Quick Wear: Random Cheats

Chapter 78: Murdered just after inheriting Yiqing Farm (17)

"What Aunt Zhao and the others saw earlier were actually your parents, your biological parents. After they got their new identities, they would visit once or twice a year, spending a few days just the two of them. They rarely showed up, and in total, they only met a few neighbors.

The external explanation is that frequent business trips are required.

I can't go home many times a year.

After we replace them and take you there.

We specifically identified the neighbors who were suspicious about our appearance changes, gave them hypnotic drugs when we invited them to our house, and put them under deep hypnosis.

Change their perception.

Because they had only met your biological parents a few times and didn't have a very deep impression of them, it was not particularly difficult to make changes in this regard. Then our family of three settled down in the small town.

Although the days are dull, they are also peaceful and tranquil.”

Speaking of this, Zhang Sanmu's expression still contained a hint of nostalgia. Back then, the days were really simple and happy.

The most important thing is to be calm and have no worries.

Until they broke it themselves.

Ding Shui carefully checked the information, then looked at Li Tianya again, and found that Li Tianya was also nodding in agreement, so he had to accept the fact that this was probably the case.

Then shut up again, nothing more to ask.

However, Li Tianya undoubtedly still has many questions:

"Alright, let's put this matter to a close for now. Next, please explain the spaceship crash. Is it related to you?
Why did you trick those two stowaways into disguising themselves as you and boarding the spaceship for you? Did you foresee the danger? Or did you create that danger? Tell me the truth!

"We tricked and disguised the two stowaways as us and got them on the spacecraft in our place, but the spacecraft accident was not our fault. We were also very surprised by this. It was an accident.

It's contrary to our original plan!!!
Our original plan was much more comprehensive than this.”

Since they had already turned themselves in, it was only natural that Zhang Sanmu and the others had to explain clearly that they were willing to admit to what they had done, but they would not admit to what they had not done.

"I don't even know where to begin. It goes back four or five years. As Xiaoshan grew up, we always felt sorry for her. After all, she could have lived a life of luxury. Even if her IQ wasn't high enough, she could have customized brain-enhancing potions to increase it. They say the effects are quite good, but these require genetic customization, and you can't just get one if you have the money."

"So many years ago, we had a plan to eventually let her return to her roots.

Although her father didn't want her to return to her ancestral home.

But I think, firstly, her father is a little worried that she will be restricted after returning to her ancestral home, or even asked to marry someone else, or do something that she really doesn't like.

He probably doesn't want his daughter to go through this again.

Secondly, he might not be confident in the ability of his grandfather, Zhang Ai, the head of the family at the time. After all, although he ran away from home, he was never found, and was assassinated by several groups of people. This made it difficult for him to believe in his grandfather's ability, and it was difficult for him to believe that his grandfather could always keep his daughter safe and put her in danger.

It would be better for you to live in seclusion with us.

At least I can save my own life, and the money he left us is enough for Xiaoshan to live a normal life as long as we don't spend too much."

"But a few years ago, it was well known that the Zhang family's direct lineage was about to be completely extinct, and the position of the Zhang family head would be inherited by a branch line. At that time, my sister and I thought that this might be an opportunity for Xiaoshan.

It wouldn't go against her father's wishes.

Firstly, her great-grandfather would not live for many more years. As long as she traced her ancestral roots before his death, it would be unlikely that he would take care of her, nor would he force her to marry before his death.

After all, the position of the head of the family has been transferred.

There is no point in letting the only descendant of the family marry again.

It would be better to stay at home and find a son-in-law, at least this will allow their lineage to continue to be preserved as a branch.

Secondly, we've always believed that the constant accidents that Zhang Shepin and his companions encounter are a result of the side branches vying for the position of head of the legitimate family. They should wait until the original head, Zhang Ai, is nearing death before returning to their ancestral home. Xiaoshan's presence poses no threat to the heir to the position of head of the family or to the other side branches; at most, she'll inherit some assets.

