Chapter 31 Chapter 31 It felt like there were tiny bugs on his skin...

Song Guanshu lowered his head and put on his clothes in silence.

Jiang Ling regretted what she said, regretting that she spoke too quickly.

Song Guanshu only showed her his back. Jiang Ling added, "It's actually quite nice."

He was angry in his heart, wondering how could Jiang Ling be so frivolous. It was the first time in his life that he had seen a woman like Jiang Ling, who spoke boldly and behaved even more boldly.

Song Guanshu forced himself not to look back at Jiang Ling. He walked to the stove and stuffed all the changed gauze into it.

Afraid that Jiang Ling would suddenly come in and see him, he deliberately turned the matter over, "The factory is closed today, and you went home early."

According to his calculations, Jiang Ling would not see him changing clothes.

Jiang Ling poured herself a glass of boiled water and said, "Everyone is leaving get off work early, so I'll be at a disadvantage if I don't leave early."

Song Guanshu struck a match and started a fire. He watched the blood-stained gauze turn to ashes in front of him before he stuffed a handful of firewood into the stove.

He asked, "What would you like to eat tonight?"

Jiang Ling couldn't let a patient cook for her, so she had been cooking for the past few days.

"I'll cook, you just take a rest." Jiang Ling pushed him out of the kitchen.

After taking a look in the cupboard, Jiang Ling asked him, "Didn't you have lunch?" There was the same amount of rice left in the bowl as when she left this morning.

Jiang Ling hadn't cooked for a long time and was very unfamiliar with the cooking method. She always steamed too much rice.

There is still half a bowl of rice left from the steamed rice last night. Fortunately, the weather is not hot now, so it won’t go bad.

Song Guanshu calmly replied, "I wasn't hungry at noon, so I ate two pieces of cake."

How is this possible?

"You are injured. Supplementing nutrition can make the wound heal faster. You always make do with it. When will the wound heal?"

Song Guanshu raised his right arm to signal her, "Not so delicate."

Jiang Ling disagreed with this, "This is not a question of being pampered or not. Being injured is a special period, and you should take good care of yourself."

"We're having egg fried rice tonight. Go and take a rest. You don't need to light the fire. A high temperature environment is not conducive to wound recovery."

Jiang Ling is a good cook. She likes to study all kinds of food, and her verbal instructions to Song Guanshu on cooking are not just theoretical talk.

But Song Guanshu usually cooks, so she is too lazy to move.

Now that Song Guanshu is injured, he can only rely on himself.

He was pushed directly out of the kitchen and the kitchen door closed in front of him. Song Guanshu quietly looked at the floral cloth swaying in front of him.

They seem like a real family now.

Chen Mazi was rescued in the hospital for a while. His health was really good. When he was first sent there, the hospital said he might not survive, but he still tenaciously survived.

His passing through the gates of hell does not mean that he has passed the death crisis. He will be judged by the people after he wakes up.

Chen Mazi initially wanted to use his disfigurement as an advantage to deny that he was the murderer of the Hu Cheng serial murders, but faced with the overwhelming evidence, he had no time to quibble.

His physical injury saved him from having to sit in the interrogation room and face the police, but because of his physical condition, his psychological defenses were more easily breached.

After the police interrogated him for a long time, Chen Mazi confessed the entire process of the crime.

The Macheng series of cases are already established facts, but the attempted murder case that occurred in the steel plant’s family quarters has many unclear points.

After listening to his confession of the Macheng case, the police asked him why he fled to Beicheng and why he came to the steel plant’s staff quarters to kill people. Did they have a one-sided hatred in the past?

Li Jun is Chen Mazi's first woman. He has feelings for her, otherwise he would not have thought of taking her away from the North City to the South.

At the same time, Chen Mazi hated Li Jun very much. If Li Jun had not asked him to kill people, he would not be in this situation today. With his mature anti-detection awareness, he would never be caught by the police.

Chen Mazi naively believed that he came into the police's sight only because when he was trying to kill Jiang Ling, who was difficult to kill and because of his good luck, he was knocked unconscious on the spot and eventually sent to the police station.

If it weren't for Li Jun, how could he have reached this point today.

He was involved in several murder cases and was doomed to fail. If he's not doing well, Li Jun won't have an easy life either.

