CH 094 WHO IS TELLING THE TRUTH?

He Qianjian’s gaze changed suddenly. He sat forward and was about to speak, the excuse already on the tip of his tongue when he caught a glimpse of He Yanfeng’s expression from the corner of his eye. And as if a basin of cold water was poured on his head, he regained his senses, and sat stiffly, lips pressing tightly close.

Yu Fei took in the expressions of the He family members, and at the same time he was relieved, he also had some doubts. He suppressed the suspicion in his eyes, and said calmly: “Then, can you tell me about the conflict between you two?”

Jiang Chen raised his eyes, his gaze sweeping mildly over He Qianjian’s stiff expression and clenched jaw.

“It’s a long story.” He curved his lip upwards lightly, but then quickly lowered it, and said softly: “Does Officer Yu want me to start from the beginning or give a brief summary.”

“From the beginning, the more detailed the better.” Yu Fei glanced at the He family and asked, “Do you need to find a separate room?”

“No need, the He family should also know about this.” Jiang Chen pondered for a moment, then slowly said: “In June 2000, I witnessed a car accident on Beiguang Middle Road. A truck collided with a small car, there were no other pedestrians on the street, so I pulled out the driver of the car and the two boys inside by myself.”

After hearing Jiang Chen’s first words, the He family members’ attention sharpened. When he mentioned the time and place, the expressions of the He family members changed suddenly, so He Qianjian’s sudden shift in expression didn’t seem so out of place.

Jiang Chen didn’t seem to notice the sudden change in the He family’s expression. He patted He Qianmin’s knee lightly and continued, “The last boy I pulled out was the youngest and the most seriously injured. I originally wanted to wait until the ambulance arrived, but at that time there was an urgent matter regarding my family and I was in a hurry, so I entrusted him to the passers-by who appeared later, and left first.”

Yu Fei glanced at He Qianjian thoughtfully, withdrew his gaze and nodded, signaling Jiang Chen to continue.

Jiang Chen: “About a week after the car accident, my friend found out that someone was following me and before the day of the high school entrance exam, someone hit me with a bicycle.”

Yu Fei said, “How can you be sure that person was following you?”

“He admitted it himself.” Jiang Chen replied lightly, “From the day of the car accident, he has been secretly following me for nearly three years.”

“Three and a half years?” The young policeman asked: “You can report this kind of situation, and why didn’t you mention it when we asked you about any abnormal signs around you?”

“Because I’m sure he has nothing to do with this incident.” Jiang Chen said: “And I only found out about him following me this semester, I didn’t know about it before.”

“Why did he hit you? Was it related to the car accident you witnessed?” Yu Fei grasped the key point instantly.

Jiang Chen’s eyes fell on He Qianjian, whose forehead was already dripping with cold sweat. He paused for two seconds, then withdrew his gaze and said, “Because I was going to the hospital to see the injured little boy before I was hit by him.”

Yu Fei hit the nail on the head: “You mean that the person who was following you injured you in order to prevent you from going to the hospital.”

The young policeman couldn’t hold back his words, and quickly asked, “Why? Is there something strange about that car accident?”

Jiang Chen glanced at the expressions of everyone in the He family, and finally landed on He Qianjian: “It’s not just strange, it’s even supernatural.” He didn’t keep them waiting long, and continued: “Before the car accident happened, I had already noticed that arriving car, the car was driving south, and the older boy was sitting behind the driver, but after the accident, he appeared in the seat behind the co-passenger, and the boy in the seat behind the driver became the little boy I rescued last.”

Yang Yun’s expression changed drastically, and she looked at He Qianjian suddenly. He Yanfeng held her hand tightly, shook his head slightly at her, and stopped what she wanted to say.

In fact, the shock in his heart was no less than that of his wife. Although he had received the surveillance video from Jiang Chen before, even though he had doubts about the car accident that year, before Jiang Chen told the situation in person as a witness, he still held the hope that all this might be just a misunderstanding. However, Jiang Chen’s words were like a blow to the head, completely waking him up.

