Chapter 45 Chapter 45 Buying "seeds" to have children
Good news doesn’t travel far, but bad news travels far and wide.
In just one night, the news that Shen Shansheng was taken away by the police spread throughout the village.
"Have you heard? It seems that the village chief has a child outside?!"
"Huh? How old are you? Boy or girl?"
"I don't know, but it seems like he was fed to death, so the police came to arrest him!"
"Nonsense! You can't tell what's going on. The police didn't say he was dead, they just said he refused to keep him."
"My goodness... I can't believe that such an honest man like Old Shen could have a child outside?"
"Is he from our village? Or from some other village? Why haven't I heard of him before?"
There were many people in the village waiting to watch the excitement. They were worried about having nothing to do at home during the New Year, and suddenly such a shocking piece of news broke out, which made them very excited.
You spread a little bit of it, I spread a little bit of it, and just based on the few words the police said last night, we pieced together a version that sounds very explosive:
When Shen Shansheng was young, because Wang Dongmei couldn't give birth to a child, he was very anxious, so he found a woman outside and gave birth to a pair of twins, a boy and a girl.
But he didn't take good care of her when she was a child, so her son died and Wang Dongmei became pregnant. Then Shen Shansheng disappeared and abandoned the mother and daughter.
Otherwise, why would he be so good to Wang Dongmei? Why would he care so much about Shen Miao?
It was because of the guilt of having cheated on her! Because of having taken care of the child! That was why he poured all his care into Shen Miao.
As for why that woman called the police to arrest Shen Shansheng this year...
Then she is happy to do so. She is in the right anyway. She can call the police whenever she wants. Does she need to pick an auspicious day?
But even if they were just joining in the fun and listening to gossip, most people still trusted Chen Shansheng's character.
Having lived in the same village for so many years, the older generation watched Chen Shansheng grow up, the younger generation was raised by Chen Shansheng, and the peers see him every day, how could they not understand him?
"There must be a mistake. Old Shen is not the kind of person who would do such a thing."
"If he really had a child outside, wouldn't his father skin him alive first, even if no one told on him?"
"That is to say, if you really wanted to have a child, why didn't you do it a few years ago? Why wait until now? You just want to make his family uncomfortable."
"Old Shen must have offended someone, so someone did something like this to disgust him."
"Yeah, I thought so."
The group of people sitting at the entrance of the village were chatting. When they saw Wang Dongmei riding back on her bike, no matter whether they trusted Chen Shansheng's character or not, they all shut up, fearing that Wang Dongmei would hear them.
"Dongmei," the neighbor who was usually close to the Shen family took the initiative to greet them and asked in a low voice, "How is it, what did the police station say?"
Wang Dongmei didn't say anything. She glanced at the group of vultures waiting to eat carrion to satisfy their hunger. She just shook her head and quickly pushed the cart into the village.
"Look, there's probably no good news."
Among the group of people who had been silent just now, someone whispered something.
"Oh, this is what happened."
"If Old Shen really goes to jail, they will probably get divorced because of this bastard."
…
Hearing the sound of the courtyard door being pushed open, Shen Miao and Shen Wanshan hurried out of the house.
"Mom, what's wrong? How's my dad?"
"What did the police say?"
Wang Dongmei parked the car in a corner and sighed, "I ran several times but didn't see anyone."
Shen Shansheng was taken away hastily yesterday, without giving his family any chance to inquire about the whole story. They only said that the crime of abandonment involved a criminal case and that too many details of the case could not be disclosed before the investigation was complete.
After Shen Shansheng was arrested, the whole family did not sleep all night. At dawn, Wang Dongmei rode her bike to Yu City alone, thinking of going to the police station to ask what was going on.
Forget about finding out the details, at least we have to ask who the person who reported the case is and who the person who was abandoned is.
But during the New Year, there were only a few newcomers on duty in the police station, and they didn’t know the situation clearly. They only said that Chen Shansheng had been transferred to the Tonghua Branch.
When Wang Dongmei ran to the Tonghua Branch, she was blocked outside the door again. She was told that the investigation time had not exceeded 48 hours and family visits were not allowed at the moment.
So Wang Dongmei went to the city's Women's Federation again, thinking that since it was an abandoned child, the Women's Federation should have a registration recently, and at least she could find someone to inquire about the situation.
But during the New Year, there was no one in the Women's Federation except an old man who was in charge of guarding the door.
In the end, Wang Dongmei went through so much trouble, but seeing that there was no news at all, she had no choice but to go home and wait for news.
"How about I call my mom and ask? My mom also knows one or two policemen, maybe she can tell me something." Yao Heng suggested.
Wang Dongmei drank the hot water in the cup, and her eyes turned gloomy. "It's useless. This is a criminal case. You have to be an official to find out."
