Chapter 137
The news of Han Jibin's arrest soon reached Grandpa Han's desk.
Regardless of whether there were some curious people who wanted to watch the show, or Grandpa Han had been secretly keeping an eye on Han Jibin, in short, Grandpa Han asked his subordinates for a copy of the interrogation results, which detailed the interrogation questions and Han Jibin's answers.
Grandpa Han straightened his back, and the papers were half a meter away from him. Grandpa Han's eyesight has always been good, and he can see the words on the paper clearly without wearing reading glasses.
He read slowly and quietly, and finally finished reading the last line of the last page. He turned the papers over and placed them on the table. Grandpa Han was silent for a long time, staring at the air in a daze. He remembered that he should go out. He had agreed yesterday to take Xiao Wang to the meeting.
Supporting himself on the table, Grandpa Han stood up with all his strength and left behind the desk. He walked out slowly, but after taking a few steps, he suddenly stopped.
As if responding to his aging and slow body, it was not until now that he felt his eyes go dark and his body sway, as if he had been punched hard in the heart. The pain was secondary, and the more overwhelming feeling was numbness.
Just across the wall is the secretary's office. Secretary Wang is inside, Secretary Lin is inside, and Han Shengyi is also inside.
Not daring to see Han Shengyi at this time and in this state, Grandpa Han was silent for a moment and returned to his seat.
About ten minutes later, Secretary Wang came over and asked him when he would leave, and Grandpa Han replied now.
They just left the office and did not go to the meeting place. Instead, they went to the place where Han Jibin was imprisoned after some twists and turns.
Secretary Wang is Grandpa Han's successor and also his student. The two have a very close relationship. He was the first to know the news of Han Jibin's arrest and then told Grandpa Han. He even asked his subordinates to bring back the interrogation results because he knew that Grandpa Han would definitely want to see it.
Secretary Wang is a capable person. He also has a particularly good advantage. He will definitely ask about things that he should ask, and never ask about things that he shouldn't ask. When he arrived at the place, he came forward to talk to the person in charge. After the other party agreed, he did not accompany Grandpa Han in.
As father and son, this should be their last meeting, so Secretary Wang naturally would not join in the fun.
Pushing open the door, Grandpa Han walked in. He was alone, and no one was worried that anything might happen to him, because Han Jibin's hands were handcuffed to the bed, and the area he could move was very limited.
But in just one day, Han Jibin seemed like a different person. He lowered his head and didn't say a word. No one tortured him, but his eyes were dull. He was either in a daze or muttering to himself. Anyone could see that his spirit had dissipated.
In the empty room, in the silent air, Grandpa Han looked at Han Jibin silently. After two or three seconds, Han Jibin raised his head and saw Grandpa Han appear in front of him. His pupils trembled a few times, and his lips immediately opened. He seemed to want to say something, but paused for a second, and sneered, "What are you doing here?"
Grandpa Han didn't move forward or backward, just stood there, "Let me ask you something."
"Why did you kill Ji Xin?"
Han Jibin's handcuffed hands clenched into fists, "I didn't kill him."
"Ruan Mengru reported Ji Xin. Wasn't it you who instigated this?"
Han Jibin tried to stand up, but his hands were cuffed. He only rose slightly before being forced to sit down again. The dull pain in his wrist only intensified his anger. "I've told you so many times, I didn't mean to kill him! I just wanted Han Jixin to suffer. I wanted him to lose his job. It was Ruan Mengru who acted on her own!"
He was yelling like a madman over here, but no matter what he said, Grandpa Han had the same expression. The calmer he was, the more embarrassed Han Jibin became, and the more panicked he felt.
He prided himself on being calm and composed in times of crisis, as steady as a rock. Anger was always someone else's emotion, and those people were like clowns in front of him. Han Jibin cared deeply about his reputation, and now, he had become a clown in front of Grandpa Han.
