Chapter 059 Chapter 59 Murder at the Seaside

Zhang Yuandong rushed to the rocky beach and said something to the children. He soon returned with a serious expression.

He was still very intimidating when he frowned. The children all lowered their heads and listened to his scolding obediently. However, when they heard Zhang Yuandong asking them to go home, they still resisted a little.

Zhang Yuandong pretended to be angry: "If you don't leave now, the police will come and you will all be taken to the police station!" He then raised his foot and lightly kicked the oldest child. The naughty children who had just murmured in a low voice, "Why should I listen to you?", all ran away.

Seeing that all the children were there, Lin Yue thought it was no big deal. When he saw that the group of naughty kids had left, he went up to them and asked casually, "What happened to them? Are they okay?"

Zhang Yuandong looked solemn, and whispered to Lin Yue, "A body was found over there, you and the child can't stay here. I'll send you to a nearby village first, and then I'll send you back when the police take over."

Lin Yue was startled and asked in a low voice: "What's going on? Can you tell me?"

Seeing Zhang Yuandong's frown deepen, she was afraid that her question might involve confidential information, so she quickly said, "I can ride a motorcycle, so you don't need to send me. I can take the kids home first. But will it be dangerous for you to stay here alone?"

Zhang Yuandong heaved a sigh of relief when he heard this: "That's great. Don't worry. Seeing the body shouldn't happen in the next few days. There should be no danger now. I can't leave right now. You take the children to the nearby village to call the police, and then go home first. I may not be able to go back at night, but don't worry, I will definitely find a chance to go back in the next few days."

Lin Yue nodded and left the rake to him, which at least could be used for self-defense. He also stuffed a few candies into his pocket and gave him a few instructions.

Seeing that she was about to ride the tricycle away, Zhang Yuandong grabbed her arm and whispered, "So many people saw it just now. This matter will spread sooner or later. It's not that I didn't want to answer you just now, but I don't know the details. I don't know whether it was a murder or an accident. When I get home, I will tell you what I can say."

Moreover, although the body had been swollen and rotten due to being soaked in sea water, he still felt that the man looked familiar and suspected that the deceased was related to the enemy spy he was investigating.

Lin Yue just asked without thinking, but she didn't expect this man to take her feelings into consideration and explain so much to her. Seeing his anxious look, Lin Yue felt a sour feeling in her chest, and her heart beat twice unconsciously. She waved her hands in panic: "No, no need, you have your own rules, I understand."

The movement was a bit too big and the handlebars tilted a bit, but luckily there was a sidekick next to me, so the bike did not fall over.

Zhang Yuandong helped her hold the handlebars steady, but still felt uneasy, so he dug out some unused sacks and tried to secure the two children to the seats. Lin Yue quickly stopped him, dug out two old sheets from the space, got off the bike, and helped him make a restraint for each of the two children, which more or less served as a safety belt.

Lin Yue's so-called "knowing how to ride a motorcycle" was really just knowing how to ride it. Fortunately, the tricycle didn't fall over. She got familiar with it after trying for a while. She was about to rush out with force, but Zhang Yuandong quickly stepped forward to stop her: "This handlebar will affect your balance. It's your first time riding, don't be anxious, just ride slowly."

There were two children in the car, and Lin Yue knew she couldn't go fast. Just now, she was too nervous in front of him and accidentally stepped on the accelerator to the maximum. She nodded, not daring to be careless anymore, readjusted her sitting position, and drove away slowly.

She rode to a nearby village and borrowed a phone from the brigade to call the police. Because she was riding a sidecar, several village cadres on duty responded very straightforwardly, but after hearing the content of her call, their faces turned very ugly. Their village was too close to the sea, and they were worried that there would be danger in the village, so they surrounded Lin Yue and questioned her vigorously.

Lin Yue understood them very well, but he really didn't know much, so he could only ask them to wait for the results of the Public Security Bureau's investigation.

Lin Yue and his family went to the beach, and some things happened in the village.

The news about the relief food was spread in the village a few days ago, but everyone was worried until the food arrived. Today, the relief food finally arrived. It was just transported back this morning. The villagers who heard the news rushed to the brigade headquarters. They couldn't wait to set another time and clamored to get the food now.

Zhang Zhiqiang had no choice but to ask people to knock on the bells in the village to notify everyone to come to the brigade headquarters to collect food.

Except for Lin Yue's family, almost every household in the village had someone at home. When they heard that they were going to collect food, they quickly rushed to the brigade headquarters without any hesitation.

Relief rations were also distributed according to work points. Because the matter was urgent, the accountant had to calculate on the spot. Every time a household name was read, he had to quickly calculate the amount that should be distributed. After verifying that it was correct, he distributed rations. This made the process very slow, but no one rushed him, for fear that he would make a mistake in his calculations if he was anxious.

