False evidence

Chapter 395 Family
Although monkeys are talkative, they are decisive when it comes to important matters.

He insisted on calling Gao He, and after the call connected, he said directly:

"Brother Gao, Sanqi and Sun Jing might be brothers, and Tong Xiangnan might be Sanqi's uncle. If we compare Sanqi's blood sample with those of Tong Liru and Sun Jing, it should confirm this!"

A moment later, Monkey handed me his phone: "Brother Gao wants to talk to you."

I took the phone and held it to my ear: "Hello..."

Gao He's voice came through the receiver: "Uncle Cheng's house has been burglarized. The lock was pried open, and the extent of the damage is still unknown."

I asked, "Is there a ladder outside the main house?"

“There is a ladder, but it’s not outside; it’s placed on the roof beam of the main room.”

"Let's go up and take a look. There should be a hidden door on the vertical beam to the right of the main beam."

I lit a cigarette with one hand and took a shallow puff.

At this moment, Gao He replied, "I'm up here. There is a small door, about the size of a palm, that you can't see unless you look closely. But it can't be opened; it's like something is blocking it from the inside."

I said, "Do you remember that time at Wugong Mountain in Heqian Town? The mechanism behind the door was the same as the mechanism in the small door where the corpse was hidden in the Jiang family temple on Wugong Mountain. There was a seesaw-like doorpost inside. The wooden beam was old and there was a gap in the small door. It could be opened with a wire."

"No need for wire... it's already been pried open. A bank card should be enough..."

"opened!"

I asked, "What's inside?"

Gao He's voice was full of doubt: "Money! Renminbi, US dollars, Euros! Currencies from all over the world!"

"Europe?!"

In a flash, I slapped my forehead. "I've been tricked by that bastard again!"

"What do you mean?"

Judging from the noise, Gao He was clearly coming down the ladder.

I threw away my cigarette and asked, "When you went to Sanfenqian Street, did you see anyone unusual?"

Gao He was more composed than me. After a moment's thought, he suddenly said loudly:

"Go after that 'kid' who bumped into me!"

He then asked me, "Where shall we meet?"

I said, "Let's go back to that little restaurant at the intersection of Zhongjie Street. You're treating."

After hanging up the phone, Monkey looked at me silently.

Fang Ling and I stared at each other for a while, then she raised one hand and gestured twice at the back of her neck.

Then she pulled Tong Xiangnan around and lifted the hair at the back of his head.

Between the back of Tong Xiangnan's head and the back of his neck, there was a shiny light pink stripe that looked like a horizontal scar.

I immediately turned around and gathered the hair at the back of my head.

"You...you have one too, is it a birthmark or...or a scar?" the monkey asked, ruffling my hair.

"It's a ghost beheading."

I lowered my hand and explained to the monkey alone:

"When I was a kid, I was playing cops and robbers with Erpang and the others. I liked being the thief, and after I was all cool and awesome, the soldiers caught me. They were going to 'take me out of the Meridian Gate and behead me.' Erpang and I were good friends, so he stood up for me. Just as we were arguing, my grandpa happened to pass by and slapped me twice across the face. He then dragged me home."

I was about to lose my temper with the old man. It was just a game, I didn't throw any lit firecrackers into the women's restroom, why did he hit me? First, he took a small mirror and made me look at the back of my neck, then he made me touch it with my hand.

That's when I noticed a horizontal scar on my back, like a knife cut. When I touched it, I felt raised bumps on either side. There were also polyp-like growths on it, it was disgusting. It was then that my grandfather, for the first time, seriously told me: 'You little brat, you're a headless ghost! You've had this scar since you were a child! That's because you were beheaded by an executioner in your past life! Can you feel those little bumps like grains of rice next to it? Those are the needle marks left when the cobbler sewed your head back up!'"

"Is that really true?" the monkey exclaimed in disbelief.

Tong Xiangnan said, "I had a similar experience when I was a child. But as I grew older, the polyps and stitches disappeared, leaving only a linear mark."

Fang Ling said, "Everyone with the Tong family bloodline is like this. Eldest brother, second brother... me, it's all the same..."

Seeing her reach up to brush the hair from the back of her neck, Lü Xin thought to himself, "It seems that Jiawen had a mark like this back then."

At this moment, Fang Ling...

Or to put it simply, Tong Jiawen actually exuded the demeanor of a 'patriarch,' glancing around as she took the medical card from the foot of the hospital bed and deftly handed it to Monkey.

“My grandson can’t be cured, right? Can’t we stop him from staying here all the time?”

The monkey examined it carefully, then grinned and said, "His crime wasn't that serious to begin with, and he's already come to this... he's just done his best. Apart from regular chemotherapy, everything else... is utter bullshit."

Tong Jiawen asked, "Can he walk?"

Seeing the monkey looking at me, I dialed Gao He's number again: "Hey, Tong Xiangnan's craving something and wants to mooch a meal!"

……

At the intersection of Sanfen Middle Street, in the only private room on the second floor of a small restaurant, a group of people sat in a circle, each with a different expression.

Gao He was the first to speak. He said to me:

"When you told me to rush over, I bumped right into a kid wearing a baseball cap and hip-hop style clothes at the intersection. I couldn't have paid much attention to him at the time, but now that I think about it... he must have been Sun Jing."

As he spoke, Lin Dan took out a transparent sealed bag from his bag.

It was bulging, filled with all kinds of banknotes and coins.

Lin Dan said, "These were all taken out from a hidden door in the roof beam."

Gao took out a sealed bag and placed it in front of me.

Inside was a laminated hospital work ID.

"It was also taken out of the beam."

I could only nod.

"It was Sun Jing who did it. After leaving the hospital amidst the chaos, he came here immediately, opened the hidden compartment in the rafters, and took the contents. This money... let alone the latest version of RMB, the Euro has only been in circulation for a few years. It was either left by the original owner or deliberately put there by Sun Jing to create confusion and buy time when he took the items."

"Damn it, so I'm a fucking idiot!"

Gao cursed, picked up his teacup and drank it all in one gulp, then spat out the tea leaves.

He tossed me a cigarette, lit one for himself, and looked at me, saying:

"Now that things have come to this, can we say a little more?"

I had just shaken my head when Lin Dan suddenly slammed his hand on the table and yelled at me:

"Can you stop rambling on like that? If Captain Gao won't say it, I will! Haven't you realized that many things have been brewing around you? I now believe you have extraordinary abilities, but we are police officers, and we've been led by the nose by lawbreakers! Just today... that Xie Xiaohuan almost lost her life! Sanqi, don't you think you bear some responsibility for all of this?"

"He bears no responsibility!"

Fang Ling suddenly slammed her hand on the table, even harder than she had.

Lin Dan was taken aback, then saw Tong Xiangnan straighten up and wave his phone in front of Lin Dan:

“Sanqi is my nephew, and I just hired a lawyer for him. I don’t mind you discussing private matters privately. But if other things are involved, I must solemnly warn you that he has the right to remain silent without a lawyer present. With me, his uncle, here… I have the obligation and the right to answer the officers’ questions on his behalf.”

(End of this chapter)