Chapter 1337 - 1337: An Appointment to Go Hiking

After emergency treatment, Lu Lishuang's condition finally stabilized for the time being.

Just as Xiao Feng had predicted earlier, after the Bai Huanyu camp collectively ran into trouble, Dong Min finally couldn't sit still and started moving.

Two days ago, a few companies that supported him had already quietly contacted him, saying they'd landed big orders, or that some rich guy wanted to inject capital into their companies.

Xiao Feng wasn't surprised at all; this was exactly the beginning of Dong Min's usual playbook.

As for countering that playbook, he'd long been ready, so he immediately followed the plan and instructed these companies on how to respond.

As for those who received similar news but didn't inform him, well, if they're meant to fall into the pit, they can fall into the pit.

He'd already warned them in advance anyway; if they wouldn't listen, there was nothing he could do…

The day after this happened, which was yesterday.

Wang Lubo and Chang Wenhua, and of course Du Linlang as well, all called one after another to explain the situations they'd each run into.

Xiao Feng gave countermeasures one by one, and at the same time faintly felt that the bloody storm had already begun!

Just then, Xue Nuofu walked into the living room and said, "I've already notified Dr. Jia, she'll be here in forty minutes."

"A fake doctor?" Xiao Feng snapped, "I told you to inform Jia Luo, why'd you find some fake doctor?

Got too much money and nowhere to spend it?"

Xue Nuofu's face darkened. "The Dr. Jia I'm talking about is Jia Luo, not 'fake' as in not real."

Xiao Feng was obviously joking, but…

Jia Luo, Zhen Jinghan.

One 'Real', one 'Fake'.

And both were people he'd introduced himself—was this some kind of coincidence?

He shook his head, put away those useless thoughts, and curled his lip. "Calling her so formally… looks like you two haven't made any progress."

"It's a term of respect," Xue Nuofu said seriously.

"Heh, you respectfully call her Dr. Jia, then what does she call you?

Little Xue-Xue?

Little Nuo-Nuo?

Or Little Fu-Fu?"

Xue Nuofu instantly got goosebumps. "How could it be that cringy? She calls me Mr. Xue."

"Mm… Dr. Jia, Mr. Xue—you're both from the 'sheng' generation."

"Quit messing around, I've got something serious." Xue Nuofu changed the subject. "I just got word that Bai Huanyu asked He Qizheng to go hiking with him—should be to lay their cards on the table and negotiate."

Xiao Feng's brows furrowed. For some reason, the moment he heard the word "hiking"…

He suddenly felt that between Bai Huanyu and He Qizheng, one of them was probably going to fall off the mountain…

Seeing Xiao Feng's off expression, Xue Nuofu was puzzled. "Something wrong?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the phone in Xiao Feng's pocket started ringing.

He took it out and glanced at the caller ID, and couldn't help being stunned!

Could his premonition really be that accurate?

He picked up, and immediately heard Di Junxiong's urgent voice: "Master, He Qizheng is dead!"

"Holy shit!"

"Hm?"

Xiao Feng cleared his throat twice and asked, "He fell from the mountain and died?"

On the other end of the line there was a full three seconds of silence, then a deliberately lowered voice: "Master, don't tell me you did it?"

Based on his many years of case experience, Di Junxiong felt his own master was highly suspicious.

After all, He Qizheng had been dead for less than twenty minutes; the body wasn't even cold yet, and his master directly stated the cause of death—clearly there was a problem.

Thinking it through, Bai Huanyu and He Qizheng went up the mountain together, and He Qizheng fell from halfway up and died on the spot.

In that case, Bai Huanyu naturally became the primary suspect in this case.

Mm… totally in line with his master's style.

However, just as Di Junxiong thought he had already figured out the truth, he was met with Xiao Feng's denial.

Then Xiao Feng asked, "Have you figured out why He Qizheng fell?"

"The exact cause is still under investigation," Di Junxiong replied. "According to Bai Huanyu, he and He Qizheng went up the mountain together.

Halfway up, He Qizheng thought a certain vantage point had a great view and asked Bai Huanyu to take a picture for him.

While they were taking the photo, He Qizheng suddenly clutched his chest and leaned backward, and ultimately fell from halfway up the mountain, about thirty meters high, to the bottom."

After a pause, Di Junxiong continued, "In the shoulder bag He Qizheng was carrying, we found quick-acting heart-relief pills, and there are no external injuries on the surface of the body.

Our preliminary analysis is that a heart attack caused him to fall from the mountain to his death."

"Did He Qizheng go up the mountain alone?" Xiao Feng pressed.

Di Junxiong gave a wry smile. "We also found that strange. When He Qizheng and Bai Huanyu went up, both of them left their drivers at the foot of the mountain.

Right now we've already sealed off the scenic area and are looking for witnesses to see if we can find new leads."

"Get back to work. Update me anytime you have new information."

With that, Xiao Feng hung up.

"He Qizheng actually… died?" Xue Nuofu looked utterly incredulous.

Xiao Feng ignored him and instead sank into thought over the matter.

From a rational standpoint, he felt Bai Huanyu hadn't intentionally killed anyone.

Everyone knew that He Qizheng was at his peak right now, while Bai Huanyu was already showing signs of decline, and the two of them were on opposing sides.

The two of them went hiking together, and in the end, He Qizheng died.

No matter what the truth was, at the very least outsiders would all assume that Bai Huanyu must have done it.

By then, even if the police couldn't find evidence of intentional homicide…

The blame on Bai Huanyu's head definitely wouldn't be shaken off.

The old bastard had really just suddenly let himself go and stopped caring about his reputation in his twilight years?

From an emotional standpoint, though, it was much simpler.

Pushed to a certain extent, Bai Huanyu could easily be enraged, courage bolstered by anger, and killing He Qizheng would still make sense.

As for that late-life reputation he always cared about… when the rumor about him and his son having "deep father-son affection" had already spread, what reputation did he even have left?

Add in how he'd been repeatedly humiliated recently—lose face enough times and you just stop caring about face altogether; that was reasonable too.

So, was this really a coincidence?

All of a sudden, like a flash of light in his mind, Xiao Feng's body trembled.

Bai Huanyu had his fingerprints; back during the Demon Suppression Action Team's annual assessment, the old bastard had used them to stage a bloody case at Jinyue Garden.

It was just that at the time he'd had too many alibis and too many witnesses, so suspicion never landed on him.

"Fuck!" Xiao Feng couldn't help cursing. "The old bastard's talent for disgusting people just keeps improving!"

Xue Nuofu didn't quite follow, and after thinking for a long moment, he tentatively asked, "This has… something to do with you?"

"Originally, no. But Bai Huanyu will make the police think it does, and public opinion will think so too," Xiao Feng said, thoroughly depressed.

At this moment, he was over ninety percent sure that at the scene, or on He Qizheng's body, or in his shoulder bag, his own fingerprints would appear.

That way, all three of the "Jiangcheng Big Three" would be dragged into this; none of them could stay clean.

If someone then fanned the flames and guided public opinion, this pot might very well be dumped onto his head.

Of course, that was from a public-opinion standpoint, not a legal one.

He closed his eyes, quickly ran through everything in his mind, then suddenly stood up and walked straight toward the door.

"Where are you going?" Xue Nuofu couldn't help asking.

"To turn myself in?"

"Hm?"

"You heard right, turn myself in."

On impulse, Xue Nuofu didn't even know why the words slipped out of his mouth: "And if you never come back?"

"Then you can sleep with your eyes open from now on—I'll show up anytime and tear that mouth of yours to shreds!"