Not only did He Yanfeng feel a blow to the head, but He Qianjian also felt dizzy as if he had been bludgeoned in the head as well. He never expected that Jiang Chen would tell this matter in front of the He family and the police at this time. He lowered his head and did not dare to raise his eyes, for fear of seeing the cold and hateful eyes of the He family.

At this moment, the only thing he could do was call the system over and over again in his mind.

Probably sensing his urgency, the system finally responded this time.

[What is it?]

The cold electronic voice mixed with a staticy current was like heavenly music to his ears, and He Qianjian’s tense nerves relaxed a little. He was afraid that the system would ignore him again, so he didn’t talk nonsense and didn’t dare to complain at all, just quickly relayed the whole situation.

The system didn’t speak for a while after hearing this, and He Qianjian anxiously called in his mind: [System? System! Are you still here?]

At this moment, Yu Fei who digested the information continued to ask: “Are you sure that you saw correctly?”

“Yes.” Jiang Chen said: “The car accident happened in an instant, and the boys in the back seat were both wearing seat belts. It is impossible to have the time to quickly switch positions and then fasten their seat belts again. When I rescued them, their seat belts were still fastened, I remember this clearly.”

“How is that possible?” The young policeman didn’t believe it: “You must have been mistaken.”

“He isn’t mistaken.” He Qianmin lowered his eyes and said calmly, “I was the little boy who was in the car accident at that time.”

The young policeman was stunned for a moment, and looked at Yu Fei in a daze.

Yu Fei had already seen something from the expressions of the He family members, so he was not surprised to hear He Qianmin’s words at this time, and in a flash of insight he latched onto the key point: “The older boy was He Qianjian?”

Jiang Chen turned his head slightly and looked at He Qianjian.

Yu Fei and the young policeman followed his gaze. He Qianjian had his head lowered and no one could see his expression clearly, as if he didn’t know that everyone was looking at him.

Just when the young policeman thought that He Qianjian was guilty, he slowly raised his head, looked straight at Jiang Chen and said, “You were indeed the one who rescued me and Qian Min back then, I am very grateful to you, but I don’t know whether you remember wrong or there are other reasons for saying this? I am just an ordinary person. I can neither predict the car accident nor change places with others in an instant. If I really have this ability, won’t I be Superman?” He laughed self-deprecatingly, looked at Yu Fei and said, “If you doubt me, I can accept an interrogation, and I am willing to cooperate even if I am sent to the laboratory for tests. Right now I don’t have any evidence that I didn’t do it so I can only prove to everyone that I really am a normal person.”

Yu Fei said: “We’re just here to inquire and investigate, we aren’t here to arrest people for tests. Can we continue?” The last part was directed at Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen nodded, ignoring the complicated looks of the people in the living room, and briefly talked about Sun Zhi threatening Zhang Zhipeng in the second semester of his second year, Sun Zhi leading his cronies to block him outside the alley, and the conflict that happened at the skating rink during the summer vacation. “Sun Zhi was afraid of being expelled by the school, so he went to me directly, and used what He Qianjian told him to do as a bargaining chip, asking me to intercede for him in front of the school leaders.”

“All those things were ordered by He Qianjian?”

He Qianmin turned his head to look at He Qianjian, hooked up one corner of his mouth and said, “I was also there when Sun Zhi said this, and all the text messages he sent and received on his mobile phone are there. We backed them up just in case, I know you are very cautious, you have been using another mobile phone to contact Sun Zhi, but we still found your IP, do we need to show it to you?”

Facing He Qianmin’s mocking look, He Qianjian tried his best to hide his ugly expression.

He dared to imply that the truth of the car accident was slander by Jiang Chen and He Qianmin, because the system told him that even if Jiang Chen and the others insisted on it being the truth they could not find any evidence. And this was indeed the case, but he couldn’t guarantee that Sun Zhi did not leave any evidence behind or whether Jiang Chen had actually traced his IP.

Although the system was in his head, it did not obey his orders unconditionally, and because of the restrictions of the system rules, the system would only take action when he used the exchange and optimal selection functions. For a period of time, He Qianjian and Sun Zhi had to make contact almost every day, and it was impossible to order the system to hide his IP every time, so he had to find a way to buy a phone card that claimed to hide information from the black market and then contact Sun Zhi.

