Blindness
A few days after that, it was as if an earthquake had struck Huzhou, with thousands of epicenters, all of them red and white - human mouths.
Arrest, Trial, Clarification, Retrial, Publication ......
The mouths of public officials are opening and closing, the mouths of suspects are quivering.
While the mouths of the people are busy with the three meals a day, they must find time to chew on the secrets here.
Lv Zhishu had become Duan Wen's outcast, and she knew it in her heart, but like Jiang Liping, she was equipped with the organization's anti-leakage device, and hers was even more advanced than Jiang Liping's, which was worn on her hand, while hers was put into her wrist when she had cosmetic surgery. Except for what Duan Wen had already given up, she wasn't able to divulge anything too central.
But the value of her confession was no longer that high, and the evidence He Yu had saved, the statements he had left behind, were far more useful than what she could have given.
Not to mention that his final locator breakthrough device allowed the police to pinpoint the exact location of Duan Wen's lair, Mandela Island, and even recorded several valuable conversations among Duan Wen's men.
What people expect more from Lv Zhishu is for her to tell the truth about framing Vivian for 20 years of plastic surgery and changing her identity, as well as confessing to several intentional killings she committed back in the day.
Major media outlets are scrambling to get an interview with Lv Zhishu, who is being held in custody.
"A love killing that steals the day, when the man in your bed is the man who killed your wife."
"He Jiwei was cheated for twenty years and had a son with his wife's murderer."
"Sci-fi Level Plastic Surgery - The Insanity of Mysterious Organizations."
Journalists have written hundreds of headlines, but still have not been given a chance to meet Lv Zhishu. The only person who has met Lv Zhishu in these days, apart from the relevant public officials, is He Li.
He Li, who went from being a wealthy pharmaceutical magnate to the son of a well-known suspect overnight, is not as resilient as He Yu, who has mentally crossed over in just over ten days.
The day he met with Lv Zhishu, was escorted by the police car, the police have minimized his contact with the outside world, but when he got off the bus at the detention center, he was still squatting at the door of the official media and the media caught in the middle of the flash frenzy, scaring him as if he was dug out of the gopher from the cavern, terrified to be back to the drill, less than half an hour, the photo of him in a panic! In less than half an hour, the photo of his panic became the first hot picture that was frantically reproduced on all major platforms, boiling the entire network.
But other than this picture, no one in the media knows any more details about this meeting between He Li and Lv Zhishu.
There are rumors that He Li in the detention center even yelled Lv Zhishu three times, I am innocent, you let me what to do next!
There are also rumors that during the meeting between mother and son, He Li did not call Lv Zhishu "mom" at all. ......
The day after their meeting, Zheng Jingfeng and Zhou Muying Xie Ping, a comrade in arms from 20 years ago, went to the prison to record a statement confirming that Zhou and Xie were indeed killed by Lv. She was also responsible for the death of Chen Lisheng, which she orchestrated in order to eliminate any future problems.
When these confessions were made public, the word "Lv Zhishu" was no longer used in the reports, but was replaced by the real name of the woman who had taken over:
Wei Rong.
Wei family's main family old man knew that this woman is actually many years ago their family Wei Rong, shocked by a million percent, but also feel disgraced, and took the initiative to cooperate with the investigation to prove that the Wei family and this woman does not have any collusion, on this matter is also completely unaware of. In their eyes, "Wei Rong" has long been dead, and this in order to achieve the purpose, even heartless to the point of framing their own nephew Wei Dongheng woman, can not be considered the Wei family flesh and blood.
As for Wei Rong's parents, they have long since passed away due to the loss of their daughter. It is said that Wei Rong does not even have any feelings for his parents, which shows that he has completely lost his humanity and only has himself in his heart.
Even more ironically, her son He Li, whom she had doted on for years, never asked about his mother's situation after this meeting, mirroring the same desperation she had shown back then.
On the second day after the graves of Xie Ping and Zhou Muying were laid at the Martyrs' Cemetery, the police authorized Xie Qingcheng, the victim's surviving son, to meet with Wei Rong.
