jdhmnovel Chapter 165: The Fraud
Chapter 165: The Fraud
The conductor officially led the ensemble and all members began to get into the mood, while Liu Hao was sweating as he played.
Suddenly, at a certain point, all other instruments played well, but the sound of the piano was gone.
The others also stopped and looked at Liu Hao with some dissatisfaction.
"Liu Hao, what's your condition? Can you play? Have you forgotten the score? I don't know how the association recruits people."
"Commander, it's okay, he forgot the score, I'll help him," Su Mu smiled kindly.
Help? How? Liu Hao was at a loss.
Su Mu came up to him and smiled evilly, "This is how you play it later." Su Mu quickly grabbed Liu Hao's arm and pressed him on the keys.
Suddenly there was an unpleasant "Duang" sound, and then Liu Hao said, "Su Mu, let go."
Su Mu apologized, "I'm sorry, who told you not to cooperate? Come, play it over here."
Liu Hao was in a stalemate with Su Mu, resisting his power to suppress him.
Su Mu let go, his expression was very aggrieved, a bit like a green tea, "You don't like me helping you, okay, I was just being sentimental."
"Thank you, I don't need it," Liu Hao said through gritted teeth.
Suddenly, Su Mu screamed, "Oh, you, your hand."
Liu Hao put his hands behind his back, looking panicked.
"Why is your hand bleeding?" Su Mu pretended to ask.
The nearest commander came over and saw that there were bloodstains on the piano keys that Liu Hao had not had time to wipe off.
The commander frowned, "What's going on!"
After hearing this, the others gathered together to find out what was going on.
With more and more people watching, Liu Hao couldn't hide his feelings even if he wanted to.
Someone looked at the blood-stained piano keys and pressed them, and saw a blade as thin as a cicada's wing inserted in the gap between two keys.
"I'll go, there's a knife, look."
"What's going on? Who is so wicked as to do such a thing?"
"Su Mu, Liu Hao, you just gave in to each other and refused to play first, is that because of this? Who did it?"
Su Mu looked bewildered. "I have no idea. I really wanted to give Liu Hao a chance to play with me. I just thought he forgot where to play, so I went to help him. Who knew this would happen?"
"What about you? Liu Hao, what do you say?"
Liu Hao smiled bitterly and stretched out his bleeding finger. "If I had known, I wouldn't have played. It's a big taboo for a pianist to injure his fingers!"
Having said that, Liu Hao's behavior just now was also very suspicious. Everyone present knew it clearly. These two people probably knew about it in advance. As for who did it, it is hard to be sure.
This morning, Chu Hanting had already arrived in Hai City, and he had just arrived at the association.
He ran into Lin Yu and told him that Su Mu was in the concert hall practicing for tomorrow's performance.
So, I headed towards the concert hall.
I ran into two people who were in a hurry and happened to overhear their conversation.
"How tragic! The hand is bleeding. I don't know who did this evil thing. The hands of the pianists are usually the most precious."
Chu Hanting only heard the two key words "bleeding hands" and "playing the piano".
Su Mu suddenly popped up in his mind, and his heart was suddenly in his throat.
His pace went from fast walking to running. After entering the concert hall, he went to look for Su Mu. When he found him, he quickly walked to his side and appeared in front of Su Mu.
Su Mu was a little surprised to see Chu Hanting, because he had not been told in advance that he would come.
"Why are you here?"
Chu Hanting did not answer his question directly, but immediately held up Su Mu's hand and examined his ten fingers carefully.
"What's wrong?" Su Mu asked puzzledly.
"Is your hand okay?" Chu Hanting asked anxiously.
Before Su Mu could answer, someone next to him hurried to explain: "Well, although I don't know who you are, Su Mu's hand is fine, and it is Liu Hao who is injured."
The man pointed at Liu Hao.
Upon hearing the name, Chu Hanting's expression was already unfriendly even before he turned around. When he looked at Liu Hao, his eyes were as sharp as if they wanted to pierce through people.
Liu Hao couldn't help but feel wet on his back. Who is this person? Why is he looking at him as if he wants to stab him?
"It's you who wants to hurt Su Mu?"
Liu Hao was suddenly questioned, "No, I am also a victim."
Chu Hanting glanced at his injured finger, and his brows became even more furious.
If his baby wasn't smart, Su Mu would probably be the one injured now.
