With Gu Shao's instructions, Wang Wu and the others did not bring Song Shishan to City B. They only invited him to the county town where Luozang Village was located, to a relatively clean and quiet clubhouse.
When Gu Shao arrived, Song Shishan was sitting in a corner with his back hunched. He was holding a cup of tea tightly in his hands, and his body appeared to be somewhat shriveled.
Sensing that someone had walked in front of him, Song Shishan's body trembled, and a lot of the tea in his hands spilled.
"Someone will clean it up," Gu Shao said, stopping Song Shishan from bending down to wipe the water stains on the floor.
After saying that, Gu Shao sat down opposite Song Shishan.
Seeing the person in front of him, Song Shishan's eyes flashed with a hint of horror.
"You …"
"I'm Gu Shao," Gu Shao introduced himself simply.
"I, I know. I saw you at the village entrance last time with Lin Xi," Song Shishan opened his mouth and said.
However, Gu Shao emphasized seriously, "She's now called Gu Xi."
"Gu Xi …" Song Shishan muttered this name softly, then nodded and said submissively, "She's, she's good."
"Why did you ask me to come here?" Song Shishan asked carefully.
Even though he knew that the person in front of him was Gu Xi's biological father and that they were somewhat related, Song Shishan couldn't help but feel afraid when facing Gu Shao.
Even though he didn't sense any malicious intent from Gu Shao's current expression, it was easy for such a person to bring about a great deal of pressure to others just by sitting in front of him.
Gu Shao didn't say anything. He took a document from Wang Wu behind him and handed it to Song Shishan.
Looking at the document, Song Shishan muttered in his heart. He didn't know what it was, but he had a bad feeling about it.
Song Shishan shook his head and refused, "I, I don't know these words —"
Without waiting for Song Shishan to finish speaking, Gu Shao interrupted him and said, "If you don't know the words, you can look at the pictures."
Hearing this, Song Shishan knew that he couldn't avoid it, so he could only brace himself and take the document from Gu Shao's hands. with trembling hands, he flipped through the document.
Indeed, Song Shishan didn't recognize many of the words on it, but he could understand the few pictures.
The pictures were probably taken from a public surveillance camera, but they weren't the same as the current high-definition surveillance footage — these pictures were still in black and white and were a little blurry.
Song Shishan stared at the pictures and studied them over and over again. Suddenly, his eyes widened, as if he had been frightened, and he threw the 'hot potato' document away.
"This, this is …" Song Shishan's lips trembled, and his face was full of fear.
— — This was the restaurant he went to when he went to B City to look for the Lin family.
Even though more than ten years had passed, Song Shishan still remembered the appearance of this restaurant. If it weren't for the incident that day, he wouldn't have had to hide in Song Family Village for more than ten years.
In the corner of the photo, Song Shishan saw his own figure — — in the photo, he was holding a bag of things and running out of the restaurant in a hurry.
Song Shishan instinctively wanted to run away, but he was pushed back into his seat by the people Gu Shao had brought.
"I don't know about these things, and I don't recognize them," Song Shishan flatly denied.
Gu Shao glanced at him indifferently and said, "If I didn't have some concrete clues, I wouldn't have been able to find you."
After saying that, Gu Shao leaned over and pointed at the photos on the document, then slowly said, "The place in these photos is a restaurant called Hundred Leaves Forest."
"It shows that on this day, there was a very serious violent incident in this private room, right?"
Gu Shao looked at Song Shishan sharply. Seeing that the other party shook his head and didn't say anything, he continued, "In that violent incident, not only were there people injured, there were also two people who were stabbed and lost their vital signs on the spot."
"However, after the incident, someone spent money to seal everyone's mouths and gave the families of the two victims a large sum of money to get them to agree to a private settlement. After that, a car accident was faked, and the deaths of the two victims were faked as accidental deaths. In the end, the whole incident was quietly suppressed …"
Gu Shao's words fell on Song Shishan's mind word by word. What happened at that time kept flashing through Song Shishan's mind, as if it was still vivid in his mind.
Gu Shao looked at Song Shishan quietly and threw out another sentence, "A life for a life."
"Clang!" Song Shishan was so frightened that the cup in his hand fell to the ground.
Gu Shao continued, "And most of the evidence that we have found so far points to you."
Gu Shao's words were the last straw that broke the camel's back.
