Chapter 176 Jinjiang First Launch
Xia Mang couldn't bear to watch it any longer: "He wants to murder you, but you still want to give him a chance. Are you a masochist?"
The old lady raised her cloudy eyes and looked forward tremblingly: "In that phone call, he only said he wanted to kill his sister, and didn't say he wanted to kill me. I just wanted to take a gamble, betting that he still had a little bit of humanity left."
Everyone was amazed. Before they could say anything, the old lady laughed at herself and said, "I know this is a stupid idea, but he is my own son after all. I still have a little fantasy in my heart, hoping that he can turn over a new leaf. Maybe, this is what being a mother is like. Even if my son wants to kill someone, I will help him hide the body. It's just that this time he pointed the knife at my daughter, so I had no choice but to set up this trap."
"All of this is a setup. I started planning it after I heard the call about hiring someone to kill Shen Jing. I heard him say on the phone that he wanted to hire someone to kill Shen Jing, so I moved Shen Jing and I out of our original home and into a new rented house. Shen Jing and I traveled in a low-profile manner every day, but I knew it wouldn't work. It was only a matter of time before he found us."
"Sure enough, he went to Shen Jing's company building and continued to stake out. He found Shen Jing and followed her all the way until she entered the community. He wrote down our address and asked the murderer to come up with a new plan to kill us. They decided to use a knife."
"After hearing this, I bought a professional stab-proof vest and a blood bag and asked Shen Jing to wear them in advance. At the agreed time, the hired brat pried open my door. I pushed the door open and pretended to have just heard the noise. Shen Jing was standing in front of the refrigerator taking something out. The brat rushed over and stabbed her with a knife. Fake blood flowed out. He was also very scared, so he dropped the knife and ran away. After he ran away, Shen Jing pretended to have lost too much blood and fell to the ground."
"I called the police, and they sealed off the building. Someone broke into the hallway and filmed a video. The video went viral, and the public thought Shen Jing was dead. The police did not clarify the situation because they wanted to use this opportunity to catch the murderer."
"After the crime, the police found the murderer's hair follicles at the scene and quickly identified the murderer's true identity. After some investigation, they found that the murderer fled to the mountains after committing the crime. There are many mountains in Qingshui Town, and the mountains are connected. It takes a lot of time to investigate. Qingshui Town has limited energy. The police cannot use all their police force for this case, so they decided to wait and see."
"After the incident, Shen Jing was sent to the scene for examination. She had prepared in advance, so she was unharmed. However, the police did not announce this news. They let the public, including the murderer, think that Shen Jing was dead. Then, they let Shen Jing return to the rental house, and I lay in the hospital pretending to be unconscious."
"The police arranged several people to protect Shen Jing in the rental house in advance. Shen Jing still went to get off work and came home every day as before. In fact, there were plainclothes officers protecting her on the way. She lived like this for several days, and gradually the rumor of haunting spread."
The gray-clothed aunt covered her mouth in astonishment: "It turns out that I'm not the only one who saw it. I was so scared when I saw Shen Jing coming home. Who would have thought that there was a room full of police officers hiding in her house?"
The old lady went on to say, "The police created this illusion in order to lure the murderer back. Once the murderer heard Shen Jing's ghost appear, he would be extremely curious. The person he had killed had appeared again. Was Shen Jing dead or not? These questions would definitely linger in the murderer's mind. He would have to come back to take a look. This was related to whether his assassination mission had been completed and how he would be sentenced in the future."
"So the police hid in that rental house and waited. In addition to the rental house, police officers were also deployed in the community and streets in advance." At this point, the old lady looked at the aunt in gray, "You said that you always felt someone was staring at you from behind when you walked into the unit door. In fact, it was the police's gaze."
The gray-clothed aunt patted her chest in relief. The old lady continued, "They waited for a while, and the murderer really came. He climbed up through the pipe outside the building. Because Shen Jing usually covered her face outside, the murderer couldn't tell whether this person was Shen Jing or not. He could only tell from the back that she looked a bit like Shen Jing. If he wanted to see her true face, the murderer had to see Shen Jing take off her mask after entering the house, so he stood on the air conditioner outside the unit and wanted to see through the glass."
"In fact, the police noticed him as soon as he entered the community, but in order to arrest him smoothly, the police patiently waited for him to climb the stairs. As soon as he climbed onto the air conditioner, the police opened the window and grabbed his arm. At this time, he had no way to retreat. If he hid backwards, he would fall. The police took advantage of their position and dragged him back into the house. He tried to fight with the police, but was pinned to the ground by the police in a few seconds."
