Chapter 48: It's over. If you care about it, you will be happy with it.
Jiang Chen shrugged nonchalantly.
No matter how restless she was inside, she had to appear extremely calm on the surface.
Now it's just a competition with Mr. Tang to see who can sit still longer.
Unexpectedly, before Mr. Tang could even react, Tang Ji in the car completely lost his temper.
Xiao Ji locked all the car doors and windows, and prepared food and water for Tang Ji in the car.
It thought he would be obedient as it had promised and sit in the car until they finished their negotiations.
But he still ignored the strange looks from people around him, and took out a hidden hammer from somewhere and smashed Yao Jinling's car window into pieces.
Then he ignored the pain, turned out with difficulty, and headed straight for the restaurant without hesitation.
Tang Ji was running out of breath. He stopped, swaying and knocking clumsily on the glass door. His clothes were wrinkled and there were small wounds on his body from the broken glass.
He pulled at the door, but it didn't open.
"Jiang Chen, you promised me not to hurt Grandpa. You were just asking questions. Grandpa, are you okay?"
"I'm fine, Miss Jiang just..."
Old Master Tang, leaning on his cane, walked quickly towards the door, put his hand against the glass door, and stroked Tang Ji's face through the glass as he always did. He was the first person present to notice the wound on Tang Ji's body.
"I just wanted to sit down with Grandpa. We didn't talk about anything. The door was locked by accident. It's hard to fix after all. Someone will come and fix it later. But you, Aji, how did you get yourself into such a mess? Do you want Grandpa to call the family doctor to see if it hurts?"
At this point, his first reaction was to protect Tang Ji's simplicity and innocence that had been difficult to maintain for so many years.
I have to say, he is a good grandfather.
But a good grandfather may not necessarily be a good businessman, or even a good person.
"I don't love Grandpa, is what you just said true?"
After Tang Ji heard the discussion between Jiang Chen and Xiao Ji in the car, he thought that the aggressive words directed at him would be used on his grandfather.
He repeatedly told Grandpa that since he was old, their questions had to be gentle... Did they really listen?
"Really? If you don't believe me, ask Miss Jiang." There was a hint of request in Mr. Tang's eyes as he looked at Jiang Chen.
Xiao Ji looked annoyed because Tang Ji had been clamoring to come.
Why didn't it refuse outright, but actually believed his words that he was just a bystander and would not participate, and now it was messing up the plan.
But it's not completely useless. It found that Mr. Tang really cared about his grandson.
care.
They will be willing to give up a lot for it.
Xiao Ji held Jiang Chen's hand tightly, indicating that he should give it to him to respond.
It wants to take advantage of Tang Ji.
He might be Mr. Tang's only weakness.
In this way, the content of the phone call can be restored to a large extent.
Even if it was restored, it would not have much impact on Mr. Tang, as they still had no direct evidence.
But at present, the mystery of that phone call can only be solved by Mr. Tang.
Jiang Chen knew Xiao Ji's general intention. She shook her head and gently patted its hand.
It can be used, but Tang Ji does not necessarily need to be present.
"Tang Ji, we haven't even started asking yet, and the door was indeed locked accidentally. Now that you're here, why don't you go find someone to help get us out instead of just standing there."
"...Okay, okay! Wait for me."
Tang Ji was a little confused when he first responded, still trying to process Jiang Chen's words, then he answered loudly and quickly ran out to find someone to help.
Only after Tang Ji's back had completely disappeared from everyone's sight did Old Master Tang quietly walk back to the sofa and sit down. He raised his eyes and then quickly lowered them: "Thank you, Miss Jiang."
"Grandpa Tang, do you love Tang Ji very much?" Jiang Chen rested his elbows on the table, his hands supporting his face. "Aren't you afraid that one day he'll find out you killed Yao Jinmu? He really loves Sister Yao Jinmu."
"I didn't kill her. Miss Jiang, please stop talking nonsense. Be careful what you say."
Mr. Tang's game is always like this. In a confrontation, as long as there is no accurate evidence, he will never admit it under intimidation or out of gratitude.
He still believed that his subordinates would handle things cleanly enough and would not leave any obvious evidence.
Jiang Chen is actually still confident in the accuracy of his current inferences.
The voice message she just sent to Chen Yinchuan received his reply.
He truthfully confessed that he had received an invitation from Tang's several months before Yao Jinling's death.
That proved that the conspiracy had been going on for longer than she thought.
Jiang Chen took over the new information again, and thought of the call records between Tang Ji and Yao Jinling almost every day during that period, and put the clues together again.
Now there was only one question missing from her story.
This was what she had always wondered about: even a business savvy like Yao Jinling was so surprised when she said the murderer might be Tang Ji.
Even though she could trust Tang Ji, why did she trust Old Man Tang? Obviously, in this accident, the Tang family benefited the most and should have been the first suspect.
Xiao Ji bit Jiang Chen's ear and said, "Maybe she suspected something without our knowledge, but there was no evidence, and the contradiction was diverted."
Conflict transfer?
Who has Yao Jinling been holding on to all this time?
So the conflict was transferred to Chen Yinchuan... leading Yao Jinling to suspect that Chen Yinchuan was the primary beneficiary?
