si-mexico Chapter 537 When did you start to doubt Lin Jie?
Chapter 537 When did you start to doubt Lin Jie?
Hearing Xiao Yi's words, Lin Jie was stunned, "Your Highness, what's wrong?"
Xiao Yi stared at Feng Yimin on the ground, "Who are you?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a hidden weapon shot out from behind them and headed straight for Lin Jie.
Lin Jie raised his sword to block. Feng Yiming, who had fallen to the ground with a look of panic on his face, took advantage of this opportunity to jump up, stepped back many steps, and suddenly created a safe distance.
Xiao Yi turned his head with a sullen face and looked back. After a moment, Jiang Suining and Shen Yanxi appeared with their guards.
The moment he saw Jiang Suining, Lin Jie's face changed drastically.
Xiao Yi's face naturally didn't look good either, especially his eyes, which looked like they were frozen and poisoned, and he almost squeezed out his words from between his teeth.
"be cheated!"
Jiang Suining and Shen Yanxi walked closer, and the "Feng Yimin" from before had already arrived beside them. He took off the mask on his face, revealing a handsome face that was completely different from the one just now.
Cheng Du smiled and extended his hand to Jiang Suining and Shen Yanxi.
"You performed well, didn't you? The agreed-upon reward of five thousand taels of silver must not be reduced!"
"Don't worry, it won't be less." Shen Yanxi responded, but his eyes were always looking at Xiao Yi, "Your Highness the Fourth Prince, today's show is specially performed for you. You heard it, but it cost me a lot of money. I wonder if you are satisfied?"
Lin Jie was standing behind Xiao Yi, and when he heard about a specially performed play, he subconsciously looked at Jiang Suining.
"Miss, you..."
"Since you are the Fourth Prince's person, you don't have to call me Miss." Jiang Suining interrupted Lin Jie.
Xiao Yi narrowed his eyes and asked Jiang Suining, "When did you find out?"
Jiang Suining said calmly: "Ever since Lin Jie passed the guard selection and entered the Jiang family, I have never fully trusted him."
"How is this possible!" Lin Jie was very surprised. "If you didn't believe me at that time, why did you keep me in the Jiang family? Did you know from that time that I was sent by His Highness?"
The question came out of his mouth, and before Jiang Suining could answer, Lin Jie had already subconsciously denied it in his heart.
This is impossible!
Since sneaking into the Jiang family, he asked himself if he had revealed any flaws.
Moreover, he had been almost silent before and had not done anything. He even rarely transmitted any information, so it was impossible for him to reveal any flaws.
"Although I didn't know who sent you at that time, you acted too politely during the guard selection, as if you had received special training. Also, maybe you didn't even realize it yourself, when you stood with others to answer questions, you inadvertently showed more respect, as if it was a habit you had developed over the years after obeying orders from a high-ranking person. Later, I found an opportunity to pretend to test you inadvertently, but you said that you had never been a guard in the mansions of those high-ranking officials."
Jiang Suining paused for a moment, chuckled, and continued speaking.
"Of course, these words alone don't mean there's something wrong with you, but they are enough to plant a seed of doubt in my heart, making it impossible for me to fully trust you."
So after that, even though Lin Jie didn't show any abnormality, she would still deliberately avoid Lin Jie when talking about important things.
Lin Jie had been in the Jiang family for such a long time, but she had not let him get access to any important information. Of course, she had not shown any deliberate defense in the process, which would make the other party suspect that he had been discovered.
Lin Jie froze in place.
It turned out that he had never really trusted him from the beginning. No wonder Jiang Suining sent him to the manor before reopening the old case. But...
"If this is the extent of your suspicion, then why did you use me to plot against His Highness this time?"
How could they be sure that they would leak the information, and how could they be sure that they were His Highness's men?
When he left the Jiang family for the Fourth Prince's Mansion that night, he was very cautious and was completely sure that no one was watching him and no one had discovered him along the way, so it was impossible for him to be followed and discovered at that time.
Jiang Suining smiled again and spoke slowly.
"Of course, because recently I have completely confirmed that there is something wrong with you, and it is very likely that you are the Fourth Prince's man."
Seeing that Lin Jie was full of confusion and couldn't figure it out immediately, Jiang Suining reminded him.
"Remember the incense ash I asked you to check?"
Lin Jie was stunned for a moment, then reacted, "Is that a test?"
"Yes, the one I gave you was specially prepared by me. It was mixed with a lot of incense, just to see what the final result of your investigation would be. Of course, in case you go to find your mastermind and find out in advance that there is something wrong with the incense ash, I also specially remind you that Shen Yanxi will always send people to protect you in secret. If you find someone watching you, don't be nervous. The purpose of saying this is actually just to make you dare not meet the mastermind for the time being."
As for the real incense ash, it had already been handed over to Shen Yanxi for investigation. According to the results of the investigation, the incense ash had indeed been tampered with, but there was no drug or poison in it. Instead, it was a mixture of some detoxifying and toxic-suppressing medicinal herbs.
Jiang Suining thought of the investigation results that Lin Jie had given her before, and her eyes were clear and sharp.
"When you came back and told me that there was nothing wrong with the incense ash, I was already completely certain that there was something wrong with you!"
The color on Lin Jie's face quickly faded, but his heart was still full of doubts.
"I still don't understand. If you suspect that there is something wrong with me, wouldn't it be easier for me to take the incense ash and find the person behind the scenes to reveal his identity?"
This time, without waiting for Jiang Suining to answer, Xiao Yi spoke first, "I think it's because Miss Jiang had already guessed that the person behind you was this prince."
"That's right." Jiang Suining met Xiao Yi's gaze and said, "The time when Lin Jie appeared in the Jiang family was too coincidental. It was just shortly after the Chengjiao case. If he came with a purpose, it is hard not to suspect that the two are related. The Chengjiao case and the embezzlement case of disaster relief funds that year are the same thing. According to the current results, they were all done by the third prince. But if Lin Jie was really instructed by the third prince to sneak into the Jiang family to monitor me, why would he do something behind the scenes when his master is already dead? This doesn't make sense!"
When Lin Jie returned to the Jiang family from the farm as if everything was normal, she was almost certain that the other party was not instructed by Xiao Ling.
Xiao Ling's death was full of suspicions. As the person who had the most contact with Xiao Ling during that period, Xiao Yi was naturally suspicious as well.
Now that they have a key suspect, instead of tracking Lin Jie to determine the identity of the person behind the scenes, it is better to pretend to be ignorant and see if they can use him to their advantage.
After all, once Lin Jie really took the incense ash to meet the person behind the scenes, he might find out that it was a test. It would be impossible to use Lin Jie to do something else.
Lin Jie took a deep breath and felt cold all over. He looked at Xiao Yi nervously.
I spent so much time infiltrating the Jiang family, and I thought I had it all figured out, but in the end, not only did I gain nothing, I even led His Highness into a trap...