Chapter 155 (Two in One)
Hu Yuannan told Lin Shuyue about her mother Zhou Tiehua.
"My mother is the only elder in the family who is kind to us. She would bring us some delicious food when she went out for a banquet. Although she didn't give us as much as Hu Jiangrong, she was much better than Hu Dagen and his friends who didn't give us anything. My second sister and I, one likes to eat egg whites and the other likes to eat egg yolks, so every time, the egg yolks were mine and the egg whites were my second sister's. My eldest sister and my youngest sister are not picky eaters. So, they each got half."
Children who grow up in an abnormal family environment have a very hard life, so when others give them a little bit of sugar, children who have never tasted sweetness are like ants, just wanting to grab that little bit of sweetness and not willing to lose it.
"But that's only a little bit better. In her heart, Hu Jiangrong is more important than us. It was fine before she met Hu Jiangrong, but after she met Hu Jiangrong, we were the ones who were abandoned." It's a pity that they didn't understand at that time. So when facing Zhou Tiehua, he would give in step by step.
"For example, our marriage." Hu Yuannan suddenly laughed: "My eldest sister is the oldest in the family. When she got married, Hu Jiangrong had just entered senior primary school. My grandparents thought he was a genius destined by heaven and would definitely have a great future. What he often said was that if Hu Jiangrong was born in ancient times, he would definitely be a great general and a nobleman."
"So they said they would save money for Hu Jiangrong and plan for his future. My eldest sister was said to be married to a man from the next village whose wife had died. His family was well-off, one of the best in the whole township."
"He can work normally, and is one of the most capable people in the surrounding villages. But he loves to drink, and his alcohol tolerance is not good. He can drink too much after just one glass, and he likes to beat people up when he drinks too much."
"Although he didn't beat his previous wife to death, it was almost the same. He also has a son who is almost ten years old and a child who is just over five years old. They are a couple in their 50s and 60s. Once my eldest sister married him, she would have to be a stepmother and a filial daughter-in-law, and she would have to be beaten."
"His son has grown up and hates my eldest sister. He opposes her in every way and never says a good word about her when he goes out. My eldest sister has never had a good day since the day she married into his family."
"When my eldest sister had just married, she was beaten and ran back home."
"My grandparents pretended not to see the injuries she suffered. My mother pulled my eldest sister into the room and said that she was a married woman and should not return to her parents' home after being wronged. She said that my eldest sister was useless and could not win over her husband or manage her children."
"She asked my eldest sister to be more determined and keep control of Hu Jiangrong's family. When Hu Jiangrong grows up, she will build him a house, support his education, and help him find a wife."
Hu Yuannan looked at the ground, his pupils unfocused: "My second sister married a man with six fingers. People with six toes are considered unlucky in our area. Because of this disability, he is still unmarried at the age of 30."
"My second sister didn't want to marry him. It was only after my mother persuaded her day and night and cried to her that my second sister agreed to marry him."
"My second sister also had a bad life after marriage. She was strong-willed and impulsive. She would have a big fight with her husband every three days or two days. Sometimes the fight was so serious that my mother would go and insult my second sister indiscriminately, and sometimes even beat her."
"But every time she went to my second sister's house, she would take something back. She did bring the things back, and my grandparents praised her, but my second sister had a hard time at my in-laws' house." Hu Yuannan sneered.
"She didn't go there to stop the fight. Her main purpose was to take the things. As for how my second sister's life would be after taking the things, she didn't care at all."
After she finished speaking, Lin Shuyue asked her, "What about you?"
Hu Yuannan glanced at her and said, "I married a fool. He's almost 30 years old and still pees in his pants. If you throw him a rope, he can sit on the ground and play with it for a long time."
"I didn't want to marry him, it was my mother who suggested killing me.
I sent him to the idiot's house, locked the door, and let him stay in the same room with me for the whole night. The next morning, she brought people to see me. ”
Their place is extremely feudal. Even today, no woman in the entire village dares to go out in a skirt openly. If someone goes out wearing a skirt, that's what everyone will talk about for the next half month, and there won't be a single good thing to say.
There are all kinds of sluts and indecent people.
Even now, in the summer, there are very few women wearing short sleeves in the village.
Therefore, during Hu Yuannan's young years, when a woman and a man were alone in a room, even if one of them was a fool and did nothing, Hu Yuannan would become the object of scorn. Some men would spit on me when I walked on the street. Everyone in Hujia Village had the same ancestor. Those who spit at her included her uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters.