Song Shishan immediately fell from his chair and shook his head like a madman. He kept saying, "It wasn't me."
"It wasn't me. I really didn't do it. I didn't kill anyone!"
"Then who did it?" Gu Shao asked in a low voice. His calm voice sounded as if he already knew the truth.
"I, I don't know. I don't even know."
Song Shishan still wanted to play dumb, but Gu Shao sneered and said, "It hasn't been more than twenty years since that incident. It's still under investigation. Once you're sued, you won't be able to escape."
"Furthermore," Gu Shao paused and said, "Do you think that intentional murder can be settled privately?"
Gu Shao's words completely scared Song Shishan. He cried and said the truth, "It wasn't me. It was Lin Yize. He deliberately framed me. He killed people and wanted me to take the blame!"
"Evidence?" Gu Shao asked.
"I, I don't have any evidence …" Song Shishan's face was filled with despair. It wasn't that he didn't want to find evidence, but the real evidence had already been destroyed. Now, the fake evidence was all pointing to him.
Song Shishan suddenly looked at Gu Shao as if he had seen a life-saving straw.
Song Shishan wanted to hold Gu Shao back, but Gu Shao dodged him. He impatiently begged, "It really was that Lin guy. He did everything. Please help me."
"I can help you," Gu Shao said.
Hearing this, Song Shishan looked at Gu Shao in surprise.
"Really? You believe me? "Song Shishan asked agitatedly.
Gu Shao didn't say anything. He didn't believe Song Shishan, but he believed what he had investigated. Besides, Song Shishan didn't have the ability to kill those two people.
Thus, Gu Shao said, "If you want me to help you, then you have to tell me the truth."
Hearing this, Song Shishan nodded vigorously. "I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything …"
"What will I tell you?" Song Shishan asked.
"Tell me what you know."
"Okay, okay." Song Shishan nodded and began to recall what had happened in the past.
— —
Song Shishan used to like gambling. Because of that, he owed people a lot of money.
Later, Song Kexin went to the city and hooked up with Lin Yize, a rich man. When he returned to the village, he pulled Zhang Cui and Song Shishan to divorce and cut off all ties with him.
At first, Song Shishan didn't agree. In the end, the Lin family found a group of people who locked Song Shishan up and beat him up. They even broke his legs.
Song Shishan was afraid and had no choice but to sign the divorce agreement.
In order to prevent Song Shishan from going to B City to cause trouble and affect the Lin family's reputation, Song Kexin promised him that after he divorced Zhang Cui, he would give him a living allowance every three months.
At first, it was still on time. Later, Song Kexin's living allowance gradually became irregular. Song Shishan would go to the Lin family or the places where Lin Yize was present to ask for it. He would then make a scene and act shamelessly.
This tactic was very effective.
Once again, Song Shishan was forced into a corner by the debt collectors and had no choice but to go to B City.
From the Lin family's servants, Song Shishan found out that Lin Yize was at a restaurant and went there.
When he arrived, Lin Yize's subordinates didn't chase him away. They just asked him to wait.
Lin Yize was discussing matters with another group of people.
At that time, the Lin family couldn't be compared to the current Lin family. Lin Yize wanted to make the Lin family prosper quickly, so he couldn't avoid getting involved in some dirty business.
Probably because the discussion didn't reach an agreement, the two groups of people started fighting.
Song Shishan peeked from outside. He was a country bumpkin who hadn't studied or seen much of the world. How could he have seen such a scene? Immediately, Song Shishan was scared silly.
"That's right! Those two people who died were Lin Yize's doing! " Song Shishan said, "At that time, the people in the private room were all red-eyed. In the midst of the chaos, several of the other party's subordinates were preparing to attack Lin Yize. Song Shishan saw with his own eyes that Lin Yize expressionlessly stabbed the people near him a few times. Each stab was fatal."
The fighting gradually subsided, and the people at the scene were all locked up in the private room of the restaurant.
Song Shishan wanted to run away, but he was stopped and brought to Lin Yize.
Lin Yize pointed at the two motionless' people 'on the ground and made Song Shishan admit that he had accidentally done it.
Of course, Song Shishan didn't want to admit it, but he was beaten up by Lin Yize's men.
Lin Yize was both threatening and inducing him.
