If Gu Zhiyin's conjecture is true, then Jing Shiyan was killed by her.
Chen Bing went to kill her that night, but because she was picked up by Gu Zhiyin, she escaped the assassination. However, Jing Shiyan, who was at home, did not escape the assassination.
This can also explain why Chen Bing saw her in the house that night and immediately caught up with her.
She ran to Gu Zhiyin for shelter, but Chen Bing didn't look at Gu Zhiyin at all, and stabbed her in the back with the knife.
Chen Bing's purpose was very clear, just to kill her.
Fortunately, she was rescued by Gu Zhiyin.
Thinking of Jing Shiyan's death, Mu Ning felt suffocated and uncomfortable.
Gu Zhiyin didn't speak for a long time.
Mu Ning turned her head and saw him frowning, lost in thought.
"Uncle Gu, what are you thinking about?"
Gu Zhiyin came back to his senses, stared at Mu Ning with his dark eyes, and opened his thin lips, "I'm thinking about your safety."
Who is the person behind Chen Bing, and why did he want to kill Ning Ning?
After so many years, if that person knew Ning Ning's existence, would he attack her again?
This unknown danger made Gu Zhiyin very uneasy.
He stubbed out his cigarette, held Mu Ning's hand tightly and walked towards the hotel.
"Uncle Gu, if you are worried about my safety, we should find the person behind the scenes who wants to kill me."
Gu Zhiyin did not deny it.
Mu Ning was right. Only by finding that person and knowing who the other person is can we better guard against and protect her.
Gu Zhiyin picked up Mu Ning and said, "I will carry Ning Ning back to the hotel."
I felt at ease holding her in my arms.
Mu Ning wrapped his arms around his neck, "What's our next plan?"
"Find Li Yan."
"Start with her?"
"Well, she has an unusual relationship with Chen Bing. She is the only person she has seen since Chen Bing was imprisoned. She may have known about Chen Bing's murder, or she may have participated."
Li Yan definitely knew something, otherwise she would not have come to see Chen Bing no matter what when he was sentenced to death.
After listening to what he said, Mu Ning felt that his thinking and logic were really sharper than ordinary people.
If she were to come, she would probably never think of it in her lifetime.
"Uncle Gu, why are you so smart? You can always think of things that I can't think of, and every step of the plan is very clear."
Mu Ning couldn't help but praise.
Gu Zhiyin curled his lips, "Who asked me to bring a little idiot with me? If I don't have more brains, we will be deceived together?"
"Ugh...no personal attack." Mu Ning bit his neck.
Gu Zhiyin couldn't help laughing, "Fool."
Mu Ning groaned and said back to business, "Song Heng should take time to find someone, we can't just wait, right?"
Gu Zhiyin said as he walked: "Let's go find that foreign woman."
"But how can I find it in such a huge crowd?"
Even though Gu Zhiyin had a strong network of connections in China, women who came from abroad in that era would undoubtedly be looking for a needle in a haystack.
"Ning Ning, where are Jing Shiyan's relics?"
Find it from relics? What clues can be found in the relics?
Mu Ning shook his head, "Uncle Gu, don't you remember? I was in a bad mental state at the time, and I followed you to the capital after I came out of the hospital."
Gu Zhiyin frowned, "I remember that her clothes were burned when she was buried. Who collected them?"
A person immediately popped into Mu Ning's mind, "Maybe it's the landlord."
"landlord?"
"Well, that house is for rent, and no one will take it in except the landlord."
Gu Zhiyin spent a day contacting his former landlord.
Mu Ning had to admire his efficiency.
The landlord is a shrewd woman in her fifties, and her family has moved to the county town.
Gu Zhiyin took Mu Ning to visit the landlord.
They sat in the living room of the landlord's house and chatted briefly, saying that they were Jing Shiyan's distant family members who came to collect her belongings.
"Other than that daughter, where does Jing Shiyan's family come from? Didn't her daughter die long ago?"
"And after so many years, it's really scary for a family member to suddenly come out and say they want to collect her things."
The landlord was very wary of their reports and kept going in circles, trying to trick them.
Mu Ning realized that the landlord didn't want to help them and glanced at Gu Zhiyin.
Gu Zhiyin took out a thick envelope and put it on the table, saying in a low voice, "We want her soul to return to her hometown, and we hope you can make it happen."
When the landlord saw the envelope, his eyelids jumped.
Then he didn't ask any more questions and immediately revealed the truth.
"I collected her relics. I remember I packed them in a big box and threw them in the warehouse in my hometown."
Gu Zhiyin pushed the envelope forward, "Can you take us to get it now?"
The landlord embarrassedly collected the envelope, weighed it in his hand, and said with a smile: "It just so happens that we don't play mahjong today, let's go."
After more than an hour's drive, they returned to the small town.
The warehouse had been abandoned for a long time, and the door locks were rusty and the key could not be inserted at all. In the end, Gu Zhiyin forced it open.
As soon as I opened the door, the pungent musty smell mixed with dust hit my face.
"Ahem..." Mu Ning covered his mouth and nose with his sleeve.
"After Jing Shiyan's accident, our family moved to the county town for fear of getting into trouble. We didn't come back for many years, so this warehouse was abandoned." The landlord said.
Gu Zhiyin pulled Mu Ning out of the door, "Ning Ning wait outside, I'll get something."
Mu Ning nodded.
Gu Zhiyin followed the landlord in.
The landlord babbled while looking for things, "It's so unlucky to die in my house. The floor and walls are covered in blood. Others say it is a haunted house. No one dares to rent my house anymore. I don't know what kind of evil was done... "
"No, please move these rotten wooden boxes away. What's in that leather box is her stuff."
"Mr. Gu, I should do the dirty work." Lao Wang said.
"Let's go faster."
Gu Zhiyin wanted to quickly take the things and leave here.
He felt uncomfortable staying in this kind of environment, and he didn't want Ning Ning to wait any longer.
Gu Zhiyin and Lao Wang moved away the wooden box together, and finally pulled out the leather box.
Lao Wang took a photo of the dust on the leather box and opened it to show Gu Zhiyin.
The landlord said: "Don't worry, I won't lie to you. All her things are here."
Gu Zhiyin checked it and found that it belonged to Jing Shiyan.
He raised his head and glanced at the landlord lightly, "Thank you."
The landlord snorted angrily, "It's your luck too, thanks to me that I didn't throw it out back then."
"My husband scolded me for collecting dead people's things and asked me to throw them away. I originally wanted to throw them away, but I was delayed because of something, and then I threw them here and forgot about it..."
The landlord is still nagging.
Gu Zhiyin didn't look at the landlord again, and said to Lao Wang calmly: "Take your things and leave."
Lao Wang held the box and followed Gu Zhiyin away.
"Hey! You just left. You picked me up from the county and sent me back anyway!" The landlord jumped in anger.
Mu Ning saw Gu Zhiyin coming out, and Lao Wang who was following him was holding a dilapidated suitcase, "Have you got her belongings?"
"Well, let's go back to the county."
On the way back to the county town, Mu Ning found that Gu Zhiyin was restless.
I have never seen him so anxious before, and it showed on his face.
What happened to Gu Zhiyin?
