Chapter 410 - 408: I Thought You Wouldn’t Be Able to Hold Back (Second Update)

Chapter 410: Chapter 408: I Thought You Wouldn’t Be Able to Hold Back (Second Update)

During Xu Jing’s speech, she kept a close eye on Hua Wen. Seeing him still able to remain calm, she secretly clicked her tongue in admiration.

The recent criminals she encountered all seemed to have remarkably steady mindsets.

However, meeting such opponents is what makes things interesting.

Xu Jing gave a slight pull at the corner of her mouth and continued, "Once we confirmed that before February 10th, Shi Wenfeng had contacted the person who instructed him, we further questioned the colleagues who worked with Shi Wenfeng. We asked if Shi Wenfeng had mentioned visiting any place or if there was anything unusual during that time.

One of those colleagues, who had a relatively good relationship with Shi Wenfeng, thought for a long time and provided us with a very important piece of information. He said that during that period, Shi Wenfeng once remarked on eating squirrel fish. Previously, he didn’t like such sweet and sour dishes but found it tasted quite good after trying it.

Coincidentally, that colleague’s wife was recently pregnant and craving sweet and sour foods, so he immediately asked Shi Wenfeng where he had the squirrel fish, knowing that Shi Wenfeng couldn’t cook, let alone make such a complex dish. It must have been at a restaurant.

However, Shi Wenfeng gave vague answers, consistently saying he had forgotten. Although the colleague had a good relationship with Shi Wenfeng, he was aware of Shi Wenfeng’s solitary nature. His relationship with Shi Wenfeng was only relatively better compared to others.

Therefore, the colleague didn’t see anything wrong with Shi Wenfeng being unwilling to disclose the restaurant’s location; it just made a deeper impression on him. When we asked, he remembered it immediately."

When Hua Wen heard the words "squirrel fish," his face became noticeably more unpleasant, and his eyes even slightly trembled.

Xu Jing, staring at him intently, said unhurriedly, "Knowing these things, deducing Shi Wenfeng’s bizarre attitude is likely because that squirrel fish was what he and the one who instructed him shared. Once Mr. Yao brought people with your and Shi Wenfeng’s portraits, and asked restaurant after restaurant in Western Capital City where squirrel fish was sold, a small restaurant’s shopkeeper finally recognized you and Shi Wenfeng as having eaten there in early February.

Though he didn’t recall if you ordered squirrel fish then, because his restaurant wasn’t large, regular customers are usually old patrons or neighborhood locals, rarely unfamiliar faces, he distinctly remembered you and Shi Wenfeng dining there.

We went back to ask Lin Chengzhao, who was very sure that after the New Year, he hadn’t sent anyone to meet Shi Wenfeng. So, Manager Hua, please tell me, why did you meet Shi Wenfeng in private? After meeting you, why did Shi Wenfeng suddenly volunteer to transfer to Xinglin Hall?"

Upon hearing the latter part, Hua Wen’s face could no longer hold its composure and turned deathly pale.

They had actually investigated this thoroughly! To prevent being discovered meeting Shi Wenfeng in private, he even didn’t dare go to restaurants by the street, and painstakingly found a small, tucked-away restaurant in an alley, believing no one in the world would know they met there.

Yet, who knew, it was precisely because of that, the shopkeeper remembered them so vividly that when the government officials came asking, he immediately recognized them!

Never did he expect that the government officials would delve so deeply into such a small clue!

Seeing Hua Wen’s ashen face, silent for a long while, Xu Jing suddenly shouted harshly, "Hua Wen, why don’t you answer my questions? Speak!"

The other Guangming Hall staff all looked at Hua Wen with faces full of shock.

Hua Wen’s body suddenly shuddered. Then, he let out a low, tragic laugh and said, "Why I met with Shi Wenfeng, haven’t you figured it out already? If I’m not mistaken, you have even found out that Ma Shiming is one of Lin Chengzhao’s people as well."

Lin Chengzhao didn’t only bribe Shi Wenfeng at Tianyi Hall; there were more people, and Ma Shiming was among them.

After seeing Lin Chengzhao get arrested, Ma Shiming and the others still stayed well at the Zhou Family and Tianyi Hall, thinking Lin Chengzhao hadn’t exposed them.

Thinking back now, it was intentional by that Zhou, wanting to lure him completely into the trap!

Zhou Jingyi, seeing him admit to being the one instructing Shi Wenfeng, couldn’t contain his anger and said, "It really was you! I could overlook how you conspired with the Lin Family to kill the previous head, but how long do you intend to harm us..."

"Is this my fault? It’s clearly all your fault!"

Hua Wen suddenly roared, cutting Zhou Jingyi’s words short, "If it weren’t for that Zhou kid insisting on reopening Tianyi Hall’s Western Capital branch, if it weren’t for the Zhou Family fighting for that military supply contract with Xinglin Hall, I wouldn’t have done this!

Do you think I don’t know? That Zhou kid loathes me; if I hadn’t escaped quickly back then, I wouldn’t have even left the Zhou Family’s gates! After that, every time that Zhou kid saw me, his gaze seemed like he wanted to cut me into pieces, do you think I wasn’t afraid?! Anyone who values their life wouldn’t sit still and await death! I’m just normally protecting myself! What’s wrong with that? What’s wrong with that!

I never imagined you were so capable, overturning the entire Lin Family! Without Lin Family, you’ll just come for me next! I just wanted to live well! You pushed too hard! It’s all your fault!"

Zhou Jingyi looked at him with an incredulous face, never expecting someone so brazenly shameless existed in this world.

Having made mistakes first, yet still able to turn the tables, assuming the victim’s guise, as if others intended to harm him.

He had always respected the previous head, but clearly, in judging people, the previous head was wrong here.

Everyone present frowned deeply at the ferocious-looking Hua Wen, Mr. Yao was about to say something when a repressed, somewhat tired voice suddenly resonated, "Mr. Yao, kindly take this murderer away."

Seated in the pavilion, Zhou Qi finally stood up, his eyes cold and sharp as knives at Hua Wen, lips tight, and said word by word, "Such disgusting vermin, I wish never to see him again."

Upon being called a "disgusting vermin" by Zhou Qi, Hua Wen’s face changed, about to shout back when a government official beside decisively locked his hands, and another efficiently stuffed a cloth into his mouth, blocking all his filthy words, and clicked his tongue, "Save your saliva, you can speak all you want back at the government office."

Meanwhile, other Guangming Hall workers remained bewildered.

They were unable to digest the fact they had been used until now.

Mr. Yao glanced at the sky, suddenly swung his sleeve and said, "Alright, everyone heed my command, tie up anyone here we need to bring back to the government office, we shall interrogate them slowly once back! It’s already late, finish the task early and return home to sleep!"

The government officials immediately replied, "Yes!"

Xu Jing glanced at Zhou Qi standing silently aside, walked over slowly, sighed, and said, "I thought you wouldn’t be able to hold back."