False evidence

Chapter 57 Misunderstanding
Fu Bo trembled even more violently, and as he retreated again, a gleaming dagger fell to the ground at his feet with a clang.

A chill ran down my spine. This old bastard really was planning to do something underhanded to us!

Fortunately, he was old, and most older people still believe in ghosts and spirits.

Uncle Fu trembled for a long time before asking in a shaky voice, "Did Ya Cai really send you?"

I remained noncommittal. "This trip wasn't a waste after all. Whether they're dead or alive, we've finally found them. Also, I want to tell you that what happened back then was all a misunderstanding. You killed the wrong person!"

"A misunderstanding?" Uncle Fu was even more shocked. "What exactly do you know?"

I glanced at my phone, and he immediately snapped, "Put it down!" He then bent down to pick up the knife.

Meng Chao was already on guard. He rushed forward, kicked him in the shoulder, stepped on the dagger, and kicked backward, retreating.
"Behave yourself! You're no pushover if you use a knife!"

I put away my phone, pulled Meng Chao behind me, and said to Fu Bo in a low voice:
"What happened back then was indeed a huge misunderstanding. I think it's necessary to explain things to you before the police arrive."

Uncle Fu was shocked again. "A misunderstanding? How can it be a misunderstanding?"

I said coldly, "You killed someone back then because you suspected your daughter-in-law, Ya Cai's wife, of doing something shameful. In fact, not only were you wrong, but Ya Cai was wrong from the beginning as well. Your daughter-in-law did do something shameful, but not with the man who was staying at your house, but with you, her father-in-law, with whom she had an unspeakable secret."

"Daughter-in-law and father-in-law?" Meng Chao's eyes widened in astonishment. "Incestuous relationship?!"

My voice grew colder: "Your son Ya Cai and daughter-in-law were classmates. The man who's staying here seems to have a good relationship with them."

Fu Bo angrily said, "That ungrateful bastard was also Ya Cai's classmate! He got divorced and said he wanted to clear his head, so Ya Cai and her husband let him stay at our house! Who knew that the dog would actually do that kind of thing with that slut..."

I abruptly interrupted him: "Ya Cai discovered it first, didn't she?"

Uncle Fu nodded resentfully: "Yes, Ya Cai helped him clean the room and found...found..."

"I found several wads of toilet paper stained with dirt! Any man could tell what they were used for just by smelling them!"

Uncle Fu nodded, tears suddenly welling up in his eyes: "My silly son, when he was little, a dog bit his genitals while he was relieving himself. Although he survived, he's completely impotent! He was trying to help someone, but who knew his best friend was having an affair with his wife. The boy couldn't take the shock, and in front of that man and that slut, he stabbed himself..."

"He self-harmed because of a mental breakdown. You stabbed that man to death. Instead of taking your son to the hospital, you set fire to your own house. It's because you killed someone and knew you couldn't escape. And also because you hated your daughter-in-law too, hated her for betraying you! The house burned down, and everyone in the old house died inside, except for you!"

"There's still one! One little bastard is still alive!"

I sneered, "Yes, it's impressive that you still remember there was another person staying at your house back then."

Fu Bo gritted his teeth and said, "That little bastard is that beast's son. If it weren't for the start of school and him returning to the city early, I would never have let him go!"

"Just remember that such a person exists!"

I suddenly raised my voice, "That's why I said the whole thing was a misunderstanding! That boy was just a teenager at the time, right in the middle of puberty, and all those tissues under the bed were left by him!"

Uncle Fu was stunned: "How is that possible... You're talking nonsense!"

Meng Chao seemed to realize what was happening, glanced at me, and raised his voice to say to him:

"How could that be impossible? We're all men, who hasn't gone through a phase of first love around ten years old? I still have one..."

Realizing he had let something slip, Meng Chao quickly stopped talking, his dark face turning bright red.

I coughed twice and continued talking to Uncle:

“You’ll understand if you just think about it. If it were an adult, and there was something going on between a man and a woman, how could they possibly leave used tissues under the bed? Only a child would do something like that, because they don’t think that far ahead!” Meng Chao’s embarrassment eased a bit: “So you have quite a life experience too.”

I glared at him, then turned to Fu Bo and said:
“When Ya Cai was cleaning the room, he saw dirty paper under the bed. He not only misunderstood his wife's infidelity, but also hurt himself because of his inferiority complex. You are different from him. This is the first time I have ever heard of a daughter-in-law calling her father-in-law by his nickname. Ah Sheng... Ah Sheng... Ya Cai was insecure and self-destructive, but you were really angry, so you killed the so-called 'adulterer' directly!”

Uncle Fu shook his head repeatedly, his eyes becoming somewhat vacant, and he kept muttering:
"It's not a misunderstanding, it's not a misunderstanding... The adulterer deserves to die, the slut deserves to die... They all deserve to die..."

I stared at him coldly for a moment, then asked in a deep voice:
"Even if they all deserve to die, what about the two people who disappeared six months ago? Don't they deserve to die too?"

"Six months ago..."

Uncle Fu's expression turned ferocious again, and he gritted his teeth and said:

"They deserve to die! What old classmates reunion? That woman clearly has a man, yet she was having a secret rendezvous with an old classmate in the middle of the night?! They came to my house on their own initiative, weren't they just asking for it?"

"Where is Fan Xiaoyu?" I pressed.

"She's a slut too! Just like everyone else!" Uncle Fu's voice became even more shrill and hoarse. "So young and already so badly behaved, dressing up like a slut. And on top of that, she was hugging and kissing a man at the dinner table while simultaneously calling her boyfriend? Doesn't she deserve to die?"

He suddenly burst into a hysterical laugh, his ugly face contorted, making him look more like a vengeful ghost that had escaped from hell.
"Hehehe... The village raised funds, and my house was rebuilt, becoming part of the resort. Because it's a bit far, business at the resort has always been so-so, so it's never really been occupied much. But those adulterous couples, to avoid being discovered and to seek thrills, would sneak here in pairs. The things they did... I can't even bring myself to talk about them!"

"Is that what you call human behavior?!" Meng Chao roared.

Fu Bo hesitated for a moment, then said with a straight face:
“I’m not being disrespectful or immoral! It’s just that my son is impotent, and I can’t just stand by and watch my Fu family line die out! I can’t let the wealth my wife and I have accumulated over half a lifetime fall into the hands of outsiders!”

"So you fucking had an affair with your own daughter-in-law!" Meng Chao was furious.

"Bang!"
The door opened, and soon a cacophony of footsteps approached.

A flash of electricity struck, and I pulled Meng Chao outside.

"Where is the body?" Gao asked.

I pointed inside the house and said, "Let's arrest them first."

Gao He glanced inside and asked in surprise, "Hey! Isn't that Uncle Fu? Why are you arresting him?"

Later, I learned from Gao He that he had met with his friends privately and had visited Zhulin Villa several times, which is why he knew Uncle Fu.

I looked at Bai Jing, and she immediately understood.

As a lawyer herself, she naturally understood my conversation with Uncle Fu and could explain it clearly.

Gao He ordered the arrests, and at the same time shouted at Fu Bo, "Where is he? Where is he?!"

Uncle Fu just smiled strangely and refused to speak no matter how you asked him.

I was furious: "Alright, that's enough. Pretending to be crazy won't work at this point!"

I told Gao He, "I've seen that woman's body. It wasn't rotten; it was a mummified corpse, like a specimen. The weather in the south is humid, so they wanted to preserve the body to that extent..."

I pointed to the old-fashioned stove in the kitchen, "The only place we can hide the body is under here!"

(End of this chapter)