Chapter 25: The truth emerges
Seeing that Yao Jianping wanted to beat Yao Daqiang again, the white-haired mother-in-law beside him was not happy. She snatched the wooden stick from Yao Jianping's hand and complained: "Okay, old man, my son has just come back. Don't let it be like eating gunpowder when we meet him." Yes, it made the whole family restless."
Strangely enough, Yao Jianping had a bad temper. After seeing his white-haired mother-in-law getting angry, he stopped talking and turned around to sit back on the stool, sulking.
"This is my mother who knows how to love her son!"
Yao Daqiang gave a thumbs up to his white-haired mother-in-law, picked up a peanut from the plate, and suddenly saw two wine glasses on the table, and wondered: "Hey, are we having guests at home?"
"I... it's not fun to drink alone, why don't you... ask your mother... to have a drink with me?" Yao Jianping rolled his eyes and pretended to be angry.
Hearing Yao Jianping's answer, Xi Xingchen knew something was going to be bad.
To be honest, Yao Jianping's answer is better than not answering. Doesn't this stuttering make it clear that he feels guilty?
Sure enough, Yao Daqiang immediately burst into laughter: "Old man, do you know what your biggest characteristic is? You stutter when you lie. Mother, do you think so?"
"Haha, it's me... I took a sip with your father." The white-haired mother-in-law laughed, her smile uglier than crying. What was even more shocking was that she peeked behind the door of the inner room in bewilderment.
Seeing the poor performances of Yao Jianping and the white-haired mother-in-law, Xi Xingchen could only smile bitterly. He could never figure out how an honest couple like Yao Jianping and White-haired Granny could give birth to a murderous and arsonist son like Yao Daqiang.
"Hey, mom, you've learned bad things from the old man." Yao Daqiang laughed and stood up, putting his face in front of the white-haired woman.
"There is really no one else at home." The white-haired mother-in-law was so anxious that she almost cried.
"The more you say this, the more I feel that the guest at home is a woman. Could it be that she is the wife you found for me? Let me see quickly."
Yao Daqiang suddenly turned around and opened the door of the back room. He was stunned and motionless as if someone had cast a restraining spell on him.
Behind the door, Xi Xingchen greeted Yao Daqiang cordially with a smile: "Brother Daqiang, we meet again."
"You...why are you at my house?" Yao Daqiang rubbed his eyes hard to make sure it was not a dream, and then asked in panic.
"You left without saying goodbye yesterday, so I had no choice but to come to Yaozhuang to find you!" Xi Xingchen smiled even more happily. "Brother Daqiang, you are really easy for me to find!"
Yao Daqiang's face changed drastically when he heard this, and he begged in a low voice: "Brother, I know why you came to Yaozhuang, please don't do it in front of my parents... okay?"
At this time, Yao Jianping also came over, looked at the two people with strange expressions, and asked: "You know each other!"
"Brother Daqiang is a friend I made many years ago. Unexpectedly, we met here again by accident. It is really fate." Xi Xingchen smiled and took Yao Jianping's hand and walked past Yao Daqiang.
"We are friends, fate." Yao Daqiang scratched his scalp in embarrassment and chuckled.
"Uncle Yao, brother Daqiang and I haven't seen each other for a long time. I'll catch up with him alone," Xi Xingchen said.
"You young people, let's talk. I drank a little too much and went to bed early." Yao Jianping immediately understood and motioned to the white-haired mother-in-law, and the two of them entered the back room.
"Brother Daqiang, let's go for a walk outside so as not to disturb the old man's sleep?" Xi Xingchen asked with a smile.
Yao Daqiang's face instantly turned pale, and large beads of sweat rolled down his forehead.
Of course he understood what it meant to leave the house, but if he refused to leave, it didn't mean that Xi Xingchen wouldn't take action.
The reason why Xi Xingchen was still talking to him with a smile was partly because he didn't want his parents to see the bleeding, and it was also to give him the last bit of dignity.
Yao Daqiang was stunned for a moment, then forced himself to calm down and said, "Okay!"
When the two of them left the house, Xi Xingchen's face suddenly turned cold and he asked, "Where is Yang Xuelian?"
Faced with Xi Xingchen's unreserved killing intent, Yao Daqiang could no longer control himself. He knelt down in front of Xi Xingchen and begged: "Hero, please forgive me. Yao Wenbin ordered me to do everything. Please look after my parents." For your sake, spare my life. From now on, I will never do anything harmful to nature or justice."
"Let me ask you one last time, where is Yang Xuelian?"
"It's... right in Yao Village, at Yao Wenbin's house." Yao Daqiang said hurriedly.
"Who killed Dong Liangce's family?"
"Dong Liangce?"
"That's the policeman with me!"
Yao Daqiang immediately understood what Xi Xingchen was referring to, and quickly waved his hands and said: "I didn't do it, it really wasn't me."
"Who is it?" Xi Xingchen shouted.
When he uttered these two words, Xi Xingchen used his internal energy. The sound was not loud, but it was like a bell ringing on Yao Daqiang's head. It penetrated into the depths of Yao Daqiang's soul and instantly defeated Yao Daqiang's already weak psychology. Line of defense.
"It's Yao Wenbin!" Yao Daqiang trembled and said almost subconsciously.
"I only found out later." Seeing Xi Xingchen looking at him coldly and saying nothing, Yao Daqiang felt furious and said quickly, "When you arrested Yao Wenbin, Yao Wenbin's second uncle, who was from Huangfeng Village The second boss, Guo Xiaokun, happens to be in Zhuma Town."
"Originally, Guo Xiaokun was about to take action. Later, seeing that you just wanted to send Yao Wenbin to the official position, he ordered a few of his men to follow your carriage, but he went back to Yaozhuang to find Yao Guoping. After learning the news, Yao Guoping immediately went to the county Yamen, the county magistrate released Yao Wenbin and us that night, and also handed Yang Xuelian to me, Yao Wenbin."
Hearing what Yao Daqiang said, Xi Xingchen immediately understood why he always felt uneasy when sending Yao Wenbin and others back to the county office. It turned out that he had been targeted for a long time.
After finding out what was being followed, Xi Xingchen immediately thought of another thing.
When Yao Wenbin came to negotiate with him and Dong Liangce, Xi Xingchen discovered that there were many people ambushing the inn. Now that he thought about it, those people who were ambushing the inn were probably bandits from Huangfeng Village. If he hadn't accepted Yao Wenbin's money, he and Dong Liangce might have escaped unscathed.
Xi Xingchen is a very smart person and good at drawing inferences. He filtered every detail in his mind after they entered Yangjiacun, and immediately found many details that were horrifying to consider, such as Yang Sansong, the Li Zheng of Yangjiacun. He didn't dare to tell them more about the Yao family. It was most likely that Yang Sansong knew that there was an informant from Huang Fengzhai in the Yang family village.
You must know that after five years of great disaster, the court failed to provide disaster relief, and it is nothing new for ordinary people to turn into bandits just for a bite to eat.
If this is the case, Xi Xingchen only heard from Wang Dabao in prison last night that the bandits in Huangfeng Village colluded with the Yao family. However, from the moment they stepped into Yangjia Village, their whereabouts have been under the surveillance of the Huangfeng Village bandits. .
