Chapter 446: Rich People All Go Bad in the End

The man's words, in that instant, completely broke Li Tian's composure.

A little helpless.

Li Tian said, "Then it's actually very easy to guess. Your father—of course, your nominal father—took the money back, found you all, and the result wasn't a friendly persuasion. That man just went back to show off, to brag about what he'd discovered, or how much money he'd made."

The man fell silent.

Chen Fan said, "Actually, I've guessed another possibility."

"Another possibility?"

Li Tian said, "What?"

"What I'm guessing is that from beginning to end there never was any talk of wealth. The so-called wealth was all illusory, made up by this person. And the ridiculous part is, that mother and son took the bait."

Took the bait?

Li Tian mulled it over and said, "Actually, if you work it out this way, it makes sense. Only something made up could be so intoxicating. If it were real, it would be hard. As for gold, it's mostly gold prospectors. Too bad these people had no common sense."

Chen Fan said, "What's the point of all this talk? This guy isn't going to talk anyway. Saying so much is worse than going to find evidence. Let's just go dig up the grave—something will always be left behind, some clue. Dig up the grave. Oh right, if I remember correctly, his mother should have been involved."

The man said, "I did it."

Li Tian said, "Now you want to talk—too late. And even if you say you did it, it doesn't mean much. Oh right, forgot to tell you: your mother just turned herself in a moment ago, confessed on her own initiative, and said this whole thing was done by your dead biological father."

The man said helplessly, "That's just how my mom is, heh heh heh."

Li Tian and Chen Fan fell silent.

At this moment the man went on, "When he first came back, I even went to welcome him. But as soon as he got back, he just pointed at our noses and started cursing, saying he'd gotten rich, and that he'd never come back again, telling us to go live with that neighbor man ourselves."

"He also said he was going to build a big tile-roofed house in the village, and then watch us grow poorer and poorer."

"He also said my mom had really terrible judgment in people back then, and after all these years it was still terrible. After all these years, if he'd just made some money, he could have married my mom. But every day he had nothing in his head except trying to squeeze money out of my mother—no other thoughts at all."

Li Tian held a pen, taking notes here, while Chen Fan stayed very calm, handed the man a cigarette, and lit one for himself.

"I admit, on this point my mother really was wrong, but why didn't that man just sooner—"

Chen Fan said, speechless, "You make it sound as if him raising you was somehow his fault? You still don't feel a shred of gratitude to this day, do you?"

The man said quietly, "I admit we did him wrong."

"You were in the wrong to begin with—why do you need to 'admit' it? As if it's some great effort for you? By the way, what exactly did he say々〃?"

"Just like you guessed. He said he'd found gold in the mine, then came back to brag, and after that he left."

Chen Fan was recalling.

Li Tian said, "So basically, he found gold, and on his way back to the village, you all slaughtered him?"

The man said, "No, no, we didn't kill anyone. If we had, the villagers would have known. On his way back, on the road, he was hacked to death by my father, and then buried."

"And because there was gold, my biological father went off to work, went to the coal mine side. Then the case you mentioned happened—someone was killed, but in the end there was still no gold. Even on the day he died, he refused to believe that His version of events about the gold never existed in the first place."

Li Tian said, "Oh, really? One person killing for so many years—that takes a lot of effort. These two people—why didn't you cut them apart?"