mtl008 Chapter 381 Just Admit It
Chapter 381 Just Admit It
Although Lin Lezhi spoke very casually, when she actually arrived at Xiao Yihuo's door, she hesitated and hesitated to knock.
Just as Lin Lezhi finally made up her mind to knock, the door creaked open.
Lin Lezhi awkwardly withdrew her hand, which was about to hit the door. Xiao Yihuo simply looked at Lin Lezhi quietly, his expression unreadable.
He then glanced at the bundle in Lin Lezhi's hand, said nothing, and turned to walk into the house.
See this.
Lin Lezhi followed him inside and closed the door behind him.
"The clothes are all in the closet, go get them yourself."
Anticipating Lin Lezhi's purpose, Xiao Yihuo sat down at the table, his calm voice slightly low.
The flickering candlelight inside the room cast a soft glow on Xiao Yihuo's face, but it didn't bring any warmth, and the atmosphere felt somewhat stagnant.
It had been a few days since I last saw him, and compared to Xiao Yihuo a few days ago, there seemed to be some distance between us.
Lin Lezhi nodded silently and walked towards the cabinet.
It was too quiet.
The creaking sound of the old cabinet when it was opened was incredibly clear, jarring, and somewhat unsettling.
Inside the cabinet.
The clothes he had scattered on the table that day had been neatly folded.
Lin Lezhi could have simply taken the clothes and left, but she hesitated, her expression showing some hesitation, as if she had something to say but didn't know how to start.
"actually, I……"
"That day you asked Qingchuan if there were any similarities between death by snake venom and death by suffocation, but did you find anything?"
Listen and.
A flicker of surprise crossed Lin Lezhi's eyes, but he wasn't surprised. His gaze quickly returned to calm, and he let out a soft sigh. He turned around, walked to the table, sat down, and said, "Qingchuan told you everything?"
"Ah."
Lin Lezhi placed the bundle he was carrying on the table and got straight to the point: "I came to see you because I wanted to talk to you about this."
Say it.
Lin Lezhi took something out of the bundle and handed it to Xiao Yihuo.
In Lin Lezhi's hand was a slender bamboo section. Perhaps it had been separated from the branch for too long, as its surface had turned withered and yellow. Looking at this slender, withered bamboo section, Xiao Yihuo seemed to find it somewhat familiar, and then his eyes narrowed slightly as he asked, "What is this?"
Lin Lezhi didn't keep him in suspense and said directly, "This is what Shi Peng told me before he died. He reminded me to take the bamboo from his waist. I took this from his waist before the coffin was closed that day. You'll see when you open it."
Xiao Yihuo took it from Lin Lezhi's hand, and as he was about to open it, Lin Lezhi nervously instructed him, "Be careful."
Yes.
Xiao Yihuo gently pried open the bamboo joint, and upon seeing the extremely thin needle inside, stained with blackened blood, his already somewhat solemn gaze tightened even further.
"This is?"
“At first I didn’t know what this meant, let alone Shi Peng’s intention in bringing him into my hands. But on the day the soldiers’ bodies were sent back from the lake island, I discovered that the soldiers who died from poisoning also had bleeding spots in their eyes, which were extremely similar to the filamentous spots of people who died of suffocation.”
Xiao Yihuo stared at the thin needle again for a moment, his eyes darkening as he said, "You mean, Yan Jingyi wasn't killed by Shi Peng. He just used a scheme to make it look like Yan Jingyi died by hanging, but in reality, Yan Jingyi died from poisoning."
"Yes."
"Since the cause of death by hanging is extremely similar to that of snake venom, how can you determine that Yan Jingyi did not die by hanging?"
Lin Lezhi said with a confident look in his eyes, "Although the two deaths are extremely similar, there are still some subtle differences. However, if you don't think of them at first, they can easily be overlooked."
"What's the difference?"
"Blood."
"Blood?"
“That’s right, it’s blood.” Lin Lezhi looked at Xiao Yihuo and asked, “Do you remember how Yan Jingyi died? Although he had been dead for some time, his wounds were still bleeding profusely.”
"I remember, but something's not right?"
"After a person dies, the blood stops flowing and then coagulates. Normally, if words are carved on a person's face after death, there shouldn't be so much blood flowing from the wound. Unless, he was poisoned by snake venom. Snake venom spreads rapidly in the body, affecting a person's breathing and causing death by hanging."
Lin Lezhi's gaze darkened as he said, "The corpses of the soldiers that day were extremely similar to Yan Jingyi's death. They had bleeding spots in their eyes, the blood was dark red, and the blood coagulated slowly."
"You suspect that the poison inflicted on the soldiers is the same as the poison inflicted on Yan Jingyi?"
“It might not be very intuitive for me to explain it to you like this, since poisoning can cause suffocation. But if I give you a comparison, and combine it with what I just said, you will see it more clearly.”
As she spoke, Lin Lezhi took out a few more items from the bundle she had brought: two small bamboo sections and something wrapped in cloth.
When Lin Lezhi opened the cloth, it turned out to be wrapped with snake fangs.
See.
Xiao Yihuo's eyes immediately darkened, and he said almost with certainty, "You went into the woods alone?"
Since Lin Lezhi came to see him alone, there was absolutely no way he could have told Guan Ziheng about this matter, nor could he have told anyone else. The answer was quite obvious.
The words fell.
Lin Lezhi paused for a moment, realizing he couldn't hide it any longer. Slightly embarrassed, but not overly concerned, he said, "Yeah, we've been to that forest several times already, we know it very well. I was thinking, maybe some of the snakes that killed Lü Xingpeng and Xu Tian were killed by them, so I went for a walk on a whim. I didn't expect to actually find them. Don't worry, we didn't touch the money, those snakes won't bite me."
Lin Lezhi went into the woods that day to catch insects, hoping to find a dead venomous snake.
"I wasn't talking about snakes," Xiao Yihuo said, his eyes and voice tinged with urgency. "Didn't you consider what might happen..."
"What if the person hiding behind Hong Mingxu is still not giving up, thinking there is still treasure to be found, and is lurking in the forest searching everywhere, and I accidentally stumble upon them, then kill them to silence them?"
"You know that, yet you still dare to venture into the forest alone."
Because he was afraid of being overheard, Xiao Yihuo could only deliberately suppress his voice even when he was angry.
Despite being questioned by Xiao Yihuo, Lin Lezhi did not appear embarrassed; instead, a gentle light shone in her eyes.
After a moment, he smiled and looked at Xiao Yihuo. His eyes, full of meaning, seemed to see right through Xiao Yihuo. His voice was slightly teasing, but also serious. He asserted, "So, you were worried that I was in danger, which is why you secretly followed me time and time again, right?"