They probably don't care about this little money.

It would not lead to the extermination of the direct line.

Based on these considerations, we finally decided to find a way to plan an incident before the patriarch Zhang Ai passed away, so that Xiaoshan could be exposed naturally, so that she could return to her ancestral home and inherit an inheritance.

At the same time for our own safety.

We are definitely going to fake our own deaths again!"

"Our original plan was to let the two stowaways board the spacecraft and leave openly, while we would leave and return home through other channels. This would give us time to make some preparations, including faking our own deaths.

We have no intention of taking their lives.

We just want them to stay out in the open and under surveillance for a while so that we can prepare to fake their deaths in private.

The reason why we say it dates back to four or five years ago is because we customized a clone of ourselves four or five years ago. This is our real and fake death plan.

We are preparing to repeat what happened before.

We faked an accidental death near the town, and the body was burned to ashes, leaving only a minimal amount of remains. We can only do a genetic test. We will also try to let Xiaoshan know about the process and get her here early for the genetic test. Once she does the test, the rest will go smoothly. We believe Zhang Ai should be able to handle it.

You don't have to be the head of the family for your whole life.

In the end, I couldn’t even make arrangements for my own great-granddaughter.”

"Unexpectedly, an accident occurred. The spacecraft encountered a cosmic disaster and crashed in the wormhole. This accident directly disrupted our plans. For a moment, we were unsure whether to continue. We had no choice but to temporarily stop and wait for the results. At the time, our greatest hope was that the remains of the spacecraft would not be found, or that the bodies of the people on the spacecraft were destroyed so that genetic identification could not be performed.

That would make things easier for us siblings.

It also avoids wasting two clones.

We just didn't expect that due to the pressure of public opinion, the wreckage of the spacecraft was found within a few days and all the bodies were taken away, so we couldn't even transplant them.

We were actually very nervous at that time.

The main concern is that their identity will be exposed.

I didn't expect anything to go wrong. Although there were some setbacks along the way, the final outcome was as we had envisioned. Seeing Xiaoshan being taken back to the Zhang family and recognized as their master, my sister and I temporarily hid away, preparing to wait out the storm before making any further decisions.

If we are not discovered, we will not show up again.

And separate to live the rest of their lives.

If we were discovered, we planned to keep the matter under wraps and explain things privately to Xiaoshan. But we didn't expect Xiaoshan to make such a big deal, with all the rumors circulating online. I figured that since our previous assassination had already passed the 30-year statute of limitations, destroying the body would at most be considered desecration of a corpse.

If you are forgiven, you won't be in jail for long.

So I thought about coming over and turning myself in.

It’s a good opportunity to explain this to Xiaoshan.”

The polygraph still didn't sound, and it also sounded quite logical, with no major flaws. However, out of caution, Li Tianya checked the polygraph again, repeatedly verifying that there was no problem, and then continued to ask:
“I didn’t expect you guys to be so honest.

I'm thinking of something else to ask. You should know about the destruction of your town. What do you think about it? Can you guess who did it?

“It should be the current head of the family.

When Xiaoshan was exposed, the old patriarch, Zhang Ai, was still alive. He would have undoubtedly followed Xiaoshan's lead, seeking to determine whether her parents were dead or alive, or to identify the murderer. The current patriarch would also have immediately understood that we had faked our deaths; otherwise, it would be impossible to explain how the child had escaped and been raised safely. I suspect he most likely didn't want to risk any mishaps at this crucial moment in his succession to the patriarchate, so he spared no effort to find us first and destroy anything that could reveal our identities.

He doesn't need to keep this secret for long; as long as he waits until the old patriarch dies, then everything will naturally end."

Zhang Sanmu was originally a killer trained by the fourth branch of the Zhang family. Naturally, he was quite familiar with the situation of the fourth branch. At this time, he only got a general idea from the Internet.

I haven't even returned home to check it out in person.

You can guess what's going on.

