Chapter 174

Lin Shuyue and Hang Jiabai looked at each other, and Hang Jiabai asked Lin Shuyue: "Want to go see it?"

Lin Shuyue nodded rapidly, and Hang Jiabai put down his bowl: "Let's go?"

Lin Shuyue went to the west room to put on her cotton-padded military coat, and Hang Jiabai went to the east room to put on his clothes, and they went out together. They came out neither too early nor too late, and many people were also rushing in that direction.

Everyone in the entire forest farm is an acquaintance, and everyone knows Hang Jiabai. Although they haven't been in touch for a few years, they became unfamiliar with each other after talking for a while, but when they meet again and talk a few words, they become familiar with each other.

One of the old men, who was about 60 years old, was very close to Hang Jiabai. He called the old man "Grandpa". After a few pleasantries, he introduced Lin Shuyue to him. Hang Jiabai then asked, "Grandpa Hu, what happened to that noise just now? Did a wolf enter the village?"

Grandpa Hu said, "That's impossible. We have fences around our forest farm, so wolves can't get in. Besides, we have dogs in our village, and they are all police dogs that never retire. If a wolf really comes, can they not bark?"

"I guess something happened in someone's family." Grandpa Hu said with certainty, his hands in his sleeves, a pipe in his mouth, smoke coming out as he spoke. Hang Jiabai handed him a cigarette, but he refused it, saying that cigarettes with a pipe were not strong.

Seeing that he didn't want it, Hang Jiabai took the cigarette back. Lin Shuyue looked into the woods through the gaps in the yards of each household. The larch trees were still exceptionally straight even in winter, but their color had changed from their original emerald green to dark green.

There are thick layers of snow under the trees, which are the snow that fell since the beginning of autumn this year and have never melted.

Judging from its thickness, it can probably cover a person's instep.

Another burst of shrill crying was heard from the front, and Lin Shuyue and others quickened their pace at the same time.

Soon, everyone arrived at the house where the noise came from. Lin Shuyue and others followed Grandpa Hu and squeezed in.

In the middle of the courtyard surrounded by people, a woman in her thirties was sitting on the ground, holding a three or four-year-old girl with bruises on her face, crying so hard that she couldn't catch her breath. Next to her, a man in army green clothes was squatting with his head in his hands.

Yin Xin and Hang Yuhua were standing at the front, with the gun in Hang Yuhua's hand hanging on his shoulder. Seeing Lin Shuyue coming over, Yin Xin cried out and took off the headscarf on her head and tied it on Lin Shuyue.

"It's cold outside, why did you come out?" Yin Xin complained, but her actions were gentle. Her headscarf was clean and had a faint scent of soap.

After Yin Xin finished talking about Lin Shuyue, she glared at Hang Jiabai again: "Look at you, I asked you two to eat at home, it's so cold outside, and you didn't wear a hat. Ah Yue has never been in such cold weather. If you are exposed to the wind for a long time, won't you have a headache?"

Yin Xin's filter for Hang Jiabai's son only lasted for just over an hour. Now, looking at this tall and strong son, she felt a little displeased.

After glaring at Hang Jiabai, she asked Lin Shuyue, "Are you cold?"

"It's not cold, auntie, what happened?"

Yin Xin didn't say anything, and a woman wearing a purple floral cotton jacket beside her took over the conversation: "The third daughter of the Wei family is gone."

The crying in the yard became even more miserable. The lady who was speaking sighed repeatedly: "You know, what evil has happened to the Wei family? The eldest daughter died two years ago, the second daughter was given away as soon as she was born, and the third daughter was finally raised until she was four years old, and she is gone too. What a sin."

"How come it disappeared?" Grandpa Hu asked in a very low voice.

"I don't know how soundly these two people slept that night. They didn't notice that the child had gone to the bathroom and didn't come back. They just locked the door and went to sleep. When they woke up this morning, the child had frozen to death."

The winter in the north is cold, and the winter on the dam is even colder, especially at night when the temperature can drop to minus thirty degrees Celsius.

This lady lives next door to the Wei family. She knows best what happened in the Wei family. When she said this, everyone looked at the Wei couple with strange eyes.

