False evidence

Chapter 375 Cigarette Butt
"Xiao Hai, get away from here!"

Jiang Youzheng hurried over.

Following her out of the warehouse was a middle-aged woman.

I recognized her. She was Qin Suihong, the flamboyant old woman I had taken to the No. 9 bus stop not long ago, in a dreamlike state.

The boy was startled by Jiang Youzheng's shout. As he backed away, he tripped on the steps and fell to the ground with a thud.

"Xiao Hai, are you alright?!"

Qin Suihong hurried over.

The boy was fine at first, but as soon as she picked him up, he immediately pouted and burst into tears, looking very aggrieved.

"Son, where did you fall? Let Mom see!"

Qin Suihong hurriedly checked her child over, and seeing that he was unharmed, she breathed a sigh of relief, but glared resentfully at Feng Li, who was still lying on the ground:
"Yuzheng, who is she?!"

In just that one glance, Qin Suihong noticed something was wrong. "Youzheng, come quick, why is she vomiting blood?"

Jiang Youzheng said in a low voice with heavy breathing, "She is Feng the Cripple's daughter. She...she just had surgery last month."

Qin Suihong panicked: "What should we do? Take her to the hospital?"

Jiang Youzheng's expression shifted rapidly, then suddenly his lips curled into a smirk, as if he had made a decision, and he waved his hand, saying:
"Don't worry about her, she's fine. You should take Xiaohai to the clinic for a checkup right away!"

Qin Suihong looked at him, seemingly seeing something in his eyes, and hurriedly picked up the boy and walked upstairs.

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Jiang Youzheng whispered his instructions.

"I know, I know……"

"Boom!"

The sound of an iron gate closing came from above.

Startled by the noise, Feng Li slowly woke up and struggled to sit up. "Uncle Jiang, I came to see my dad. He said he came to see you. Have you...have you seen him?"

Jiang Youzheng squatted down and said, "Are you Xiaoli? Your dad hasn't come looking for me."

"He said he came to see you... pfft..."

Feng Li's face flushed, her throat tightened, and blood was flowing uncontrollably from her mouth.

Although I am a veterinarian, I could still tell that Feng Li was very weak due to long-term illness, and her bones were more fragile than those of an average person.

She fell down the stairs and broke her leg.

The boy's jump, stomp, and rough flip, seemingly mischievous, brought Feng Li a fatal blow!

"Your dad really didn't come!"

Jiang Youzheng hurriedly squatted down, "Child, don't say any more, I'll take you to the hospital..."

He tried to pick Feng Li up, but Feng Li grabbed his wrist. "This watch...this watch belongs to my dad...you've met him..."

Jiang Youzheng's expression suddenly changed, and he hurriedly withdrew his hand, but Feng Li pulled off the watch on his left wrist.

It was just an ordinary old-fashioned watch.

Having gone through what happened before, I already knew who the watch originally belonged to and how it ended up in Jiang Youzheng's hands.

As soon as Jiang Youzheng stood up after his watch was ripped off, I began to curse Yang Wudao in my mind.

This is not the first time.

The last time I saw the truth through divination at the traditional Chinese medicine clinic near my hometown... in Lin Xiaohua's maternal grandmother's old house, it was the same.

I have no relation to the Virgin Mary, but I possess the emotions and conscience of an ordinary person.

Because of Yang Wudao, I learned xiangyu (a type of Chinese dialect).

It is because of him that I have a lover, and everything I have now.

The ability of physiognomy to predict the future is not obvious today.

However, every time I hear the story told through divination, I witness one cruel thing after another happening...

I witnessed it firsthand and was there in person, but there was nothing I could do to change it!
Lin Xiaohua is like this, and so are Han Ya and Han Shuiling.

Now, I can foresee Feng Li's fate, and I can even see the growing ferocity in the man's eyes.

There was nothing I could do but watch helplessly.

Jiang Youzheng took a few steps back, staring at Feng Li with a drooping mouth. "Uncle Jiang, where's my dad... Uncle, Uncle... I can't take it anymore, I feel terrible... I can't breathe..."

"Boss, get her to the hospital right away!"

A dirty-looking boy who looked about sixteen or seventeen years old ran out of a small door.

Upon seeing his face clearly, I subconsciously turned my head to look at the cigarette butt beside me.

He lowered his head and remained silent.

That's because the person who ran out of the small basement room was him!
Jiang Youzheng's expression changed even faster as he asked the cigarette butt, "You didn't go with the delivery?"

"My stomach hurts, so I didn't go!"

Cigarette Butt seemed completely indecisive, pacing around in circles with his hands clasped in his hands. "Boss, take her to the hospital! To the hospital..."

Jiang Youzheng walked back to Feng Li without saying a word.

At this moment, Feng Li's body was still convulsing, but her half-open eyes had begun to dilate.

"This girl is no good."

Jiang Youzheng said calmly.

Cigarette Butt shuddered: "Then what do we do?"

Jiang Youzheng turned to look at him: "Go and move that metal cabinet from the warehouse over here."

"What do you mean?"

"Do whatever I tell you to do!"

"Ang... Ang ang..."

As I watched Feng Li being bound hand and foot and stuffed into the old tin cabinet, I looked again at the cigarette butt beside me.

The cigarette butt avoided my gaze and looked at another version of myself... probably myself from many years ago, carrying the metal cabinet containing Feng Li up the stairs with the boss, Jiang Youzheng.

On the first floor, the factory building still has all kinds of machinery.

The two men carried the metal cabinet out the back door.

Behind the factory building is a small pond.

The metal cabinet was thrown into the pond and sank straight to the bottom.

The reason it sank so quickly was that, in addition to Feng Li, Jiang Youzheng also instructed Cigarette Butt to put in an iron lump that I couldn't explain its purpose.

The bubbles on the dark green, dirty water surface dissipated, and I returned to reality.

The cigarette butt is still beside me.

"What should I say?"

I suppressed the resentment in my chest and lit a cigarette.

Through the mist, the pond in the rain had turned into a wasteland.

The cigarette butt, which had been bowing its head the whole time, finally murmured:
"I thought and thought, I wanted to call the police... but I was an unregistered person... I still wanted to call the police, but... but before I could call the police... I died."

"died?"

I nodded slowly. "If I were Jiang Youzheng, you would die too."

I took out a cigarette and handed it to him.

He didn't answer.

In his mind's eye, Lü Xin said, "If you don't light it, how can he smoke?"

"I spoil him!"

I angrily stubbed out the cigarette and threw it away.

With his head down, Cigarette Butt whispered, "I really wanted to call the police, but I didn't have time. I ate a sausage, and it was poisoned... The boss told the police... that I'm stupid... that I was greedy and ate a sausage that was poisoned by dogs... I'm not stupid! I really wanted to call the police..."

"Then you fucking..."

I wanted to curse him out, but when I saw his face, I was reminded of his dead face.

"Holy crap!"

I finally couldn't hold back any longer and yelled at the rain: "Damn it, Yang Wudao! Tell me, what am I even capable of?!"

(End of this chapter)