False evidence

Chapter 125 Buying the murderer
Yan Fengwei seemed to hesitate for a moment before saying, "Turn the camera over here so I can see you."

The scene shifts, and he's now looking at me with a half-smile, across the screen.

"I consider myself fairly good at hiding things, but in Dongxizhai, it depends on what kind of item it is and how valuable it is."

Seeing his small eyes darting around slightly, I immediately understood: "Don't misunderstand, I'm not after other people's things."

Yan Fengwei chuckled: "I absolutely believe that. Take what happened last time, for example. Afterwards, I offered you 20,000 yuan, and you only asked me to pay your medical expenses. That shows your character. But I still find it strange, what are you looking for?"

"I really don't know that."

I hesitated whether to tell him the truth, but if I said that a cat brought us here, whether he would believe me or not, it would take a long time to explain.

Yan Fengwei laughed again, "Alright, don't worry about what to say. I'm a few years older than you, and I can tell you're telling the truth just by looking at your eyes. You're in a hurry to find something, so I'll help you look for it first."

He switched the phone to his other hand and pointed at me habitually: "Now do as I say, okay? Go outside first and see if there's anything junk hanging on the wall to the right of the door."

I went outside as instructed and sure enough, I saw two broken fish baskets, a common sight in the South, hanging on the wall.

Yan Fengwei looked at it through the screen and said, "Ignore the fish basket. Stand on a stool, find a hard object, and hammer that nail in. Remember, don't pull it out, hammer it in. If you can't pull it out, just smash it flat."

The more I listened, the stranger it seemed. In order not to waste time, I made the monkey do as he said.

After hammering the nail into the wall, Yan Fengwei said again, "Take that stool back inside and take down the painting on the corresponding wall."

As he instructed, I went back inside and took down an ordinary picture frame, revealing the main power switch that had been hidden.

"Now you should know where the stuff is, but if you don't know the safe's combination, you still won't get it! Hehehe... Hahahaha..."

Yan Fengwei was already laughing uncontrollably after saying just one sentence.

Seeing that one side of the switch box was blocked by a gap, I couldn't hold back any longer and asked him, "How do you know this place so well?"

Yan Fengwei laughed even harder, and it took him a long time to barely stop laughing before saying, "That used to be your sister-in-law's old house! After I married your sister-in-law, we lived there for four years. This safe is the one I set up back then! We lived quite comfortably, but then that street turned into a red-light district."

Back then, pink lanterns weren't popular; people would just stand at the door soliciting customers. Your sister-in-law was afraid she couldn't keep an eye on me, so she insisted I sell that house before we moved to the city! At that time, Kouzi and I were getting along well, and since he could afford it, I simply sold the house to him.

That safe is the one I told him about, but the combination has definitely been changed. Let me tell you, even if you have the combination, be very careful when you're working with that thing. That switch box is real; I ran a separate live wire inside it beforehand. If you move the switch box, the wire will be dangling over the safe. You'll get electrocuted if you don't move it first!

"I'm really impressed by you..."

Yan Fengwei chuckled and said, "Right now, I really wish you were a Buddha (thief). Back then, that bastard did such a despicable thing. If it weren't for your sister-in-law stopping him, I would have chopped him up with a kitchen knife. I've been holding back my anger for so many years. He's dead now, but the hatred for having my wife stolen is irreconcilable. If a Buddha could take his life savings, I'd burn incense and make offerings to him!"

I couldn't help but laugh. "Sorry, I can't avenge you. Okay, let me see what happened first, then we'll go get some meat, it's on me!"

After hanging up the video call, I took a closer look at the protruding piece and became increasingly convinced that this bald man, besides being a treasure trove, was also a true genius. In my opinion, his skill in hiding things was absolutely masterful.

Inside the switch box, there was an extra layer of sheet metal, and behind that, another layer of grayish-brown hard shell. The edges fit perfectly into the hole in the wall. Even removing the switch box and getting the sheet metal out was difficult enough, but once the sheet metal was removed, it was just a hole in the wall if you didn't look closely!
You have to hammer that nail in from the outside, pushing out all three layers of protection, before you can see the safe built into the wall!

"Be careful not to get shocked. Why don't you come down and let Monkey King do it?" Egg said from below.

The monkey teased her, "Are you afraid your boyfriend will electrocute you? I'm an insulator?" "Come on, it's an old-fashioned safe inside. You can't open it without the password."

I slammed the switch box back in with my fist, then had the monkey hand me the picture frame and hung it up again.

I had just stepped off the bench when I heard a 'meow' from the stairwell.

Stinky Egg finally showed up, but he came down the stairs.

The old cat stood on the bottom step, stared at this side for a while, then lowered its head slightly and slowly walked over.

When it got close, it opened its mouth and spat something onto the ground.

I picked it up and was shocked to find it was a deformed ring.

Although the rings are joined together in the middle to form an '8' shape, you can still tell that they are made of pure platinum!
The old cat looked up at me for a while, then slowly walked back to the stairwell and brought something over from behind the railing.

This time, without even picking it up, you can tell it's a two-inch color ID photo.

The old cat looked at me again, as if to make sure I could see the person in the photo clearly. Suddenly, it let out a shrill hiss, raised its paw, and scratched the face of the person in the photo hard!

Previously, through the black fish jade pendant, Pidan sensed that the cat wanted us to stop the car.

At that moment, without needing any sensory aids, the three of us—me, Pidan, and the monkey—all understood what it was trying to express, and we were all frozen in shock.

The tense atmosphere lasted for a full minute before the monkey finally uttered four words, one by one:
"Hire a killer to commit murder!"

Century Egg was completely speechless.

My body trembled slightly uncontrollably. I clutched the platinum ring, looked down at the old cat, and didn't know whether I was speaking to it or to Pidan and the monkey:
"This ring... is the deposit..."

"Meow!"

The old cat meowed again, as if to say "yes" to me!
Then, it raised one of its front paws and performed several seemingly meaningless movements.

"Good heavens!"

I feel like I'm going crazy.

The monkey and the preserved egg might not understand the meaning of its action, but I understood it at a glance.

The old-fashioned safe hidden in the wall uses the oldest rotary combination lock.

The old cat then drew six circles in the air with its paws, each circle different in direction and length...

"What does it mean?" the monkey asked me.

"It's telling me it knows the safe's combination!"

(End of this chapter)