Chapter 88: Chapter 88: The Ancestral Inquiry
Song Taishan furrowed his brow, just as he was about to speak, a cold female voice suddenly interjected from the side.
“A lot of whites in the eyes, cloudy pupils, messy eyebrows, malevolence hidden in the eyes and brows, the child’s death, it’s related to you, isn’t it?”
Jiangli stared straight at the security guard, speaking in a calm tone.
Upon hearing this, everyone’s gaze sharply turned toward the security guard.
The security guard jumped in fright, looking at Jiangli with trepidation, and with gritted teeth said, “You, this young lady, what nonsense are you talking about here! What child, I don’t understand a word you’re saying!”
“The karmic obstruction between your eyebrows is heavy, you’ve taken several lives, haven’t you?” Jiangli looked straight at him, “But I can see that you’re not a man of great ambition, this matter wouldn’t be your mastermind. Since we’ve already come here, it proves we must have some evidence in hand. Once this building is excavated and something is discovered, your guilt will be established. If I were you, I’d just admit it obediently at this moment, confess the mastermind behind the scenes, this way your responsibility will be greatly reduced. If you stubbornly refuse to admit it, once the Governor’s Office digs out the evidence themselves, you won’t be able to reduce your sentence, and who knows, you might even end up paying with your life.”
The security guard’s face turned alternately pale and green, his eyelid twitched violently, looking at Jiangli with horror, not knowing who this little girl was, how she could know so much…
Song Taishan was also an experienced criminal investigator; he immediately recognized that something was off with the security guard’s expression and said in a heavy voice, “Alright, if you don’t want to talk, there’s no need to speak. Xiaozhang, find an excavator, let’s break this building open!”
The security guard turned pale, the workers behind him exchanged glances, fear appearing in their eyes.
Jiangli caught the change in their expressions and looked over at the two of them, “Do you two know something?”
She gave the pair a look.
“Looking at your facial features, you don’t seem like bad people. If you know something, just speak up. It’s not related to you anyway, consider it doing a good deed.”
Hearing Jiangli’s words, the two workers subconsciously shook their heads.
“If you don’t speak, then it’s harboring a criminal!” Song Taishan’s gaze was stern as he stared at the two, “Do you want to go to prison together!”
Before the security guard could react, the two workers caved.
They hurriedly responded.
“Actually, we really don’t know what happened, but when the foundation of this building was being constructed, there were always complications. Not only was it difficult to drive the piles into the ground, but nearby equipment would often break down. If it wasn’t the scaffolding collapsing, it was machines breaking down for no reason…”
“Back then we heard the foreman and the manager from the developer’s side say that this might be due to something underground, which made it tough to drive the piles…”
“Later on, no one knew how, but after a few days, the foundation could be driven down.”
They had thought it was just an ordinary matter.
But on the nights when construction resumed, when the two of them were on duty, after they came back from having their midnight snack, they saw the foreman and the security guard throwing something into the foundation, then covering it with thick mud.
At the time, they felt something was off, and from a distance, the object looked like a human shape, but fearing they were mistaken, they didn’t dare to go over and ask, acting as if this incident had never happened.
Only after hearing Jiangli mention there was a dead body below did the two of them remember this incident.
Hearing their words, Liu Rongrong roared with resentment, “Give me back my son, give me back my son!”
She lunged forward, unceasingly pounding on the security guard, as if wanting to kill him, to avenge her child.
Xu Yang also rushed over.
Song Taishan quickly signaled to the people around him with a look, prompting them to step forward and intervene.
The police quickly pulled apart Xu Yang and Liu Rongrong.