All his internal organs seemed to be burning red, and Han Jibin felt extremely uncomfortable, but he still had to suppress his emotions and try his best to maintain his last bit of dignity.
After taking several quick breaths, Han Jibin felt better and looked at Grandpa Han again: "I hate Han Jixin, but I don't hate him."
"I hate you and Pan Yingping, so don't put the blame on me. Even if I kill you, I will only kill you two."
Grandpa Han: "Do you hate us?"
"Yes!" Han Jibin's voice rose again, and he didn't even realize it. "You two are both more hypocritical than each other!"
"You said you were raising me like your son, but in reality, I was just a guest living in your house. When I was little, you left me in the care of your subordinates, but let Pan Yingping take care of Han Jixin herself. Now that I've grown up, whenever there are guests at home, you always introduce me as your eldest son, and then you have to explain that I'm the child left behind by your eldest brother. When I was looking for a job, you said it was fine as long as I liked it. When I was looking for a wife, you didn't care and just let me look for one on my own. But as soon as I met Han Jixin, your expressions changed."
"If you don't treat me as your son, then don't bring me back to your home! You already know everything about my corruption. I'm telling you, it's because of the way you two treated me that I ended up like this. If my father were still alive, I would never have ended up like this!"
Grandpa Han kept his mouth drooping and didn't react at all until he mentioned his father. Grandpa Han grabbed a porcelain bowl on the interrogation table next to him and threw it at Han Jibin.
There was still half a bowl of porridge in the porcelain bowl. This was Han Jibin's lunch today. Seeing the porcelain bowl flying towards him, Han Jibin instinctively dodged. The porcelain bowl hit the wall and shattered into pieces. The broken porcelain pieces did not hurt him, but half of the porridge inside splashed on him.
For the first time in his life, he saw Grandpa Han get angry and was completely stunned.
Grandpa Han's arms kept shaking, and it was unclear whether it was because he was angry or because he used too much strength.
"Shut up!"
"How dare you mention that? Your father is a hero, a martyr. Who the hell do you think you are?"
"I don't treat you as my son? If I didn't treat you as my son, you would have died the year you fell seriously ill and couldn't wake up!"
"You hate me, I won't say anything, because I really didn't help much. But why do you hate Ying Ping? She was the one who raised you, made your clothes, cooked for you, and when you were sick, she took care of you day and night without eating or drinking, just because she was afraid you would be unhappy. When Ji Xin was a child, she hardly hugged him, and now you blame her!"
Han Jibin actually didn't remember anything that Grandpa Han said, because he only remembered the bad things others did to him, and couldn't remember the good things others did to him. With a stiff face, Han Jibin opened his mouth to refute him: "Don't think..."
Grandpa Han didn't want to listen to his excuses anymore. "You said I abandoned you to my subordinates, but don't you see what the situation was like at that time? I was targeted and almost lost my life. Ying Ping had just given birth to Ji Xin and had bedsores. She couldn't even take care of herself, so how could she take care of you? Ji Xin was still breastfeeding at that time. You even want to argue with him about this. Are you crazy?"
Han Jibin was stunned.
Was Han Jixin breastfeeding at that time?
He didn't remember anything. He only remembered that he was crying and making a fuss at his subordinate's house. He couldn't remember any other details. The feeling of being abandoned took root in his heart. Pan Yingping and Han Tinghui's faces became more and more hateful. From this incident, as long as there was a little dissatisfaction or bias in his life, he would feel that he was being targeted.
Han Jibin was in a daze here. He didn't know how long it had been before he suddenly heard Grandpa Han laughing at himself.
"Letting a wolf into the house, so this is what it means to let a wolf into the house. I really regret bringing a beast like you back home!"
The word "beast" touched Han Jibin's sensitive nerves.
Han Jibin laughed heartily. "If I'm a beast, then you're the old beast, and Han Shengyi is the young beast. I'm not a good person, and neither are you! You ruined the first half of my life, and he ruined the second half. Sooner or later, your whole family will die a miserable death!"
