dead innocent

The interrogation of He Cheng finally kicked off today.

Chu Xingyun washed his face in the bathroom, and the feeling of deja vu brought him back to the day in the hospital, when He Cheng was sent to the emergency room, and he was anxiously waiting outside the door.

The truth that he has been pressing He Cheng may come to light today, and it is also the truth that He Cheng has been hiding from him. He Cheng is like his guide, although he does not have a weapon in his hand, but he has the courage and courage to go forward. He Cheng led him all the way through mountains of swords and seas of fire, bypassing the trap of Jailwu, and came to a deep forest surrounded by fire that never returned, and asked him one last time: "Are you sure you want to go in?"

Yes, Chu Xingyun is very sure that he will step into the forest fire, as long as he nods, He Cheng, who cut off the way for him, will also step into the dangerous forest with him.

He understands that everything He Cheng has done so far is for him. In order to stand with him, He Cheng also became a rebel. If he is rebelling against the power, then He Cheng is rebelling against himself. He is not considered great, because he has nothing to lose even if the uprising fails, but He Cheng is different from him. He Cheng has the power, wealth, and status representing a class. He Cheng is the only one.

These things are not unexpected to He Cheng. On the contrary, Chu Xingyun feels that he is too clear. He Cheng has always had an account in his heart. For more than ten years, he has been drawing pictures in his heart, writing and calculating, and weighing the balance of profit and loss in the account book. One end is Chu Xingyun, and the other end is everything he owns. Over the years, he has continuously added weight to one end of the balance, but he can't shake the weight of Chu Xingyun in his heart at all. One side is as heavy as Mount Tai, and the other side is as light as a feather. The side that is inclined in the heart will always point to Chu Xingyun.

Chu Xingyun looked at his face in the mirror of the bathroom, trying to find something special about his face, so special that He Cheng would not hesitate to put all his chips on him, even if he fell into a desperate situation with nothing, he would never back down. Where he can't.

But he found that there was nothing special about him. At best, his appearance was slightly pleasing to the eye, but it was not pleasing to the eye. Even Yang Shu couldn't stand with him. It can be seen that there is nothing in his personality that can attract people to be with him. The shining point of Shou, he is stubborn, tough, ignorant of good and bad, not knowing how to advance and retreat, always putting himself in danger of narrow escape, except for that point of perseverance and courage that is not commendable, he really doesn't know what is attractive about him like.

Why does He Cheng... like him.

Perhaps the three people in the living room saw that he hadn't come out for a long time, so Yang Kaitai called him: "Captain, are you okay?"

Chu Xingyun turned off the faucet that was running water, wiped his wet hands casually on his body, walked out of the bathroom and returned to the living room.

He Cheng changed his position and sat on a single sofa, while Yang Kaitai and Fu Yi sat on the couch on the left and right of him.

He Cheng crossed his legs and asked him, "What are you doing inside?"

Chu Xingyun ignored him, sat down next to Yang Kaitai in the nearest place, looked at Fu Yi opposite and asked: "Have you started yet?"

Fu Yidao: "You should ask."

Interrogating He Cheng in front of Chu Xingyun, he always had the feeling of a mistress entering the room to question the main room, feeling uncomfortable and embarrassed everywhere.

There was a glass of white water in front of He Cheng, Chu Xingyun picked it up and drank a few sips, then put the glass aside, watching He Cheng get straight to the center of the question: "Who is the person behind Xia Xinghan?"

He Cheng had already prepared and fulfilled the promise he made to Chu Xingyun in the hospital that day - as long as you have the ability to find out to the end, I will tell you what I know.

So he replied: "It should be, Jiang Zhaonan."

Hearing Jiang Zhaonan's name from his mouth, although Chu Xingyun had a premonition, he still couldn't help but feel cold for a moment. The power behind Jiang Zhaonan is too great, almost rivaling the He family. Jiang Zhaonan's father is still in the party and Among the national leadership team, the family's political achievements are no less than the He family's more than 40 years of deep roots.

"Should? Are you not sure?"

He Cheng picked up the cup he had put down, looked at the slight water marks in the cup, and said, "I'm just speculating like you, and I can't confirm it."

