Ten years ago.
Wang Yanlin was about to join the police force, but after his information was processed, he changed his mind and wanted to join the Dao Ren organization.
Deserting at the last minute was a serious offense. Just as Wang Yanlin was wavering, Wang Xia appeared.
He was in dire straits and thought that being a police officer would bring him a salary and allow him to walk the streets with authority. He offered to take Wang Yanlin's place.
And so, there were two Wang Yanlins.
The real Wang Yanlin lived a life of crime in the Dao Ren organization, while the fake Wang Yanlin lived the life of a police officer in the police station.
Originally, this matter would not have been a big deal. But one day, Wang Xia found Wang Yanlin.
He said he had stumbled upon a murder case. To protect himself, he used his police identity to help the perpetrator escape. However, to his surprise, the other party became entangled with him and demanded that he act as an informant for the police station, reporting any wind of information.
Wang Xia initially refused, but his life was threatened, so he eventually agreed.
The other party also gave him a considerable sum of money as a token of appreciation.
Hearing this, Wang Yanlin understood. "Life threatened" was clearly just succumbing to the temptation of money.
However, Wang Yanlin didn't think too much about it at first, only urging Wang Xia to be careful. But he never expected the Dao Ren organization to become even more demanding, asking Wang Xia to use his police identity to provide false testimony.
This time, Wang Xia became clever.
He might try to do some behind-the-scenes work for money, but he would never get involved in anything in the open. However, Wang Xia was unwilling to give up the commission he had already obtained, so he deceived a friend he knew and asked him to provide false testimony.
But he did not expect that shortly after the other party testified, the assassination to silence him began.
Hearing this, Ouyang Wen was the first to lose his composure.
"Wait! You're saying Wang Xia was working for the Dao Ren organization?"
"Yes!"
"Providing false testimony? For what?"
Ouyang Wen's voice trembled. He vaguely felt as if he had guessed the answer.
"It was the shooting case that caused a big stir back then, and a police officer died," Wang Yangang said.
"So, the mastermind behind the shooting ten years ago was Dao Ren?" Ouyang Wen stood up abruptly, almost losing his balance from the sudden movement.
Lu Qingqing was also agitated, but she was a little better than Ouyang Wen. However, she understood Ouyang Wen's失态 (loss of composure), as he had been investigating the case for so many years and had unexpectedly stumbled upon a relevant clue.
"I don't know the specifics. I only know that Wang Xia was supposed to provide false testimony for this matter, but he didn't go," Wang Yangang thought Ouyang Wen's strong reaction was due to stumbling upon such a major case.
Ouyang Wen's eyes were wide with rage, his eyes reddened, and his body trembled slightly. He even unconsciously reached for the gun he was carrying.
Oh, right, this gun belonged to Hu Jia. She had given it to him when she came to Huayan Village.
Seeing that Ouyang Wen's emotions were a bit unstable, Lu Qingqing got up and patted his hand. That silent calmness quickly helped Ouyang Wen regain some composure.
"Continue," Lu Qingqing said to Wang Yangang.
"Our Second Boss knew about my relationship with Wang Xia and sent me to kill Wang Xia. I didn't expect Wang Yanlin to see it." Wang Yangang was still recalling, but Lu Qingqing interrupted him, "You've already said that. Skip it. But I'm very curious why they dismembered the body for the assassination?"
"That's because I pressed Wang Xia for the whereabouts of the key, and he said he swallowed it."
"The key?"
Why did a key come up again?
"I don't know about that. The Second Boss asked me to find it. But I didn't dare to open his stomach myself. As it turned out, I was right."
Wang Yangang said that after he decapitated the other party, he only took Wang Xia's upper body back. As a result, the Second Boss really didn't find the key in Wang Xia's stomach. He was also glad that he hadn't opened Wang Xia's stomach on his own, otherwise, he would have had no way to explain himself.
"What key is so important?"
"I really don't know. Later, I heard that the key was related to someone named Mu Jixuan. We even investigated for a long time, but it was all in vain."
Who?
This time, even Lu Qingqing stood up.
Mu Jixuan?
Wasn't that the person who was burned to death five years ago in front of Hu Jia?
Things seemed to be getting more and more complicated.
"By the way, there are a few words on the wall of Wang Xia's ancestral home. What do they mean?" This had always been a mystery that troubled Lu Qingqing.
Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, Wang Yangang reacted immediately: "It was you?"
"What do you mean, me?"
"Did you erase those words?"
"I don't have that much time."
Lu Qingqing looked at Wang Yangang's overly excited expression. "What? Does erasing those words have a special meaning?"
She thought of Tong Meng. Tong Meng had originally intended to scratch the wall but fled in fright.
"Since it wasn't you, then it really was them," Wang Yangang said cryptically, but no one interrupted him.
If his confession just now was a form of helplessness, then his next words conveyed a sense of desolation.
"Do you know why I'm cooperating with you?" Saying this, Wang Yangang picked up a pen and wrote down those words: "Ming gui lian, xue xian leng, feng qi si hai."
Wang Yangang said that after he killed Wang Xia, Wang Yanlin threatened him for money. He didn't explain clearly, but wrote these words on the wall of Wang Xia's ancestral home because these words contained the names of the leaders of Wang Yangang's group.
"Your little leader's name?" Lu Qingqing looked at the sentence carefully. "Lian Xian Hai?"
"You know him?" Wang Yangang was startled. "He's been missing for a long time."
Lu Qingqing didn't answer, gesturing for Wang Yangang to continue.
"No one usually goes to that old house, so even if someone saw the words, they wouldn't do anything special. Only I, when I saw it, would erase the writing on the wall, indicating my agreement to pay."
Wang Yangang said that on the night of the fire, Wang Yanlin, seeing that the words on the wall had been erased, went to find Liu Li. But Liu Li knew nothing about it and didn't have a large amount of cash at home.
So Wang Yanlin thought Wang Yangang had played him, and they got into an argument. "He said he killed accidentally, but no matter what, we both knew we were being set up. The purpose was to expose us and make us bear the crime of killing Wang Xia."
According to the analysis of the Wang brothers, Dao Ren planned for Wang Yanlin to kill Wang Yangang. Even if Wang Yanlin didn't kill Wang Yangang, Dao Ren would make a move.
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"But shouldn't Dao Ren have covered up Wang Xia's matter? Why did they actively expose it?" Gao Liang asked confusedly.
"Perhaps they wanted this effect. By exposing Wang Xia, we would suspect Wang Yanlin, and then they would quietly kill him, staging it as a suicide due to guilt, and everything would be resolved," Lu Qingqing speculated.
Lu Qingqing's guess was correct. Lord Liu did indeed have such plans.
However, his purpose in exposing Wang Xia's death was only to test Hu Jia's reaction. After all, the key was missing, and no one knew where it was.
If Hu Jia knew the whereabouts of the key, he would definitely know about Wang Xia. As long as he showed the slightest sign of knowing Wang Xia, it would prove that he knew of the key's existence.
But unexpectedly, Liu Li died that night, and all his plans were disrupted.
But he also didn't expect that Hu Jia had amnesia and was captured by him.
However, Lord Liu also proved one thing: Hu Jia truly did not know the key's location, because he had never even heard of Wang Xia.
Of course, it was fortunate that Hu Jia didn't know, otherwise, he might have been seriously injured by now.