Chapter 52: The Truth
After resting in the bustling vegetable market, Xie Lingxu looked at the crowd a little distracted.
"This case, have you figured it out?" I don't know when King You asked on his side, but there was still no trace of emotion in his tone.
Xie Lingxu frowned slightly: "It's almost, but there is one thing I don't understand-Fan Li, why did the murderer kill him?" β
Seeing the former looking back at him, the king glanced away unnaturally with his eyes: "Once a person crosses the line, right and wrong do not matter, hatred and bigotry will replace all right and wrong." β
Fanri had nothing to do with the grievances in the case, and there was no reason for him to be killed...... But......
Xie Lingxu raised his eyes and looked at the gloomy sky, no...... Perhaps, this incident is related to him, and his death precisely represents the alleged hatred and bigotry of the murderer......
All the clues were intertwined and overlapped in an instant, piecing together a hideous but real image, and the vague phantom gradually became clear, and then firmly engraved in Xie Lingxu's mind......
"I see......"
Xiao Qixin: "I said Xiao Xie, what are we going to do with Dr. Zhou again?" β
Xie Lingxu looked at the former's tired and thinned face, patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's time to close the case." β
Zhishi Medical Centerββ
"What, case closed? How to knot? The case...... Something to do with Dr. Zhou? Xiao Qixin asked.
"We'll find out later. Let the people of the Nine Governors Gate surround the medical hall, and these people who see the doctor and grab medicine will disperse first. β
After about a quarter of an hour's effort, the queue of people in the World Healing Medical Hall was bombed away, and only Dr. Zhou, Ning Jun and a group of people who came to investigate the case were left in the room.
Doctor Zhou was a little annoyed: "It seems that you are completely going to disrupt my medical hall this time." β
Xie Lingxu glanced at Ning Jun, who was full of panic beside Dr. Zhou, and said lightly: "Doctor Zhou, between the information investigated so far in the case, I'm afraid I can't discuss it with you this time." β
"Hmph......" Dr. Zhou snorted coldly, pulled open the wooden chair on the side, suppressed the anger in his heart and sat down.
Xie Lingxu looked at Dr. Zhou's Tie Qing's face, couldn't help sighing, and turned his eyes to Ning Jun, who looked strange, and said:
"Young Master Ning, when was the last time you and Zhou Jingyue met?"
Ning Jun's pupils shrank suddenly, and Doctor Zhou couldn't control his emotions when he heard Xie Lingxu call his daughter's name:
"What the hell are you trying to do?"
Xie Lingxu: "Young Master Ning, answer my question." β
Ning Jun didn't dare to speak, Doctor Zhou looked at him with kind eyes, and his tone was solemn and firm: "Ah Ning, don't be afraid, I won't let them hurt you." β
Ning Jun looked at Dr. Zhou's eyes a little evasive, and when he met Xie Lingxu's sharp gaze, he couldn't help but lower his head.
"More than ten years ago, Jingyue ...... Came back to see us. β
Xie Lingxu: "Do you think she is doing well in the palace?" Or why do you think she ran away when she saw you turn around? β
Ning Jun shook weakly: "I...... I don't know. β
"About the incident that happened to Zhou Jingyue more than ten years ago......"
Before Xie Lingxu finished speaking, Doctor Zhou stood up with a violent slap on the table: "That's enoughβ"
The clues of the case and the truth of the matter are clearly about to come out, but all the people involved and all those who know the relevant information have their own minds to tightly wrap the truth tightly, making the case that could have come to light become confusing. Xie Lingxu rubbed his eyebrows, and said in an unprecedentedly strong tone:
"Doctor Zhou, don't you want to know the truth?"
"Of course I know the truth, and no one knows the truth better than I do!"
Xie Lingxu saw that Dr. Zhou had no intention of backing down at all, so he simply didn't talk to him: "Ning Gongzi, for Zhou Jingyue being ...... by Li Shi back then. Ahem, what do you think about rape? β
Ning Jun: "I ......"
Xie Lingxu saw that the former wanted to speak and stopped, and then said: "Zhou Jingyue and your childhood sweetheart, but you were treated like this by Li Shi, were you angry when you saw it?" β
Although he felt that Dr. Zhou's knife-like gaze was staring straight at him, Xie Lingxu still finished his next words unhurriedly,
"Isn't it angry, angry...... Wanted to kill him. Xie Lingxu smiled coldly: "You also want to kill yourself who doesn't dare to take responsibility and is cowardly?" β
"I ......" Ning Jun's eyes lost focus: "I don't have ......"
"Then please explain why you went to Li Shi's house, I think...... Are you afraid that there will be some evidence against you, so you go and destroy it? β
"But it's good that we found the clue before you did." Xie Lingxu took out the towel with Li Xi's name written on it and a piece of paper-wrapped powder bag and put them on the table.
"Young Master Ning, please explain!"
Ning Jun lowered his head and said nothing, and fine sweat continued to seep out of his forehead......
Xie Lingxu moved closer to him, pressing forward step by step, and the truth was within reach.
"Ning Gongzi ......"
"It'sβ"
The air seemed to freeze in Dr. Zhou's sudden two words, and everyone in the room immediately looked at Dr. Zhou, whose face was indifferent at the moment......
