Just as Lu Baiwei guessed, the child was indeed Zhang Laizi's only weakness. When the police officer in charge of this case visited him in prison and questioned him, Zhang Laizi showed no emotion at all.

It was not until Zhao Yongsen appeared in front of him that a ripple finally appeared in Zhang Laizi's dead eyes.

"Zhang Laizi, I know. The child Liu Cuifang gave birth to is yours."

Facing the guidance of Li Ruicai and the public security comrades, Zhang Laizi, who had been keeping his head down, still kept his head down when he heard this, but his shoulders visibly moved.

Zhao Yongsen continued talking regardless of his reaction.

"At first I didn't know that the child was born to you and Liu Cuifang."

"Liu Cuifang is such a cruel woman. When she got pregnant, she said she was willing to marry me. I thought Lingling had discovered our relationship and she was afraid of gossip."

"If a big pie falls from the sky, I'd be a fool not to take it."

"After all this fuss, I really am a fool. Marrying Liu Cuifang was like losing the watermelon and picking up the sesame seeds. You know, right?"

"After you were arrested, the college entrance examination was resumed."

"Liu Cuifang went to high school. Before Feng Zhiqing died, he sent her high school textbooks. She used my sister to get review materials from the Zhiqing from Xiangyang Brigade next door, and was admitted to university and returned to the city."

Zhang Laizi's shoulders trembled again, and he seemed to want to raise his head.

Zhao Yongsen was very excited and felt like he had opened a crack in the thick ice.

He guessed that Zhang Laizi was not excited because Liu Cuifang turned back, but like Li Ruicai said, it was because of the child. Zhang Laizi was worried about the child.

Knowing where the breakthrough is, Zhao Yongsen became more confident.

"Liu Cuifang didn't bring the child back to the city."

"After taking advantage of our family, she secretly wrote a letter of introduction and returned to the city, leaving me and the child behind."

This time, Zhang Laizi finally raised his head.

Zhao Yongsen continued, "I will definitely go to Beijing to find her. I will go."

"But that woman turned against me and refused to admit her mistake. She has been on guard against me for a long time."

Zhao Yongsen angrily told Zhang Laizi: "Liu Cuifang is such a cruel woman. She arranged for human traffickers to wait for me at the train station in Beijing. As soon as I arrived in Beijing, she attacked me and my child."

"It's ok that she almost sold me to a coal mine, but even a tiger won't eat its own cubs, and she even killed her own child."

Zhang Laizi was obviously stimulated, and a "ah ah" sound came from his hoarse throat.

Zhao Yongsen seemed to understand him: "The child is fine. I met a kind person who helped me and escaped from the human traffickers."

Thinking of this experience, Zhao Yongsen's hatred for Liu Cuifang surged up again.

He knows how to provoke Zhang Laizi.

Just as Zhang Laizi breathed a sigh of relief, Zhao Yongsen continued speaking with great anger.

"Zhang Laizi, do you know why Liu Cuifang wanted to harm me and my child?"

"You've seen Feng Shishi's ex-boyfriend, he was an officer in the Southern Army. Liu Cuifang used the excuse of taking care of him for Feng Shishi to date him."

Zhang Laizi cried out excitedly, meaning to ask Zhao Yongsen where the child was.

Zhao Yongsen told Zhang Laizi: "Give it back to her. I can't possibly raise a bastard!"

"The Liu family compensated me with a sum of money, and I don't want the child anymore."

Zhao Yongsen was talking nonsense: "Liu Cuifang is definitely going to marry that officer. The Liu family wants to keep the fact that she got married and had a child in the countryside a secret. It is very likely that Liu Cuifang will sell the child to human traffickers."

Zhang Laizi was obviously excited and let out a hoarse roar from his throat.

Knowing that he was getting closer to the truth, Zhao Yongsen became more and more excited as he spoke.

"I heard on the train that when children fall into the hands of human traffickers, the boys are sold to families in the mountains who cannot give birth to sons, and the girls cannot be sold for a good price, so their limbs are broken and their eyes are blinded to make them disabled and left at the train station to beg for money."

"You haven't seen those disabled people crawling on the ground at the train station, stopping people to ask for money..."

As Zhao Yongsen told Zhang Laizi what he saw and heard at the train station and the miserable plight of the children who fell into the hands of human traffickers, Zhang Laizi became more and more agitated and began to bang his head against the iron bars uncontrollably.

The prison guard came over and twisted Zhang Laizi's shoulders, and Zhang Laizi struggled violently like crazy.

Faced with Zhang Laizi being grabbed by the prison guards, Zhao Yongsen added fuel to the fire.

"I've raised that child for so long that I've developed feelings for him. If he really falls into the hands of human traffickers, I won't be able to live with my conscience."

"Zhang Laizi, your parents miss you so much that they are sick. Do you want me to ask the kind people I know in Beijing to help me get that baby back to your parents as a companion..."

Zhang Laizi let out a hoarse roar and struggled violently regardless of the prison guards' dissuasion.

Zhao Yongsen looked frightened by him: "Zhang Laizi, what are you doing?"

"Do you have something to say? Don't get excited. I'll have someone get a pen and paper to write it down for you."

Having only attended literacy classes, Zhang Laizi's handwriting was crooked. He couldn't write some characters and even used pinyin instead. But both the police officer in charge of the case and Li Ruicai understood what he wrote.

What he meant was to prove that Liu Cuifang had ordered him to kill Feng Shishi.

Liu Cuifang was jealous that Feng Zhiqing had such a good partner. Out of jealousy, she turned into hatred and threatened him with the child, instigating him to do to Feng Shishi what he had done to Liu Cuifang.

But Feng Shishi refused to give in and vowed not to obey, so he accidentally strangled her to death.

He was the one who harmed the people. He admitted his guilt and he deserved it.

But I implore the public security comrades to protect his child from being abducted by human traffickers for the sake of his innocence, and to bring him back to accompany his elderly mother.

He was dying, and the child was the thought he left for his mother.

This is roughly what the entire confession and repentance letter means.

Li Ruicai had always been worried that he couldn't pry open Zhang Laizi's mouth, so he sent Zhao Yongsen. With the close cooperation of Zhao Yongsen, he finally succeeded in getting Zhang Laizi to implicate Liu Cuifang in the case as He Ting and Lu Baiwei had guessed.

Men don't shed tears easily!

After receiving the letter of repentance written by Zhang Laizi, Li Rui read the contents and started crying.

He squatted in the open space outside the prison and cried in front of the public security comrades and Zhao Yongsen. Liu Cuifang's words "jealousy turned into hatred" stimulated him and made him understand Liu Cuifang's motive for harming Shishi.

That silly girl!

If someone is nice to her, she would want to give her all.

If she hadn't gone to the next brigade to deliver milk powder that day, she should have been admitted to Kyoto University with Lu Baiwei and Tang Yunling. Then when he came back from the southern army, he could ride his bicycle to wait for her downstairs of the teaching building just like he did when he went to school to find Liu Cuifang that day.

Without his Shishi introducing himself, he would tell her classmates with a smile, "I am Comrade Feng's marriage partner, Li Ruicai."

However, all the good things that should have happened came to an abrupt end.

How great it would have been if his silly girl hadn't gone to the Red Flag Brigade that day.

But there are no ifs in life...

On the afternoon of the day that Zhang Laizi wrote his letter of repentance, his cousin's husband took his old mother to the county guesthouse to meet Liu Cuifang who had come from the capital.