Chen Mazi had no intention of protecting his former lover Li Jun. He wanted to bite Li Jun to death.

Chen Mazi confessed everything.

He said that after he fled to North City, he heard the rumor about a female ghost and hid a gun in the cemetery, thinking that no one would pay attention to this place. As a result, rumors of treasure spread inexplicably in the cemetery. He went to the scene out of helplessness, and when he went to get the gun at night, he happened to be seen by Li Jun. For some reason, this slutty woman Li Jun seduced him. After their feelings deepened, he wanted to take Li Jun away from North City, but Li Jun threatened to help her kill someone.

It was just killing a person, which was not a difficult task for him, so Chen Mazi went.

But he didn't expect that Jiang Ling was so difficult to kill. She had a magic potion (sulfuric acid) for physical attacks and a metaphysical body protection (barrel explosion) for chemical attacks at home.

Chen Mazi was really convinced. He had never met such a difficult person in his life.

Based on Chen Mazi's confession, the police went to interrogate Li Jun again.

Li Jun would never admit that she instigated murder, but the reasons she found were too flimsy and could not stand up to scrutiny.

What Chen Mazi confessed was consistent with what Jiang Ling and Song Guanshu saw that night. Li Jun only said that he had a nightmare and wanted to come out to relax. This is completely illogical.

Li Jun was a woman with a strong will. No matter how the police questioned her, she refused to admit that she knew Chen Mazi.

However, the logical chain of Chen Mazi's confession was sufficient. Chen Mazi was a foreigner, and he knew exactly how many people there were in Li Jun's family. How could he not recognize her?

The experts from the pre-trial department started with Li Jun’s children. They said that if you confess, you will be treated leniently, while if you resist, you will be treated severely. Based on the evidence we have now, we can send you to prison, but the length of the sentence is in your hands. Don’t you want to get out and see your two children earlier?

Under such an attack, Li Jun had to confess everything, including how he knew Chen Mazi and why he asked him to kill someone on his behalf.

When the police asked her why she instigated murder, Li Jun didn't think she had done anything wrong. She believed that she was forced to this point. Her life was so hard, but Jiang Ling, who lived opposite her house, lived a very carefree life every day. The man did the washing and cooking, and she could eat delicious fish and meat every meal.

The police officers in the pre-trial department were speechless. This person spoke with confidence, but in fact she was just jealous that others lived better than her.

The police have seen many people with strong jealousy, and the criminals all have similar strange characteristics.

The victim has the right to know the progress of the case. After Li Jun confessed, the police called Jiang Ling and Han Ruixue over.

Li Jun would not tell her why he asked Chen Mazi to attack Han Ruixue. After all, Chen Mazi was caught when he was about to kill Jiang Ling, and he did not have the time to attack Han Ruixue at that time.

She didn't understand the law and thought that asking Chen Mazi to kill one person would give a lighter sentence than asking him to kill two people.

Chen Mazi would not hide it for her, and he wished Li Jun would die with him.

During the preliminary investigation, the police had already found out about Li Jun's social relations. Han Ruixue is the current wife of Li Jun's ex-husband. It is understandable that out of a woman's jealousy, she asked Chen Mazi to kill Han Ruixue.

When the police were investigating the relationship between Li Jun and Jiang Ling in the hall, both the neighbors and Jiang Ling herself said that there was no irreconcilable conflict between them and Li Jun, so the reason why she instructed Chen Mazi to kill Jiang Ling became the focus of the police's interrogation.

Before this, Han Ruixue thought that the only thing this matter had to do with her was that after Li Jun went to jail, Liu Jianshe would have to often take care of the two little guys, Liu Lei and Liu Tong.

She didn't expect that she was also on Li Jun's assassination list.

It was almost, just a little bit, and I would have lost my life.

She didn't think she was as lucky as Jiang Ling. If Chen Mazi had gone to her home first, grass would have grown on her grave.

Jiang Ling and Han Ruixue went to the police station to find out the situation accompanied by their respective lovers. Song Guanshu and Liu Jianshe were waiting for them in the corridor.

Han Ruixue was angry and scared. As soon as she walked out of the room, she beat Liu Jianshe hard.

"Do you know that Li Jun also wants to kill me? I am so unlucky to marry you."