At that time, Song Shishan was already scared silly, and he was terrified of Lin Yize's ruthlessness. His brain wasn't working at all. After hearing Lin Yize's words, promising that nothing would happen to him, and that he would help him pay off his debt, Song Shishan nodded in confusion. He followed the other party's instructions and walked around the scene a few times. He also took the things that the other party gave him, and finally hugged a bag of things and fled from the restaurant in a hurry.
After that, Lin Yize was the one who did all the exercises.
He used money to seal the mouth, cleaned up the real evidence at the scene, and created a so-called 'accident' to clear his name.
As for making Song Shishan take the blame, Lin Yize left a backup plan.
To be on the safe side, he forged evidence pointing at Song Shishan. Even if this case was reopened in the future and clues were found, the only person who would be found to be the murderer would be Song Shishan, and it would have nothing to do with Lin Yize.
Lin Yize's methods were good, and the truth of this case was buried for many years without being discovered.
However, Song Shishan had always lived in fear, afraid that he would be caught and eaten peanuts one day if he showed his face. That was why Song Shishan had been hiding in Song Family Village all these years, not daring to go out.
"It was all Lin Yize's doing. I beg you, please help me," Song Shishan begged Gu Shao.
"Okay," Gu Shao replied, then said, "But I need you to cooperate with Lin Yize."
Hearing this, Song Shishan hesitated for a moment, then decided to retreat.
Lin Yize's ruthlessness when he killed back then still frightened Song Shishan. He did not dare to provoke that devil, let alone confront him in court.
Moreover, the incident from back then had not been discovered. If Gu Shao did not say anything, he could still continue to hide in the village and live in peace.
More than half a generation had passed. For better or worse, Song Shishan just wanted to live.
As if he could see Song Shishan's thoughts, Gu Shao narrowed his eyes and did not say anything else.
Gu Shao picked up the teacup in front of him. He wanted to take a sip of tea, but when he saw that the teacup was not clean, Gu Shao gave up.
Gu Shao silently put the teacup back down. He stood up and glanced at Song Shishan indifferently.
"Fifteen days. You can take your time to think about your choice." With that, Gu Shao turned around and left.
— —
After leaving Luoming County, Gu Shao returned to B City.
As soon as Gu Shao returned home, he saw Gu Xi looking at him eagerly. Her eyes seemed to contain countless questions.
Gu Shao's eyes flashed with helplessness. He entered the house and looked at Gu Xi.
"What do you want to know?" Gu Shao sighed softly in his heart and asked.
Hearing this, Gu Xi blinked twice and said, "So many. Oh, I want to know all of them."
"Sit down." Gu Shao asked Gu Xi to sit on the sofa opposite him.
Seeing Gu Xi sitting obediently in front of him, Gu Shao's expression became more serious. He began to explain to Gu Xi.
"Because of Grandpa's identity in the past, and because the existence of the Gu family in the past affected the interests of some people, the Gu family does indeed have some potential enemies …"
Gu Shao tried to explain the situation of the Gu family as simply as possible to Gu Xi, as well as the identity of Xie Hongbo and Gu Yaobai.
"As for the Lin family …"
"Is it because of me?" Gu Xi asked.
"No."
"Then it's because of that accident back then. Lin Yize felt that his people and you … So he twisted and wanted to take revenge on you?" Gu Xi interrupted.
As soon as she finished speaking, Gu Shao glared at her.
"Don't think about those messy things in your head," Gu Shao said to Gu Xi.
Hearing this, Gu Xi shrank her neck guiltily and felt a little wronged. It was not that she had an unhealthy mind and was talking nonsense, but that was indeed what was written in the novel.
Although in the novel, it was written to emphasize the male lead's deep love for the female lead.
"That person is a pervert to begin with …" Gu Xi muttered softly.
"Xixi."
"Oh, I won't say anymore." Gu Xi covered her mouth symbolically and looked at Gu Shao obediently.
Gu Shao looked at Gu Xi with a headache.
He had not told Gu Xi about these things because it involved some things. Gu Shao felt that it was not appropriate to tell Gu Xi now, but he could not avoid it.
"The Lin family dealt with the Gu family because of their relationship with Gu Yaobai, because of their business interests, and also because of their desire for revenge …" Gu Shao tried his best to be concise and to avoid this part.
