Chapter 3535 Taihe Academy
The three words "Wen Xufeng" seemed to have some kind of magic. When Su Yan said his name, the lecture hall suddenly became silent.
The rustling sound of the wind was still in their ears, but they seemed not to hear it. They just looked at Su Yan in a daze.
Shi Yangui leaned over and asked in a low voice: "Are you sure he is Wen Xufeng?"
Su Yan nodded, she stared into the man's eyes and said: "You set up this trap hoping to get away with it, but you also know that if you fail, you won't even have room for rebuttal. Wen Xufeng, just tell the truth."
The man slowly took off his mask.
The face under the mask is the familiar Wen Xufeng.
But at this moment, he is no longer elegant and graceful, and there is always a stubbornness in his eyes.
Captain Zhao was confused. "What on earth is going on?"
Su Yan said: "Cheng Wenshan's victims included both men and women. I think Wen Xufeng was one of the victims back then."
"There are a few things that concern me. First, on the night Cheng Wenshan was murdered, Di Jun and Wen Xufeng slept together outside. I don't think this is a coincidence. Either Di Jun took advantage of Wen Xufeng, or Wen Xufeng took advantage of Di Jun."
"If Xu Yang wants the corpse at the bottom of the lake to see the light of day again without any deliberate effort, he must fall into the water. Xu Yang has already remembered that before he fell into the water, Wen Xufeng was closest to him."
"I have always suspected Di Jun, Wen Xufeng, and Xu Yang. Among them, Di Jun and Wen Xufeng are more suspicious. But I still can't figure out why the murderer had to dump Yin Yuan's body in the back mountain when he died, and why it was the day after Yin Yuan was killed. Also, why did the murderer have to let everyone see the picture of the head? It was not until I heard that Wen Xufeng was killed that I finally figured it out."
Captain Zhao asked, "Why?"
Su Yan said: "Brother Zhao has already found out that Cheng Wenshan's death is related to the evil he has done over the years. Yin Yuan is Cheng Wenshan's right-hand man, and he can also find the motive for the murder, but Wen Xufeng's death is really far-fetched."
"Wen Xufeng has a bad reputation and is also emotionally involved with two women."
"Yes, but compared with Cheng Wenshan and Yin Yuan, it's nothing. Putting him together with Cheng Wenshan and Yin Yuan is really deliberate." Su Yan said, "I think this is also part of the murderer's plan."
Chu Feng and Wen Xufeng have known each other for a long time. The age difference between them is not that big, and they get along like friends. Even though he has seen Wen Xufeng in person, he is unwilling to believe that he is the murderer. "What is Xufeng's plan?"
"Wen Xufeng's plan was always to kill three people. The unexplained doubts we saw in the Yin Yuan case were all prepared for the third case. He planned to kill Yin Yuan and Cheng Wenshan, and then turn himself into a victim. After leaving Anping Town safely, he can rest easy for the rest of his life."
Di Jun tried to defend Wen Xufeng, "We saw him being beheaded with our own eyes."
"Even if you saw it with your own eyes, he is still standing here, isn't he?" Su Yan said, "For this plan to work, he must disappear completely. Once he is discovered, it won't make sense."
Di Jun blushed, "I lost my mind."
Captain Zhao urged, "Su girl, don't keep us in suspense. How did he do it?"
"It's very simple, just a folk trick using a mirror."
"Mirror?"
Su Yan said: "All you need is a container and two mirrors. The two mirrors should be put together at a right angle and fixed on the table. The container should have a gap that can just fit the right angle. Wen Xufeng only needs to put his head on the container. In addition, Wen Xufeng also used slender branches to build a rectangular 'display stand' that matches the table, and prepared dark-colored curtains to surround the mirrors. In this way, when viewed from the front, it looks like a human head is placed on the container."
Captain Zhao looked confused. "What is a right angle... Oh, that's not right. How do you know so much about it? Did you deduce it?"
"It's not speculation," Su Yan pointed at Chu Feng's room, "I heard that Wen Xufeng was murdered, and I felt something was wrong. I think the murderer can't take the body away in a short time. The most likely place is hiding nearby. The closest place to Yin Yuan's room is Chu Feng's room."
Captain Zhao remembered that Su Yan had indeed gone to Chu Feng's room to check for a long time.
Su Yan said, "You were looking for someone, and when you couldn't find him, you left. It's normal that you didn't notice it. I found a lot of interesting things in Mr. Chu's room, such as curtains, branches, mirrors, and that strange container."