Grandpa Han looked at him and suddenly felt powerless. Han Jibin was hopeless. He was selfish and could not see his own faults. He always blamed others for his mistakes. It was true that Han Shengyi had plotted against him, but if he had not done those things, no one could do anything to him.
He is already very old, and there are many things he doesn't want to investigate or figure out the details. The dead will never come back to life, and those who deserve the punishment will never appear in their lives again.
I can’t explain it, I can’t persuade him, I can’t ask him, so let it be.
He took a long breath, and between these two breaths, Grandpa Han's expression gradually calmed down.
"Jibin."
This was the first time he called Han Jibin's name since he came in.
Han Jibin raised his head and heard this name. For no reason, he started to panic.
Grandpa Han looked at him, wanting to sigh but holding back. "When you put an advertisement in the newspaper to sever ties with us, in fact, whether it was Ying Ping or me, we still considered you family. Our thinking at that time was that whether you recognized us or not, we both had to recognize you."
Han Jibin seemed to understand something, and he suddenly gripped the bed railing.
Grandpa Han continued, "You were the only one who said we should sever ties. Now, I'm going to make up for what we said."
"Han Jibin, you are no longer my son, nor my nephew. You are you, and I am me. From now on, we have no relationship. Whether we live or die, we will accept our fate."
After saying this, Grandpa Han turned around and walked towards the door. During this time, Han Jibin kept staring at his back. His expression changed several times and his mouth moved several times.
He had a lot to say. He wanted to beg for mercy, he wanted Grandpa Han to save his life, he also wanted to apologize to Grandpa Han and ask him to let him go. Some of these words were true, some were false, but no matter whether they were true or false, he couldn't say a word.
Because begging for mercy is something only a coward would do, and he doesn't want to be a coward.
Just like that, he watched Grandpa Han walk out of the room, and never come back again.
Secretary Wang saw Grandpa Han coming out and left with him.
In Secretary Wang's imagination, Grandpa Han should have figured out everything, and he must have asked Han Jibin a lot of questions, but in fact, from beginning to end, he only asked one question.
Apart from this question he wanted to know most, Grandpa Han didn't ask the rest, such as what was the relationship between him and Ruan Mengru, and what Han Shengyi did to him. At the same time, he didn't really want to know.
Ruan Mengru committed perjury and murder, and was also suspected of many crimes, big and small. Her fate, whether life or death, all depended on the judgment of the people above her, and those people acted according to Grandpa Han's mood. If Grandpa Han wanted her to live, she could live. If he wanted her to die, she could die tomorrow.
But in the end, Grandpa Han did not sentence Ruan Mengru to death, still because of the words that everyone had said countless times.
She is Han Shengyi's mother.
Because she was Han Shengyi's biological mother, she was able to save her life. She could escape the death penalty, but she could not escape the punishment of living. Grandpa Han asked them to send Ruan Mengru to a place where sand and wind were everywhere. When there was a farm, she would work on the farm, and when there was no farm, she would go to prison to serve her sentence. She had been spoiled all her life, and living in such a place for one day was a great torture for her.
In fact, there was no need to send her to such a faraway place. Ruan Mengru had been mentally broken since she was arrested.
From the beginning, her confidence was her family. They spoiled her and pampered her, and no one ever let her suffer. Therefore, she felt that the whole world should follow her wishes. Once there was someone who did not do so, she would secretly harm that person.
Sometimes she escaped, and sometimes she was caught, but it didn’t matter if she was caught, her family would take care of it for her.
If Ruan Mengru was just an ordinary spoiled girl, perhaps her worst case scenario would be that she was annoying, but she also had a vicious and insidious personality.
