Ye Xiaozhen: "..." And they burned the body themselves? They are so reckless.
"Now that we've taken him to the crematorium, it's bad news. I heard from the people who came back that they noticed something was wrong with the body and it didn't look like he'd drowned, so they called the police. Not long after, the police came and took the body away, taking your mother-in-law with them. Xiaozhen, what do you think we should do?"
"What can we do? The police will not wrongly accuse a good person, and they will not let a bad person go. Let them investigate. If she really drowned herself, they will naturally release her. But if she really killed someone, she will have to pay the price. There is nothing to say about this."
"Oh! This matter, this matter ..."
Ye Xiaozhen saw her hesitating and felt that things were not that simple.
"What's up?"
Old Mrs. Liu slapped her thigh and said, "This is my fault. I'm afraid she acted like this because she listened to me."
Um?
Ye Xiaozhen looked at her in surprise.
"Did you instigate that?"
Old Lady Liu waved her hands hastily, "No, no, how could I instigate her to kill someone? It was just that she was raped by Old Zhou again the day before, and he raped her so cruelly that I couldn't bear to watch it. I advised her to just divorce Old Zhou and not go back with him.
Think about it, if that old guy dares to be so rude here, what will happen to them? When your mother-in-law first arrived, she was chained for a year, and no one in the village dared to say a word. What kind of hell is that place?
Will your mother-in-law be able to have a good ending if she goes back with her? In order to persuade her to leave, I told her about Li Xiangyun. I said that Li Xiangyun seemed to have jumped into the pond and drowned, but in fact, he might have been killed by Mr. Wang and thrown into the pond.
Someone saw him beating Li Xiangyun that day, pushing her head into a stone trough filled with water. She was crying loudly at first, but soon she stopped crying. I thought she was dead, maybe she was drowned and thrown into the pond in the yard in the middle of the night when no one was around.
Ye Xiaozhen was completely shocked.
"Who saw that? Why didn't you tell anyone about it back then?"
"What can I say? It's just speculation, there's no evidence, bringing it up would offend people. Besides, she's already dead, who would be willing to stand up for a foreign daughter-in-law?"
Ye Xiaozhen opened her lips slightly, not knowing what to say for a moment.
"Alas!" Old Lady Liu sighed and said, "We women have a hard life. Look at how many people died in the past few years, such as jumping into the courtyard pond, hanging, drinking pesticides, and eating rat poison. Who knows how many of these people died on their own or were killed by others?
It’s better now. I heard that the police will take care of any abnormal death. What about before? The people didn’t report it and the officials didn’t investigate. No one stood up for the foreign daughter-in-law, so the dead died.”
Ye Xiaozhen listened in silence for a long time. The enviable love of the older generation, saying that they believe that a person is a generation and will never divorce, is indeed true.
But where does so much love come from? Who says that people will never get divorced? Is it all love?
Those years were different. Divorced women had no home.
My sister-in-law doesn’t want to marry my brother.
You want to go to the city, where can you eat and drink? It's not that easy to find a job.
"Xiaozhen, I really suspect that your mother-in-law came up with this idea after hearing what I said, and wanted to create a false drowning scene. Do you think she will betray me later?"
Ye Xiaozhen: “…”
"It's not certain whether she committed murder or not. If she did, she pushed him into the pond and no one saw it. What's there to be afraid of?"
"Oh, if he really pushed her into the pond and she drowned, I'm afraid that stupid woman must have killed her in some other way and dumped the body in there."
Ye Xiaozhen: “…”
"I'm an old man, I still want to enjoy my life, I don't want to go to jail. Do you think she will betray me?"
Ye Xiaozhen was a little amused and said to Mrs. Liu, "How could you instigate her to kill someone? You just advised her to divorce, that doesn't count."
"I'm afraid she used the method I suggested."
"It's okay. If you really need to be summoned for questioning, just tell the truth."
"Is that okay?"
"Don't worry, it's no problem. Besides, you're already seventy, who's going to arrest you? Even if they arrest you, they'll have to provide for your old age, and they'll have to find someone to take care of you."
Old Mrs. Liu: “…”
If you think about it carefully, it seems to be true.
Now she is not so scared anymore.
"You are educated, I will listen to you."
Ye Xiaozhen smiled.
"By the way, what are you going to do about your mother-in-law?"
Ye Xiaozhen got a headache just thinking about it.
Forget it. Anyway, their family has been harmed by Ye Zhengguo for three generations and they can’t take the civil service exam.
"I'll ask Lin An how many siblings he has later."
"Okay, I'm leaving now. You're busy."
"Okay, I'll have someone take you there."
"No, my son brought me here on a motorcycle."
After Mrs. Liu left, Ye Xiaozhen called Xie Linan and told him about this.
Not wanting to thank Lin An, he replied: "I already know. I'm in the police station now."
Um?
"They gave me the number and I came over."
"How is it? Did she do it?"
Xie Linan was silent for a while before he said, "We are investigating."
It sounded pretty close, and she hadn't done anything clean, so she had probably found out something.
"Xie Linan, are you... okay?"
Xie Linan sighed heavily and said, "It's okay, you don't have to worry about me, just work hard, our plan to move remains unchanged."
"Well, tell me what you want to say."
"I see. By the way, I have something to tell you."
"What's that?"
"She's in trouble now and can't go to the hospital. Zhou Yaozu might think too much if he can't see her. If you have time, go and see her."
"OK."
Ye Xiaozhen decided to go there after work.
After get off work, Ye Xiaozhen bought some fruit and went to the hospital.
Zhou Yaozu was lying on the hospital bed, waiting for his mother for a whole day but she didn't come. Instead, his sister-in-law, who had never been to the hospital before, came. He was very surprised.
Ye Xiaozhen smiled faintly, put a bunch of bananas on the bedside table, and pulled one off, saying, "They are all busy and can't come for the time being, so let me come over. This banana is quite fresh, you can try it."
Zhou Yaozu shook his head slightly and didn't answer it.
"What's wrong? Don't you like eating bananas?" Ye Xiaozhen asked.
Zhou Yaozu said: "Is my mother in trouble?"
Ye Xiaozhen put down the banana.
She felt that this matter could not be kept secret, and if she didn't tell him, he would have wild thoughts, which probably wouldn't be much better than telling him.
But how could she bring up this matter?
"Eat first, and I'll tell you after you finish eating."
Threatened by her, Zhou Yaozu compromised.
Ye Xiaozhen took advantage of him eating bananas to organize her words.
Wait until he is halfway through eating before speaking.
"Your mother is fine, but your father is."
Zhou Yaozu paused, "What happened to my father?"
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