Chapter 441 The Past is Blurred
"Gulp!" Su Ming's Adam's apple rolled and he swallowed his saliva.
He felt his lips were slightly dry, so he licked them and then shook his head vigorously, "No... No!"
"Hahaha! It's fake. Look how scared you are. If it's true, I stayed in Dongyang Island." Xia Xiaoyu said with a smile.
Su Ming frowned, stared at the recorder for a while, and said, "I love drinking tea."
[Falsehood]——The recorder made a sound.
It is confirmed that this recorder is genuine.
This time it was Xia Xiaoyu's turn to have a stiff expression. She froze for a moment, pretending to look at the recorder in confusion, and asked, "Huh? What's going on? Why is it still talking automatically? Did I change it to the wrong one?"
Su Ming sighed, too lazy to expose the other party.
He guessed why Xia Xiaoyu carried a real recorder with her. Perhaps she had indeed placed a fake recorder in the Seventh Bureau of Investigation. However, Xia Xiaoyu knew for sure that the recorder she carried with her was real.
Su Ming did not think that there was anything wrong with Xia Xiaoyu's behavior. Instead, he felt that Xia Xiaoyu did a good job. It was obvious that she had made a well-considered decision to leave the fake recorder in the Investigation Bureau. As a causal containment object, the honest recorder posed a huge threat to the members of the Mysterious Eye. If the real one was left in the Investigation Bureau Seven, then the real honest recorder would most likely be destroyed.
It doesn't require complicated operations to destroy the recorder. The other party only needs to send a higher-level cadre to destroy the recorder openly.
Perhaps it was because of this that Xia Xiaoyu carried a real tape recorder with her.
"Very smart." Su Ming praised.
"Huh? What do you mean smart?" Xia Xiaoyu raised her eyebrows slightly, looking innocent and puzzled.
It can be seen that her acting skills are first-rate at times, but this kind of acting skills is ineffective in front of Su Ming, and Su Ming also knows that Xia Xiaoyu knows that this kind of acting skills is ineffective. This is a kind of tacit interactive game.
"Thanks to you, I suddenly thought of something." Su Ming picked up the clothes beside him and put them on.
Just now, Su Ming suddenly felt that something was wrong with what the captain said.
Because of the preference for boys over girls, the elder sister went mad and made a deal with the devil of love, killing her parents but leaving her younger brother behind.
But why did he leave his younger brother Jiang Yichuan behind after killing his parents?
Ordinary people's first impression of this question is very direct, and the answer is easy to associate. The answer is that Jiang Xueying hated her parents who were backward in thinking and favored boys over girls, but she did not have much hatred . Therefore, she killed her parents but let her younger brother survive.
This explanation sounds reasonable, and if you think about it carefully, there seems to be nothing wrong with it.
Everything seemed normal, but Su Ming felt that there were some minor problems in the details, that is, the motivation was wrong.
The way a person chooses to retaliate often follows a certain pattern, and is often closely related to the type of oppression the person has suffered.
If you are suppressed in the workplace, the optimal solution in the mind of the person who wants to retaliate is often to retaliate in the same way. The way of thinking is often "If you make me cut your salary, I will make you lose your job!" instead of "If you make me cut your salary, I will chop off one of your arms."
If it is physical harm, the avenger will often retaliate with greater physical harm. If it is mental harm, the avenger will often choose mental harm. In addition to these conventional revenges, other different categories can be regarded as additional emotional catharsis.
The reason they do that is because the Avengers have a subconscious desire to make the other party empathize with their own pain or regret the specific events they did in the past.
Only when conventional means of revenge cannot be achieved will people resort to the ultimate violent means - killing.
As long as Jiang Yichuang's parents did not favor boys over girls to the point of abusing Jiang Xueying, then their parents did not put Jiang Xueying under extreme mental pressure. The act of parricide is clearly a sign of insanity. If their parents did not cause Jiang Xueying extreme mental pressure, then Jiang Xueying was completely crazy.
Simply because her parents favored her younger brother, she committed irreparable violence and murder against her parents who had done her good!
But if this is the case, Su Ming feels that Jiang Xueying's behavior is somewhat inappropriate... She shouldn't keep Jiang Yichuang. She should at least kill Jiang Yichuang first, use this method to make her parents mentally collapse, and then carry out the murder.
Because under the premise that Jiang Xueying has gone crazy, the logic of right and wrong has become completely confused, otherwise she would never have killed the parents who gave birth to her and raised her.
This brain disorder made Jiang Xueying's behavior dominated by her own subjective feelings, so if her parents made her feel sad, she would kill them.
But in this case, she should not be so magnanimous as to leave the innocent Jiang Yichuan behind. As a son who took away most of his parents' love, Jiang Yichuan would definitely be the object of his sister's jealousy, and he should be killed first.
So... there's something wrong with the order of killing.
