FID – Chapter 484

  Chapter 484: Want to Scam Me?

  ”I, Liu Zhiqiu, can’t be bothered to swindle you Old Madam. There are many witnesses to this matter! It seems that you’re not well-informed. If you want to know what’s going on, wait until the government officials come and just listen properly on the sidelines.”

  Liu Zhiqiu sneered.

  He was never a good-natured man.

  Especially now, he was devoid of the tiniest shred of patience with the Li family.

  Matriarch Li went crazy. She stared at Liu Zhiqiu and accused sternly, “She’s a nice girl from the Li Manor. Why did she die all of a sudden?! Did you kill her? Huh? Did you kill her?! She was about to get married, but she ran away from home and came to your village! And you’re teeling me she’s dead?! Where is she? I want to see her with my own eyes! Liu Zhiqiu, I tell you, don’t try to use your power to oppress people. I know that your Liu family is great, but if Yue’er was met with an accident in your hands, I will never let you go even if my family loses everything!”

  ”What nonsense are you spouting, granny! Half of the people in our village had watched what happened at the time! Don’t hurl accusations! Zhiqiu didn’t kill your girl, he even tried his best to save her!” The Xinghua villagers were indignant and countered angrily.

  The Xiapo villagers chimed in and sneered, “So that’s what happened. Whatever had happened, we can wait for the authorities’ arrival to find out. By then, everything will naturally be clear. Don’t try using this to gain benefits. Do you want to scam someone? Tell you what, don’t even think about it. Such tricks are left over from our games, we know them like the back of our hands!”

  The Xinghua villagers: “…”

  They had the nerve to show off the scandals of the past, hah!

  Matriarch Li’s face was distorted. She glowered at Liu Zhiqiu, her face downright ugly.

  She really did not expect that a person in perfect condition would die out of the blue!

  It was but overnight!

  She wouldn’t believe it until she sees it with her own eyes!

  Even if she was dead, she must see her corpse!

  Unfortunately, Liu Zhiqiu has no intention of giving an inch. There was a crowd surrounding them, and she couldn’t force her way.

  The only choice left to get to the bottom of the matter was to wait for the authorities’ arrival.

  Because it was the Liu family who came to file a case, this became a matter that would affect all the good people in Xiangshan County. Moreover, the relationship between the wine shops was interconnected between the eight villages in ten miles, so the government officials arrived speedily. Kang Shiming also personally brought them.

  Only then was the standoff at the entrance to the village quashed.

  Liu Zhiqiu led Kang Shiming and the yamen officials, as well as Matriarch Li and the village chiefs of the two villages to the Liu family compound while narrating the incident on the way.

  ”Did someone really assassinate you?” Kang Shiming frowned, his eyes deep and thoughtful.

  ”The scene of the assassination hasn’t been touched. Magistrate, you can ask someone to check it out,” Wei Hong said. “Four assassins in total attacked, and I killed them all. Their corpses are still halfway up the mountain toward Xinghua Ridge.”

  It took her less than half an hour to carry the people back from Luofu Mountain.

  Zhiqiu stalled everyone at the entrance of the village, while she took the opportunity to arrange it. The time was just right.

  Kang Shiming and his party were already standing in the consultation room. On the long bed in the consultation room, they could see the woman lying there still in a state of embarrassment and covered in blood. Her skin and hands had already turned gray.

  Too horrifying.

  When Matriarch Li saw the woman with her own eyes, she was shocked, and her face turned ashen.

  Really, she’s dead?

  The coroner brought from the yamen to examine her immediately reported, “Your Excellency, she has been dead for nearly an hour, and the fatal wound was in her heart. She died under a knife.”

  ”Impossible! How is that possible?! She was still alive yesterday. My Yue’er, my Yue’er!” Matriarch Li cried bitterly, and then angrily pointed at Liu Zhiqiu. “It’s you, it’s you who killed Yue’er! What thug assassination? It must have been you who killed Yue’er! In order to absolve yourself of the crime, you went so far as to plant the blame on some thugs. If it wasn’t for you, how could Yue’er come to Xinghua Village?! Your Excellency, you are the parental official of Xiangshan. You must uphold justice for this old woman. My granddaughter died unjustly!”

  Liu Erin stood behind with Du Juan. His face was sullen, but he restrained himself from saying anything.

  Li Junyue did indeed die saving Zhiqiu.

  Wei Hong looked coldly at the granny who was crying and screaming injustice. “If you dare to clamor again, I will throw you out immediately!”

  ”Does your Liu family want to use power to bully others? A granddaughter from the Li family died unjustly, and this matter has a lot to do with your family. As the matriarch of the house, I will never give up!” Matriarch Li looked at Wei Hong and stopped crying. The glint in her eyes, however, became more and more unrelenting as she intensified her crying momentum.

  Liu Zhiqiu didn’t say a word in reply, and only said to Kang Shiming, “Xinghua Ridge is not far behind the village. I’ll take Your Excellency there now.”

  The group headed toward Xinghua Ridge.

  There were large areas of bloodstains on the gray soil halfway up the mountain. Four black-clad men, already lifeless, were lying in different directions, and sharp daggers were scattered around them.

  The yamen officials inspected the scene and collected the daggers as physical evidence, along with a jade pendant in the shape of a two-finger-sized gourd.

  ”This is my pendant. My sister is fond of researching medicine. Occasionally, she will store medicine in these small objects and send it to her family on a whim,” Liu Zhiqiu explained, “Everyone in my family has a jade pendant in this shape.”

  Kang Shiming looked around, and sure enough, Liu Erlin and Du Juan pulled out their pendants from their necks, which were exactly the same as the one found at the scene.

  Even Wei Hong had one on her, but the bottle was empty.

  ”At that time, Li Junyue was fatally stabbed. I wanted to save her, so I took out my jade pendant and fed her the potion inside. Unfortunately, I still failed to revive her.” Speaking of Li Junyue’s death, Liu Zhiqiu was already able to behave very calmly.

  His frenzied behavior earlier seemed to have vanished into thin air.

  Hearing his recount, Kang Shiming nodded. This showed that Liu Zhiqiu really intended to save Li Junyue. “When the coroner examined the corpse, there was still drug powder in the corner of Miss Li’s mouth, and a lot of it was sprinkled on the long bed. You fed them to Miss Li to save her, right, Young Master Liu?”

  ”Exactly. Your Excellency, you can bring those powders back for inspection, and be sure to return my innocence, lest someone use this to accuse me and shift the blame of Miss Li’s death on my head.”

  Matriarch Li’s eyes were overflowing with bitterness. No wonder Liu Zhiqiu insisted on waiting for the authorities to come before letting her enter and letting her accompany them. It turned out that he was using the government’s testimony to prove his innocence, so that he could get away from this crime!

  ”Young Master Liu is really a consummate schemer. So you think you can get rid of your ties with this, huh? You’ve earned my admiration! But don’t forget one thing. Why did my granddaughter appear in Xinghua Village all the way from the Li Manor in town?! In this whole village, she’s only acquainted to you well, so she couldn’t have been looking for someone else here!”

  Liu Zhiqiu looked at her and sneered. “Fifth Miss Li did come to the Lius’ compound last night and left shortly after taking a rest. Now that you’ve mentioned this, you reminded me of something. When she came here yesterday, she looked terribly bad. I don’t know if she had experienced anything before coming. Perhaps later, you can ask a female family member to help examine her body carefully!”