Chapter 41: The Truth Revealed

"So, what exactly happened that day?!"

Shi Heng clenched his fists tightly and asked through gritted teeth.

Ye Jing knelt on the ground, looked up, and said with a trembling voice: "Young Master, I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything!"

"If I remember correctly, that day was June 20th, 200X, which was originally a very ordinary day."

Ye Jing knelt on the ground while looking out the window, as if recalling scenes from the past.

"At that time, the Second Miss had already started first grade in elementary school, and the Third Miss had just turned 3 and hadn't started kindergarten yet; her daily life was taken care of by me. That day, the Second Miss came home from school, didn't even put down her schoolbag, and came to the garden to play with the Third Miss. Although the Second Miss was mischievous, she liked the Third Miss, her younger sister, very much and pampered her. The first thing she did every day after school was to come see the Third Miss... I remember, that day the two played for a while, and the Third Miss said she wanted to see what fun things were in the Second Miss's schoolbag. The Second Miss originally didn't want to show her, but the Third Miss cried and wanted to see. Children, after all, are willful, and the Second Miss finally couldn't withstand the Third Miss's crying and opened the schoolbag..."

The next second, Ye Jing suddenly sighed long and said:

"Sigh! Who knew the Third Miss's hands were so fast; she happened to snatch that laser pointer from the Second Miss's schoolbag! The incident happened too suddenly; I hadn't had time to stop it when I saw a shining red light shoot out from the tip of the pen, and then, and then..."

"And then what?" Shi Heng's expression was cold to the extreme, the light in his pupils terrifyingly cold.

"Then I heard the Third Miss cry out with a 'wa'! I hurriedly picked her up to look, and saw her right eye bleeding, bleeding a lot. Just then, the Madam also arrived. She snatched the Third Miss from my hands and hurriedly sent her to the hospital. The Second Miss followed as well. I was terrified at the time; I knew that if such a big thing happened, I wouldn't be able to escape the responsibility. If something really happened to the Third Miss, the Master and Madam wouldn't let me keep my life! So, so..."

Ye Jing prostrated herself on the ground, kneeling in front of Shi Heng and trembling.

Shi Heng kicked her away fiercely and said with disgust: "So, you packed your bags and ran away that very night, didn't you?!"

Ye Jing curled up in the corner, kowtowing incessantly while crying and snotting: "Young Master, I admit I was incompetent, I was cowardly; I just wanted to find a chance to survive! And, and the Third Miss's injury was a problem with that laser pointer; it really has nothing to do with me! If you don't believe me, if you don't believe me, I can take that pen and show you!"

Shi Heng's heart skipped a beat, "What did you say? You still kept that pen?"

Ye Jing replied, "Back then, in order to leave a way out for myself and prove my innocence, before I left, I... I took that laser pointer. That pen is now in my bedroom..."

"Take it out."

Shi Heng ordered coldly.

Ye Jing hurriedly scrambled to her feet and ran into the room. Sounds of rummaging through walls and cabinets came from inside. Before long, the woman came out again, holding a silver laser pointer in her hand.

"It's this one."

Ye Jing handed the pen in her hand to the Young Master Shi tremblingly.

Shi Heng's face was as cold as frost. At this moment, he finally believed that the incident fifteen years ago was absolutely not Shi Yi's doing! According to the woman's account, it was very likely that young Shi Xi had accidentally touched the switch of the laser pointer while playing with it herself.

And the culprit—was this pen!

Shi Heng took the silver laser pointer from the woman's hand and examined it carefully: the surface of the pen looked no different from the toys children often played with back then, and he had once had one exactly the same.

Then, he held the pen in his hand and pressed the switch with his finger, and a very bright red light shot out from the tip of the pen.

Shi Heng gently placed his palm over it...

One second, two seconds... Shi Heng felt nothing in his palm.

However, after about ten seconds, the spot where the red dot was on Shi Heng's palm suddenly felt a sharp pain! The pain was clear and sharp, as if it were being burned by something.

"Young Master!"

Seeing the painful expression on Shi Heng's face for a moment, Ye Jing was startled and asked nervously: "I told you this laser pointer had a problem! Are you okay?"

Shi Heng didn't speak. He looked up, put the pen into his pocket, and faced Ye Jing from a high position:

"Auntie Ye, I call you Auntie out of respect because you once worked in my Shi family and took care of my sister. You know that if I were to pursue the matter of that year, all your lives wouldn't be enough to pay for it! But what I, Shi Heng, want is not your life, but the truth of the past. You better behave yourself!"

Ye Jing bent down, put her hands together, and bowed to Shi Heng repeatedly:

"I know, thank you, Young Master, for your mercy! For so many years, I haven't actually had a single day of peace... Today, I finally returned this pen to you, which can be considered an account to the Shi family! By the way, the Third Miss, how is the Third Miss doing now... and the Second Miss, how is she doing?"

"That's not for you to ask."

Shi Heng left a sentence, then turned around and left the room, wrapped in cold, biting wind.

That night, Shi Heng took a private plane back to Lanwan and handed the laser pointer to Sun Mishu for investigation.

A few days later, Sun Mishu pushed open the door of the CEO's office and said in a low voice: "President Shi, the research report on the laser pointer is out."

Shi Heng put down the document in his hand and asked, holding his breath: "How is it?"

Sun Mishu unfolded the document, placed it in front of Shi Heng, and pointed his finger:

"President Shi, look here. For an ordinary laser pointer, the wavelength of the red laser should be between 630-650 nanometers, while the red laser wavelength of this laser pointer reached 6000, almost 10 times that of an ordinary laser pointer."

"What does this mean?"

Shi Heng said with a grave expression.

Sun Mishu looked at the President and swallowed nervously:

"This means that this laser pointer was tampered with and can cause serious harm to the human body!"

Shi Heng's heart sank abruptly!

He finally understood completely that Shi Yi was innocent! Back then, no matter how Shi Yi explained, he had never believed her; he had stubbornly thought it was just Shi Yi's defense to escape guilt.

But today, the facts and evidence were placed right before his eyes! Back then, Shi Yi had never used a laser pointer to shine into Shi Xi's eyes! And the real culprit was someone else—the person who had tampered with this laser pointer!

"President Shi... are you okay?"

Seeing the President's face suddenly turn pale and shocked, his fingers clenched tightly, and the veins on his arms bulging, Xiao Sun asked with nervous concern.

After a while, Shi Heng's face calmed down slightly, and he said slowly:

"Sun, help me contact President Liang of the Aid Africa Foundation; I have something to see her about."

"Yes."

Shi Heng couldn't wait to see Shi Yi now, to see his sister who had been missing for three full months.

He was afraid that if he were any later... it would really be too late! ===== CHAPTER 42 =====