At this point, twenty full years have passed since the murder of the two officers.
The meeting room was dark, the only light on was an incandescent lamp above Wei Rong's head, hitting her in the face. She was in very bad shape, almost as if she were going mad, and the blows of the past ten days or so had caused her to lose weight so quickly that her skin hung loosely over her bones, making her look like an evil spirit returning in a painted skin.
"She's no different from a crazy person right now, and her words will be rather over the top." Zheng Jingfeng couldn't help but remind Xie Qingcheng before letting him in.
Xie Qingcheng, who had seen her seizure from outside the blast glass door, said, "I know."
The door opened.
Wei Rong snapped out of her self-absorbed daze and stared at Xie Qingcheng, who was in front of her, staring at him in a daze for at least a few dozen seconds before she tilted her head back and suddenly burst out laughing.
"Professor Xie ......? Hahahahaha......I really have to recognize you......I'm really happy to see you like this now......I'm really happy a lot... ...Hahahaha......Hahahahaha......"
"Mr. Wei, you've really changed a lot too."
Wei Rong did not expect him to open his mouth with such an attitude, the caracal smile violently withdrew, slightly showing his teeth, "You ...... can actually still feign calmness and talk to me like this?"
Xie Qingcheng said, "I can."
Wei Rong: "......"
After a few seconds, she ground her teeth, and her venomous gaze seemed to be able to peel off layers of Xie Qingcheng s flesh and blood, "Ridiculous! That bitch's son ...... is for people like you ...... self-destructive pervert ...... to count everything... ...Ridiculous! Ridiculous! Ridiculous! What do you have that's worthwhile? You are old and heartless, and your whole being is like a rotten pocket ...... of rags! It's true that the son of a bitch can only look like the seed born from the same bitch!"
The officer next to him snapped, "Wei Rong!"
"I yuck!" Wei Rong spat out a mouthful of saliva at the officer, and if she wasn't strangled by the interrogation chair and couldn't get too close, she would have really spat on the other party, "Who are you? You're not worthy to talk to me like this!"
The officer angrily stepped forward, and Zheng Jingfeng, who was standing by the door, shook his head, signaling him not to bother with this crazy woman.
Xie Qingcheng had no hint of anger, in fact he had seemed very cold since he had come in, and that coldness was not a release of pressure on anyone, but seemed to be due to the fact that there was no longer any hot blood in his own heart.
His lashes dropped and those eyes gazed at her without blinking.
"You are ...... like this ...... you can still stare at me like this ...... Xie Qingcheng ... ...You are really crazy ...... you are really crazy!"
Xie Qingcheng slowly, sat down in front of the interrogation chair, his face pale, cold, coffin-like without any expression.
He ignored her curses, but moved his withered lips and said to her, "Wei Rong, you have done one good thing in your life."
"......"
"You didn't control He Yu, you let him grow up to be two completely different people from your son."
Lv Zhishu stared at him, she knew that the haggardly described but still icy man in front of her was facepalming her, her cheeks twitched slightly and after a few seconds she jabbed it back in an even more brutal way, "Right! Yes, I did not control him and let him grow up to be a fool, if I had, he would have known what was worth it and what was just trash! He wouldn't have gotten his whole family into the situation he's in now for a piece of garbage and then gotten himself blown up alive! Just for you! --Smug, Xie Qingcheng, what your meddling mother didn't do, you did! Even though you did it by lying in bed and letting men fuck you, you bitchy, cheap bastard! You whore! What are you so proud of, daring to come and flaunt yourself in front of me!!!"
Her cursing was so rude that even Zheng Jingfeng couldn't listen to her this time.
This is surprisingly a woman from a famous family ......
Zheng Jingfeng suddenly thought of Jiang Liping, a woman who came out of a mountain village in disgrace, but who faced her destiny with a much nobler stance than Wei Rong.
People have dignity and inferiority, but people's dignity and inferiority cannot be measured by money and social status; whether they are noble or lowly is all in one heart.
He couldn t help but say to Xie Qingcheng, "Otherwise forget it, you go first, you are like this ...... now."