Seeing that He Qianjian remained silent, He Qianmin snorted coldly: “You aren’t going to say that this is evidence that my brother and I forged to frame you, right?”

He Qianjian asked in panick: [What should I do?]

System: [Admit to it.]

[Admit to it?!] He Qianjian screamed in his mind: [If I admit to it then I can’t stay in the He family any longer!]

[I already said earlier not to do these useless things.] The system said coldly: [With me here, you can become an elite anywhere, why must you stay in the He family.]

[I must stay in the He family!] He Qianjian gritted his teeth and said: [I exchanged these things with Jiang Chen, and they are mine after the exchange. Why should he take them back.]

[Then admit to it.] Seemingly knowing that He Qianjian would refute, the system quickly continued: [You just need to admit what happened after the entrance exam.]

He Qianjian pondered for a long time, and suddenly realized: [Sun Zhi lost his mobile phone in his first year of high school, and his current mobile phone was bought later, and there is no evidence that I asked him to follow Jiang Chen.]

He Qianjian looked at Jiang Chen with a shamed look on his face: “I admit that I didn’t do well in the practice college entrance exam before, so I asked Sun Zhi to make trouble for you on the spur of the moment, and later on at the skating rink because I was worried about the final exam results, so I started a fight with you, I was too narrow-minded, I’m sorry.”

“But I don’t admit that Sun Zhi followed you, including him hitting you with a bicycle, was on my order. You were also my savior at that time. It’s not possible that I would stop you from coming to the hospital to see Qian Min and me.” He Qianjian said with an honest expression: “I admit to everything I have done, and I know I was wrong, but I cannot admit to what I have not done.”

Jiang Chen raised his eyes in surprise, and He Qianmin gave him an expression that said “I had expected this”. It was at this moment that Jiang Chen knew why the He family hadn’t seen the slightest flaw in He Qianjian’s lies for so many years, because he was too well versed in mixing lies with truth. He Qianmin was right, He Qianjian’s acting skills in the study before were really not as good as they were now.

Yu Fei suddenly asked: “The day before Jiang Chen’s accident, what were you doing with flowers at Li De Building?”

“I went to find——” The system’s voice suddenly sounded in his mind, He Qianjian’s voice paused, and then he continued naturally: “A friend of mine, but I didn’t bring any flowers that day, and that girl is also a friend of my fiancée. It’s not possible that I would bring flowers to a friend of my fiancée.”

Yu Fei said: “But someone saw you bring a bouquet of flowers into the elevator that day, and when you got off, it disappeared.”

He Qianjian said: “That person must have been mistaken. It isn’t possible that I would bring flowers to my fiancée’s friend.”

Yu Fei stared closely at He Qianjian’s expression, then looked away. He nodded to old Mr. He and said, “Then that’s all for our inquiry today, excuse us.”

“Didn’t you want to ask Qian Jian questions?” Old Mr. He said asked mildly.

“We already know what we need to know.” Yu Fei stood up: “I’ve bothered Mr. He today, and I will visit and apologize for the offense in a few days.”

“No need.” Old Mr. He waved his hand and said, “As if I don’t know what kind of kid you are, just go.”

Yu Fei smiled, and with the surprised look on the young policeman’s face, he said goodbye to the He family and left the old house.

On the car back to the police station, the young policeman couldn’t hold back his curiosity, and asked, “Boss, was this trip wasted? Why do I feel like we didn’t find anything?”

While driving, Yu Fei asked calmly in response, “Which of them do you think was telling the truth?”

“I think what they said all seem to be true, but the car accident part is indeed rather supernatural. I don’t really believe that anyone can switch their positions with others in an instant, but the surveillance video that Xiao Liu mentioned is also quite supernatural, and all of these supernatural things showed up on the same person. Even if it’s a coincidence…..” The young policeman leaned over and said, “What about you? Boss, who do you think was telling the truth?”

“There are clues hidden behind everything that appears unreasonable, and uncovering those clues will bring the truth.” Yu Fei curled his lips and said, “Send someone to watch He Qianjian. I want to see if he really does possess abilities beyond that of ordinary people.”