Chapter 659: Fingerprints

"Grandpa, those two people are not me and Dad. We were framed!" Yan Qingxue was also panicking.

She didn't expect such a video to appear.

She and her father didn't kill anyone, so where did these two people come from?

To be so calculating and want to frame them was truly vicious!

Just as the living room was in chaos, Xu Tian was silently staring at the frozen frame on the surveillance footage.

With this video, Yan Jinsong and Yan Qingxue wouldn't be able to clear their names even if they jumped into the Yellow River.

Although the faces of the two people in the video weren't captured, they were identical to Yan Qingxue and her father in every other way; anyone would think the people in the video were them.

Moreover, Yan Qingxue and Yan Jinsong had previously been to Yan Jinbai's room, which was clearly captured. Now that these two people with the same attire and build had snuck in again, everyone would be biased and wouldn't let them argue.

It seemed this was a premeditated murder combined with a frame-up.

After all, it wasn't easy to find two people with physical characteristics extremely similar to Yan Qingxue and Yan Jinsong in such a short time.

It was estimated that the mastermind behind the scenes must have had everything prepared since they arrived at the old mansion.

Precisely because they had entered Yan Jinbai's room before he died and were the last people to have contact with him, and the grudge between the two Yan brothers was known to everyone, as soon as Yan Jinbai died, the Yan family would have no choice but to let Yan Jinsong take over the Yan Group again. Now with video evidence and motive, who would think Yan Jinsong was wronged?

Xu Tian didn't find any loopholes in the surveillance footage, so he stopped wasting effort studying it.

Since someone was calculating to frame Yan Jinsong and Yan Qingxue for this murder, they must have made the surveillance flawless and left no traces.

Furthermore, the surveillance footage happened to capture "Yan Qingxue" and "Yan Jinsong" secretly disposing of the murder weapon after leaving Yan Jinbai's room.

Taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, the two threw the fruit knives in their hands into the koi pond in the back garden. Now Xiao Guanjia had already sent people to dredge it.

Xu Tian deduced that the murder weapon fished out would definitely have their fingerprints on it.

All the evidence pointed to them and was unfavorable to them. Continuing to argue now would only make the two Yan elders even angrier.

The most important thing right now was to find evidence that someone had framed Yan Qingxue and Yan Jinsong to clear their names. Xu Tian's brain worked at high speed, his gaze falling on the sobbing Yan Ershen and Yan Hongyu.

He remembered a secret he had inadvertently learned in his previous life regarding Yan Hongyu: Yan Hongyu was not Yan Jinbai's biological son, but the product of an affair between Yan Ershen and the butler Xiao Ren.

And Xiao Ren had always used his position to have an illicit relationship with Yan Ershen. Now that Yan Jinbai had died suddenly, having been depressed and drinking to drown his sorrows before his death, could it be...

A bold hypothesis surfaced: with Yan Jinbai dead, besides his godfather's family, the beneficiaries were probably Yan Ershen and Yan Hongyu, and the secret of Yan Hongyu's parentage would be buried forever.

Now that his godfather and Yan Qingxue were framed for murder, once their guilt couldn't be cleared, the only beneficiaries left would be Yan Ershen and Yan Hongyu of the Yan family.

Removing the thorn in their side who would take away most of the family property, and then letting her own son take over, Yan Ershen could continue to associate with Xiao Ren for the rest of her life—it could be called killing three birds with one stone.

In his previous life, Yan Jinbai discovered that Yan Hongyu was not his son and, in a fit of rage, kicked Yan Ershen and her son out of the house. It was only then that Yan Hongyu turned to Xu Rixin and plotted a series of schemes to push him into the abyss.

And this time, could it be that because of his rebirth, Yan Jinbai discovered this scandal ahead of time and, before he could take any action, was conspired against and killed by Yan Ershen and Xiao Ren, who were worried about the scandal being exposed?

"Second Aunt, the matter of Second Uncle being murdered was discovered this morning. You were in the same room as him, yet you didn't notice?"

Xu Tian stared at Yan Ershen and suddenly spoke.

"Or were you not at home all night yesterday? Then where did you go?"

"Where I went, do I need to report to you?" Yan Ershen's shrill voice irritated the eardrums of everyone around. "Are you suspecting me?"

"Wanwan, where did you go last night?" Yan Family Patriarch's expression changed, and he also turned to look at her.

"I..." Yan Ershen hurriedly spoke to explain herself. "I went to a good sister's house yesterday. Someone had a birthday, and we celebrated until very late and drank alcohol, so I stayed at her house. If you still suspect me, you can go and ask those sisters of mine; they can all testify for me!"

Xu Tian's eyes darkened slightly; this reaction from Yan Ershen was within his expectations.

Yan Jinbai's death and Yan Jinsong being framed were definitely not a spur-of-the-moment decision by the real culprit; they must have made full preparations in advance. If they couldn't even produce a basic alibi, that would be abnormal.

"You murderers, I won't let you off!" After seeing the video, Yan Ershen seemed to have found a backer and became full of energy and confidence.

"Xiao Guanjia, call the police immediately, contact the police, arrest them, and interrogate them properly. I'm not afraid they won't confess!"

Hearing that Yan Ershen wanted to call the police, Old Yan Lao Taitai, who had just been revived by having her philtrum pressed, hurriedly said weakly.

"Don't alert the police yet. The matter hasn't been cleared up. What if there's some misunderstanding in this..."

Now that her youngest son was gone, if Yan Jinsong and Yan Qingxue were arrested again, the Yan family would truly fall apart.

Although doing so was a bit unfair to her youngest son, she really didn't want to lose her eldest son and granddaughter as well.

"Mom, this is murder!" Yan Ershen shouted loudly. "How can we not call the police? And isn't the fact already very clear? Even the scene of the two of them holding knives was captured, what else is unclear? The fact is that Yan Jinsong's family held a grudge against my husband because they were kicked out of the house. After they got my husband drunk, they conspired to kill him while he had no ability to resist!"

Yan Ershen snorted coldly and continued: "I must make the murderer pay the price! Since you won't call the police, I will make the call!"

Ignoring Old Yan Lao Taitai's obstruction, she took out her phone and dialed "110".

Yan Family Patriarch and Old Yan Lao Taitai were swaying, unable to stand steadily, and could only support each other and sigh while shaking their heads.

After calling the police, the police arrived at the Yan family's old mansion very quickly. At this time, Xiao Guanjia also sent people to fish out the murder weapon from the koi pond.

After the police investigation and evidence collection, the fruit knives indeed had the fingerprints of Yan Jinsong and Yan Qingxue on them.

With both human and material evidence present, the police quickly escorted Yan Jinsong and Yan Qingxue to the police station.

At the same time, they also searched the inside and outside of the Yan family home and took away relevant evidence. ===== CHAPTER 660 =====