Chapter 58
“Ding-ling-ling! Ding-ling-ling!!”
The phone rang quickly, Jiaqi looked down and saw it was Chengcheng!
She frowned, quickly swiped the answer button, and put the phone to her ear: "Hello? Orange?"
Suddenly, Cheng Cheng's uncontrollable sobbing could be heard from the microphone! The sobbing sounded fragmented, interspersed with intense gasps and coughs that were almost enough to make her breathless, as if she would suffocate in the next second.
"Jia Qi... wuu ...
"What!"
"Three million?"
Jiaqi widened her eyes, a look of disbelief on her face.
Facing Kexin's inquiring face, Jiaqi moved the microphone away and simply repeated in a low voice, "Chengcheng's ex-husband is in debt of three million yuan and is crying out for help!"
Ke Xin immediately understood what was going on. Nowadays, in many divorce cases, many husbands maliciously owe money in order to lock their ex-wives down, or to create malicious debts and get something for nothing, and their behavior is ugly.
Ke Xin thought calmly, took Jia Qi's microphone and asked, "Wait, they're already divorced, how could they be in debt?"
After the divorce, they no longer have any legal relationship. Even if they are husband and wife, they cannot pay off each other's debts without a signature!
Hearing this, the microphone was silent for a few seconds, and then a sad voice came from Chengcheng: "...My name is in the guarantor column. That's the name I signed before marriage. I didn't know the consequences would be so serious at the time. I didn't understand anything, and I inexplicably took on half of his debt. This is without interest. If I can't pay it back, the interest will keep rolling in... Now...now the loan sharks are here... saying... saying they have 1.5 million... and they want to... charge it to me... I'm done... I'm really done, Jiaqi... They're going to kill me... They're going to take away the ball... What should I... Wuuuuuu..."
Chengcheng's voice had completely changed in tone. Every word sounded like a cry of blood and tears squeezed out with the last bit of strength in his life. The frightened cry of Little Ball could be faintly heard in the background.
Faintly, I could still hear the little ball sobbing softly, saying, "Don't be afraid, Mom. At worst, I can pay it back when I grow up and earn money!"
After hearing this, Jiaqi could only hold her forehead with her hand, her worldview shattered as she exclaimed, "How could this bastard be so shameless? Not only did he harm a woman, he also made her bear a huge debt for bearing his child!"
She subconsciously clenched her fists and said with emotion, "I never thought that the bizarre case that I could only see on the news would actually happen to her!"
"You said I have a child, how can I pay such a large sum of money? I'm a single mother with a child. Now I finally have a stable job, but I can only save 3,000 to 5,000 yuan a month in the province. How long will it take me to pay back this money?"
"I might as well go kill that bastard. I don't want to live anymore anyway!"
A compassionate voice came from the microphone.
"Chengcheng! Chengcheng, listen to me! Calm down! Please calm down!" Jiaqi's voice trembled with anxiety as she shouted into the microphone, beads of cold sweat oozing from her forehead. "That bastard is clearly trying to drag you down with him! He's going to wipe out your entire family! What good will you get by fighting him now? He's capable of such a heartless act. He's not even a human being! Call the police! Yes! Call the police!"
On the other end of the phone, Chengcheng's crying suddenly became louder and turned into a hysterical, almost insane scream. She could not hear anything at all, and just kept repeating neurotically, her voice full of destruction: "...There is no way out...There is no way to survive...We can't let him succeed...We can't let him get away with it...We have to die...We have to die together...We have to die together..." In the background, the child's crying became more shrill, and the sound of banging on the door turned into a terrible bang!
Then, an extremely harsh, teeth-grinding brake sound, like metal scraping against the ground, pierced through the receiver! Followed by an indistinct, short scream of extreme terror!
"Chengcheng?! Chengcheng! Where are you?! Don't be stupid! Hello?! Hello?! Speak!" Jiaqi's heart suddenly sank to the bottom of a cold valley, and the blood in her body seemed to freeze in an instant! She shouted at the top of her lungs into the microphone, but there was only chaotic noise and... a heart-wrenching silence!
The living room was deserted, leaving only the remnants of cold food, still emitting warmth. The door to the children's room was closed, and Aunt Fang's gentle lullaby drifted faintly. Through the crack of the study door, the background sound of Fang Huai playing games continued.
At this moment, the door of the master bedroom was suddenly pushed open!
Fang Huai had been standing at the doorway without him noticing, his gaming headset casually removed and hanging loosely. The relaxed, homely expression of a homeboy had vanished, replaced by the sharp, stern gaze of a criminal police officer.
Seeing the originally cheerful atmosphere in front of them suddenly changed because of a phone call!
