Chapter 148: Chapter 148 Song’s Mother: I’m Offline? 2
Secretly pleased, Song’s mother nodded, "Understood!"
Having plenty of free time at home, Song’s mother enjoyed watching TV. The whelp from Prison Star thought she could outsmart her, as if Song’s mother hadn’t watched enough dramas! The greenhorn from Prison Star indeed lacked sophistication. Song’s mother was not to be fooled!
Madam Lu said, "Alright, let’s do it your way."
Si Mingjing went to prepare the solution.
Ye Shen followed her.
At the entrance of the hall, he told Si Mingjing, "Sis... Mingjing, your plan won’t work, you know. You haven’t been on Earth for long and you might not realize that what you’re proposing is a common trick everyone knows about because it’s often shown on TV."
"I know." Si Mingjing was confident of her winning hand.
"And yet you still suggest this method? I guarantee the murderer knows it too. Do you believe me?"
Si Mingjing looked up and glanced at Ye Shen. "Ever heard the story of ’The Boy Who Cried Wolf’?"
"What?"
Si Mingjing’s phoenix eyes narrowed slightly. "I truly applied luminous wax inside my handbag, which can be revealed with a special solution."
"So?"
Ye Shen smacked his forehead, suddenly excited. "Haha, I get it! It’s precisely because everyone knows this is a clichéd TV trope that the murderer will certainly think it’s just a psychological tactic. She won’t hesitate to put her hand in the solution. Haha, this is good!"
Soon, Si Mingjing finished preparing the solution and returned to the hall. She smiled faintly, her elegant long hair flowing like a startled swan.
Ye Shen carried a basin of the solution, placing it in the center of the hall. The faint, chemical odor of the solution stung everyone’s nostrils.
It wasn’t very pleasant, but every person present dipped their hands in the solution for a moment, including Song’s mother.
After soaking her hand, Song’s mother laughed secretly to herself. Such an overconfident whelp! Let’s see how you’ll investigate!
"Has everyone soaked their hands? Please raise your hands up high; I’m going to close the curtains now."
Song’s mother was the first to raise her hand high, so full of confidence.
She couldn’t help but snicker to herself. I’ve eaten more salt than you’ve eaten rice; how could I fall for your trick?
At that moment, with a WHOOSH, the curtains of the hall closed, the door shut tight, and the hall was plunged into darkness.
Immediately, a faint green glow began to emerge from Song’s mother’s raised hands, standing out starkly in the darkened hall.
Before Song’s mother could react, people around her had already started to look towards her glowing palms.
"It’s her! The murderer is here!"
Song’s mother, seeing her hands glowing with a faint green light, was completely stunned. "How could this be?"
Wasn’t it said that it was just a psychological tactic? Why did the lines on her hands faintly glow green?
The reversal was too sudden; Song’s mother couldn’t process it!
In her mind, she was still thinking that victory should have been hers!
"No, it’s really not me!" Song’s mother hurriedly explained. "Look over there! Someone else’s hands are glowing green!"
In the pitch-black hall, indeed, another pair of hands glowed faintly green—it was the Lu Family’s bodyguard.
"I checked Miss Si’s handbag. It’s natural my hands would get coated with the luminous wax, so what’s strange about my hands glowing green?"
Indeed, upon hearing this, everyone felt there was no issue. It wasn’t strange at all; in fact, it proved that Si Mingjing’s handbag was indeed smeared with luminous wax. Whoever touched it, their hands would glow green.
Song’s mother cried out in panic, "There’s more, look, another person’s hands are glowing; the real murderer must be that person!"
"I am Si Mingjing!"
There was another pair of hands glowing green at the scene—it was Si Mingjing herself. She was bound to touch her own bag, and that was no issue.
Besides these three individuals, no one else’s hands at the scene were glowing green.
Therefore, who the murderer was, was clear at a glance.
Madam Lu strode over, grabbed Song’s mother’s hand, and said, "Open the curtains. I want to see who is so malicious as to use my daughter to harm others!"
With a SWISH, the curtains were drawn.
Everyone turned towards the same direction, their gazes falling on Song’s mother’s face.
They couldn’t believe it. How could it be her? Wasn’t Si Mingjing her own granddaughter? Was she actually harming her own granddaughter?
Song’s mother shrieked, "It’s not me! Really, it’s not me! Why would I harm my own granddaughter? I did touch her handbag. Just now, I touched it a bit and accidentally got some on my hands. That’s all, yes, that’s exactly it."
Si Mingjing showed a hurt expression.
"Yes, I am your own granddaughter. How could you sneak the pudding balls into my bag?
Is it because...I inherited the estate my mother left me?
But that estate was legitimately mine to begin with. Shouldn’t I claim what is rightfully mine?"
With just a simple statement, she had provided a motive for Song’s mother.
The other parents began to understand. Si Mingjing returned to Earth and inherited the estate her mother left her, but Song’s mother couldn’t bear it, so she wanted to harm her.
Indeed, money is the root of all evil.
So they all believed the motive for harm that Si Mingjing had described.
Si Mingjing said, her voice laced with hurt, "Even so, Teacher Wei and Lu Nannan are innocent. How could you involve innocent people just to harm me?"
Ye Shen and Si Mingjing played off each other.
"Isn’t it simple? If Teacher Wei and Lu Nannan had somehow offended this elderly Madame Song, then surely it must be connected to Song Tiantian. Otherwise, how could there be any interaction between them?"
Everyone felt that Ye Shen made a lot of sense.
One of the parents said, "Could it be that Lu Nannan bullied Song Tiantian?"
Another parent took the opportunity to say, "Lu Nannan often uses a water gun to spray other students, and she has sprayed my daughter too. I mentioned this to Teacher Wei, but she seemed too soft and perhaps inexperienced in handling such matters."
That parent had put it very tactfully. In other words, they meant that Teacher Wei couldn’t even handle such a small issue, didn’t dare to offend the Lu Family, and let other children be wronged, which was bound to make other parents resentful.
Teacher Wei said, "I..."
She wanted to explain but didn’t know how to start. She had spoken to Lu Nannan and had also given feedback to Madam Lu, who always said she would properly educate her daughter. Yet Lu Nannan never changed.
Si Mingjing approached Song Tiantian. "Tiantian, tell sister, did Lu Nannan also spray you with a water gun?"
Fang Jing immediately pulled her daughter behind her. "How could such a thing happen? Tiantian has never been bullied."
Song Tiantian was extremely aggrieved. "Mom, you’re lying! Lu Nannan has bullied me; she always bullies me, and Teacher Wei doesn’t care. Grandma said she would take revenge for me."
Fang Jing immediately covered her daughter’s mouth.
But at that moment, everything became clear to the parents present.
Ye Shen spoke loudly, "Case closed! Lu Nannan frequently bullies Song Tiantian with a water gun. Because Teacher Wei has a timid nature and didn’t handle it properly, Madame Song decided to retaliate against them. Madame Song, do you have anything else to explain?"
Song’s mother seemed as though her backbone had been extracted.
She collapsed to the ground, trembling all over.
Desperate to explain, she found herself at a loss for words. What should she do now? What could she do? Why did it seem that every time she tried to avenge her daughter, she ended up hurting herself?