Xie Qingcheng said, "It doesn't matter."
He looked over at the woman and with an amazingly silent coldness, a numbness that penetrated his bones, he said, "Wei Rong. it is every choice you have made for yourself that has led to the end of you sitting here facing me today."
"Back then, you loved He Jiwei, so you intentionally leaked the experimental containment device, trying to make her lose her child. And when Vivian endured and found out what you had done, you, fearing the charges, engineered the murder of the police officer who helped her investigate the truth. This is the first and second human life, on your hands."
He sat in his chair, fingers folded, his sickly pale face in shadow, and almost mechanically, he spoke of Wei Rong's past.
It was as if he were speaking for the dead, so that the departed might borrow his flesh and blood to demand justice from this culprit twenty years later.
"You didn't want to live your life with the prospect of being found out for murder, so golden, you killed Vivian and took the place of the man you hated. That's what you have on your hands, a third life."
"You wanted He Jiwei to believe that you were the real Lv Zhishu, and so you acted day and night and took away a child that belonged to another woman. You didn't like the child at all, but for your purposes you wanted him to recognize the thief as his mother, and you took your place as his mother, but never gave him any motherly warmth. This was created by you, the fourth victim's life."
"You wanted more, so you gave birth to a son of your own and He Jiwei's, and since then He Yu has lost his usefulness, and you treated him worse than a dog, until you realized that Duan Wen needed him, and you made a false pretense to him, and ended up breaking your own son's heart... . your own son, the one you destroyed, the fifth life."
"Chen Lisheng investigated the truth of that year and was framed for murder by you. This is the sixth life you've killed."
"And in the end He Jiwei, who knew the whole truth, killed himself, your monstrous love had deceived him for twenty years, and he died, the seventh victim at your hands. The seventh life."
"...... seven people, and the victims of those banned drugs ...... Wei Rong, there is no bottom line in everything you do, and there is only one purpose, and that is to fulfill your own selfish desires. Now you wait for your own end. You are to blame for this."
"...... Bullshit! Nonsense! A load of nonsense! When have I ever harmed my son! Nor have I ever harmed my husband!" Wei Rong shouted hysterically, looking hideous to the point of horror, "I love them ...... I love him ...... It's you guys who ruined my family! As long as you guys didn't stir it up, nothing would have happened! Nothing at all!"
The more she talked, the more maniacal she became.
"Blame ...... What qualifications do you have to say that I am to blame? What qualifications do you have to say that I caused seven lives ...... Xie Qingcheng? You don't!"
"I'm telling you, He Yu was killed by you. You used him! You forced him to die! You and I can be as ruthless as each other!"
She really hated Xie Qingcheng -- all because of him!
She almost fell into the hands of Zhou Muying back then, she escaped, but round and round, twenty years later, she didn't escape Zhou Muying's son ......
Wei Rong The more he thought about it, the more he hated it, and laughed fiercely, "You don t have the right to laugh at me ...... Look at you, you also waited for your retribution. Isn t it? Yes ...... I am unscrupulous to achieve my goal, but only someone like me who can give up everything can get me off the stage-- Xie Qingcheng, you are actually exactly like me. How good do you think you are to He Yu? You're nothing more than using his feelings to avenge your parents!"
As she said this, she stared at Xie Qingcheng with an extremely fierce look: ''Now that your goal has been achieved, I should really congratulate you. You came here today just to come and see what happened to me on behalf of your parents, didn't you? You came just to fall on your sword and mock me, didn't you?!"
Xie Qingcheng looked at her very quietly for several minutes.
These twenty years, he has been struggling to find an answer, and now the answer is in front of him - let people kill his parents, Chen Lisheng ...... even hired a murderer to run him over, let him suffer from mental Ai Bola disease The person is the woman in front of him.
He had been alone with her countless times over the years, not realizing that she turned out to be the murderer with blood on her hands.
He said, word for word, "Yes. Of all the people you murdered these twenty years ago, I am the only one still alive. I must see your end with my eyes, even though you make me feel ten thousand times sicker."
