Jian Zhaoxing

Chapter 136 Pitcher Plant?! Psychology Master!

If a quarter of an hour ago, Lin Zhiqing was still unsure whether the sound of dripping water was intentional by Liu Mang, she was certain the moment she saw the plant.

The sound of dripping water was indeed arranged intentionally by Liu Mang!
Jiang Liuyun and Lu Huai stared at the pond for a long time but couldn't figure out anything.

Just as the two were about to ask Lin Zhiqing, they noticed that Lin Zhiqing's eyes were on the stacked stones.

Following her gaze, Jiang Liuyun's brows furrowed into a frown: "What is that?"

Lu Huai also frowned. The plants in front of him looked... really strange.

There is a long and thin stem at the top of its leaves, and on the stem grow objects that are narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, like small jade bottles, with a small lid on the bottle.

"Brother Lu, do you know what that is?" Jiang Liuyun couldn't help but ask.

Lu Huai shook his head: "I have never seen this thing."

"Nepenthes." Lin Zhiqing stared at the "small jade bottle" closely: "It's called Nepenthes."

"Nepenthes?" Jiang Liuyun scratched his head. "Why have I never seen this kind of plant before?"

Lu Huai had never seen it before, and he looked at Lin Zhiqing with curiosity.

Lin Zhiqing moved towards the side of the stacked stones. After she got closer, she was sure that she was not mistaken.

Pitcher plant!
That's a pitcher plant!

She never expected to see the pitcher plant in Dasheng.

"Do you see that small jade bottle? That's actually the insect trap of the pitcher plant." Lin Zhiqing pointed at the pitcher plant with a serious look in his eyes.

"Insect trap? What is that?" Jiang Liuyun looked confused.

Lu Huai didn't understand what he meant either.

Lin Zhiqing patiently explained: "The pitcher is the container that the pitcher plant uses to catch small insects. The small lid on the mouth of the pitcher can secrete a scent to lure the insects into the bottle."

"There's a special liquid in that bottle that will drown the insects and provide nutrients for the bottle."

The reason why Lin Zhiqing recognized the pitcher plant at a glance was because she had a pot of pitcher plant in her previous psychological counseling room.

She doesn't like regular flowers and plants, so she has not only pitcher plants, but also Venus flytraps, sundews and other carnivorous plants.

"So that's how it is. There is actually such a plant in this world." Lu Huai exclaimed in amazement.

Jiang Liuyun took two steps back, then waved his hands around Lin Zhiqing, trying to drive away the mosquitoes: "There are so many insects here, isn't this pitcher plant afraid of being stuffed to death?"

That’s the problem!

Lin Zhiqing slapped a mosquito to death.

This flower hall is full of flowers and plants, and the smell they emit will attract all kinds of mosquitoes.

But with only one pitcher plant placed here, it is obviously unable to cope with the huge swarm of mosquitoes.

Maybe its target isn't mosquitoes at all.

"Shh." Lin Zhiqing put his index finger to his lips: "Don't talk, listen carefully."

Jiang Liuyun and Lu Huai looked at each other, did not speak again, but pricked up their ears.

“Tick…tick~”

As they fell silent, the dripping sound returned, more pronounced than ever.

Seeing that they were aware of the sound of dripping water, Lin Zhiqing was afraid that they would be trapped, so he quickly said, "This sound is coming from the pitcher plant."

"Nepenthes?" Jiang Liuyun and Lu Huai asked in unison, "Does Nepenthes make sounds?"

Lin Zhiqing waved his hand: "That's not what I meant. Come closer and take a closer look at the pitcher plant's insect trap."

Under her guidance, Lu Huai and Jiang Liuyun walked closer and stared at the insect trap carefully.

As the sound of dripping water rang out beside him, Jiang Liuyun was still confused. Lu Huai was the first to notice something and took a few steps forward, trying to get behind the stacked stones. However, the stacked stones fit tightly against the wall, blocking his view of the rear.

