Chapter 381: Chapter 381. Playing Mysterious
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
“My matter?”
Su Qing asked Qiu Yongkang with a cold face. He was getting increasingly disgusted with Qiu Yongkang, and his words were deliberately mystifying.
“Yes, the day before yesterday, Seventh Master Jiang went to Tartan to deliver coal. The Third Prince told him that the Drunken Overlord was out of stock and asked when you could deliver the wine. I forgot to mention it just now, so I remembered halfway and quickly came over to tell you.”
Qiu Yongkang didn’t care about Su Qing’s att.i.tude and calmly finished his sentence.
Su Qing didn’t believe him just because of this excuse. She continued to ask Qiu Yongkang aggressively,
“Did you meet anyone on the way back?”
“Who can we meet in the middle of the night? Su Qing, are you suspecting me?”
Qiu Yongkang smiled bitterly and asked Su Qing helplessly.
Ji Shuisheng didn’t understand why Su Qing questioned Qiu Yongkang like she was interrogating a criminal. He pulled her to the side and asked,
“Su Qing, are you biased against Yongkang?”
“Shuisheng, I know you are best friends with him, but there are many suspicious points about him. My intuition tells me that there is something wrong with him.”
Su Qing knew that Ji Shuisheng wouldn’t believe her words. She just wanted to plant a seed in his heart. When he found evidence in the future, she hoped that he wouldn’t be soft-hearted.
When Ji Shuisheng heard Su Qing’s words, he turned around and looked at Qiu Yongkang. He saw Qiu Yongkang and Xing Ruhai inspecting the destroyed restaurant. He shook his head and sighed repeatedly. There was nothing suspicious.
“Su Qing, I think you misunderstood Yongkang. I grew up with Yongkang, and I know him best. He would never betray me.”
Ji Shuisheng didn’t believe that Qiu Yongkang would do anything to hurt him. He felt that Su Qing had a prejudice against Qiu Yongkang.
“That was when you guys were at Peach Blossom Cove. Life was simple and peaceful, there were no conflicts of interest, but people change. After Qiu Yue died, didn’t you notice that Yongkang became a man of few words?”
Su Qing shook her head. Shuisheng still didn’t understand the complexity of human nature. He had never experienced betrayal, so he trusted Qiu Yongkang so much.
“You’ve misunderstood. Back then, for the sake of the villagers of Peach Blossom Cove, he wanted to hang Qiu Yue himself. He also told me that he didn’t blame you.”
Ji Shuisheng still refused to believe that his good brother was the kind of person Su Qing had described. He felt that Su Qing was suspicious because she had almost been blown to death.
As for Qiu Yue, she had to die. Even if Su Qing didn’t do anything, he would have done it himself. So he didn’t think this was why Yongkang hated them.
Su Qing realized that she couldn’t get through to him, so she told him about how she was stopped by Yongkang when she came to find Shuisheng, “Previously, we had a conflict. When I returned to Mo City to look for you, I met Yongkang. He knew I returned to look for you but still advised me to leave you. He also hid that you went to Tartan to look for me.”
Ji Shuisheng was stunned. He turned around and looked at Qiu Yongkang. He knew his feelings for Qing’er but still prevented Qing’er from meeting him. Could it be that he hated them?
“Let me talk to him.”
Ji Shuisheng’s thick eyebrows were tightly knitted, and his eyes were dark. Was he too loyal to believe that his best friend, who had grown up, was so deceitful?
“I don’t care how deep your relationship with him is. If 1 find out that he’s the one who wants to blow me up, I won’t show mercy.”
Su Qing’s face was as dark as water. She didn’t give any face to anyone.
Ji Shuisheng nodded. His eyes were deep, and his voice was firm.
“If it’s confirmed that he’s the one who threw the bomb, I’ll kill him myself.”
Su Qing was delighted with Ji Shuisheng’s att.i.tude. If he trusted people blindly and did not suspect that people were evil, he would not be able to achieve anything.
“I’ll go in and take a look.”
The body had only been dissected halfway when the place exploded. She worried that the equipment she had exchanged with the reward would be destroyed.
“It’s all in ruins. What else can we find?”
Ji Shuisheng looked at the ruins that were still crackling and burning. He was worried that the detonator had not completely exploded and would hurt Su Qing again.
“Evidence.”
As she looked at the smoking ruins, Su Qing’s eyes were filled with confidence. Even if the body was charred, she was not afraid. She could find evidence as long as the thing in the stomach was still there.
“Get someone to dig up the body.”
Su Qing walked to the ruins and ordered Cheng Yu’s soldiers. Qiu Yongkang asked her in confusion.
“What’s the use of digging up corpses?”
“You’re meddling too much.”
Su Qing looked into Qiu Yongkang’s eyes coldly, not giving him any face.
Qiu Yongkang’s expression was unnatural under her gaze. He felt her gaze was colder than the world of ice and snow. His scalp went numb, and he could not help but feel a chill rise from his feet.
There was an awkward silence in the air. Qiu Yongkang laughed awkwardly and mocked himself.
“Yes, I won’t ask what 1 shouldn’t ask.”
“Yongkang, go back and rest!”
Ji Shuisheng walked over and patted Qiu Yongkang’s shoulder.
“You’ve worked hard these past few days.”
“It’s all my fault. I didn’t guard the great killing weapon well.”
Qiu Yongkang lowered his head in self-reproach and apologized to Ji Shuisheng again.
“Go back and have a good sleep.”
Ji Shuisheng didn’t comment, urging Qiu Yongkang to leave.
“Alright, it’s been tough on me.”
Qiu Yongkang nodded and turned to look at Su Qing, who was directing the excavation in front of the ruins. Just as Su Qing turned to look at him, her gaze was so cold that it seemed to see through everything. Qiu Yongkang turned around and left.
“Su Qing, I’ll follow him.”
After Qiu Yongkang left, Ji Shuisheng asked Su Qing, “Why did Qiu Yongkang ask Su Qing about digging up the corpse?” Ji Shuisheng also felt suspicious and decided to follow him to see who Yongkang was in contact with.
“Alright.”
Su Qing nodded. She was glad that Ji Shuisheng did not let his emotions get the better of him. He was already suspicious of Qiu Yongkang.
Ji Shuisheng followed Qiu Yongkang afar and realized he wasn’t walking fast. He even stopped to look back a few times in the middle as if full of thoughts.
Ji Shuisheng’s suspicion of Qiu Yongkang increased. He frowned as he watched Qiu Yongkang leave, hoping he would not disappoint him.
Ji Shuisheng followed Qiu Yongkang all the way home but didn’t come out.
Su Qing ordered people to dig up the body. She went to look for the equipment to dissect the body and check for fingerprints and footprints. In the end, she found that the equipment and the dissect equipment had been blown up and could not be used at all.
Fortunately, three bodies were intact, and only one was charred by the explosion’s flames.
That was enough. Su Qing ordered people to move the bodies to the mortuary. She wanted to dissect the bodies there and see what they had eaten before they died.
The bodies were moved to the mortuary. Su Qing chased everyone out of the morgue, put on medical gloves, and asked the system for a set of dissection equipment. She turned on the searchlight and began to dissect the bodies.
To find out the truth, she had wasted four rewards. She would suffer a ma.s.sive loss if she could not find the truth.
A thin scalpel cut open the abdominal cavity of the corpses. The frozen corpses did not bleed at all. Su Qing took the knife and cut open their stomachs.
The funeral banner and the paper money on the ground were blown into the air by the wind. Su Qing expressionlessly cut open the abdomen of the deceased with a scalpel. This scene stunned the man outside the funeral home..