Chapter 137 The Shameless Son (ETL) Part 2
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Chapter 137 Your Grandpa’s Still Your Grandpa!
Gu Ye opened his eyes, his expression disgusted as he looked at the woman in front of him. He curled his lip in disgust. “Daughter, take her back right now. I don’t want to see her face for even a second more.”
Xie Cheng asked, “How is it? Have you found out the truth?”
Gu Ye sighed. He picked up a cinnabar brush and drew an illusion talisman on a blank talisman. After incorporating the scene he had just witnessed into the talisman, he pasted it onto Xie Cheng’s forehead. “See for yourself, the murderer is her.”
After watching the details of the crime, Xie Cheng was also furious. “That woman is too vicious! She framed the child. Le Le’s condition wasn’t this serious before.”
“Yes, now the child is a little mute.”
“Can we use this as evidence for the police?”
Gu Ye smiled. “What do you think?”
Xie Cheng smiled bitterly, “Forget it, no one will believe such a non-human method, and we can’t take it to court. How about we ask the old man for help again? As the victim, he has the right to settle his karma.”
“I can ask the old man for help, but I won’t let him settle his own karma. Those netizens are watching (for the progress of the case).” Gu Ye sneered, stubbornly saying, “I will definitely take Tian Hong to court and find the reporters who covered this story. I won’t even need them to apologize; I’ll stomp on their faces.”
After summoning Grandpa Song, Gu Ye explained what had just happened. “Old man, the murderer who killed you was Tian Hong, not Le Le. The person who killed you is still at large, but Le Le’s family is being driven to the brink of despair. You know how they treated you. If you pity the child, please help them. The longer this drags on, the worse it will be for the child’s condition.”
Upon hearing this, Grandpa Song angrily said, “I didn’t know I was so valuable after I died! Everyone’s making a fortune off me! Young man, tell me what I can do; I’ll go right now.”
Gu Ye’s lips curled into a smile. “Go scare her, make her tell the truth. Whatever she says or does, I can record it and hand it over to the police tomorrow morning.”
Grandpa Song was about to go find Tian Hong when Gu Ye narrowed his eyes and raised his hand to stop him. “Grandpa, wait a moment, I’ll get you a suitable weapon!”
Gu Ye quickly folded a large hammer out of talisman paper. Xie Cheng watched with a wicked grin. “Gu San’er, you’re really not human, coming up with something like this.”
Gu Ye muttered to himself, “Shakespeare once said that to frighten someone, you have to look frightening. How can you do that without weapons?”
Hearing that, Xie Cheng was both amused and exasperated. “I’ve been to school, don’t try to fool me. Shakespeare didn’t say that.”
Gu Ye immediately burned the sledgehammer and gave it to Grandpa Song, magnifying it countless times.
When Grandpa Song picked it up, it was 2 heads taller than him! The hammerhead was as big as a washbasin, and the handle was 2 meters long! Grandpa Song commented with a serious tone, “Truly impressive! One swing could kill a whole bunch of Ja-pan-ese soldiers.”
Gu Ye urged, “Go quickly, scare her to tears!”
Grandpa Song dragged his sledgehammer and charged forward menacingly.
At the same time, Gu Ye quickly called Hong Dou out and gave her his phone to ask her to record the video. Only the gentle-natured Hong Dou would help to do something like this; others were too cold-hearted or had bad tempers. Ling Ling was obedient, but unfortunately, she was too small and might not do it well.
Seeing Grandpa Song’s sledgehammer, Hong Dou glanced helplessly at Gu Ye before following Grandpa Song with a smile.
At this moment, Tian Hong’s husband had been woken up. Seeing Tian Hong’s blank expression, he was startled. “What are you doing in the middle of the night? It’s so scary!”
Tian Hong blinked, looking confused, as if she hadn’t fully woken up yet. “What’s wrong?”
“What did you go out to do just now?”