After thinking for a moment, he waved towards Jiang Liuyun: "Brother Jiang, can you take me to the top of the wall to have a look?"

"No problem!" Jiang Liuyun patted his chest and walked towards Lu Huai.

"Wait." Lin Zhiqing stopped him, took out another pair of earplugs and handed them to Jiang Liuyun.

Jiang Liuyun took it and gave Lin Zhiqing a silly smile.

After putting the earplugs into his ears, he brought Lu Huai to the top of the wall at an extremely fast speed.

The two of them looked carefully for a long time before coming down.

Jiang Liuyun quickly walked up to Lin Zhiqing and pointed in the direction of the pitcher plant while saying, "Qing'er, the insect trap behind the pitcher plant is dripping water!"

His tone was very excited, as if he had discovered some treasure.

"It is true." Lin Zhiqing nodded.

At the same time, Lu Huai walked up to her and added, "The stone under the insect trap has been dented, which means that the water has been dripping for a long time."

"Can the pitcher plant's insect trap leak?"

Lin Zhiqing walked between the two of them and said, "Of course the pitcher plant's insect trap won't leak. The holes are artificially dug."

Jiang Liuyun touched his head and said, "But if that's the case, where does the water come from?"

Lin Zhiqing pointed to the other plants next to the pitcher plant and said, "The pitcher plant itself doesn't have a strong water storage capacity, so someone planted some plants next to it that have a strong water storage capacity."

"After the pitcher plant absorbs water from it, it wants to store it in the insect-catching pitcher, but the insect-catching pitcher at the back has a hole dug in it, so the water can't be retained, and the water can only flow out."

"This... is a good trick!" Lu Huai took a step forward. If Lin Zhiqing hadn't told him, he would never have imagined that the insect trap was the carrier of the dripping sound.

Jiang Liuyun's eyes were also somewhat surprised: "What on earth did Liu Mang want to do by going to so much trouble to set up such an ingenious trap?"

"If you don't do anything wrong, you don't have to worry about ghosts knocking on your door." Lin Zhiqing curled his lips: "Master Liu has made so many preparations, who knows who he is guarding against."

She was certain in her heart that Liu Mang was indeed knowledgeable in psychology.

The arrangement of these stacked stones and pitcher plants is very clever and it is definitely not a one-day job.

Liu Mang probably didn't know that he had come here, so there was no such thing as advance preparation.

Then, these things were probably prepared by him in advance. Besides guarding against them, who else can he guard against?
Lin Zhiqing didn't think that those petty thieves would deserve such severe punishment from Liu Mang.

She guessed that apart from the matter of her fourth uncle, Liu Mang had probably done a lot of bad things.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have made his mansion look like a trap.

The more Lin Zhiqing thought about it, the more certain he felt.

Liu Mang knows psychology, which means that the direction of her previous analysis was correct.

The moves that Aunt Chun used against Fourth Aunt and Lin Jiusi were most likely taught by Liu Mang, or it is possible that he did it personally.

Otherwise, Lin Zhiqing could not explain the strange things that happened to Lin Jiusi and Fourth Aunt.

Since Aunt Chun might have had connections with Liu Mang, there might be evidence of the two communicating or exchanging information in Liu Mang's mansion!

What Lin Zhiqing has to do now is to find evidence to prove his fourth uncle's innocence!
Putting aside the human evidence, she wants to try to find physical evidence!
Originally, she was in the light and Liu Mang was in the dark.

But no one knew about tonight's investigation, so she moved to the dark and Liu Mang stayed in the light.

If she didn't seize the opportunity, and Liu Mang later found out that she knew he was the mastermind, then she would be alerting the enemy.

By then, Liu Mang will definitely destroy the evidence, and she will definitely not be able to get any physical evidence!

Therefore, we must obtain physical evidence tonight!
Only by proving Fourth Uncle's innocence can the Lin family be saved from being implicated, and perhaps even Lin Zhiqing can learn more information, such as...

Is there anyone else behind Liu Mang?