After being looked at with strange eyes for a long time, she finally couldn't stand it anymore and agreed to marry him.
She lived the best life among the three sisters, because her idiot husband was not only easy to fool, but also favored at home. As long as she coaxed him and made him treat her as a playmate, her life in her husband's house would be much easier. Her parents-in-law did not dare to bully her too harshly, for fear that she would secretly retaliate against the idiot for the bullying she suffered.
Back then, she supported her two sisters privately. And Xiaoxiang felt uncomfortable when she thought of this.
"Have you visited your children since you came back?" Lin Shuyue asked.
Hu Yuannan nodded and said, "I have been there. When I was sold, they were still young and ignorant. The family found a stepmother for them. I went there and they lived a good life. The two children didn't know I was their biological mother, and I didn't intend to acknowledge them. But I asked someone to send them some living expenses."
The living expenses were not much, only three or five yuan, but that was all Hu Yuannan’s savings.
Hu Yuannan had no intention of recognizing them. She lived a good life in the idiot's home compared to her two sisters, but life is like drinking the water, only one knows whether it is hot or cold. Sometimes fools even pee in their pants when they go to the toilet.
Hu Yuannan has had enough of the days of changing diapers for his child and then changing diapers for his father.
Hu Yuannan said a lot, and Lin Shuyue also restored Zhou Tiehua's character from her mouth. A woman who has been poisoned by thousands of years of feudal society, a woman who has been thoroughly brainwashed.
She accepted her own fate and advised her daughters to accept their fate as well. She didn't have much, so there wasn't much she could give to Hu Yuannan and the others. Because of the "rules" that have been in place for thousands of years, she went with the flow and was unable to treat her son and daughter equally, nor were there so many things that could allow her to treat them equally.
Hu Yuannan continued, "She didn't have an easy life, either. I heard someone say that on the day she married Hu Dagen, she was beaten by him, and Hu Dabao and He Xiaocao were watching. Hu Dabao even taught Hu Dagen where to hit someone so that the person would feel pain but not suffer any injuries."
Hu Dabao is Hu Dagen's biological father and Hu Yuannan's biological grandfather. There has only been one boy in this branch of their family from generation to generation. Therefore, even though Hu Yuannan has an aunt, in the eyes of others, the Hu family is a single-line family. He Xiaocao is Hu Dagen’s biological mother and her grandmother.
From their names, we can see the status gap between men and women in their local area.
Hu Yuannan said: "The four of us sisters don't blame her. Her life was also very difficult, and what she said was not wrong. Her life was not much different from ours. A man will have a hard life no matter who he marries."
"She also loved us." Hu Yuannan did not hate Zhou Tiehua, but he could not love her either.
Lin Shuyue was about to ask more questions when Wu Dongyan arrived, holding a man who was about 23 or 24 years old in her hands.
"This is a thief. I caught him stealing things at the night market nearby." Wu Dongyan opened the door of the detention room, found an iron cage, and pushed the thief in.
"It's New Year's Day now, and there are a lot of thieves." Lin Shuyue said after Wu Dongyan came out.
Lin Shuyue hasn't seen Wu Dongyan for a long time. Since becoming the team leader of the criminal police team, Wu Dongyan has spent most of her time on work. During this period, as long as there is no task in the team, she will stay in the archives room.
Lin Shuyue didn't chat with her very often, only three or five times a month, but when they met, they were still very close and there was no sign of strangeness between them. While she was talking to Lin Shuyue, she also glanced at Hu Yuannan.
"Yes, I've been receiving a lot of calls to the police every day recently. They're all from thieves. I decided to catch a few thieves tonight. I won't tell you now. I'm leaving now. You're busy."
"Okay, take care." After Wu Dongyan's interruption, Lin Shuyue had nothing else to ask Hu Yuannan.
She took out her business card and gave it to Hu Yuannan. This box of business cards was recently distributed by the newspaper, and everyone in their news department had a box.
After Lin Shuyue received it, she never had the chance to give it away. Hu Yuannan was the first person to receive her business card, which was quite commemorative.
"I will be in the newspaper tomorrow. I am a reporter for Pengcheng Metropolis Daily. If you have time, you can buy a copy and read it." Lin Shuyue said to Hu Yuannan.
Hu Yuannan carefully remembered Lin Shuyue's words, "I remember it." Lin Shuyue did not ask any questions that would embarrass Hu Yuannan. Hu Yuannan had accepted several interviews, and Lin Shuyue's interview made her most comfortable.
She also wanted to see what Lin Shuyue wrote and what she said about her.
