Chapter 299 Am I hindering your performance here?
"Then go and wake her up?"
Shen Ruofu, "..."
"And by the way, ask her who killed her in prison?"
Shen Ruofu's pupils suddenly dilated.
“Husband, why are you saying that about our daughter?” Madam Shen said from the side.
Shen Jingxiu turned his gaze to her, his face gentle again, "I'm teaching her to think rationally."
Shen Ruofu smiled awkwardly.
"Jingxiu, is it alright for you to leave the ward? When are you going back?" Old Master Shen asked.
Shen Jingxiu looked at the old man and said in an emotionless tone, "Am I interfering with your performance?"
Old Master Shen was furious. "I'm just concerned about you. What are you saying?"
Shen Jingxiu's gaze suddenly turned cold. "I've spent my whole life doing scientific research, and now the Shen family's mourning hall has become a scene of shamanistic rituals. Today, you're bleeding and committing murder in the mourning hall, suppressing the younger generation. Have you ever thought about where you put the face of our ancestors?"
Old Master Shen immediately clutched his chest, looking frail and aged, and replied in a trembling voice, "You've been sick for so many years, and I've been managing this household for you. In the end, you haven't said a word of thanks, but instead you're saying that I'm wrong here and wrong there."
“Dad, Jingxiu didn’t mean that,” Madam Shen quickly interjected.
Grandpa Shen gestured for her to be quiet, then continued to stare at Shen Jingxiu with an air of self-righteousness.
“Aizhu is your daughter, her ashes are right there. Instead of being sad, you always speak up for outsiders. I invited the Taoist priest to perform a ritual for her soul, but you call it a shamanistic performance. Jingxiu, where is your conscience?”
As soon as she finished speaking, Jiang Ran carried "Master Wang" in from outside.
Upon approaching, they simply threw the person in front of Old Master Shen.
Old Master Shen almost lost his balance, and Shen Ruofu quickly and ingratiatingly supported him.
"After I subdued him, he chewed up the poison in his mouth. I called an ambulance, but I guess it was too late. He had no fingerprints, and facial recognition showed no record of his identity."
Jiang Ran squatted down and showed him her wrist.
"But the scorpion tattoo reveals that he comes from Southeast Asia and was trained as an assassin from childhood. They have no surnames or names; they are merely domesticated killing tools, so he is not a Taoist priest at all."
The other party's motive was to obtain Ji Ying's biological samples. Jiang Ran believed that Liang Yizhi could see through it, so she did not say it in public.
Old Master Shen was slapped in the face, and he slammed his cane heavily on the ground.
"Does whatever you say go true?"
Jiang Ran looked up at him and said, "Don't speak. If you do, you'll expose your ignorance."
“Jiang Ran,” Ji Ying said softly, “give the old man some face. After all, besides his stubbornness, he has nothing left.”
"you……"
Just as Old Master Shen was about to get angry at Ji Ying, Shen Jingxiu interrupted him.
Shen Jingxiu looked at Liang Yizhi and asked, "How should we handle this?"
Liang Yizhi is most serious when he frowns slightly.
“Even without identification, we must investigate. Find out how this person entered the country, how they moved around the country, and who they were employed by. Uncover the mastermind behind this, and convict them if necessary. However…”
His tone suddenly shifted, as if he were speaking to someone.
"If the opponent is also just a pawn, then his fate should be the same as the one lying on the ground."
Shen Ruofu's brow twitched at her words.
“Dad,” Shen Jingxiu said calmly, “If you find an assassin to perform a ritual for Aizhu, I’m afraid her resentment will only intensify.”
Old Master Shen trembled and his breathing became rapid.
Shen Jingxiu stopped looking at him and turned to look at Ji Ying.
"Girl, I'm sorry you had to suffer this. What kind of compensation do you want?"
Ji Ying raised the corners of her lips. "Shen Aizhu's death has made me quite controversial. I'm here today to hold a press conference here and clarify some things."
Without a second thought, Shen Jingxiu nodded and said, "Okay, you can drive."
Madam Shen wanted to say something, but he stopped her by raising his hand.
