Chapter 78 Will you help me, Aunt Zhang?
Gu Yanran hugged her curled up body, bit her lips, and looked towards the door, afraid to hear the sound of the door being knocked.
That means Jiang Ruyun and the others discovered that Li Zhi was dead.
Gu Yanran was wondering whether she should grab the valuables in the room and run away quickly.
But if she ran away out of guilt, wouldn't that confirm her identity as a murderer?
At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door of the room.
As expected, what you fear will come true.
Gu Yanran was so frightened that she didn't dare to open the door.
Just as she was about to cover her ears with her hands and pretend to be dead, she suddenly heard Zhang Ma's voice coming from outside the door.
"Miss?"
Gu Yanran was stunned for a moment, then reacted and subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.
She got off the bed, walked to the door and stopped, took a deep breath, and tried to make her voice sound less abnormal. "What do you want from me?"
"I just saw you coming down from the third floor, and you looked a little strange. Did Li Zhi make you angry again?" asked Aunt Zhang.
Gu Yanran's eyes flickered, "Have you seen my mother?"
"Madam just went back to her room to rest." Aunt Zhang replied.
Gu Yanran's face changed. That meant that the bastard had also returned to Li Zhi's room upstairs. Would he find that Li Zhi was not sleeping, but was already dead?
Aunt Zhang noticed something was wrong, "Miss, what's wrong with you? Why are you talking through the door?"
Gu Yanran thought of the last time Zhang Ma expressed her sincerity to her, and suddenly a plan came to her mind. She slowly said, "Zhang Ma, no matter what happens, you will help me, right?"
Aunt Zhang nodded, "Yes, Miss."
"If I kill someone, will you take the blame for me?" Gu Yanran asked jokingly.
Aunt Zhang was stunned. After hearing her say that, she thought about how she looked flustered and uneasy when she ran down the stairs just now, and she suddenly had a bad premonition in her heart.
"Miss, you..."
"Will you help me, Aunt Zhang?" Gu Yanran asked again.
"I will definitely help you. Open the door and tell me what happened. We can find a solution together!" Aunt Zhang said with concern.
After a few seconds of silence, Gu Yanran raised her hand and opened the door.
When Aunt Zhang looked at her pale and bloodless face, she knew that something serious must have happened.
She walked into the room and closed the door behind her. "Miss, what happened?"
Gu Yanran's eyes suddenly became terrifyingly calm, "I killed someone."
Zhang Ma's pupils trembled. "Is it... Li Zhi?"
"Yes, I smothered her with a pillow."
Gu Yanran reached out and took Zhang Ma's hand, "Zhang Ma, can you take the blame for me? I will give you a large sum of money, enough for you to live on for the rest of your life. When you get out, I will provide for your retirement."
She paused and continued, "Anyway, you have no children or grandchildren, no worries. Besides, at your age, going to jail for a few years won't have any impact on you."
"But I'm still young. If I go to jail, my life will really be ruined."
"Auntie Zhang, please help me, I beg you!"
"You've watched me grow up, and I know that in your heart, you treat me like your own daughter, so you will help me, right?"
Zhang Ma naturally couldn't let her own daughter go to jail. She held her hand tightly and nodded, "Miss, don't worry, don't be afraid. I will take the blame for you."
Gu Yanran finally let go of her worries. Fortunately, she was persuaded. "Auntie Zhang, thank you so much. I will always remember everything you have done for me."
Aunt Zhang patted her hands and said, "You should be happy now. After Li Zhi is gone, you will be the only eldest daughter of the Gu family. No one can hinder you or make you unhappy anymore."
Gu Yanran smiled slightly, "Okay."
…
The other side.
Li Yanjing returned to the room, his eyes fell on the puppet on the bed, he frowned, and immediately found something wrong.
The pillow was clearly placed between the two pillows, so how did it fall to the floor beside the bed?
The puppet's hair was a little messy, completely different from before he left.
This is a puppet, a fake person that cannot move on its own, so someone must have entered the room while I was away.
The first person that came to Li Yanjing's mind was Gu Yanran.
She must have pretended to leave, but actually hid herself. After he and Jiang Ruyun left, she immediately returned and entered the room.
Li Yanjing bent down to pick up the pillow on the ground, then looked at the puppet on the bed. What on earth did Gu Yanran do when she came here?
Won’t she realize that the person on the bed is a dummy?
But if she had discovered it, why didn't she make any noise? Shouldn't she have told Jiang Ruyun immediately?
Li Yanjing put the pillow back, reached out to pick up the phone on the bedside table, opened WeChat, tapped the screen with his little hands, and sent a message to Li Zhi.
Are you back?
Li Zhi: [I was just about to send you a message, I'm about to board a plane, and will be in Beijing in about three hours.]
Li Yanjing: [Okay, I'll wait for you to come back.]
Li Zhi: [Well, didn't you find anything unusual with your grandma?]
Li Yanjing: [No, but someone seemed to have entered the room just now. I suspect it was Gu Yanran.]
Li Zhi: [She discovered there was a dummy lying on the bed?]
Li Yanjing: [I don't know. There was no movement from her end. When I came back, I found the pillow had fallen to the ground, and the puppet's hair was a little messy.]
When Li Zhi heard him say this, she suddenly thought of something: "She's really bold. She wants to suffocate me to death."
Li Yanjing's eyes were slightly cold, and he found that he was still too naive and didn't think about it that way.
The main reason was that he didn't expect Gu Yanran to dare to kill someone right under his nose.
Li Yanjing: [Is Gu Yanran crazy?]
Li Zhi: [Maybe. Let's see what she does first and wait for me to come back.]
Li Yanjing: [Yes.]
…
Gu Yanran was fidgeting in the room, pacing anxiously.
She thought about it, left the room and went to the first floor.
After finding Aunt Zhang in the restaurant, I asked her to go to an empty corner together.
Gu Yanran looked around and whispered, "Why is there no movement at all? Could it be that the bastard hasn't realized Li Zhi is dead yet?"
Aunt Zhang also found it strange and couldn't help but confirm, "Miss, are you sure Li Zhi is dead?"
Gu Yanran frowned. "No breathing, doesn't that mean he's dead?"
"I guess that little bastard hasn't realized that the person is dead yet and thinks he is still sleeping," said Aunt Zhang.
Gu Yanran bit her lip and asked, "Why don't you go upstairs and take a look?"
Aunt Zhang nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go take a look."
Gu Yanran hummed, "Go quickly, I'll go back to the room and wait for your news."
Aunt Zhang responded, went back to the dining room, cut a plate of fruit, and then took it upstairs.
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