Criminal case. When she said these four words herself, her face turned even worse.
Putting his hand on Wang Dongmei's shoulder, Shen Miao hesitated and asked, "Mom, my dad..."
Shen Miao was very scared, so she didn’t dare to ask.
She was not afraid that Chen Shansheng would be arrested and imprisoned for breaking the law, but she was afraid that Wang Dongmei would...
“Your father is not that kind of person,” Wang Dongmei said firmly without waiting for Shen Miao to finish the second half of the sentence, “The police must have arrested the wrong person, 100%! I have lived with your father for many years, how could I not know what kind of person he is?”
Wang Dongmei believed in Shen Shansheng. Even though the police had already handcuffed him last night, she chose to believe him.
No matter what rumors spread outside, she only knew that the man who lived with her day and night and slept in the same bed with her was an honest man who would not commit any crime, let alone the crime of abandonment.
"I'm just worried about your father's health. What if the police interrogate him and use some kind of torture on him? He, he..."
"Oh, you just watch too much TV," Shen Wanshan waved his hand, "Now everything is about the law. Shansheng didn't do anything wrong. Why did the police torture him? If they really did, then the police would be breaking the law."
Like Wang Dongmei, Shen Wanshan also believed that Shen Shansheng was innocent.
The innocent are innocent. He is not afraid that Chen Shansheng will be taken away by the police for investigation. However, he has no idea at all and can only sit at home. This suspenseful process makes people very anxious.
"Sir, I thought of someone."
Police, police...
As this profession kept spinning in her mind, Shen Miao suddenly connected it to a name: Luo Jialin.
Yes, Luo Jialin!
“I remember that Grandma Qin’s son is a policeman, and he is also the deputy director of the Huanghe District Police Station.” Thinking that this path might work, Shen Miao’s speech speed could not help but become faster, “Not to mention asking him to help get my dad out, at least he can ask what’s going on.”
Before, when Shen Miao mentioned that Qin He’s son was a policeman, no one took it seriously, but now that she mentioned it, everyone saw a glimmer of hope.
Shen Wanshan hadn't contacted Qin He for decades. He only met her occasionally when he went to someone's house to eat a whole table. He didn't want to trouble her at first, but now that things had come to this, he had no choice but to seize this only opportunity to ask her for help.
Shen Wanshan first called Zhao Quan's home to ask for Qin's phone number. Zhao Quan said his mother was not at home because she had gone back to her parents' home to deliver something. He then called his other aunt, but he couldn't find the aunt's phone book. So he went to their mutual friend's home to ask...
After nearly an hour of twists and turns, I finally got Qin He's home phone number.
Beep...beep...
While waiting for the other party to answer the phone, Shen Wanshan's hands were shaking slightly, not knowing whether it was because he was too tired from not sleeping all night or because he was nervous. It was not until Qin He's voice came from the other side that he quickly used his other hand to steady the microphone.
"Hello?"
"Hello, it's me."
"Brother Wanshan?" Qin He recognized his voice without introducing herself. "Happy New Year, Happy New Year~ If I remember correctly, this is the first time you called me, right?"
"yes……"
Shen Wanshan raised his hand and wiped his forehead. He wanted to lay the groundwork for a few words before talking about business, but he really didn't know what to say, so he had to get straight to the point and said, "He, I called you this time mainly because I have something I want to ask you for help."
"Well, what do you say?"
"It's like this. My son was arrested by the city police yesterday. They said he had committed some kind of abandonment crime, but the police didn't tell me the details. Today, my daughter-in-law went to the city to ask around but couldn't find him. Now I'm completely in the dark and don't know anything. Miaomiao said last time that your son seemed to work at the police station, so I was wondering if I could help ask around?"
"I don't want to bother you with anything else. I just want to ask him how he is doing and what stage the case has reached."
Listening to Shen Wanshan's anxious words, Qin He only occasionally said "hmm". When he finished speaking, she replied, "I don't know much about the police station. Xiaolin went to the police station early this morning... How about this, you come to my house first and wait? When he comes back in the evening, you can ask him in person. I'm afraid that I can't ask clearly with my clumsy mouth, so as to avoid delays."
When the police came yesterday, they said that Shen Shansheng’s case was very serious. Shen Wanshan thought Qin He would refuse, but he didn’t expect her to agree so straightforwardly.
"Thank you, thank you so much!"
Since she is willing to help, there is hope.
After Shen Wanshan let out a long sigh of relief, he continued to ask: “Then please tell me the address, I’ll go there right away.”
Holding a paper and pen, Shen Miao quickly helped write down the address Qin He mentioned.
"Then I'll go back and pack up, and I'll be there soon."