"After catching this man, the police took him back to the police station for interrogation. His story has come to an end, but my story has just begun--" The old lady looked at Shen Yang lying on the ground sadly.
"I did so much just to see how he would treat me if I was on the verge of life and death," the old lady said with tears in her eyes. "How would my son, whom I have carefully raised for more than 20 years, treat me?"
"So that's why you pretended to faint," the gray-robed aunt looked at the old lady sympathetically, "and what happened next?"
The old lady spread her hands and smiled: "What happened next? You have seen what happened next. The doctor said I had a sudden cerebral hemorrhage and needed to be hospitalized for treatment. My good son insisted on taking me out of the hospital at that time. He pushed a hospital bed all the way here and wanted to use my death to get the last sum of money."
"I did take the medicine prescribed by Dr. Weng a week before the incident, but it was just a tonic. I heard that Ci Xin Tang was well-known, so I came to Dr. Weng to take my pulse, that's all. Dr. Weng had nothing to do with my fainting. My son wanted to use this to cheat money!"
The old lady said in a stern voice: "You thought I was going to die, that your sister was dead, and that you would soon inherit all the money in the family, but you were still not satisfied and pushed me here to embarrass myself, hoping to make some money from my illness. Son, when I really die, do you still want to use my body for a ghost marriage?"
The old lady's voice was filled with infinite sorrow: "I set up such a big trap just to see how you would treat me in the end, but I saw this face instead. Hahahaha, I really raised a good son!"
Bai Mian tapped his chin with his fan: "You saw it clearly, so you finally decided not to be soft-hearted."
"Yes," the old lady sighed, "I haven't handed over the recording of that phone call to the police yet. The police initially investigated this as a common homicide. Some police officers also suspected that this was a murder for hire, but they had no evidence. The most crucial evidence is in my hands."
Xia Mang was shocked: "So this is what you mean by chance. If your son behaves badly when you are dying, you will hand over the evidence to the police. If your son behaves very filially to you, you will help him keep it a secret?"
The old lady nodded heavily, and Xia Mang almost wanted to curse: "Oh my god, this is too outrageous. You concealed key evidence, misled the police's investigation, and let your son go unpunished. I am so angry that I can't speak. Even if you don't hand over the phone recording, do you think the police can't investigate? Do you think the arrested murderer will not confess the truth?"
"As for the murderer, don't worry about his confession. My son has already used money to keep him quiet. When the police interrogate him, he will insist that he did it himself," the old lady said. "The police also questioned me, but I have the advantage of age. At my age, no one dares to bother me. As long as I pretend to be dizzy and forgetful, the police can't do anything to me."
The gray-clothed auntie shook her head repeatedly: "Auntie, you are so confused. Do you think that if you don't hand over the phone recording, the police won't be able to investigate it themselves? Even someone as old as me knows that when the police are investigating, all deleted information can be restored. It's only a matter of time before they find out about this phone call. It's just that the police are busy catching the murderer and haven't investigated your son yet."
Xia Mang cursed directly: "Idiot, you are interfering with the police's investigation and endangering public safety. Idiots like you should be arrested together!"
The old lady did not refute: "Yes, I am indeed stupid. Love makes people stupid. I just wanted to take a gamble, but I lost."
"You did lose the bet," Bai Mian gently waved the fan in his hand, "Just now you were going to the police station to provide clues, and your son wanted to go with you. He was planning to knock you out on the way there and make you disappear completely. After you refused, your son immediately picked up his phone and wanted to use the same trick again and find a car to hit you. As long as you leave here, you will be in a car accident soon."
Everyone was terrified when they heard this. Shen Yang, who was pinned to the ground, never opened his mouth to defend himself. His eyes were blurry and he seemed to be daydreaming.
The old lady closed her eyes tiredly, then opened them again: "So, I should thank you. You saved my life. It turns out that there are really people with such great powers in the world. I have lived a lifetime, and today I have finally seen it. Master Bai, no wonder they call you Master, you deserve this title."
