Huo Shaoheng looked at her without batting an eyelid. Although he was greatly shocked, he didn't show it on his face.
However, the other spectators did not have such good self-control and self-restraint.
"Your nagging attitude is really disgusting." Chen Lie mocked her rudely. "They're a loving couple. What does that have to do with an ugly freak like you?"
Gu Yanran's face turned as red as pig's blood.
She was about to retort when Huo Shaoheng said calmly, "You have a murder case on you. Tell me honestly how you killed … Little Nianzhi. — Leniency for those who confess, severity for those who resist. "
At this moment, Huo Shaoheng finally understood what He Zhichu's text meant when he said, "If you want to avenge Little Nianzhi, kill Gu Yanran for her life."
Did He Zhichu already know about this "Little Nianzhi"?
However, he didn't say a word. He even deliberately led everyone's attention and hinted that the amnesiac Gu Nianzhi beside them was Gu Xiangwen's daughter.
Huo Shaoheng's expression froze. He immediately asked Gu Yanran, "When did you meet He Zhichu?"
"… Three years. Oh, no, it should be four years ago … Why?" Gu Yanran was confused.
"You only met her four years ago?" Huo Shaoheng was surprised. "The He and Gu families aren't family friends?"
"I don't know. You have to ask Gu Xiangwen. Unfortunately, he's already dead. "Gu Yanran shrugged, looking numb.
In other words, what the nanny said was most likely true.
Huo Shaoheng frowned. Could it be that little He Zhichu and his father had really died not long after they left the small town of Uyuni in Bolivia?
If that was the case, Professor He would be even more troublesome to deal with.
As Huo Shaoheng pondered, he said to Gu Yanran, "Tell me about how you murdered Little Nianzhi."
Gu Yanran didn't want to say it, but when Huo Shaoheng narrowed his eyes, she couldn't help but remember the fear of being tortured with electrodes.
He closed his eyes and resigned himself to his fate.
She could tell that Huo Shaoheng was on the verge of exploding, even though he appeared calm.
However, the man's calmness on the surface couldn't conceal the bloodthirsty coldness in his eyes.
It could also be that people had a special desire to talk before they died. Gu Yanran began to confess her crimes while trembling with fear.
"I don't like Gu Nianzhi. I haven't liked her since I was young."
"She is so ugly, has a bad temper, and is not in good health, but they all like her."
"Compared to her, I'm the dog's tail grass in the corner, and she's the rose in the garden."
"Tsk, it's just a dead rose."
"However, I was the only one who accompanied her since she was young, and she listened to everything I said. I told her to go east, but she didn't dare to go west … "
A sickly smile appeared on Gu Yanran's face.
Chen Lie couldn't take it anymore. "You just said that Little Nianzhi has a bad temper, but now she's obedient to you. If you tell her to go east, she won't dare to go west!"
"So, does she have a good temper, or are you making it up to smear her name?"
Gu Yanran choked and turned her head to say, "She used to have a bad temper, but after we got to know each other better, she … she became very obedient."
"In short, you can't escape the blame for smearing her name." Chen Lie's face darkened. "I don't want to listen to such a meaningless and illogical confession. I'll go out first."
Huo Shaoheng nodded. "Close the door."
After Chen Lie left, Zhao Liangze and Yin Shixiong were still in the cabin.
The two of them were more well-behaved and had been recording and listening from the side. They weren't as sarcastic and questioning as Chen Lie.
Chen Lie left angrily. Gu Yanran restrained herself and didn't say anything else to slander Little Nianzhi.
She lowered her head and twisted the corner of her shirt with one hand. She continued, "Later, news came from Japan that they had already hijacked Gu Xiangwen's plane. I acted according to plan and took her to the submarine … "
She stopped talking after she finished speaking.
Huo Shaoheng was already clear about the situation in Japan. He was only concerned about Gu Nianzhi's whereabouts.
After waiting for a while, seeing that Gu Yanran still didn't speak, Huo Shaoheng could only ask calmly, "What happened after entering the submarine?"
Gu Yanran looked up at him. "Don't you already know?"
"We need you to say it again. Why did you choose the location of the submarine's sinking in the blue hole? Why was there an electric fence there? "
Huo Shaoheng asked one by one.
Gu Yanran was scared out of her wits by his electrode torture. As long as he asked, she would subconsciously speak.
"… I chose the blue hole because I knew there was an electric fence there. Gu Xiangwen is a very powerful person. He said that there seemed to be something wrong with the blue hole. I don't remember clearly. It was probably a magnetic field or something … "
Huo Shaoheng's heart skipped a beat. It was a magnetic field again.
Song Jinning had also said that she had detected the residual energy of a super strong magnetic field here.
Also, the day Gu Nianzhi appeared in C City, there was also an abnormal magnetic field.
Thinking of this, Huo Shaoheng felt that it was necessary to go back and interrogate Bai Jinyi.
