Star Trace Gate

In the underground secret room, Yin Wan'er's sharp roar made Ren feel dizzy. The surrounding scene began to distort, blur, and change rapidly.

……

After a moment, the picture gradually reorganized, and Ren Ye's empty eyes became focused. He looked up and saw the words "Shen Mansion" written on a plaque of a wealthy mansion.

The dark night sky, heavy rain, and the magnificent Shen Mansion made Ren realize in an instant that he, like Lao Liu, had returned to twenty years ago in terms of ideology.

He didn't dare to waste time and just followed the guidance of his consciousness and floated into the Shen Mansion.

Soon, he saw two people sitting and one person standing in the inner hall.

The two people sitting were Shen Jishi and Yin Wan'er.

The one standing was a thin middle-aged man wearing a black satin robe and had a thin face.

Inside the hall, the three of them were silent for a long time before Shen Jishi spoke: "If the person is not dead, everything is fine. But if the person is dead, how can I explain it to Jiansheng?"

His face looked normal and his voice was steady, but he could not hide the fatigue that flashed across his eyes.

The middle-aged man in a black robe on the other side gritted his teeth, suddenly bent his knees, knelt on the ground with a thud, and said with a fist: "Brother, you and I have been brothers for so many years. Has there ever been a thing that I, Guo Litao, did not follow your instructions?"

Shen Jishi frowned and remained silent.

"...You and I both know Gao Jiansheng's character. Once this happens, he will definitely take my life, and I will never tolerate this." Guo Litao knelt on the ground, his voice trembling: "If you don't intervene, then in this Qijia Town, I'm afraid only one of him and I can survive."

The inner hall fell silent again, with only the kettle on the stove emitting steam.

After a long time, Shen Jishi sighed, waved his hand and said, "Let's go, send Xiaoying to Qijia Town to hide for a while, and don't let anyone know where she lives."

"Brother, I'm grateful for your kindness." When Guo Litao heard this, he kowtowed three times on the ground, then turned around and left.

When it comes to Shen Jishi and Guo Litao's level, there is no need to say many things explicitly. After just a few words of communication, they already know what the other is thinking.

For Shen Jishi, the pros and cons of this matter were not difficult to judge. Gao Mingyue was beaten to death by Guo Ying. If he did not intervene, it would be equivalent to tacitly approving Gao Jiansheng's next move. Guo Litao would naturally be pushed away if he did not get protection from him.

What's more, the cause of this incident was his own son. If he didn't care, Guo Litao would definitely feel hatred towards him.

In the inner hall, when Shen Jishi saw Lao Guo leave, he put his hand over his chest and said in a hoarse voice: "Lao Xing, bring that beast over here."

"Yes."

The inner courtyard steward outside the door responded, and soon led Shen Yuan in, who had a blank look in his eyes and looked like a walking corpse.

The moment he saw his son, Shen Ji, who seemed calm, experienced, and unfathomable to outsiders, suddenly had endless anger and irritability in his eyes.

"Gudong!"

Shen Yuan knelt on the ground, his whole body limp, and kept shaking his head, saying, "Guo Ying, this vicious woman, she deserves to die... She really deserves to be cut into pieces!"

"Oh!"

Shen Jishi could no longer hold back his anger. He slammed the table, stood up suddenly and shouted, "You useless bastard, this is all because of you. You deserve to die more than Guo Ying! I took so much trouble to arrange a marriage for you, but you couldn't control the rotten meat in your crotch and actually did dirty things with your cousin. Are all the women in this world dead? It doesn't matter if you are a playboy or a lazy person, why do you have to pick Gao Mingyue?!"

"Wang Shoucai is not content with his lot. He has planted his own people in many of the Shen family's businesses. Zhou Bo is even more ambitious and has been secretly contacting warlords in the provincial capital. If I were not still alive, could you suppress them? Who would obey a loser like you? How many days can these lamps in the Shen Mansion stay lit?!" Shen Jishi's neck muscles bulged, and he shouted with a pale face, "Do you know that Zhou Bo dared to go to your mother's place when I was away...!"

"Shen Jishi, shut up!" Yin Wan'er interrupted with a stern roar.

"We have an alliance with the Guo family, and the Gao family is related to us. In the future, one of them is a scholar and the other is a warrior, and they can be a perfect match for a loser like you." Shen Jishi cursed viciously, "You just wanted to have a good time, and you pushed these two people away. You have ruined all my plans in recent years."

"Don't blame me for everything. Don't do this again, Shen Jishi!" Shen Yuan, who had always been cowardly, completely collapsed after learning that Mingyue was killed by Guo Ying in Xishan. He stood up suddenly, clenched his fists and shouted, "Don't keep saying it's for me! Is a waste like me worth your hard work? Have you ever recognized me as your son from the bottom of your heart? No, you haven't at all. In other words, you look down on everyone in this family."

"The reason you did so much, planned carefully, and played tricks, is because you are just afraid. That's right, you are too afraid, because you have done too many bad things and don't believe in the goodness of human nature. You are on guard against Wang Shoucai and Zhou Bo just because you are afraid that they will follow your example. Killing your senior brother, destroying the Taoist temple, and burning more than 20 people in Xiao Ke's family with a fire!"

