Chapter 391 392. Pull Into the Water
Gao Ning drank the tea in the cup, asked the waiter to refill it, and waved his hand for them to leave.
Seeing this, Gu Wenheng also ordered Mingfeng and the others to guard outside.
"Are you curious why this officer asked you to come here?"
Gu Wenheng, "Master Gao has his own reasons."
Looking at Ping Ping's calm expression, Gao Ning secretly thought that he was bored. "Bai Jinglie and I have a personal relationship. When he left Beijing, he asked me to look after you. Now it seems that he is overly worried."
Gu Wenheng, "I believe that Mr. Gao didn't come here today just to talk to me about this matter."
"No wonder you won the top spot and are still so clear-headed at this moment." If it were an ordinary person, he would have shown his joy at this time, but the person in front of him still had a calm expression.
"I won't keep you in suspense. The girl from the Xiao family confessed, but she said she poisoned Lord Niu at your behest."
Gu Wenheng couldn't hold back his expression anymore, his eyes widened, "I almost forgot what she looked like, and every time we met, there were other people present. How could two people who had no connection with each other poison Lord Niu together?"
Gao Ning, "It was because I had some suspicions that I sent someone to investigate.
But she said it very convincingly, and even took out the jewelry you gave her as evidence."
A thousand horses were running through Gu Wenheng's mind. "Giving her jewelry, is she dreaming?"
"I have also asked someone to inquire, and your wife does have the same style of jewelry as her."
"What does this prove? There are people who look exactly alike, not to mention these dead things." Gu Wenheng felt unhappy. "Are you going to let her talk nonsense and question others while investigating the case?"
Gao Ning, "I don't want to believe it either, but this girl said that the then prefect Xiao wanted to marry her to you, but unfortunately you already had a wife and children, so the marriage was cancelled.
But you two are in love with each other and have a close relationship in secret.
Under pressure from her stepmother, she had no choice but to marry Mr. Niu.
In her words, she was a good wife and mother for a while, but all that changed after you became the top student in high school.
Because you wanted to have women everywhere, you ordered her to kill Lord Niu. All of this happened because of you."
Gu Wenheng took a deep breath and said, "You adults can check these. At that time, Governor Xiao wanted to arrange a marriage for her, but the person he was going to marry was my senior brother from the same sect.
But my senior brother had no intention of getting married at that time, so he took us away from the city overnight.
As for what she said, that I had an affair with her, that is simply slander.
Not to mention the clan rules, my wife and I have been childhood sweethearts and in love with each other. We have been through thick and thin together. I have promised that I will keep her as my partner for the rest of my life and never have any other thoughts.
Besides, I vaguely remember that this woman was not very good-looking, so why would you think that I would abandon my lovely wife and young children at home to hook up with her?"
"This is just your one-sided statement after all," Gao Ning also knew there was some truth to this, otherwise he would not have made this trip.
No matter how close his friendship with Bai Jinglie was, it would not be enough to change his position in the slightest.
Gu Wenheng, "Sir, I have a clear conscience. I hope you can clear my name."
Gao Ning, "...I will handle this impartially, but if Lord Gu commits a crime, don't blame me for being ruthless."
Gu Wenheng, "Please handle this impartially, sir."
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After returning to the mansion, Gu Wenheng, as usual, accompanied the old lady to finish her dinner, and then helped the old lady walk around the backyard twice to help digest the food. Then he took Jin Qianqian back to his room.
There was no one around, so Jin Qianqian immediately asked, "Did anything happen today? I saw you frown a few times."
Only then did Gu Wenheng no longer conceal the anger on his face and repeated the words of Shuntian Prefecture Governor Gao Ning.
Jin Qianqian was furious. "This is outrageous. She is trying to drag us down with her."
"I never thought that I would be wronged one day." Gu Wenheng felt that being involved with that kind of person was a bit cheap. "This person is really vicious. He wants to push the blame for his crime onto me."
"I don't think she would have such a mind," Jin Qianqian narrowed her eyes, "Which set of identical jewelry is she talking about?"
Gu Wenheng was also a little puzzled. "I didn't ask in detail. Besides, these jewelry were all purchased in the shop. It would be normal for the shop to make exactly the same things. This cannot be used as evidence at all."
Jin Qianqian gritted her teeth and said, "It seems that she has made up her mind. Even if she can't get you involved, she will ruin your reputation. She deserves death."
Gu Wenheng, "Don't worry, I won't let her succeed. Since you dare to provoke me, you must be prepared for the consequences of angering me."
Jin Qianqian, "We can't be so passive now. I'll let you come down later and then go out to investigate. I don't believe that we can't find out her fox tail."
"Let someone keep an eye on the Huang Mansion later," Gu Wenheng added, "especially her elder sister."
"Well, they'd better not get involved, or I don't mind making sure they can't even keep their shop."
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Gao Ning went back and discussed it with his master again, "It seems that Xiao is still not telling the truth."
"Have you found out everything, sir?" Master Feng sorted out the confession in front of him. "After all, he is the top scholar, so he will be more careful. I am afraid that he has cleaned up all the traces."
Gao Ning shook his head and said, "If I hadn't gone through this experience myself, I would have thought the same.
Based on my many years of experience in judging people, people with Gu Wenheng's personality would not lie."
Master Feng also talked about his gains, "I also made some careful inquiries. Although this Mr. Gu has a good career in the government, he has always been a low-key person.
I only have a few friends, and I usually go back and forth between the Imperial Academy and the government. I don’t like to call friends around like other people do, and my life is even more monotonous than those of the elderly people who are in retirement.”
"Has anyone been sent to investigate the matter of the jewelry?" Gao Ning naturally would not listen to one-sided statements, and had already asked someone to take the jewelry to investigate.
Master Feng, "I have asked all over the capital, and they all said it was not their work. I have sent someone to rush to Daocheng with the jewelry."
The Xiao family girl has only been active in these two places in the past two years. Excluding Shangjing, she can only be in Daocheng.
Gao Ning, "Now we are just waiting for the news from there, but don't leave this Xiao family girl idle. Take people to ask her a few more times. As long as she lies, there will be some discrepancies every time."
"Yes," Master Feng also had the same idea.
Just as Master Feng was about to step out of the door, Gao Ning reminded him again, "It would be better to ask again, who else would use this method of mutual promotion and mutual restraint to harm others?
You should sort out these invisible things that harm people and make them public, so that there won’t be more innocent victims in the future.”
If it weren't for the clues that were caught and the punishment, the girl from the Xiao family would not have confessed so quickly.
(End of this chapter)
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