say something he can't say, you can say it for him, which can be regarded as a great help. I'm sure he'll be very grateful to you. I winked at him.

Hearing my words, Li Jing's expression slowly relaxed, he glanced at Mi Zhen again, Mi Zhen hesitated, but still nodded, and Li Jing spoke again: "Zhizhi is actually much stronger and more mature than Uncle Mo thought. ”

"In its eyes, I was always a child who didn't grow up." I said a little unconvinced, but a sense of loss inexplicably welled up in my heart.

After realizing that he seemed to have messed up the atmosphere that had just relaxed, he quickly changed the topic to the theft case: "Do you know why Mr. Luo went to great lengths to rehearse such a farce of thieves shouting to be thieves? ”

I shook my head: "Maybe it's a sudden change that caused him to have some mental problems, right?" Persecution paranoia? ”

Li Jing shook his head, as if amused by my words, and the corners of his mouth raised a beautiful arc: "Sure enough, it's still a little too simple." He did so with other intentions. When it comes to getting compensation from the insurance company, I'm the best person he has chosen. ”

Speaking of this, Li Jing's tone was covered with a layer of chocolate frost bitterness: "An inexperienced private detective like me when I was a fledgling, I was played around by him, and there is nothing to complain about being his pawn." ”

"There's no difference between you now and then, you're all just as stupidly being played around by a schizophrenic little girl." Mi Zhen didn't save any face for Li Jing. Schizophrenia, I became interested in the word and turned my curious gaze to Li Jing.

Li Jing glared at Mi Zhen and said with some displeasure: "This is my own business, and my current situation is completely different from that time." It is not possible to generalize. ”

Forced by Li Jing's stern eyes, Mi Zhen closed her mouth stupidly. After a long while, Li Jing spoke again, but his tone was already the same as just now: "I, I really didn't have much experience at that time. And Mr. Luo also took a fancy to this. He hoped that the loss of the vase would defraud the insurance company of a high amount of compensation and relieve his financial pressure at that time. And it was conceited, but in fact, I was stupid and I was regarded as the best candidate for Mr. Luo to help him complete the scam. In fact, before he received the vase, he was in a business crisis. ”