"I've seen a lot of magic tricks, so when I saw these things, I naturally thought of them. I think Wen Xufeng hid the things in Chu Feng's room before you came over, and then he slipped out of the academy and cleaned up the things later. He wanted to clean up the evidence, and the town gates were strictly guarded, which is why I believe he has not left yet."
Captain Zhao was even more confused after hearing this. "Can it really work? But we searched the academy thoroughly..."
Wen Xufeng, who had been silent all this time, finally raised his head and said, "It can be successful. I have tried it many times."
Captain Zhao was speechless for a moment.
Wen Xufeng said, "I once went to Jiangnan with my father and saw this kind of trick, so I thought I'd give it a try. After I fooled you, I changed back into the blue shirt of the academy. Everyone was looking for someone, but you were looking for a dead me, and no one paid attention to a living person. I left the academy and went to the inn with the identity I had prepared long ago, and stayed there temporarily."
Captain Zhao asked, "But why do you have to do this? Once you are discovered, you won't even have room for explanation."
Wen Xufeng was silent for a moment, then said, "I don't want to stay as Wen Xufeng any longer."
The year Wen Xufeng was born, there was a disaster in the family and his parents abandoned him and his sister, who was two years older than him.
The two were rescued by kind-hearted people and sent to the Salesian Village in Chengwenshan.
No one would doubt Cheng Wenshan’s kindness, and kind-hearted people thought that Wen Xufeng and his sister had found a home from now on.
But only Wen Xufeng knows what kind of torture this is.
Before the age of five or six, their lives were relatively happy.
There are many boys and girls of the same age in Ciyu Village. They grow up happily and don’t have to worry about filling their stomachs. They are happier than most people.
But it was strange that there were no older children in Ciyu Village. Some children were still playing with them the day before, and disappeared the next day.
The people at Salesian Village told them that the missing children had all been adopted.
Wen Xufeng and his sister were also looking forward to that day; they also wanted to be loved by their parents.
His sister was older than him, and when she was eight years old, Cheng Wenshan took her away.
His sister disappeared for half a month, and Wen Xufeng thought that his sister was taken away by her new parents.
He was depressed about this, but not long after, one night, his sister appeared again.
Her body was covered with bruises and her clothes were torn. She cried outside the wooden window to wake up Wen Xufeng who was sleeping.
The elder sister wanted Wen Xufeng to go with her, but Wen Xufeng didn't know what was going on. Someone happened to get up at night, and his elder sister ran away in fright. From then on, Wen Xufeng never saw her again.
Later, Wen Xufeng found out what his sister had experienced.
He was lucky and found a chance to escape, and was even adopted by someone.
"The family that adopted me had a lot of land, and they lived a pretty good life. But my parents had never been able to have children, and they just happened to meet me. They were nice to me at first, but it's quite strange to say that not long after I went there, my mother got pregnant, and when my brother was less than a year old, she got pregnant with my sister. I understand that there was no place for me in the family, after all, I was the only outsider, not to mention that they gave me the opportunity to study with peace of mind, and I should repay them."
"But... I was too timid and afraid of everything. My younger brother, who was a few years younger than me, could bully me at will. Once I had a nightmare and talked nonsense, and my younger brother happened to hear it. My parents knew what I had experienced and felt very ashamed. Although they didn't say anything explicitly, they rarely spoke to me after that."
"For someone like me, it would be best if I died, but I always thought that I should do something for my sister and myself before I die."
"Then I thought of the magic trick, and I thought, I can use this method to buy myself a chance to start over again."
Captain Zhao felt mixed emotions after hearing this.
Even in troubled times, these children should not have to go through such suffering.
Captain Zhao's voice became gentler. "Why did you dump Yin Yuan's body in the back hill?"
"The plan was forced to start early. Yin Yuan noticed that his sister..."
"Your sister?"
"Yes, she is still alive. We met in Anping Town. She has grown up, but I recognized her at the first sight. She is married and I don't want her to get involved. But when she found out I was in the academy, she guessed what I was going to do. She didn't want me to take risks alone, so she was the one who came to the academy to find Cheng Wenshan. Cheng Wenshan didn't recognize her. He just thought she was looking for him because of the child, but Yin Yuan saw her."
Su Yan asked: "Yin Yuan knows about your sister?"