Jiang Ran quickly moved the killer's body away, and the Shen family bodyguards quickly cleaned up the scene.
Two minutes later, Yue Zheng invited the media reporters who had been waiting outside in.
Shen Ruofu then realized that she was dressed in all black today not to mourn Shen Aizhu at all.
Her purpose was to hold a press conference at Shen Aizhu's funeral hall, and this outfit was the perfect costume for her to wear on stage.
Wearing a black mask and with a serious expression, Ji Ying faced the camera with sorrowful eyes and said, "Although some of Ms. Shen Aizhu's actions before her death, including illegal drug trafficking, drugging others, intentionally harming others, and staging her own kidnapping, have led to mixed opinions about her, I am still saddened by her passing."
Madam Shen turned pale upon hearing this.
This is not a mourning; it is clearly a recounting of Shen Aizhu's crimes during her lifetime!
With so many misdeeds made public, the Shen family will inevitably be criticized by the public for failing to properly educate their daughter.
"But I find the rumor that 'she was persecuted to death by me' utterly absurd. I am just an ordinary R&D staff member. Perhaps the only difference is that my team is advancing a technology that will have a profound impact on the future landscape. It is precisely because of this that I have recently encountered many inexplicable troubles."
A reporter astutely interjected, "Do you mean someone is trying to obtain 'Qixia' technology through illegitimate means?"
Ji Ying smiled faintly, offering no response, but solemnly declared: "I do not believe Shen Aizhu committed suicide! I hereby offer a reward of ten million for any clues leading to the truth of Shen Aizhu's death. At the same time, my legal team has submitted an application to the procuratorate requesting an independent investigation to clarify the facts and clear my name!"
While Ji Ying was holding a press conference, an anonymous email listing suspicious points surrounding Shen Aizhu's death was also sent to the head of the investigation team.
The brief press conference concluded under the direction of Yue Zheng.
The noisy funeral hall fell silent again, and no one remembered that there was a deceased person there.
Ji Ying looked at Shen Jingxiu and lowered her head slightly. "Thank you, Teacher Shen, for lending me the venue."
Shen Jingxiu looked at her with tenderness in his eyes, "It's good that you're not wronged."
Liang Yizhi glanced at the sky outside, draped a coat over Ji Ying's shoulders, and prepared to leave with her.
Old Master Shen was furious and shouted at them, "You're disturbing Aizhu's rest, are you just going to leave like this?"
Ji Ying paused, turned to look at him, and said in a flippant tone, "Don't worry, if you die, I promise I won't come to see you once. I'll let you go to hell in peace."
After saying that, he and Liang Yizhi continued to leave.
Grandpa Shen was furious. "Jingxiu, look at them...it's outrageous!"
Shen Jingxiu said casually, "My father held a grand funeral for an adopted daughter with a terrible reputation, and even hired an assassin to act as a Taoist priest. If you were in charge here, I'm afraid we would become the laughing stock of the whole city."
"you……"
Old Master Shen was rendered speechless by his sudden sharp retort.
"If you want to experience being the head of the family, go back to the second son's family. Anyway, when the family was divided, you gave him everything. Now his whole family is well-fed and healthy, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration for them to call you 'ancestor'."
These words stung Mr. Shen so much that his blood pressure spiked, and he slumped heavily into his chair.
"Jingxiu! Dad has high blood pressure, so shut up!"
Madam Shen hurriedly went forward to check on the old man.
Shen Jingxiu suddenly leaned back weakly into his wheelchair, his breath faint.
"It was my fault... I'm a patient, and I'm prone to emotional instability. Please bear with me, madam."
Upon seeing this, Madam Shen immediately released the old man and turned to pat his back to help him catch his breath.
Shen Ruofu, who was standing to the side, was already covered in cold sweat.
Ji Ying's outburst today was clearly aimed at Pang Shijun.
Shen Aizhu was a pawn that Pang Shijun discarded by his own hand. Now she has publicly offered a reward for an investigation, and every step she takes is like a declaration of war against Pang Shijun.
Thinking about her fate of sharing both glory and fortune with Pang Shijun, she was eager to know how Pang Shijun would retaliate.
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