Lu Baiwei was getting sleepy from waiting and was still discussing Feng Shishi with Professor Zhou Yueying when she heard Zhao Lingling crying in despair outside.

She rushed to pull the bolt, and Zhao Lingling threw herself into her arms and cried loudly.

"What's wrong?"

Lu Baiwei looked at Zhou Yanfeng and Tang Yunling who were following behind her.

There were also traces of crying on Tang Yunling's face.

Zhou Yanfeng said with red and swollen eyes: "Feng Shishi is dead."

"What?"

Lu Baiwei couldn't believe it: "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"Sister-in-law, Feng Shishi is really dead. She was murdered by someone."

"Brother Ting, Liu Zaicheng is still guarding there. I will send Lingling and the others back first. I also have to find the team leader, Secretary Liu, and call Gong Minbing."

Zhou Yanfeng sighed heavily: "Lingling will tell you how it goes."

"I'm going to call for help!"

Feng Shishi's vibrant life was suddenly gone, and Lu Baiwei couldn't accept it for a while.

Because of He Ting, she was somewhat hostile to Feng Shishi at first. She chose to live in Shen Guixiang's house. Lu Baiwei thought she was mentally ill. She had a good hand, but she had to mess it up.

However, no one took her seriously because she was an insignificant person.

It was also later when she was treating Feng Shishi's illness that Lu Baiwei realized that this girl was tough on the outside but soft on the inside. She was not as annoying as she seemed. Instead, she was very open-hearted to her friends. Lu Baiwei had a better impression of her.

During the ten days of getting along, Lu Baiwei saw Feng Shishi's shining side. She was really talented in studying, which even Tang Yunling admired. He loved and hated her.

I wonder how come she, who is so emotionally clueless, has such strong learning ability.

This made Tang Yunling want to compete with her in answering questions, but due to his basic skills and other reasons, he could only be at the bottom in front of Feng Shishi.

After ten days of classes like this, everyone became close friends.

No matter who it is, including Tang Yunling who hated her at first and often tried to make her cry, everyone has begun to accept her.

The sweet coconut candy that Feng Shishi asked Liu Zaicheng to bring them today is still there, but the person is gone. How can Lu Baiwei accept this?

Lu Baiwei didn't close her eyes until dawn, unable to accept the fact that Feng Shishi was suddenly gone.

She hoped she was wrong.

Opening my eyes is a dream.

But alas, this is the truth.

At dawn, He Ting knocked on the door. Lu Baiwei pulled the bolt. He Ting came in and hugged her with a tired look on his face.

"Weiwei!"

He Ting's eyes were red and he buried his head in her neck.

"My third uncle sent someone to guard the place, and Liu Zaicheng and I came back in our place. At dawn, Gong Minbing was asked to go to the commune to report the case."

He Ting told Lu Baiwei: "I didn't sleep a wink all night. I never thought that poet Feng Shi would be gone like this."

"I still have to send a telegram to Li Ruicai."

The commune post office was not open at this time.

Although Lu Baiwei was sad, she knew that for He Ting, Feng Shishi had grown up in the same compound after all.

And although Feng Shishi came to the countryside because of something going on at home, it was somewhat because of He Ting.

I also asked Li Ruicai and his wife to take good care of Feng Shishi.

Knowing that He Ting might be sadder than her about the sudden death of his childhood friend.

Lu Baiwei soothed him softly, "Then go to sleep for a while. Once the commune post office opens, ride your bicycle and send a telegram to Li Ruicai."

He Ting nodded in a hoarse voice and said "OK".

Lu Baiwei quickly got him some hot water to wash his face.

After He Ting took a nap on the bed and it was dawn, Lu Baiwei cooked a bowl of noodles and brought it to him.

No one feels good about Feng Shishi's departure.

After eating the noodles, He Ting rode his bicycle to the commune.

When He Ting came back at noon, he had already sent a telegram to Li Ruicai at the commune post office and rode his bike to the crime scene at the valley where the two brigades met.

He Ting told Lu Baiwei the results of the Public Security Bureau's investigation.

"Feng Shishi was strangled to death."

He Ting told Lu Baiwei in a hoarse voice: "The police inferred that Feng Shishi refused to give in, so the man directly strangled her neck in an attempt to make Feng Shishi give in. He used too much force and strangled her to death."

She was strangled to death. One can imagine how fiercely Feng Shishi resisted at that time.

Lu Baiwei was sad to know that she had used her death to protect her innocence.

"The people who attacked her must be from the two nearby brigades. They might have been targeting her a long time ago. I reminded her once before. She asked Lingling to accompany her on the previous two visits to Liu Cuifang."

"This time she went alone on Liu Zaicheng's tractor and didn't ask Lingling to accompany her. Something went wrong."

Lu Baiwei asked He Ting: "What other clues did the police find?"

"Weiwei, I actually suspect Zhao Yongsen, because last night when we went to Zhou Xiaohong's house, her son Zhao Yongsen was not there. Then I asked where Zhao Yongsen had gone, and Zhou Xiaohong and Liu Cuifang both said that Zhao Yongsen had gone into the mountains to cut trees."

"We told the police about our visit to Feng Shishi last night, and they also suspected Zhao Yongsen."

He Ting told Lu Baiwei: "Zhao Yongsen already has a criminal record for Liu Cuifang's case. The police have arrested him and asked him to cooperate with the investigation."

Indeed, when He Ting and others went to Liu Cuifang's house to ask about Feng Shishi last night, Zhao Yongsen was not at home.

Zhao Yongsen also had a history of raping his wife Liu Cuifang.

Whether it was the public security or the people in their team, it was hard not to suspect him of this matter.

Feng Shishi is so beautiful and often visits Liu Cuifang. It is hard to say that Zhao Yongsen would not be tempted by her beauty.

Everyone thought so. Tang Yunling even said it countless times in front of Lu Baiwei, saying that she was blind to choose such a man and almost married him.

"Weiwei, thank goodness the furniture you hit pulled me out of the mire."

“You can know a person’s face but not his heart.”

Tang Yunling was a little confused: "Why did Zhao Yongsen become like this?"

"He wasn't like this when he was a child. You've seen it."

What can Lu Baiwei say?

All I can say is that people change.

No matter who it is, the suspicion of murdering Feng Shishi will be pinned on Zhao Yongsen.

However, when Ye Hongmei visited Tang Jinghe's home a few days later, He Ting and Lu Baiwei realized that the matter had nothing to do with Zhao Yongsen.

Tang Yunling brought Ye Hongmei to the clinic to see the child.

Ye Hongmei talked incessantly about the gossip about Zhao Yongsen in their brigade.

"When Zhao Yongsen was first arrested and taken to the police station, he refused to speak and only said that he had never harmed Feng Shishi."

"Later, the police said he was the most suspicious and wanted to convict him. He panicked and confessed that he did not come home that night and was at the home of the young widow in our brigade."

Ye Hongmei told Lu Baiwei and Zhou Yueying: "I still don't know anything about his affair with that young widow!"

"Many people in the brigade have seen Zhao Yongsen often hanging around the young widow's house. Because that place is close to the mountain, I thought Zhao Yongsen was going there to cut trees."