I advise you to tell the truth.

"I'm just telling the truth..."

"Really? Then how come you lost a finger?"

Huang Mancang clutched his severed finger, the excruciating pain from that night seemingly resurfacing in his heart.

"If you explain yourself clearly, you might get leniency; otherwise..."

After finishing his sentence, the policeman left the ward without wasting any more words on him.

Huang Mancang was left sitting blankly on the hospital bed, recalling the unfinished words of the policeman.

What does he mean?

Otherwise what?

He's just playing around with money, what could possibly go wrong?

He really didn't know Wang Biao. If the four of them hadn't said they had a fun place to take him, would he have lost so much money?

They've been keeping him in the hospital room for the past few days, not letting him go home. What exactly is the police trying to do?

As the policeman left the ward, he frowned. The young man beside him hesitated for a long time before speaking his mind, "Master, I think what Huang Mancang said is true. He really doesn't seem to know Wang Biao."

"Xiao Li, do you know Huang Mancang?"

Officer Li lowered his head in embarrassment. "I know his wife, Wu Mingxia, the one who helped our city send those thugs to jail."

"It was our bureau chief who approved her transfer of her household registration."

"Hiss, it's her..."

"Even if Huang Mancang is telling the truth, the fact remains that he participated in gambling, and that alone is enough to get him into serious trouble."

well......

"This matter must be thoroughly investigated. The official document has already been issued, and we must not let any troublemaker go unpunished!"

"yes!"

Shanyao Village.

Huang Xiaoqiang asked worriedly, "Mom, where do you think Dad and the others will be sent to?"

"If you do as I say, you'll most likely come here."

Grandma Wu stirred the pig feed, the bubbling steam hitting her face. She took a step back and said, "If you don't do it my way... then I won't know."

What did you say to them?

"Those who surrender themselves to the authorities will be treated leniently."

Forehead......

Huang Xiaoqiang suddenly fell silent. Old Mrs. Wu glanced at him and asked, "What? You think it won't work?"

"It's not that it's impossible, but wasn't it my dad who committed the crime? Why are my older brother and the others turning themselves in?"

Grandma Wu scooped some piping hot pig feed from the pot to cool it down. "You two are on good terms, haven't you heard what he's been up to lately?"

"Building the bullpen?"

But we didn't raise cattle.

Huang Xiaoqiang was suddenly startled, "Why is it suddenly so strict now?"

"It wasn't sudden; there were signs all along."

Grandma Wu lifted the wooden bucket and poured the food into the pig trough, listening to the grunting and munching sounds of the piglets, which had grown quite a bit, as they ate.

“These days, it’s not uncommon for one person’s crime to implicate the whole family. If your brother and his family can raise their awareness and voluntarily request to be transferred to a lower-level position, they might be given the option to choose based on their ideological awareness.”

"So, will they also live in the cowshed after they arrive?"

Grandma Wu stroked her chin. "Not necessarily. After all, they are different from your father, who clearly committed a crime."

The mother and son whispered to each other for a while by the pigsty. Gou Cuifen saw them as soon as she came up, "Mingxia!"

Hearing the voice, Old Mrs. Wu turned her head and saw, "Sister Cuifen?"

Huang Xiaoqiang greeted Gou Cuifen, took the pig feed bucket from Wu's hand, and said, "I'll feed them."

Gou Cuifen looked at Huang Xiaoqiang with a smile in her eyes, then pulled Old Lady Wu aside, saying, "You're quite famous now."

What makes you famous?

Grandma Wu was completely bewildered. "What's so famous about him?"

"You wouldn't believe how famous you are for raising pigs. Now, your reputation as a pig farmer has spread far and wide throughout the surrounding villages."

Old Mrs. Wu's lips twitched. The name of the pig farmer...

Gou Cuifen was very excited. "It's well-known in our Shanyao Village that we can't raise piglets. It's even in the township. Now you've not only raised them, but you've raised them so well! That's why people have come to your door looking for you."

"Looking for me? What do you want? To raise pigs?"

Gou Cuifen glared at her, "I won't let you raise pigs in other villages. It's Xiayao Village, which is separated from us by a ditch. Their pigs are half-dead right now."

Grandma Wu didn't understand. In this situation, why would she go to a veterinarian? She doesn't know how to treat pigs.

"You don't know, Veterinarian Li went to check, and there's nothing seriously wrong. He just told me to get some exercise."

This situation is exactly the same as when these three pigs first started.

Gou Cuifen pulled her arm and whispered, "They've all looked, but it's no use. The pig still won't eat. Now, they're getting anxious. They heard you broke the curse that has plagued our village for years, preventing pigs from surviving, so they've come knocking on our door."

After saying that, he spat at the ground beside him and said, "If this weren't Qi Niu Hua, we wouldn't have gotten this name."

Grandma Wu spread her hands helplessly and said, "But I don't know how to treat pigs either."

"Oh, just take a look, otherwise they'll come knocking every few days, it's driving me crazy."

"Alright, alright, I'll make the trip."

He turned and said something to Huang Xiaoqiang before leaving.

When I arrived at the village entrance, I saw three or five rural women pacing back and forth anxiously.

Gou Cuifen quickly called out, "Let's go, let's go, they're here."

Grandma Wu was practically carried away by several people.

"Thank you for your trouble."

We were carried all the way to Xiayao Village, where a crowd had gathered at the entrance. "They're here! They're here!"

"We'd better take a good look at this. If there's no pig-slaughtering feast this year, I'll have nothing to look forward to."

The crowd made way for Grandma Wu and the others so that they could go straight to the pigsty.

Qi Niuhua hid in the crowd, her eyes fixed on the old lady Wu who was being carried away by the crowd, her teeth almost grinding to powder.

I could still hear voices praising Grandma Wu from time to time.

"City folks really know how to do it, they're really good at raising pigs. Our Xiayao Village and Shangyao Village are just separated by a ditch. They haven't slaughtered any pigs in years, they can't even raise them all. But this guy surnamed Wu came, and hey, he managed to raise them all. Isn't that strange?"

"It's not my fault, it's not my fault. You know Qi Niu Hua from their village, right?"

"Oh, her? Yes, she knows."

"The pigs in Shangyao Village are the ones she's been raising. Every time she brings back a batch of piglets, another batch dies."

"Why not find someone else to raise it?"

"I heard... that Qi Niu Hua is domineering and won't let anyone else grow it, and will beat anyone who tries to."

"Hey, is there no law anymore?"

"Tsk! It's not like it's our village, why are you in such a hurry?"

Qi Niuhua glanced at the two old women who were talking so enthusiastically. Damn it, she rarely showed her face, yet she was quite famous.

Grandma Wu was ushered to the pigsty, and as soon as she got close, a pungent and acrid smell assaulted her nostrils.

I had to strain to open my eyes several times before I could finally open them.

Before I could even see it clearly, the people around me started asking all at once, "So? Did you figure anything out?"

"Yes, the pigs are the hope of our whole village. They absolutely cannot die. You're from the city, you've seen a lot, so you must keep a close eye on them."