"No hurry, go slowly on the road."
"middle."
*
The address Qin He gave was the Grain Bureau’s staff quarters in Tonghua District.
When she was young, she worked in the city's grain bureau, and her company allocated her a house like this. Of course, as a city girl born and raised in Henan, her parents also left her two large houses, but she rented them out.
Because this place is closer to the police station’s family compound and living closer to Luo Jialin, the mother and son can see each other often.
Wang Dongmei ran around all morning, and she didn't sleep last night, so she was allowed to have a good rest at home, and Shen Miao accompanied Shen Wanshan here.
According to the address, he came to the family compound of the Grain Hall, found Unit 1 of Building No. 3, and walked up the stairs to the third floor. After taking a deep breath, Shen Wanshan rang the doorbell on the wall.
Ding Dong~
Looking at the couplets posted on both sides of the door, Shen Wanshan felt a little complicated.
Worry, tension, anxiety, anxiety...
He never thought that one day he would come to the city to find her on his own initiative, let alone that it was for the children's sake and that he would ask for her help.
Shen Wanshan had never asked anyone for help in his life, and the first person he asked was an old friend from the past, so he inevitably felt a little embarrassed.
"Here I come."
The person who opened the door was a middle-aged woman in her early forties. She was holding a large ladle with soup on it in her hand. She looked like the nanny who was responsible for taking care of Qin He at home.
"Who are you?"
“I, Shen Wanshan, was asked by Comrade Qin to come.”
"Oh, it's you, come in."
Inviting Shen Wanshan and the others to come in, the nanny took out two pairs of slippers from the shoe cabinet and said, “You sit down first, I’ll go call her.”
The Qin family's house doesn't look big, with an area of about 100 square meters, but the furnishings and decorations in the house reveal an air of luxury that is hard to conceal.
Leather sofas, crystal chandeliers, and a 50-inch color TV... In this era when having floor tiles at home is considered well-off, Qin He's home is paved with solid teak floors, which make people have to be careful when stepping on them.
There is an incense table against the west wall of the living room, on which is placed a photo frame, some fresh fruits and three incense sticks.
Looking at the smiling man in the black and white photo, he seems to be in his early fifties, and should be Qin He's husband who passed away many years ago.
Soon, Qin He came out of the house.
"Brother Shen is here, come and sit down!"
Just like the last time we met at Zhao Quan's wedding banquet and the police station, Qin He was still so graceful in her every move. She walked towards the living room with a graceful step, a natural and polite smile on her face, just like the graceful White Snake in the TV series.
Asking the nanny to bring a pot of hot tea, Qin He took the initiative to pour him a cup: "What is Shansheng's situation? Tell me in detail so that I can see how to help him."
A truly good relationship is probably like this: even if you have only met a few times in the past few decades, when you need help, the other party will do their best. There is no need for so much polite preparation, nor is there any need to reminisce about the past.
Shen Wanshan took a sip of tea and told the whole story in full. Before he finished, Luo Jialin, who had just got off work, opened the door of his house.
“Shen Miao?”
Seeing that there were guests at home, Luo Jialin was about to step forward to greet the elders, but he couldn't help but look at Shen Miao who was standing aside.
"Do you know each other?" Qin He was a little surprised.
Shen Miao awkwardly held the teacup and took a sip, then explained in a low voice: “Comrade Luo has helped me twice before… I, um, also had a little misunderstanding with him…”
Shen Shansheng's matter was the most important thing right now, so they didn't talk too much about how they met. After a few simple greetings, they brought the topic back to business.
Shen Wanshan said too many words at once, and his voice was a little hoarse, so he asked Shen Miao to tell him what happened last night.
After listening to the story again, Qin He helped them and said to Luo Jialin: "Xiao Lin, I believe in your uncle Shen's character, and I also believe that Shan Sheng is not such a person. Can you ask your colleagues or someone else what is going on?"
Luo Jialin did not refuse, but nodded affirmatively and agreed immediately, "Okay, then I'll call the Tonghua Branch to ask about the situation."
Since I just needed to understand the situation, it was not difficult to handle the matter. I just needed to make a few phone calls to the person in charge of the case.
"... Yeah, yeah, okay, I got it, thank you for bothering me."
After a nearly 20-minute phone call, Luo Jialin roughly understood the content of the case, and then told them the reason why Shen Shansheng was arrested:
The person who called the police was a woman named Yang Juhua from Mian County, which is under the jurisdiction of Yu City.
Yang Juhua, 33 years old, is an ordinary farmer from Xiasha Village, Mian County. According to the statement she made at the police station, she took the initiative to confess that the "abandoned" child was actually bought by her from someone else.