"Oh, no wonder the Wanshuiyuan Group was so proactive in the early stages. In order to relocate the people as soon as possible, they even promised compensation. But once the old patriarch of the Zhang family died, they started to shirk responsibility and didn't even mention compensation.

There is no rush in feelings, it doesn’t matter.

I have the time and energy to slowly drag it out with them."

Li Tianya nodded in understanding. This was indeed consistent with Zhang Hongyi's personality. He would do anything to achieve his goals. At the same time, he was quite stingy. For things that could be solved with money or not, he would try his best to solve them without spending money, relying on ruthlessness to get to the top.

At this time, Ding Shui raised his hand again and asked:
"Why do I feel like my great-grandfather and the others are so weak? Even if they can't tell who made the move or gave the order, they should have known there was danger.

And things like side branches are not trustworthy.

How do you feel..."

After all, he was his elder, so Ding Shui couldn't just call him stupid or foolish, so he was stuck for a moment.

"It's not weakness, it's pedantry and powerlessness."

It was Li Tianya who spoke this time. The two families had been fighting for thirty years and were very familiar with each other.

"What did your great-grandfather say? No, to be more precise, the problem started with your great-great-grandfather's generation. A hundred years ago, when your Zhang family was offering sacrifices to your ancestors, all the descendants of the direct lineage who had some ability and some outstanding talent were brought along to worship. The rest were called old, weak, sick and disabled, which was actually a polite way of saying it. To be more precise, they were looked down upon by the direct lineage as useless and were not allowed to participate in the ancestral worship.

These days, the old, weak, sick and disabled don’t matter.

Just want to go and be allowed to go.

How could it be impossible not to arrive?"

"Your great-grandfather's academic performance was very poor, and he also failed in his business venture, losing about 10 billion yuan. As a result, when he reached a certain age, no girl from an aristocratic family was willing to marry him, so he was forced to marry a minor celebrity.

It can be said that the original direct lineage never had any high expectations for him. He was just honest and lived out the rest of his life without any trouble. Even so, he was qualified to participate in the ancestral worship. But just a few days before the ancestral worship, his wife was exposed in a scandal. She had an affair with a young man and there were also intimate photos.

The direct descendants blocked the news and felt that he was a disgrace, thinking that bringing him to worship the ancestors would make their ancestors laugh at them.

Therefore, his qualification to worship ancestors was revoked.

He stayed with some other direct descendants who were involved in scandals and thus escaped by luck.

Not many people know about this. If our family hadn't fought fiercely with yours and tried desperately to dig up your family's scandals at all costs, we wouldn't have been able to get this information.

Everyone knows what happened later.

All the direct descendants of the Zhang family who came to offer sacrifices to their ancestors were wiped out. Among the remaining direct descendants, the general is the closest to your great-grandfather's bloodline. At the same time, the scandal surrounding him is not because he did anything wrong, but because his wife cheated on him.

The most important thing was that the Zhang family urgently needed to stabilize people's hearts at that time, because even though technology was advanced, many people believed that the Zhang family's direct descendants had done something that even God could not tolerate, which was why so many people died during the ancestor worship. No matter how hard they tried to dispel the rumors and explain, it was useless.

If they had abandoned the direct lineage and chosen a branch lineage to inherit the position of patriarch, outsiders would have thought they shared the same sentiments, and the family would have been forever labeled the "Heavenly Punishment Family." So, even though the direct lineage had declined to its limit, and any branch lineage could easily seize the throne, the elders of the remaining branches, after much negotiation, ultimately decided that stabilizing the family's reputation and public support was more important, and so they chose your great-grandfather as patriarch.

It is proven that the direct descendants of the Zhang family just encountered an accident.

It’s not a punishment from God!! It’s not a punishment from God!!”

"At that time, your great-grandfather was actually just a puppet. After he came to power, he did nothing but divorce his wife and then devoted all his energy to training his son.

That is your great-grandfather, Zhang Ai.

