Chapter 87
Chapter 87
Bo Suihan was in bad shape.
His face was deathly pale, and the bleeding would not stop.
Wu Xiaojiu supported him with one arm while rolling up his sleeve with the other to wipe away the blood.
Bo Suihan’s face was as white as paper. After a long moment, he looked at him and shook his head.
“It’s nothing.”
His voice was hoarse, and even his breathing trembled.
Wu Xiaojiu’s gaze softened with pity. Only then did he suddenly realize that no matter how strong Long Aotian was, he was still young, still of the same generation as him. Of course he would be afraid when faced with a murderous butcher.
Stepping forward was not bravery. It was to protect the person he loved.
Wu Xiaojiu sighed and lowered his head in self-reproach.
Moonlight spilled down. Bo Suihan bent slightly and tilted his head, trying to see his expression.
The atmosphere between them was just right.
Just as the two were about to speak, a figure came limping over from the distance.
“Come help me, quick. The tendon in my left foot got cut.”
It was the young man.
His figure flickered between one meter seventy and one meter eighty.
When he passed the burly man’s corpse, fear and shock crossed his face, but they quickly turned into the smug satisfaction of a petty villain.
He spat on that face.
With his great revenge taken, he chuckled and flipped the corpse off.
“When I’m strong, I’m right. When you’re strong, I beat you down.”
Seeing the young man leave a trail of blood behind him, Wu Xiaojiu had no choice but to let go of Bo Suihan first and go support him.
The young man laughed for a while, then winced in pain for a while. Only after quite some time did his face twist miserably as he pointed straight at the little girl on the ground.
“Kill her too. She’s no good person either. The burly man isn’t her father. She’s actually the same as me and the burly man. We’re all the Village Chief’s illegitimate children.”
“She’s a witness. She knows all the clues and evidence of the crimes committed by the Village Chief and the burly man. I’ll call Wang Qiang now. He should have reached the bureau and finished the DNA test already. Whether we can send the Village Chief in with one move depends entirely on her.”
As soon as Bo Suihan finished speaking, a flicker of disappointment flashed through the young man’s eyes.
The little girl, on the other hand, started chuckling, looking especially pleased.
“Your plan fell through, didn’t it? I’m all skinny arms and legs, and I don’t even have feet. Even if you tell people I killed someone, they won’t believe you.
We’re all the Village Chief’s illegitimate children. I have inheritance rights too. Dream on if you think you can take it all for yourself!”
After saying that, the little girl lifted her face and pledged her loyalty to Wu Xiaojiu.
“Uncle, even though I’ve been lying to you this whole time, I only knew about my dad and the Village Chief’s plans over the years. I never participated. At most, I helped lure back people who escaped. I can’t bring myself to kill anyone. That means I don’t have to go to prison, right?”
Wu Xiaojiu finally understood.
The young man was not sincerely helping them either.
The burly man, the little girl, the young man, and the Village Chief’s daughter on the surface all had inheritance rights.
Two of them were already dead. If the girl was removed as well, then all of the Village Chief’s assets would fall into the young man’s hands alone.
Wu Xiaojiu propped up his chin and thought for a moment.
When he raised his eyes again, a sly glint appeared in them.
“No. You knew and failed to report it, which makes you an accomplice. This matter is extremely serious. If the higher-ups sentence you, the lightest punishment would be life imprisonment.”
The young man’s eyes lit up, and he happily folded his arms with a grin.
“See? I won.”
Just as the girl was starting to deflate, Wu Xiaojiu brought it up as if unintentionally.
“But right now, there’s no evidence, so the burly man and the Village Chief can’t be convicted yet. If you can make up for your crimes by providing a crucial link, that life sentence will probably be reduced. You might get three to five years, and when you come out, you’ll still have inheritance rights and be able to receive the assets.”
The young man hissed and slapped Wu Xiaojiu hard on the shoulder, his eyes full of dissatisfaction.
The girl, however, brightened.
