Chapter 2683 Someone Lied
Song Zhi asked and they gasped.
He opened his eyes wide and looked at Xue Huai'en with an expression of disbelief: "Brother Xue, is it true?"
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"Do you really not agree to surrender the city?"
Xue Huai'en's face changed several times when he heard Li Bushang's words. When he heard Song Zhiwen ask this question, he took a deep breath to calm himself down, then sneered and said, "I don't understand what you mean by that."
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"Our family's internal affairs have nothing to do with you. I said we agreed to surrender the city. If you insist on doubting it, then I can't help it."
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"Or, can you find any evidence to prove that I disagree with the surrender of the city?"
Li Bushang said coldly: "Of course I can find it."
Xue Huai'en said: "Oh? Where is the evidence?"
Li Bushang said: "It's on your own body."
"What?"
Xue Huai'en subconsciously looked down, but there was nothing on him. He frowned and became alert in his heart. He looked at Li Bushang: "What do you mean by 'I have something on me?'"
Li Bushang said: "The murderer."
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"You are the murderer of the Cheng family's patriarch."
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"This incident put the plan of surrendering the city on hold for a time. Even now, with both sides clashing with swords and falling apart, the surrender of the city is about to be impossible to proceed."
At this moment, the crowd exploded.
The Cheng family's guards were immediately excited and rushed forward -
"What did you say?"
"He, he is the murderer?"
"He killed our Patriarch? How is that possible?!"
Xue Huai'en also said angrily: "Enough, Li Bushang, stop slandering me. I can ignore your nonsense just now, but you actually dared to slander me for killing the head of the Cheng family. Are you trying to provoke internal strife in our Bailong City? Li Bushang, don't think that I, Xue, am easy to bully!"
Li Bushang looked at him coldly without saying a word.
Instead, it was Song Zhiwen who stood up at this time, opened his arms and signaled the people around him who had already become chaotic to quiet down.
He said to Xue Huai'en, "Brother Xue, please be patient. Since he has brought up this matter, we naturally want him to produce evidence. If he doesn't have any, you are innocent."
As he said that, he turned and looked at Li Bushang.
He said, "Lord Li, this matter is of no small importance. If you are truly slandering me, the people of White Dragon City will not let you off easily."
Li Bushang said calmly: "Of course I have evidence."
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"However, before I produce any more evidence, I would like to hear how the three of you saw him on the night the Cheng family patriarch was murdered, and then tell us about your testimony."
Song Zhiwen frowned.
But he immediately said, "That night, I was the first one to see Uncle Cheng. I entered his tent around midnight, but because we didn't get along, I left after a few words. When I left, it was almost midnight, and Uncle Cheng was still alive."
After saying that, he looked at Xue Huai'en.
Xue Huai'en sneered and said, "I came here at midnight to persuade Uncle Cheng to accept the city. We didn't get along either, so he drove me away without saying a word."
Having said this, he specifically said to Li Bushang: "When I left, he was still alive."
Li Bushang looked at him, his eyes flickering slightly.
As Xue Huai'en finished speaking, Murong Qiuming, who had been standing silently by the side, spoke up, "I can prove it. I arrived at 12:30 am. Because we both disagreed with surrendering the city, Uncle Cheng and I were trying to convince them. Uncle Cheng was still alive when I left."
After he finished speaking, Xue Huai'en sneered and said, "Li Bu Shang, what else do you have to say?"
Li Bushang said calmly: "Someone is lying."
Several people looked at each other.
Murong Qiuming immediately sneered: "Why, you can't produce evidence and start slandering people? I made it very clear that night. After Huai En met Uncle Cheng, he was still alive. I can testify because I saw Uncle Cheng alive when I came. And I-"
As he said that, he snorted coldly: "Are you trying to accuse me of lying?"
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"If you doubt me, you can check what I was wearing that night."
Li Bushan said coldly, "It's true that you lied, but your lie wasn't about whether or not you killed anyone."
Murong Qiuming's breath hitched.
Song Zhiwen frowned and asked, "What is that?"
Li Bu Shang stared straight at Murong Qiu Ming with his wolf eyes, and said word by word: "You lied about whether the person you saw was alive, the Cheng family patriarch!"
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As soon as these words were spoken, the entire Bailong City camp suddenly fell silent.
Everyone was stunned.
Song Zhiwen also opened his eyes wide, looked at Li Bushang, then turned to look at Murong Qiuming whose face changed drastically, and then looked at Xue Huai'en who was pale. In an instant, his eyes suddenly became bloodshot and red, as if he felt something, and his whole body trembled.
He stiffened his neck and spoke word by word with some difficulty: "You, you mean-"
Li Bushang said: "What he saw was not the living Cheng family head, but the Cheng family head who had been killed."
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"However, he lied and claimed that he had seen the living head of the Cheng family."
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"In this way, the real murderer is covered up."
Song Zhiwen turned around and looked at Murong Qiuming and Xue Huai'en again. This time, the two men's faces turned red and white, and their eyes flickered. Song Zhiwen's breathing became heavy, and he seemed to be unable to hold on any longer.
Only Li Bushang continued to say coldly: "I said someone is lying. This person is not just one person, but two people, or even three people."
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"They lied together and corroborated each other."
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"So, the person who appears to be the most suspicious on the surface actually didn't kill anyone. But because he's the most suspicious, everyone will definitely look for clues that he killed someone. However, since he didn't actually kill anyone, no matter how hard they look, they won't find any evidence that he did."
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"Since the real murderer was being protected by this person, naturally no one would investigate him, and the clues were covered up."
Murong Qiuming and Xue Huai'en looked at each other, but for a moment, they couldn't find any words to refute.
Both of them frowned, looking very ugly.
Song Zhiwen seemed unable to believe it. He looked at the two of them, then at Xie Jiaojiao who had been standing aside in silence.
Then he said to Li Bushang, "You just said that it wasn't just one person who lied, but two, or even three. So, besides these two, who is the other one?"
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