No one knew that Ruan Mengru had actually been in love with Han Jibin from the beginning, but he was already married with a child. She wanted to get close to him, but she had no chance. At this time, because she always appeared in front of the Han family, the Han family wanted to match her with Han Jixin. Of course, most people would not agree, but there was no way, Ruan Mengru was not an ordinary person.
Normal people will never be able to understand her thought process. She can like Han Jibin and be in love with Han Jixin at the same time. She can also confess her love to Han Jibin and say that she is his in life and his in death, and then she is having an affair with Guo Deshu, who fell in love with her at first sight.
She has had three men and three children in her life. To her, the three children are like three strands of hair that she can pull out at any time. Among the three men, only one really caught her eye, and unfortunately, it was the one who disliked her the most.
While in the cell, Ruan Mengru cried in fear. She felt that all this was caused by Han Jibin. She had trusted the wrong person and ended up in the current situation. However, even without Han Jibin, she would have ended up like this.
Because that's her nature.
The Ruan family fell, her husband died, and even Han Jibin was caught by the tail behind her. Looking around, Ruan Mengru finally realized that no one could protect her anymore. The fig leaf was torn off, and she could no longer shamelessly hide behind others and shoot poisonous arrows at others.
…
Han Jibin was arrested in October, but Chu Jiujiu didn't learn the news until November.
At that time, the capital had just had its first snowfall. It was not heavy, just a few scattered snowflakes. The snowflakes did not even cover the ground completely before turning into water. Chu Jiujiu, wearing a thick cotton-padded jacket, sat in the pavilion in the park, staring blankly at Han Shengyi.
The previous second, Han Shengyi had just told her that Han Jibin was sentenced to death and Ruan Mengru was imprisoned in a labor camp in the northwest and would never be able to get out in her life.
It's no wonder she looked dazed. The news was really too shocking. She felt like it had only been a short time since she heard about Han Jibin and Han Shengyi meeting. How come they were all arrested?
Han Shengyi smiled softly and explained, "It was going to be fast anyway. The whole country is going through a reckoning right now. Everyone else is arresting corrupt officials, but Han Jibin is an embezzler. Arresting others is a thankless task, but arresting him not only provides solid evidence, but also nets a lot of money to support the government."
Chu Jiujiu glanced at him and asked, "What did you do?"
With their hands in their pockets, Han Shengyi and Chu Jiujiu sat face to face, with a stone table between them. Fortunately, there was no one here, so they could say whatever they wanted.
He had already put on this year's scarf. It was no longer fancy, just an ordinary, thick, light brown scarf. Chu Jiujiu had knitted it long enough to be wrapped around several times. Han Shengyi could just shrink his neck and his chin would sink into the scarf. When he did this, there was a smile in his eyes, and his facial features softened a lot.
"I didn't do anything. I just submitted some evidence, gave some suggestions, and... also, called a few people over."
Chu Jiujiu: “…”
This is called doing nothing.
She looked at Han Shengyi suspiciously, and Han Shengyi looked back at her calmly.
"Really, Grandpa did most of the work."
Thinking of Grandpa Han, Chu Jiujiu's thoughts diverted for a moment. Some time ago, he occasionally looked depressed, and everyone noticed it, but when asked what was wrong, he didn't say. It turned out that it was because of these things.
Chu Jiujiu took out her hands, rubbed them vigorously, and then blew a breath into her palms, "Forget it, it's over anyway."
At this point, she suddenly raised her head and looked at Han Shengyi warily, "Is it all over?"
Han Shengyi couldn't help laughing, "Well, it's all over."
Chu Jiujiu exhaled, and white mist rose in front of her. "That's good, the bad guys have been caught, and you don't have to flatter them anymore. We can live our own lives without worrying about being disturbed by others."
When she said this, she was actually talking to herself. She didn't need Han Shengyi to respond. Chu Jiujiu tilted her head as she thought of something. "But Han Jibin has been arrested. Will Grandpa Han's work be affected?"
Han Shengyi: “No.”