此時陸雪皺着眉提出了疑問：“說了半天，我們知道沈洋是一個喪盡天良的殺人狂，但他為什麽要雇兇殺害自己的姐姐？他的作案動機還沒有說出來。”
“估計是子女矛盾吧，分配不公什麽的，”灰衣阿姨嘀咕道，“多子女家庭就是愛鬧這些矛盾。”
老太太開口了：“不是的，我一直都對他們很好，從小到大，我會把所有的資源都給他們平均分配，從來沒有偏心過誰，他姐姐也對他很好，他們之間沒有什麽仇恨，他要殺死他姐姐，完全是為了争奪家産，本來家産該一人一半，如果姐姐死了，那家産就全部都歸他所有。”
灰衣阿姨點了點頭：“原來是這樣，但還是說不通啊，他姐姐死了，還有你在呢，他也不可能一時半會拿到全部的家産，他這算盤到底是怎麽打的？”
老太太的臉頰抽搐了一下，眼角流下一滴淚：“我原本以為他打算饒我一命，他心裏還有我這個媽，可是直到現在我才想明白，他從一開始就是想把我們兩個都除掉，一石二鳥，如果我女兒真的當着我的面被殺死了，那我一定會驚吓過度，住進醫院，到時候他再放棄治療，這個家就只剩下他一個人了，我現在才明白，我真傻。”
周圍的人紛紛都指着沈洋罵了起來：
“敗家玩意，真是鑽錢眼裏了！”
“這絕對是個重男輕女的媽，活生生把這個兒子給寵廢了！”
“就是，他肯定是從小到大都無法無天的那種，長大了連人命都不放在眼裏！”
“媽呀，看得我都不敢生兒子了。”
“生條叉燒好過生你啊！”
面對衆人的指責，地上的沈洋有了點反應，他擡起頭來，紅着眼睛對老太太大聲吼道：“才沒有，你根本就沒有偏寵過我！你對我那麽苛刻，根本就沒有把我當成你親兒子，你明明知道我需要錢，我需要很多很多錢，但是你偏偏停了我的卡，你考慮過我沒有，我生不如死啊！我搞成今天這樣都是被你逼的，你一早把家裏的錢拿出來不就好了嗎？你都那麽老了，你要錢還有什麽用？家裏的錢本來就該全都是我的，全是我的！”
衆人都聽出了有貓膩，夏芒反問道：“那你呢，你要錢又有什麽用？怎麽聽上去你對錢的需求像是無底洞一樣？”
沈洋耷拉下腦袋，不說話了，老太太悲戚地開口：“瞧瞧他，你們敢相信嗎？就在四年之前他還是一個意氣風發，品學兼優的大學生，他和他姐姐年齡相差不大，他們二人從小一起長大，我并不是那種重男輕女的人，我對他們二人一視同仁，全都精心培育，他們也沒有辜負我的期望，總是考年級前幾名，後來姐姐大學畢業，在國內一家很好的企業上班，而他則是選擇了出國。”
“我尊重他的個人選擇，請了幾位朋友來精心幫他擇校，最終他獲得了好幾個國外名校的offer，然後他選擇了最心儀的那個，那天我送他到了機場，目送他的飛機起飛，我竟然不知道，那是我和他的最後一面。”
“開始讀大學之後，他總是隔三差五地和我要錢，我已經給了他很大一筆生活費，哦，忘了說，我的亡夫是個企業家，他故去之後，我繼承了他所有的遺産，所以我算是個有錢的寡婦，我給了他很大一筆生活費，但他總是說不夠，變着法子和我要錢，一會說腿斷了需要住院，一會又說他想要在校園裏創業，我不了解他說的那些東西，但是出于對他的信任，我每次都選擇給他打錢。”
“這四年他一次都沒有回來過，他總是說學業繁忙，沒時間回來，我也沒有強求，随着他去了。”
“我最終揭開真相，是在他畢業那天，那天我查了學校官網，知道學生們該畢業了，于是我催促他給我發畢業照，他拖了好半天才發來一張照片，但是照片上的人又髒又瘦，和他之前判若兩人，我立刻意識到出事了，親自飛到國外去找他。”
“我去了他就讀的大學，可是我沒有找到他，校方告訴我學校确實有過一個叫沈洋的學生，但是系統顯示他四年前就退學了，也就是說，他剛入學沒多久就退學了。”
“我像瘋了一樣打他的電話，他沒有接，最終我在外國的街頭找到了他，他裹着一條破毯子，和一群流浪漢躺在一起，那群人全都精神迷離，一副吸嗨了的樣子。”
“是的，就像你們想的一樣，我兒子吸了那玩意，據他自己說，他一開始只是好奇，跟着朋友去了一次酒吧，趁着燈光昏暗，有人往他酒杯裏丢了一些違禁藥品，從此他就開始對那些違禁藥品上瘾，他越嗑這些東西瘾越大，一開始只是小藥片，後來是大X，再後來就是那種白色粉末。”
“他吸了這種東西，當然就無心學習，才開學不到一個月，他就決定退學了，他沒有把退學的事情告訴我，就這樣瞞着我在外國當了四年的流浪漢，這四年他想盡辦法和我要錢，其實都是為了去買那些有毒的玩意。”
“我們以前聊天的時候，我詢問他的日常，他總是拿過去的生活照糊弄我，直到我索要畢業照，他才勉強去找衣服拍了那樣一張照片，事情就這樣露餡了。”
“知道真相的那一刻，我的天都塌了，也都怪我太信任他，這四年都沒有來探望過他，當時我以為他還有救，畢竟他以前那麽優秀，每一年都拿三好學生獎狀的，我實在不相信他就這樣堕落了，于是我強行抓住他，帶着他坐飛機回到了國內。”
