Jiang Lingyao's question caught Zhou Yi off guard, and she was unable to react for a moment.
Jiang Lingyao exerted a little force on her hands, and she almost pinned Zhou Yi down with her whole body, leaving her no chance to escape.
For a killer who prides herself on being smart, this feeling of being suppressed would make her extremely uncomfortable.
Sure enough, Zhou Yi's face showed displeasure.
Although it was only a moment, everyone present saw it.
Jiang Lingyao did not give her any chance to explain. She said, "After investigation, it was found that Xiaozhen, the deceased whose body was dumped in Jingye Garden the day before yesterday, was familiar with your sister Zhou Ru. As Zhou Ru, you said you saw your father kill a stranger."
"The six-sided lamp in Xiaozhen's house was given by your sister Zhou Ru. Since the two of you have a gift relationship, why don't you recognize it?"
"So you are not the weak Zhou Ru at all, you are Zhou Yi who can move corpses."
Yaya said before that Xiaozhen was very happy that her new friend gave her a lamp. She cherished it very much and kept it in the small boat. It was the only bright color in her old boat.
Under these circumstances, it is impossible for Zhou Ru not to know Xiao Zhen.
When Zhou Yi heard Jiang Lingyao say this, her expression gradually changed. The cowardice and pain on her face were replaced by coldness, and in this coldness, there was obvious resentment.
"She's so annoying," Zhou Yi sat up straight and dodged to the side to prevent Jiang Lingyao from touching her body. "She's always so weak, as if everyone in the world owes her something. Because she's weak, she can comfortably set up a stall in the West Market, while I have to go back and forth between the shop and the stall every day, delivering lanterns again and again."
"Yes, Zhou Sen's leg is broken, he can't walk, can't do heavy work, Zhou Ru is a weak girl, she can't do rough work either, so all the housework naturally falls on me, why?"
"Don't I owe them?"
The only voice left in the back room was Zhou Yi's childish yet sinister voice.
She expressed her dissatisfaction, the resentment that had built up from childhood to adulthood, and also seemed to be expressing her own misery.
As Zhou Yi said this, tears started to flow from her eyes: "I didn't mean it, Master Qiao. If I didn't help my father, I would be the one to die. I was afraid that people would know that I helped my father move the body, so I pretended to be his sister."
"Master Qiao, I know I was wrong. Please have mercy on me."
Zhou Yi's expression changed faster than turning the pages of a book. One moment he was cursing his father and sister, and the next moment he was begging, seeming to be extremely aggrieved.
But Jiang Lingyao had seen through his pretense long ago. She simply withdrew the gentleness from her face, leaving only coldness and ruthlessness on her beautiful face.
No one will sympathize with a killer.
Jiang Lingyao just looked at her calmly, and waited until she had cried enough and talked enough before asking, "You killed Xiaozhen, didn't you?"
Zhou Yi choked on her own tears.
She stared at Jiang Lingyao in disbelief, "Master Qiao, how could I know how to kill someone? I was really forced to do this."
"I'm just scared."
Jiang Lingyao said, "Zhou Sen has been at home all year round. Because he was injured by the second victim fourteen years ago, his legs have never recovered. He can only walk with difficulty all these years. Therefore, he can no longer commit crimes and rarely goes out."
"How does a murderer who never leaves home choose his victims?"
Jiang Lingyao's eyes were cold, as if she wanted to see into Zhou Yi's heart at a glance.
"The only one who could have chosen Xiaozhen was you, who often went to Xishi to deliver lanterns, because you saw her talking to Zhou Ru and saw the mole at the corner of her lip, which made you want to kill her."
"I think Zhou Sen must have told you about his deeds in a boastful way, right? He was so powerful, he killed two women so quietly, and he was not caught by the government, he was at large for more than ten years. He must have been very proud and thought he was a genius."
"He's not!" Zhou Yi slammed the table, her pretty face turned ugly, "Who the hell is he? Is he worthy?"
"He was just lucky to have gotten away with it. If he hadn't been smarter and knew to dump the bodies in Tongzhou, he would have been caught long ago. The dead people he found all knew my mother. As long as they died in Wanping, it would be easy to investigate."