Seven years ago, Bai Jinyi had suddenly said that there was a special magnetic field somewhere in C City. She didn't seem to have mentioned her source of information..
It was obvious that Bai Jinyi was hiding something.
She had been sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for murdering Huo Shaoheng's uncle, Huo Guanyuan's wife, Luo Xinxue. It had already been a year.
If this matter hadn't been exposed, no one would have known what she had hidden after she was executed.
Huo Shaoheng's mind raced. He had already determined his target when he returned to the country, but he was still looking at Gu Yanran quietly.
Gu Yanran continued, "… I just need to get the submarine to the blue hole and let it sink. No one will find out."
"Because trespassing into this place will trigger the electric fence."
"I've seen the electric fence activated once. It was very scary."
She looked up at Huo Shaoheng. "You've seen it once too."
That time, she had almost taken Gu Nianzhi's life.
Huo Shaoheng couldn't help but recall that in order to save them, she had risked her life to enter and exit the blue hole several times when the electric fence was shining brightly.
Did she know that she and Little Nianzhi had brushed past each other here?
Did she feel that Little Nianzhi, who was related to her, was also sleeping at the bottom of this sea when she was on the verge of death?
This kind of association was like a sharp blade, stabbing at him again and again. It was as if it wanted to dig out his heart, cut it into pieces, and scatter it in this sea.
Gu Yanran was very afraid when she saw Huo Shaoheng's face suddenly turn ashen. She quickly said, "… That's right. I can't tell anyone that she's dead. I can only say that she's missing."
Because if she said that Little Nianzhi was dead, she had to hand over the body.
If she couldn't hand over the body, how could she say that she was dead?
Only the murderer could say with certainty that the victim was dead without seeing the body.
Of course, Gu Yanran didn't want to be accused of being a murderer.
She was just waiting for seven years. After Little Nianzhi had disappeared for seven years, she would be able to accept the Gu family's assets.
Gu Yanran pursed her lips and said, "… Four years ago, I met Professor He and his assistant, Wen Shouyi, in the United States. I hired Lawyer Wen to represent me."
"… They were the ones who encouraged me to go to the Huaxia Empire to find a backer."
She regretted it so much that her intestines turned green.
She actually didn't need a backer, but He Zhichu and Wen Shouyi had encouraged her. In addition, the Japanese felt that it was a good idea for her to go to the Huaxia Empire. She could help them gather more information about the upper class of the Huaxia Empire, so they agreed to let her contact the Huaxia Secret Service.
Now that she thought about it, if she hadn't gone to the Huaxia Empire, she wouldn't have met the fake Gu Nianzhi, and she wouldn't have provoked Huo Shaoheng and caused all this trouble that would cause her to die a tragic death!
Huo Shaoheng recalled the first time Gu Yanran saw Gu Nianzhi. He said calmly, "The first time you saw Nianzhi, you didn't recognize her."
Gu Yanran shook her head with a bitter smile. "When I first heard her name, I was so scared that I almost went crazy. But when I saw her face again, I was relieved. I thought it was just someone with the same name. "
"Why?" Huo Shaoheng asked very carefully. He didn't want to miss any clues related to Gu Nianzhi.
Gu Yanran cried out involuntarily, "Can't you tell? What was Nianzhi like when she was young?! How could she grow up to be so beautiful?! "
Not only was she beautiful, but she was also tall and curvy. She was many times better than the figure that Gu Yanran had once been proud of.
Gu Yanran was deeply jealous. She didn't believe that the fake Gu Nianzhi had anything to do with the real Little Nianzhi.
"It wasn't until later that I found out that she actually claimed to be Gu Xiangwen's biological daughter and wanted to compete with me for the family property!" Gu Yanran said hatefully. "How dare she?! She could even fake DNA! "
"So, you still think that Nianzhi's DNA test was fake." Huo Shaoheng crossed his arms in deep thought. "Actually, her DNA test with Little Nianzhi shows that they are Gu Xiangwen's biological daughters. There's nothing fake about it. Are you sure that Gu Xiangwen really didn't have twins? "
"Absolutely not. That's impossible. "Gu Yanran was firm." The little girl in the submarine is the real Gu Nianzhi. Huo Shaoheng, you've recognized the wrong person and fallen in love with the wrong person. Doesn't your conscience hurt after doing so much for a fake?! "
Huo Shaoheng moved his fingers and resisted the urge to slap Gu Yanran to death. He turned around and said, "Take her away and temporarily detain her for espionage and murder."
..
He left the Caribbean Sea with the salvage ship and came to the high seas. There, he handed over the small submarine to the Huaxia Empire's warship and sent it back to the country. Yin Shixiong specially escorted it.
Huo Shaoheng returned to Barbados with the rest of the people and took the special plane that was parked in Barbados to return home first.
As soon as he returned to the imperial capital, Huo Shaoheng ordered someone to call Ye Xuan.
