False evidence

Chapter 51 Top Immortal
The name sounds familiar, but I can't quite place where I've heard it before.

Bai Jing suddenly sighed: "So you are Sanqi."

I was taken aback: "You know me?"

"Gao He contacted me."

"Gao He?"

I suddenly remembered that during my last meeting with Tong Xiangnan in Gao He's office, Tong Xiangnan had told me to find one of his lawyer friends. The person he wanted me to find was Bai Jing.

Bai Jing said, "You should have guessed why Captain Gao came to me. It seems he hasn't told you the result yet."

"What was the result?" I had a bad feeling.

"The Sichuan restaurant where you used to work has closed down, and the owners went back to their hometown. It's not impossible to contact them, but I don't think it would be useful. In other words, the benefits they received were far greater than the restaurant's profits. Why would they testify for you after taking bribes?"

Bai Jing looked at me with sympathy. "The truth is, of those two men and one woman, the woman was detained for a week, and the two men were each sentenced to detention. Money doesn't matter to them; they're just clearly trying to vent their anger on you."

"Damn it, so what if you have money? You're a real piece of work!" Meng Chao gritted his teeth in hatred.

I tried to comfort him, saying, "Come on, it's not a big deal. A living person can't be killed by holding their pee." But what I really felt was a helpless numbness.

I looked at Gu Haitao and asked Bai Jing, "You're a lawyer, what does he want with you?"

Gu Haitao stammered, "Xiaoyu... she really has disappeared."

"Shut the hell up! Or I'll beat you up!" Meng Chao was furious but had nowhere to vent his anger.

"He didn't hire a lawyer."

Bai Jing suddenly turned to me, revealing a sinister smile.

As she moved, a golden light suddenly shot out from her right shoulder.

I saw it clearly: as soon as the light and shadow appeared, they quickly coalesced into a strange face behind her!

That was definitely not a human face, but the same as when I first met her—it was an animal's face.

This time I saw it more clearly and immediately realized what was happening, exclaiming, "You are a disciple of the Huang family!"

Bai Jing smiled slightly: "You do have some knowledge."

As soon as she finished speaking, the light and shadow disappeared from her right shoulder.

"What are you talking about?" Meng Chao asked, bewildered.

Clearly, neither he nor Gu Haitao had seen the strange sight that had just occurred.

I looked at him, then at Bai Jing, and remembered something that happened during the day. I couldn't help but chuckle.

Bai Jing, with her keen mind, glanced at Meng Chao and said, "Being cheeky has its price."

Meng Chao shrugged: "Hey you two, can we stop playing games?"

I couldn't help but laugh, and put my arm around his shoulder, saying:
"So you weren't drunk at noon, nor were you doing performance art; you offended someone with your foul mouth and got slapped unconscious! Hahahaha..."

Seeing his bewildered expression, I forced myself to stop laughing and whispered in his ear, "Don't talk about people behind their backs anymore. This beautiful lawyer is a real stunner!"

Meng Chao reacted, letting out a soft "Ah!"
I've heard Grandpa and Old Bai talk about these things a lot before, but since I haven't seen them with my own eyes, I never really believed them.

Having witnessed Bai Jing display unusual phenomena twice, and considering what happened during the day, how could he not believe it? "Truly, the world is full of wonders."

I shook my head with a sigh and asked Bai Jing, "The ship during the day, and the little people on it..."

She glared at me fiercely: "You have the nerve to say that? I went to so much trouble just to lure you to the charcoal kiln with me, but I never expected... that you would only go with me for a piece of junk cell phone!"

I chuckled to myself. A broken phone? It seems like there's little hope of continuing my studies now. These are all the things I own, this broken phone... Heh.

Gu Haitao became excited: "Sanqi, you actually saw that? So, Pearl... no, Miss Bai is really capable of seeing things for others?"

I put on a cold face: "Don't you think you owe me and Mengniu an explanation?"

Gu Haitao lowered his head: "I had no choice... Xiaoyu has really disappeared."

He suddenly seemed to remember something and took out his phone to show me.

The message displayed above is a WeChat post with a profile picture of a handbag featuring an exaggerated "Louis Kowloon" logo, labeled "Wife".

The message on WeChat read: Help! We're lost!
I turned to Gu Haitao and said coldly, "You've been here before, so you're not surprised to see Uncle Fu."

Gu Haitao tacitly agreed, then added, "Xiaoyu has really disappeared."

In comparison, Bai Jing was decisive and capable, saying to me and Meng Chao:
“I didn’t know beforehand that he wasn’t telling you the truth. But since it’s already like this, I still suggest you help him to the end, after all, it’s a matter of life and death.”

Meng Chao glared with his bull-like eyes: "You know human life is at stake? I'm fine, but Twenty-One has suffered terribly because of you! What you said before was nothing but a curse to him!"

Bai Jing didn't say anything more, she just stared at me without blinking.

I patted Meng Chao on the shoulder: "Let's order first and eat."

Uncle Fu served the dishes again. After the food and drinks were served, Bai Jing said to me, "Drinking is fine, but try not to eat raw meat in the future. If you are eating steak, I suggest you have it medium-well."

"steak……"

I gave a wry smile. We're practically starving, where would we get a steak?

Suddenly, I realized there was a hidden meaning in her words.

"What do you mean?"

"You guessed it."

"When the Hu family comes, we offer cigarettes; when the Huang family comes, we offer wine; only when the Yin family (wolves) are we offer raw meat!" I clearly remember what Old Master Bai said about the rules for inviting spirits.

"As long as you know."

Bai Jing picked up her wine glass and clinked it against mine. "Let's eat first. I promise you, I'll give you an explanation after this is over."

Meng Chao and I both drank quite a bit of alcohol during the meal.

During the meeting, Gu Haitao advised us to drink less, but he still got slapped by Meng Chao.

After we had eaten and drunk our fill, I asked Bai Jing what she planned to do.

Bai Jing frowned slightly. "It's not just Fan Xiaoyu who's missing, but two people."

She turned to me, her eyes gleaming: "As far as I know, a couple went missing here six months ago and have not been found to this day. It was also a class reunion, but the difference is that Fan Xiaoyu and her friends were still students, while the two who went missing before were high school classmates who graduated many years ago."

(End of this chapter)