How cruel must these parents be to lock their child outside and let him freeze to death? Besides, the Wei couple are not such particular people. In such cold weather, who wouldn’t put the chamber pot in the house? It's so cold outside, not to mention the children, even the adults don't dare to go out.

After hearing what they said, Lin Shuyue opened the system. The good and evil radar showed that she opened the information of the woman who was crying while holding her child: [Name: Cao Manjin, sin value 10%, good value 30%, gray area: 2, overall evaluation: an ordinary person with a little kindness~]

Lin Shuyue closed her profile and clicked on the profile of the man who was grabbing her hair: [Name: Wei Guoyong, Sin value 15%, Good value 10%, Gray area: 10, Overall evaluation: How should I put it, a little selfish, right? You have to judge for yourself~]

Lin Shuyue shut down the system. Cao Manjin was still crying hard, but maybe she had cried too much and she couldn't even shed tears at this time.

Listening to everyone's discussion about the couple, Cao Manjin closed her eyes in pain. She gently put the child on the ground, stood up, and kicked Wei Guoyong to the ground.

"Wei Guoyong, I'm going to fight you! Last night, it was your door. Before going to bed, I asked you if San Ya was asleep, and you said you watched her sleep. Tell me, is this how you watched her sleep?"

"How many times have I told you to pee in the room at night? But your mother just hates the smell of the urinal and insists on going out to pee. San Ya can't even pee in the room! I pee in my room, and you fucking echo your mother saying that the room smells!"

"Do you still smell now? Your daughter froze to death, do you still smell?" Cao Manjin kicked the man lying on the ground several times. The man hugged his head and dared not make a sound.

Turning around again, Cao Manjin knelt down in front of San Ya with a thud, and slapped herself several times. Her neatly combed hair was messed up, her face was swollen, and blood was flowing from the corners of her mouth.

Her action silenced everyone present. The courtyard, which was as noisy as a vegetable market just now, suddenly became quiet.

She kowtowed to Sanya and said, "Sanyah, Ningning, I am sorry for you. Your mother has made four mistakes in her life. The first mistake was that I ignored your grandparents' advice and found an irresponsible man like Wei Guoyong to be your father."

"The second mistake is that I am strong outside but soft at home.

Think about it, we are all family, so if you can take a step back, then take a step back. This led to the tragedy today. ”

"The third mistake was that I should have realized it when your eldest sister died. I knew that the Wei family was a flood and a beast. I should have taken your second sister away with me at that time, but I didn't. I have an old-fashioned mindset and always thought that we should live together as long as we could. There was no need to go to the extent of divorce."

"When your second sister was sent away, I should have left, but I didn't. What I deserve to die for is that I knew the old Wei family was not a good family, but I still gave birth to you and let you suffer in the Wei family."

"The fourth mistake was that I knew you were not liked in Old Wei's house, so I didn't take you with me when I went back to your grandma's house yesterday afternoon."

Cao Manjin's words made the lady who spoke first slap her thigh and say, "Yes, yes, that's right. Manjinshi went back to her parents' home yesterday afternoon."

"I was just about to say this. We all know that Manjin went back to her parents' home yesterday. What you said just now was ambiguous!"

"That's right, if someone didn't know, they would think something had happened to Man Jin! Speaking of which, where's Aunt Wei? With such a big incident at home, why didn't she come out?"

"Hey, what are you doing here? I saw her go out a long time ago, dressed in fancy clothes. Damo went to the bottom of the dam again. Isn't she dating old Han at the bottom of the dam? She has to go down there every two or three days."

"You say this wife is really careless. Didn't she always sleep with San Ya in her arms? When she woke up, she didn't know whether the child was with her or not?"

"That's right. That's right."

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Cao Manjin's words had no deterrent effect on the man lying on the ground pretending to be dead. She could kick him as many times as she wanted. She was just pretending in front of outsiders. When there was no one around, she would have plenty of opportunities to deal with her.

But the neighbors' increasingly outrageous speculations made Wei Guoyong unable to stay still. He stood up from the ground and said, "Cao Manjin, what are you talking about? You have four faults? The Wei family is a scourge? Don't you want to live with them?"