"Yin Yuan has been helping Cheng Wenshan deal with these matters. He is more familiar with the person who was offered up than Cheng Wenshan is." Wen Xufeng said, "Yin Yuan asked my sister to go to the back mountain. I was worried that he was up to something, so I followed him and killed him. I didn't want people to find out that I killed someone in the back mountain, so I hid his body, cut off his head, and made a scene."
"I had practiced this scene a long time ago to make a deeper impression on others and help me get away. It turned out well. Even though my head appeared on the container, they didn't notice it. They just thought I was the same as Yin Yuan and Cheng Wenshan. Taking the head away and hiding it, and only letting you see Yin Yuan's body, was also to help me escape smoothly."
Captain Zhao asked, "What does this mean?"
"If you only see the body of every corpse without the head, you won't be surprised when it's my turn."
"All we saw was a corpse..." Captain Zhao's expression changed slightly, "Are you planning to?!"
Wen Xufeng said frankly: "It's not a plan, it's already been done. If you go to the back mountain, you can find another headless body. He was wearing my clothes, what a pity..."
Captain Zhao said: "But Cheng Wenshan didn't die like this. His head was also left behind."
"There's really nothing we can do about it," Wen Xufeng looked at Su Yan with a wry smile, "Miss Su should know best."
"What's going on?"
Su Yan replied, "When he killed Cheng Wenshan, the two people who had tried to assassinate Cheng Wenshan were in the secret room, and Cheng Wenshan's residence was guarded by constables at the time, so he could no longer carry out his plan."
Wen Xufeng said, "That's right. I didn't expect someone to assassinate Cheng Wenshan. I couldn't lead him to Yin Yuan's room, so I had to go to his room. I knew the dirty things he and Yin Yuan did, so I deliberately told him that I found something in Yin Yuan's room. He took the initiative to ask me to meet him at night and sent the constable away because he was afraid that his ugly deeds would be discovered. He thought I knew nothing and was not afraid of me at all. I brought the brocade box and said I found it in Yin Yuan's room, and killed him when he was not prepared. I wanted to take his body and head away, but there was no other way under the circumstances. I had just cut off his head when the two people in the secret room heard the noise and came out. I could only run away with the head first."
"Did you go back later?"
"Yes, I found that Cheng Wenshan's body was missing. I think those two people took him away. I could only put his head on the table and leave." Wen Xufeng smiled bitterly, "If it weren't for those two people, I wouldn't have left so much evidence when I killed Cheng Wenshan, and the Anping Town gate wouldn't have been strictly checked. Maybe I would have left smoothly now."
Captain Zhao said sternly, "I understand how you feel, but you shouldn't have chosen such an extreme method. You're also harming yourself."
"Extreme?" Wen Xufeng's eyes did not show any regret, but instead a bit of joy. "Do you know how my sister escaped?"
"When he's not prepared?"
"Yes, but no," Wen Xufeng asked, "Do you know the temple in the back mountain? And the fire many years ago?"
The fire in the temple many years ago was what Su Yan was most puzzled about, but since it was related to Chen Ri, the truth was hidden by the county magistrate, and it was really difficult for ordinary people like them to find evidence.
"The fire was deliberately set by Cheng Wenshan. My sister was lucky to escape."
Although I had anticipated this result, I still felt different when I heard Wen Xufeng say it.
What kind of person would take advantage of children and then set them on fire?
Wen Xufeng said: "I didn't understand why it happened at first. After years of investigation, I realized that so many people died tragically just because Cheng Wenshan had a conflict with a senior official."
"What do you mean?"
"Chen Ri and Cheng Wenshan had colluded long ago. When building the temple, the two swallowed up a lot of gold, silver and jewelry. Because of this, the temple was not built firmly. It was shaking in just half a year, and even cracks appeared. They built this temple together, so it was nothing. They just made up a reason to get away with it. Anyway, the temple was chosen in the back mountain to make Cheng Wenshan profit, and no one would come to such a small place to investigate. But at that time, Cheng Wenshan had a conflict with Chen Ri and others. Cheng Wenshan didn't stop there, and he teamed up with the county magistrate to kill Chen Ri, and also wanted to get rid of the children by the way - these children were given to the senior officials who had a bad relationship with Cheng Wenshan."
To Cheng Wenshan, both innocent children and temples were just ways for him to accumulate gold and silver.
A poor life is as thin as paper and as worthless as grass.
"So, I don't regret killing him at all. I just regret not killing him earlier and letting him get away with it for so many years!"
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