Li Guixiang and Xu Laonian were truly frightened this time, especially Xu Laonian, who was timid and afraid of trouble. His personality was exactly the same as Xu Shu's.
When they arrived at the police station, they were locked behind bars for less than ten minutes before they started shouting and confessing everything.
The truth of the matter is pretty much what Zhou Shuhua had said before.
Back then, Zhou Shuisheng and Qi Lin didn't entrust Qiqi to their Xu family to raise at all; instead, they planned to hand her over to the village chief and the production brigade.
But when they were packing their things, Li Guixiang spotted them. The two pretended to deliver a message, but they never actually went. Instead, they watched as the couple died, then cut the dead men's palms and pressed their bloody handprints onto them.
After they had transferred most of the money and valuables, they went to call the village chief over.
They said the couple entrusted Qiqi to them.
The couple were hardworking and capable, and the money they left behind allowed the heartless couple to build a new house. They should have treated Zhou Qiqi, their cash cow, well.
However, the couple were lazy and used to getting something for nothing, and their money quickly ran out.
Without money, they still had to support Zhou Qiqi, this "money-losing girl." How could the two of them stand it?
He simply treated Zhou Qiqi as a maid and an outlet for his anger, abusing her for over a decade.
The villagers witnessed all of this, and there are letters and jade pendants to prove it.
The police closed the case in just four days.
It was supposed to only take three days, but on the first day, Xu Laonian pushed everything onto Li Guixiang, saying that it was all Li Guixiang's idea and that he knew nothing about it, nor did he know that it would cause such serious consequences.
This appearance is exactly the same as Xu Shu's.
When the two families were exchanging brides, he clearly knew everything, and he was the one who broke the house number, but he pushed all the blame onto Lin Yao.
This infuriated Li Guixiang so much that she almost got into a fight with Xu Laonian through the iron bars on the window.
Although Xu Laonian denied it, the couple had lived together for decades. There's no such thing as one person doing evil and the other not knowing. In the end, they shared the responsibility.
The evidence was plentiful, and the villagers all vied to be witnesses. In the end, the charges reported by the Public Security Bureau to the court were: speculation, abuse, embezzlement, and forgery, with multiple crimes being punished concurrently.
What awaits the two of them is at least five or six years in prison.
After four days of fuss at the police station, Zhou Qiqi and her group had been in the village for a total of five days.
Lei Yuhua's vacation was coming to an end, and the troops in Shen Huaichuan were also urging her to return.
Not to mention Zhou Qiqi's clothing factory, Deputy Factory Director Zhang kept calling the village committee, saying that the new styles were selling like hotcakes, and they were waiting for her to come back and make the final decision on adding sizes and colors.
On the morning of the fifth day, the sound of everyone packing their luggage could be heard in the courtyard.
Everyone was waiting to return to the city, but Zhou Shuhua had no interest in packing.
The case is closed, and the evildoers have been brought to justice, but there's another matter she hasn't given up on.
She hesitated in the house for a long time before heading towards the village chief's house, the west wing where Zhou Qiqi was temporarily staying.
In the past few days, the aunt and niece have spoken quite a bit, but all of those words were for the sake of the case. They haven't exchanged a single intimate word in private, and that invisible barrier has always remained.
Zhou Shuhua's palms were slightly sweaty as she gently knocked on the door.
Inside the room, Zhou Qiqi had just finished breakfast. Shen Huaichuan had helped her pack her things last night. Right now, she was hunched over the kang table, sketching on the drawings with a pencil.
Sunlight streamed through the window lattice, which was covered with old newspapers, and fell on her focused profile.
Hearing the noise, she looked up and saw Zhou Shuhua standing awkwardly at the door. After a moment's hesitation, she nodded and said, "Come in."
Zhou Shuhua's heart skipped a beat, and she quickly stepped inside, closing the door behind her.
"Qiqi..."
Zhou Shuhua rubbed her hands together, her voice trembling slightly.
“The case is closed, but I still can’t let it go. The reason I came out here was to find your father, Jianbang.”
Looking at Zhou Qiqi's calm and composed face, she mustered her courage.
"Now that the person has been found, as his older sister, I want to... I want to move his grave back to our hometown. As the saying goes, fallen leaves return to their roots. Moving it back will put our parents at ease."
Zhou Qiqi's fingers, which were holding the pencil, paused. She looked up, her brows furrowing slightly.
Seeing her expression, Zhou Shuhua's heart sank, but she quickly added:
"Of course, Qiqi, don't worry! Not only Jianbang's grave, but also your mother Qi Lin's, my poor sister-in-law, will be moved back! Although we've never met, she's our Zhou family's lawfully wedded wife, and we acknowledge her! And... and Qi San Niang, Qiqi's maternal grandmother, if she's willing, she can be moved too. We'll move them all together, I'll get the money, and the best of everything..."
She felt she had already made a huge concession, and looked at Zhou Qiqi expectantly, waiting for her to nod.
But Zhou Qiqi slowly, yet with unwavering determination, shook her head.
"We will not relocate."
Two words, coldly slammed onto the ground.
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