"Excuse me, she spoke a little too loudly."

Bai Jiaying quickly explained, and Bai Rongjun dared not repeat what she had just said in front of the policewoman, only nodding to the side.

"Behave yourself."

After the others left, the three of them fell silent again. After a long while, Bai Rongjun carefully apologized.

"I'm sorry, Second Sister, I didn't mean to, I just really wanted to..." The word "Mom" was swallowed back under Bai Jiamei's piercing gaze.

“I don’t care what you’re thinking, but at this point, anyone with a brain knows there are some people you shouldn’t mention.”

Bai Jiamei really didn't expect anyone to be so stupid. Even she, an outsider, knew that in this era, keeping your mouth shut was the most important thing.

As a result, she, a local, knowingly brought up Lin Yingyu's problematic background in front of outsiders, which was truly reckless.

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"Bai Xiangdong, step forward!"

Bai Xiangdong was later transferred to a detention center. His ears and cheeks, which were bitten by Chen Hongxia's older sister, never recovered and became infected, emitting a foul odor.

His chronically festering wounds, coupled with his lifeless expression, made it seem as if he had been imprisoned in the Tomb of the Living Dead for decades.

Even the prisoners in the detention center were unwilling to approach him.

"Bai Xiangdong, who killed Chen Hongxia?"

"...It wasn't me."

He hadn't spoken for a long time; his vocal cords seemed stuck together, and it took him a long time to utter a few dry syllables after opening his mouth.

"After forensic examination, it was determined that Chen Hongxia's fatal wound was the stab wound from behind. According to Lin Yingyu's confession, she only stabbed her once from the front."

“…It’s me.”

He confessed quickly, but what difference does it make whether he is guilty or not? He is now living or dead.

He just found it a little funny that he had been terrified when he planned to kill someone and had asked Lin Yingyu for that pile of gold bars, but in the end he didn't dare to use them.

Those things have been lying in the ancestral graves for years. He hasn't had a good life all these years; instead, he's lived in fear and had nightmares for so many years.

Occasionally, Bai Xiangdong would also ponder what he had gained from killing Chen Hongxia.

Whether he killed her or not, his life would be the same.

It's all a joke.

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The forensic autopsy determined that Chen Hongxia's fatal wound was not the initial stab wound from Lin Yingyu, but rather the subsequent wound inflicted by Bai Xiangdong.

In addition, because he shielded and concealed Lin Yingyu's identity, he was ultimately convicted of multiple crimes and sentenced to death by firing squad.

Zhou Qi was sentenced to life imprisonment and was immediately sent to a labor camp in Northwest China.

Following the clues from the letters Lin Yingyu received, the higher-ups traced the infiltration of foreign forces and eradicated them completely.

Lin Yuan's two sons have been colluding with the Lin family on the other side of the strait and have developed many hostile forces both inside and outside the country.

He also used the guise of contacting his elder sister to develop informants in China, which Lin Yuan may not have known, but he provided her with a lot of financial support.

"Contacting you is real, taking you away is a pretense. Your brother might want you to be his informant."

Lin Yingyu didn't believe that her family would abandon her.

"All the letters you received were sent before Lin Yuan died. After he passed away, your family gave up on you long ago."

"How could that be? It's because it's inconvenient to send letters from within China!"

Lin Yingyu retorted sharply, she didn't believe it.

But what good does it do for her to believe it?

Ultimately, Lin Yingyu was convicted of multiple crimes and sentenced to death by firing squad, which was carried out alongside Bai Xiangdong at the market.

By the time the verdict was handed down, a considerable amount of time had passed since their arrest, and everyone was already aware of the crimes they had committed.

Everyone felt it was only natural to hear this result.

These days, executions are often carried out in vegetable markets, attracting many onlookers. The Bai family's children were also allowed to come and see them one last time.

"mom……"

Bai Rongjun's hands were trembling. She had anticipated this outcome from the beginning, but she still couldn't believe it until this moment.

Someone was reading out their crimes and putting them on trial. The crowd below was outraged and shouted for the execution to be carried out immediately.

"Good job! Traitor!"

"Spy! Traitor!"

The Bai family members stood below the stage. When they saw Bai Rongjun about to cry, Bai Jiahe spat viciously.

"Shut your mouth right now and stop dragging us down with you! If it weren't for her, we wouldn't be in this situation!"

He lost everything: his partner, his job, and now he'll have to work on a farm for the rest of his life, carrying this stigma for the rest of his days.

It's all that woman surnamed Lin's fault.

She ruined their entire family. The Bai family hated Lin Yingyu with a passion. This mother had never been kind to him since he was a child, and she had always kept money hidden in the house, which had never brought them any good life.

As a result, once something goes wrong, her whole family will be killed.

All his suffering was caused by her.

"...How can you say that? She is, after all, our mother."

Bai Rongjun was heartbroken. She didn't say anything, but couldn't she even mourn her mother in her heart?

They were all born from their mothers' ten months of pregnancy, how can you be so heartless?

"Idiot! Shut up right now, stop crying, and stop hurting us." Bai Jiahe looked around and warned his youngest sister fiercely.

In this situation, distancing oneself is the right thing to do.

There were people watching them; what if they overheard her stupid words and things went wrong?

Bai Rongjun was startled by his disgusted and ruthless gaze, and subconsciously turned to look at her two older sisters.

Bai Jiaying's face was numb and completely calm.

Sometimes she doesn't understand why she's been so unlucky in her life. She finally managed to escape them and run away to the south, but she still has to come back.

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