If Jiang Xueying was not completely crazy, then she would have no reason to kill her parents directly unless she had suffered such injuries as abuse. Moreover, the deal with the Devil of Love was obviously an unnecessary step. It was too easy for a person with murderous intentions to kill two ordinary people, let alone parents who lived with her day and night.
But if Jiang Xueying was completely crazy, then she shouldn't have kept Jiang Yichuang. Jiang Yichuang was the best torture tool for her parents.
Thinking of this, Su Ming shook his head.
There are too few clues now, and it is impossible to infer a more reasonable motive based on the current information alone. But if there are no other additional conditions, Su Ming feels that the motive of favoring boys over girls is absolutely not valid!
If it was abuse or long-term cold violence, the current result might have happened, but in that case Jiang Xueying had no reason to use such ridiculous motives to fool Jiang Yichuan.
Su Ming felt that the emotional relationship behind this tragedy was very complicated and perhaps there was something hidden behind it.
He felt that he had to go find Jiang Yichuan!
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"Abuse? How is that possible? My parents have never abused her. I don't even feel that they favor boys over girls as she said. My parents have always been very good to us. They are both high-paid people in society. We have never lacked for food, drink, and daily necessities. I have not used up all my parents' inheritance even now. Favoring boys over girls... This is just her imagination after she went crazy."
Jiang Yichuang said this while processing the vegetables on the chopping board. He knew why Su Ming asked him such a question. Frankly speaking, Su Ming's meddling annoyed him, just like the minister who had positive emotions towards him before the deal was made.
It’s really strange. Sometimes the other person is obviously thinking about you, but his or her behavior makes you feel extremely annoyed. So does this really count as the other person helping you?
Jiang Yichuang didn't know that he now had no way to get the answer, but it didn't matter because he only had one goal.
Su Ming chewed over Jiang Yichuan's answer. The other party's tone was very calm and no specific emotion could be heard, but Su Ming could feel from the content that Jiang Yichuan did not want to talk about this topic.
"Captain, can you tell me what that day was like?"
Even though he knew Jiang Yichuan didn't want to talk about this topic, Su Ming still pressed the issue.
"No doubt about it, I saw her kill my parents with my own eyes."
"What did she say to you then?"
The sound of the kitchen knife hitting the chopping board stopped, and Su Ming looked up at Jiang Yichuan's back.
He knew that by asking this he was forcing Jiang Yichuan to recall those painful events, but he was eager to know the specific circumstances at that time.
After a few seconds, the sound of cutting vegetables began to sound again, and the frequency of the knife falling remained stable.
"Since childhood, they have given you more love than they gave me - this was the first thing she said at the time, and then I asked why, and she said if I wanted to kill her, come and she would wait for me. Then my hands and feet were broken, and then she left.
I didn’t omit anything, it was just this short moment, I saw her kill her parents, and then after saying these words, she left.”
Su Ming frowned even more tightly. He thought he could get information that would strengthen the motive from Jiang Yichuan, but after listening to him, he found that Jiang Xueying's motive for murder was even weaker. From Jiang Yichuan's description alone, Su Ming even felt that Jiang Xueying was very calm at the time.
eccentric.
It's really weird.
Various vegetables were chopped and mixed together to make salad. Jiang Yichuan brought one of them to Su Ming and finally sat down opposite him: "Don't bother me, I don't have much time. I have paid enough as much as I could and can't get stronger... But she is still getting stronger, so this is the last chance."
Su Ming stared down at the salad in his hand, thinking that he couldn't get more from Jiang Yichuan.
To find out the answer, he must seek it from other channels.
"Captain, I'm leaving first." Su Ming put down the salad, stood up and walked out the door.
"Although you may not believe it, I think what happened back then was not that simple. I will investigate it thoroughly... Well, goodbye."
The door slammed shut. Jiang Yichuan looked towards the entrance for a few seconds, then lowered his head to eat his salad.
He knew that Su Ming was wrong. Some things were not as complicated as he thought. The truth was so simple and boring, irrational and completely abnormal.
After all, the world itself is crazy, he has known that for a long time.
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What is the truth?
If the captain really did not miss anything, then the hidden secrets in the past were not just his unilateral guess. Su Ming could conclude that the truth was definitely different from what Jiang Yichuang thought!
But he needed evidence. Feelings alone could not convince the captain. It was obvious that the obsession with revenge had taken deep root in his heart.
The time was too long, and the only people who survived were Jiang Yichuang and Jiang Xueying. Apart from Jiang Yichuang, it seemed that the only person he could ask was Jiang Xueying, but this was obviously impossible.
There should be a file on the murder case, right? I should be able to get it if I ask the minister.
But what can be learned from those files? The captain must have read them countless times, and he is not much smarter than them.
But... let's take a look anyway.
Su Ming picked up his phone and was about to call Sylvie when he suddenly remembered that there was another person he could ask.
No, not a person, but a demon.
The devil of love.