At that time, the biggest hurdle that your great-grandfather couldn't get over was probably that he couldn't marry a girl from a noble family of equal status, so his request to your great-grandfather was to marry him to a girl of equal status, and of course he succeeded.

After all, no matter what, your great-grandfather is the next head of the Zhang family, a fixed head.

There is no problem in marrying a girl from a wealthy family.

You should be clear about what happened later. Your great-grandfather also inherited this obsession and was determined to marry his children and grandchildren to someone of equal status.

This sowed the seeds of disaster.

Zhang Ai is very stubborn. Once he makes up his mind, he will not allow anyone to go against it. Therefore, his relationship with his children is not very good, and his relationship with his branch clan is not good either.

Before, his father, your great-grandfather, had always been a figurehead, never considering seizing power. Therefore, the Zhang family was quite peaceful. Everyone worked their own way, and the branch clan treated him respectfully, providing him with food and drink, and giving him a combined annual allowance of hundreds of millions. All he had to do was ignore everything, and live in harmony. It was really nice.

But your great-grandfather didn't want to do that. He didn't want to be a puppet head of the family, so after he came to power, he began to seize power. At that time, the prestige of the direct line had not completely disappeared, so your great-grandfather still achieved some results. At least he successfully took back all the assets that originally belonged to the direct line of the Zhang family.

At the same time, he also gained control of the family property.

The next step was to invest the clan property, hoping to gain support from more branches with his own abilities. He was right to think so. After all, if the head of the family was particularly good at making money, most branches would definitely be willing to support him, and everyone had no grudge against money.

Your great-grandfather's early investments were indeed good and he made a lot of money, so he actually got some real power.

But later on, the relationship with his children became worse and worse.

Especially since his daughter committed suicide at their doorstep, his granddaughter died of illness, his eldest grandson escaped marriage and was in a car accident, and another grandson also ran away from home and has never been heard from again, the series of blows he received was too great. Even though he knew that this incident must be related to a branch of the family, he had no evidence, and it was impossible for him to fall out with all branches and demand a thorough investigation, let alone report it to the police.

In the end, he acted like a lunatic and insisted that the man who killed his grandson was surnamed Li, and said that it was our family who did it.

We have never done these things at home.

How could I not be clear about this?

Besides, we are not afraid of him, so if he bites us like a mad dog, don’t blame us for revenge.”

"After that, your great-grandfather never achieved anything. Not only did he not achieve anything, but he also caused heavy losses to the family property. The major branches also blamed your great-grandfather for these losses and even broke up with him.

About twenty years ago, your great-grandfather became a puppet again. No one listened to him and no one followed his orders.

If he isn't a puppet patriarch, then what is he?
Fortunately, he was not completely pedantic. At the last moment, he knew to seek help from the government notary agency and found a way to leave you an inheritance. If he had not sought help from the notary agency, you would probably never have been able to get that inheritance.

Unfortunately, it was too late. If he had not cared so much about face and the respectability of a noble family earlier, he would have reported the case directly.

Maybe the murderer has been caught.

If I'm not mistaken, when he officially wanted to seize power and become the real head of the family, a branch wanted to take action. Not surprisingly, it should be Zhang Hongyi's father. Zhang Hongyi inherited his father's will and finally succeeded, turning the tables and becoming the new direct descendant.

After explaining so much, Li Tianya suddenly thought of something and quickly turned around to ask:

"By the way, Zhang Sanmu, do you know how Zhang Shelin died? He was the one who was hit and killed by a car from our Li family branch. I'm very sure that our family absolutely did not actively instruct him to do this. You just mentioned that the person who killed Zhang Shelin was silenced, so you must know about this. Tell me quickly.

If you can provide some solid evidence.

I can count it as meritorious service for you."

He had wanted to ask this at the beginning, but he forgot about it because he was distracted by the previous questions. It was not until he talked to Ding Shui just now that he remembered it.

(End of this chapter)