"But he can't. What kind of genius is he? I am!"
Zhou Yi's face was full of madness, her eyes were red and full of complacency.
"Look, isn't the place I decorated beautiful? Isn't that girl named Xiaozhen pretty?"
Jiang Lingyao narrowed her eyes and asked, "How did you know about Zhou Sen's past?"
Zhou Yi sneered and said, "He is a waste. When my mother died of childbirth, he cried all day long. Later, when he saw those two stupid women, he remembered that those two idiots often interacted with my mother, so he thought of sending them to accompany my mother. This is not bad."
Zhou Yi said: "Because of his injured leg, he couldn't kill anyone, and he was very sad, so he often drank."
"He gets drunk and goes crazy. Zhou Ru, that bitch, just runs away and hides. But I'm not afraid of him. I can even play a trick on him when he's drunk to vent my anger."
"When I was about ten years old, he could no longer beat me, and could only cry and talk about the past. He recalled his great achievements bit by bit, and the wonderful taste of killing people. Then he excitedly told me that no one in the world could compare to him, and he loved my mother the most."
Jiang Lingyao frowned when she heard this, and thought that the Zhou family father and daughter were both crazy.
Zhou Yi didn't care how they viewed her. She said excitedly, "That's when I knew what he had done, but I felt that what he did was not good enough, not delicate enough, and not perfect enough."
"Killing people should be an art. It can't be done the same way as killing chickens and monkeys. Otherwise, there will be no fun."
Zhou Yi is a born murderer. At the age of ten, she already found killing fun. She hates most people in the world and has no sympathy for anyone.
When she looked at them, she was just evaluating whether they were suitable to be killed, how to kill them, and how to kill them. She simply regarded herself as a human being.
But such a wicked person is good at disguising herself. She usually pretends to be lively and hardworking, listens to people's praises and feels proud of it.
I know she is thirteen years old.
After hearing her father mention the murders countless times, she also developed murderous intentions towards women with a mole at the corner of their lips. That murderous intention could not be suppressed no matter what. Perhaps she had the murderous intention when she saw Xiaozhen for the first time.
It was obvious that Xiaozhen was the daughter of a poor family. Perhaps she had even asked Zhou Ru about Xiaozhen's family situation.
She didn't care what Xiaozhen's name was, nor did she care whether Xiaozhen knew Zhou Ru. She was just evaluating whether she could escape perfectly after killing Xiaozhen.
Zhou Yi seemed to sense the disgust in everyone's eyes, but she was extremely proud: "You have never seen a genius like me, right? Do you think I'm amazing?"
Shen Suning stood at the door and almost shivered.
She is a skilled martial artist, able to almost scale walls and fly over rooftops, but she is terrified by such pure malice.
After Zhou Yi took off her disguise, only malice remained on her. That kind of eeriness spread from her, making people's hair stand on end.
Pei Yu glanced at her, took a step to the side, and whispered, "She can't hurt you."
Yes, Shen Suning knew that she couldn't hurt herself, but she still felt a chill deep in her heart.
On the other side, Zhou Yi didn't notice Shen Suning at all. Her eyes were fixed on Jiang Lingyao. She looked at her and said word by word, "Master Qiao, do you think I am a genius?"
Since she was "rescued" yesterday, it has been Jiang Lingyao who has been comforting her, and now, it is also Jiang Lingyao who is interrogating her.
Zhou Yi was more familiar with Jiang Lingyao, and wanted to know what this person, who had been deceived by him, was thinking.
She asked maliciously, "You were also fooled by me yesterday, right? Are you very angry?"
Jiang Lingyao's eyes were still on her face. She stared at her without blinking, not minding at all that she saw her mistake.
"I really didn't realize yesterday that your disguise was almost perfect," Jiang Lingyao praised, "You are amazing."
Zhou Yi smiled proudly.
Jiang Lingyao asked, "Zhou Yi, how did you kill Xiaozhen? And how did you kill Zhou Ru and Zhou Sen?"