Chu Xingyun stared at him closely: "Then why do you suspect it is Jiang Zhaonan?"

He Cheng leaned back slightly into the back of the chair, because there was still an injury on his back, so he didn't dare to use force, his eyes drooped, and he said lightly: "Didn't you ask me why Sun Shibin has my fingerprints? I told you at that time I met him at the wine table, and now I can tell you that it was in Jiang Zhaonan's game."

I see--

Chu Xingyun: "Who else?"

He Cheng raised his eyes and said lazily, "Huh?" ' with a sound.

Chu Xingyun's eyes suddenly became a little weird, a little intriguing, and asked: "Who else is in that wine game?"

The corners of He Cheng's lips twitched, he adjusted his sitting posture to avoid his eyes, coughed lowly under his gaze, and said without confidence: "Xia Xinghan."

Chu Xingyun nodded and said with a smile: "So you took Xia Xinghan away, so that he had the opportunity to take your fingerprints. It was Xia Xinghan who actually took your fingerprints, not Sun Shibin, right?"

He Cheng finally realized what it was like to be interrogated by a criminal policeman with keen insight. He didn't realize it before, but it was because he was magnanimous in his heart. Now he is not magnanimous at all, and even has a guilty conscience, so he naturally bowed down to Chu Xingyun's. Under the prestige.

"Actually I didn't—"

Chu Xingyun suddenly felt very confident. He lay back on the back of the chair and raised his arms on the back of the sofa. Da Ma Jindao was sitting like a bandit leader. He interrupted him as if he had never heard of it: "Sun Shibin is from Jiang Zhaonan. person?"

He Cheng made a mistake first, and at this time acted like he was acting intentionally, and answered quickly: "I don't know, I only know that Sun Shibin is the account manager of Huaxia Bank, Jiang Zhaonan's father is the major shareholder of Huaxia Bank, and Jiang Zhaonan met privately. Sun Shibin, there must be a connection between them, and it is a connection that cannot be shown on the surface."

"Are you saying that the unknown 3.8 million yuan is Jiang Zhaonan's money?"

He Cheng smiled disdainfully, rubbed the wall of the cup lightly with his thumb, and said, "He doesn't have so much money, let me tell you a secret."

Seeing something unusual in his eyes, Chu Xingyun hurriedly sat upright: "What secret?"

He Chengdao: "Jiang's family has a big business, but Jiang Zhaonan didn't participate in politics or do business, but was an idle young master. Even Zou Yuheng was richer and more powerful than him. , everyone knows that he is the poorest one, so far his assets are only the Green Park Resort in the northern suburbs, let alone more than 3 million, he can't even get 300 million."

Chu Xingyun looked at him: "It's not his money, is it?"

He Cheng nodded slightly, and said, "It's their family's money."

Chu Xingyun's eyes widened for a moment: "He joined with Sun Shibin to transfer his family's money?"

"You can use 'steal'."

He Cheng smiled slightly, and his tone was full of sarcasm and indifference: "He has a criminal record. Four years ago, he secretly sold two summer houses in Hainan, and used the money from the villas to buy the rose that Zou Yuheng was building on Ludan Mountain. The manor, although the Rose Manor belongs to Zou Yuheng in name, but everyone in the know knows that the real owner of the Rose Manor is him."

Rose Manor?

Chu Xingyun ignores the transactions between these sons and brothers for the time being, and finds the key clue: "Is Rose Manor his?"

"Yes."

"Then only he knows who will be at the banquet on May [-]th?"

There was a faint cold star in He Cheng's eyes, and he said lightly, "What did you guess?"

Chu Xingyun looked into his eyes and suddenly felt nervous. The curtain was opened layer by layer, and the devil hiding behind the curtain finally revealed the tip of the iceberg.

Before expressing his conjecture, Chu Xingyun asked a crucial question: "What's the matter with that mask?"

He Cheng lowered his eyes, gently rubbing the rim of the glass held in his palm, the thin wall of the glass was like a blade.

His fingertips walked around the blade twice, and finally stopped at the place where Chu Xingyun's lips touched just now, and said in a deep voice: "Jiang Zhaonan gave it to me."