"These are some of the situations that our family is facing now." Gu Shao paused and continued, "I'm telling you these things because I don't want you to think about these things all day long. I don't want you to worry about them blindly."
"No matter if it's an enemy you can see or not, you don't have to be afraid. Grandpa, Eldest Uncle, and Youngest Uncle will take care of it."
Seeing Gu Xi nod, Gu Shao continued to tell her about Song Kexin.
Song Kexin wanted Gu Xi to go back to the Lin family several times, and Zhang Cui attacked Gu Xi. There was only one goal: to get Gu Xi to provide Song Kexin with organs.
Gu Shao didn't want Gu Xi to see such a dark side at such a young age. He also didn't want Gu Xi to doubt other family ties because of Song Kexin and Zhang Cui.
However, some things couldn't be hidden. Gu Xi could only protect herself if she knew about these things.
After Gu Shao finished speaking, he looked at Gu Xi nervously. Fortunately, other than a trace of surprise on Gu Xi's face, Gu Shao didn't see any sadness or despair.
— —
Gu Xi was suspicious when she heard from Gu Shao that Song Kexin was sick.
After all, in the part of the novel that she read, Song Kexin didn't have any serious illnesses other than falling sick once, which made the male lead love her even more.
Was the plot of the novel different from reality?
Gu Xi lowered her eyes and muttered in her heart, "Or did this part actually exist, but the novel skipped it and didn't write about it?"
After all, a novel was just a novel. The content that was described was mostly for the sake of the plot. It was impossible to write about every single incident in detail. Therefore, it was possible that the novel skipped the part where Song Kexin's old illness relapsed.
If that was really the case, then how did Song Kexin recover later on?
Gu Xi was still full of doubts about this.
Gu Xi tried her best to recall every detail in the novel.
However, there were too few hints in the novel. Other than the sweet love story between the male and female leads, there was very little else.
There was also very little mention of the dark history of the male and female leads, Lin Xi, in the novel.
However, there did seem to be a plot that mentioned Lin Xi …
Gu Xi's mind flashed. Just as she was about to think of something, her thoughts were interrupted by someone.
— —
After dealing with the aftermath of yesterday's incident, Gu Xuan came over with Cui Min and Gu Chenyi.
As soon as they entered the house, Cui Min ran up to Gu Xi with a nervous expression. "Xixi must have been frightened yesterday. Come, let Auntie take a look."
Although she had repeatedly confirmed that Gu Xi was fine over the phone last night, Cui Min still couldn't help but anxiously examine Gu Xi from head to toe, as if she was afraid that Gu Xi had bumped into a part of her body that hadn't been reported.
"I'm really fine," Gu Xi said to Cui Min with a smile.
Although yesterday's incident was thrilling, Gu Xi was indeed not injured at all.
"It's good that you're fine," Cui Min hugged Gu Xi and patted Gu Xi's back as she comforted her.
Gu Chenyi also wanted to come over.
However, as soon as Gu Chenyi came over, Cui Min slapped him away.
"What are you talking about? Don't touch me," Cui Min said as she glanced at Gu Chenyi.
At this moment, Gu Chenyi was confused and aggrieved. "I just wanted to comfort her …" What's wrong with hugging her?
"Xixi is a girl. You're a boy. Why are you touching her?" Cui Min said.
"The two of us are cousins by blood."
"That won't do."
"Hands, hands off."
Gu Chenyi: "…" Who isn't a baby? A baby's heart feels aggrieved.
…
"Although Cui Min seems to be quite 'unrestrained' when she's abroad these few years, she's actually very traditional."
Gu Shao and Gu Xuan sat at the side and watched the interaction between the three of them. Gu Xuan smiled and said.
After a pause, Gu Xuan continued, "I didn't want to tell them at first, but I received a call at night and couldn't hide it."
It was the same for Old Master Gu. He couldn't hide it even if he wanted to.
When he heard that Gu Xi had almost gotten into an accident, and that it was Song Kexin and Zhang Cui's plan, Old Master Gu was furious.
However, as an old man, he couldn't withstand emotional torment. Old Master Gu almost fainted from the sudden increase in his blood pressure before he could call the Lin family.
"Boss and sister-in-law are at home trying to persuade him …"
If Gu Feng and his wife hadn't stopped Old Master Gu, he would have probably called the Lin family with the blood pressure monitor.
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