"You have been having a nightmare and you will never wake up, Shen Jishi!"

"In order to consolidate your position, you forced me to marry Guo Ying, but you don't care what kind of person she is. You are the one who created the current situation...!"

"...!"

He shouted out everything that was on his mind.

Shen Jishi was shaking all over when he heard this, and his face flushed with anger. He turned his head and looked around, then picked up the kettle on the stove and cursed, "You beast, I'm going to kill you!"

"Oh!"

With a dull thud, the teapot hit Shen Yuan's forehead, and the scalding boiling water splashed and flowed over half of his cheek.

"what!!!"

Shen Yuan let out a heart-wrenching howl, covered his face, and fell on his back.

"son!"

Yin Wan'er was stunned for a long time before she reacted. She suddenly stood up and rushed towards Shen Yuan.

"Don't bother with him, let him die." Shen Jishi was stunned for a while, still roaring with anger.

"Oh!"

Yin Wan'er pushed Shen Jishi away, pinched his neck like crazy, and shouted ferociously: "Shen Jishi, you are a beast! Do you still have any humanity?!"

If it were any other time, Shen Jishi would have slapped her in the face, but at this moment, as he looked at his wife, he showed rare tolerance and concession.

He gently pushed away Yin Wan'er's arm and whispered, "You and Jiansheng are cousins. I won't see him, so it's better for you to go. I can agree to any conditions, but I can't touch Guo Ying, at least not now."

The two looked at each other for a while, then Yin Wan'er withdrew her hateful gaze and threw herself at her son, crying.

In mid-air, Ren Ye, who existed with consciousness, let out a long sigh, and then saw the surrounding scene rotating.

A moment later, he appeared in the underground secret room again, and the reminder of the star gate sounded in his mind.

[Congratulations to the Qingliangfu Park team for discovering important clues and receiving a 1000-point reward. ]

……

Half an hour later, dawn broke.

On a ferry heading to Qijia Town, three little heads slowly moved towards Ren Ye.

"Tell me, what exactly happened?" Old Liu asked, stretching his neck.

"Yes, yes, I am also very curious." Xu Qingzhao also nodded in agreement.

"Ugh."

Ren Ye leaned on the board with a slightly tired look on his face, and said in a hoarse voice: "I know, I know everything. This is such a sad story."

"You fucking know it again." A Pu rolled his eyes.

"Okay." Ren Ye slowly sat up straight and said seriously, "Earlier, I always used Shen Jishi as the core to develop the story's associations. After all, the relationship between the Desire Village and him is too important and there are too many connections. But the facts prove that I fell into a blind spot in my thinking."

The three of them listened quietly.

"I won't go into details about the emotional entanglement between Shen Yuan, Guo Ying, and Gao Mingyue, because Lao Liu has explained it clearly to everyone before." Ren Ye continued, "I will only talk about what happened after Gao Mingyue's death. In order not to push Guo Litao away, Shen Jishi decided to help him deal with the matter and temporarily protect Guo Ying. In addition, he was too angry in the inner hall, so he hit his son with a kettle, causing Shen Yuan to be disfigured. This is the real scene I saw in Yin Wan'er's memory just now."

"and then?"

"Then comes the most crucial point. Just now, I have been trying to figure out Gao Jiansheng's mentality. How would he react when he learned that his daughter was tortured to death?" Ren Ye frowned and said, "From the point of view that he was able to hold a ghost marriage for his daughter, he undoubtedly loves his child very much, even to the point of being perverted. Judging from this character, he absolutely cannot tolerate Guo Ying still living in this world."

"Yes, that's what I wanted to say too." Old Liu nodded.

"I just saw in my memory that Shen Jishi asked her to talk to Gao Jiansheng because his wife was related to him." Ren Ye licked his cracked lips: "But I guess their talk broke down and they even had a fierce quarrel. It was from this time that Gao Jiansheng hated and loathed Yin Wan'er so much that he even kidnapped and raped her, treating his cousin like an animal."

“???!” A Pu was stunned for a long time: “You mean, Gao Jiansheng kidnapped Yin Waner?”

"Yes, it must be him." Ren nodded.

"Do you have evidence?" asked Lao Liu.

"Yes, and there are several of them." Ren Ye recalled very attentively: "We were all misled by the clues given by Xingmen before. At Zhou's house, we found the mask and shoe sizes. In addition, Zhou Bo was an old pervert and had always been greedy for Yin Wan'er's beauty, so we instinctively thought that he was the one who kidnapped Yin Wan'er. But the facts have proved that speculation without direct evidence is the most prone to error. Men's height and body shape are similar, so the shoe size is likely to be the same. And even if the height and body shape are different, the shoe size of people of the same age is very likely to be the same. This can't actually be used as direct evidence. I was too impatient before. As for the clue of the mask, it is the most disgusting..."

"Why do you say that?"

"Zhou Bo has set up a shelf at home, and it's right in front of the study. In other words, his hobby of collecting various masks is actually no secret." Ren also raised his eyebrows and said, "Maybe ordinary people don't know, but the servants and people close to him must know. This must include Lao Gao."

