Chapter 143: Family and Relatives
With Li Minghui's confession, the case was finally solved.
The person who actually killed the deceased's family of three and burned the bodies to fake signs of suicide was Li Minghui. The reason was naturally related to the guarantee made by the deceased.
Li Minghui and Wang Qiushan were friends. With Wang Qiushan as a guarantor, Li Minghui lent 10,000 yuan to the deceased's cousin Wang Qiumin, and agreed to pay the money back in a year.
As a result, Wang Qiumin's business failed and he ran away. Li Minghui repeatedly asked Wang Qiumin's parents for the debt, but not only did they refuse to pay, they also scolded Li Minghui and hid away.
He couldn't find his family, so he had to ask his good friend Wang Qiushan for money.
This money was not borrowed by Wang Qiushan, so naturally he was unwilling to return it. However, Li Minghui refused to give up and kept asking for it. He said frankly that it was not because he was disloyal but insisted on taking the money. It was because his mother was seriously ill and needed surgery. This was her life-saving money, and he could not give it up. He wanted Wang Qiushan to think of a way to make Wang Qiumin pay back the money.
The first few times were fine, Wang Qiushan said he was in contact with Wang Qiumin and would definitely return it to him.
But more than half a month passed without any results, and his mother's condition became increasingly serious.
Therefore, he has been unable to get the money back. Li Minghui feels that Wang Qiushan is a very unfair person. He lent money to his cousin because of him. Now his family's life is in danger, but Wang Qiushan has not been able to help him get the money back for so long and has only lent him a few hundred yuan, not a penny more.
Because of this, the two sides had several disputes, but the money was still not recovered. Not long after, his mother fell ill and died in the hospital.
Li Minghui lost his father when he was young. It was his mother who raised him with great difficulty. He didn't know how much grievance and hardship she had endured. As a result, she was gone before he had the chance to honor her. So he stubbornly believed that it was all the fault of Wang Qiumin and Wang Qiushan's family.
Now Wang Qiumin's family could not be found, but Wang Qiushan and his wife were very close by, so he had already made up his mind to kill them before he went to their house that day. In order to escape unscathed, he contacted Chen Erguo in advance and set up a trap to prevent himself from being caught by the police.
He originally thought that he had done it perfectly, but he didn't expect that he would still be defeated by the murder weapon that he had washed, hidden in the garbage bag of Feng Shuxian's house and thrown away.
No matter how hard he thought, he never imagined that Chen Erguo would find the knife in the trash can and take it back.
All we can say is that it was his fate and he can't blame anyone else.
As for why Feng Shuxian helped him to give false testimony, we can only say that sometimes when you are too happy, you will fall into the fear of losing happiness.
It turns out that Feng Shuxian and Li Minghui were childhood sweethearts. They grew up together and were close friends. They were still young at the time and had been together since they were in their teens.
They were together for several years.
However, Chen Shuxian's family disliked Li Minghui's poverty and did not agree with them being together. Later, they forced her to marry an old man in exchange for a dowry for her brother.
Feng Shuxian couldn't bear it anymore and ran away, but it was really sad for a little girl like her to be alone outside. After several years of hardship, Chen Erguo appeared by her side. Although he was not good-looking, he was really good to her. He didn't despise her when he knew her family situation. Instead, he took out all his savings and gave them to her parents as a betrothal gift. He and her set up a warm home outside and later had a child.
Although life is a bit hard, I feel happy and motivated.
There was one thing she never dared to tell Chen Erguo, which was that she had been with other people before.
This worry became more and more intense when they met Li Minghui who also came to Anxi to work. Li Minghui probably knew what she was thinking. He lived far away from them and seldom interacted with them, except for gatherings with many friends from the same hometown.
Originally thinking that this matter would remain a secret between the two of them, Feng Shuxian gradually let it go and focused on living her own life.
Who knew that he would suddenly call her that day and ask her to testify for him. He also gave her a packet of medicine and asked her to give it to Chen Erguo so that he could sleep more. He also asked her to adjust the clock on the wall from almost nine o'clock to around eight o'clock to serve as his alibi witness.
Feng Shuxian knew that he must have done something wrong, and she didn't want to get involved in this mess at first. However, the person who was once closest to her naturally knew her current weakness.
When he threatened to tell Chen Erguo about their past affection and that he would "treat" their son well, she was completely panicked. After much struggle, she had no choice but to agree.
But she never thought that he was committing a crime of murdering an entire family. She wanted to report him at that time, but Chen Erguo had already kindly testified that Li Minghui was not present.
She panicked for a moment, fearing that Chen Erguo would be implicated. In addition, her son was suddenly told by the school that a stranger almost took him away today. She knew it must have been Li Minghui who did it. For the sake of her husband and son, she had no choice but to say what they had agreed on that day.
Later, although the police came to her house again, they did not suspect her, so she gradually returned to normal from her initial fear.
What caught her off guard was that the police came to see her again, and the knife appeared.
She knew she was really finished.
Especially when she was locked up in the detention center, she cried so hard that she was out of breath. She really regretted it.
However, it is too late to say anything at this point. People always have to pay the price for their actions.