"Your son and daughter are thieves who love to come to your house and steal things, but you say they are your children and you can't bother with them. Your ex-wife deserves to be shot. She is so shameless that she still thinks about you after all these years of divorce."

"If she wanted to take you back, she could have gone through the legal channels, but she actually wanted to kill me so that she could remarry you and take the child with her!"

Han Ruixue was not very strong, so her hitting didn't hurt. But they were outside after all, and Liu Jianshe was embarrassed to be beaten by his wife.

He asked for help from people around him.

This is a family conflict, the police have no business dealing with it.

Jiang Ling and Song Guanshu would not stop it at all, they were too busy watching the fun.

Liu Jianshe was feeling very miserable. His ex-wife Li Jun was sentenced to five years in prison. During these five years, he had to take care of Old Lady Liu and the two children, Liu Tong and Liu Lei.

Han Ruixue is very hostile towards Liu Lei and Liu Tong, and she doesn't know what will happen at home.

Han Ruixue and Jiang Ling were both called away by the police, right under the eyes of their neighbors. After they left, everyone was discussing in private why they were called away.

Because they wanted to hear first-hand gossip, everyone was reluctant to go home and sat at the back door of Liu's house, waiting for the two of them to come back.

It was not until mid-afternoon that the two finally returned home.

The neighbors came forward and asked what had happened. "Why did they call you to the police station? What's the matter?"

Neither Jiang Ling nor Han Ruixue would hide the truth for Li Jun. Liu Jianshe even wanted to stop Han Ruixue to save Li Jun's face.

He had just been beaten by Han Ruixue, who was still angry, and he didn't dare to bring bad luck to his wife.

Han Ruixue knew that these neighbors didn't like her and liked Li Jun more, so she had to let these blind guys see clearly what kind of person Li Jun really was.

Han Ruixue was merciless, "Li Jun was in love with the murderer. She instigated the murderer to kill me and Xiao Jiang because she wanted to remarry Lao Liu and because she was jealous of Xiao Jiang's good life!"

Everyone's first reaction was still disbelief, "No way, Li Jun is not that kind of person."

"I didn't notice it when we were together normally."

"Before Li Jun divorced Section Chief Liu, she was quite difficult to get along with. Was she just pretending?"

"Even if I could lie, would the police lie? They have already investigated and found out which murderer said it himself. Li Jun asked him to kill Xiao Jiang and me. This man is really vicious."

Han Ruixue glanced at everyone with a smug look on her face. "Li Jun got her comeuppance for her evil deeds. She instigated murder, even though it was an attempted murder. She was sentenced to five years in prison."

Sister Miao in the crowd felt a sense of pleasure that someone she hated had finally been discovered by everyone. She said, "You bunch of silly women, go home and interrogate your husbands to see if they had that kind of relationship with Li Jun."

The most capable person in the family was sent to jail and will stay there for another five years. Old Mrs. Liu hated Jiang Ling to death. It was all her fault. If she hadn't lived such a good life, how could such a fool like Li Jun be jealous?

This time, Old Lady Liu did not forget to throw dirty water at the door of the west wing. She stood at the door of Jiang Ling and Song Guanshu's house and scolded Jiang Ling for several hours.

She cursed in the yard and the neighbors could hear her.

Although Mrs. Liu was the elder and everyone had known her longer, everyone felt that she was being too unreasonable.

Jiang Ling and Song Guanshu ignored the unruly old lady and closed the doors and windows. Her yelling became background noise.

This old lady is older than you and has more illnesses than you. You can't bother with her. No matter if you quarrel with her or fight with her, once this old lady lies on the ground, she will depend on you for the rest of her life.

In the past, Li Jun was always leading the charge, and he didn't realize how hateful this damn old woman was.

Jiang Ling and Song Guanshu just treated her as background noise, but the other neighbors couldn't stand it anymore. The old lady's scolding was too harsh.

Everyone has a sense of good and evil. Logically, the young couple should be the victims, but Old Lady Liu is turning the tables on them.

It is not only driven by a sense of justice, but also impossible to sit idly by and do nothing about it.

Old lady Liu has a loud voice and her curses are harsh, which affects everyone's daily life.

So someone went to find Section Chief Liu and asked him to take care of Old Lady Liu.

If Section Chief Liu wanted to take care of it, he would have done so a long time ago. The two families lived in the front and back yards, and he had heard Old Lady Liu's loud voice a long time ago.

