Chapter 294: Killing People and Killing Mouths
"What's the matter?" Long Xi (Song Xi) was depressed, and he didn't look at Zhao Jin, his tone was sorrowful, and he couldn't lift his spirits.
"Just now, a friend in Beijing sent a letter, saying that the imperial court is still investigating the robbery. Some time ago, it was rumored that Wang Fulai was also one of the five robbers back then, and now the person who spread the rumors has been arrested and brought to justice, but unfortunately according to that person's confession, he only took people's money and did things, and he didn't know who the other party was. Zhao Jin paused, and then said, "So Wang Fulai is just an unlucky substitute for the dead." ”
After Long Xi (Song Xi) listened, the eyes that looked at him were a little strange.
She is now beginning to doubt Zhao Jin's identity again, and she is the one who told her that Wang Fulai is a robber, and now he is the one who denies this claim.
If Chen Shengxiao always tells her something that can guide her thinking at key points, then Zhao Jin will always say something at some clever time that he has heard, he knows, and he has received news.
These things may not seem like a big deal, but they always make her move closer to the direction of the robbery of the year, and make her feel that the murder case can only be solved after solving the robbery of the year.
Actually, this is a paradox.
Regardless of whether today's case is related to the case of the year remains to be scrutinized, even if the two cases are really related, it does not mean that the case must be solved first, on the contrary, if the current case is solved, the robbery case of the year will also be revealed.
After all, it is only the people involved who are involved, and the mode of committing the crime and the place of committing the crime are already completely independent, and even the reason for the crime is only a possible uneven distribution of spoils, not a certainty.
In fact, in the final analysis, it is uncertain what the motive for this serial murder is, and it cannot be completely concluded that the murderer is for revenge just by the words Wang Fu heard.
In this way, Zhao Jin's actions are very suspicious, what is his identity, why did he guide her again and again to touch the case back then, what is his starting point?
Now, everything seems to be at an impasse, all she has is scattered and unsystematic information, and the clues she has pursued before are also unreliable due to the fact that there are so many human-led ideas.
The people around him are deliberately oriented, the other is subtle, and what they say is not so credible.
But the clues she collected on her own were so pale and powerless, almost unsystematic.
Everything seems to be back to square one, only the dead, no clues, everything has to be slowly groped by herself.
The heart of swearing to solve the case is gone, and now she only feels that there is darkness in front of her, and she doesn't know which direction is right, it seems that there are many people who want to induce her thinking, and want her to investigate the case in the direction they want, but are those directions right or wrong?
It has been a month since the death of the first deceased, Wei Ting, and four more cases have occurred in succession, three of which have killed people, and so far she has no clue.
In this ancient world, where there was no scientific and technological support, and there was no trustworthy person to discuss the case, she completely felt her incompetence and powerlessness, what to wash away grievances, what truth to be revealed, in the troubles of reality, are nonsense.
Zhao Jin could naturally understand the strange meaning in her eyes, and he was not embarrassed in his heart, it was not what he thought that this kind of oolong appeared, but that person's methods were too clever, making him mistakenly think that Wang Fulai was one of the five robbers.
It's just that what is fake is fake after all, and after a long time of investigation, his people completely ruled out the possibility of Wang Fulai's crime.
At the time of the robbery, Wang Fulai was marrying a wife in Chaoyun County, and many squires and relatives and friends in the county witnessed that he would never have killed people and sold goods on the outer roads of Gyeonggi.
In other words, the reason why the murderer spread rumors about him and killed him was to divert the attention of Long Xi (Song Xi), or Zhao Jin, who was hidden behind Long Xi (Song Xi).
But the mistake has been made, even if it will make Long Xi (Song Xi) suspect him, he has to tell her the truth of the matter, otherwise it will be useless for her to continue to follow this line of thought.
Ever since he stepped into Chaoyun County, Long Xi (Song Xi)'s actions were all under the observation of his people. Every step of her is targeted, she will never be untargeted, and the process and reason for inference are also very sufficient, and there is no assumption out of thin air.
Long Xi (Song Xi) herself felt deadlocked, and that was because she began to doubt the reality of all things that she had not seen with her own eyes. But in Zhao Jin's opinion, if Wang Fulai's identity is true, then her thinking will not deviate too much even if it is not absolutely correct.
For some reasons, he had no way to thoroughly investigate the identities of the five people and the masterminds behind them, all he could do was to find out the true identities of the five robbers.
