Chapter 15: Mother's Death

There was deathly silence in the Zhou family's courtyard.

"Mom, fuck him! Fubao supports you!"

There was no panic on Shen Lingning's face, only an icy calmness.

She has been waiting for this day for a long time!

She carried the crying Fubao steadily into the arms of Aunt Wang behind her, then stood up slowly and straight and walked to Lin Sanquan.

With a chilling chill and undisguised sarcasm, Shen Lingning calmly questioned him:

"Lin Sanquan, you still have the nerve to mention having children? Mention my mother, Shen Qiaonian?"

She paused deliberately, watching the panic that flashed across Lin Sanquan's eyes...

"How did my mother die? Do you need me to help you recall the story in front of all the young and old men in Majiaji?

Recall how you pushed her into the lotus pond and watched her drown?!"

When these words were spoken, everyone in the courtyard was shocked, and Lin Sanquan was so frightened that his face turned pale.

"You...you're talking nonsense! You're slandering me!"

Impossible, there is no way anyone would know about this!

Lin Sanquan's face suddenly turned pale, then turned the color of liver. He jumped up and down, screaming fiercely, his voice cracking: "Your mother died of illness! She...she fell into the water! The police made a final decision on the case that year!"

You unfilial daughter, you want to slander me?! I will beat you to death! "

As he said that, he raised his hand and rushed over!

"Stop! Who dares to attack us in Majiaji?"

The old branch secretary Ma Zhenshan roared angrily, like a thunderclap!

Li Tiezhu and several young men immediately stepped forward, blocked Shen Lingning's way and glared at the Lin family.

Shen Lingning turned a deaf ear to Lin Sanquan's madness.

She turned to the old Party Secretary, whose face was already filled with rage and whose chest was heaving, and to the shocked and angry villagers, and her voice suddenly rose, with a tearful sorrow and a desperate determination:

"Uncle Ma! Fellow villagers! Today, I, Shen Lingning, Zhou Weiguo's wife, the widow of a martyr, will tear off the mask of this murderer! I will avenge the blood debt for my unjustly murdered mother!"

She moved her mind slightly, and a hard-cover diary with a yellowed cover instantly appeared in her raised hand!

It looks like it was taken from the table, but it is actually stored in the space.

She trembled, yet with unwavering determination, she turned one of the pages, revealing the despair drenched in beautiful handwriting before everyone:

“…March 21st, sunny.

Lin Sanquan returned drunk again, and when his demand for money failed, he resorted to violence! He beat me up, calling the Shen family "stinking capitalists" and "pretending to be noble"! He dared to covet the jade bracelet my mother left behind! It's the only thing my grandmother left me! I'll never give it to her!

He grabbed my neck, his eyes red as a devil's, and roared, "Don't give it to me? Believe it or not, I'll throw you into the lotus pond to keep you company with your short-lived parents!" I struggled hard, and the bruises on my neck haven't healed yet..."

"Buzz..."

The crowd went completely wild!

"Oh my God! It's really strangled!"

"Calling the Shen family stinky capitalists? And throwing them into the lotus pond?"

"This... this is not something a human would do! You beast! You beast!"

And at this moment, Lin Sanquan——

When Shen Lingning said "grab my neck", he felt like he was hit in the chest by an invisible hammer, and his body shook violently!

When reading "He roared that he would throw me into the lotus pond to keep my short-lived parents company" and "I'll bury you in the mud".

His face was no longer pale, but instead had a deathly greyish hue!

Beads of cold sweat rolled down his forehead and temples like a waterfall, instantly soaking the collar of his worn cotton-padded jacket!

He stared intently at the diary held high by Shen Lingning.

The handwriting in the diary...

That familiar date...

That unforgettable scene... seemed like a nightmare reappearing!

He opened his mouth, wanting to refute, wanting to scream, wanting to deny, but he couldn't utter a word!

My body was shaking uncontrollably, my legs were weak, and I could barely stand!

The guilt and fear that ran deep into his bones were fully exposed in the face of the ironclad evidence in the diary!

"Look! That's him!"

Shen Lingning's voice trembled with grief and anger, but every word was as powerful as a hammer: "He cheated into marriage, drank and gambled, and beat his wife! He lost all the Shen family's money and even took my mother's dowry!"

In fact, the biggest loss suffered by the Shen family was that after being reported by Lin Sanquan, they spent all their family wealth but were still forced to flee the country for asylum. However, she cannot say it now.

She thought of her mother's pale face when she was pulled out of the lotus pond, and of when Lin Sanquan forcibly abducted her back to her hometown in southern Shanxi and she could never see her loving grandparents again.

Unable to conceal the hatred in her eyes, she pointed at Lin Sanquan again, "That 'IOU' he kept asking for today? It's not even a debt for five kilograms of rice!

That was the bloody receipt he wrote with his own hands to "mortgage" my mother's ancestral jade bracelet to Liu Laizi, a thug at the "Black Tiger" gambling house in the county town, in order to fill the gambling debt!

Written in black and white on the paper were the words "Mortgage: A pair of jade bracelets (with the word Autumn engraved on the inner ring)", and the person who signed the pledge was: Lin Sanquan! And there was also his red handprint!

Shen Lingning's eyes swept across the crowd, finally settling on Lin Sanquan's bulging left breast pocket: "That murder evidence stained with my mother's blood and tears is right in his pocket! Does he dare to take it out and show it to everyone?!"

"boom--!"

Shen Lingning's words "push him into the lotus pond and drown him alive" were like thunderclaps from a clear sky, shattering the entire courtyard into silence!

Lin Sanquan was struck by lightning, his face instantly lost all color and turned as pale as paper!

"You... you are a piece of shit! You are slandering me!!"

Lin Sanquan jumped up suddenly like a mad dog whose tail was stepped on. His face turned from pale to purple as he screamed at the top of his lungs.

The voice was so harsh and unpleasant: "Your mother died of illness! She...she accidentally fell into the water!

The police investigated everything thoroughly back then! The case was confirmed in black and white! You black-hearted, unfilial daughter!

You want to slander me?! I'll beat you to death, you bastard!"

His handsome appearance with thick eyebrows and big eyes was completely gone. He raised his skinny hands and rushed towards Shen Lingning without caring about anything!

The old Party Secretary stood up and protected Shen Lingning like a lion protecting his cubs. "This is Majiaji! This is not a place for you to run wild! If you dare to touch Weiguo's wife, I will make you crawl out today!"

Li Tiezhu and several strong young men who were already furious stood in front of Shen Lingning, forming a human wall!

Just waiting for the order from the old branch secretary!

Lin Sanquan was struck by lightning. His face instantly turned from pale to blue, and then from blue to gray. His body began to tremble like a sieve, and he subconsciously covered his left chest pocket tightly.

Zhang Fangqin was so frightened that she sat down on the ground, slapping her thigh and howling, "It's unfair! She's talking nonsense! She forged it! My man is not like that, Lingning girl, tell me it's not him! He's your father!"

Lin Youcai was also frightened and backed away with his neck shrunk.

"Take the stuff out!"

"Lin Sanquan!!"

The old branch secretary Ma Zhenshan shouted angrily, his voice like thunder, hitting Lin Sanquan so hard that he almost couldn't stand!