Chapter 178 — Unjustly Accused to Death
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"Oh?" Wei Zhao had noticed her strange mood as well, and gave her a deep look. She seemed to regard this matter as taboo.
"You'd best stay out of this affair," Qiu Lingshan said, in a rare display of concern for Wei Zhao. "Neither Captain Yang nor I can touch this man now, and neither can the chief. If you get involved, you'd better watch that your little life isn't forfeit! Just be a good little follower and do your job."
"If he doesn't provoke me, I can't be bothered with him either." Wei Zhao smiled.
Qiu Lingshan shot him a look of contempt, taking his words for boasting.
She parked the car at the gate of First High School and unlocked the doors. "I'll remember today's business. I owe you a favor—I'll treat you to a meal one of these days."
"Sure." Wei Zhao nodded and agreed without a moment's thought.
"..." Qiu Lingshan was momentarily at a loss for words. She had meant the invitation sincerely, but couldn't he have shown at least a little modesty in accepting? A token refusal would have been the proper thing.
Wei Zhao paid no mind to what Qiu Lingshan was thinking. He got out of the car and walked toward the school.
Inside the Geli Fuyun Bar, Li Cihua had already smashed four or five bottles of wine from the '80s. Red liquid covered the floor like fresh blood—a truly horrifying sight. Su Jiaonang stood to one side, head lowered, holding out the '82 Lafite a waiter had just brought over. "Brother Cihua, here..."
"Damn it all to hell!" Li Cihua snatched the bottle and smashed it glass-first into the LCD television before him. The screen split open at once, and red wine splattered everywhere.
An '82 Lafite was certainly worth a fortune, but that depended on what you compared it to. Set against two Yellow-rank experts, the wine was nothing. Two Yellow-rank experts, no less—one at the early Yellow rank, the other already at the Yellow-rank peak. Set down in the provincial capital, either of them could walk the streets unopposed, and yet they had died in a car crash???
Li Cihua found this very hard to accept. If they had truly been beaten to death, he could have swallowed that—their skills had been inferior, and no one else was to blame. But these two had died unjustly. The scene-investigation report was already in his hands, and still uneasy, he had sent several more experts to look into it, yet the findings remained simple...
The front-left tire had blown out, the car had suddenly veered off course, and at such high speed it lost control and ploughed straight into a ditch... As for how the front-left tire had blown, that could not be determined, for the tire had burned to ashes, and at present judgment could only be made from the tire tracks on the road surface.
Li Cihua did suspect that Wei Zhao might have had a hand in this, but there was no evidence... And besides, he did not believe Wei Zhao could have done anything to a car traveling at such speed...
Still, Li Cihua set this debt down to Wei Zhao's account. If not for the need to hunt him down, would those two Yellow-rank experts have died in a car crash?
Li Cihua's heart was bleeding. Without those two Yellow-rank experts at his side, many of his affairs had become difficult to handle... The only thing left to do now was to call the person behind him and beg forgiveness.