“後來的日子我不願意過多描述，總之他在國內也吸食着那玩意，我以為只要回國了他就買不到那東西，結果他不知道用什麽辦法找到了賣家，他就像一個吸血鬼，不斷纏着我要錢，如果不給錢，他甚至會對我拳打腳踢。”
“我試着幫他戒過幾次，但是都沒有效果，為了能更好地幫他戒毒，我在他的手機上安裝了監控軟件，這樣我可以監控他的一舉一動，就在這之後，我聽到了他買兇殺人的電話。”
“我知道不能再這樣下去了，是時候該做個了斷了，所以我搬了家，開始了這個計劃。”
老太太講完這個漫長的故事之後，在場所有人都跟着長出了一口氣，他們終于有點理解老太太，畢竟沈洋以前是一個那麽優秀的人，老太太感到不甘心也很正常。
灰衣阿姨痛心地說：“說到底，一切事情都是因毒品而起的，毒品害人啊！”
老太太點點頭：“我真希望這個世上再也沒有毒品。”
她們正說着，地上的沈洋毒瘾犯了，他這些天一直在醫院陪護，沒時間去吸粉，已經憋得很厲害了。
只見他兩眼發直，瞳孔附近是紅色，眼白附近卻變成了黃色，兩頰不斷向內縮小，嘴巴用力撅了起來，整個人的臉都變形了。
見此情景，那幾個退伍老兵都驚呆了，沈洋借機抽出一只手來，努力抓向夏芒的方向，惡狠狠地嘶吼着說：
“給我，給我藥——快點！你這個婊子——如果不是被人摁着，老子真想宰了你！”
他的目光直直盯着夏芒，把夏芒看得渾身發毛，夏芒有些手足無措：“我身上哪會有什麽藥，你神經病啊？”
“他的手機。”白眠用目光示意了一下。
夏芒連忙反應過來，從兜裏拿出了沈洋的手機，剛才她搶了沈洋的手機之後沒多留意，現在仔細一看，發現确實不對勁，這只手機的手機殼也太厚了。
夏芒急忙拆了手機的手機殼，發現這個手機殼居然還有夾層，夾層裏是一小袋白色粉末。
看着這個東西，屋裏所有人都緊張起來，立刻就有人報了警。
沈洋一看到白色粉末就兩眼放綠光，他像狼一樣嗷嗷叫喚了起來，嘴裏語無倫次地說着瘋話，要求夏芒把粉末給她。
夏芒當然不會給，出于安全起見，夏芒立刻跑到了衛生間裏，把衛生間的門反鎖起來，把自己和藥粉都關了起來，确保沈洋搶不到這包藥粉。
沈洋越發着急，使出了渾身力氣，但他身上畢竟有幾個老兵壓着，他一個人無論如何也抵不過幾個人的力氣，只能被壓得絲毫動彈不得。
毒瘾遲遲得不到滿足，沈洋開始渾身抽搐，他雙手雙腳都在顫抖，口吐白沫，嘴角還流下了長長的口水，他亂甩着腦袋，把口水甩得到處都是。
Seeing Shen Yang's crazy look, the old lady burst into tears again. Xia Mang said indignantly: "Look, a drug addict is simply a madman when he gets angry. He doesn't recognize his relatives. What else can you expect from him? Your plan is really too risky. Although you say that you don't favor boys over girls, I still think that you value your son more than your daughter!"
"In order to test your son's humanity, you let your daughter take a huge risk to act with you. Although you bought protective gear in advance, there may still be many unexpected situations. For example, what if the assassination time is advanced? What if the stab-proof vest is really pierced by the knife? As long as there is a little accident, your daughter may die. You only have your son in your eyes, and you don't take your daughter's life seriously at all!"
Everyone thought it made sense. The old lady did not argue, but asked Xia Mang a question with a smile: "What you said makes sense, but - why do you think the woman living with me is my daughter Shen Jing?"