However, just as Lin Xiaojuan finished speaking, she heard a scream from a resident on another floor of the building opposite.
"Two people! Two people hanged themselves on the 6th floor!!!"
The sound of the residents shouting was like a loud thunder, exploding in the nearby buildings.
Lin Xiaojuan was so frightened that her heart skipped a beat and she almost fell. In the end, it was Song Tianyuan who supported her and prevented her from falling.
"Two, two..." Lin Xiaojuan's lips turned pale. "Did both of them... commit suicide?"
Song Yue frowned and pulled the curtains shut: "Mom, don't stand by the window. You'll catch a cold easily."
Lin Xiaojuan slowly sat back on the sofa. After a long pause, she raised her head and asked, "Why is that...? The two children are still so young... What's there to be confused about?"
Although those two had caused trouble for my daughter before, after all, it was not a deep hatred and the crime did not deserve the death penalty.
Lin Xiaojuan didn't understand and kept muttering, "No wonder he looked so off today... Turns out... he'd been thinking about this for a long time."
The death of the Qiao brothers and sisters shocked Lin Xiaojuan greatly.
Song Yue and Song Tianyuan took turns comforting her for a long time before Lin Xiaojuan nodded and said she was fine.
"Mom, don't be perfunctory with me. If you feel uncomfortable at all, whether physically or mentally, you must tell me." Song Yue stood in front of her mother with a very serious expression.
Lin Xiaojuan had already started to feel depressed. If she hadn't intervened in time during the day and taken him out for some fresh air, his condition would have been even worse.
Seeing that Lin Xiaojuan's mood had been relieved during the day, and then such a sensational thing happened in the evening, Song Yue was worried that Lin Xiaojuan would be affected and depressed again.
Song Tianyuan was also worried about his wife. Sitting next to Lin Xiaojuan, he repeatedly emphasized, "Xiaoyue is right. If you feel uncomfortable, you must tell me as soon as possible. Don't hold it in. People will get sick if they hold it in. And you still have me here. If you are really unhappy, you can punch me twice to vent your anger!"
As Song Tianyuan spoke, he turned his back and deliberately showed it to Lin Xiaojuan.
Lin Xiaojuan slapped him in annoyance and laughed out loud: "Usually he's like a sullen jar, but now he knows how to coax people."
"Hehe, that's for your happiness~" Seeing her smile, Song Tianyuan also relaxed his brows and smiled.
The atmosphere eased and Song Yue secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
It’s not even 9 o’clock yet, but the neighborhood is brightly lit.
When Song Yue passed by the living room, she happened to see someone coming down the stairs from the building opposite. Three people wrapped in thick clothes were running out of the community.
Not long after, people in police uniforms and white coats were brought into the community.
It seems that a few kind-hearted people went to a nearby rescue point and called the police.
There were mixed sounds of footsteps downstairs, and soon, Song Yue heard someone coming up the stairs.
Bang bang bang, there was a knock on the door.
She had already turned off the heating and other electrical appliances in advance, waiting for the police to come. After hearing the knock on the door, she opened both doors.
Seeing that there were two gates installed in her house, the two policemen were stunned for a moment, quite surprised, but they returned to work in the next second and asked her a few questions in a businesslike manner.
Song Yue told her about how Qiao Yiyuan and Qiao Shanshan had been team leaders before and had invited her to join the team twice, and how they had run into each other during the day.
The two policemen finished taking notes, said thank you, and were about to leave.
Song Yue stopped them and said, "Could you please register one more deceased person?"
Without waiting for the other party to answer, she pointed to a room across the street and said, "Grandma Wang from 6-7-1 passed away at home three weeks ago. There were no children at home at the time of her death. The specific cause of death... probably frozen to death due to the cold..."
Her voice trailed off as her eyes dropped. The two policemen froze again, then stood at attention and saluted her. "Thank you for the information. We'll verify it later."
After seeing off the two policemen, Song Yue couldn't describe her feelings. Maybe she felt a little depressed?
But it was not the kind of boredom that Lin Xiaojuan felt from being locked up in one place for a long time, but rather a feeling of powerlessness.
Even if she was reborn and changed the fate of herself and her parents, she still couldn't protect other familiar people.
As the days passed, Song Yue took the two of them downstairs every day as she said.
The ice-breaking project was huge, and officials originally expected it to take 15 days to lay the foundation. However, the people were extremely supportive of their work and worked very hard. In the end, they completed the foundation work of the largest rescue point in the southern district of City C, a full 5 days ahead of schedule.
The subsequent work was much easier because the ice had already been chiseled and was ready. All we had to do was pile it on top and pour some water, and the wall would be formed immediately without having to wait.
Soon, the news that a large rescue point was about to be built spread to various communities in the southern district, and the Nanshan Road community where Song Yue lived also learned the news.
On the last day of ice-breaking work, everyone's faces were filled with joy.
When Lin Xiaojuan was loading ice cubes, she was recognized by an acquaintance from the same community. They greeted her and the two chatted briefly.
When talking about the Qiao brothers and sisters downstairs, Song Yue listened in with a second ear.
"I have a relative who is a police officer, and he asked me about it when we met that day."
"Well, these two kids are pretty miserable. They're two orphans, without a father or a mother. They've been relying on each other since they were little."
"I worked so hard to buy a house on the sixth floor and was about to live a good life, but then a natural disaster happened. What the hell is going on?"
Lin Xiaojuan listened very carefully and nodded repeatedly in agreement.
Seeing this, the acquaintance continued: "My relative said that they found a suicide note in the bedroom of that sister, Qiao Shanshan."
"She said her hard work wasn't recognized by the community, and she felt worthless and that her existence had no meaning. So, she hanged herself in her bedroom that night."
"Her brother must have discovered it later. It's really scary. There was such a dead person in the house, but her brother didn't say a word and lived with the dead person for more than half a month."
"Maybe he had a mental breakdown and hanged himself in the living room. He left the lights on before he died, and the phone call that night clearly showed the two bodies hanging in the bedroom and living room."
"Oh my god, I get goose bumps just talking about this. Forget it, let's not talk about this anymore. Xiaojuan, you go ahead and do your work. I'm going to help the old man."
Lin Xiaojuan said hurriedly: "Okay, go ahead and do your work."
After seeing off the acquaintance, she shook her head with some regret: "I didn't expect it to be like this... Hey, how could these two kids be so upset over such a small thing? They're too fragile mentally."
Song Yue tactfully retorted, "Mom, you can't say that. Everyone's psychological endurance is different. The same thing, when put on different people, will definitely produce different effects."
It was as if they were all locked up at home. Dad Song Tianyuan acted as if nothing had happened, but mom Lin Xiaojuan became more and more depressed, even affecting her sleep at night.
Lin Xiaojuan nodded thoughtfully: "Okay, that's the truth."
After she finished speaking, she suddenly remembered something and glared at Song Yue with a serious face: "Daughter, you can't be like the Qiao brothers and sisters! Writing suicide notes at every turn, I, your mother, can't bear the pain! If anything happens to you, I will die too."
"Hey, Lin Xiaojuan, what are you talking about?" Song Tianyuan stood nearby, speechless. "Our Xiaoyue is so capable, how could she be the same as the Qiao brothers and sisters? What are you talking about, life or death? Pah, pah, pah, how unlucky!"
"Yes, yes, look at my mouth, I'm talking nonsense." Lin Xiaojuan rarely admitted her mistake and nodded continuously.
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