Jiang Chen looked up at Xiao Ji's screen, where her shocked face was reflected.
Xiao Ji nodded, clasped the back of her head with his hands, and repeatedly restrained his urge to bury her head in his arms.
It let go, allowing her to use its guess, her guess, and their guesses to piece together the complete picture of the incident.
It will judge the truth for her.
"Then let me tell you a story. Grandpa Tang, please listen to my story and then tell me what you think of it. That will be your way of thanking me."
The most important thing is to piece together the complete truth of that day.
Jiang Chen took a step back.
She planned to connect all her guesses with the known clues and tell them to Mr. Tang.
"Of course, it's just a story."
Mr. Tang emphasized the word "story" and now he looked at Jiang Chen without any hesitation.
Jiang Chen spoke.
"A group suddenly encountered a crisis and urgently needed a special technology, but this technology was only possessed by one person. Let's call this person M."
"M refused to sell the technology to the group, even though the group had visited them many times without success. However, the group's crisis could not wait. It was like a snowball, growing bigger and bigger every day. The group gradually became impatient."
"Until the group heard that M's fiancé had also shown incredible talent in this technology, but could never match M's, so he switched to other research areas. The group approached them and asked if they could join them, saying they would provide an opportunity. The fiancé was much easier to talk to than M, and he genuinely loved and wanted to research this technology. So after several requests from the group, he easily agreed."
"The group's only concern now is how to get M to willingly hand over her technology to her fiancé. But as luck would have it, her fiancé is also stubborn and refuses to steal M's technology. M also won't give her achievements to anyone, not even her fiancé."
"The group was desperate and desperate. M happened to be heading to a remote mountainous area to provide financial support. A plan gradually took hold of the group. They wanted M to die in an accident. All they had to do was to persuade M's fiancée to fulfill his beloved's unfulfilled dream. Everything would fall into place. The group might have even sent someone to survey the terrain and take photos."
"It wasn't easy to deal with the accident. The group had to keep looking for opportunities to call M, hoping he would stay in the mountains. They also monitored the weather conditions in the mountains every day. Finally, he waited for that day, a torrential downpour, a torrential rain that could cause a mudslide."
"People can't just sit there and wait to die. They'll cry out for help. The group kept thinking of ways to deal with it. M couldn't stay in the village, otherwise her cries for help might be heard. M couldn't stay in a place that was easy to escape. The road had to be bumpy, otherwise she would be very easy to escape. M couldn't judge the arrival of a mudslide in time, so at that time, there had to be something else that could attract her attention."
"So the person on the phone pretended to be from the group and told M..."
Jiang Chen was talking until her mouth was dry. She picked up the cup of water that Xiao Ji had refilled for her and took a sip.
"He arrived at the village, at a particularly rugged fork in the road, and needed M to pick her up. He sent the photo he had taken when he first scouted the location, and M went to pick her up, because M happened to be killed in the most inescapable place."
"Afterwards, the group deliberately hyped up the incident, presenting M's fiancé on screen as a beneficiary. This diverted attention from all sides, allowing the group to escape unscathed."
"It's a fascinating story, and the protagonist sounds quite tragic." Elder Tang raised an eyebrow. His breathing slowed, becoming irregular for several beats, but his expression betrayed nothing. "But what does this have to do with me?"
"Grandpa Tang, just tell me how many points are right here? And how many points are wrong here?"
"What's right or wrong about a story? It's just a story. Talking about whether it's true or not will lose its flavor. As long as it's interesting, that's all that matters."
Old Master Tang's eyes unconsciously glanced behind Jiang Chen. Tang Ji had already brought a group of people to repair the door.
"It seems that after the story is told, Miss Jiang can no longer trap me."
“It was just an accident, how can you say that I trapped Grandpa Tang?”
Jiang Chen smiled sweetly.
Xiao Ji turned off the switch that was causing the door to malfunction.
The repairman's hand happened to touch the door and it opened automatically.
When Mr. Tang walked past Jiang Chen, he left behind some intriguing words.
"See you again, Miss Jiang."
"We probably won't be together in this life, Grandpa Tang."
Jiang Chen's work has been done, and the rest depends entirely on Yao Jinling.
She asked Xiao Ji to organize the conversations and send them all to Yao Jinling at once.
Even if Yao Jinling and Chen Yinchuan had no evidence, they could not bring Mr. Tang to justice.
But they probably have many more options.
For example, let Tang have a miscarriage.
Tang Ji took Old Man Tang away. Jiang Chen was completely exhausted and collapsed in Xiao Ji's arms. He hugged her affectionately and rubbed his chin back and forth on the top of her head.
"Thank you for your hard work, Xiao Chen. I've just confirmed the rental online. The electronic contract has been finalized. You only need to sign it when the time comes. The rooms should all be in the style you like. I've synced the address to your phone. The facilities are all complete, so you can pick up your luggage and move in directly."
Jiang Chen raised his head and kissed Xiao Ji on the chin.
"Then let's go home together, Xiaoji."
But I was unexpectedly rejected.
"I have something else to do, Xiao Chen. Can you wait until I get home?"
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