Chapter 4342 — Show Me the Evidence!
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"First—Guan Zhiyuan and I returned over a month ago, yet you dragged on until now. If you had no dealings with the pirates, why didn't you come back with us in the first place?" Li Yanji sneered in triumph.
At these words, the crowd nodded one after another. This was indeed no small point of suspicion, and it could serve as evidence, for it happened to corroborate what had been said before.
They could never have guessed that Wei Zhao and Huang Xiaotao had not been unwilling to return with them—they had been unable to. They had been trapped in Zhenduan City, and that was all.
"And what else?" Wei Zhao did not argue, only continued to regard Li Yanji with a faint smile.
"Second—why hasn't that junior apprentice sister of yours, Huang, come back with you? Obviously, the pirates took her as a pirate's wife, so she can't come back. Is that not so?" By this point, even Li Yanji was beginning to admire his own quick wit. This handle he had seized was simply seamless—damn it all, it sounded just like the truth.
Sure enough, after hearing these two so-called pieces of evidence, Qi Wenmo and everyone else present, who had merely been half doubtful before, now believed at least seven or eight parts in ten. Unless Wei Zhao could produce stronger evidence than this, then no matter how gloriously he might talk from here on, it would be of no avail.
"Heh, I really never saw it before—turns out you're quite a talent!" Wei Zhao was not in the least panicked as the crowd had imagined. Instead, with a composed and teasing air, he said, "With that tongue of yours, you can talk the dead into life and the crooked into straight. Rather than waste your talent as an escort, you'd do better to change trades and sell insurance. If that truly won't work, a matchmaker will do. Either way you'd certainly earn more than you do now..."
"Boy, a word of advice—you'd best keep that mouth of yours clean. Don't think our escort agency doesn't kill. A shameless traitor like you, everyone has the right to put to death!" Li Yanji flared up in fury.
Though he did not understand what trade this "selling insurance" was, he certainly knew what a matchmaker did. To have a grown man—a fine expert at the peak of mid-stage Golden Core—go be a matchmaker—this brat truly knew how to curse a man without a single dirty word!
"Ling Yi. If you have any objection to what these two have just said, you may raise it before us all. The matter is not yet settled. I hope I have not misjudged." Qi Wenmo frowned slightly as he spoke.
Hearing it all now, this Ling Yi truly was under tremendous suspicion. At the very least, the accounts of Li and Guan, paired with these two pieces of evidence, flowed together naturally and could explain almost every doubt the crowd held. The only thing it could not explain was this: why did Ling Yi still dare to return alone?
"Young Master, the evidence is ironclad—I say he simply has nothing to say. Heh heh, before proof hard as iron, what use is a clever tongue?" Li Yanji sneered in triumph.
"Exactly. Ling Yi, hurry up—if you have any evidence that can overturn the case, speak it now, or else when the fists start flying and you cry injustice then, it won't wash!" Guan Zhiyuan laughed heartily along from the side. About this matter, he simply did not believe Wei Zhao could be holding any evidence in hand. This time, victory was already in their grasp.
"I have nothing to say." Wei Zhao shook his head faintly.
"Hahaha! Now you finally have nothing to say, do you? Hurry and confess of your own accord!" Li and Guan grew all the more elated. A situation like this, and the two of them had talked their way out of danger in a few words. Once this Ling Yi was done to death, they must find a tavern and throw back a few proper cups, drink their fill and celebrate!