After Tyrone left, I couldn’t wait for a moment. I couldn’t wait to return home to see Quincy.
When we returned to City A, it was already four o’clock in the morning Beijing time.
After going home and sleeping, I woke up. After breakfast, I drove directly to the construction site and found Quincy. He looked at me with a dignified eye. “Why are you here again?”
“Uncle Quincy, let’s talk.” He handed the information to the people around him, turned around and came to a remote place with me. I looked around and found no one.
Confidently I said, “Uncle Quincy, help me, I must exculpate my father.”
“Why are you so persistent? I have said that it is your business for you to exculpate your father. I will not participate. I have already done everything that I can do to help you.”
“But you are the person to have the evidence in your hand that can bring down those people. I need you to give me the evidence.” I looked at him seriously.
“Uncle Quincy, as they say, heaven is good for reincarnation and those wicked people should be reattributed, right?”
He frowned and turned his back on me. “Sorry, I really can’t help you.”
“Are you really doing this just to keep your agreement with the deceased?”
He looked back slightly, but he never looked back at me. “Krista, I hope you will stop pestering me about this matter.” After he said this he walked away.
I said, “You did this because you know the truth, which will affect my mother.”
His footsteps suddenly stopped and looked back at me in surprise. “Uncle Quincy, why don’t you talk? Am I right? My father requested that you keep it a secret since you already know who the final straw will be for the horse, don’t you?”
“Krista,” he said with a grave expression, “I don’t care where you heard or what you hear, but you keep it in mind. You must not pursue this matter anymore. The more you continue this, the more you will know. Knowing this will hurt you more than you anticipate. Did you hear me clearly? I did it for your own good?”
I am not a naive little girl, and I will naturally analyze it. His words have confirmed my guess.
“It was my mother who helped Brent and killed my father. My father finally decided to take the blame to protect my mother from trouble, didn’t he?”
His expression is complicated. “You…”
I clenched my fist and looked at him with tears in my eyes. “That day, you told me that my father also had someone he wanted to guard. At that moment, I understood that there was no one but my mother who could make my father this desperate to save someone. My father had a chance to exculpate himself, but gave up his opportunity, it could only be for my mother. You told me the truth. Uncle Quincy, at this point, are you still unwilling to help me?”
He frowned and then sighed, “Krista, you are too clever. As your father said, if you were a man, you would have made great achievements.”
“Uncle Quincy, this is an era of equality between men and women.”
“I know,” he shook his head. “I just didn’t think that my words would remind you so much.”
“Because I know my father too well.”
He was silent again, as if thinking about something.
“In the other side’s camp, but there is your biological mother, can you really avenge your father with no distractions? You know, the exculpation of your father means that you will lose your mother completely. Can you step on your mother’s shoulder and save your father’s reputation?”
“Doesn’t she have to pay for doing something wrong?” I looked at Quincy. Although there were tears daring to fall in my eyes, I tried my best to control it. “When my mother stepped on my father’s reputation and life to help another man, she had already made her choice. Even if I was her daughter, I should be reasonable and know right and wrong, right?”
I stepped forward and held Quincy’s arm tightly and said, “Uncle Quincy, today is the last time I will come to beg you. If you refuse to help me, I will never force it again, but I will not stop there. Even if there is no evidence, I will find different ways to make Brent’s Brennan group disappear completely from City A, even if I have to lose my reputation and life.”
“What are you planning to do?”
I shook my fist. “When I was living with the Brennan family, Brent tried to attack me several times, and I recorded evidence. If I can’t destroy him with evidence, then I will die with him in my own way.”
“Krista, you can’t do this,” Quincy said in a much calmer voice. “If you do this, it will be against your father’s intentions.”
I clenched my fist and shouted, “I don’t know what my father’s original intention was. I only know that he showed me the evidence of how innocent he was. Uncle Quincy, it is wrong to let the wicked go unpunished. Is there no justice, no retribution in this world? If there is none, then I will be willing to take revenge on Brent and Delia.”
“Krista, don’t get excited, you misunderstood what I meant. What I said is that you shouldn’t die with Brent. He doesn’t deserve to die with such a good child as you. Your father’s original intention is not to protect your mother, he did this to protect you.”
I paused. “Me?”
“Yes, at this point, I really don’t have to hide it. If I don’t do something, I’m afraid your father’s wish will really come to nothing. In those days, I also learned the truth about this matter by accident. Your father came to me that day and wanted me to testify for him. As an old friend for many years, I was naturally obliged. We agreed to meet at seven o’clock in the evening. But I was at the appointed place, and when the time hit at 7:30, he didn’t show up. He has always been a punctual person. I have to suspect that something may have happened to him. I was worried, so I called him, but I called more than a dozen times in a row, but he didn’t answer. I felt something was wrong, so I drove to your house to find him. After I parked my car downstairs, I answered a phone call. When I was going to get off, I found that your parents came out of the building together. They seemed to have an argument. I quietly dropped the window into a gap and heard their conversation.” As he spoke, he recalled the scene at that time.
I frowned. “What did they say?”
He looked at me. “You come with me.”
I followed him off the construction site, and Quincy drove me back to the company in his car and into his office. He walked to the safe alone, opened the safe door, and took out a small USB flash drive from the inside. “See for yourself, this is the picture recorded by my car recorder at that time, and I believe it can answer your doubts.”
I took the USB flash drive and felt my heart race. “Uncle Quincy, can I use your computer?”
“Whatever.”
I went to his desk, turned on the computer, inserted the USB flash drive, and read the only video file inside. Because it was night, the picture was not very clear. Fortunately, the lights downstairs were very bright at that time, so I clearly saw the faces of my parents confronting each other from the video.
Tears filled my eyes with excitement. This is the first time I have seen my father in six years. I really want to touch my father’s face. The voice in the video is a little noisy, but fortunately, I can hear it clearly.
Dad complained with pain, “Did you think about my feelings when you slept with Brent? Now that something has happened, you think you want me to take the blame, Delia, where is your conscience? I am so kind to you, and how can you do this?”
My mother grabbed my father’s arm tightly and cried, “Samuel, people’s feelings are not so easy to control. I know you are fine, but I am not well. I am not a human being, and I cheated on you, but I really didn’t mean it. I didn’t want to destroy our family.”
“Then what are you doing now? The accident on the Cross River Bridge was clearly caused by Brent, but you want me to take the responsibility? I am a bridge engineer. Do you know that you are ruining me like this?”
“Samuel, you listen to me, you listen to me, Mr. Brent promised me, as long as you help him back and take the responsibility this time, he will give you a sum of money, so that even if you don’t work as an engineer in the future, you can have food and clothing all your life. Think about our Krista. Krista still has a long way to go. She has dreams and many opportunities, but it really needs a lot of money to train her, am I right? As long as you take the responsibility this time, Krista will have a brighter future.”
Dad was unmoved. “Over the years, although my salary card has been handed over to you, I know very well in my heart that the money I earn can raise Krista very well.”
“There just isn’t enough, there isn’t enough.” With a shake of her head, Mom expressed her dissatisfaction with the situation. “Krista, our Krista, is great. I’m hoping she’s not as bad as those real ladies. She is deserving of the best.”
Dad frowned. “Krista is obviously satisfied with her present life, but you want to turn her into a machine to fulfill your dreams? Delia, don’t lie to me, I won’t make any concessions for your wild man, I will never take the blame for this, and this is not something I do. You should know very well that I am a person who does fine work, I put the safety of the people. I have a blueprint of this work. As long as I take out the blueprint, I can easily prove my innocence. Now, I have found a witness. Tell Brent and let him wait to be punished by law. “