“I didn’t go out,” Tian Hong said innocently. “What are you talking about in your sleep?”
Her husband was startled. “You actually said I was talking in my sleep? You are the one sleepwalking, a’right!”
Tian Hong rolled her eyes. Still confused, she went back to sleep. “You’re crazy!”
“You’re the friggin crazy one!”
The two cursed at each other, and before they could even explain themselves, a gust of cold wind pushed the door open. Standing in the doorway was Grandpa Song, wielding a 2-meter-long sledgehammer, his face contorted in a ghostly manner. This scene was what Tian Hong saw the moment she opened her eyes, and she sat bolt upright in fright. “My God! A ghost!”
Grandpa Song swung the sledgehammer, yelling, “Tian Hong! You owe me my life!”
Terrified, Tian Hong huddled in the corner of the bed, pleading in a panic, “Old man, spare me! I didn’t kill you! It was Le Le! It was Le Le!!”
“You think you can fool me? You’ve committed such a heinous crime, daring to frame a child!” Grandpa Song angrily retorted, “You even want the child to pay your debts?! Return my life to me!”
Tian Hong screamed, too afraid to deny it. “Old man, I’m so sorry! I’m so sorry! Please let me go! I really didn’t mean to. I don’t know how it happened; it just happened to hit you on the head. Please forgive me! I’ll burn paper money for you, I’ll burn incense for you, I’ll put up a longevity tablet for you, I’ll even enshrine you, okay?” Tian Hong pleaded, crying, “Please let me go! I really didn’t mean to! I had no choice! If it were known that I killed you, where would I get the money to compensate your son?”
“So you framed Xiao Le Le?”
Tian Hong cried, “I have no money! I have to make a living!”
Tian Hong’s husband saw her suddenly acting like a madwoman, apologizing and making offerings for a longevity tablet. Then, recalling her earlier possessed behavior, her husband was terrified and jumped out of bed. “Tian Hong, are you crazy? Who did you see?”
Tian Hong cried, “Grandpa Song is here! Grandpa Song is looking for me! It’s haunted! Our house is haunted!”
“What ghost? Are you crazy!” Her husband also felt a chill around them, as if something was watching them, and he was terrified too. He tried to remain calm and scolded, “Stop scaring me! Be normal!”
Although Tian Hong’s husband said that, it sounded more like he was comforting himself. He knew what Tian Hong had done, and the couple had been thinking about it all year, afraid that one day someone would suddenly come looking for them and demand money.
Grandpa Song glared at Tian Hong hatefully, “If you don’t go to the police station and turn yourself in, I’ll smash you to death and take you to hell!”
Tian Hong dared not resist and could only nod in agreement. She will do whatever Grandpa Song says. Seeing how frightened she was, Grandpa Song picked up the sledgehammer and left.
When Gu Ye got the video and saw Tian Hong’s panicked state, he sneered, “You reap what you sow.”
The next morning, Gu Ye sent the video to Mu Jingfei, asking her to pass it on to the police station.
Upon receiving the video, the police were baffled. “How did this become a haunted case?”
“Who’s so lucky as to film this in the middle of the night?”
The uncle policeman in charge of the case thought for a moment and told everyone, “Let’s all keep quiet. It doesn’t matter how we got it, as long as we can solve the case, that’s all that matters. Thank you to this kind person.”
He’d heard that the General Bureau frequently solved major and unusual cases, finding evidence in many cases where there were no leads. He’d also heard they had a particularly brilliant consultant. In short, he wouldn’t say much, wouldn’t ask many questions, just focus on solving the case.
Based on Tian Hong’s reaction alone, there are grounds to arrest her and interrogate her. She herself admitted to killing Grandpa Song and framing Le Le; these are all evidence.
When Tian Hong was arrested, she was still in a state of shock. Her face was pale, and her eyes were dark-rimmed. She didn’t dare to sleep all night and was extremely nervous, afraid that Grandpa Song would come back with that sledgehammer that was 2 heads bigger than her, smash her to death, and take her away.