"You'd better confess now," Chu Hanting's voice was low and oppressive.
How could Liu Hao admit it? He kept shaking his head to explain that it was not him, and his eyes looked very innocent.
If Chu Hanting and Su Mu didn't know this man's true identity, they would probably have been fooled by his acting skills.
After all, Liu Hao has always been relatively gentle in his dealings with others.
"In that case, call the police and let them investigate the cause of the accident."
"Okay! I also want to know who caused my hand to be injured."
Liu Hao and Li Jie looked at each other. Li Jie nodded at him, and Liu Hao felt relieved.
Last night, Li Jie sneaked into the piano while the person who kept the keys was asleep, stole the keys, stabbed a razor blade into the piano, and then quietly returned the keys.
As for the surveillance, it was under maintenance during this period. Otherwise, he would not dare to do this.
At this time, Lin Yu came in with a gloomy face.
He walked straight up to Li Jie and angrily asked, "Why did you do this?"
"Why do that?"
"You don't need to explain. The surveillance camera captured your crime yesterday clearly."
"Impossible, isn't the surveillance broken?"
"How do you know the surveillance is broken?"
Li Jie said weakly: "I, I heard the people in the monitoring room say it."
"Heh," Lin Yu's expression became even colder, "So you did something stupid yesterday after you knew about this, right?"
"I didn't. I didn't leave my room last night."
Lin Yu's eyes flashed with evil: "Oh? Did I say last night? I just said yesterday."
Li Jie choked, and Lin Yu continued:
"Unfortunately, you don't know that the surveillance camera was indeed broken during the day yesterday, but it was repaired at night, just before you did the stupid thing. So what you did was clearly recorded. Now, what else do you have to say?"
"I……"
Lin Yu threw a USB drive at Li Jie. "This is your criminal process. The evidence is irrefutable. Do you still want to say it wasn't you?!!!"
Li Jie never expected that the surveillance camera that had been broken for several days was just repaired last night.
If he had known that there was surveillance, he would not have committed the crime with his head facing the screen, looking at the USB flash drive that fell at his feet.
He sighed deeply.
Now that we've been exposed, we'll die together. This matter was not planned by him alone.
He glanced at Liu Hao viciously, and the moment Liu Hao saw his gaze, he knew that he wanted to drag him down with him.
He wanted to say something, but Li Jie had already confessed, "I did it, but Liu Hao instructed me to do it."
Lin Yu put his hand in his trouser pocket and quietly pressed the record button. He curled the corners of his mouth and exchanged glances with Su Mu.
Su Mu smiled knowingly. After the incident, he secretly sent a message to Lin Yu, asking him to help act out a scene and trick this man named Li Jie.
Based on Li Jie's support for Liu Hao just now, he boldly speculated that it was Li Jie who did it. After all, Liu Hao was an outsider and was not familiar with the association. If anyone wanted to tamper with something, it would definitely be more convenient for the natives to do it.
After hearing what Li Jie said, the others were furious. "Old Li, how could you do such a thing? You are so stupid!"
"And you, kid, Liu Hao, right? You look kind, but you have a dark heart. You want to hurt Su Mu's hand in this way so that you can be a substitute in the final performance."
"I didn't. If I had ordered it, why would I be the one injured now?"
"That's because Su Mu was lucky. Fortunately, he insisted on not playing it just now."
Someone curiously asked: "Su Mu, did you know there was something wrong with the piano?"
Su Mu did not comment. "I just guessed that someone might have tampered with the piano, but I don't know what it was."
"Then why do you suspect someone has tampered with the piano?"
Su Mu smiled and said, "It's probably a hunch. I always feel that something big will happen today, so I just kept a little more careful."
The man did not ask any more questions. Anyway, Su Mu should also be a victim because it was Su Mu who was supposed to play the piano today.
Lin Yu said, "Have you called the police? Then send these two to the police station for questioning."
"I have just called the police," said Chu Hanting.
Lin Yu saw a stranger here and asked, "Who are you?"
"I'm Su Mu's friend."
He didn't say boyfriend directly. After all, not everyone in this society holds a friendly attitude towards this kind of relationship. So with so many outsiders around, it was enough for him to just say they were friends.
Lin Yu nodded and greeted him. Since he was Su Mu's friend, there was no need for him to chase him away.
He then continued to deal with the association's affairs. He reported the matter to the leadership and demanded that it be dealt with seriously.