Chapter 241 - 239: You Fool! (Second Update)

Chapter 241: Chapter 239: You Fool! (Second Update)

Wang Qilang didn’t expect this woman to suddenly jump out. His originally smiling face immediately fell, the corners of his mouth slightly twitching, and he mocked, "Miss Xu, I know the Holy Emperor personally asked you to investigate the case, yet you haven’t found anything. Your reputation surely can’t hold up, but you can’t just say anything you like.

Our Ministry of Justice is a proper government office for handling cases, and we don’t arrest people without evidence. During the investigation by Yu Yang in the Ministry of Justice, he attacked our officials. We found the slingshot used in the crime in his dormitory, and three tufts of hair were hidden there too. I’ve had the forensic doctor verify it. There was inexplicably broken hair on He Anming’s corpse, and one of those tufts is clearly He Anming’s. The other two must belong to the other two victims!

You say he’s not the murderer, then who is?"

Xu Jing didn’t know how they suddenly found evidence against Yu Yang. Could it have been her failure to hide well yesterday?

Upon hearing Wang Qilang’s words, she couldn’t help but chuckle coldly, saying, "To conclude Mr. Yu is the murderer based solely on a slingshot and three tufts of hair? The Ministry of Justice is being too rash!"

Wang Qilang’s face quickly turned ferocious, "What are you saying?! Then tell me, if he’s not the murderer, who else would have three tufts of hair from the victims?! Are you also going to say, like this kid, that some ghost gave him these hairs?!"

Behind her, Yu Yang immediately shouted excitedly, "It’s the ghost! It’s the ghost of Doctor Cao who gave them to me! Those scumbags were killed by Doctor Cao, acting as the hand of justice..."

Before he could finish, a soldier beside him, looking impatient, harshly shouted, "Shut up!"

Xu Jing ignored Yu Yang, and calmly looked at Wang Qilang, saying, "It wasn’t a ghost who gave them to him; it was the murderer. The murderer gave him the three tufts of hair to frame him for the crime!"

Yu Yang was stunned, his eyes widened suddenly, with a look of disbelief and anger, "What nonsense are you spouting! How could Doctor Cao..."

"To someone who wouldn’t save an innocent woman and didn’t even have the courage to stand up and testify for her, do you believe the so-called ghost wishing to act as the hand of heaven would genuinely appreciate you?!"

Seeing his naive self-confidence, Xu Jing couldn’t help but raise her voice coldly, "The murderer gave those tufts of hair to you not out of gratitude, as you think, but because, in his mind, you’re also one of his enemies! He intended to pin the blame on you after killing the four who caused the death of Miss Cao! You fool, and you still don’t get it?!"

Yu Yang opened his mouth, looking dumbfounded at Xu Jing.

Xu Jing said coldly, "Though I despise your actions, if you’re not the murderer, then you’re not! He Anming was strangled to death, the murderer being obviously very angry, using so much force that he snapped the victim’s hyoid bone. This kind of strength isn’t one Mr. Yu, small and frail as he is, could possess!

If Junior Minister Wang isn’t convinced, you can ask the attendant working at Gui Xiang House that day. Yu Yang has a distinctive appearance, and if he had been there the day He Anming died, those who received him would definitely remember it!

Moreover, if he hadn’t previously scoped out Gui Xiang House, the murderer couldn’t have known where He Anming’s room was, nor could he have so easily avoided everyone’s eyes and ears to sneak into the room. So the murderer wasn’t making his first visit to Gui Xiang House on the day He Anming died!"

Wang Qilang didn’t expect this woman to actually make some points, and couldn’t help but look displeased, "How he found out about He Anming’s room and how he sneaked in, once I return the suspect to the Ministry of Justice, it’ll be thoroughly investigated, so there’s no need for Miss Xu to worry."

Investigate? I fear that once he is taken away, whether they find anything or not, they would insist Yu Yang is the murderer!

Xu Jing sneered, "Junior Minister Wang hasn’t even fully confirmed Mr. Yu as the murderer, yet you keep calling him that. How can I trust this? With me here today, there’s no way I’ll let Junior Minister Wang take Mr. Yu away!"

Wang Qilang didn’t expect Xu Jing to be so audacious, and couldn’t help but retort angrily, "Ms. Xu, what gives you the right..."

"Because I’m the person appointed by the Holy Emperor to unveil the truth! Because I know who the real murderer is!"

