Thriller Paradise Chapter 7: The Mystery of the Will (Part 2)

Zuo Yan thought about it again, looked at Vidoc and said, "But...I still don't understand."

"You think there are some doubts about the motive of committing the crime, right." Vidock responded.

"Yeah." Zuo Yan nodded, "According to what you said, John is a well-known and promising young man, and Sam is just a second-generation ancestor... In this case, the old Herbert would have been very The big one might leave the inheritance to John. Take a step back... Even if the old Herbert doesn't want to treat the two sons differently, the inheritance should be divided equally between the two brothers, so Sam will not be allowed to take the bulk." He paused. After a pause, "Take a step back and talk... John, who has already established a firm foothold in the business world, can live very well even if he has not inherited a penny. On the contrary, he is the one who spends all his life and can't do anything except spend money. Sam... Once he loses his family's support, I am afraid he will not survive.

From this point of view, what reason does John have to risk forging his will? Is it because he hates his brother so much...must make him penniless?" At this point, Zuo Yan frowned and thought. After two seconds, "But...if that's the case, why did he offer to give Sam a hundred thousand pounds?"

"Think of your'first step to retreat' again, and then tell me the crux of it yourself." Vidoc did not answer Zuoyan's question, but gave half a reminder and half a request.

"Oh?" Zuo Yan listened to it, and immediately rethinked the matter obediently, and then said, "You mean... the situation of'equal inheritance' is unacceptable to John?"

"No." Vidoc said.

"Why?" Zuo Yan asked suspiciously.

"Because he is short of money." Vidock gave a very simple, unexpected, but very reasonable answer.

"John is short of money?" Zuo Yan was indeed surprised by this answer.

"Heh..." Vidock smiled, "Which of the following people do you think is more likely to owe huge sums of money? The first type—a young man who sees himself as an elite, ambitious, and big business Entrepreneur; the second type-attending various social evenings all day long, eating, drinking, playing and sleeping with supermodels, and never considering the so-called "future".

Although the two kinds of people described in this sentence are diametrically opposed, one is a "money-making person" and the other is a "money-spending person", the interesting thing is that they are really desperate due to debt. ... is often the former.

"Hey hello..." Zuo Yan also heard it. Victor's understanding of this case is far beyond the level of ordinary people who eat melons, so he asked, "You know too much, don't you? This is no longer a level that can be grasped by reading the news in the newspaper?"

"Half a month after John inherited all of the Herbert family property..." Vidock thought while saying, "I saw a report on the'Herbert Group financing' in the TV news. This report... is what really made me interested in the previous inheritance lawsuit; I went online that afternoon (Yes, Vidoc will use a computer to go online, of course, except for the left word, he will not Let others know about it) checked some things about the financing. The information is not confidential, and it can be easily retrieved on some business-related websites...Although the financing seems to be just an inheritance The entrepreneur in the industry made a regular merger of the family business with his own company, but if he has the heart to look through his own company’s accounts and many trends in the previous year, many interesting things will come out."

"So..." When Zuo Yan heard this, he naturally guessed John's motives. "The person who can't accept the'legacy split' is actually John... His business deficit is so big that he uses Herbert. The added “half of the industry” cannot be filled. Only by inheriting all the property can he solve his crisis."

"No, no, no..." Vidock said in a rather relaxed tone, "The Herbert family has a solid foundation. To solve John's difficulties,'half of the property' should be enough; but the problem It's... the half that John can inherit must be real estate related to the business, as well as shares and other things; and the half that Sam gets is the real'money' that can be spent at will.

"Don't say it is their father, even outsiders know that they should be assigned this way, because Sam is incapable of managing and operating Herbert Company.

"However, according to this situation, after John inherited his share of the property, he would have to'realize' something to solve his dilemma, which is very difficult to see... Announcing his failure to the world in a high-profile manner.

"John is obviously a person who does not want to admit that he has failed in front of others. If he wants to, he does not need to engage in any inheritance conspiracy; while his father is still alive, just ask his father for it... as long as he is old Herb characteristic head, John’s dilemma can definitely be resolved."

"So, he carefully designed such a good show of'fake will'..." Zuo Yan followed Vidock's words and said, "and deliberately left flaws in the forgery of the will, step by step. His younger brother entered the game; in the end, using the outside world’s stereotypes of him and his younger brother, this made it all seem logical."

"We must admit that as a criminal... John is quite clever." Vidock continued, "If he wants to do it, forge a false will with his own beneficiary and no flaws. It's not difficult; even if his brother takes him to court for this, he may not lose." He said as he stroked the fur on the top of his head with his little paw, "but John didn't do that. He chose a more complicated method. ...Only in this way can Sam be branded as a "liar and rogue" to avoid future troubles.

"As for his act of giving out the 100,000 pounds afterwards, as Sam said, he was using the money that belonged to the other party to give to the other party... For John, who has already received all the inheritance, the 100,000 Sterling is irrelevant, but his behavior of thinking about brotherhood and knowing that his brother forged his will and even distributes money to the other party is undoubtedly an excellent public relations for himself."

"Um...the motive and the case are all justifiable." Zuo Yan continued thoughtfully, "but don't you think there is a loophole in your reasoning?"

"You tell me, I will listen." Vidock knew exactly what Zuo Yan was going to say, but he didn't point it out, but waited for Zuo Yan to put it forward.

"Old Herbert died of illness." Zuo Yan said, "John can forge a will, but he can't..."

At this point, Zuo Yan seemed to have thought of something, his expression suddenly changed, and his words stopped abruptly.

"Can't what?" Vidoc laughed, "Can't the death of Old Herbert come sooner?"

"Are you still not telling me something?" Zuo Yan looked down at Vidock with a false eye.

"I said that Sam only stays at home for one or two months each year, but I didn’t say that John only stays for so little..." Vidock said, "Although John’s business is mainly in the UK, he himself I live on this island most of the time of the year... This, even now, has not changed; this is one of the benefits of the information age, people can do most of them in front of the computer Even the autograph can be transmitted through digital technology."

Hearing these words~IndoMTL.com~Zuo Yan knew the nature of the case, and immediately muttered: "If you spend a long time with the deceased in a big house... Chronic poisoning is more convenient. And it’s not easy to track down."

"The specific method may not be chronic poisoning, but it may also be some other way..." Vidoc said, "Old Herbert died at home, not in the hospital. Therefore, he was declared dead. The person in is also the family doctor of the Herbert family; as far as I know... this doctor is not a few years younger than the old Herbert. Perhaps John’s tricks deceived the old man, or he was bought off. ...In short, no one questioned the conclusion of the death of illness.

"A few years later, the doctor himself has passed away, and the body of Old Herbert has long been ‘buried’ by John."

"Did both of them have no proof, right..." Zuo Yan read.

"Huh..." Vidock snorted coldly, "A person like John doesn't have any obvious handles." He turned over on the bed again, "I have a friend, you can say He is'the best easy chair detective in the world'. Over the years, he has met a large number of criminals who are at large like John who are at large just through newspapers and news."

"Uh...your'friend'...isn't it also a cat?" Zuo Yan asked.

"Of course it's a cat, what do you think?" Vidock replied with a natural tone.

"Nothing...you go on." Zuo Yan's mouth twitched twice, and he didn't say anything; after all, he wasn't Brother Jue, and he didn't complain so strongly.

"After understanding this, we can almost start to talk about the topic..." Vidock continued, "The one we met in front of the elevator door before, Sam Herbert, who had disappeared for many years... According to my observations in those few seconds, he may have been involved in some kind of illegal incident."