False evidence

Chapter 303 Makeup
Miss Zhai!
Isn't she dead?

I calmed myself down and unlocked the central locking system.

Miss Zhai opened the car door, stepped in, tidied her hair, and turned to me, saying:

"I told you, I'd hitch a ride with you again today."

Feeling the warmth of her breath as she spoke, a thought struck me—she was alive!

I placed my phone on the dashboard. Ms. Zhai didn't even glance at it, and continued speaking to me:

"Now that you know I'm dead, aren't you afraid?"

I said, "I met a pair of twins before the New Year, the older brother was pretending to be the younger brother."

Miss Zhai nodded: "You're very smart. Not only do you know how to avoid the darkest places, but you even came to the brigade leader's doorstep to catch up on sleep."

She extended her right hand to me: "Let me formally introduce myself, my name is Zhai Yujia."

I didn't shake her hand or start the car. I said, "Going to the police station now will make things easier to explain."

"Are you going to turn yourself in?"

"You know I didn't kill anyone."

Zhai Yujia laughed: "Of course I know you didn't kill anyone, but the police don't. Oh, right, the police should have already searched your car. Possessing and trafficking cultural relics seems like a serious crime."

I quickly realized: "You left something in my car? You're framing me?"

Zhai Yujia said, "I put the things in your car, but my intention was not to frame you. I just didn't expect that before the plan against you could be officially implemented, I would be killed. Now, even if it wasn't a frame-up, it has become a frame-up."

I sneered: "You've been following me and hitching rides with me, all to carry out your so-called plan. I don't quite understand, what grudge do you have against me?"

Zhai Yujia looked at me with a deep gaze for a while, then slowly said, "A Yuan dynasty imitation of a coiled dragon and lotus bronze mirror."

My eyelids twitched: "You're in cahoots with those swindlers from Dongtaimen!"

Zhai Yujia said, "Yes. To be precise, they are both my partners and my subordinates. They did private work behind my back and suffered such a big setback. As their boss, of course I have to get revenge for them."

I nodded: "So you used hitchhiking as an excuse to get Dong XZ into my car. That's not all, you even set a trap and framed me for murder. You're really ruthless. The one who died, if she didn't have plastic surgery, must have been your sister or younger sister, right?"

Zhai Yujia looked at the phone on the dashboard: "You started recording as soon as I got in the car, didn't you?"

I didn't deny it: "Now we can go to the police station."

Zhai Yujia shook her head slightly: "If you want to turn yourself in, I won't stop you. But before that, why don't you listen to the recording first?"

My intuition was that her tone was very strange when she said that, so I picked up my phone without hesitation and pressed play.

I was stunned after listening to less than half of it.

I did turn on the recording immediately, with the aim of recording evidence that would be favorable to me.

However, during the recording, it turned out that only I was speaking, and even when the volume was turned up to the maximum, I couldn't hear Zhai Yujia's voice!

Zhai Yujia said, "I told you as soon as I got in the car that I was dead. How could the voice of a dead person be recorded?"

I didn't dwell too much on why I couldn't record her voice. I asked with a stern face, "What do you want me to do?"

"Avenge me! Find the real killer who murdered me!"

“I’m not a police officer.”

"I can't call the police!"

"why?"

Zhai Yujia said again, "I'm already dead. Even if I could get close to the police, they would just think I'm mentally unstable!"

I placed my hand directly on the artery in her neck. "You seem to have really lost your mind."

Zhai Yujia glanced at me sideways and said, "I not only have a pulse, but also a heartbeat. Do you want to feel it?" "Thank you for your kindness, but I have a lover."

As I withdrew my hand, I glanced at her open chest.

Zhai Yujia suddenly grabbed my chin with one hand and examined me closely for a while. "Not bad, not too difficult to handle."

"Sorry, I only drive, I don't sell my body."

"Ha, still in the mood for banter at a time like this, no wonder you have a scar on your lip."

As she spoke, Zhai Yujia took a makeup bag out of her purse.

"What do you want to do?"

Zhai Yujia said, "Help me find the real culprit, and I'll testify for you and clear your name. Now, to make things easier, I'll do your makeup first."

I couldn't help but frown: "Have you been watching too many movies? Disguise?"

Zhai Yujia said, "You look too easy to be recognized. At least put on some makeup, it will help a little. Also, when I said 'make things easier,' I meant I have work to do right now. To complete this work, I need an assistant."

Being controlled by others is never pleasant, but weighing the situation, it seems that the only thing I can do now, besides contacting Gao He, is to feign compliance with her.

The so-called makeup seems to consist of nothing more than drawing eyebrows and eyeliner, and applying some foundation.

Looking in the mirror, apart from the scar on the corner of his mouth being covered up, he just looks a bit effeminate.

Zhai Yujia put away her makeup bag, took out a white ball that was two sizes smaller than a ping-pong ball, wrapped in plastic, and handed it to me, saying, "Put it in your mouth."

"What is it?"

"poison!"

I peeled off the plastic wrap and stuffed it directly into my mouth.

Zhai Yujia told me to hold the small ball in the side without the scar, and then look in the mirror again.

Only after seeing myself clearly did I understand her intention.

Actually, I know what the little ball is. It's a kind of magic ball that was all the rage a couple of years ago, imported from abroad.

It's actually a type of hard candy, and because it's difficult to melt, it's called "the candy you can never finish licking."

With the candy in my mouth, my cheeks puffed out. Combined with the skin tone changes caused by the foundation, my appearance wasn't drastically altered, but my face shape became somewhat like 'boxer shorts'. People who weren't very familiar with me might genuinely think that this was how my face was naturally shaped.

"Let's drive!"

"where to?"

Zhai Yujia stared straight at me and said, "Dead people go to the funeral home, of course."

……

In the mortuary's preparation room, Zhai Yujia handed me a set of work clothes and asked me to change into them.

She changed into her work clothes, then looked at me somewhat nervously for a while, and said:

"You seem to know more than I thought."

I sighed. "You've changed ever since you came in. Maybe you should reintroduce yourself."

“I am the mortician here, also called a funeral director. Laymen mostly call us makeup artists. Zhai Yujia is my sister, and I am Zhai Yutian.”

I said, "For the first six nights, it was your sister who got into my car, only last night it was you. You are a mortician, and she is a professional con artist. She put the things in my car."

Zhai Yujia, no, it was Zhai Yutian, who said, "Yes. You made her people suffer such a great loss, she wanted to teach you a lesson. But before she could act, she was killed."

The sound of a cart being pushed echoed down the corridor. Zhai Yutian took a deep breath. "Alright, finish my work first."

(End of this chapter)