"Grandpa holds a very high position, and no one can influence him. Besides, in a few years, he will retire. Whether others can influence him or not is not important to him anymore."
Chu Jiujiu nodded, not quite understanding, and then asked, "What about you?"
Han Shengyi understood what she was asking, but he refused to explain it. He even looked puzzled and asked, "Huh?"
Chu Jiujiu was a little anxious. She straightened up and said, "Didn't you say that after we deal with them, you would take the college entrance examination with me? Have you forgotten?"
Han Shengyi recalled it and squinted his eyes slightly at the sky outside. "I haven't forgotten, but I remember that I think I said one year, right?"
Chu Jiujiu pointed a finger at him.
Han Shengyi was stunned.
Chu Jiujiu said very seriously, "Within a year. You mean within a year, twelve months is within a year, and three months is also within a year."
Han Shengyi was amused by her and stood up. He walked to Chu Jiujiu and stretched out his hand.
His hands were kept in his pockets and were very warm. He pressed down Chu Jiujiu's raised index finger. His hand was so big that it could cover Chu Jiujiu's fist. When he touched the cold back of Chu Jiujiu's hand, he paused and did not retract his hand immediately. Instead, he continued to move his hand down and stuffed Chu Jiujiu's small fist back into her own cotton-padded jacket pocket.
"Don't worry, I remember what I said and I won't break my promise to you."
"After I work for a few more months and repay the favors I owe to others, I will quit and concentrate on studying at home."
Han Shengyi bent down slightly. He always smiled, but today's smile was different from before. In the past, when Han Shengyi smiled, Chu Jiujiu just thought it was very nice. But when he smiled today, Chu Jiujiu found that if she looked at him for too long, she would laugh with him involuntarily.
It's like being infected.
Her mood couldn't help but ripple slightly, and Chu Jiujiu also raised her eyebrows, "Okay, then, I'll give you a few more months."
With his eyes lowered, Han Shengyi raised his hand and twisted a few strands of hair on her head. There were some stray hairs in it, which looked like they had fallen off the towel. Han Shengyi picked out those stray hairs. During this time, Chu Jiujiu sat obediently there and let him do what he wanted.
Two words flashed through Han Shengyi's mind.
So good.
…
Han Shengyi has very strong social skills. After working in the secretariat for a year, he now knows almost more people than Grandpa Han. As for who he owes a favor to, Chu Jiujiu did not ask.
They were just some government officials. Han Shengyi gave a very simple account of how he brought Han Jibin down, but Chu Jiujiu knew without a doubt that it was a very simplified version. It was still unknown how complicated it would be to actually implement it.
He can't do so many things by himself, so there must be someone helping him behind the scenes.
After that, Han Shengyi became very busy again, partly with his own work and partly with repaying favors. Chu Jiujiu only wanted a promise, and after getting the promise, she became very generous and no longer thought about it all day long.
Wen Xiuwei moved out of the Chu family, and Chu Jiujiu thought she would have to live alone for a year, but everything changes. After learning that Chu Jiujiu always lived alone at home, Chu Liqiang actually moved back without any hesitation.
He placed his main battlefield in the urban area. On the one hand, it was for Chu Jiujiu, and on the other hand, he was busy taking revenge on those who had taken advantage of him in the past.
Han Shengyi is not the only one who is taking advantage of the east wind. Chu Liqiang also thinks so. He is more mysterious than Han Shengyi. Chu Jiujiu at least knows who Han Shengyi wants to deal with, but when it comes to Chu Liqiang, Chu Jiujiu can only see that his mood is getting better day by day.
Okay, it seems like things are going well, that's good.
It seemed that after winter came, all good things happened at home, one after another. However, as the saying goes, after adversity comes good, and after joy comes sorrow. Everyone thought that the family would soon be completely at peace, but Chu Shao suddenly came back from the military region and brought back a piece of news.
"I'm leaving now."
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