Nine years ago, Yang Juhua and her husband Wang Yong had been unable to have a child, so she was living in a very bad situation at home. At this time, she met Chen Shansheng who was on a business trip to Mian County. Seeing that Chen Shansheng was upright and good-looking, she had a bad idea.
She didn't want a divorce, she wanted to "buy" a child from him.
This is a shady business that exists in many villages: some couples have not been able to have children for many years, and do not want to divorce, but do not want others to interfere in their relationship, so they will buy some "seeds" from others and plant them in their own stomachs, so that the baby will become the couple's child after it is born.
People who sell seeds are called "wheat ears" and the resources in their hands are called "seeds". As long as the money is paid, any kind of "seeds" can be bought.
If college students with excellent academic performance and village officials with good looks feel that the quality of seeds in the province is not good enough, they can go to the three northeastern provinces and the two northwestern autonomous regions to find better seeds. Of course, this requires paying more money to ensure that the seeds are alive.
This is something that is known but not mentioned in many backward villages.
Who doesn’t want to have a college student in their family? Who doesn’t want their children to grow up well-behaved?
But if the ancestral grave of my family is not smoking and I am ugly, how can I achieve my wish?
So in fact, many families will spend money to buy "seeds" from Mai Sui. In this way, as long as they don't say it, no one will know that the promising son in the family is not actually their own...
Chen Shan is well-behaved, a high school student, and has become the village chief of Qinghe Village at a young age. The quality of the "seed" of such a person must be good!
So Yang Juhua also found Mai Sui and bought seeds, but she did not discuss it with her husband. Instead, she bought them secretly by herself, and she bought them several times in a row in order to give birth to the child smoothly.
"You mean, my dad 'sold' his 'seeds'?"
Shen Miao was a little bit slow to recover, and she swallowed hard to suppress the nauseous feeling.
Luo Jialin did not answer her directly, but continued: "Selling seeds is very profitable, twenty yuan a time, which was already very high according to the prices ten years ago."
Twenty yuan ten years ago. You have to know that ten years ago, a pound of pork was only one yuan and fifty cents. How much pork could you buy with twenty yuan!
But from another perspective, if you can buy a college student or a good-looking son or daughter for twenty dollars... it seems to be a very worthwhile thing.
“Impossible, Shansheng will never do this.” Shen Wanshan still firmly believed in his son.
"My family is poor, but we are not short of money to that extent. He will never make this kind of dirty money!"
"Master, don't be anxious," Shen Miao calmed down Shen Wanshan and asked, "She said she bought it from my dad? Is there any evidence?"
Seeing that the old man's breathing had become heavy, Luo Jialin quickly poured him another glass of water. Although he didn't want to dampen his mood any further, he still had to tell them the truth.
"There is a note with his signature on it. The police station checked it... and it's the same handwriting as his."
It was because of this note that things came to a head.
A few months ago, Yang Juhua and her family moved into a new house. When they moved, they didn't have time to sort out many things. Thinking that they would sort them out before the New Year, they accidentally found the receipt that stated the transaction details:
——Party B voluntarily sells the seeds to Party A at the price of 20 yuan per time. No matter what happens to the child in the future, it has nothing to do with Party B and will never disturb Party A.
Party A: Yang Juhua
Party B: Chen Shansheng.
Upon learning that he was cuckolded and that the daughter he had loved for several years was actually "bought" by his wife, Wang Yong was so angry that he kicked the mother and daughter out of the house.
With no money and nowhere to go, Yang Juhua had no choice but to take the risk and call the police.
Who cares whether buying and selling "seeds" is legal or not? After all, the daughter is Chen Shan's son, and he should support both of them.
After receiving the report, the police paid great attention to the matter and immediately brought Shen Shansheng back to cooperate with the investigation, regardless of whether it was Chinese New Year or not.
This is a huge gray industry chain. It is not so easy to root it out completely, so we must start with this case, make an opening, and after confirming that everything is true, we can dig deeper and deeper...
"According to Yang Juhua, it seems that many people in her village have bought Brother Shen's...seeds."
It is precisely because there are both witnesses and physical evidence that the police use handcuffs to take people away.
But even so, even if all the evidence was placed in front of them, Shen Wanshan and Shen Miao were still unwilling to believe it.
“Could it be another Shen Shansheng? Someone with the same name as my dad?” Shen Miao continued to speculate, unwilling to believe, “Comrade Luo, my dad is really not that kind of person. He definitely wouldn’t make that kind of money. Can you guys check it out more carefully?”
"I know you're anxious, but don't worry. The matter is still under investigation. We won't know until the results of the appraisal come out."
"What are the results of the identification?"
"Paternity test," Luo Jialin explained, "is still under investigation, so how the case will develop depends on how the results of this paternity test determine their blood relationship."
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