The Truth Emerges (Second Update)

After a brief panic, Ma Yaozu calmed down and insisted that he was drunk in the restaurant yesterday and could not remember what he said to Xiao Shirong at that time. read

Regarding the waiter's claim that none of them were drunk, Ma Yaozu said that it was normal for the waiter to misremember as he received so many guests every day.

Su Liang took out two questionnaires and snorted coldly, "One student said he saw you going towards the well yesterday evening, and another said he saw you coming back from the well. What do you think about this? Said?"

Ma Yaozu was standing. When he heard Su Liang's words, his legs trembled obviously and he lowered his head, "It was dark in the evening. They must have seen it wrong. I have never been there. Miss Su, please don't make false claims!"

"You won't shed tears until you see the coffin, right?" Su Liang put away the two pieces of paper, "Then we'll wait and see what Mr. Xiao will say when he comes."

After Su Liang finished speaking, he heard footsteps coming from outside.

Not long ago, the two officers and soldiers who were arranged by Lin Shuzhi to invite Xiao Shirong to the Xiao family came back, carrying one person.

Su Liang didn't recognize him, but intuitively, this person should be Xiao Shirong. He has an ordinary appearance, but his clothes are very gorgeous.

Ma Yaozu's expression changed, "What do you mean?"

Su Liang walked over, cut off Ma Yaozu's hands behind his back, tied them with the rope he had prepared, and stuffed a piece of cloth into his mouth.

As Ma Yaozu struggled, Su Liang took out another rope and tied his feet.

Lin Shuzhi was stunned for a moment.

Then Su Liang dragged Ma Yaozu behind the bookshelf, "Listen carefully to what Mr. Xiao said about yesterday's events."

Hua Luo came out from behind the bookshelf and pinched Xiao Shirong's hand.

Xiao Shirong woke up after being knocked unconscious and looked at his surroundings with a confused expression. His eyes fell on Su Liang's face, which suddenly lit up.

Realizing that he was sitting on the ground, Xiao Shirong got up with a dark face, "I'm fine at home, who brought me here? In broad daylight, be careful, I will sue you!"

Lin Shuzhi vaguely guessed who did it, but of course he would not say, "Xiao Shirong, something happened in the academy last night, do you know?"

Xiao Shirong found a seat and sat down by himself, shook his head and said, "What's the matter? I got up late and I don't know anything."

Lin Shuzhi said seriously, "Someone poisoned the academy well and almost harmed everyone."

Xiao Shirong leaned forward, looking shocked, "How could this happen? Is everyone okay?"

Lin Shuzhi shook his head, "It's a near miss. Now we are investigating the poisoner, and we need to know the whereabouts of everyone in the academy in the past five days. Ma Yaozu said that he went to a restaurant with you yesterday, and he needs you to give him a certificate. I was going to Please, I didn’t expect you to come.”

Xiao Shirong frowned, "I don't know anything. I was kidnapped. Forget it, what did the dean just say? Ma Yaozu? Oh! That poor... classmate from Bei'an County? I know, what happened to him?"

Lin Shuzhi repeated the question again, and Xiao Shirong nodded readily, "We went to the restaurant together yesterday. He failed the exam and was devastated. I was about to go to Huixianglou for a drink when I met him and invited him to go with me."

"How much did you drink in Huixianglou? Are you drunk?" Lin Shuzhi asked.

Xiao Shirong shook his head, "I just drank a bottle, so I'm not drunk. It's broad daylight and it's easy to lose your temper when you're drunk."

Ma Yaozu, who was behind the bookshelf, widened his eyes in disbelief.

Xiao Shirong continued, "What did we say... This is related to Brother Ma's privacy. I promised not to tell anyone."

Lin Shuzhi looked serious, "Now that we know what happened last night, we should know which one is more serious."

Xiao Shirong frowned and whispered, "Poison...I thought he was joking..."

Lin Shuzhi's face darkened, and the people in the government next to him looked shocked, "Mr. Xiao, please make it clear!"

Xiao Shirong sighed deeply, "Didn't Xie Yuan Ningjing take the name of Prince Beijing to take the college examination in Bei'an County? He was tied with Ma Yaozu at the top of the case. This incident had no impact on him, but he always felt that his glory had been lost to Ningjing. Mr. Ning was robbed."