"So...you mean...Mr. Gao deliberately wore a mask to frame others?" Old Liu's eyes were bright and he grasped the key point instantly.

"One is to frame someone, and the other is to take revenge on Yin Wan'er. Because as I said just now, the talks between them must have broken down, and it broke down badly." Ren Ye looked at the three of them: "Why did the talks break down? Because there are two potential emotions that are very dangerous."

"Tell me more about it."

"First, Shen Yuan was disfigured, and Yin Wan'er, who doted on her son, was emotionally unstable. Second, you have to understand what role Gao Jiansheng played." Ren Ye said word by word, "He is the fastest knife in Shen Jishi's hand. He is doing the dirtiest work, but has the lowest status among the brothers, and he has to hide his relationship with Yin Wan'er. With such silent dedication, my daughter's head was smashed alive. Then, Shen Jishi, should you seek justice for me?"

After the voice fell, the three of them were silent for a long time, and then they all nodded.

"There are two important pieces of evidence that Gao Jiansheng kidnapped Yin Wan'er. First, in the earliest news we received, the night watchman said that he had seen more than once a masked man who often returned to the Wrath Village from the direction of the Passion Village late at night. If it was Zhou Bo, why did he always come to the Wrath Village? Xu Bangzi pointed out a small path for us, and that path was told to him by Gao Jiansheng, which happened to be able to secretly travel back and forth between the two villages. Second, it's the hand problem. This is what Lao Liu told me, right?"

"Yes." Old Liu nodded and said, "Gao Jiansheng... is actually left-handed, but he pretends most of the time. He only reveals it when he is relaxed or excited. For example, when he trapped me with an illusion that day, he used his left hand to hold the Styx Aquarius. You know, when people fight, they instinctively use their dominant hand. Also, when he lifted his daughter's veil, he was very excited and used his left hand."

"It fits perfectly, without any loopholes." A Pu let out a long sigh, feeling an inexplicable sense of accomplishment in his heart.

Although he was not the one who deduced the story, he participated in the entire process of restoring the truth and made great contributions.

Ren Ye rubbed his palms together. After a long silence, he suddenly said, "I have another bold guess, and the probability of it being wrong is zero."

"what?"

"In fact, Wang Shoucai and Zhou Bo were the ones who organized the incident, but Gao Jiansheng was the one who fanned the flames." Ren Ye looked at the three of them, "Why do you speculate like this? It's because of the kidnapping of Yin Wan'er. I said, he was not only seeking revenge, but also trying to frame someone. The gossip about Zhou Bo and Yin Wan'er is circulating throughout the Love Village... And Shen Jishi doesn't care about it on the surface, but he feels very uncomfortable or humiliated in his heart. So, if Yin Wan'er disappears at this time, who will everyone think of?"

"I understand, I know everything." Old Liu imitated Ren Ye's tone: "What Old Gao did was equivalent to roasting Zhou Bo on the fire. Even if he had a hundred mouths, he couldn't dispel Shen Jishi's suspicion of him. Therefore, Zhou Bo frequently contacted Wang Shoucai and was forced to rebel. Because even if he didn't rebel... Shen Jishi would think that he dared to kidnap Yin Wan'er, so he must be doing something."

"Yes." Ren also nodded.

"Then why do we need to investigate the population of the Love Village?" asked A Pu.

"Because Lao Liu and I went to the Gao Family Ancestral Hall that day and saw a number tablet. I felt very strange at the time, but later I thought it through." Ren also looked up outside the boat: "This also indirectly proves that it was Gao Jiansheng who secretly fanned the flames and caused the bloody case in the Desire Village. Because for so many years, his conscience... was also uneasy. Offering a tablet is more like a kind of atonement like covering one's ears and stealing the bell."

After he finished speaking, Ren Ye saw that Qijia Town was within reach. He whispered, "That number is equally important to Shen Yuan. Because all this was caused by him not being able to resist his lust and having sex with Gao Mingyue, so... he is the original sin of Qijia Town, not Shen Jishi."

As they were talking, the ferry stopped at the Qijia Town Pier.

The four of them got off the boat and headed straight for the Jieyu Center, facing the rising sun.

In the abstinence center, Tang Feng looked up at the white cloth hanging from the chandelier and said with a very good attitude, "It's impossible for me to be a lost person, and it's impossible for me to have feelings for the wall. If I can't find out, I will hang myself, and even Jesus can't stop me. I say it!"

……

hours ago.

After Gao Jiansheng finished speaking in the hut at the pier of Bao Nu Village, Guo Litao added to the other families, "You all thought that it was Lao Zhou and Lao Wang who caused the bloody night, but it was actually Gao Jiansheng who secretly fanned the flames. After the marriage was cancelled, Lao Wang was worried, and many of his men were eliminated. You thought it was Shen Jishi who was ready to remove Nong, but I guess that many of these people were secretly eliminated by Lao Gao. No one is better than him at doing dirty work and framing others."

Everyone was stunned.

Gao Jiansheng looked up at the ceiling, and his mind instantly recalled the scene when he went to Shen's house to find Shen Jishi on the day after Gao Mingyue's death.