False evidence

Chapter 310 Out of Control (5)

Seeing the cunning glint in Wang Po's eyes, Old Ghost realized what was going on: "You fucking want to break up the partnership?"

Granny Wang's face turned cold as she said, "I don't know you at all. If you don't leave, I'm really going to call for help!"

Old Ghost sneered: "You think you can escape the first day of the month, but you can escape the fifteenth?"

Granny Wang actually raised her voice and shouted, "Help! Someone's kicking the widow..."

The shouting stopped abruptly because the old ghost had already pressed a nail against her throat.

I pulled the old ghost away and looked at Granny Wang: "You don't seem afraid of death?"

"Only a fool wouldn't be afraid to die."

Granny Wang blinked: "Old ghost, don't blame me for being disloyal. I'll just ask you one question: are you as clever as the eldest brother, or as skilled as Jin Tong? Or are you more well-informed than Nianzi? All three of them are dead, so why should I believe you two, one old and one young?"

Old Ghost asked me, "We've found the person, what do you plan to do now?"

I said, "The purpose of our being here is to wait for the murderer to come looking for her. Now that she looks down on us, let her do whatever she wants."

Granny Wang suddenly sighed: "Alas, old ghost, the eight of us have been working together for five years now, haven't we? It would be a lie to say we don't have any feelings for each other, but when disaster strikes, everyone flies away."

Now that things have come to this, I won't hide it from you anymore. Actually, I have a daughter. She's not exactly in a respectable business, but she's managed to make some money. I've wanted to retire for a long time, and this opportunity was inevitable.

"Here's what we'll do. I'll go out and hide tonight. If I survive today, I'll go find my daughter tomorrow and we'll go somewhere else together. What you do is none of my business. If you want to wait here, stay inside. There's hot water in the kettle in the kitchen."

As he spoke, he started to walk out again.

This time I held onto Lao Gui to prevent him from stopping me.

Watching Wang Po leave, I sighed:
"If you can't be ruthless to your own family, what kind of con artist are you?"

Old Ghost asked, "What do we do now?"

I glanced up at the courtyard wall and pointed to the gate: "Go back inside and wait!"

Old Gui vigorously wiped his face. "Alright, I've been drinking all this time, and I'm feeling a bit agitated. I'll go get some water."

As soon as the old ghost reached the kitchen door and pushed it open, a dark shadow suddenly darted out, skimming along the ground.

As the dark figure darted out, Old Ghost let out a low cry, suddenly lost his balance, and fell into the doorway!
A yellow dog darted out of the kitchen.

The yellow dog leaped out with tremendous force, and after a moment's hesitation, it pounced on this side with even greater ferocity.

I grabbed Li Meizhi by the waist, and while pushing Zhai Yutian away with my shoulder, I swung the iron fan and smashed it heavily above the dog's nose, which was already standing upright.

The nose is one of the most vulnerable parts of a dog, but after being hit, the yellow dog seemed to feel nothing. As soon as its front paws landed diagonally, it turned around and pounced forward again.

"sorry!"

Seeing this, I had no choice but to grab Li Meizhi and turn around to avoid the dog's mouth, while simultaneously smashing the iron fan hard against the dog's back!

The yellow dog let out a miserable howl, fell to the ground and convulsed, unable to get up again.

Li Meizhi was so frightened that her face turned pale, but she said:
"Where did you hit it? How come it can't even stand up?"

"His spine is broken."

"You're too...too cruel..."

"Let's focus on people!"

I pulled her along quickly to the kitchen door. By the light coming from the main room, we saw that most of Lao Gui's body was slumped inside the doorway, his body twitching intermittently.

When the kitchen light was turned on, a large pool of blood was seen spreading under his upper body.

"It was Granny Wang who said there was water in the kitchen... She's in cahoots with those people!"

Zhai Yutian's face turned deathly pale.

I took out my cigarette case, pulled out three cigarettes, lit them, and placed them on the doorstep.

"Old... Old Ghost is dead too..." Li Meizhi's shock was even stronger than Zhai Yutian's.

I lit another cigarette, took a puff, and pointed with the finger holding the cigarette to the broken rope tied to the iron stake in the corner:

"The dog was drugged; it would go berserk when it smelled a specific scent. The dog was locked in the kitchen, and when the door opened, it rushed out, tripping Old Ghost with its leash. There were iron skewers stuck in the cracks between the bricks in the kitchen floor... which killed Old Ghost."

Li Meizhi trembled all over: "This is murder!"

"Ah."

I tossed my cigarette aside, turned around, and pointed my iron fan at the corner of the opposite courtyard:

"You've achieved all your goals, now you can speak frankly!"

"Oh."

A dull voice replied.

Immediately afterward, a round-faced fat man squeezed out from the gap between the house and the courtyard wall.

The fat man was really fat, and he was wearing very thick clothes and had a particularly round head.

This made him look like a snowman made of dirty gray snow.

Upon seeing the fat man's appearance, Zhai Yutian exclaimed in surprise:
"Spare Ribs! How could it be you?!"

The fat man nicknamed 'Pork Ribs' seemed to have an unfocused gaze.

This gives people the initial impression that he is harmless, even somewhat mentally challenged.

I couldn't resist tucking the iron fan under my arm and clapping my hands in approval:

"What a fine promotion! This appearance is a gift from the ancestral gods!"

In the Eight Immortals of the Earth, the Ti Jiang ranks second only to the Zheng Jiang (正将) and is on par with the Fan Jiang (反将).

The counter-general usually acts in opposition to the general, thereby misleading the person being deceived.

And the person who proposes the deception usually plays the role of the victim.

In modern terms, its true function is to act as a "pig-like teammate," causing the victims to become even more mired in deception and unable to extricate themselves.

These types of characters usually only have two appearances.

First, there's the "naive and innocent" type (regardless of gender), and second, the "truly naive" type.

Clearly, the fat man perfectly fits the latter criteria.

The fat man pulled a pair of glasses from his cotton-padded jacket pocket, wiped the lenses, rubbed his nose, and after putting them on, his gaze finally focused on me.
"Alright, they're all dead... at least my life is saved."

His voice is quite distinctive; although he is clearly a man, his voice is high-pitched and sounds like a woman's at first glance.

At this moment, Zhai Yutian transformed back into Zhai Yujia, stepped forward, pointed at the fat man, and said sternly:
"Spare Ribs! It was you from beginning to end! I should have known better. Only you could have gotten Golden Boy to kill me! He's your own brother! And only you could have led us into your trap time and time again!"

Spare ribs... I still want to call him Fatty.

The fat man rubbed his nose again, lowered his eyelids, and said:
“What could I do? They spent five years investigating everything about us. They knew that my son was fake, that I adopted him to use as a bargaining chip to save my life.”

But they found out about my and Jintong's biological mother! Jintong is small, but we share the same mother. Our mother is in their hands; we have no choice but to do what they say!

Zhai Yujia's eyes flashed: "Five years?"

The fat man nodded: "Yes, it's the antique dealer we swindled five years ago when we first joined forces. We cheated him out of 650,000 yuan with fake antiques, and then we cheated him out of another 420,000 yuan. He jumped into the river... Now, his children have come to seek revenge."

Zhai Yujia suddenly squatted down, covered her head with her hands, and said in pain:

"I can't remember, I can't remember anything at all..."

The fat man chuckled dryly, "You definitely won't remember, because you have no memory of that time at all. Ha... because that antique dealer used chains to tie you and him together before you jumped into the river!"

(End of this chapter)