"On the third day, I couldn't bear it anymore, so Ye Zhengguo asked me to go to the next room to rest. I said the woman was giving birth and I couldn't rest. He also said that Zheng wouldn't give birth for a while, so he would stay with her and let me rest for half an hour. He would call me back so that I wouldn't be too tired to help when Zheng gave birth. But I slept for more than three hours and he didn't call me."

Everyone was shocked, and there were many speculations about Ye Zhengguo.

"I would rather watch my wife die than call a midwife. Is this something a normal person would do?"

"That's definitely not the case. I think Ye Zhengguo did it on purpose. He wanted to take Mrs. Zhao away so that he could get away."

"Oh my god, that's too cruel. I used to scold Mr. Wang for being cruel to his wife, but it turns out Ye Zhengguo is even crueler than him. Public Security Bureau, you must not let this kind of person go."

"Wang Lao and Ye Zhengguo are the two bad apples in our village. Let's kill them all and don't let them out again."

"And Sun Qing."

Chong Xingzhi said: "Everyone rest assured, once we have investigated thoroughly, we will not wrongly accuse a good person, nor will we let a bad person go."

The village chronicles ask people to keep good records.

Mrs. Zhao continued, "What was unusual at the time was not only that Ye Zhengguo advised me to go to bed, but also that I watched Zheng Xiaoqin die without calling me."

"Well, what else?"

Old Lady Zhao looked at everyone and asked, "What kind of person do you think Ye Zhengguo is? Is he easy to talk to?"

"That's bullshit." Everyone answered.

"Yeah, he's not a good person to talk to. Tell me, if it was really because I fell asleep and failed to deliver the baby properly that caused his wife's death, would he not give me trouble and give me hard work money?"

Everyone: “…”

"Yeah, this is not something Ye Zhengguo would do. If this is the case, with Ye Zhengguo's character, you, Mrs. Zhao, will have to pay for your underwear. Hard work pay? Not even a penny."

"Gongan 땢zhi, does this evidence count?"

"The suspect's behavior is not in line with common sense, which is indeed suspicious and we will take note of it."

"Mrs. Zhao, look at you. Why didn't you say anything about such a big thing? Why did you insist that she died of a difficult childbirth?"

"This...this..." In fact, she also had selfish motives. She was delivering a baby, but as a midwife, she fell asleep and the woman died. If this got out, would she still be able to do business?

At that time, she was afraid that her reputation would be damaged and she would not get any business. Now, she is over 70 years old, her eyesight is not good, and she has stopped working for a long time, so naturally she does not have such concerns.

She said directly: "I didn't see her die in person. Her husband said she died of a difficult childbirth. What else can I do?"

Being tough.

"Oh, and there's one more thing." Mrs. Zhao added, "He didn't let me examine the body of the pregnant woman. Although he stopped me, I saw that there was something wrong with Zheng Xiaoqin's head."

Um?

Chong Xingzhi: "What's wrong?"

"She is like this, like this."

She performed a difficult move, but didn't do it right in the end. "My neck looked like it was broken. I was worried that my old neck would be broken. I couldn't twist it this way. That's exactly what happened."

A few people suddenly became serious.

"Your neck looks like it's broken?"

"Yes, hanging down to one side."

Zhu Xianzhi took a deep breath and felt that this would be a major breakthrough.

He said to the person taking notes: "Highlight the key points here."

After taking good notes, Xiang Xiangzhi already had an idea in his mind.

He turned around and looked at Ye Xiaozhen and said, "I originally thought that if the midwife saw your mother die of dystocia, then it was Sun Qing who made a false accusation. Now it seems that he might have really killed your mother."

Everyone was very excited.

"What's the matter? It's definitely true."

"Oh my, this is unbelievable. How can there be such a vicious person in this world? She gave birth to his baby and was in pain for three days and three nights, but he actually wanted to kill her."

"Ye Zhengguo was the one who was killed that day. We can't let him go. We should feed him with bullets."

"Yes, feed him guns."

Zhong Xingzhi said, "Everyone, please stop arguing. What we need to investigate a case is evidence. We cannot convict someone based on their words alone."

He said to Ye Xiaozhen: "You just heard that the witness said your mother's neck was in a strange state. I suggest... open the coffin and perform an autopsy."

"Ah?" There was an uproar at the scene.

"She's been gone for more than 20 years. You're her daughter, so you can refuse. We can try to get the suspect to confess voluntarily."

Ye Xiaozhen thought that it was absolutely impossible for a cruel and vicious person like Ye Zhengguo to confess his guilt voluntarily.

Although Mrs. Zhao's confession today is very helpful in proving Ye Zhengguo's guilt, it happened more than 20 years ago, and Mrs. Zhao is so old, there is a risk of misremembering.

If Ye Zhengguo tries to defend himself and refuses to admit the crime, he and his lawyer will most likely succeed in their defense.

"Okay, I agree."

She could understand that when a person dies, it's like a light goes out. Nothing is more important than finding out the truth and bringing the murderer to justice.

No one in the village thinks as clearly as she does.

One by one, they advised her, "Hey, this is digging a grave, you can't just dig it casually."

"Nana, you should think this through carefully."

"Your mother has been dead for more than 20 years. What will happen if she is dug up again?"

Ye Xiaozhen said: "Thank you for your concern, but I hope to see the truth."

"Didn't the police say they would think of other ways to make Ye Zhengguo plead guilty? Don't bother your mother, think of other ways."

Ye Xiaozhen shook her head. "He won't plead guilty. If there's no solid evidence to throw in his face, even if the whole village says bad things about him, he won't plead guilty."

"This..." Everyone didn't know what to say.

Ye Xiaozhen said: "Public Security Bureau, please make the arrangements."

The police relaxed their tempers, thinking that as long as the family members did not stop it, it would be fine.

You know, when they handle cases, they often have difficulty overcoming the obstruction of family members.

They feel that touching a corpse is disrespectful to the deceased, let alone digging a grave.

"Okay, but for such a big thing, your approval alone may not be enough. We also need the approval of the other immediate family members of the deceased. By the way, are your grandparents still alive?"

This……

Yeh Cocoon shook her head.

"Gone?"

"No, I don't know if they are there or not. I have never seen them."

ah?

The daughter died, and the parents have never seen their granddaughter?

Someone said, "Zheng's family is quite far from our Xigou Village, about thirty or forty miles away."

Ye Xiaozhen said: "I heard it's quite far and might not be convenient."

Of course it can't be inconvenient.

Everyone has a little more affection for Ye Xiaozhen.

"That's a bit of a problem."

"Isn't it okay for me to do that?"

"You are a mentally disabled person. If your grandparents come to make trouble afterwards, it will be troublesome."

"Does that depend on their consent?"

Zhong Xingzhi nodded and said, "We understand. We will contact your mother's immediate family first."