Xu Jing’s words were powerful and resonant, and the students who had gathered around to watch couldn’t help but start discussing quietly—

"Miss Xu is right! Yu Yang’s small frame hardly looks capable of murdering those three people!"

"When the Ministry of Justice people accused Yu Yang of being the murderer, I thought it absurd! Miss Xu truly lives up to being the detective even the Holy Emperor recognizes, daring to challenge the Ministry of Justice!"

"Honestly, I’d quite like to know who Miss Xu believes the murderer to be."

The situation had been stirred up by Xu Jing’s words, Wang Qilang glared viciously at the woman before him, momentarily unsure of what to do.

As hateful as this woman was, she had the Holy Emperor’s backing, and taking Yu Yang away forcefully as the murderer would be like slapping the Holy Emperor in the face!

Damn her! He was curious to see what murderer she could identify.

He had been investigating for over three months without results. He didn’t believe she could solve it in just a few days!

Wang Qilang looked at Xu Jing with a vicious expression, saying coldly, "Oh? Then Miss Xu, why don’t you tell us, who do you believe the murderer to be?"

"The murderer is..."

Xu Jing paused, then said, "Cao Mofan, Doctor Cao, who supposedly died about a year ago!"

Xu Jing’s words fell, and not only Wang Qilang, but even the students nearby looked at her as if she were crazy.

Was Miss Xu serious? Did she really believe the murderer was someone who was dead?!

Once Wang Qilang realized, he couldn’t help but laugh, looking at Xu Jing with mockery and absurdity, "You must be joking! Even the Holy Emperor would be embarrassed for you..."

"I haven’t finished speaking yet, why so impatient?"

Xu Jing’s voice was cold, "Though to the world, Doctor Cao had supposedly been dead for about a year, the person who died then was not him, but someone he found outside who had a similar build! Doctor Cao was burned to death, and everyone said that after putting out the fire, his face was unrecognizable, so no one truly saw what Doctor Cao looked like at the time of death!"

Everyone looked stunned at Xu Jing, and she continued, "After reporting to the Holy Emperor yesterday, I went to Doctor Cao’s grave to exhume the body for examination. I’ve already sent for the forensic Doctor Huang who examined the body yesterday, and he should arrive soon.

More than a year ago, Doctor Cao’s only daughter, Cao Wanyi, was kidnapped and violated to death outside the city by He Anming and others. Doctor Cao killed these people to avenge his daughter! Initially, perhaps during his investigation into his daughter’s murderers, he discovered something which led him to set the fire to fake his death, in order to lull the murderer into complacency and better uncover the truth.

No one expected that when Cao Wanyi was kidnapped by He Anming and others, Yu Yang saw it. Unable to bear the guilt, Yu Yang confessed everything at Doctor Cao’s grave, overheard by Doctor Cao himself, who was hiding nearby, thus orchestrating this series of events to frame Yu Yang.

I’ve investigated this too. A few days before the fire at Doctor Cao’s residence, a man from a household near the Imperial College disappeared. That man was built similarly to Doctor Cao, albeit a few years younger, and Doctor Cao was acquainted with that man."

This was thanks to Xiao Yi, who sent people to investigate overnight last night and visited that man’s household early this morning for information.

The more Wang Qilang heard, the more his face darkened, and he couldn’t help gritting his teeth, "You make it sound so compelling, even better than stories told by storytellers, but where is that person? Where is the Doctor Cao who you claim faked his death a year ago?!"

"Aren’t I just about to find him?"

Xu Jing smirked sarcastically, "If it weren’t for Junior Minister Wang openly declaring that he had caught the murderer, I wouldn’t have rushed over. A person’s appearance can be altered through makeup and other means, but the person remains the same, and some things don’t change.

From the look of the initial cases, Doctor Cao must have been hiding within the Imperial College, probably with an unassuming identity, such as a casual laborer, gardener, or the like. He has a birthmark about the size of a palm on his waist that he’s had since birth. Since others usually can’t see that location, there was no need to remove it when disguising himself, and even if it were removed, there would still be traces left.

By thoroughly investigating the servants and laborers who started working at the Imperial College within the last year, Doctor Cao can surely be found!"

Soon, those Xu Jing sent out gathered all the servants and laborers who had begun working at the Imperial College in the past year together, with a representative from both the Ministry of Justice and herself conducting inspections one by one.

Suddenly, an Assistant Teacher responsible for assembling everyone loudly proclaimed, "Gao Sheng, where’s Gao Sheng, the usual laborer from the outer courtyard?! How come he’s nowhere to be found?!"