Ning Jun raised his head in fear, and his weak voice was almost inaudible: "Father-in-law......"
Doctor Zhou turned his head, his eyes were still concerned: "I said, I won't let you have anything to do, I have lost Jingyue, I can't lose you anymore......"
Xiao Qixin, who was holding back his doubts and doubts, finally couldn't hold back: "Eh...... What's going on, Doctor Zhou, are you ...... In confession? β
"Yes, I killed Li Shi. He ruined my daughter's innocence, I hate him, and it was only natural to kill him. β
Xie Lingxu was stunned, and the words "of course" were particularly clear in Dr. Zhou's mouth.
Xiao Qixin: "What about the evidence, the evidence?" β
Doctor Zhou had an indifferent expression: "Aren't you investigating the case?" Didn't you find the evidence? β
"Doctor Zhou, calm down, we are now looking for Ning Gongzi to understand the situation, don't be so excited."
Doctor Zhou sneered: "Understand the situation, I think you are directly here to arrest people!" β
Xiao Qixin remembered the words that Xie Lingxu said before to close the case, and was stunned, secretly thinking that she had identified Ning Jun as the murderer, and now Dr. Zhou has taken on trumped-up charges in order to protect Ning Jun, but this is ...... Isn't that ridiculous?
"Doctor Zhou, you didn't kill people, you can't take the blame for others." Xiao Qixin looked at Dr. Zhou's paranoid appearance and didn't know how things would develop next, turned his head and looked at Xie Lingxu, who looked like he was watching a play,
"Little ......?"
Xie Lingxu came back to his senses: "Doctor Zhou, we already have the evidence, as for who the murderer is, I have my own measure." β
Dr. Zhou: "Then what else is there to say, I'll go with you." β
Xie Lingxu waved his hand and turned his head to look at Ning Jun, who looked unsettled for a while: "Ning Gongzi, are you really, not going to say anything?" β
Ning Jun's eardrums shook, and the sound of the outside world became extremely blurred, only to hear him mutter:
"Father-in-law, I'm sorry ......"
Xie Lingxu: "Why don't you tell Dr. Zhou the truth?" Still don't dare, right? β
Ning Jun only felt that his body was softened, more than ten years of disguise, more than ten years of inner entanglement and torture fell apart in an instant, scattering every nerve that jumped under his skin.
"Father, it's me...... It was me back then...... "Ning Jun fell to his knees with a thud, covering his face and sobbing uncontrollably.
Xie Lingxu saw that it was impossible for him to explain it by himself, and thought that it seemed that the truth still had to be revealed.
"Doctor Zhou, do you know, Li Shihe...... He was a eunuch. As soon as the words came out, there was a dead silence in the audience, except for Chu Xiu and the others, who didn't know why Xie Lingxu said such a sentence, there was also Ning Jun's expression who was almost collapsed, and Doctor Zhou, who was pale.
"You say...... What the? β
Xie Lingxu looked at the former's look of disbelief and some trepidation and said:
"After investigation, Li Shi entered the palace as a eunuch more than 20 years ago, and was later forced to leave the palace and became an unemployed beggar in Beishi, and since then, he has lived a life of poor food and clothing."
Xie Lingxu paused, and then said, "So...... Doctor Zhou, you know what I mean. β
"No...... No way. Dr. Zhou's eyes were a little detached, but his tone was full of doubts.
"Nothing is impossible, because that's what it is."
The air seemed to freeze for a few minutes, and Xie Lingxu smiled helplessly when he saw Dr. Zhou close his eyes, thinking that he should have understood......
Xie Lingxu followed his train of thought and said:
"So as a eunuch, how can Li Xian be the one who offended your daughter, the person who raped Zhou Jingyue back then was obviously ......" Xie Lingxu turned his eyes and looked at Ning Jun, who was curled up at the moment.
"It's youβ"
"I pondered for a while, and probably conceived such a scenario: When the incident happened, it was Zhou Jingyue who went up the mountain to collect medicine, and then you, Ning Jun, followed her all the way, it may be that Zhou Jingyue found you, and then what did you say and what happened, you were impulsive, and did those ridiculous things to Zhou Jingyue, and it happened to be seen by Li Shi, who has always admired Zhou Jingyue, but it was too late for him to stop you......"
"I want to ...... You may have knocked him unconscious and then ran away, and Zhou Jingyue was unconscious at that time until ...... Fan Li, a woodcutter who went up the mountain to chop wood, saw the disheveled Zhou Jingyue and Li Xi beside her. β
Xie Lingxu smiled coldly: "Of course, there are inevitably some discrepancies between the details of the story and the actual situation, after all, ...... I'm not at the scene again, so I can only use these bits and pieces of clues to make some nonsense. But I think, I'm also guessing eight or nine, right, Ning Gongzi? β
Ning Jun's eyes were scattered, what he had done back then was that the lies he had told reappeared in front of him frame by frame......
"Back then, everyone took it for granted that Li Shi did this matter, Zhou Jingyue didn't want to mention it, Li Shi didn't want you to fall into criticism, so he ...... He didn't deny his accusations, so the only people who knew the truth of the matter back then were Zhou Jingyue, Li Shi, and you......"