False evidence

Chapter 239 The Most Familiar Stranger (10)

Liang Kaiyuan comes from a big city and is from a wealthy family. He could never imagine that someone would cry so sadly over a basket of steamed buns.

He couldn't even imagine how the girl got the injury on her arm.

He walked over and said, "Don't pick them up, they can't be eaten."

The girl wiped away her tears and shook her head: "It's still edible."

He picked up a small steamed bun, broke it open, and ate the filling inside.

"Stop eating it!"

Liang Kaiyuan tried to help the girl up, but as soon as he touched her arm, she let out a soft "Ah!"

Liang Kaiyuan finally pulled the girl up, rolled up her sleeves, and after just one glance, a surge of intense anger rose within him:

"Were you beaten up? Who beat you up like this?"

The girl just shook her head, but her eyes were fixed on the steamed buns on the ground.

Seeing this, Liang Kaiyuan stopped asking questions and told the girl to wait where she was. He then ran back to the street and packed up five steamers of xiaolongbao.

When he returned to the alley, the girl was still there, but the steamed buns on the ground were all gone, only the wrappers remained...

The girl seemed to have been starving for a long time. When Liang Kaiyuan gave her the steamed buns, she only said thank you and then eagerly opened the lotus leaf and wolfed them down.

The girl devoured all four steamers of buns in no time.

The girl looked like she was already full, but she opened the fifth lotus leaf package.

She seemed to have just remembered Liang Kaiyuan, and asked him with a hint of shyness, "Aren't you going to eat?"

Liang Kaiyuan shook his head: "I'm not hungry, you eat."

"I'm full too," the girl said, but then she pinched two more small steamed buns and stuffed them into her mouth.

Then, she whispered to Liang Kaiyuan with a mischievous grin, "I bought these for my family. Every time I buy them, I sneak two. He always thought there were only eight buns in a basket, but there are actually ten."

Liang Kaiyuan found it both amusing and heartbreaking. "You didn't go to pick water chestnuts anymore because you were injured? Who hit you?"

"Don't ask anymore. Tomorrow... wait for me there tomorrow."

The girl quickly wrapped the lotus leaf and hurried away...

At this point in Liang Kaiyuan's story, Gao He finally couldn't help but interrupt him: "Who told you this story? I feel... I feel..."

Liang Kaiyuan ignored him and looked at me, saying, "The steamed buns were bought for her husband. It was also her husband who beat her. I secretly followed her and saw everything. He's a gambler and an alcoholic. He beats her to vent his anger when he loses gambling, but then expects her to support him..."

As Liang Kaiyuan spoke, his eyes suddenly widened.

I don't know what he was thinking, but his whole body started trembling violently.

"It's like this again..."

I whispered something and went over to pinch his acupoint.

He slowly regained consciousness, still trembling slightly, his eyes somewhat dazed, but mostly filled with terror. "It's him! How could it be him?"

"Who?"

Liang Kaiyuan shook his head repeatedly: "I don't know, I don't know... I don't know..."

The next second, his body shuddered violently before he finally calmed down.

However, at this moment, judging from his eyes, he was no longer Liang Kaiyuan, but Xiao Shensan.

"What are you hiding from me?" Gao He had already sensed something was wrong. "Meizhi? You're talking about Li Meizhi?"

I could only nod: "It's Li Meizhi and Liang Kaiyuan, but it's their past life."

"The previous life?" Gao He asked calmly, "How is it related to the previous life?"

Xiao Shen and I exchanged bitter smiles.

Xiao Shen said, "Officer, that car, that Ford, the driver might be the murderer who killed Liang Kaiyuan."

"How did you know?" Gao's eyebrows shot up.

Xiao Shen San helplessly shrugged, "Just guessing."

I breathed a sigh of relief and said to Gao He, "Last night, Li Meizhi brought her dog to the vet, and that car must have been following her."