With the end of this case, Qiu Jiang entered a frenzy of having huge sums of money.
When they got home and saw the contract, they couldn't believe their eyes.
"Two, two million?"
Shi Yuexiu counted the zeros on the contract again and again. The more he looked at it, the more shocked he became. After a brief moment of shock, he felt a strong sense of pride.
After all, all parents in the world want to see their children succeed. Besides, Jiang Jiang is a real talent. Even if the amount of money is really so high that it makes them dumbfounded, they never think that the anti-itching powder she makes is not worthy of the money.
So after recovering from the initial shock, the whole family was overjoyed and congratulated her.
"Jiang Jiang is really amazing."
"Congratulations, little aunt."
"Great, great, auntie is the best."
To celebrate this good thing, they prepared a sumptuous meal in the evening.
After happily finishing the meal, Qiu Jiang solemnly announced a good news to everyone, that is, she would take out 500,000 yuan to buy a shop and open a restaurant.
"This means that our Qiuji Baozi Shop has finally entered the next stage of becoming bigger and stronger."
Qiu Jiang announced with great pride.
For a moment, the family members were so shocked that they didn't know what to say.
Qiu Siyu and the others didn't say anything, but they thought their parents would definitely refuse. After all, their parents have always treated their aunt as their own child, and giving her money was not enough. How could they agree to let their aunt pay so much money to open a store for their family?
Even when my aunt used up her own savings to rent a shop to open a bun shop, my parents still insisted on giving her dividends every month, for fear that she would have too much money to spend due to her social interactions, food, and clothing.
Even though their aunt got so much money this time, they estimated that their parents would be reluctant to touch her money just like before.
But this time, they really guessed wrong.
After careful consideration, Qiu Hengan and his wife finally agreed to this decision.
It’s just that my aunt is the major shareholder. Half of the restaurant’s income is given to her every month, and the other expenses are paid from the other half. Only any surplus belongs to them, and if there is a loss, they have to make up for it themselves.
Qiu Siyu and her brother had not expected this result, and they could not hide the surprise on their faces.
If they were not embarrassed to speak up, they would have said it long ago.
However, no matter how much she held it in, at night, Qiu Siyu still quietly found Shi Yuexiu to ask what was going on.
Shi Yuexiu did not avoid her and was open and honest with her.
"If we hadn't started the business yet, your father and I definitely wouldn't have agreed to let Jiang Jiang pay this money because we were afraid of losing everything. However, the results of the past six months of business have shown us that continuing in this line of work will definitely make money. Your father and I are confident that we can make a profit within two to three years. Since Jiang Jiang has this idea and has the conditions, if we refuse, it would only mean that your father and I are not courageous and ruthless, and we don't treat Jiang Jiang as a family member."
"If we had refused just now, it would seem like we didn't spend a penny on Jiang Jiang, but in reality, we would have hurt the child's heart. As a parent, how could we bear to let our child be sad?"
"Besides, since it's a sure thing, why not do it?"
Shi Yuexiu has been used to a hard life and is not afraid of it, but if he can live a good life, who would be willing to go back to the precarious life of the past?
She hopes that they can provide a good life for their children with their own hands, and they should seize the opportunity if they have it.
Moreover, because of the reduction in surgery fees in the provincial capital, the couple still had some spare money. Although it was not much, it was tens of thousands of yuan, and this money was earned by them in less than half a year.
You have to know that her monthly salary was only seven or eight hundred before.
With such income comparison and experience, if she is still timid, it would be a shame for all her hard work over the past six months.
I feel even more sorry for Jiang Jiang’s kindness.
Shi Yuexiu touched her cheek after he finished speaking. "Ayu, your family needs protection, but you also need to learn to accept their help. Don't be bound by so-called self-esteem and other rules and regulations, thinking that you must make a clear distinction and not accept any help at all. That's not making a clear distinction, but being too distant. And won't your family know about that?"
Qiu Siyu has been very sensible since she was a child. The result of being sensible is that she will not easily trouble others, even her family members. She remains like this when she goes to school.
Because of this, sometimes it is inevitable to spend more energy and go through more trouble.
After hearing what Shi Yuexiu said, she began to reflect on whether she was too rigid. It was obviously something that everyone was happy about, but she felt that it was wrong to talk about money between relatives.
But we forget that if family members cannot help each other, who can we rely on to help ourselves?
This also made her start to think about whether her principles of doing things were too rigid and inflexible.
Of course, these are all changes in her own state of mind, and she can only think about and digest them slowly by herself.
But while she was still troubled by these things, her aunt Qiu Jiang had already started making the next more shocking decision.
That is buying a house.
Not only do I have to buy a house, but I have to buy a better one. At least each person should have a room. Otherwise, if I come home late at night, I will always wake up my little niece.
Besides, when my two nephews and nieces grow up, we can’t just squeeze into two rooms and a living room and put up two beds.
In the past, there was no other way.
Now that I have money, I must improve my life.
This is the meaning of making money.
So she enthusiastically inquired about the housing prices and apartment types in various communities, and in less than a week she found several houses she liked.
The speed is jaw-droppingly fast.
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