"Give it to you?"

"Ah."

Chu Xingyun suddenly stopped speaking, and He Cheng had already thought about how to defend himself, but he waited for nothing.

After waiting for a long time for Chu Xingyun to ask questions, he looked up and saw that the place where Chu Xingyun sat just now was empty.

The sun is shining today, the air is dry, and the corridor under the eaves is still full of crabapple flowers. Mansion No. [-] has been idle for a long time, and only Jiang Ma stayed behind. In order to make up for the empty courtyard, the courtyard is full of flowers. Lush and rich in fragrance, it is like a quiet place isolated from the world. Those tricks and disturbances wandering in the dark night are diluted by the sunlight and washed away by the fragrance of flowers. It seems that just standing in the corridor can get a moment of cleanliness.

In the yard, Jiang Ma and Liu Meng were tidying up a hibiscus tree. The vine roses beside the wall were growing so vigorously that they had covered the two adjacent walls. Many flower vines were looking for supports to cling to. A hibiscus flower in the southwest corner The tree became the best choice, the flower vines twisted around the trunk, engulfed the trunk in a blink of an eye, and attacked the flower branches.

If there is no human intervention, the hibiscus tree will be covered by this vigorous vine, just like a person whose throat is choked, and can only be reduced to a breeding ground for the same kind. With the help of Liu Meng, Jiang Ma planted the hibiscus tree A wooden frame carefully grafted the flower vines attached to the hibiscus tree to the wooden frame, and at the same time built a low fence for the hibiscus tree to prevent it from becoming the target of Qiangwei's attack in the future.

Chu Xingyun walked under the eaves of the door and stood in the corridor. The scent of crabapple flowers immediately covered his trousers. He leaned on the door and yelled at Liu Meng, asking him to plant the wooden frame more firmly. This kid At first glance, this kind of work has never been done before, the soil is loose and loose, and the wooden frame is crumbling when the wind blows in the yard.

He Cheng walked up to him, leaned his back against the door frame on the other side, and said to him, "You can keep asking, I'll tell you everything."

Chu Xingyun pulled his gaze back from the yard and placed it on a few pots of begonias under the porch, his eyes fluttered and trembled with the flowers, and said in a deep voice: "I need you to assure me that there is no deeper relationship between you and Jiang Zhaonan. "

He Cheng understood that Chu Xingyun had identified Jiang Zhaonan as a suspect of Duke Butterfly, and he was worried whether he would become that hibiscus tree, touched and invaded by roses like a sky net, if he pulled out the roses by the roots, he would be able to Whether they can escape safely and safely, or they will be torn and hooked by the rose vines full of poisonous thorns, and pay a more tragic price.

Chu Xingyun is worried about him, and he is also Chu Xingyun's only concern in Jiang Zhaonan's case.

"You want to ask, why I knew he was the 'Duke Butterfly', but kept it from you and didn't expose it?"

Chu Xingyun took a deep breath and said, "Why?"

He Cheng looked at his side face, which was clearly worried but pretended to be calm, and said, "I don't know."

Chu Xingyun turned his head and stared at him in an instant, his eyes were puzzled and deep.

He Cheng smiled slightly, and said calmly: "I really don't know what his other identity is. As for that mask, if Xia Xinghan doesn't steal it and show it to me again, I'll forget about the existence of that mask , the mask was given to me by Jiang Zhaonan, and I didn't realize until a few days ago that the mask is not a gift, nor is it a status symbol for me, but an invitation."

"What invitation letter?"

"An invitation to join them, to share identity."

"them?"

He Cheng looked at him and said firmly, "I suspect that Duke Butterfly is a group."

Whether it is a group or not, it is not important to Chu Xingyun now. At this moment, he is concerned about one thing, "Are you involved?"

He Cheng: ...

Having said so much in vain, this guy is still stubborn.

He Cheng said coldly: "If I participate, will I help you destroy myself?"

Chu Xingyun looked at him straight and sharply: "It's possible."

He Cheng's patience was exhausted in an instant. He found that Chu Xingyun was smart because he was smart, but sometimes his focus was extraordinarily curious, and his mind was easy to get stuck, and the focus was completely lost.