Gu Huanian planned to go to the hospital to see if Chen Shuling was there. If she was, he would take her directly to the police station.
Upon arriving at the hospital, Gu Huanian directly asked the receptionist for Gu Aiguo's ward.
Gu Huanian pushed open the ward door and saw Gu Aiguo lying on the bed with a look of utter despair, his waist and abdomen wrapped in bandages.
Hearing the door open, he looked out and was somewhat disappointed to see Gu Huanian.
"Where is she? Why didn't she come?"
Seeing his appearance, Gu Huanian said coldly, "Injured? Could it be that God couldn't stand it and made you, a heartless man, suffer retribution?"
Gu Aiguo's face turned ashen, and he followed up on his words, saying, "He has indeed suffered retribution."
The thought of that moment, when the woman pushed him out to shield him from the knife, still pains him deeply.
Over the years, he has genuinely been good to Chen Shuling. Even after learning a few days ago that she had cheated on him with Murong Cheng, he still chose to forgive her, because his feelings for her over the years were real.
These days, being cooped up at home, Chen Shuling is feeling very restless.
She begged Gu Aiguo to go out for a walk.
Gu Aiguo had no choice but to take her out for a walk, and the two bought a lot of things at the supply and marketing cooperative.
On the way back, they ran into Murong Cheng's wife.
The woman immediately began to loudly mock the two of them: "Hey, here comes the rotten pot lid! Everyone come and see! This woman is old and likes to have affairs. The man next to her is her brother-in-law. Come and see!"
The woman shouted loudly while slapping her thigh.
Her appearance quickly attracted the attention of passersby.
"You old woman, stop talking nonsense. Aiguo is my man," Chen Shuling quickly tried to cover up when she saw everyone looking at her strangely.
The woman shouted even louder: "Look, everyone come and see! This shameless woman has locked her own sister in the cellar for nineteen years, and all these years she's been having an affair with her brother-in-law. Everyone come and see! How can such a despicable couple be allowed to get away with it? It's truly an injustice!"
Upon hearing this, the crowd erupted in uproar, pointing and whispering about the two. "Oh my! This is unheard of! Stealing her own sister's man, are all the men in the world dead?" someone exclaimed indignantly.
"Exactly! I think this man is no good either. He's having an affair with his wife's sister. He's utterly morally depraved!" Another person stomped their foot in anger.
“This kind of person deserves to be struck by lightning. It’s just a pity for his wife, who was imprisoned for nineteen years. If I were that wife, I would be furious too,” one person said with great sorrow.
"Who can disagree? Her own sister and husband betrayed her, who could stand that! She'd be ready to kill someone." Someone nearby chimed in.
Gu Aiguo's face flushed red from their words. Faced with their accusations and insults, he wished he could disappear into the ground. He wanted to pull Chen Shuling away from there.
However, Murong Cheng's wife blocked their way.
Just as these people, who loved watching the drama unfold, were talking animatedly, a disheveled, crazy woman suddenly rushed out from the crowd.
She ran straight towards Chen Shuling, the dagger in her hand aimed directly at Chen Shuling.
Seeing this, Gu Aiguo was about to pull the person behind him and reach out to subdue the crazy woman.
Before he could make a move, Chen Shuling forcefully pushed him toward the crazy woman.
He was so shocked that he didn't even think to dodge before the crazy woman stabbed him in the abdomen.
When Chen Shuling saw that he was injured, she didn't check on him immediately, but ran away.
Gu Huanian was, after all, a soldier. If he hadn't been so shocked that Chen Shuling had pushed him out to take the blow, he wouldn't have been injured.
Once he realized what was happening, he quickly subdued the crazy woman.
Someone in the crowd called the police, and he soon learned that the woman was a madwoman on the street.
The reason she stabbed someone with a dagger was because she had a similar experience.
Her husband fell in love with her sister and they had a child together.
She discovered this by chance and wanted to expose them.
She was stopped by her mother-in-law and her own mother.
Tell her not to ruin two families, tell her to swallow her anger, and tell no one to say anything, otherwise her sister will have no way to survive.
She did swallow it for her daughter's sake, but the good times didn't last long. Her daughter fell ill, and her in-laws were unwilling to spend money to take her to the hospital.
They thought she was just a little girl and that it was a waste of money. Soon after, the woman's daughter died because of this illness.
After that, the woman completely lost hope in her family. First, she reported her own sister for having an affair with her husband, which led to their imprisonment. After that, she gradually went insane.
"Where is Chen Shuling? Did she run away?"
"Didn't she go home?"
Gu Huanian came from home and didn't see her at all, so he asked Gu Aiguo, "When were you injured?"
Nine o'clock in the morning
Gu Huanian glanced at his watch; it was almost 1 p.m., and he wondered if the police had arrested him.
He needs to go to the police station to check.
Thinking of this, he turned to leave, but Gu Aiguo called out to his back, "You brat, your father is injured, where do you think you're going?"
Gu Huanian paused slightly, then said sarcastically, "You're hurt now and you're thinking of me? I suggest you go find your Chen Shuling! Don't you like her? Now's her turn to shine, where is she?"
Gu Aiguo was speechless. Chen Shuling had indeed disappointed him. Even if it was a subconscious reaction at the time, he had been in the hospital for several hours now, and she still hadn't shown her face.
It reminded him of when he first married Chen Shujing. He had only gone on a mission and suffered a minor injury, but she was extremely distressed by it.
She forbade him from getting out of bed and did everything herself.
Thinking of this, Gu Aiguo couldn't help but tear up; "How is your mother now? Is she healthy?"
When Gu Huanian saw him asking about his mother, he sneered, "What? Now that your Chen Shuling is ignoring you and leaving you hanging, you suddenly remember how good my mother was? Do you think you could have fared better if you had been imprisoned for nineteen years?"
A look of guilt flashed in Gu Aiguo's eyes; "I really didn't know she was locked up. If I had known, I definitely wouldn't have let Chen Shuling do this."
Gu Huanian turned around, looking at Gu Aiguo with a smile that didn't reach his eyes; "You don't know? Can you make up for all the years of neglect you've caused my mother with just a simple 'I don't know'? You're a soldier, your own wife was replaced, do you really not know? You guessed it, didn't you? But you never think about why the fake one is by your side, while the real one doesn't come looking for you. Isn't that enough to explain the problem? Not coming out isn't because you don't want to come out, it's because you're trapped. You don't even know such a simple truth?"
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