Xiao Shirong sighed again, "Ma Yaozu has been fawning over me since he came to the academy. I know he sees me as rich, but I don't like him very much. He is better at reading than me, but he has a small belly and chicken intestines. Mr. Ning Most of the bad things about me are spread by him, and I don’t know why he is so jealous of others.”

"I was not qualified to take part in the provincial examination this time, but I went to see it on the day the results were released. Mr. Ning had to learn about Yuan Dynasty, and there was no name Ma Yaozu at the end. I was thinking about a classmate who was in a bad mood, so I asked him Drinking to relieve his sorrow, who knows that he has been angrily scolding Mr. Ning, saying that Mr. Ning took advantage of his privileges and robbed him of the luck that should have been his! I can’t even say it!”

"Of course I advised him to be more open-minded. It has nothing to do with Mr. Ning getting Jieyuan by virtue of his own abilities. He is not very old, so he studies hard and takes the exam again in three years. He still has a chance. I even said that we The Xiao family can help him study."

"But he is like a ghost. He keeps saying nonsense like making Mr. Ning pay the price and destroying Mr. Ning so that he can get ahead. He also said that he plans to do a big thing. As long as he succeeds, he will definitely make Mr. Ning famous. destroy!"

"He was like that on weekdays. Of course I thought he was talking angrily, so I tried to persuade him a few times. When he calmed down, we went back."

"Although he said that yesterday, he can't do something as crazy as poisoning, right?"

Xiao Shirong finished speaking in one breath, and at the end he said something nice to Ma Yaozu with an innocent look on his face, "I've told you everything I know. What have I done in the past five days? Do I need to check it out? Should I tell the dean now, or write it all down?"

"Write it down." Lin Shuzhi said.

"Okay." Xiao Shirong stood up, "I'll go see if my friend is okay first. If there's anything else I can do, just call me."

Seeing that Xiao Shirong was about to leave, Su Liang said, "Mr. Xiao, please stay."

Xiao Shirong turned around and smiled, "I wonder who this beautiful girl is..."

"Ning Jing's sister." Su Liang looked indifferent, "Please take a pen and paper, and go to the courtyard to write. Don't leave until you're done."

"Miss Ning?" Xiao Shirong laughed, "Although I don't know why I should listen to you, I will never refuse a beautiful woman's request." As soon as he finished speaking, he really took a pen and paper, went out and sat at the stone table in the courtyard.

Su Liang knew that this person was very scheming, and the facts were definitely not what he said. Ma Yaozu was jealous of Ning Jing, but he was not crazy enough.

She dragged Ma Yaozu out and took off the cloth gagged in his mouth. His face was extremely ugly, "He is talking nonsense! He deliberately framed me! I didn't say those words! I didn't poison you!"

Su Liang said coldly, "Ma Yaozu, with Xiao Shirong's testimony, do you think you can still survive when you go to the government? You said he framed you, why did he frame you?"

Ma Yaozu gritted his teeth and blurted out, "Because he wanted to..."

The voice suddenly stopped, and Ma Yaozu's face changed again and again, "I don't know why the Xiao family wanted to harm Ning Jing, but what he just said was what he wanted to do, but he threw dirty water on me! The poisoning must have been done by someone secretly sent by the Xiao family, and they are fully capable of doing it!"

Su Liang looked at Ma Yaozu, he was clearly struggling to death, but now that things have come to a point, he has fallen into the trap, and it is too late to get out.

"If it was really done by the Xiao family, they would not have time to cover it up, so how could they tell you?" Su Liang asked coldly.

Ma Yaozu wanted to say something, but his words were incoherent and he couldn't answer the question at all.

Lin Shuzhi slammed the table heavily, "Now that things have come to this, why don't you tell the truth?!"

Ma Yaozu's face was ashen, and his whole body was limp, "It was all Xiao Shirong who instructed me... He also gave me the poison, and I was obsessed for a while..."

Xiao Shirong in the courtyard heard what Ma Yaozu said, lowered his head and smiled contemptuously, without anger, let alone worry.

Ma Yaozu said that he was in a bad mood yesterday and met Xiao Shirong by chance. Xiao took the initiative to invite him to Huixianglou for a drink.

During the banquet, Xiao Shirong mentioned Ning Jing, and he was very jealous of Ning Jing in his words. He suspected that Ning Jing's road to the imperial examination was so smooth because the backers behind him had arranged it for him.