Han Ruixue also said to him, "Go to the back and take care of your mother. She scolds you so harshly."

Section Chief Liu refused to move. He was angry and resentful of Song Guanshu and Jiang Ling for refusing to sign the letter of apology.

It was not until the neighbors came to his door that he said kindly, "I'm sorry for disturbing everyone. I didn't notice the noise outside just now. I'll go tell my mother."

Neighbor: "Yes, it's not easy for Xiao Song and Xiao Jiang. We can't let them suffer in our place."

A trace of gloom flashed across Liu Jianshe's eyes, but he put on a smile again, "Yes, yes, I'll go right away."

The neighbor smiled and nodded, "Your character is really beyond words."

"Mom, please be reasonable. Jiang Ling is also a victim. Stop scolding her. Haven't you cooked for Tongtong and Leilei yet?"

Old Mrs. Liu listened to her son the most. She believed whatever her son said. She stopped immediately and said, "I'm going to cook for Leilei."

"Take good care of them. I'm going back first."

When Li Jun was still alive, he was the one doing all the housework. Old Mrs. Liu was very leisurely every day and went to other people's homes to chat every day.

Now that Li Jun is not around, Old Lady Liu doesn't want her son to suffer, so she has to do chores like washing clothes and cooking by herself.

She is not yet sixty years old, and she is capable of doing these not-too-heavy housework. However, she has been supported by Li Jun for several years like an old lady, and she is not used to the sudden change from luxury to frugality and having to do housework.

Old Mrs. Liu hated Jiang Ling even more.

As neighbors in the same courtyard, Jiang Ling and Song Guanshu knew more than others.

These days, Old Lady Liu often cooks and sends the meals to the Sun family’s grandfather and grandson.

One or two times might be a coincidence, but after so many times, even Jiang Ling couldn't help but whisper in private, "Is Old Lady Liu interested in Old Man Sun? Has there been any sign of this before?"

Song Guanshu was a little speechless. She really loved to meddle in other people's affairs, but he still replied, "I don't know, but I have never delivered food to her before."

Li Jun only takes advantage of other people's families and never lets outsiders eat a single ounce of her rice.

Jiang Ling leaned on her face and watched Song Guanshu fiddling with the bottles and jars. "Is it possible that Li Jun had always been hindering Grandma Liu's twilight romance? Now that Li Jun has left, Grandma Liu doesn't have to worry about her anymore."

"Oh no, if Old Lady Liu and Old Man Sun are together, given how much Old Lady Liu hates me, as the landlord, she will definitely encourage Old Man Sun not to rent the house to us, and then we will have to sleep on the streets."

Song Guanshu was just about to tell her that Old Man Sun loved money more than his life and there was no such possibility.

Jiang Ling smiled and said, "I am willing to sleep on the streets with you."

Song Guanshu's heart almost skipped a beat. This liar always liked to say things that could lead to misunderstandings. He could still tell whether Jiang Ling had feelings for him or not.

He clenched his fists, pretended to be calm, and raised his head to signal Jiang Ling to look outside.

Old man Sun was seen walking out of the door with an aluminum lunch box tucked under his armpit.

"Where did Old Man Sun go?"

"You want to know?"

Jiang Ling goes to work every day, so naturally she doesn't know as much as Song Guanshu, who is recuperating at home.

Of course I want to know, but this person is still keeping it a secret, and Jiang Ling is getting anxious.

Wanting him to speak quickly, her eyes fell on his arm still wrapped in bandages. Jiang Ling's raised hand stopped in mid-air, and finally landed lightly on the edge of the gauze.

"It's time to go to the hospital for a follow-up visit."

Jiang Ling touched it lightly through the gauze without using any force.

Song Guanshu felt as if there were tiny bugs crawling under his skin. It didn't hurt, but it was itchy.

"No, I know what I'm doing."

Jiang Ling ignored his attitude and dragged him forcefully to go to the hospital.

Song Guanshu half-pulled the board and went out with her.

Standing outside the gate, Jiang Ling was in no hurry to leave.

Song Guanshu seemed to understand Jiang Ling's intention. He said helplessly, "I can tell you."

"No need, I can see for myself."