He didn't even have a way to meddle in this case openly, and Long Xi (Song Xi) happened to be a very suitable barrier. So he hopes to continue to use her thinking to solve these cases, and it is best to find out the person who is hiding behind this dark curtain.
She has no name, no family background, no affiliation, just like a person who appeared out of thin air, even if that person goes to track down, he will definitely not be involved.
So even at the risk of being suspected by her, he had to tell her about it, and in order to save her trust, tell her more things without touching the red line, let her know that he was a trustworthy person, and that news was really just an accident.
At this time, not only Long Xi (Song Xi) and Zhao Jin's hearts turned back and forth, but even Zhao Kaizhi (Mo Kun) was also tossing and turning.
Xu Ju is not his father, although he spoiled him for a while when he was a child, but when Zhao Kaizhi (Mokun) was five years old, he learned the truth, and he no longer liked him, although he never lacked food and clothing, but the family interaction between father and son was never again.
Although Zhao Qin is his nominal mother and personally directed this farce of changing children, he is not very close to him, and even privately asked someone to find the traces of the girl, hoping to get it back as Miss Biao.
It's just a pity that it's been a long time, and the family that raised the girl has long been taken away, and there is no trace of it at all, so Zhao Qin's family dispelled that idea.
Although the subordinates respected him because of his status as a young master, the long-term lack of care from his parents affected the formation of his character. Under the influence of these two extremes, he developed the proud and sensitive character he has today.
He longs to be cared for, but he doesn't, he hates being approached too closely, but he is afraid of being left behind.
Although the contact with Long Xi (Song Xi) was short, he really liked this person like his sister. Although she looked so eccentric, and she didn't have the point of view of male and female defense, she always liked to pat him on the shoulder, and she ate without any image, but he could feel that she had no bad intentions, and she did treat him as a younger brother.
He wanted to get closer to her, but he didn't know how to get closer, so he always liked to sarcastically talk about her, and he was very happy to see her expression that wanted to strangle him but couldn't do it.
Regarding his father's death, he really wanted to track down the murderer, although the man treated him indifferently, but after all, it was the nominal father who made him grow so big. Even beasts know how to repay their kindness, let alone he, a man who has read books.
But when the truth was revealed, he flinched. He felt from Long Xi (Song Xi)'s words that his father's identity was not ordinary, and it seemed to be related to the robbery that shocked the whole country.
He didn't want to die, he really didn't want to die, so he hesitated, he didn't know if the case should go on or not.
What's more, at this point, he can feel Long Xi (Song Xi)'s confusion, and she doesn't know what the future holds. After coming to Chaoyun County, she was his backbone, and now that she is confused, what else can he do?
"That's right—"
"Actually—"
"Brother Song—"
The three of them suddenly spoke out at the same time, and after looking at each other, they all squeezed out a smile: "You guys say it first." ”
Seeing this, Zhao Jin was not ambiguous, and put the folding fan on the table, and said: "It was indeed my fault that there was an error in the information last time, and I ask Brother Song to forgive me." It's just that the matter is urgent, and there is nothing I can do. Brother Song has ever thought about why such rumors appeared, why is it who is not good, but it is Wang Fulai. As soon as we received the news, Wang Fulai died, as if he had pinched the time. Don't you think this move is like luring the government to investigate Wang Fulai, but you are afraid that the government will investigate Wang Fulai thoroughly?"
Long Xi (Song Xi) was also very depressed at this time, and now when she heard what he said, she suddenly remembered this incident, and felt that it was indeed very strange, she learned that Wang Fulai was abnormal at the banquet in the morning, and in the afternoon, Wang Fu was attacked and Wang Fulai "committed suicide" two things happened one after another.
The time of the perpetrator was very accurate, just letting her know that Wang Fulai was suspicious, but not letting her contact Wang Fulai, and not hearing any news, which was quite a bit of a desire to cover up. Moreover, not long after Wang Fulai's death, the rumors about him were discovered, and his suspicion was dismissed.
Is the murderer's purpose in doing this to hide the real murderer, or is it because Wang Fulai knows the details of the murderer, so he was killed?
At this time, Long Xi (Song Xi) didn't have time to suspect Zhao Jin's actions, and after carefully combing through the case, she found that she had made a mistake: when she learned that Wang Fulai might have been to the Jinhe River, she almost didn't think twice about it and believed that he was the one who met Chen Shengxiao, but ignored that he might just be passing by, and then saw the two people, so she was killed by the real murderer in this way.
In this way, even if the government asked Wang Fulai for questioning at the beginning, it would not believe what he said!
But when the government investigated the rumor, Wang Fulai had already been killed by those people.