Chapter 143 Getting Rich

Zhang Hongtu's confession was completely consistent with Xiong Feiliang's. Xia Mufan and Fan Yangping looked at each other after they walked out of the interrogation room, raised their hands and clapped their hands, their eyes gleaming with excitement: "Great, he can't escape."

Next, Meng Sha was taken into the interrogation room for the second time.

After seeing Zhang Hongtu and Xiong Feiliang's confessions and knowing that they had admitted their crimes and explained everything clearly, Meng Sha sat in the interrogation chair with a sullen face and did not speak for a long time. After a long while, she gritted her teeth and cursed, "Useless things!"

After cursing, Meng Sha looked up at Xia Mufan, smiled self-deprecatingly, and touched the large gold bracelet on her wrist: "After all, I've lived a good life for fourteen years, right? Standing in the kitchen cooking every day, enduring the smoke and fire for seven or eight hours a day, I really don't want to live such a hard life anymore. I want to change, I want to make my life easier, there's nothing wrong with that, right?"

Xia Mufan stood up and slowly walked to Meng Sha. They looked each other in the eye and said calmly, "Building a good life on human lives and stepping on the pain of others to get rich is wrong! A huge mistake!"

"If you don't have money to build a house, there are many ways to solve it. You can get a bank loan, borrow money from friends, or don't rush to build a house after buying the land. Wait two years until you have more money before building it."

"In the early 1980s, you were in the good era of reform and opening up, and Huancheng was established as a city. As long as you work hard, I believe you two can definitely make Bafang Hotel flourish. But you played a good hand so badly. You are eager for quick success and instant benefits, and you want to live a good life?"

Xia Mufan's words were powerful and every word hit Meng Sha's heart.

The little starling standing on Xia Mufan's shoulder also opened its mouth and quacked at this time: "Good is rewarded with good, and evil is punished with evil. It's not that there is no retribution, it's just that the time has not come yet."

Meng Sha slowly raised her head and her eyes stopped at the little starling: "This starling is the one that Hongtu raised, right? I didn't expect it to have such a good relationship with you."

Xia Mufan raised her left hand, and the little starling flapped its wings and flew up, circling her head twice, and finally landed lightly on the back of her hand.

Xia Mufan curled his lips and said, "Look, even mynah birds understand this principle, so I think you should understand it too, right?"

Xia Mufan's voice was soft, without any hint of condemnation in it, as if it was a whisper between friends, but it deeply touched Meng Sha's heart. Thousands of thoughts flooded into her mind, and Meng Sha lowered her head dejectedly, her voice full of frustration and regret.

"You're right. We could have waited a little longer. After two years, we should have enough money to build a house and open a restaurant. But I was too impatient at the time. I saw restaurants opening one after another nearby. Drivers stopped there to eat and made money very quickly. I was in great pain. The dishes I cooked were better than those of others. I studied dozens of local specialties. As long as I opened a restaurant, I would definitely make a lot of money. But unfortunately, I was stuck with the problem of having no money."

"Hongtu and I were both farmers. We had little education and were afraid to deal with banks, let alone ask for a loan. Our relatives were all poor and couldn't lend us money. I was not willing to wait another two years. I happened to meet those two strangers here. I thought that Huishi was a small place, so far away from us, that even if they died, the police wouldn't be able to find us. That's when I had the evil idea."

"Alas, who knew that Yang Jiawei's daughter would be such a persistent and ruthless character? She has been holding a grudge for fourteen years at such a young age, and she even went to study forensics. She reopens old cases every now and then and keeps pestering us."

"You're right. Maybe this is retribution. This person really can't do the wrong thing. Once he does something wrong, there is no turning back."

After saying all this, Meng Sha gently closed her eyes, and two lines of tears silently flowed down her cheeks.

These are her tears of repentance.

However, her tears could not inspire sympathy.

Time cannot be reversed, the lives of Yang Jiawei and Cai Chi cannot be restored, and the pain inflicted on these two families cannot be eliminated.

Huancheng City police sought Yang Wenjing's opinion, and Yang Wenjing gritted her teeth and said firmly: "Blow it up! We must dig up the body and let my father rest in peace."

Xiong Feiliang and Zhang Hongtu, handcuffed, were taken to the scene to identify where the bodies were buried.

The once glorious Bafang Hotel collapsed and turned into ruins after a loud bang.

Two excavators were digging day and night.

On an evening in late October, when the setting sun shone under the ruins, the bodies of Yang Jiawei and Cai Chi were finally dug out.

Looking at the white bones, the tears in Yang Wenjing's eyes fell silently.

She felt both happy and sad in her heart.

The good news is that fourteen years later, I finally found my father’s whereabouts. I can finally put my heart at ease, and the charge that my father absconded with the money has been completely cleared.

From then on, no one would poke her in the back and say, "Look, it's her father who took away all the money from the factory. With a father like that, her daughter won't be a good person."

Sadly, during these long fourteen years, she had also been hoping that her father was still alive in this world. But now the bloody truth is laid before our eyes. My father had been murdered fourteen years ago, and his body was buried in the damp and dark underground.