The police showed the video to Tian Hong directly, asking, “Tell me, what do you mean by this? Who did you see last night that scared you like this?”
Tian Hong’s face turned deathly pale, and she stood up agitatedly, “Where did you get this? You took these without my permission!”
The police didn’t say much, “You don’t need to know where we got this from, we already have evidence. You said it yourself, you killed Grandpa Song and shifted the blame to Le Le. So, tell us about what happened.”
Tian Hong sat down in terror, frantically squeezing her hands until her knuckles turned white. She said nervously, “No, it wasn’t me. There’s no Grandpa Song in the footage. I was just making this up.”
The reply caused the policeman to chuckle in anger. “How could this be nonsense?”
“It is nonsense.”
“Then why are you so nervous?”
“I’m sick, officer. I hallucinate when I get anxious. I’m talking nonsense, really. My husband knows I’m sick; I have a mental illness.” Tian Hong heard that having a mental illness could get you out of trouble, so she decided to feign illness first.
The police officer asked coldly, “Your hallucinations are specific; you can’t see anyone else, only Grandpa Song? Grandpa Song’s incident happened over a year ago. Why would you suddenly think of him?”
Tian Hong retorted, “That’s why I’m sick!” She continued agitatedly, “Because you police asked me about it during the day, and I thought about Grandpa Song’s death, that’s why I dreamed about him. Yes! It must be because of that! My husband didn’t see Grandpa Song. I must be sick, I’m sick.”
Tian Hong became more and more convinced as she spoke, repeatedly saying that she was sick. It was unclear whether she was telling the police or trying to convince herself, “I have delusions, I have a mental illness. I have all sorts of illnesses, I don’t know anything, you can’t arrest me.”
“Sure, you’re sick, aren’t you? We can give you a checkup. Whether you’re sick or not isn’t up to you to decide.”
The policeman glared at Tian Hong coldly. She was trying to exploit this loophole; people these days were getting more and more cunning. Just then, someone came in and said, “There’s been progress with the child. Le Le has started communicating with the doctor.”
Tian Hong, who had just calmed down, trembled again in fear. “Le Le’s just a child! His words have no effect! They can’t be used as evidence!”
The police officer asked calmly, “Why are you so afraid of Le Le talking? What would he say that would make you so agitated?”
“I’m not! I’m sick! Anyway, I’m sick, you can’t arrest me.”
Everyone knows Le Le is too young. Even if he starts communicating, he can’t directly point out that Tian Hong did it. How much memory can a child have? More than a year has passed, and he shouldn’t be able to remember this little thing himself. Besides, even if he did, what would be the point? What’s the use of them accusing each other? A child’s words certainly can’t go to court.
The investigation had to continue!
Tian Hong kept insisting she was ill and refused to cooperate with the police, forcing them to request a psychiatric evaluation, which would take another 2 days.
Gu Ye was already annoyed by this news. Gu Yang had sent him several messages saying he had scored 80 on the teacher’s assignments. This was a huge improvement, and he had promised to take Gu Yang out. As an older brother, he couldn’t break his promise.
Thinking for a moment, Gu Ye then sneered, “Isn’t she faking illness? Let’s give her something exciting tonight.”
That evening, Gu Ye called Grandpa Song out again and told him a way to get Tian Hong to confess in one go.
After hearing that, Grandpa Song blushed and said, “You little rascal, you’re so improper.”
Gu Ye said earnestly, “Old man, trust me, this will definitely work. It doesn’t matter if I’m frivolous or not, you are definitely a proper and good old man.”
Xie Cheng was listening at the side, and he couldn’t help but pat Gu Ye on the head, “Gu San’er, have some decency!”
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Gu Ye: No, I don’t want to!
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[Banana: The next chapter is a short one so Banana is thinking to translate it too today. Probably in 2 hours lol]