novelraw Chapter 182 182: There Is Karma in This World, Retribution Never Fails!
Chapter 182 182: There Is Karma in This World, Retribution Never Fails!
After Chen Xiao ended the call with Zong Yuanmao.
The three of them ran back to the entrance of the Zong Family's house once again.
Chen Xiao stopped. He showed no reaction, but Xiaoji and the Knife Man were already out of breath.
"Bro, what kind of route is this? Weren't we supposed to escape? How come we're back here again!"
Xiaoji asked in confusion, holding his knees.
But as soon as he asked, the people chasing them became even more furious.
"Damn it, they're just playing us!"
"Can't tolerate this, playing us in Zong Village. Do they have a death wish?"
"Call people to block them, then drag them to the village entrance and whip them!"
Chen Xiao didn't run anymore; he kept watching the door of Zong Yuanmao's house.
He believed that a businessman who has built a certain industry would sober up in times of crisis.
Or put it this way, a businessman might do something extremely stupid because of his son.
But if it were a son-in-law, he'd definitely be more cautious.
Just as the hot-headed youths from Zong Village rushed up, the door of Zong Yuanmao's house finally opened!
A woman walked out from inside.
The woman was holding a box in her hands, looking extremely exhausted.
The moment Chen Xiao saw the box, he completely breathed a sigh of relief.
It was also at this moment that the sound of police sirens came from not far away.
Hearing that sound, Chen Xiao couldn't help but think about settling scores with Li Hui afterwards.
He sure timed his arrival perfectly!
Zong Mei, holding the box, spoke to the clan members: "Xiaohuan, don't be impulsive. Mr. Chen is indeed with the police. He's here to ask me some questions!"
The leading young man paused: "Sister Ah Mei, is he really with the police?"
"Yes, all of you disperse now, I'm fine."
Hearing this, the young man gave Chen Xiao a resentful look before leaving with his people.
At this moment, Li Hui and Xiangdu's police also quickly ran up.
"Chen Xiao, are you guys okay? Those guys sure ran fast, they disappeared in a flash."
Chen Xiao said speechlessly, "Let's talk later, the evidence is most important!"
With that, Chen Xiao reached out his hand towards Zong Mei: "Miss Zong, now that the Xiangdu police are here too, I want to ask if anything inside is damaged?"
Zong Mei shook her head, just about to explain, but Chen Xiao spoke again: "I hope you can be responsible for your words. No damage is best!"
Li Hui understood and stepped forward: "Hello Miss Zong, I'm Li Hui, the captain of the Criminal Police Team from Dongzhou Lanshan County Bureau. The box in your hand contains crucial evidence for a murder case we're investigating. Please hand it over to me immediately!"
Zong Mei took a deep breath and finally handed the box to Li Hui.
The latter immediately opened the box, and Chen Xiao also looked over.
When they saw it was full of bone-made items, some even stained with blood, both Chen Xiao and Li Hui nodded simultaneously.
"Thank you very much for your cooperation, Miss Zong. Please come with us to the Xiangdu City Bureau's Criminal Police Team."
Zong Mei silently got into the police car without saying anything.
But after sitting in the car, Zong Mei asked Li Hui, "Officer Li, can I meet Xu Zaisen?"
"We'll talk about it when we get there. If possible, I'll arrange for you to meet," Li Hui replied ambiguously, and Zong Mei asked no more questions.
Soon, the police car drove away with Zong Mei.
Xiaoji stared blankly at the car as it drove away and asked, puzzled:
"Bro, I'm getting confused."
"It's right to be confused."
"But I still find it unrealistic to have the evidence laid out like that."
"That's because it's a trap within a trap. If you believe in any of them, Zong Mei wouldn't be invited into the police car; she'd be dragged into it."
Chen Xiao replied, now wasn't the time to explain things to Xiaoji and the others.
Soon, Chen Xiao returned to the Xiangdu Criminal Police Team together with them.
As soon as he arrived, Li Hui found him immediately and asked:
"Will Zong Yuanmao come?"
"He's already sober, so he won't appear in the police's sight again. I guess he's busy with other things now."
"Shall we go meet Chen Xianzu together?"
"Sure."
Chen Xiao didn't refuse, and went with Li Hui into the interrogation room. Xu Zaisen's demeanor was no longer as calm as before.
His face was twisted, and when he looked up at Chen Xiao, his eyes seemed as if they wanted to kill him.
"It seems you already know, so I won't say much. Just one question, do you need to make a call to Chen Ding?"
The sinister-looking Chen Xianzu finally appeared powerless when he heard the name Chen Ding.
