"You'll sink with me!"
Young Master Gao's murderous words were like a poisoned blade, stabbing fiercely at Xiao Che.
A dozen or so fierce-looking servants, wielding clubs, pressed forward relentlessly, tightening the encirclement. A tense atmosphere, like the calm before a storm, filled the air.
The surrounding villagers were terrified and fell silent, not daring to breathe. They could see that the Gao family was truly intent on killing him! This "Master Xiao" from out of town was likely doomed!
However, at this tense moment, when swords were about to be drawn and war was imminent—
A clear, cold voice, yet carrying an undeniable and resolute strength, rang out from behind Xiao Che.
"evidence?"
Lin Wanwan slowly walked out from behind Xiao Che.
She met the fierce gaze of the young master and the gleaming clubs of the servants around her without showing the slightest fear. She stood there quietly, like a snow lotus blooming proudly on a cliff, pure and resilient.
She looked at the young master Gao and said, word by word, clearly and forcefully:
"The evidence is on the corpse in that pig cage!"
"Do you... dare to test it?"
These words were like a boulder, crashing heavily into the crowd once again!
On the corpse?
Dare to test it?
What does that mean? Could it be... could it be that there really is something wrong with this corpse?
Young Master Gao's expression changed instantly! He hadn't expected that this seemingly weak woman who had been following behind Xiao Che would dare to stand up and openly provoke him!
He was about to reprimand her, but Lin Wanwan didn't give him the chance at all!
She turned around, no longer looking at the Gao brothers, but facing the hundreds and thousands of people around her who were intimidated by the Gao family's power and dared not speak out!
She raised her voice, and that clear voice, like sunlight piercing through the clouds, instantly dispelled the fear and numbness that had enveloped everyone's hearts!
"Dear fellow villagers!"
"The Gao family says that Miss Liu Yu hanged herself! But I'm telling you, that's a lie!"
"Firstly!" She extended a slender finger, her voice resolute, "In our dynasty, when coroners examine corpses, the strangulation marks on the necks of those who hang themselves are always upward-sloping 'eight' shapes! But those who are strangled to death have horizontal strangulation marks! The marks on Miss Liu Yu's neck are precisely those of strangulation!"
"Secondly!" She extended a second finger, her voice growing even colder. "The Gao family claims that Miss Liu Yu committed adultery! That's utter nonsense! I ask you all, if two people are mutually in love and willing, how should their clothes be handled? Naturally, they would undress themselves neatly! But Miss Liu Yu's outer garment was torn, while her inner garment remained intact! This is not adultery; this is clearly... a desperate act of resistance!"
Lin Wanwan's words were clear, logical, and easy to understand!
Although most of the people present were unfamiliar with the law and did not know how to perform an autopsy, they understood perfectly well that "clothes were torn"!
Yeah! If it were voluntary, who would tear their clothes?!
"Yes! She has a point!"
"I knew it! Liu Yu couldn't possibly have done something like that! He was framed!"
"My God! The Gao family is utterly despicable! They killed someone and then tried to ruin their reputation!"
The crowd was completely ignited!
The anger that had been suppressed before erupted like a flood bursting its banks! Countless questioning and accusing gazes, like sharp arrows, were shot at the two Gao brothers!
"You...you're spouting nonsense!"
On the bow of the ship, Gao Changsheng, the second young master of the Gao family who had been feigning composure, finally lost his temper! He pointed at Lin Wanwan and roared, his voice filled with bravado but utter fear, "You speak so eloquently, as if you've seen it with your own eyes! You...you haven't even seen the corpse! What right do you have to spout nonsense here?!"
This was his last stand! He was certain that the woman was bluffing! She couldn't have seen the body!
However, his words were exactly what Lin Wanwan wanted to hear!
Lin Wanwan slowly turned her head, looking at him with a pitying gaze, and then, word by word, uttered a sentence that sent chills down Gao Changsheng's spine:
"Who said... I haven't seen it before?"
“I not only saw it,” she paused, a cold smile curving her lips, “I also found something the killer left behind under her fingernails!”
Boom!!!
Gao Changsheng's mind went completely blank for a moment!
How...how could she have known?! Impossible! Absolutely impossible!
His first instinct was to retort!
However, Lin Wanwan didn't give him a chance to speak at all!
She slowly took out a small paper packet, carefully wrapped in a handkerchief, from her sleeve.
Under everyone's gaze, she raised the paper package high, her voice like ice from the heavens, instantly freezing the entire riverbank!
"Fellow villagers, please take a look!"
"In this paper package are two things I found under Liu Yu's fingernails!"
"Same as before, it's the killer's skin flakes!"
"Another thing is the fibers on the killer's clothes!"
"This proves that before she died, Miss Liu Yu fought a desperate battle with the murderer! She used her last bit of strength to leave scratch marks on the murderer's body!"
Her voice suddenly rose, and her cold eyes, like two sharp daggers, were fixed on the pale-faced figure on the bow of the ship!
"Therefore! The murderer must have scratches from Liu Yu's claws on his body!"
"and!"
Lin Wanwan's voice became incredibly clear and loud at this moment, like a thunderclap, exploding in everyone's ears!
"The clothes he was wearing must have been—"
"Deep! Blue! Cloud! Brocade!"
The words had barely left his mouth!
With a "whoosh" sound!
As if programmed, everyone's eyes instantly focused on the same spot!
—At the bow of the ship, Gao Changsheng, the second young master of the Gao family, was dressed from head to toe in an extremely flamboyant "deep blue brocade" robe!
Time seemed to stand still at this moment!
The air seemed to freeze at that moment!
Gao Changsheng was struck dumb, frozen in place! He felt as if hundreds of gazes were branding him with red-hot irons, burning him with pain all over his body!
The color drained from his face at a visible speed, turning him paler than a dead man!
Cold sweat streamed down his forehead like a waterfall!
His mind went blank, with only Lin Wanwan's voice, like a curse, echoing wildly!
—The murderer must have scratches on his body!
Scratches!
Almost instinctively, he suddenly raised his left hand and tightly covered the back of his right hand!
That movement was so hurried! So flustered! So…
This is a classic case of trying to hide something obvious!
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