"Disgusting ......? Who are you to call me disgusting! You a thing to be played by men ......"
Zheng Jingfeng: "Wei Rong! You give me enough!!!"
"He's just something to be played with by men, what's wrong, am I wrong?" Wei Rong lifted his eyelids towards Zheng Jingfeng and grimaced, then turned his face towards Xie Qingcheng, "You know in your own heart what kind of shameless things you've done with that whore's son, don't you? I really hate that I didn't buy a front page headline and post the nude photos of you two on the front page! Stinking bitch, people from your kind of background will do anything for a little bit of glory and wealth, only that bitch is a lover and will sacrifice to that extent for you ......"
"Wei Rong!!!" Zheng Jingfeng sounded like a bell as the panther drank.
Xie Qingcheng : "Let her talk on."
"......"
"You say it." Xie Qingcheng said, "How far He Yu has gone for me."
Zheng Jingfeng looked ugly, but could not persuade Xie Qingcheng -- Xie Qingcheng is now as cold and cold as an ice sculpture, no one can move him.
Wei Rong seemed to have a mouth full of venomous snake's juice, and she revealed a mouthful of teeth, staring at Xie Qingcheng with a ghastly, silent smile.
"Do you really not know or are you pretending not to know?"
"...... Xie Qingcheng, aren't you the least bit curious as to how He Yu was able to be trusted so quickly by Duan Wen to work for the organization? Ah?"
She scrutinized his features ...... looking at a face that seemed devoid of any emotion.
"Duan Wen has never been that careless--even if he is a Blood Compass and my 'son', he must be skeptical of his choices. He wouldn't trust someone so easily, especially someone like He Yu who was once his antagonist! Unless ......"
She said quietly.
"Unless the other person makes enough sacrifices, more than enough to completely convince Duan Wen ...... more than enough to make Duan Wen certain that the person is 100 percent not going to betray him ...... and can't betray him! "
Xie Qingcheng : "......"
This is the moment.
Wei Rong dropped her mouth violently, injecting all that venom into the man's bloodstream. She laughed out loud--
"Yes! None of you know that Duan Wen trusted him because He Yu was voluntarily implanted with a monitoring chip in order to do this!!!"
"!!!"
This was something Wei Rong had never said before, and even Zheng Jingfeng was shocked.
"None of you could have imagined it ...... None of you could have imagined it! Haha ...... hahahahahaha! ...... He's just like me! Same as Jiang Liping! He was planted with the same thing as us when he pretended to cooperate with him ......! hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!"
"Those suicide notes of his or his confessions, I'm afraid they were all left by him before that! After he implanted the chip, he had no way to prompt the police for anything, not even to explain himself, he would probably die with the reputation of a criminal, he was killing himself, choosing to take such a dangerous move, just to completely gain Duan Wen's trust, in order to work for his own mother... ...for you!"
Perhaps the tingling expression on Xie Qingcheng's face that she finally couldn't hide deeply pleased Wei Rong, whose eyes grew brighter and her grin became even more ghastly.
"Xie Qingcheng ...... that surgery, is I personally watched from the side ...... Jiang Liping's monitoring belt on the hand, is the most ordinary, while mine is in the wrist ...... As for He Yu's, he was really looked up to by Duan Wen, who used the highest-grade, hardest-to-be-blinded-over kind of chip on him, and only one of them has been manufactured over the years - planted in his heart! "
"Just before he went to sea, he just finished this operation ...... hahahaha ...... Ridiculous, isn't it! Xie Qingcheng?You must be wondering why he didn't tell you guys a little more about the truth - because he couldn't do it anymore!"
"He can't do it anymore, Xie Qingcheng." The more Wei Rong spoke, the hotter the glow on her face, the crazier she looked. She knew she had finally drilled the knife deep into Xie Qingcheng's heart.
"Even the things he's doing, he's accomplishing at the risk of being sentenced to death by the monitoring chip at any moment. The only thing he has to clear his name is the suicide note he left behind that won't necessarily be found, and the only person he can hold out hope for is you! Maybe he was naïve enough to believe in you as he lay on the operating table, to believe that you were capable of trusting him unconditionally, just as he trusted you."
