Chapter 282: 【282】Is it a coincidence, or a conspiracy?_1
“No.”
Liu Ping was startled for a mont, but imdiately answered.
“Are you sure?”
“Positive.”
“Where were you last night then?” Tang Feng didn’t give him a chance to catch his breath and asked the next question right away.
“At ho.”
“Who can vouch for that?”
“My wife can.”
“What ti did you get ho?”
“Six in the afternoon.”
“And you didn’t leave the house again after that?”
“No.”
“Are you certain?”
“No…”
The two of them, one asking, the other answering, were as fluid as clouds and flowing water, without the slightest hesitation.
Outsiders were all lost in the fog, unclear about the purpose of Tang Feng’s questions.
Tang Feng paced back and forth with his hands behind his back before suddenly turning around again. His eyes, sharp as lightning, shot towards Liu Ping. “Then why did soone see you on the Antique Street last night?”
“Ah?” A flicker of panic crossed Liu Ping’s face, but he quickly regained his composure. “I… I wasn’t on Antique Street last night… they must have seen wrong.”
“Is that so?” Tang Feng revealed a mysterious smile. “Although the surveillance system in the shop was destroyed, there should be many other caras on Antique Street. Should I ask soone to check the footage?”
Liu Ping’s breathing beca a bit erratic; he swallowed with difficulty. “Ah, I rember now, I… I did go to Antique Street.”
“A friend wanted to buy antiques and asked to take a look for him.”
“Didn’t you just say that you didn’t leave the house after six o’clock in the afternoon?” Tang Feng imdiately caught his slip of tongue and launched a counter-attack.
“I… I had so drinks at ho, and then a friend called out. I was a bit muddled, so my mory is not very clear…” Liu Ping wiped the sweat from his forehead; his face was noticeably paler.
“Oh, called out by a friend, you say?”
“Is that friend a live strear by any chance?” As he spoke, Tang Feng appeared to casually glance at the live strear standing nearby.
He had previously investigated the two individuals and found that they had intersected before, specifically last night.
The live strear’s face also flashed with panic, swiftly averting his gaze.
Liu Ping’s face turned even paler, “No… not a live strear, he is… he is…”
“He is what?” Tang Feng’s voice suddenly rose an octave, sounding sowhat shrill.
Liu Ping was startled, his replies becoming more nonsensical, “He… he is a live strear.”
“Didn’t you just say he wasn’t a live strear? Why are you saying he is now? Which is it?”
“He is… isn’t…”
“What did he want from you?”
“To drink.”
“Didn’t you say earlier that he wanted you to help him look at antiques?”
“Ah right, right… he wanted to look at antiques.”
“Didn’t you just say it was for a drink?”
“I…”
Under Tang Feng’s rapid-fire questioning, Liu Ping’s mind had gone blank, and his answers were a ss of errors.
Eventually, he couldn’t take it anymore and collapsed onto the ground.
Tang Feng bent down to his level, exuding an intense pressure, “Answer honestly, were you in the shop last night? I want to hear the truth.”
Liu Ping stared blankly into his eyes, sweat completely covering his face, as though he had just finished a sauna session, and he weakly nodded, “Yes…”
The mont this “yes” was spoken, the room instantly erupted into chaos.
Everyone was shocked to see Liu Ping actually coerced into revealing sothing.
Tang Feng didn’t lessen his pressure at all and continued to press on, “The shop has rules, no one is allowed in after closing ti. What were you doing there?”
“I… I…” Liu Ping’s face showed an expression of anguish.
Tang Feng abruptly changed his approach, “Was soone directing you to swap the genuine snuff bottle with a fake one?”
“Yes… no…” Liu Ping initially nodded subconsciously, then vigorously shook his head.
“Which is it? I want to hear the truth.” Tang Feng’s gaze was as piercing as a knife, capable of killing without drawing blood.
Liu Ping t his gaze and couldn’t help but shiver, “No… no one directed , I did it on my own…”
With these words, the room once again boiled over.
This ti, the truth was laid bare.
It turned out Tang Feng hadn’t been mistaken at all; the original piece had simply been switched.
“It seems we all misunderstood this young man.”
“Indeed, I thought he was deliberately framing soone else to take the bla for him.”
“So there’s a traitor in the shop? It’s despicable for soone to betray their own kind.”
“People like that should be taken out and shot…”
The mood in the room changed instantly; those who were just criticising Tang Feng were now aiming their criticism at Liu Ping.
Zhang Jicheng and the other employees finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Even though such a scandal had occurred, at least Tang Feng and Ya Garden’s reputations were preserved.
Amidst the joy, there was newfound respect for Tang Feng.
Without any evidence, he managed to use just his words to forcibly extract the truth from Zhang Ji.
It was truly impressive.
But Tang Feng was not satisfied with the answer, his gaze still fixated on Liu Ping. “You’re lying. You don’t have the keys to the shop. How did you get in?”
“I… I secretly made a copy of the shop’s key,” Liu Ping stamred.
“You’re still lying. The shop’s locks are custom-made. Where would you get such a key made?”
“I… anyway, I made the key myself.”
Liu Ping had initially admitted to swapping the snuff bottle in the panicked state caused by Tang Feng’s overwhelming pressure.
Now that he had regained so composure, he regretted it deeply.
Having confessed in front of so many people, it was already too late to deny it.
He stubbornly insisted that he acted alone.
No matter how Tang Feng questioned him, he wouldn’t change his statent.
Tang Feng, seeing that he was as unbothered as a dead pig is of scalding water, didn’t want to waste any more effort on him and turned to the live strear instead.
“Isn’t it convenient? The night you allegedly switched the snuff bottle, this live strear just happens to purchase it the next morning?”
The live strear nervously chuckled, looking sowhat uneasy, “Ha ha, yeah, it’s quite a coincidence.”
“A coincidence, or a conspiracy?”
The smile on Tang Feng’s face carried layers of aning.
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