Chapter 74: It’s time to get into trouble. The elevator door opened and outside was…
Just then, the elevator door opened and a surprised face appeared outside.
A female voice rang out, sharp and fierce, "What are you doing!"
Li Ci turned his head to look over, and a hint of displeasure at being disturbed flashed across his eyes, which were infected by desire and hatred. It was sinister and sharp.
Fu Xuefan was so shocked by that stare that he trembled all over. He said stiffly, "This...this is a public place. This is my home. You...you are too..."
Li Ci's eyes were fierce and he was about to explode when his cell phone suddenly rang. He lowered his eyes to glance at the screen, picked up the phone impatiently, and frowned slightly.
The person who called seemed to be Li Mingxin. Lin Xicai didn't hear it clearly, but it was probably not a good thing. Li Ci's face suddenly turned bad, and the strength in his hands loosened.
After the call, Li Ci rubbed her face with the back of his hand, somewhat nostalgically, and said in a tone that seemed gentle but actually threatening, "I have something to take care of right now. Wait here for me obediently, and I'll take you home."
After saying that, he touched her hair with his fingertips, turned around and walked out.
Fu Xuefan was ignored. After Li Ci walked away, he came to his senses, his face becoming even more annoyed. He linked his arms and looked at Lin Xicai, "You should consider a person's character before trying to climb up the social ladder, right? Just because Li Ci is handsome and rich, you want to get close to him? Forget it. It's obvious that this guy is not easy to deal with. He's full of ulterior motives."
She shook her head, suddenly furious. "How could someone who liked my brother fall for such a scoundrel? Li Ci is not even as good as your weird, neurotic classmate."
Fu Xuefan kept chattering away, while Lin Xicai's face was pale and she was still in shock.
Today, she is really scared.
If she doesn't get rid of Li Ci completely, she won't be able to study well in the second half of the year.
Lin Xicai's eyes became sharper. So, if she could fight back the first time, why couldn't she fight back the second time?
Lin Xicai returned to the room and took out two notebooks from the drawer.
One is densely packed with sins, the other neatly written with confessions.
Car accidents, hired assassins, illegal detention...
Maybe she should think about how to make the most of these things.
Lin Xicai was halfway through her plan and hadn't taken any action when something happened that caught her off guard.
A few months later, she was summoned by the police again.
The incident happened suddenly and she had no time to prepare anything. She was taken directly to the police station.
Only when she got there did she find out that someone had provided new clues and testimony, accusing her of being the mastermind behind Li Ci's disappearance.
In this accusation, the other party was no longer making completely empty promises. He stated with certainty that the wound on her shoulder was evidence, and that the wound on her shoulder was caused by Li Ci when he was stabbing her when she was escaping.
Although the police did not specify who this person was, Lin Xicai could probably guess who it was - first of all, it wouldn't be Li Ci. Li Ci would never bother to use such "civilized" means to seek justice. If Li Ci was willing to use such "civilized" means to collect debts from her, she would not be so panicked now.
It wasn't Li Ci, but she couldn't think of anyone else except Zeng Jinghuan who cared so much about Li Ci's affairs and was especially targeting her.
In fact, Lin Xicai's guess was 90% correct -
After Li Ci returned that day, he had a huge argument with Li Mingxin. The company was facing a crisis, yet Li Mingxin was sitting around doing nothing and wasted his time. Li Mingxin was furious and warned him to be careful with his words and actions during this special period. If his actions brought trouble to the family during this time, he would be exiled to a foreign country to fend for himself.
Li Ci did not take his words seriously. Instead of calming down, he said a few more shameless words and was slapped in the face by Li Mingxin.
Li Ci went to a bar that night and drank with a bunch of his friends until he was completely drunk. Zeng Jinghuan was there too, standing beside him, not saying a word.
She was afraid that he was feeling uncomfortable, and she felt sorry for him, so she took good care of him.
After drinking, Li Ci kept shouting a name, as if she hated it very much, but something other than hatred made her jealous to the point of madness.
She looked at this man and was amazed that such a heartless and vicious person could be tortured like this by another person.
He also said a lot of nonsense, every word and sentence, intermittently, were related to the same person.
Zeng Jinghuan couldn't understand everything, but she remembered some key words, such as the scar on her shoulder.
If he couldn't make a decision or resolve, he would let her do it. She would definitely punish that ungrateful and evil woman.
She hated her, she really hated her. Her background was obviously even poorer than hers, no, she was the daughter of a servant, and her background was obviously even worse than hers. Why did she always act so superior?
Her dislike for her even exceeded her obsession with Li Ci. Why should she not be punished for her mistakes? She must pay the price...
Zeng Jinghuan contacted the police the next day and provided clues to the police who were still investigating Li Ci's disappearance.
When Lin Xicai arrived at the police station, the officers first asked her a few simple questions, which she answered truthfully and calmly. Then they delved deeper and finally got to the topic of the scar.
They took a doctor to look at the alleged scar.
Then ask about the origin of the scar.
The location of the scar and the wound are somewhat unique, and it is obviously impossible to explain it away as an accident.
If we can't explain the accident, we can only come up with a man-made reason.