The case of Yang Jiawei’s disappearance has been officially solved.

All evidence has been handed over to the prosecutor's office, and Zhang Hongtu, Meng Sha and Xiong Feiliang will face severe punishment by law.

The case is completed and Xia Mufan will leave Huancheng.

Yang Wenjing held Xia Mufan's hand reluctantly. She had countless words of gratitude in her heart, but she couldn't say a single word.

Her father’s disappearance weighed heavily on Yang Wenjing’s heart like a heavy stone. Over the past fourteen years, the case was reopened several times, but there was no progress until Xia Mufan joined the team and his father's body was unearthed.

Xia Mufan understood Yang Wenjing very well. He reached out and patted the back of his hand gently, saying softly, "You don't have to thank me. For me, being able to help you is the best way to express my gratitude."

Yang Wenjing opened her mouth, but in the end she didn't say a word of thanks. She just nodded and said softly, "Have a good trip. Just come to me if you have anything."

The little starling squatting on Xia Mufan's shoulder quacked again: "Bon voyage, bon voyage."

The rough croaking sound of the little starling dispelled the sadness of separation and brought happy laughter to everyone.

"Xiao Fa Cai is quite talkative."

"I don't think I've heard it say 'bon voyage' before. But it remembered it after Forensic Doctor Yang said it once?"

"How come you can talk so well? If you send it to a zoo for a performance, it will definitely be very popular."

When the little starling heard this, it stared at Xia Mufan with its little eyes as big as soybeans.

【Performance? What kind of performance? 】

[Do zoos still need performances?] 】

[Didn’t you say that when we get to the Bird Forest in the zoo, all I have to do is have fun playing with my friends? You didn’t say there would be any performances? 】

Hearing this, Xia Mufan felt inexplicably guilty.

Because starlings like to live in groups and love to call their friends, she catered to its preferences and said that she would send it to the Bird's Singing Forest after the task was completed.

However, although the forest with singing birds is beautiful, it lacks freedom.

Xia Mufan turned his head, reached out his hand and gently tapped the little starling's head, and explained to it seriously: "There are quite a lot of birds in the bird forest, but you are a talking starling, maybe the administrator there will let you perform a show for the audience regularly."

The little starling is actually quite smart, but because it has always been kept in a cage, it has not seen much. After running around with Xia Mufan for some time, its horizons have suddenly been broadened.

It knows what retribution is and sees the confrontation between good and evil. Of course, it also spreads its wings and flies to its heart's content.

This kind of free life makes it feel that the air it breathes is sweet.

Play when you want to play, fly when you want to fly, and sleep when you want to sleep. There are green trees everywhere in Huancheng. There are always various kinds of magpies and sparrows on the trees, and they play with them chirping and living a very carefree life. Even if they encounter cats or snakes bullying the birds, Coal Ash will come to their aid.

If it was hungry, it would fly to Xia Mufan and coo a few words, and she would always understand what it said.

If it wanted to eat fruit, she would feed it fruit; if it wanted to drink water, she would feed it water; if it wanted to eat millet, she would feed it millet. There was even one time when it was so naughty that it asked for egg yolk, and Xia Mufan gave it half of her boiled egg.

After a long time of living like this, the little starling was happy and didn't want to leave. Suddenly, when he heard that he was going to be sent to the Bird's Singing Forest and be forced to perform, he was so scared that he flew away.

[No, no, I won’t go to the bird’s singing forest.] 】

I don’t want to perform. 】

I want to stay with Soot. 】

Xia Mushige turned her gaze to Meihui, who had been squatting obediently at her feet: "Are you two good friends now?"

Coal Ash hummed and stretched out his right little paw to scratch Xia Mufan's trouser leg.

[Yes, we are friends now.] How about taking it home? 】

During this time, he ran in and out with the little starling, and helped it drive away several wild cats that wanted to eat it. The little starling called it "Mr. Cat, Mr. Cat" with sweet words.

Coal Ash felt needed and had a great sense of accomplishment.

Coal Ash thought it was quite interesting to have a starling following him around, as the little starling was more agile than himself in gathering information.

Compared to the dead dog Ice Cream at home, Fa Cai is much more obedient and well-behaved.

Seeing that Xia Mufan's heart was somewhat relaxed, Meihui stared at her pitifully, stretched out his little paws to continue scratching her trouser leg, and meowed, his voice full of pleading.

Take it back. 】

[Our family is still short of a mynah bird.] 】

[It is easy to make money.] You don't have to take care of it at ordinary times. Just hang the bird cage in the yard and it will naturally fly back to the cage when it is hungry or sleepy. 】

[In my territory, no bird dares to bully it. 】

Hearing what Meihui said, Xia Mushige laughed.

I really didn't expect that such a short time had passed and coal ash and fortune had become good friends.

Xia Mufan raised her right hand, and the little starling circled in the air and landed on her wrist.

Xia Mufan smiled, his eyes sparkling brightly: "If you don't want to go to the Bird's Singing Forest, come home with me?"

When the little starling heard this, he immediately shouted excitedly: "Go home! Go home!"