Even without Xiao Shensan saying anything, I've already figured some things out.

Last night I went to check on that car. The other party was nervous and hurriedly fled, but Liang Kaiyuan ran into him.

Enemies meeting are bound to be filled with hatred, which is why the Ford got lost in the backstreets behind Shuangshan Cemetery, going around in circles before crashing. Yet the driver still managed to escape. Putting aside his background, Xiao Shen San was quite arrogant and domineering.

When the funeral parlor first opened, he said that with him here, no evil spirits could cause trouble within a radius of twenty miles.

It can only be said that his thoughts are unfathomable. How did he come up with the idea of ​​having Liang Kaiyuan attach himself to him?

Seeing that Gao and He were not moving, I asked, "Aren't you going to start the operation?"

Gao He shook his head: "Because it was a stolen car, fingerprints have already been collected at the scene. My colleagues should still be checking the surveillance footage."

He frowned as he looked at me. "Is there anything else you think you can tell me?"

I shook my head.

The phone suddenly vibrated.

When I saw that it was Turing calling, I felt a strange stirring in my heart.

Upon answering the phone, Turing said, "The doctor examined Meizhi; she's just not feeling well, nothing else."

"and then?"

"She's acting strangely. She suddenly said she wanted to go to something... Heqian Town. She insisted on going now, and no matter how I tried to persuade her, she wouldn't listen."

“Heqian Town?” I looked at Gao He.

Gao He, with his professional instincts, immediately opened his phone's navigation and started searching.

After I hung up the phone, Gao He said to me, "Heqian Town is a small town nearly 300 kilometers away from here. Anyone want to go there?"

"Kuri Meizhi."

Gao hesitated for a moment, then raised an eyebrow at me: "Interested in going to see a real winter in a Jiangnan town?"

I shook my head and said I wasn't interested.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Shensan said, "We have to go! If we want to settle this matter, we have to go to Heqian Town."

He asked me, "Don't you want to hear the whole story?"

I shook my head with a wry smile.

I admit that, in a sense, both Liang Kaiyuan's and Li Meizhi's dreams are quite romantic.

However, when Li Meizhi talked about killing Liang Kaiyuan in that incarnation, she couldn't explain why she wanted to kill him.

Liang Kaiyuan recounted the story in such detail, even movingly, yet things went wrong at the crucial moment.

I consider myself a fairly realistic person. No matter how captivating a 'story' is, it's still just a story. The most important thing is—this matter has absolutely nothing to do with me.
I didn't want to get involved in this mess anymore, but a phone call changed my mind.

The call was from Yan Fengwei, who said he had finally found the source of the building in the picture.

After extensive research, it was determined that it was a memorial archway in a small town in Jiangnan.

The archway no longer exists, but I feel that since this place is on the human skin map, I should still go and see it.

That small town is called Heqian Town...

The highway was closed due to another heavy snowfall.

Gao and I took turns driving along the national highway, and by the time we reached our destination, Heqian Town, it was already evening.

Turing and her team set off half an hour earlier than us, but they got on the highway before the snowfall, so they arrived almost two and a half hours earlier than us.

We met up at a small local hotel.

Xiao Shen San is an absolute foodie, and immediately said that he wanted to try the local specialties first.

I hadn't eaten much at noon, so I needed to fill my stomach first, and naturally I agreed to his suggestion.

Heqian Town is a true Jiangnan water town.

Although it is close to the southern section of the Grand Canal, its economy is much less developed than other places due to factors such as being surrounded by mountains on three sides, inconvenient roads, and lack of resources.

Because of this, the town has preserved many old buildings, which have a more timeless charm compared to some tourist attractions that claim to be ancient towns.

Since their reunion, Li Meizhi has barely spoken to anyone.

But when the group had walked about a third of the way along the old street, she suddenly said, "Let's go there."

Following her gaze, Xiao Shen San, Gao He, and I were all taken aback...

(End of this chapter)