Chapter 73: Smooth talk, but refusing to admit his mistakes
Damn it!
When Xu Yan saw the figure reflected on the back of the car, his heart skipped a beat, his head went blank, the smirk on his face froze, and his body instantly stiffened.
Xu Yan was groaning in his heart, not daring to turn his head. Through the reflection on the back of the car, he secretly observed Zhong Ming's expression. Seeing her eyebrows raised, a sneer on the corners of her lips, and staring at him unkindly, he couldn't help but shudder, and a voice in his heart shouted, "Oh no, I'm going to die, I've been discovered."
If an ordinary person encountered such a situation, he would definitely be scared and at a loss, and even fall to the ground, just like Luo Yifei before. But who is Xu Yan? He is shameless, treacherous, and quick-witted. Of course, he would not be so weak. After the initial panic, he quickly calmed down.
Pretending not to notice Zhong Ming, he tightened the dry branch in his hand and continued to reach into the exhaust pipe. Of course, this time he was not going to continue poking inside, but to dig the dirt out of the exhaust pipe.
Behind Xu Yan, Zhong Ming sneered silently. She was a sharp observer. Although Xu Yan concealed it well, his body stiffened for a moment before did not escape her eyes. Naturally, she knew that Xu Yan must have discovered her. She was about to jump out to deal with him, but suddenly she saw him take out the exhaust pipe on his own initiative. This made her movements pause, and then she curled her lips and sneered.
"You were caught in the act , and only then did you feel scared and start to take things out, thinking that you could escape this way. This idea is too naive. Just wait and see how I'll deal with you this time!"
Zhong Ming's eyes flickered as countless ways to punish Xu Yan flashed through her mind. The more she thought about it, the more excited she became. She couldn't hold it back any longer and jumped out, saying, "Great, I finally caught you!"
ah!
Xu Yan exclaimed softly, and pretended to turn around, pretending to have just seen her. He stopped what he was doing, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said, "Chief, it's you, why are you here?"
"If I wasn't here, how could I catch you in the act?" Zhong Ming snorted and said proudly, "You didn't expect me to be here, did you? I'm not afraid to tell you the truth. It was your good comrade's idea to let me wait here."
When the rabbit dies, the dog is cooked; when the birds are all gone, the good bows are put away. After catching Xu Yan in the act, Luo Yifei is no longer useful as a chess piece. She said without hesitation that she was happy to see Xu Yan go and cause trouble for Luo Yifei. Anyway, neither of them is a good person, so she might as well let them fight each other!
"This guy betrayed me!" Xu Yan's teeth itched with hatred, but he didn't show it. Instead, he pretended to be puzzled and said, "Commander, what do you mean by catching him in the act? You don't think I was the one who stuffed the exhaust pipe, do you?"
"Isn't it?" Zhong Ming asked back. Having caught Xu Yan in the act, she was not in a hurry to deal with him. Instead, she wanted to see what he had to say.
"Of course not. How could it be me? I was just passing by here and saw that the exhaust pipe of this car was stuffed with mud. I thought the owner would be anxious, so I helped to dig it out." Xu Yan lied with his eyes open, and his lies sounded like the truth.
"Are you so kind?" Zhong Ming curled his lips with a look of disdain.
"Alas, there is nothing I can do. I am a kind person and cannot bear to see others in trouble. When I thought of the car owner who was worried about not being able to start the car, I couldn't help but want to help. If kindness is a disease, then I am probably already terminally ill. I don't know if there is a cure in this lifetime!"
Zhong Ming didn't believe a single punctuation mark in Xu Yan's words, but since she was sure of victory, she didn't mind playing with him. After a cat catches a mouse, doesn't it play with it for a while, and only eats it when it gets tired of playing? She was ready to do the same now.
"If it wasn't you who stuffed it in, then who stuffed it in?" Zhong Ming asked deliberately.
"I don't know about that. When I came here, the exhaust pipe had already been blocked. I didn't see who blocked it." Xu Yan swore solemnly, shaking his head as he spoke: "Who do you think did this? How could he be so mean to block someone else's exhaust pipe? It's really too much, it's totally wrong!"
Which uncle did this?
Hearing this, Zhong Ming became furious and didn't bother to talk nonsense with him anymore. He just shouted, "Xu Yan, stop playing crazy and stupid!"
"What do you mean by pretending to be crazy and stupid?" Xu Yan asked, and then said with a bitter face: "Commander, I really didn't plug the exhaust pipe. You really misunderstood me!"
Without giving Zhong Ming a chance to speak, Xu Yan spoke in a series of words: "Commander, I was just passing by and saw that the exhaust pipe was blocked, so I stepped forward to help. You must investigate it thoroughly and clear my name. Otherwise, it will be a small matter to wrongly accuse me, but it will be a big concern for the people of Hantianxia. Who will dare to do good things in the future!"
Seeing Zhong Ming sneer in disbelief and seeming to want to explain, Xu Yan was not willing to give her the chance and continued to deceive, "Chief, don't think I'm exaggerating. This is a matter of injustice to a kind-hearted teenager, which will have a huge impact on his life. If he did good things but was misunderstood and wronged in the end, would he stand up again if he encounters a similar situation in the future? This is just a small matter. If it is a big matter, it will affect the values of a generation. It's like helping the elderly, because there are always some cases of people being blackmailed for helping the elderly in society, which leads to many people avoiding such things for fear of getting into trouble. This is the decline of social morality and the sadness of an era..."
Xu Yan spoke eloquently , changing the subject by making a subtle move, elevating a trivial matter to the level of values and social morality. His voice was eloquent and his words were sincere. There was not a trace of guilt in him being caught in the act of stuffing someone's exhaust pipe. Instead, he looked like a philosopher who was concerned about the country and the people.
Hiss!
Zhong Ming was breathing heavily, staring at Xu Yan with flaming eyes. He was once again shocked by his shameless face. A voice in his heart roared, how could he be so shameless? How could he be so shameless!
Seeing that he was getting more and more outrageous, Zhong Mingfeng's eyes widened and he shouted, "Shut up!"
"Commander, you can tell me to shut up, but you can't shut up the people!" Xu Yan sighed, "It's harder to stop the people from talking than to stop the river from flooding!"
"You think you're right after you stuffed my exhaust pipe into my mouth?" Zhong Ming was so angry that he wanted to arrest him immediately, but seeing that he had a dead look of "the innocent will be cleared", he couldn't do it right away. He suppressed his anger and said, "You don't want to admit it, right? I have evidence to make you admit it."
Zhong Ming took out a camera from his pocket, flipped through the photos he had taken before, and showed them to Xu Yan, saying, "I knew you wouldn't be so honest. I had already taken the photos. Now that you've been caught red-handed, let's see what you can say!"
Xu Yan took the camera and looked up. He saw a picture of him sticking his butt out, holding dirt in one hand and a dead branch in the other, as if he was about to stuff it into the exhaust pipe. His face suddenly changed...
