Chapter 14: Revealing the Secret (I)
"No, of course not!" Yang Wenbin seemed offended by these two questions, "Do you think I-"
"That's not it." Yan Junli showed a smile and said patiently, "Even if this family really becomes unhappy in the end, it is not you, but the truth behind the case." And you are just a secret teller, no matter how cruel the truth is, you should tell it and give justice to the dead. β
"But what about the living?" Yang Wenbin muttered to himself and closed his eyes.
The car drove unhurriedly to the Rose County Manor, and the sky gradually darkened, and the setting sun burned in the corner of the horizon, merging with the endless wasteland.
There was a somber atmosphere in the Rose County Manor, where everyone was doing their own thing, and no one was talking.
"Doctor Yang, Team Yan." Li Hong walked out of the house, carrying three luggage backpacks in his hands, and it seemed that he had helped them pack their luggage in advance.
Yang Wenbin thanked Li Hong and took the backpack, then cleared his throat and said, "We'll go back to the hotel tonight, and we've been bothering for the past few days." β
But no one answered him, and there was only silence around him.
Yang Wenbin frowned, looked around and found that the twins were not there. He walked up to Yu Yongyi's side and whispered, "What about the twins?" Why didn't you see them? β
"The handsome young master seems to have been frightened by something, and the young master Yinghua is accompanying him in the room." Yu Yongyi stopped cleaning in his hand, "Sir, if you want to leave, leave quickly." β
Yang Wenbin heard the unkindness in Yu Yongyi's tone, but for some reason it increased his courage. He amplified his voice and said sharply in a volume that was loud enough for everyone present to hear:
"I have one more thing to inform you! I want all of you to stay here tomorrow morning, and if any of you are not in the manor, you will be seen as absconding in fear of sin! β
Ma Xiangtao threw down the rag in his hand and said in a dissatisfied tone, "Why should we listen to you?" β
"Because Ge Tianlu, who turned himself in, is not the murderer, and the murderer who killed Meng Yangping and Mei Qing is someone else." Yang Wenbin said word by word, "Tomorrow, I will uncover the truth of all this." β
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The night in the suburbs is very clean, there are no high-rise buildings of the city, and there is no smog and exhaust fumes of the city. The entire sky seems to be hanging overhead, and when you look up, you can see the stars in the sky.
Li Hong came to the balcony of the small hotel. Yan Junli was wearing a big black windbreaker and was standing on the balcony smoking slowly.
"Team Yan, Doctor Yang...... You okay? Li Hong said with some concern, "I always feel that he is a little abnormal in this incident." β
Yan Junli shook his head and spit out a puff of smoke rings, "I don't know, there must be something in the truth that touched him." β
"Team Yan, do you think it's possible that Doctor Yang is passing that 'hurdle'?" Li Hong asked.
Yan Junli's expression immediately tensed, "What's the hurdle?" β
"You know, it's the one that each of us goes through." Li Hong said, "Every policeman, every criminal, steps from the world over there to a certain hurdle in the world here. Team Yan, you are the girl named Yahe, and I am my sister Li Lili. We have all gone through such a hurdle and made a choice between darkness and light. But Dr. Yang ...... You know, he's really not the same kind of person as us. β
"If it were possible, I wouldn't want him to go through that kind of hurdle for the rest of my life." Yan Junli vigorously twisted the cigarette butt under his feet, "But if he keeps going like this, sooner or later he will ...... one day."
If you want to pursue the light, you must first go deep into the darkness. Light and darkness have always been close twin sisters. The dividing line between good and evil is sometimes so blurred, the slightest carelessness will lead to a misstep, and in a city where crime is always alive, those eyes that plot against the evil are revealed. And they are like moths to a fire, and they rush to the light and heat without hesitation, even if they don't know if there really is light.
Early the next morning, when Yan Junli and Li Hong came to the manor, almost everyone had already arrived. Ma Xiangtao sat stiffly on the sofa and didn't say a word. Yu Yongyi symbolically brought the tea, and his lips were tightened. The elderly Ge Tianlu was handcuffed by Yuan Chengze and sat extremely calmly. Meng Yinghua, who was dressed in black, looked away with a gloomy face that did not match his age. In the living room, Meng Yingjun and today's protagonist Yang Wenbin are missing.
"Where's Meng Yingjun?" Li Hong sat down on the sofa and asked.
"He's not comfortable staying in the upstairs room." Meng Yinghua opened his mouth with a vigilant face, "I promise he's in the room, will you treat him as a murderer because of this?" β
"No, of course not." Yan Junli said, looking around with some concern. The people have arrived, but why hasn't Yang Wenbin shown up yet?
