Chapter 137 Confession
The town hospital’s medical level is limited and it cannot accurately define mental illnesses, but the old director is knowledgeable and has treated Zheng Liangping’s mother before.
He was certain that Zheng Liangping's intermittent mental disorder would make him paranoid and manic when he had an attack, just like his deceased mother.
But his mother also has severe rheumatism and hemiplegia.
Compared with the mental illness which was so vague and difficult to cure, her family could only treat her physical illness first.
When the pain came, he also went crazy, and he couldn't tell whether it was more the pain or the madness. Although he took medicine for more than ten years, he couldn't tell the name of this disease until his death.
But when Zheng Liangping was sober, he cooperated unexpectedly and explained his motives for the crime in detail. The police handling the case even felt that he was eager to find someone to talk to.
What I didn't expect was that a small attempted hijacking case would actually involve a life lost three years ago...
Zheng Liangping and Wu Tong are the same age and were classmates in junior high school.
The ages of his classmates at that time were very different. He was the oldest in the class and had poor grades, so he was often bullied.
Once after school, he was tricked by several boys in his class into the dry land behind the school, pushed into a dry well and ran away. When he cried out for help but no one answered, Wu Tong who was passing by heard his cries and threw him a rope.
From then on, he began to like Wu Tong.
Wu Tong is also an older student in the class. She is taciturn and is often excluded. Apart from having better academic performance than him, he feels that she is the same as him.
One day after school, he stopped Wu Tong and wanted to date her.
Unexpectedly, Wu Tong was frightened like a panicked rabbit, turned around and ran. He felt his brain getting hot and his body felt like it was burning on fire.
He didn't want her to run away, so he grabbed her tightly and pressed her against a birch tree on the way home from school.
That was the first time he touched Wu Tong's hand, so thin and soft. It was also the first time he saw a girl's face up close and touched her body. Although Wu Tong was pale, thin and frail, she still made him yearn for her and feel impulsive.
That was also the first time he felt that he had lost control of his own mind.
But before he could figure out what to do next, he was seen by Wu Dongling who was just getting out of school. Wu Dongling screamed and called Wu Tong a little whore, then ran home to complain without looking back.
The next day, Wu Tong did not come to school and she dropped out.
In fact, there were many students in the class who dropped out of junior high school. Wu Tong's mother had long wanted to stop letting her go to school, and she just found an excuse to let her go home.
Later, Zheng Liangping also dropped out of school, not only because of Wu Tong, but also because his mother had to take medicine all year round and his family could not afford it, so he had to go back early to help his family earn money.
He thought that if he earned more money, he could go to the Wu family to propose marriage.
But a few days later, it was heard that Wang Guilan had arranged a marriage for Wu Tong. The man was from Dawangzhuang and gave the Wu family five loads of millet as a betrothal gift.
He felt like the sky was falling. He had finally fallen in love with a girl, but she was going to marry someone else.
But his family had no millet, so he couldn't even collect one load, let alone five.
The night before Su Tong's engagement, he ran on the embankment like a madman. He could only vent his emotions in this way and there was no way to stop him.
Later, he deliberately dug the bridge. There was a bridge made of two wooden boards on the approach embankment, about one meter wide. He dug a piece of the bridge head missing, so that one of the wooden boards of the bridge was loose.
He originally just wanted to vent his anger, thinking that Dawangzhuang would definitely cross this wooden bridge, so he had to make him fall down anyway.
The man really just fell down once, but unfortunately he was pushing a wheelbarrow full of grain, so both he and the wheelbarrow fell off the embankment and drowned.
He was scared for a long time after that incident, but no one noticed the problem, no one came to find him, and Wu Tong's marriage fell through.
He began to feel excited and felt that he had a chance.
He began to approach Wu Tong, appearing not too far from her. But Wu Tong seemed to dislike him, ignored him, and was afraid of him.
Wang Guilan cursed Wu Tong every day at home, calling him a disaster star and a jinx, saying that he had brought bad luck to the man who had not yet married her. He couldn't stand it and went back to ask his father to propose marriage for him.
As a result, Wang Guilan jumped up and scolded his father, saying that his family was poor and had a crazy woman, and they could not afford five loads of millet.
Everyone in the village knew that Wang Guilan didn't treat Wu Tong as a human being, but no one could stop Wang Guilan from asking people to find a marriage partner for Wu Tong.
He is very scared.
There is always someone who can afford five loads of millet.
So he started to make moves in other areas, and would take revenge on anyone he heard saying bad things about Wu Tong.
He has started working as a bamboo craftsman in the village with his father. One advantage of being a bamboo craftsman is that he can go in and out of many people's homes and hear a lot of news.
The people in the village began to suffer minor disasters one after another, and slowly everyone discovered a pattern: those who spoke ill of Wu Tong would suffer, and the pattern was becoming more and more effective.
In addition, because of the previous incident where Wu Tong's fiancé fell to his death, the rumor that Wu Tong was a disaster spread. Everyone in the village viewed Wu Tong as unlucky and were afraid of having anything to do with her.
Similarly, Wang Guilan also encountered obstacles when she was trying to find Wu Tong a marriage partner. Even several villages around the area waved their hands when they heard that the marriage partner was Wu Tong. No one dared to marry a disaster star into their family.
Zheng Liangping felt a sense of accomplishment. He felt that he was protecting Wu Tong in another way.
When Wu Tong was seventeen, Wang Guilan arranged another marriage for him, with the gift being half a pig. The other party was from Yunshan Village, which was dozens of miles away, and he might not have heard of Wu Tong's reputation.
Wang Guilan was delighted, and Zheng Liangping once again felt a sense of crisis.
On that moonless night, he followed Wu Tong as usual, and finally he couldn't control himself and hugged her from behind.
He wanted her, he couldn't wait to save enough money for the bride price, he wanted her to be his woman now so that she wouldn't be engaged everywhere.
Wu Tong struggled and cried, and Zheng Liangping stripped her clothes fiercely, but her crying became louder and louder. He was afraid of attracting people, so he had to strangle her neck and almost strangled her to death.
When he came to his senses, he found that he had lost control again and he ran away like the wind.
After that incident, he didn't dare to go to Wu Tong for a long time, but the good news was that the man she was engaged to became ill and died.
If he wasn't seriously ill, the family wouldn't have given half a pig to talk about a distant relative.
However, this made Wu Tong's reputation even worse. He lost two families in a row. Others were terrified when they talked about him and tried to avoid him.
Zheng Liangping felt very satisfied. When no one dared to marry Wu Tong, he could go and propose marriage.
He wanted to marry her, he wanted to have children with her.
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