Chapter 110 Baby Girl
Wang Guilan is detained in Jiangping County Detention Center. Her interrogation has ended. The facts of the crime are clear and the evidence is conclusive.
Although the crime committed by Wang Guilan would not have resulted in a long sentence in this era, because she was involved in the Wu Jiafu gang case, she had to wait here for Wu Jiafu's accomplices to be arrested and the case closed before sentencing them together.
With Qin Yi's presence, there was no need to "give it a try" and the visiting procedures were easily completed. Su Tong met Wang Guilan in the visiting room.
After being locked up for a few days, Wang Guilan no longer had the domineering spirit she once had.
His face was sallow and he looked haggard. When he saw Su Tong, he started to curse as if it was a conditioned reflex.
After being glared at by the guard next to him, he wilted again and stared at her with a pair of vicious eyes:
"How dare you come here! Are you satisfied with what you have done to the Wu family?"
Su Tong looked at Wang Guilan across the table. She had a square face, a bulbous nose, and thick lips. She looked nothing like him. Wu Dongling, on the other hand, looked about 60 percent like her. Didn't Wu Tong notice this before?
When Wang Guilan was frightened by her gaze, Su Tong spoke up and got straight to the point:
"Mrs. Wu said I'm not your biological child."
Wang Guilan stood up and said angrily:
"You're lying! Don't try to blackmail me! That old woman would never tell anyone about this even if she died."
Su Tong smiled faintly and said nothing.
Wang Guilan then realized that she had let the cat out of the bag. Her face suddenly turned pale, and she seemed to be very frightened. She kept muttering:
"No, nothing will happen to Jiafu! That old woman must have died a miserable death. She didn't let us say anything, but she said it herself. No! No!"
Su Tong asked, "What does this have to do with Wu Jiafu?"
"What does it matter? You are a nemesis who deserves a bad death. You have harmed the Wu family! You are a disaster! You are obviously a disaster!" Wang Guilan was so excited that she was a little out of control.
Su Tong was surprised. These days, population censorship was not strict, and the living standard was low. There were many children who were adopted, given away, or even picked up from anywhere to be raised. Even if she said that she was not a biological child, it would not be a big deal. Why did she panic...
Su Tong thought for a moment and said:
"Do you know how many crimes Wu Jiafu has been charged with this time? In addition to wanting to kidnap me and sell me to Old Man Tian, he has also been entrenched on the national highway with others for a long time, robbing people on the road, doing all kinds of evil. I don't know how many crimes he has committed. Didn't he say a while ago that he wanted to marry a woman from the city and asked you for a gift? The girl is indeed from the city, but her parents didn't know about it. Wu Jiafu had already had sex with the girl, and now the parents have sued Wu Jiafu for abduction and rape..."
"Shut up! You shut up! My Jiafu will be fine! He will be fine! It's you, the scourge star, who has ruined the Wu family!"
"Tell me my life story, and I can consider dropping the charges against Wu Jiafu. At least it will reduce one of his serious charges. Otherwise, he will be punished for multiple crimes, and even if he doesn't get shot, he will have to sit in jail until he dies."
Of course, Su Tong would not tell her that even if she did not accuse Wu Jiafu, the charges against him would be enough to put him in jail until he died.
"You rescue him, and you let them release Jiafu! I'll tell you!"
Wang Guilan didn’t understand the charges. She only knew that her precious son had fallen into serious trouble this time and it would not be easy for him to get out.
Su Tong stood up and said, "You treat the law as a joke! As a victim, if I don't testify against him, his crime will be less severe. You still want him to be released? Dream on!"
"It's up to you whether you want to tell it or not! It's the same if I go to see Old Lady Wu or Wu Dashan!" Su Tong turned and walked out.
"I'll tell you! I'll tell you--" Seeing that Su Tong was really going to leave, Wang Guilan had no choice but to shout hoarsely.
Su Tong stopped, turned around and sat down at the table again, "Go ahead!"
Wang Guilan stared at Su Tong with red eyes, but she couldn't do anything to her. After a while, she could only speak:
"I don't know where you come from, I can only tell you what I know..."
As Wang Guilan told the story, Su Tong finally learned the story about Wu Tong nineteen years ago.
The year was 1959. Wang Guilan, who had been married for almost three years, had yet to get pregnant. She had tried many folk remedies but to no avail. In those days, every family was extremely poor. Old Mrs. Wu didn't have the confidence to find a new wife for Wu Dashan, but she couldn't just stand by and watch the Wu family die without an heir, so she had to ask people everywhere for help and find a solution.
Old Mrs. Wu fled to Yunshan Village in her early years to escape famine. Her parents’ home is in Gansu Province. She only got in touch with her hometown when Wu Dashan and Wu Dajun were about to reach adulthood. Coincidentally, a relative from Old Mrs. Wu’s parents’ home came that year. When talking about this matter, he mentioned that there was a miracle doctor in her hometown who had an ancestral secret recipe for helping children, which was particularly effective.
Although Gansu Province is far away from Hubei Province, in order to give the Wu family descendants, and also because Old Lady Wu had lived in Yunshan Village for 10 to 20 years and wanted to visit her hometown, she took Wu Dashan and his wife and followed that relative back to her parents' home.
Due to inconvenient transportation, the journey was extremely difficult. When we arrived, we found that her parents' home was also extremely poor. Fortunately, the miracle doctor was indeed famous and lived only thirty miles away from Old Lady Wu's parents' home.
But when they found the doctor's residence, they were shocked. The doctor asked for five yuan for the consultation, not including the prescription and medicine. That was in 1959! The combined money of several people was less than two yuan, and that was what they had saved along the way.
Several people traveled thousands of miles to come here, and they circled in front of the miracle doctor's door for a long time, but they couldn't even get in. There was no other way, so they had to go back dejectedly to see if they could go back to her family to think of other ways, although the hope was slim.
Wang Guilan ran out of strength halfway through the journey. She had the highest hopes, but ended up being the most disappointed. At that time, Old Lady Wu was still young, so she asked the young couple to rest on the side of the road while she went to ask for a bowl of water from a household. Unexpectedly, she did not return for a long time.
Wu Dashan and his wife had no choice but to look in the direction she went. When they were halfway there, they saw Old Lady Wu coming back with a swaddling baby in her arms, looking very happy. She said there was a great temple ahead, and the great immortal inside had given her a grandson, saying that if she treated the child well and raised him well, he would bless the Wu family to be prosperous and have many children and grandchildren...
Wang Guilan was half-believing and half-doubting, and when she saw that it was a baby girl who was not even a month old, she asked if this was a girl that some family didn't want and threw her in the temple.
But Old Mrs. Wu swore that it was a gift from the immortal, and that the immortal had spoken and given it to her personally. She asked them to look at the swaddling clothes that the baby was wrapped in, which were made of top-quality cloth that they had never seen before. In this remote area, she had never heard of such a wealthy family.
Finally, seeing that there was no other way, Old Mrs. Wu took out a stack of banknotes from her pocket. They were all ten-yuan bills. She said it was the wealth bestowed by the immortal. Which rich family couldn't support a little girl? The couple stared in amazement and finally believed what Old Mrs. Wu said.
After all, this money is enough to raise ten children.
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