Chen Xiao dialed the number, and Chen Ding's voice came from the other end: "I don't want to say anything to that heartless bastard anymore, hang up... hang up the phone for me!"
Listening to Chen Ding's roar, Chen Xianzu sighed deeply: "Brother, I'm sorry, I screwed up."
The other end of the line became silent, leaving no echo for a long time.
Chen Xianzu chuckled softly: "Brother, our Chen Family is truly full of talents. Hey... if Dad wasn't like that, would Chen Xiao have let us off this time?"
Saying these words in front of Chen Xiao made him sit down silently as well.
He knew Chen Xianzu's psychological defenses had completely collapsed.
He had collapsed, let alone Chen Ding?
The latter's voice was already choked with tears, "Xianzu, you should have listened to me, you shouldn't have protected me. But you didn't listen, why didn't you listen!"
"I just wanted to try, thinking that after I died, and after you got old and came out, there would still be a family business. Xiaoxu is very good, extremely excellent! But we were just one step away, just a little bit!"
Speaking, Chen Xianzu looked at Chen Xiao with hatred.
Chen Xiao, however, asked somewhat confusedly, "The Xiaoxu you mentioned is that child from your family who's never seen the light of day, right? The one you arranged into Zong Yuanmao's company to seize the industry?"
Chen Xianzu replied expressionlessly, "He has nothing to do with the whole matter, you can investigate this as you wish."
"I'm just curious about his exact status, Chen Ding's illegitimate child?" Chen Xiao asked.
Chen Xianzu remained silent, while from the other end, Chen Ding shouted wildly:
"That's right, why wasn't I allowed to have a fling outside when I had so much money back then, huh? Chen Xiao, let me tell you, Cheng Qing, I did kill him, but it was really an accident! Neither Xianzu nor I intended to do anything to him; we just thought about giving him a lesson."
"But we didn't expect him to be such a doomed short-lived ghost! I just pushed him a little, and he hit a branch and died, we are innocent too!"
"Finally, the stone lion with his head has already taken my dad's life, a life for a life, why do you still want to annihilate us completely!"
Chen Ding went mad.
But Chen Xiao didn't think what he said was a lie, and previously, Chen Xianzu's words were both true and false, constantly trying to divert his attention.
Because the real case, Chen Ding and Chen Xianzu could switch between who did it at will.
The time was too long ago, and this was their advantage.
And listening to Chen Ding's crazy words, Chen Xianzu still remained silent, Chen Xiao just calmly asked, "What about my Uncle Wan De? Why did you have to kill him?"
"He..." Chen Ding was momentarily choked, and after a long while, he choked out, "I didn't want to kill him, but if he wasn't dead, everything would be ruined, I wouldn't mind myself, but for Xianzu, he would be ruined too!"
Chen Xiao: "So in 1991, due to an accident you caused Cheng Qing's death, and coincidentally my Uncle Wan De saw it, in order to completely cover up this secret, you then killed Wan De to silence him."
"Initially, all things you did were seamless, and in that era, you could indeed achieve that without anyone knowing. But you didn't expect, after burying the person, Cheng Qing's head would be dug out by wild dogs and appeared right in front of your stone sculpture factory."
"Panic-stricken, you had nowhere to hide that head and finally, could only throw it into the concrete making the stone lion. To prevent it from being discovered again, and Chen Xianzu now also indulged in carving, I think that time Chen Xianzu didn't loosen up at all until he saw the stone lion completed, right?"
Chen Xiao finished speaking, Chen Xianzu finally spoke, "Before when my grandfather was still around, he often held me in his lap and said, little Ancestor, you must strive, study hard, and when you grow up, lead our family to surpass the family of your great uncle, that is, your grandfather, Chen Xiao."
"It's just a pity, he didn't wait until my brother succeeded and passed away, thereafter great uncle squandered the family's wealth himself, and Uncle Lie, being honest, could only barely support his own family. From that time onward, my dad often liked to show off in front of your dad, even humiliating him in various ways."
"Actually, I didn't like my dad being that way at that time, I always felt that there was a cycle in the world, karma doesn't miss, people, especially among families, shouldn't be like that. Now it finally proved my thoughts at that time, retribution really came... retribution doesn't miss!"
As he spoke, Chen Xianzu also choked with tears.
He didn't know if he was crying for Chen Ding, or due to the powerlessness in his heart, he lowered his head chokingly said, "I really tried my best, I poured all my life's learning into creating illusions for you Chen Xiao, but you still saw through everything. And you seeing through my first layer of illusion, was just in a dialogue with me."
"Even the second layer of illusion, it only took the time for me to come to the Criminal Police Team from the hotel. Fast, too fast, too fast for me to believe this is all real!"