Chapter 392: Chapter 392: Calm and Composed
The surveillance footage has not ended yet.
Then, Sheng Tang appeared and walked behind Sheng Zong.
There was a bit of conversation between the siblings, Sheng Zong said, "Sheng Qiao said you were here and asked me to come find you," which was deleted.
Then, Sheng Tang and Sheng Zong speculated about what this place was, and that was deleted as well.
The line from Sheng Zong, "Aren’t you inside?" was kept.
Then, Sheng Tang twisted the door handle.
Next, the screen went dark, and the entire surveillance was gone.
The living room fell silent for a moment.
The old master was unwilling to suspect Sheng Tang and Sheng Zong, but at this moment he did not know what to say, so he remained silent for a few seconds.
The elder master and the second master’s couple looked surprised, and simultaneously schadenfreude.
Sheng Sidong and his wife were ashen-faced.
"This..." Fang Mengying’s voice was trembling, "there’s no evidence proving they went inside, wasn’t the room locked?"
"Maybe they erased the footage of them going inside," Sheng Zhang said coldly.
"If they were going to erase it, why not erase the footage of them going upstairs too?" Fang Mengying looked even worse, and she was unfriendly to Sheng Zhang as well.
The elder wife immediately stepped in front of her son, "What do you mean by this?"
"I’m just stating the facts."
"At that time, you two kept urging, did Sheng Tang answer the phone? No, it was your son who answered, wasn’t it? Maybe, Sheng Tang was erasing the surveillance, feeling nervous and inexperienced, so she missed this segment," the elder wife said coldly.
These words were reasonable and well-founded.
The other Sheng Family members hurriedly nodded.
Sheng Sidong looked even paler.
He did not doubt his own children, only thought Sheng Tang and her brother fell into a trap.
He knew, these people were up to no good.
He didn’t care about the inheritance rights here, but he couldn’t accept his two children being labeled as "thieves."
"You..." Fang Mengying was left speechless.
Sheng Qiao instigated from behind, "Maybe it was really them who stole it. When we were playing games on the third floor, Sheng Zong even went to Grandpa’s study. At that time, Sister-in-law Qian saw it, if you don’t believe it, ask Sister-in-law Qian."
Sister-in-law Qian had received a text message from Sheng Qiao, asking her to bring some snacks upstairs.
Unexpectedly, just as she went upstairs, she saw Sheng Zong opening the study room door, and she was quite surprised.
However, Sheng Zong should have just opened the door, not coming out from inside, right?
The surveillance was turned off, Sister-in-law Qian wasn’t sure herself, so she had to tell the truth, "I... I did see Young Master Zong open the study room door, but I didn’t see him go inside."
Sheng Zong finally understood why they wanted to play cards on the third floor, and why Sheng Qiao had asked him to get the dice.
Sheng Qiao had planned everything from the beginning.
He deliberately turned off the surveillance, so no one could prove whether Sheng Zong entered; he timed it just right for Sister-in-law Qian to see Sheng Zong at the study room door.
Sheng Zong was left speechless with no way to argue.
His heart was in turmoil and he panicked: "Grandpa, I didn’t take your pocket watch."
The old man scanned the crowd.
His heart was heavy with sadness.
His children and grandchildren never had a moment of peace. None of them were promising; the most well-behaved Sheng Zong was also helpless when framed by others.
His gaze fell on Sheng Tang again.
Unlike everyone else, who was either angry, suppressing their excitement, or had pale faces, Sheng Tang was very calm.
The servants were all trembling with fear of being implicated, but Sheng Tang seemed completely detached from the situation.
She was so calmly confident, if it wasn’t because she had a trump card, then she was just overly bold.
The old man believed it was the former.
He was slightly intrigued and suddenly very curious about Sheng Tang’s trump card, wanting to know how she would prove her brother’s innocence.