Ma Yaozu admitted that he had always continued to pursue Ning Jing because of the inferiority caused by poverty. In Bei'an County, many people compared him with Ning Jing, saying that he had studied hard for ten years, but he could not compare with Ning Jing, who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

After the two of them said something slanderous about Ning Jing, Xiao Shirong said that he really didn't like Ning Jing and had a plan to destroy Ning Jing.

Ma Yaozu said that he thought Xiao Shirong was joking at the time, but Xiao took out a packet of poison and asked Ma Yaozu to poison the well after returning to the academy. He also gave him a jade pendant with the word Ning engraved on it, which he should throw by the well.

At that time, everyone would think that it was related to Ning Jing, and the result would be either Ning Jing's death or it would be considered that Ning Yao did it to harm Ning Jing, and Ning Jing would not have a good ending.

"At that time, he said that as long as I was poisoned, no one would suspect me! I didn't want to endure for another three years, and I couldn't afford it. I was even more afraid of being ridiculed when I returned to my hometown. When I heard Xiao Shirong say that the Xiao family could support me to stay in Pingbei City and give me a sum of money afterwards, I was confused and listened to his instigation!" Ma Yaozu said bitterly, "He gave the poison, he was the mastermind, and I was just an accomplice! But I didn't expect him to put all the blame on me! Let me be a scapegoat!"

Ma Yaozu's final confession was similar to Su Liang's guess about him. He was a poor scholar, and it was true that he was inferior and jealous, but he would not dare to do such a sinister and vicious thing if he had the courage.

The real mastermind of all this was the Xiao family, and as the powerful local snakes in Pingbei City, they had found a scapegoat in advance.

If Ma Yaozu was not discovered, Xiao Shirong could stay out of it completely, and everything would be Ning Jing or the Ning family's business.

When Xiao Shirong was brought to the academy, he knew that someone was suspecting him, so he sold out Ma Yaozu without any hesitation.

"Have you written down the confessions of both of them?" Lin Shuzhi looked at the official.

The man nodded, "It's all recorded. Ma Yaozu did the poisoning himself, and he has confessed. Ma Yaozu claimed that Xiao Shirong instigated him, but it was just one-sided, too far-fetched and unreliable. After all, Xiao Shirong and Mr. Ning had no grudges."

These words directly showed the attitude of the government.

And Ma Yaozu could only say some useless nonsense to plead his injustice at this moment, because even he didn't know why Xiao Shirong framed Ning Jing.

Ma Yaozu, who was blinded by jealousy and interests, ruined his future and ended up like this. Su Liang did not sympathize with him, but she hoped that the evil deeds of the Xiao family would also be made public.

Xiao Shirong appeared at the door holding a piece of paper. When he saw Ma Yaozu, he sighed deeply, "You are so confused!"

After saying that, Xiao Shirong ignored Ma Yaozu's eyes that seemed to want to tear him apart, swaggered in, and handed the paper to Lin Shuzhi with pretended respect, "Please take a look, Dean. If there is nothing else, I will leave first."

Lin Shuzhi took the paper and said coldly, "Although there is no evidence to prove Ma Yaozu's accusation against you, since there is suspicion, please take both of them away and interrogate them."

Xiao Shirong's face changed, and soon returned to normal, "Okay. Those who are innocent will be innocent. I am willing to cooperate with the government investigation."

Ma Yaozu cursed, and Xiao Shirong looked at him with a smile. The former was taken away, and the latter went there by himself.

Only Su Liang and Lin Shuzhi were left in the room.

Lin Shuzhi sighed, "It seems that it was done by the Xiao family."

"But Xiao Shirong will be fine soon." Su Liang said, "We have no evidence."

Xiao Shirong was exactly the second-generation rich man that Su Liang saw in the news in his previous life, lawless and fearless. Sometimes, it's really hard to catch them.

A figure appeared at the door, and Su Liang turned around and saw that it was Ning Jing.

"Did you catch Xiao Shirong?" Su Liang asked.

Ning Jing nodded and walked in, "I heard at the Xiao family that they would frame me, not because of Zheng'er, but before I came to Pingbei City, they secretly discussed cooperation with Ning Yao. Ning Yao's condition was to find a way to make me die in Pingbei City."

Su Liang's eyes condensed, "If the jade pendant was found by others last night, you would have been arrested by the government. As long as the Xiao family manages it well, you may only be able to escape from prison to save your life in the end, and don't think about any future."

Lin Shuzhi's face was livid, "Damn! Those people are simply lawless!"

Su Liang thought for a while, "We have to think of a way to make Xiao Shirong confess and give Ning Yao out as well."