Chapter 963 If it were Shiqiu, what would you do?
Su Yi's words made Captain Feng feel greatly relieved.
"Okay! Doctor Su, please make arrangements immediately! Make sure the child is safe and emotionally stable!" Captain Feng said in a deep voice on the phone.
Then he looked at the police officer next to him, "Contact the police station immediately and request assistance! We will leave overnight!"
Captain Feng acted decisively and deployed quickly.
"Captain Feng, thank you for your hard work. If you need anything, please feel free to contact us." Xiao Shiqiu shook hands with Captain Feng.
"Don't worry, we will take care of it." Captain Feng nodded and looked at me with complicated eyes. "Ms. Xia, take care of yourself and your mother."
I smiled at him and said, "You can call me Mrs. Xiao from now on."
Captain Feng was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "You two are already married? Congratulations!"
Xiao Shiqiu's face showed a smile as bright as spring breeze. "First, I'll get a certificate. At least it will give me a name. I hope you all will come to the wedding."
After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Captain Feng and his team began to busy themselves with the procedures to prepare to go to City A to carry out the arrest.
When I walked out of the criminal police team, it was already late at night and Xiao Yang's car was waiting quietly by the roadside.
"Wife, this is the first time you have emphasized to others that you are Mrs. Xiao." Xiao Shiqiu's eyes were full of smiles, and he could not hide his joy.
I also laughed. I don't know why I suddenly said this to Captain Feng. It seemed that I had already accepted Mrs. Xiao's identity very well.
When we got home, the lights in the living room were still on. Aunt Wang and my cousins were sitting on the sofa watching TV. When they saw us, my cousin happily rushed over and said, "Sister! Brother-in-law! You're back! Have you eaten yet?"
Aunt Wang also happily got up from the sofa and went to the kitchen, "Why are you back so suddenly? I'll go make you something to eat."
"Auntie Wang, don't bother. Just make two bowls of noodles. Instant noodles will do." I put on my slippers and sat down on the sofa feeling a little tired.
I had just sat down when my mother came back. We tacitly agreed not to mention what happened today.
After a simple meal, I chatted with the two children for a while and then let them go to bed.
My mother also went straight back to her room.
"Wait for me in my room first. I'm going to talk to my mom in her room."
He nodded, "Okay, go back to the room early."
I walked into my mother's bedroom. She had just finished washing up and was sitting in front of the dressing table, staring at the mirror in a daze.
After removing the strong shell of the day, fatigue and fragility are clearly visible.
"Mom." I closed the door gently.
She turned around, her eyes questioning.
I sat down beside her bed, took a deep breath, and told her everything that happened in the criminal police team tonight, Wang Gensheng's confession, Ye Qiwen's motive, and the arrest operation that the police were about to take.
It was emphasized that the root cause of my father's car accident was Ye Qiwen's twisted hatred and greed for property, not entirely because she filed for divorce. She just gave my father an opportunity to drive back.
My mother listened quietly without interrupting. When she heard the details and motives of Ye Qiwen's hiring a killer, her eyes were filled with shock and anger.
But when she heard the last sentence, 'It's not entirely because of her', I clearly saw her tense shoulders relax a little, and the guilt that had been weighing on her for most of the day finally got a sigh of relief.
"I see." She was silent for a long time before she uttered these three words, her voice a little hoarse. "Thank you for coming back to tell me this."
The room fell into a brief silence. I looked at my mother's haggard profile and finally couldn't help asking a question that had been lingering in my mind: "Mom, if... I mean if, Dad makes it this time and survives, will you... still divorce him?"
My mother's body stiffened noticeably. She didn't answer immediately, but turned her head slowly, her eyes unfocused into the void.
After a long, long time, so long that I thought she wouldn't answer, she finally spoke in an unusually calm tone: "Mengmeng, you heard what your uncle Chen said.
In addition to lung contusion and spleen rupture, your father also has a lumbar fracture.
Even if…even if he could crawl back from the brink of death…” She paused, “It’s very likely that he…would be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.”
Her words made me stare at her blankly. It was like a basin of ice water was poured on me, making me shiver all over.
She turned her head and looked straight at me with an almost cruel clarity: "In this situation, tell me, as a daughter, do you think Mom should...get a divorce?"
I don't know what to say. Should I say my dad deserves it? I can't do that! I have a better relationship with my dad than with my mom.
But not leaving? That's so unfair to Mom!
My father betrayed her during their marriage. Why should she be asked to stay with him even under such circumstances? I can't use moral blackmail on my mother!
But supporting her divorce would be so cruel to my father. I knew very well that he had never thought of divorcing my mother. The reason why he was in a hurry to come back was that he didn't want to divorce my mother.
Now he is facing lifelong disability and his wife is leaving him. I don’t know what a blow this must be to him.
This dilemma tore me apart. I opened my mouth, but couldn't utter a word.
Seeing my tangled look, my mother's eyes were complicated. She suddenly asked a question that caught me off guard: "Mengmeng, what if it was Shiqiu?"
I looked up suddenly.
"If it were Shiqiu," my mother's voice was soft, but it hit my heart like a hammer. "If one day, he became like this because of an accident or illness, and needed your constant care, it could be a year, or ten years, or even a lifetime... would you leave him?"
"Won't!"
I blurted out the words almost the moment she finished speaking, with absolute certainty and without a trace of hesitation.
This answer seems to be a belief deep in the soul, with unquestionable firmness.
I've never been so sure of my heart.
"No matter what he becomes, as long as he is still here, I will not leave him! I will always be with him and take care of him until... until the end." When I said this, I could feel the piety in my heart.
My mother looked at me for a long time, and suddenly she smiled. The smile was very faint, with a hint of clarity that came from having experienced many vicissitudes of life.
She reached out and gently stroked my cheek with her fingertips, a tenderness I barely remembered.
"During the years I've been with your dad, I've always been very proud. I feel like he's not worthy of me, and he thinks so too.
I was the campus belle when I was in college, and many boys liked me.
And he didn't even go to college.
But I know he is the one who loves me the most, even though he is not romantic at all and never says anything nice, but I am sure that he loves me. "
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