“Fine. Ask me whatever you want. But you’d better turn on a recorder for some of the details. I can only say it once. After I say it, I’ll forget, and the second time might have omissions.”
Wu Xiaojiu obediently called Wang Qiang. The second the call connected, he asked:
“How exactly did the Village Chief’s daughter die?”
“The Village Chief’s girl died a long time ago. What you saw was her body ten days later. There was nothing wrong with the tractor. The soil had been tampered with. My dad took the dogs down the mountain every day, and they always relieved themselves under the big willow tree. Over time, the dirt there became wetter and softer than anywhere else.”
The young man had not been involved in that part of it. He sniffed and asked a question too.
“Why kill her?”
“Have you ever seen a woman inherit property? Everything Dad worked his whole life for was meant for you and the burly man. Even his own daughter wasn’t allowed to touch it.”
The young man bit his lip, his face going pale. After a long while, he sighed and said, “I didn’t want to help them either. But if the Village Chief had really wanted to raise me and the burly man, he wouldn’t have ignored me while making the other one kill for him.”
After saying that, he looked up at the girl again. “I know complaints like that are a luxury to you. If he could hate his own daughter, then of course he was a thousand times crueler to you.”
The girl smiled, looking as if she did not care much.
“If the Village Chief had even the slightest parental feeling for me, he wouldn’t have sold him out without a second thought. You’d better hurry to the Village Chief’s house. Xie Miaomiao’s biological code is there, along with drug residue from the restructuring of biological tissue. His little wife has been pretending to be insane so no one would enter the villa, giving them time to clean up the remaining evidence.”
Once they had that information, the three of them did not wait any longer.
Wu Xiaojiu stood and helped Bo Suihan up.
The young man’s heel was still bleeding, but he had already forgotten the pain. He looked at the girl on the ground.
After a long while, he held out his hand.
“You can have one-tenth of the inheritance. Thanks for the tip. Pleasure doing business.”
The girl looked at him but did not shake his hand. A cold smile tugged at the corner of her mouth as she raised her middle finger straight at him.
“We split it fifty-fifty. Try to get greedy, and you’ve got no chance!”
Seeing there was no room to negotiate, the young man could only grit his teeth and turn to leave.
Wu Xiaojiu suddenly remembered something. His forward steps stopped, and he half turned his head.
“Are you sure the burly man only killed Xie Miaomiao?”
The girl did not answer directly. Under the moonlight, she lowered her head, her back to Wu Xiaojiu and the others.
She was silent for a long time.
In the end, she still did not answer directly. She only said, “When I get to the bureau, I’ll confess everything.”
Her tone was strange.
But Wu Xiaojiu saw how pitiful and honest she looked, so he did not press her any further.
Supporting Bo Suihan and the young man, he left the Dog Farm.
The moment they stepped out of the Dog Farm’s gate, the stench vanished. The young man shook out his T-shirt and panted heavily.
“You have no idea how close that was. For that old man’s little bit of property, I nearly fought with my life.”
Wang Qiang’s call still had not disconnected.
The sound of sirens traveling along the mountain road came through the phone. Wu Xiaojiu pulled the other two down to sit where they were.
All three of them were injured, and they were still badly shaken.
Taking advantage of the lull, Wu Xiaojiu checked the wound on Bo Suihan’s forehead and found that it had already scabbed over. The blood around the wound had also clotted.
Only after seeing that it did not look serious did he finally breathe a sigh of relief.
“Did you notice anything? Xie Miaomiao definitely wasn’t the only one who died here.”
The young man’s eyes darted around. After scanning their surroundings and confirming there was no one nearby, he beckoned Wu Xiaojiu over.
“Less talk, more action. If I told you the truth, I’m afraid I’d scare you to death. The burly man’s dog farm has been losing money for years. He was broke. Forget meat-he couldn’t even get dog food.
“Where do you think the meat mixed into that slop came from?”
Wu Xiaojiu shook his head, looking utterly innocent.
“The villagers down below.” The young man pointed straight down the mountain. “He tricked them up here and carved it off their thighs while they were still alive.”