Wei Rong is chiseling away at Xie Qingcheng's heart with every word.
"But you betrayed him, for the sake of your justice-you killed the man who was so lowly and deeply in love with you that he went and risked his life for you alone! --you betrayed him. You killed him! He was not a human life in my hands, it was yours! You were the last one to destroy him completely! You did it!!!"
The woman laughed maniacally, yet vocally.
"I know I'm definitely going to die, the death penalty, it's your win, Xie Qingcheng. but remember, all the time you have left, you're going to have to live with this pain, you're in the same boat as me, and you're even more ruthless than I am."
"It is he who has trusted you wrongly. When I go down to hell to ...... Xie Qingcheng, I must see how disgusted he will be with you, and then I must shame him properly - and then dream back again to tell you clearly all the hate he has for you! It's you who ruined my life ...... It's you and your meddling parents who ruined my life!"
She laughed until the end, wide open that pair of eyes filled with blood, pupils protruding, holding the tears of unwillingness, with a crazy smile, like ecstasy like extreme hatred, expression extremely horrifying, Samson spit out the last few words: "I will not let you go even if I die."
There was a buzzing in his ears, as if he had gone deaf.
At the end of the visit, he came out with Zheng Jingfeng, who was his elder, but was too anxious to talk to him easily, and only accompanied him quietly.
After a long time, he said to Xie Qingcheng: "You do not want to think so much, what she said may not be all true, I think she is trying to stimulate you, the hearts of the people like snakes and scorpions, anything is not good to say ......"
Halfway through his sentence, he was interrupted by Xie Qingcheng: "Zheng Jingfeng, do you think my heart is like wood and stone?"
Zheng Jingfeng look very sad: "...... you don't listen to her bullshit, you ...... you want to heart like wood and stone, how would it be just a few days to become now like this?"
He said, very sadly, turning his head towards Xie Qingcheng's face.
That's why Lv Zhishu laughed out loud when he first saw Xie Qingcheng--
Xie Qingcheng's forehead was wrapped in a snow-white bandage, which ended in a diagonal wrap, covering one of the eyes, with a fine piece of frontal hair falling down in front of it.
One of his eyes, after all, had gone blind.
On the day he learned of He Yu's death, Xie Qingcheng didn't go crazy, didn't make waves, and didn't even shed a tear.
He had been controlling his mind for twenty years, and nothing could ever make him lose his sobriety or his sanity again.
That night, he even still lay down on the bed after doing all the things, very calmly, not at all the so-called sleepless night, mourning and crying until dawn.
He was too calm, so calm that he was like a shell, a corpse. He slept, no more dreams of Ferris wheels, teddy bears and the teenager who came to him with a smile.
He went to sleep.
The whole night, no dreams, no light, eyes closed, darkness before my eyes, enduring the minutes and seconds, seconds like years, headache like cracking.
It wasn't until he woke up the next morning, when he opened his eyes and realized that his vision, which had been gradually blurring due to heart failure and exhaustion, seemed to have suddenly become even less clear, that he sat numbly in his bed for a long, long time, long enough for him to gather enough of his strength to brace himself enough to walk out of bed to face the world outside, where nothing seemed to have changed, and where, because of the absence of one person, everything had actually changed.
Slowly, he braced himself and walked over to the bathroom mirror -
Then he saw a line of blood under his left eye.
The streaming traces of that reddish vermilion had congealed.
When did it flow? He doesn't know.
When did it dry up? He doesn't understand either.
What is it flowing from?
That answer was the only one he knew, except that it also no longer mattered.
Xie Qingcheng lifted his hand, raised it to his left eye, and gently shook it twice, and after a few moments, he slowly lowered his fingertips.
Black.
The light of the amusement park went out, and after that person left, there were no more colors left even in the dreams.
And his eye, which had shed its last line of bloodless tears in the long night, had been thoroughly ......
Invisible.
Published at: 12/07/2024 03:00