"The eldest daughter fell into the water and died. Everyone saw it. It was an accident. What does it have to do with our family? The second daughter's matter is even more confusing to me. I had a formal job, and family planning was strictly enforced at that time. Sending her away was good for both of us."

"Besides, the third daughter is already four years old. She was freezing outside. Didn't she know to ask someone to get her up? Did she have to let her freeze to death? It's better not to have such a silly daughter!"

Wei Guoyong's words were heartless and ungrateful, but Cao Manjin smiled. She had known for a long time that Wei Guoyong was such a person, but deep down, she still held a little hope for him.

She just felt that her life was a joke. She stood up and rushed towards Wei Guoyong. Wei Guoyong was a man after all. As Cao Manjin rushed over, he raised his foot. But before he could kick Cao Manjin, he was stopped by someone.

He couldn't kick out with his foot. He turned his head to look at the person holding him. He had a face that he didn't like very much: "Let me go!"

Hang Jiabai didn't move. His hands were like a pair of pliers, tightly gripping Wei Guoyong's arms. No matter how Wei Guoyong struggled, it was useless.

Cao Manjin rushed over and slapped Wei Guoyong in the face. As if she still felt unsatisfied, she slapped him again with her backhand, and then spat a mouthful of thick phlegm on Wei Guoyong's face: "I was really blind before."

Wei Guoyong was the only son in the family, and was raised with great pampering by his widowed mother. When had he ever had his face covered with thick phlegm? Just like that, he turned around and started vomiting.

Cao Manjin sighed, walked over and gently picked up his daughter from the ground. The weight of her daughter, who had no signs of life, was so heavy that Cao Manjin's eyes filled with tears again. She walked outside step by step, holding the child in her arms. The crowd automatically made way for her.

She walked out of the yard step by step and onto the street in the forest farm. The street was very flat and covered with a lot of coal slag.

But she walked unsteadily and almost fell down several times. Cao Manjin was in a trance and felt that she was back to ten years ago, when she was seven months pregnant and brought her daughter back from the lake step by step.

In addition, Erya, whom she had only met once, was sent away after giving birth. The pain of losing a daughter twice and once made Cao Manjin feel so painful that she wanted to die. She felt a fishy and sweet taste in her throat and she actually vomited blood.

Everyone watched her walk away before following her step by step.

Yin Xin took Lin Shuyue to walk in the middle and said to her, "Cao Manjin is a miserable person. Her mother died early, and her father found a stepmother who treated her badly. She was treated like an animal since she was a child. When she was eighteen years old, her stepmother found her a boyfriend, a foolish man who plucked things out of his trouser pockets every day."

"She was not happy about it, so she met Wei Guoyong when she was planting trees in the mountains. Wei Guoyong was a decent-looking man when he was young, but when he saw that Cao Manjin was capable and pretty, he used his sweet words to trick her into getting him."

"And now this is what happened. I was with him for twelve years and had three daughters. The eldest drowned, the second was given away, and no one knows where. I couldn't even raise the third."

"She just said that she didn't take the second child with her, and she gave birth to the third child to make her suffer. Where is she going? Her family is a bunch of bastards. If she wants to divorce and go back, her stepmother will do something like locking the old bachelor in her room."

"Her family doesn't treat her like human beings anymore. They hurt her here and there from time to time and come here to extort money." Yin Xin said with a sigh.

Lin Shuyue glanced at the woman in front of her and the bloodstains on the ground, and asked, "Didn't she just say she was going back to her grandparents' house?"

"The family she was talking about was actually her grandparents' family." In case Lin Shuyue couldn't figure out the relationship between the people, Yin Xin explained, "Here, uncle is called grandpa. Her stepmother was not a human being, so her grandparents raised her. Now that she's married, she only takes care of her grandparents."

"It's bitter." Yin Xin said while shaking his head.

Lin Shuyue heard Hang Jiabai asking Hang Yuhua: "Have you called the police? There's nothing wrong with this child."

"Most people have noticed this. The police team went out on patrol today. Someone has already gone to the site to call the police station down the mountain. They should be on their way here now."