Chapter nine hundred and seventy-six, a flower-picking thief with quirks?
Ji Zhi took a deep breath. Regarding Lin Xiaojin's death, he felt much more grief, anger and discomfort than anyone else.
Over the years, he suffered from low self-esteem due to factors such as his obesity and low strength. Although he liked Lin Xiaojin very much, he never dared to express his feelings at all. He could only accompany and protect her as an older brother.
He was already deeply satisfied with this.
But I never expected that such a sad thing would happen one day.
He has been investigating this tragedy for these years, but he still has no clue, and he feels a bit helpless and helpless.
Seeing Lin Liyun return today felt like he had found support and a backbone, and he immediately told everything he knew.
"It was a rainy night three years ago. There was lightning and thunder, and there were not many people in the streets and alleys of Xuanjin City..."
Lin Bairu interrupted: "Tell me the important point!"
Ji Zhi immediately changed his mind: "At that time, it was only a month or so before you, Brother Liyun, entered the Earthly Mysterious Realm. According to your instructions, I sent my trusted bodyguards to secretly guard Miss Jin outside the Douzhi Restaurant every day. Originally, everything was fine.
Well, until that thunderstorm night, my guard saw that the weather was bad and no one was moving on the street outside. He thought nothing would happen again, so he neglected his duty and found a tavern..."
"Being too drunk has ruined things!" Ji Zhi clenched his fists angrily, "When that bitch came to the bean juice restaurant after three drinks, Miss Jin... she had hanged herself on the beam."
There was anger in Lu Feng's eyes, "Where is that bodyguard who neglected his duty now!?"
Ji Zhi said: "After I received the news that night, I came to the scene immediately despite the thunderstorm. After seeing the mess at the scene, I couldn't control my grief and anger, and sent someone to punish the guard!"
Ji Zhi has always been a kind-hearted person, but this was the first time since childhood that he took the initiative to kill someone!
Lin Bairu was puzzled: "Do you know why Xiaojin hanged herself?"
"She..." Ji Zhi gritted his teeth and said, "She was forced!"
Lu Feng frowned secretly, "What do you mean?"
Ji Zhi was full of anger and said: "Miss Jin... When I arrived, I saw her clothes were torn, her hair was messy, and she was filthy. I speculated that she must have suffered inhuman humiliation before she died. She was wronged and humiliated, and she was so ashamed.
That’s why I chose to hang myself!”
When Lu Feng heard the word "humiliated", he already vaguely understood why Lin Xiaojin committed suicide. He knew a little about the life experiences of Lin Xiaojin and Lin Xiaowan. He knew that their mothers had been humiliated in the first place.
After leaving the chance of life to them, they chose to die. Mother and daughter have the same character, and they both value innocence more seriously than life and death.
Lin Bairu knew this, and he said angrily: "Does Lin Bajian know about this!?"
Ji Zhi said: "I looked for him afterwards and informed him of this, but he chose to settle the matter. He did not advocate anything for Miss Jin, nor did he ask further about the matter. He just thought she had hanged herself..."
Lin Bairu was so angry that he waved his sleeves and said, "How unreasonable! He, the head of the family, has really insulted the Lin family's tradition. He swallows his anger and turns a blind eye like this. Where does he put the dignity of the Lin family!"
Lu Feng thought to himself, knowing that Lin Baijian had just "usurped the throne" and became the head of the family. Logically speaking, such an incident was a good opportunity for him to establish prestige within the family. The reason why he chose to keep quiet and swallow his anger so unnaturally was that he was afraid that
It’s not that I don’t want to investigate, it’s that I don’t dare to investigate further!
The murderer who insulted Lin Xiaojin was most likely a presence that the Lin family could not contend with at that time!
At the moment, Lu Feng inquired further: "Are there any clues left at the scene?"
Ji Zhi shook his head solemnly: "There were no obvious signs of fighting at the scene, but there were a lot of very strange things."
Lu Feng was curious: "What's so strange?"
Ji Zhi recalled and said: "With the decline of the Lin family, the Doujiu Restaurant at that time had almost no business. It was especially cold and cold at night, and there were basically no customers. But strangely enough, the thunderstorm environment that night
Next, there was actually a table with side dishes and bean juice, and some of them were eaten."
Lin Bairu was surprised: "Could there be witnesses that night? If we can find the guests that day, we might be able to know who killed Xiao Jin."
Lu Feng thought about it and said, "It's also possible that that person is the murderer!"
Ji Zhi agreed: "I have inquired many times and even offered a high reward. If that person was a witness, I would be interested, but no one has come to the door. I think that person is mostly suspected of being the murderer. I can make Miss Jin
He has no power to resist, at least he has the strength of the middle and late stages of the Earth Soul Realm!"
Lu Feng nodded and motioned for Ji Zhi to continue.
"In addition, there is another particularly strange place," Ji Zhi's face became a little embarrassed and angry when he mentioned this.
"That man...that man even brought a basin of water to clean Miss Jin's feet before he insulted her!"
At first, when Ji Zhi first saw a foot-washing bucket under the beam where Lin Xiaojin hanged herself, she was surprised for a long time. She saw some petals floating on the water in the bucket, and thought it was prepared by Lin Xiaojin herself. But then she thought about the fact that there were customers in the bean juice restaurant.
, with Lin Xiaojin’s temperament, she would definitely not take out such an uncivilized foot-washing bucket...
It wasn't until I saw Lin Xiaojin's dangling feet after hanging herself, with her shoes and socks removed, that there was still a faint fragrance of petals, that I came to this conclusion.
Lu Feng was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously asked: "Did we meet a flower-picking thief with weird quirks?"
Ji Zhi shook his head and said: "I have never heard of such a person in the Xuanjin City area, and there have never been any similar victims."
Lu Feng then thought and asked one more question, "Xiaojin...does her feet smell strange?"
Ji Zhi immediately argued: "Miss Jin has always been close to Miss Chu. The two of them often rub their bodies with balsam. Their feet are not even smelly, so how can there be a strange smell?"
Lu Feng's face was stern, "How do you know this?"
Ji Zhi blushed and said awkwardly: "Brother Liyun, in order to help me please Miss Jin, you accidentally mentioned that you asked me to buy more balsam for the lantern festival."
Lu Feng paused, then changed the subject and said, "But there are other strange things."
Ji Zhi nodded and said solemnly and resentfully: "After Miss Jin's accident, she was picked up by the Lin family at that time. I came to inquire about the specific cause of her death. I wanted to know whether she really hanged herself or was hung from a beam after her death.
, but was rejected by the head of the Lin family at that time."
There was a bit of embarrassment on his face as he said, "I didn't give up, so I bribed the guards in the house and asked a woman who is proficient in the art of martial arts to sneak in and check it out."
Lu Feng was shocked, "What's the result?"
"The result..." Ji Zhi sighed and said unbearably: "The author claimed that Miss Jin hanged herself, but two palm prints of different sizes were found on her body..."
"I suspect that there was more than one person who bullied Miss Jin that night!"
Lu Feng and Lin Bairu were stunned when they heard these words, with anger visible in their eyes.