"What happened?" His voice was low, a characteristic of his profession. Once he sensed a crisis, he would carry an unquestionable sense of authority and oppression!
Jiaqi briefly repeated a few sentences, and Fang Huai immediately understood. He immediately asked, "So, your friend might be in danger. Do you know her location?"
As he spoke, he put on his vest jacket neatly, looking ready to go.
After hearing this, Ke Xin was shocked and said, "Yeah, I just heard a few shouts on the phone, and one of them was her ex-husband's voice. His ex-husband is a desperado!"
Jiaqi picked up her phone and looked through Chengcheng's chat history: "I saw she sent the location, it's her ex-husband's place, let's go there quickly!"
"good!"
After responding, several people followed Fang Huai out the door.
Jiaqi didn't even have time to grab her bag, she quickly put on her shoes and followed closely behind.
Fang Huai's efficiency was surprisingly high. When Ke Xin and Jia Qi just arrived at the yard downstairs, his car had already started. After waiting for the two to get in the car, he drove towards the destination without stopping for a second.
It took half an hour to reach their destination. The atmosphere in the car was oppressive and dull. Jiaqi rolled down the window to get some fresh air. She laughed dryly and suddenly thought: "Fang Huai, do you deal with cases like this every day at work?"
Fang Huai stared straight ahead intently. Upon hearing Jiaqi's question, he quickly hummed "hmm," then said, "My work is complex, but I've come across quite a few cases like this!"
Ke Xin was curious for a moment and asked, "So your mental qualities are generally quite strong!"
Fang Huai curled his lips and said calmly, "Of course. In our line of work, we encounter cases of serial murder, corpse dumping, torture, and conspiracy, and there are countless of them!"
After hearing this, Jiaqi shrank her neck and rubbed her hands. Kexin nodded slightly in agreement: "In that case, Chengcheng's case is nothing compared to yours!"
Fang Huai didn't answer immediately. After a moment's silence, he slowly said, "Yes and no. For example, behind every major crime are countless small things that pile up together. You may usually turn a blind eye to them, but when a serious incident actually occurs, it's already too late to regret. That's why many criminals or victims always slap their thighs and say, "It's too late to regret if I had known earlier!"
"It's like many people are going further and further down the wrong path, but they still keep deceiving themselves with a sense of luck, and when things go wrong, all sorts of vicious crimes happen!"
Ke Xin questioned this, "But Chengcheng just chose the path of marriage. In fact, it's not just Chengcheng, countless women have entered marriage, thinking they were dressing up to attend the beautiful world, but unexpectedly, they were dressed up to rush into the hell of the world. What do you think of this?"
Ke Xin felt anxious when she thought of countless women suffering in dire straits in their marriages, yet having to carry all kinds of burdens in this environment where they had no relatives and were abandoned by everyone. Just because they got married and had a child, they had to suffer all kinds of unexpected disasters or end up in vicious cases. She was able to divorce smoothly because Weijie had evidence in his hand, but even more excessive and disgusting situations were happening every moment.
She simply couldn't imagine how women like her, who were born in the lower class, would escape when they encountered such a situation without good looks, education, or support from their parents.
Jiaqi nodded in agreement when she heard this. "Yeah, there are so many wife-killing and child abuse cases in the news right now. There are also stupid women committing suicide because of their cheating husbands, and husbands pushing their children down the stairs because of their mistresses. There are so many of them." She shrugged as she spoke. "To be honest, my fear of marriage is mostly because of these things!"
"Well, if I hadn't met such a good man like Fu Xuan, I would definitely not want to remarry!" Ke Xin agreed repeatedly.
But these words were inexplicably subtle. When people listened to them, they felt like unexpected dog food, and there was also a hint of Versailles.
Fang Huai, however, expressed a different viewpoint: "Actually, aside from unavoidable accidents, regarding man-made cases like this, I think, and this is just my opinion," Fang Huai said modestly, "As the saying goes, one willing to fight, the other willing to be beaten. No one is the victim of anyone else; it's all cause and effect."
"All we can do is to help maintain social peace, making a society that is originally filled with greed, anger, ignorance, arrogance and suspicion appear more stable and harmonious. But this superficial harmony can never stop the evil that surges beneath the surface."
This topic was too profound. Jiaqi always felt a headache after hearing such abstruse words. She didn't think much about it for a moment, and her eyes fell on the ever-changing scenery outside the window.
Ke Xin fell into deep thought. As she pondered, she gave examples like a matrix, "So, all evil can be traced back to its source. For example, why did Cheng Cheng meet the vicious Liu Yong? Because she was only 18 years old and left home to work. Why did she drop out of school to work? Because her family was poor, her parents were not valued, or because she had older brothers and sisters at home!"
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