Chapter 28: Sowing the seeds and reaping the fruits
Gu Nankai stared straight at Zheng Yi's father. His eyes showed the calmness and seriousness of someone who saw through everything. Zheng Yi's father was silent. At this moment, his anxiety and confusion were fully expressed on his face. He lowered his head slightly. The tall and strong man who had always been tall looked unusually old at this moment. Gu Nankai waited for the man's answer. Everyone was silent and the atmosphere was very solemn.
After a long time, the crying of a child in the inner room broke the solemnity. The cry made Zheng Yi's father's body tremble slightly. The young woman's whispering to coax the child was mixed with a sigh of the older woman. Zheng Yi's father looked at Gu Nankai, without all his strength and disguise.
"Zheng Hai, that must be Zheng Yi." Gu Nankai took a deep breath and asked this question. Wu Qingluan and Li Meng were unable to comprehend what was meant by this sentence. They both looked at Zheng Yi's father in shock, especially Li Meng. He seemed to feel that his brain was not enough at the moment. How could that Zheng Hai become Zheng Yi?
"Yes... Officer, we... We can't do anything about it... What happened back then is really... hard to describe in a few words..." He felt terrified that the secret hidden for many years was so easily discovered by a man, but he was more troubled by the revelation of the ugly deeds his family had done back then. Yes, in the accident ten years ago, as the saying goes, the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. All the coincidences came together, and the person who died in the end was not Zheng Yi, but a person who was so innocent that he should not have been involved in this scam at all.
"You have no other choice but to take other people's lives in exchange for your son's life!" Gu Nankai was inexplicably angry. Driven by money, anyone could go against their conscience and do something shameful. Driven by so much money, this simple family eventually became the executors of conspiracy and sent an innocent person to the execution ground!
"We..." Facing Gu Nankai's questioning, Zheng Yi's father could not utter a word of rebuttal. Everything that happened today was all their own fault. They had sown the cause in the beginning, and now they had to taste the result!
"You have nothing to say. In order to possess all that money, you used other people's schemes to fulfill your own schemes, and now that innocent person comes to seek justice. So many people died, wasn't it all your fault?" Every word of Gu Nankai's words pierced the deepest scar in the old man's heart. His face was blue and red, and he couldn't utter a word. It seemed that this man already knew everything, and no matter how much he said, it seemed to be of no use.
"Tell me, who was the person on the tablet in your home that you evacuated so quickly? That person should be the one who actually died in the car accident." Faced with Zheng Yi's father's speechless response, Gu Nankai didn't want to use too many words to blame him. They will bear everything they should bear, and justice and fairness will not let them go. They will eventually pay the price for their selfishness. He calmed himself down a little and asked.
"Qian Hao."
Zheng Yi's father spoke solemnly. He finally looked into Gu Nankai's eyes and said these two words with endless regret: "The person who died in the car accident ten years ago was Qian Hao."
Gu Nankai frowned: "Qian Hao? Who is this person? Why did he die in a car accident?"
Faced with this questioning, Wu Qingluan and Li Meng were confused at first, but now with Gu Nankai's questions, they also understood a key point. In the car accident ten years ago, the person who died was not Zheng Yi, but a man named Qian Hao. So, the murderer was not Zheng Yi, but this man named Qian Hao. Then Zheng Yi...
Wu Qingluan suddenly had a clear mind, and she quickly understood the reason. She said excitedly: "So, the murderer we are looking for now is a man named Qian Hao? What about Zheng Yi? Where is Zheng Yi now? He has been dead for many years. Where is he?"
Faced with this series of questions, Zheng Yi's father lowered his head again, his eyes showing vicissitudes and dejection. Gu Nankai stared at him and told the truth solemnly: "Zheng Hai, that's Zheng Yi, right?"
The old man shuddered slightly and sighed heavily to acknowledge this fact. Li Meng, who was a little slower in reaction, suddenly came to his senses. He jumped up all of a sudden, his bronze face full of clarity after being awakened. He looked at Gu Nankai and said excitedly: "Captain Gu! I know why Zheng Hai has been so quiet all this time, and his hair is so long that we think he is an artist. In fact, he had plastic surgery, right? He changed from Zheng Yi to Zheng Hai through plastic surgery!"
At this point, the truth has been laid bare in front of everyone. Zheng Yi's father finally lost all his disguise. The elderly man knelt down in front of Gu Nankai with a plop, shocking everyone.
"Uncle, what are you doing? Get up and talk!" Gu Nankai was really shocked by Zheng Yi's father's sudden behavior. He quickly stood up and prepared to help Zheng Yi's father up. If there was something to say, he should talk about it. Kneeling like this really made people feel unbearable. But no matter how Gu Nankai helped him, he couldn't get up from his knees.
Just when the two sides were in such a tense situation, Zheng Yi's mother and the young woman Xiaoqing, who had been in the inner room and had not come out, ran out with their child in their arms. Seeing this situation, they also came over quickly. What shocked everyone was that they did not help Zheng Yi's father up but knelt down one by one. The two women seemed to have reached their limits. Xiaoqing was obviously trying her best to endure it in order not to scare the child, but Zheng Yi's mother could not hold back any longer and burst into tears in an instant.
"Officer! Save my child!"
Gu Nankai was shocked, and at the same time a dangerous signal emerged in his mind. It is very likely that something happened to Zheng Yi!
"Everyone, stand up and explain things clearly so that we can come up with a solution. You are wasting time now!" Looking at the three people kneeling in front of them, Gu Nankai and his colleagues felt helpless. As things came to this point, they all felt a deep sense of powerlessness. Their concealment may have caused them to fail in this pursuit long ago!
Gu Nankai was extremely serious, and the Zheng family was also very clear that they had to tell the whole truth now. Wu Qingluan and Li Meng helped the three of them up, and now they were sitting together on the sofa in the living room. The child was still sleeping in the young woman's arms. He had no idea whether everything that was happening was related to him. He knew nothing. Wu Qingluan looked at the sleeping child and sighed slightly in his heart.
"Go ahead."
Gu Nankai said these two words directly. He knew that the Zheng family should be very clear in their minds at this moment. If they continued to hide it, the situation would develop to the point where no one could control it.
Zheng Yi's father, who suddenly aged more than ten years, coughed slightly. At this moment, his voice seemed to be several years older than before. He said solemnly: "Ten years ago, my husband and I bought an insurance policy for Zheng Yi. At that time, Zheng Yi was in the passion of starting a business. He was very confident in what he did, but we came from the countryside and could not help him at all, so he chose to cooperate with Sheng Yuandong and Zhao Kaichuan. They have cooperated with each other several times. Our family has always felt that they are good people, so Zheng Yi has no objection to the fact that he will take full responsibility if the contract fails. In fact, Zheng Yi is too confident. He firmly believes that his project will succeed, but we did not expect that Zheng Yi had already fallen into the trap dug by Sheng Yuandong and Zhao Kaichuan."