Man-made harm can be divided into self-harm and harm to others.
At this time, if she answered that she did it, the credibility would be almost zero, and her suspicion would immediately increase because of the lie.
Therefore, in order to completely dismantle this clue and reduce suspicion to the lowest level, the best way is to find a reasonable reason for his injury other than Li Ci.
This reason seems easy to make up, but because it was "he who hurt her", there must be witnesses involved. The person she said hurt her will definitely be summoned, and his testimony must match hers, and the chain of evidence will be completed.
The problem now is that everything happened too suddenly, and she had no time to greet anyone in advance to collude with them.
The two policemen in front of her looked at each other and then at her, "What's wrong? Can't you remember?"
Lin Xicai paused and looked up. At this moment, she could only take a gamble.
"Fu Yanxiu was injured." Lin Xicai said.
"Fu Yanxiu? The son of the Fu family where your mother works?"
"yes."
"Why did he hurt you?"
Lin Xicai paused, "He was drunk and misbehaving that day. When I resisted, he accidentally hurt me."
"What date?"
"About mid-December."
"What hurt you?"
"A spoon."
"spoon?"
"The end of an iron spoon, very pointed. That was all I could feel at the time."
"Which hospital treated the wound?"
"I didn't go to the hospital. Then he regained consciousness and asked a female doctor to come home and bandage me."
The policeman lowered his head to take notes, asked a few more questions, nodded at her, and motioned her to wait here.
The police were very efficient. In less than an hour, Fu Yanxiu was in another interrogation room.
The police exchanged a few pleasantries with Fu Yanxiu and then got down to business.
Show him the picture and ask him if he remembers the injury.
Fu Yanxiu didn't say anything, his gaze fell on the scar for a long time, his eyes calm and complicated.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, the police looked at him and asked again, using more direct words: "Is this injury related to you?"
Fu Yanxiu retracted his gaze and looked at the policeman, his face expressionless: "It's me."
"You what?"
"I'm injured."
"reason."
He paused and said, "I got drunk and lost my temper, and accidentally hurt someone."
The police looked at each other and continued to ask: "What did you use to hurt me?"
"A spoon, made of iron. The end of a long ladle."
"About some date."
"I can't remember, maybe December."
"Who treated her wound?"
"I called the private doctor."
......
Lin Xicai sat in another room. Although she didn't show it on her face, she was actually nervous inside.
She did not question Fu Yanxiu's intelligence and brains. As long as he wanted to, he could give the most perfect answer.
But she couldn't guarantee whether he was willing to make some sacrifices to save her in this way.
She was gambling, gambling that he was willing to help her.
This inner tension and nervousness continued until the police came to inform her that she could leave, and then it was slightly relieved.
The moment she walked out of the police station, her palms were sweating.
Fu Yanxiu drove over and came out one step before her. He was sitting quietly in the car at that time. When he saw her come out, he stood on the side of the road in a daze and honked his horn impatiently.
Lin Xicai paused, hesitated for a moment, opened the car door and sat in the passenger seat.
Fu Yanxiu didn't speak to her, not a single word, he didn't even look at her.
The car started and drove forward. It was not the way home. Lin Xicai looked at him and didn't dare to speak.
He was just driving, but it seemed like he had no destination. After a long time, the car suddenly stopped.
The sun was already half-set in the sky, and it was turning orange and red. The afterglow shone through the plane trees on the street, casting fragments of light on the car window glass. The faces of the two people in the car were also flickering in the mottled orange-red light, revealing a tangled and tense silence.
They all seemed calm, yet no one seemed so calm.
Their car was parked in a place where it shouldn't be parked, just like some overly complicated emotions that had nowhere to go.
There was silence for a while, and Lin Xicai spoke first to break the deadlock.
"Thank you," she said.
Fu Yanxiu didn't look at her. He paused and said a few words calmly: "I owe you."
Lin Xicai knew that he was talking about the incident in the cloakroom and the promise she had forced upon him.
——"In the future, if I encounter a problem that I can't solve and ask you for help, you must help me."
Lin Xicai turned her head and looked at the person next to her. Her eyes softened rarely, and she looked clear and sincere: "Thank you anyway."
The next moment, a hand grabbed her wrist, and Fu Yanxiu looked over, directly asking the question she couldn't answer: "How did you do it? Where did you hide that person?"
Lin Xicai did not avoid his gaze, but did not speak either.
She really couldn't speak up about this matter.
Because it wasn't just a question. As soon as she answered it, there would inevitably be the next one, and the next one, like, What is space? Why do you have such a thing? Who are you? Where do you come from? What is your purpose?... It's like a loose thread on a scarf. If you give it away, the whole scarf will be ruined.
"Even at this point, you're not willing to tell me the truth?"
Fu Yanxiu stared at her, as if questioning her, but also as if mocking himself, "Do I really want you to distrust me?"
"I'm sorry." Lin Xicai paused and explained, "I don't distrust you. It's just that some things have nothing to do with you, and I don't want you to get involved in this mess."
"Don't you think it's a little late to say that now?"
Fu Yanxiu seemed about to get angry, but lowered his voice, "This muddy water you've created is almost drowning me."
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