"Of course. Didn't you say that Mr. Zhou has four daughters? You said that you all came here as a family, and when you returned, Mr. Zhou turned to ashes. What would those daughters think? They would definitely come and make trouble."
The village chief slapped his thigh and said, "Yes, that will definitely cause trouble in our village. Xiaolan, no matter whether the police take her away or not, you can't burn her. After thinking about it, I have to notify some of Lao Zhou's daughters to avoid trouble."
Sun Lan was furious and very scared, but there was nothing she could do.
놙 could only watch the body being taken away, and he himself became a criminal suspect.
She remembered that when she made Lao Zhou wet the water, he groaned, which meant that he was not dead at that time.
놙 hoped to check back and find out that he had indeed drowned and it had nothing to do with me.
Sun Lan and the body were taken away directly by the police.
The village chief and Captain 꺶 returned to the village with several helpers from the village.
Captain 꺶 reminded the village chief, "If that old Zhou really died, your village might get into trouble, so you better be careful."
The village chief was startled. "What do you mean? What's the problem?"
"Hey, you villagers should help Sun Lan burn the body and destroy the evidence."
"Hey, what do you mean? They say her husband drowned, and they asked us to help burn the body."
"Well, then you can tell them later that everyone pretended to be ignorant. They all said the same thing, that it was Sun Lan who said the drowning. Your village has no legal education, and everyone has not received much education, so they don't understand. The law does not punish everyone, so there shouldn't be any problem, and at most they will be given a few words of advice. Otherwise, people will start to suspect that the whole village helped Sun Lan cover up the crime, and then they will become accomplices of the criminals, and that would be the end of us."
Hearing what he said, the village chief was shocked and nodded in agreement.
After returning, the village chief called all the villagers together and told them about Sun Lan.
He also sternly warned them not to talk nonsense, otherwise they would be considered accomplices and not blame him for not reminding them.
In particular, the few people who went to collect the bodies will probably be subject to strict investigation.
His serious look made people panic.
In fact, they had doubted this matter before, was it an accident?
How could it be such a coincidence?
But Lao Zhou was a foreigner with a hot temper and he beat people up, so no one in the village was willing to stand up for him.
Everyone in the village thought it was such a coincidence, but everyone tacitly agreed not to mention it.
And this is not the first time that someone has drowned in this pond. Li Xiangyun also drowned here before.
Some people also suspect that it was Wang Laowu's conspiracy, but there is no evidence.
Seeing that the man had indeed drowned, it was time to bury him.
Why is it different this time?
Old Mrs. Liu asked, "So Sun Lan was arrested just like that?"
"What else?"
"Isn't it possible that she was responsible?"
"So she was taken away as a suspect, and the evidence pointed to her."
"Oh, this matter has caused... ... ... "
She felt that if it was true, it had something to do with her.
Just the day before, she told Sun Lan about Li Xiangyun's situation, originally wanting to persuade her to save her life.
Unexpectedly, this made Sun Lan want to kill someone, and she wanted to kill Li Xiangyun like Wang Laowu did.
But... can it be the same? They still don't know whether Li Xiangyun drowned in the stone trough and then thrown away, or fell directly into the pond and died.
Anyway, they all drowned and there is no way to find out.
I don't know how Sun Lan killed Lao Zhou. If she drowned him in a tub while he was taking a bath, would that count?
No, who takes a bath in a wooden barrel in summer?
The more Mrs. Liu thought about it, the more frightened she became. After some thought, she asked her son to take her to the city by bike to find Ye Xiaozhen and Xie Linan.
…
Old Mrs. Liu hurried to Ye Xiaozhen's house, but Ye Xiaozhen and Xie Linan were both off work at that time.
After asking the store clerk, he learned that her workplace was not far away, so he asked his son to take her to Ye Xiaozhen's workplace by bike.
It was a hot day, and she was hot and tired enough.
Her son couldn't help but say to her, "You should have come to let me know, but you insisted on coming here to make trouble. You are old, and it's so hot, why are you making trouble?"
"What do you know? Is this something that can be announced in one sentence? You need to explain the whole process clearly."
"You know the cause and effect."
"You only know one part of the story, how much do you know? I'm telling you, kid, no one in this village knows as much as you do. This matter can only be explained clearly if you go there first."
"Okay, you know a lot. Now sit down and rest, drink some water, and then go to the front to ask questions."
"OK."
Mrs. Liu sat down to rest while her son went to ask the security guard about the location of Ye Xiaozhen's company.
This is a industrial park with several tall buildings and many companies.
Only after he had found out everything did he come back to pick up Mrs. Liu.
"Have you made your inquiry clear?"
"I've asked clearly, come quickly."
After driving her to the entrance of the staircase, the two explained the situation to the front desk, who then made an internal call to Ye Xiaozhen.
Ye Xiaozhen was surprised when she received the call, "Who? Grandma Liu?"
"Yes, she said she was Grandma Liu who lived next door to your hometown."
Ye Xiaozhen thought that since Grandma Liu could find this place, she must have something urgent.
"Then bring her here."
"Yes, Mr. Ye."
The front desk clerk hung up the phone and took Grandma Liu upstairs.
It's on the first floor, but you have to climb the stairs.
The floors of this building were quite high, and climbing up them would be very tiring for her.
Finally met Ye Xiaozhen.
"Hey, Xiaozhen, I finally found you."
"Grandma Liu, come and sit down."
"Hey, sit down and rest for a while."
"Xiao Feng, go and pour some water for Grandma Liu."
"yes."
Ye Xiaozhen sat down next to her. "Grandma Liu, how did you find yourself here? Is there something urgent?"
"It's an emergency. Something happened to your...your mother-in-law."
"What happened to her?"
"She was taken away by the police, who said they suspected she had killed someone."
"Murder? Who?"
"Old Zhou is dead. He drowned in the pond in the yard in the middle of the night. He almost drowned in your pond."
Ye Xiaozhen: "How could he drown in the courtyard pond in the middle of the night?"
"How do we know? Sun Lan said he was unhappy and drank a lot of wine. We suspected that he was drunk and wandered around and slipped."
Speaking of this, she remembered something else.
"How about you? How did you fall into the pond in the middle of the night?"
Ye Xiaozhen: “…”
"I was scared and wanted to escape. One night, the water flooded and the ground was slippery. I passed by the pond and accidentally slipped in."
"So that's how it is."
"Since he fell in by himself, why are you arresting him?"
"She said he slipped in by himself. That's what Sun Lan said. It may not be true. Let me tell you this. When they picked him up earlier, she said they wanted to burn the body so that we could put it in a can and take it away. If Captain Wu hadn't come and said we couldn't burn it ourselves and had to take it to the crematorium, it would have probably been burned to ashes by now."
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