Zhou Yi, on the other hand, was very forthcoming. It seemed that these achievements that she could only show off had been buried in her heart for a long time, and only today did the truth finally come to light.
Zhou Yi said cheerfully, "That girl named Xiaozhen was very easy to deceive. I just waited for her on her way home and successfully knocked her out and locked her in the warehouse. I waited for a few days until she had expelled all the filth from her body. Then I arranged for her to meet my mother."
"My mother must be missing me and my sister in the underworld. I still have a great life ahead of me. I can only let Xiaozhen be my mother's daughter for me."
Zhou Yi smiled proudly: "If you go to the Quiet Night Garden, you will definitely find the human skin lantern I made. You will know what a masterpiece is."
Jiang Lingyao paused for a moment, and suddenly asked, "Zhou Yi, since you were sure that you would not be discovered after killing someone, why did you set up this trap?"
Having said this, Zhou Yi's expression finally changed.
She said gloomily, "This is all because of that bitch Zhou Ru. She actually followed me secretly and saw me imprisoning that woman. She even cried and begged me to let her go. How could I say such a stupid thing as killing someone?"
"She even wanted to report it to the police. She kept crying and whining. It was so annoying."
"She was too noisy, so I locked her up in the barn. Then that idiot Zhou Sen asked me where Zhou Ru was. I just took him to the barn and showed him what a disgusting bitch Zhou Ru is."
Zhou Yi said as he widened his eyes: "And Zhou Sen actually said that I am not a human being."
Zhou Yi laughed angrily: "How ridiculous! He himself has killed people, and he still says that I am not a human. How come Zhou Ru is more precious than others and cannot be killed?"
"I'm going to kill her."
Jiang Lingyao understood. Originally, Zhou Yi wanted to set up a perfect scheme. She thought that no one would suspect her after killing someone, and even thought that the Zhou family could not be found. But after being discovered by Zhou Ru, she had to kill Zhou Ru to silence her. She also wanted to kill Zhou Sen who was not "respectful" enough to her.
In this case, two people disappeared from the Zhou family at once, and she couldn't make up a perfect story no matter how she tried, so she took advantage of the situation and made Zhou Sen her scapegoat.
Zhou Yi said, "Fortunately, the Jinyiwei came, so I didn't have to be hungry for that long. I went to the warehouse yesterday morning. Zhou Ru was already dying at that time. That bastard is always so useless. He died after being hungry for a few days. Look at me. I can still kill people after being hungry for a few days."
Jiang Lingyao had already learned the rest of the story without any guidance.
In order to act out the plot perfectly, Zhou Yi also went hungry. She killed Zhou Ru yesterday and made Zhou Sen look like he committed suicide out of fear of crime, then returned home. She locked herself in the woodshed and passed out from hunger.
The Imperial Guard is a hundred times more powerful than ordinary county offices. Jiang Lingyao guessed that Zhou Yi had prepared several different stories for her. If the Imperial Guard could not find the Zhou family, she would use another story to deceive the neighbors.
No matter what, she is a victim and this case has nothing to do with her.
It's really amazing.
Jiang Lingyao looked at her calmly and asked, "Is killing people really so interesting?"
Zhou Yi raised her eyes and looked at Jiang Lingyao. Her dark eyes were like grapes, big and round, but there was only coldness in the depths of her eyes.
Suddenly, Zhou Yi gave Jiang Lingyao a malicious smile.
She acted quickly, grabbing Jiang Lingyao's left arm with her left hand, and a bamboo chopstick suddenly appeared in her right hand, pressing against Jiang Lingyao's slender neck.
Before Jiang Lingyao could react, the familiar Xiuchun sword came through the air and hit the bamboo chopsticks with a bang.
The bamboo chopsticks flew away in an instant, but Zhou Yi remained calm.
She seemed not to be afraid of the pain. She grabbed Jiang Lingyao and dragged her back two steps. At this moment, another bamboo chopstick appeared in her right hand.
She looked at Duan Nanqi with her penetrating eyes, which were filled with bloodthirsty madness: "My lord, please be patient."
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