After saying goodbye to Hu Yuannan, Lin Shuyue turned and walked outside. She wanted to find a quiet cafe to write her manuscript. She is going to the capital tonight, and she has to finish writing the article before that.
Before she had taken a few steps, Lin Shuyue received a call from Wenying: "Xiao Lin, I found something. If this thing contains the evidence left by Zhong Jiali, then these things should be able to convict Zhong Jiasheng."
More than ten hours have passed since Zhong Jiasheng was arrested, and it is not long before 24 hours. Time is short and the task is heavy. Hu Jiangrong's case also needs to be handed over, and the members of their team wish they could be divided into 24 people.
But Zhong Jiasheng's disguise was too good. They originally had high hopes for Zhong Jiali's office, but after three people searched carefully, they did not find any clues. No abnormalities were found in Zhong Jiasheng's home, office, places he frequently visited, or in his car.
According to what Hu Jiangrong said that day, the Frenchman Bobby was also dead, but until now, there is no trace of him, alive or dead. The identities of Zhong Jiali and A Shuai have been confirmed, but there is still no clue about the other man among the body parts.
They also looked at Zhong Jiali's computer, which was clean, and there was no news about that circle in the records on the web pages.
They also searched Hu Jiangrong's residence, and found that every place was clean and tidy.
After two days of hard work, the police didn't even find the scene where Zhong Jiali and the others were murdered. It was as if their heads had disappeared out of thin air. Hu Jiangrong is very tight-lipped. When he was interrogated, he asked the police whether he wanted to be his slave.
Hang Jiabai told Lin Shuyue that Ye Xueyu and others would provide evidence to the procuratorate and demand that Hu Jiangrong be held accountable for insulting the police.
Lin Shuyue understood Ye Xueyu and the others' feelings very well. Any good person would be very angry if asked if he wanted to be a slave, just like Lin Shuyue and Wenying that night.
Now thinking back to what Hu Jiangrong said that night, Lin Shuyue still felt her head pounding. She only regretted that she had not killed him at the beginning and was too merciful.
Lin Shuyue turned around and called Hang Jiabai. Hang Jiabai couldn't leave, so Ye Xueyu and Jiang Zhou would go with her on this trip.
Wenying was wearing all black. Because she hadn't gotten enough rest these days, she put on some makeup to cover up her ugly complexion. Jiangzhou's car stopped in front of her, and Wenying said to Jiangzhou in the driver's seat: "Go to Huazhao Bank."
"Get in." Lin Shuyue waved at Wenying from the back seat.
After getting in the car, Jiangzhou drove to Huazhao Bank.
Huazhao Bank is a foreign-owned bank located on the busiest street in Pinghu District. Most of the people coming in and out of the bank are foreigners.
Some of them are blond-haired, blue-eyed European whites, while others are dark-skinned African blacks. There are many cafes on this street. Some good-looking men and women are reading or chatting in the open-air cafes on this street. They are all well-dressed and have outstanding temperament.
But Lin Shuyue knew that these people had other intentions than drinking. Their purpose is to get close to these foreigners or wealthy Chinese who frequent the fancy banks.
Such a scene would have been unimaginable and despised in Lin Shuyue's previous life. Because at that time the country was prosperous and strong, the domestic economy and facilities were far superior to those abroad, and every Chinese had a strong sense of national confidence.
But it is different now. After the blows of the past decade, the country has regressed greatly in all aspects. Even if their country has found the right direction of development later, it still has a long way to go to catch up with foreign countries. ‖
For some people today, the moon abroad is rounder than the one at home.
Every era has its own way of survival. Lin Shuyue will not feel superior to the people of this era just because she comes from the future, nor will she look down on anyone.
She would not particularly miss the high technology of her previous life, because she always believed that the day when China would stand on top of the world would come sooner or later.
Wenying led the three people into the hall. She took out a deposit slip and her identity information from her bag and showed them to the blond-haired and blue-eyed bank staff member wearing a black suit. The bank staff looked at the deposit slip, asked Wenying a few questions in authentic M-style English, then glanced at Lin Shuyue and the others, and led them to the door on the left side of the bank.
This was the first time for Lin Shuyue and the others to visit Huazhao Bank. The business model of Huazhao Bank was very different from that of domestic banks. They dared not say a word.
Wenying watched the staff holding the deposit receipts and checking them one by one in front of the boxes. Wenying, who had been silent all the way, finally spoke.
"I was sorting my things this morning, and suddenly I remembered that a few years ago, Zhong Jiali came back from a vacation in France and gave me a very, very ugly pendant."