Because Zhang Yuandong's grain relations were not in the village, the village always called Lin Yue's name for such matters. Lin Yue's family was not at home, so Zhang Zhiqiang asked them to put the grain in the warehouse first and wait for them to come back and take it.

When Sun Hongmei heard that Lin Yue and his family were not at home, she became interested again.

She had a lot of thoughts in her mind, but unfortunately, everyone in the village knew that the relationship between the two families was not good, so they would not let her do what she wanted. She knew that even if she, as a mother, went to collect the food for her son, Zhang Zhiqiang would not agree to give her the food.

Sun Hongmei rolled her eyes and said to her twin sons, "Your eldest brother is not at home, so there is no one to collect the food. Don't let them get nothing at the end. Go collect it for them and send it back home later."

The two brothers looked at their mother suspiciously, neither of them really believed that she could be so kind.

Sun Hongmei said angrily, "What are you two little bastards thinking? After all, he said that they were all my children. It's fine if they just make a fuss behind closed doors. How can I just sit there and watch their family being bullied by others?"

The two brothers thought it made sense. At worst, they could just collect the food and deliver it to their eldest brother's house immediately to prevent their mother from having any chance to do anything bad.

Zhang Zhiqiang knew that these two were good kids, close to Zhang Yuandong, and not the same kind as their parents. After knowing their thoughts, he didn't want to hurt the two kids' feelings, so he agreed without much hesitation.

Just as the two of them loaded the food onto the cart and were about to go to their eldest brother's house, Zhang Zhiwei came over.

He started by giving them a lecture and insisted that the two of them push their own food back first.

Don't be fooled by Zhang Zhiwei's honest appearance outside, he is actually very domineering at home. He usually doesn't care about things, but once he gives a word, the whole family has to listen to him. He acts like the head of the family.

No matter how clever the two children were, they were still only teenagers. Once their father got angry, they had no way of resisting and could only do what he said.

In the end, after all this going on, somehow more than half of the food in my eldest brother's house was gone.

The two brothers were stunned for a moment, they thought that this was a trap set by their mother, but they didn't expect that they were so greedy that they directly took away more than half of the food.

The two went home to argue with their parents, but how could Sun Hongmei and her husband spit out what they had already swallowed? No matter how the two sons argued, they insisted that there was only their own food at home and they did not take anyone else's.

The twins were angry and blamed themselves, and were ashamed of having such parents. But their resistance was useless. After all, they were small and weak, and their words were not taken seriously by their parents. Not only did they not get their food back, but they also got beaten for nothing.

By the time Lin Yue found out about this, it was already mid-afternoon.

She was too busy worrying about Zhang Yuandong to worry about food. Moreover, she knew that as a daughter-in-law who had been driven out a long time ago, it would be very embarrassing if she came to ask for food, so she simply ignored it and waited for Zhang Yuandong to come back.

In the middle of the night, Lin Yue really couldn't sleep. His mind was full of random thoughts. The more he thought, the more he couldn't sleep, and he made it until the second half of the night.

As she was tossing and turning on the kang, she suddenly heard voices coming from outside. She hurried out, and through the bright moonlight, through the half-collapsed wall of her house, she saw Zhang Yuandong saying goodbye to his colleagues.

Lin Yue finally let go of his worry.

The gate was not closed. Zhang Yuandong pushed it open and saw Lin Yue standing at the door waiting for him. It was cold and windy at night. She was wearing a dark blue old cloth shirt and pants, a yellowish coat on the outside, and holding a dim kerosene lamp in her hand. This was the first time someone was waiting for him to come home late at night. Zhang Yuandong felt a warm current in his heart. It was obviously the most common scene in other people's homes, but it was the most lacking part in his life.

He took a few steps towards her, stretched out his hand halfway, and then pulled it back awkwardly. He asked, "It's so late, have you not slept yet?"

Lin Yue hummed softly and said, "I'm a little worried."

Born under the red flag and raised in the spring breeze, she couldn't say she had never seen death before, but from Zhang Yuandong's reaction, it was not difficult to guess that this matter must be not simple. This was her first time to truly come into contact with such a thing, and she was not only afraid, but also worried about Zhang Yuandong's safety.

Zhang Yuandong curled up his fingers, as if he wanted to hold on to the feeling at the moment, and his voice became softer and softer unconsciously: "I'm back, don't worry. It's too cold outside, let's go in."

Lin Yue nodded and went into the house first.

Zhang Yuandong followed behind her, his eyes following her figure.

From the moment he knew her identity, he decided to devote his whole life to repaying the person in front of him.

But now, he increasingly felt that being a guardian alone was not enough to satisfy him, and he wanted to go further.

But he himself didn't know how to go further or to what extent.

He only knew that he had a strange feeling in his heart recently, which made him feel uneasy.

He couldn't help but call her.

Lin Yue turned around and looked at him puzzledly, waiting for what he was going to say.