Niu Ying
Chapter 84 Proving Innocence
Unlike Anna's anxiety, when Teacher Lin heard that she had received a call from her son, the gloom was instantly swept away, and her mood soared.
"Lili, you, you really got a call from my son? What did he say? Did you tell him I'm okay and to call the police?"
"I told him, I told him. He said he would call the police and told us to rest assured."
Teacher Lin looked proud: "Oh, that's great, we're saved. If my son tells us to rest assured, then everything will be fine. Lili, you should have said so earlier, making us worry for nothing."
"I wanted to say it, but I just woke up." She thought of when she boarded the boat, she turned her head and saw Jia Wenjun faint on the ground. Because of the light from the bonfire on the boat, she directly saw the blood on Jia Wenjun's knees. Her legs went weak, and she fainted as well, only just now recovering.
As soon as she woke up, she heard this group of people shouting about killing, and only then did she realize that when they found the phone in Jia Wenjun's bag, the phone's screen was cracked and had been invaded by seawater, making it impossible to make a call.
When Baima Shan went to rescue her, they didn't know she had received the call, and thought the phone was broken and couldn't be used for help. If they had never had hope before, they could have continued to live half-dead. But having hope and then having it destroyed in front of their faces was like killing someone's heart.
The phone was taken from Jia Wenjun, and with Anna deliberately guiding them from the side, everyone naturally vented their anger on Jia Wenjun.
If it hadn't been for Baima Shan stopping them, Jia Wenjun would probably have been beaten up by the irrational crowd and thrown off the boat long ago.
Now that they knew the phone was broken, it didn't delay the rescue, everyone's hearts finally settled, but they still didn't give Jia Wenjun a kind look.
Although Jia Wenjun knew that it didn't delay the rescue, she couldn't swallow her anger at being wrongly accused like this.
She said with a cold face: "I didn't break the phone, but I took such a big risk and got injured all over to get it back. Who broke it, we need to investigate."
Everyone didn't expect that she was still纠结(jiūjié - dwelling on) this issue. Hu Sixiang sneered: "We're not even pursuing it, and you're still going on about it?"
"Enough, it's just one more debt, does it matter if you did it or not?" Anna said sarcastically.
"It doesn't matter to the evildoers, but it matters a lot to me! I didn't kill anyone, and I didn't break the phone. I can't let you throw dirty water on me at will."
Old Master Wang saw her indignant look and said, "Then how do you want to investigate?"
"Can you let me see that phone?"
"No." The phone was with Teacher Lin, and she refused outright. It was given to her by her son, and even if it was broken, she didn't want the murderer to touch it.
Jia Wenjun's knees were in great pain. She supported herself with force and said to the others, "Don't you want to know who on this boat doesn't want everyone to call the police for rescue?"
"You're saying so much, just to shift everyone's suspicion from you, right?" Hao Jiening said.
Jia Wenjun took a deep breath: "I know you don't believe me, you can be more suspicious. Is there anyone else on this boat besides me who doesn't want everyone to call the police? You're only staring at me, and letting another person take advantage of the situation, wouldn't it be the same in the end that we can't go back?"
Lili suddenly said, "You can tell who broke it just by looking at the phone?"
"No, but I don't want to let go of any clues."
Anna sneered: "The thief is calling to catch the thief!"
Lili's eyes turned back and forth between Jia Wenjun and Anna. Seeing that Jia Wenjun's grievance didn't seem fake, she also became suspicious. Thinking of Anna's appearance of not taking her seriously before, she said, "Since Jia Wenjun wants to prove it, then let her prove it. Anyway, there's no loss for us. If we can really find out someone else who is harboring evil intentions, it will be a good thing for everyone."
Seeing Jia Wenjun's strong request, and the "meritorious" Lili saying so, everyone was silent.
Anna's eyes were venomous, wishing she could directly poison the傻子(shǎzi - idiot) Lili into silence.
In fact, the people on the boat didn't care at all whether Jia Wenjun was wronged, but if this matter really wasn't done by Jia Wenjun, then it meant there was another internal ghost. This kind of thing that threatened their safety, of course, had to be investigated.
Under the persuasion of Lili and Old Master Wang, Teacher Lin finally took out the phone with the crushed screen.
Jia Wenjun dragged her injured knees and took the phone to the side of the bonfire to examine it carefully.
In Anna's eyes, this was just裝模作樣(zhuāngmúzuòyàng - putting on an act). She didn't believe that Jia Wenjun could find anything.
After looking for a long time, Jia Wenjun felt that the light of the torch was still not enough. She gritted her teeth and turned on the flashlight of her phone, which only had 12% battery left.
Under the strong light, Jia Wenjun really found a small piece of something like礁石(jiāoshí - reef)碎屑(suìxiè - debris) in the cracks of the screen.
She asked Baima Shan to hold her phone for her, and carefully pried out the small yellow stone particles the size of a grain of rice from the middle of the phone screen.
"Take a look, this is a sea reef." She showed it to everyone one by one.
Teacher Lin frowned: "So what? This could also be you holding my phone and smashing it on the礁石(jiāoshí - reef) below, and the碎屑(suìxiè - debris) got embedded in it."
Jia Wenjun calmed down and continued to analyze: "Just now everyone said that there was nothing else in the bag besides the phone. In the sea where even self-rescue is difficult, it is not easy to take out the phone and smash it on the礁石(jiāoshí - reef) in front of eight pairs of eyes without being discovered. So a greater possibility is that the礁石(jiāoshí - reef) was secretly put into the bag on the way here, because at that time the water was not very deep, and you could pick it up by bending over. After getting the phone, because the bag contained the phone and the礁石(jiāoshí - reef) block, as long as you pretended to be pushed by the waves and used the bag to hit the large礁石(jiāoshí - reef) that were blocking the way, the phone inside would be continuously bumped by the礁石(jiāoshí - reef), and the screen would be broken."
Anna clenched her fists, not expecting that this woman was actually right.
Her heart was turbulent, but her face remained calm as usual: "You are implying that I did it, right? What, after you said that I was hiding drugs and it fell apart, now you are framing me for breaking the phone? You say it so logically, how do you prove that you didn't do it yourself?"
Jia Wenjun looked at her with cold eyes: "The weight of a bag with only a phone in it is different from the weight of a bag with a phone and a stone in it. You were carrying the bag before. When we found Lili, Lili gave you the phone first. When the bag got to me, it was on the way back. I was holding the torch and walking in front of you the whole way back. Even when the torch went out, I was only half a meter away from you, and the sea water had already reached my chest. It is not easy for me to dive down and find a suitable礁石(jiāoshí - reef) to put in the bag, and you will find out immediately. So the key to proving it is when you took the bag off."
Anna's face changed, and she said coldly, "These are all your own words. If you want to frame someone, any reason can be made up."
"Whether I'm framing you or not, someone can testify." Jia Wenjun said coldly, and looked at Baima Shan: "You gave the bag to Big Brother Bai first, and Big Brother Bai handed it to me. Now, just let Big Brother Bai weigh the bag with only a phone in it and the bag with a phone and a stone in it separately, and you can know who broke the phone."