In order to confirm Little Nianzhi's identity, Huo Shaoheng also wanted other evidence besides DNA.
Ye Xuan heard that they had found the body of a little girl in the blue hole of the Caribbean Sea and immediately came to the special operations forces.
He sat in the small conference room and saw the situation inside the small submarine on the big screen. He also saw the little girl lying quietly on the pink princess bed.
Ye Xuan's tears burst out.
He covered his face and sobbed silently. He choked and said, "… Yes, this is the Little Nianzhi in my memories."
"She doesn't like to write, and she doesn't like to talk much."
"I mentioned these little matchstick men to her when I was chatting with her on the Internet."
"She likes them very much … I should have known that I had the wrong person …"
"She drew a lot of pictures of me online, and they were all like this … Later, I thought Gu Yanran was her, and I even asked her why she stopped drawing matchstick figures. She said her sister didn't allow her to draw them …"
"I also thought that her sister was too overbearing. Because she didn't like her sister, she didn't even allow her to draw her favorite matchstick figures."
"Later, something happened to Uncle Gu. I heard that Little Nianzhi had disappeared, and Gu Yanran was the only one left to support the huge family fortune. It was difficult to support it alone, so I came back to help her."
Ye Xuan spoke intermittently about what had happened back then. He was extremely regretful about his choice and mistake.
Huo Shaoheng listened expressionlessly from the side and suddenly said, "Did you realize that you loved the wrong person and regret it?"
Ye Xuan's eyes reddened and he nodded heavily. "Of course I regret it. I regret it so much! Little Nianzhi and I have known each other since we were young. But Gu Yanran made me think that she was the little girl who saved me and chatted with me online. "
"Do you want to see Gu Yanran?" Huo Shaoheng folded his hands and placed them on the desk in front of him. His voice was calm and his tone was flat.
Ye Xuan shook his head decisively and said with a look of disdain, "… Why haven't you shot her yet? She has done so many wrong things, committed so many crimes, and even killed a child. How can you let her get away with it?! "
Huo Shaoheng knocked on the desk. "Let me correct you. We didn't let her get away with it. She has always been in our custody. It's just that there are still some things that haven't been closed, so we haven't shot her yet. "
"You mean, you'll shoot her?!" Ye Xuan looked up abruptly, and his eyes lit up. "If that day comes, can you let me watch the execution?!"
"… Why?" Huo Shaoheng suddenly felt that Ye Xuan had quite a heavy taste …
"I want to see how she dies." Ye Xuan snorted. "Then, I want to draw her fate into a matchstick figure and burn it for Little Nianzhi to see."
Huo Shaoheng was silent. He couldn't refuse this request.
This man was supposed to be the only man who truly treated Little Nianzhi well other than Gu Xiangwen, right?
If Huo Shaoheng's guess was right, this Ye Xuan might be the "son-in-law" that Gu Xiangwen had specially chosen for Little Nianzhi.
"If that day comes, I'll let you know." Huo Shaoheng was very conflicted. After all, he already treated Gu Xiangwen as his "father-in-law", but this had suddenly happened …
He stood up and finally said, "Everything you said and did here today has been recorded. Do you mind if I show it to others?"
Ye Xuan was stunned. "I didn't say anything illegal just now, did I?"
The corners of Huo Shaoheng's mouth twitched. "No, don't worry. This is your privacy. Even if there's something wrong, it won't be used as evidence in court."
Ye Xuan breathed a sigh of relief. "That's up to you. I believe you'll know what to do. "
After hesitating for a while, he finally asked, "… According to the video you showed me, Little Nianzhi died seven years ago. Then the … woman beside you, who is she? Why is she also called Gu Nianzhi? And I remember you saying that she's also Uncle Gu's daughter. You've done a DNA test. The DNA isn't fake, right? "
Anyone who knew the 19-year-old Gu Nianzhi would have this question when they saw the 12-year-old Little Nianzhi's body, right?
Huo Shaoheng didn't know how to explain it.
He thought about it for a long time and finally said, "… We're investigating."
To be exact, he was waiting for the results of the DNA sequence comparison from Chen Lie.
Ye Xuan was silent for a moment, then said, "Where's Little Nianzhi's body? Can I see her? "
"She's not back yet." Huo Shaoheng put his hands in his trouser pockets and looked like he was seeing him off. "When she comes back, I'll take you to see her."
"Thank you." Ye Xuan nodded at him. "I have one more request. I hope I can bury her with Uncle Gu and Auntie Gu."
Huo Shaoheng: "…"
"She's Uncle Gu and Auntie Gu's daughter. She was only 12 years old when she died. She was alone at the bottom of the sea for so many years. She must miss her parents so much …"
Ye Xuan choked up again. "I beg you, Major General Huo …"
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This was today's chapter of 4,500 words: Chapter 1457, "Once Brushed Shoulders".
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