"Why hasn't that doctor shown up yet?" Someone asked the question Yan Junli wanted to ask, although the tone was not friendly. Yuan Chengze shouted impatiently, "Does he want to trick us again?" You know, last time he-"
Before Yuan Chengze could finish speaking, Yang Wenbin's smooth voice floated from the side of the corridor. He wandered through the corridor, his five fingers swept over the historical portraits on the corridor, and admired it leisurely.
"Look at these portraits. It is made by a famous artist and has a long history. Rose County Manor and generations of self-styled families, successive generations of family owners. They all have different appearances, different destinies. Their lives were engraved into a picture scroll, one until Meng Yangping. Character determines fate, and he is no exception. I know everyone here is anxiously waiting for me to tell me the murderer, but don't worry, let me tell you a story first, a story from fourteen years ago. β
Yang Wenbin walked slowly through the corridor, and just came to the living room when the last syllable of a passage fell. The whole hall looked at him, some with uneasiness, some with curiosity, and some clenched their fists nervously.
"We all know what kind of person Meng Yangping is now, he is an alcoholic, short-tempered, and domestic violence, but he was not such a person more than ten years ago. Ten years ago he was rich, well-bred, like a true gentleman. Therefore, he was favored by a beautiful and touching lady like Mei Qing, and the two of them soon fell in love. But the good times of this love did not last long, because soon after marriage, Mei Qing found that she could not conceive a child. Mei Qing loves Meng Yangping so much, she desperately wants to continue the offspring for her husband, and Meng Yangping also very much hopes that the history of the family can continue. But as you may have noticed, the Roseshire Manor is almost out of touch with modern life due to its long period of closed life. Originally, it was something that could be solved by going to a big hospital for a check-up, but the couple adhered to the old-fashioned concept, so they couldn't solve it for a long time. The pain of not being able to have children has always tormented Mei Qing, and she began to become nervous under the double stimulation of longing and pressure. The woman's maternal love becomes distorted, and she begins to want her own children at all costs. Finally, one day, she caused irreparable disaster when she killed a woman, took one of her twins and treated them as her own children. β
"What? It's not that the children were adopted by themβ" Li Hong exclaimed in surprise, and was pushed by Yan Junli again, and then closed his mouth.
"The poor woman's name is Xu Shan, and she is Meng Yangping's underground lover. After Meng Yangping learned that Mei Qing was infertile, the number of lovers increased, and Xu Shan was just one of the few lovers who slept with him. But it's a pity that this woman was unfortunately pregnant with Meng Yangping's child, and for some reason, she decided to give birth to the child, which is a pair of lovely twins. Late one night, Xu Shan ventured to find her lover with her child in her arms, but Mei Qing, who was already insane, lost her mind when she saw the cute twins. Mei Qing killed Xu Shan without hesitation, and then took out the twins from the pool of blood. Meng Yangping was terrified, the woman who was killed was his lover, and the child he brought was also his child, and he had to do everything he could to cover it up. So he spent a lot of money to seal the mouths of many people, so that the society thought that she was missing. β
"What? Are the twins Xu Shan's children? Yu Yongyi exclaimed.
But Yang Wenbin didn't pay attention to Yu Yongyi, he paced slowly in the living room, and his cold gaze swept over everyone present.
In the past ten years, life on the manor has changed dramatically. In order to seal his mouth and cover up the truth, Meng Yangping took out most of the family property, and the family's life became more and more poor, and Mei Qing's illness did not improve in the slightest. That's when the collapse of the family began. Meng Yangping vented his resentment on the twins, at first he just beat and scolded them, but gradually, his heart was already rotten and he gained pleasure in the act of beating and scolding the twins, and he became interested in Meng Yingjun, who was well-behaved and lively. β
βοΌοΌβ Yan Junli couldn't help but interrupt him, "You mean, that kind of ββ? β
Yang Wenbin nodded slowly but affirmatively, "Meng Yangping has a short temper and has very eccentric sexual hobbies, I don't think there is anything surprising even if he is a pedophile." After he attacked his own son, he knew the taste of the marrow and asked again and again. I'm afraid it's already an open secret in this family, and everyone knows it. Apart from...... Meng Yingjun himself. He was too young to accept such a fact. When the body and mind are greatly damaged, in order to maintain the normal function of the body, human beings will choose to escape or forget to protect themselves. And this is exactly what Meng Yingjun subconsciously chose. The more he was hurt, the more complete his escape became. Gradually, all these dark, negative memories and emotions come together to form another personality, that is, a dual personality. β