Not long after, Old Sun was seen coming out of the back door of the house on the easternmost end of the street. Jiang Ling had never had any contact with this family before, but he had heard about their affairs.

Their old man was hit and killed by a truck from a state-owned factory before the Chinese New Year. The factory gave the old man's family a large sum of compensation. The old man's children all wanted to share the money and started fighting with each other.

Old Mrs. Fang held on to the compensation money and refused to give it to any of her children or grandchildren.

Jiang Ling heard many versions of how much the compensation was. Some said it was eight hundred, and some said fifteen hundred. There was no specific amount, but she only knew that it was not a small amount of money.

Jiang Ling greeted Old Man Sun openly and pretended not to see him leaving with his lunch box.

"Grandpa Sun is out for a walk!"

"Yeah, we came out for a walk after dinner." Grandpa Sun said nonchalantly, "What are you two doing..."

Jiang Ling: "Accompany him to the hospital for a follow-up check."

"Take the bus?" Grandpa Sun said, "Be careful on the road, don't let anyone touch Xiao Song's arm."

"Thank you for your concern. I will pay attention to it."

After watching Old Man Sun enter the house, Jiang Ling pulled Song Guanshu's sleeve and said, "Let's go. What are you thinking about?"

"No...it's just..."

"Don't talk too much, the doctor will be off work soon."

The two eventually went to the hospital, where the doctor prescribed them a bottle of anti-inflammatory medicine and told them to be careful and not to touch water.

At the same time, Xiao Bing was also receiving a follow-up visit at the People's Hospital.

He had a very difficult time these days. He was investigated by the public security authorities and convicted of terrorism. These were all minor matters. With his father and uncle around, he would not suffer in prison, so they applied for medical parole for him.

On the surface he was receiving rehabilitation treatment in the hospital, but in fact he was recuperating at home and living a very free life.

Except that his two legs were broken and he had to live in a wheelchair, his life was no different from before.

The only thing that could be considered a big deal was the one related to his father's future, because his *** case had caused a sensation in the city, and his father, Deputy Director Xiao, who was originally the definite next director, lost his position as director.

After returning home, Deputy Director Xiao cursed him a lot, saying that he had given birth to an enemy.

Xiao Bing didn't care because he was the only male grandson in the Xiao family's generation. No matter what mistakes he made, his father and uncles would protect him for the sake of preserving his bloodline.

A while ago, a woman suddenly came to his house and said that Deputy Director Xiao and she had a daughter and she wanted his parents to divorce. There was chaos at home and his parents were fighting all day long.

The factory was also investigating his father, saying that someone had anonymously reported him for accepting bribes and reselling the factory's steel...

In order to prevent the woman from causing trouble at this time, his father, Deputy Director Xiao, gave the woman a large sum of money to buy her to shut up.

The woman shut up. After hearing the amount of the money, Xiao Bing was very unhappy. His father's money would be his from now on.

The wound on Xiao Bing's leg was quite serious, and his leg hurt when he was angry. Deputy Director Xiao was too busy with the investigation in the factory to take care of his son.

Deputy Director Xiao's wife pushed him to the People's Hospital for a follow-up visit. Xiao Bing's brain was filled with resentment. Everything changed since he was beaten that night.

Deputy Director Xiao scolded him at home for attracting unclean things, which was why things were going wrong at home during this period.

Deputy Factory Director Xiao originally firmly believed that his son was beaten by his enemies. Various bad things happened frequently in the family. Now, like everyone else, he suspected that it was a female ghost seeking revenge. He even found a few masters to secretly perform rituals.

Even though everyone around him thought that it was the girl from the Yu family who turned into a female ghost to seek revenge, Xiao Bing didn't think so. As the person who was beaten, he could clearly feel that the person who beat him must be a living person, not a female ghost.

Xiao Bing's father, Deputy Factory Director Xiao, was busy looking for a master to perform a ritual and dealing with the mess he had on his hands, so Xiao Bing went to his uncle for help in finding the murderer. His uncle treated him better than his father, listened to him especially and kept urging the police to investigate the case.

Xiao Bing sat in a wheelchair, thinking angrily that that face was too beautiful. As long as she appeared in front of him, he would immediately lock onto her. Once he catches them, he will not let them off easily!

Perhaps because he had been thinking about it day and night, that face suddenly appeared in front of him.