“It’s this big.” Wen Ying clenched her fist and compared it to Lin Shuyue. “I thought she was humiliating me, so I just threw it on the bottom shelf of the dressing table. I never opened it to look at it.”
Wenying's relationship with Zhong Jiali was so bad that she found the things she gave her annoying, so the pendant was put aside for many years.
"Due to my own psychological reasons, I have never taken out this pendant to look at it for so many years. After I took it out today, I realized something was wrong. The pendant can be disassembled. After I took it apart, I found this deposit slip in the metal sheet at the bottom."
Wenying felt that her behavior in the past few days was very ridiculous. She was like a man who only knew how to cherish his love after losing it. She seemed possessed as she recalled every detail of her time with Zhong Jiali over the years.
Then she suddenly realized that all the quarrels between her and Zhong Jiali over the years were almost all caused by Zhong Jiasheng. He would provoke the anger of both of them first, and when they quarreled, he would successfully retreat and hide in the back to watch the fun.
After they seemed to have calmed down a bit, he started to add fuel to the fire. The reason why she was so angry was not mainly due to Zhong Jiali, but mainly because she felt disappointed that as Zhong Jiasheng's wife, he did not protect her.
If you think about it more carefully, what Zhong Jiali said was not excessive. In fact, in many cases, there was nothing wrong with what she said.
Wenying has become tired of using the phrase "a blindness" these days.
When Wenying found the big deposit slip in the mezzanine, she knew that perhaps what the police were looking for was in the safe deposit box of Huazhao Bank.
"Can anyone take out the things deposited in this trick bank?" Ye Xueyu asked from the side.
Wenying shook her head and said, "No, there are many thresholds. For example, the balance of M gold in the account must exceed 500,000 yuan, and when depositing money in the box, you must fill in the backup person who can open the box."
The exchange rate between M gold and RMB was very high in this era, and 500,000 M gold was already prohibitive for many ordinary people.
The fact that they can stand here means that when Zhong Jiali stored the box here, she had already filled in Wenying's identity information.
Wenying was in a trance this morning.
, that's why. She felt extremely uncomfortable because the more she thought about it, the more she discovered the good in Zhong Jiali. Every time this happened, she felt more and more guilty towards Zhong Jiali.
"Ms. Wen, these are the things Ms. Zhong stored here. Please sign here, put your fingerprints, and register your personal information." The blond-haired and blue-eyed staff member finally found the things that Zhong Jiali stored in a cabinet in the room.
"Okay," Wenying responded softly and registered on the form she brought. After writing her own information, she discovered that not far in front of her was the information registered by Zhong Jiali. The date was the day before her death.
Wenying felt her eyes getting hot. Lin Shuyue patted Wenying on the shoulder. Wenying turned to look at Lin Shuyue, pursed her lips, and tears fell.
"Let's go."
Now that this thing has been handed over to the police, it must be opened at the Public Security Bureau.
When Lin Shuyue and others arrived at the Public Security Bureau, Hang Jiabai was standing outside the gate smoking.
Lin Shuyue was slightly stunned. After knowing Hang Jiabai for so long, this was the first time she knew that Hang Jiabai smoked.
Ye Xueyu followed Lin Shuyue's gaze and saw the handsome face of their captain faintly visible in the smoke.
Ye Xueyu said: "Our captain must be under a lot of pressure."
Lin Shuyue turned to look at Ye Xueyu, who said, "Our captain smokes, but he doesn't hide his cigarettes. But if you see him smoking, it means he must be under a lot of pressure at the moment."
It goes without saying where Hang Jiabai's pressure comes from.
When Hang Jiabai saw Lin Shuyue, he put out his cigarette and threw it into the trash can in front of the Public Security Bureau. He subconsciously gave Lin Shuyue a flattering smile.
Lin Shuyue also smiled at her, and when following Wenying and the others in, Lin Shuyue secretly stuffed a fruit leather into Hang Jiabai's pocket.
This fruit leather is a flash sale product in the system mall. Just like the mint candy that Lin Shuyue bought a while ago, they are both failed works of an alchemist in the world of cultivation. It has no use other than replenishing some energy.
But that little bit of energy is nothing to those in the world of cultivation, but for a world without any elements of cultivation, its usefulness is still very large and obvious.
For example, now, after taking a piece of fruit leather, he always felt that his originally tense body was slightly relaxed. His exhausted nerves and aching head seemed to be soothed a little at this moment.
Lin Shuyue stood beside Hang Jiabai and asked in a low voice: "Does it feel sore? Do you feel refreshed?"
This fruit leather is really not sweet. When Lin Shuyue first got it, she still has psychological trauma after eating one. The reason why she said this was that she wanted to use the sour taste to cover up the special function of the fruit leather. After all, the sour taste can make people feel refreshed.
Hang Jiabai still had the aftertaste of the sour fruit leather in his mouth. He shook his head honestly: "It's not sour, it's quite sweet."
After hearing what Hang Jiabai said, Lin Shuyue took out a handful of fruit leather from the space under the cover of her backpack and gave it to Hang Jiabai.
"If you like it, I'll give it all to you. Take your time to eat it. If you don't have enough, ask me for more. I have a lot." Just like mint candy, this thing, there are several thousand kilograms. When Lin Shuyue bought them, she felt that she would not finish eating all the fruit leather even if she died.
"Okay." Hang Jiabai smiled and accepted the snacks that Lin Shuyue fed him. He rubbed his eyes and felt that his eyes, which had been stinging before, seemed to be more comfortable.
After entering the reception hall on the first floor of the Public Security Bureau, Lin Shuyue and the other person who had just been talking put away their smiles and became serious. lThe two went up to the second floor and Wenying had already been taken to the reception room.
Captain Zheng and Captain Guo of the Criminal Investigation Brigade have already arrived. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Wenying took a deep breath and entered her son's and daughter's birthdays on the combination lock of the box she took out from the bank.
Amid the sound of her heartbeat like a drum, the box opened with a click, and a camera and a stack of videotapes appeared in front of them.
Captain Zheng put on gloves, took out the camera, looked up and down, and lightly pressed the power button. A person appeared on the camera screen. It was Zhong Jiali. She was wearing red butterfly underwear, and her exposed skin was covered with crisscrossing scars.
There seemed to be no trace of pain on her face, and she was calm as if she was not the one who suffered so much injury.
She cleared her throat and said, "Wenying, sister-in-law, sister. If you see this camera I left behind, it means I am dead."
"Because only if I die, the police can find the diary I left for you, and you can crack my blog space from my diary. After that, you will definitely feel guilty. But don't feel guilty."
"They are all my choices. I accept both the good and the bad. This disc of mine contains all of Zhong Jiasheng's criminal records, as well as the criminal records of the owner, no, Hu Jiangrong. You can give it to the police."
"Sister Wenying, thank you for standing up for me and avenging me. I have already made all the plans for my afterlife, and you will definitely be able to see them on the blog space. But there is one more thing I want to ask of you. Please apologize to the women I have been with."
"I apologize for my previous harsh behavior and language."
"But I have no choice. If I didn't do that, I would have died a long time ago. In order to stay alive, I can only choose to let them down. I think I am letting them down, but I don't regret my choice. I think being alive is more important than anything else."
Lin Shuyue was slightly startled when she heard this, and then she suddenly remembered that Zhong Jiasheng was a male chauvinist, and Hu Jiangrong, who grew up in a family education that men are treasures and women are grass, was the best among male chauvinists.
Zhong Jiali is Hu Jiangrong's master, so it is normal for him to force the idea of looking down on women on Zhong Jiali. This would explain Zhong Jiali's fawning on men and her disdain for women.
Isn’t this a true reflection of Hu Jiangrong’s inner thoughts? Men are human beings, women are not human beings.
"I won't waste any more time. Let's look at the evidence. I hope this evidence can provide you with some new ideas."
"By the way, the Bailing Club I often go to is actually in the Wangfu community next to the Public Security Bureau. I won't tell you the exact location. I'll leave it to you to check. I'm very tired and I want to go to bed. It's great that I can sleep forever this time. I'm so tired."
"Sister Wenying, can you change my nephew's last name? If possible, please change the last name on my tombstone. I want to have my mother's last name." The picture on the camera ended here.
"Okay." Wenying's low, sad voice sounded in the reception room.
Hang Jiabai took out a stack of videotapes and put them into the VCD box in front of the reception room. A hazy sound of footsteps was heard, followed by painful voices one after another.
Finally, a picture appeared on the dark screen. It was a white operating room. A man in white protective clothing stood three steps away from the operating table, instructing another man in a calm voice.
"If we cut from here, we can remove all the tissues in this area."
"Okay, teacher." The man's voice came, and it was Hu Jiangrong.
Immediately afterwards, the buzzing sound of an electric saw was heard, and amid a scream of pain, a piece of the calf was sawed off, and blood splattered all over the ground.
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