Chapter 226 She Has Repaid All Her Debts
Zhou Mingqing's wife Wang Pan'er didn't know that her husband had been arrested for murder.
She was beaten by Zhou Mingqing, and it took her a long time to recover in the bedroom before she could climb onto the bed.
Besides her daughter, Zhou Lanhua, she and Zhou Mingqing had three sons, two of whom were married, and the youngest, now eighteen, was still single. This made her a complete family, with both sons and daughters. But when she and Zhou Mingqing started fighting, no one intervened, and even now, no one even looked after her.
The youngest, Zhou Shudong, was running in the river at the time. The older Zhou Shuchun and Zhou Shuqiu knew it was her shameless behavior that Zhou Mingqing had been brooding over for years, which was why they were always fighting. He used to try to persuade them, but after a while, he just didn't bother to. He thought they wouldn't kill each other anyway.
They also have women, so they naturally know that their women can only be with them. If they are with others, they will probably hate and be more angry than Zhou Mingqing, their father.
Wang Pan'er slept soundly in bed all night, not even realizing Zhou Mingqing hadn't come into the room. Even someone sleeping in the bed didn't know, let alone his son and daughter-in-law.
The only one who knew was Zhou Lanhua. She hadn't slept half the night, hoping that the man would be taken away by the armed forces and never come back. In the middle of the night, she finally closed her eyes because she couldn't bear it anymore. There was no movement outside. She thought, this time he probably won't come back!
In this way, there will be peace at home and she will feel at peace.
It was Zhou Minghong who came to the house to report that Zhou Mingqing had been arrested.
Brothers Zhou Shuchun and Zhou Shuqiu were slightly stunned. Before they could say anything, Zhou Shudong started yelling, "That idiot has been dead for over a year. It was that female educated youth who did it. Everyone in the team knows it. How come it's my dad who's been accused of murdering someone now? Why did my dad kill him? If he wanted to kill him, he would have done it long ago. Why did he have to keep him around and burden us all these years?"
Hearing his voice, Wang Paner dragged her body, which was in so much pain that it felt like it was about to fall apart, down from the ground and reached the door.
Zhou Minghong didn't know how to start. He had just learned about the things that happened between Zhou Mingqing and Zhou Shazi. He glanced at Wang Pan'er. He vaguely remembered that his sister-in-law was pretty when she was young, but decades later, her sons had married and her grandchildren had grown up. She was old after all. Tortured by life and by his eldest brother, she no longer looked like her before. Not even a trace of her could be seen. Her hair was gray, her face was covered with wrinkles and spots, and her eyes had become tearful because of constant crying. Sooner or later, they were red and never dry. She was skinny and there was no trace of her former self.
Zhou Minghong remembered that when she entered the family, the country had not yet been liberated. Life was very difficult. Their parents were incompetent and could barely make ends meet. The whole family shivered in the middle of winter wrapped in straw mats. They only had one pair of pants, and whoever went out wore them. Those who stayed at home wrapped themselves in straw mats.
It is not easy to find a wife.
His shameless old father had half-truthed about it, but honestly, it was hard to say, so it was better for the three brothers to just say it, rather than dying of drought or flood. At least be a man and know what a woman is like.
Saying this in front of his sons was the most shameless thing to do.
Zhou Minghong thought about it now and felt that those words had sown the seeds of disaster.
Zhou Shazi was not stupid at that time. He was the youngest among three brothers, and he probably took what he said to heart.
Zhou Minghong couldn't figure out whether this was true or not. He looked at Zhou Shuchun and Zhou Shuqiu and said, "This is something that happened between generations ago. We have witnesses and evidence. I'm afraid he won't be able to get out this time. If you want to go see him, I'll find a way to find out. I'll also pack up his clothes and other things at home and send them over. He's currently being held at the County Public Security Bureau. He should be sent to the city soon. By then, it will be difficult to see him."
Deng Hongjuan's murder at that time and Zhou Mingqing's murder now are two completely different things.
Deng Hongjuan said at that time that a fool attacked her and she was just resisting legitimately. Regardless of whether the higher-ups believed it or not, someone died and she was responsible, so she was sentenced.
As for Zhou Mingqing, this was intentional murder. He first disabled the person and then took his life when the person was unable to fight back. Not only should he be sentenced, but even Zhou Mingqing, who did not have much education, could imagine that he would probably be shot.
Killing someone means paying with your life, that is an eternal truth.
Wang Pan'er was trembling there, and kept trembling, and didn't say a word for a long time.
It’s all injustice!
Zhou Shuchun thought for a long time before saying, "Then Shuqiu and I will go and see him." After all, he gave birth to them, so even if he is a murderer, he is still their father.
Zhou Minghong nodded: "Okay, I'll go back first. When you're done packing, come and call me, and I'll go with you."
There was nothing much to pack, just a few sets of clothes for him to change into, for winter and summer, which Wang Paner packed for him, as well as the money and tickets he had saved, which Wang Paner stuffed in when no one was paying attention.
Zhou Shuchun stood at the door for a long time before asking her, "Are you going to see him? This might be the only time you'll see him in your life."
Wang Paner shook her head: "He wouldn't want to see me. If you can see him, please tell him for me that I am sorry for him in this life, and in the next life--" In the end, she couldn't say the words that she would work like a slave to repay him in the next life.
This life is enough for her.
At first, she was unwilling, but she couldn't win!
Zhou Shuchun looked at her coldly, took the bag and turned away.
Wang Pan'er stood at the door in a daze, tears streaming down her wrinkled face. She really wanted to shed all her tears in this life.
As she cried, she started to laugh.
Whether Zhou Mingqing is sentenced to labor reform or executed, we will never see him again.
She should be free.
Zhou Mingqing was arrested just as Wang Paner died.
He found a brown rope and hung himself on the beam.
No one knew who spread the rumor, but they heard the sound when the stool was kicked at the two daughters-in-law of the Zhou family, but no one went in to take a look. When Zhou Lanhua went in to see her mother, she was hanging on a rope, swinging like a swing, with her tongue sticking out and hard.
Wen Wan really couldn't understand why Wang Pan'er would hang herself when she no longer had a man like Zhou Mingqing and her children were all grown up?
She even took the rope from home and put it around her neck, which scared Lu Dongping so much that he said, "Are you crazy? Why are you putting a rope around your neck?"
Wen Wan laughed playfully, "I just want to know if it's uncomfortable to be strangled? Isn't it more uncomfortable than being alive? Zhou Mingqing is gone, and no one beats her anymore. Her children are all grown up, and she's endured all these years, and now she's finally made it. Why would she hang herself?" She laughed until she couldn't laugh anymore. She had been here for almost two years, and she had seen more than she had seen in the previous decade or so. Desperate women came one after another. First, Chen Xiuping killed her entire family with rat poison, and now Wang Pan'er hanged herself.
Human life is sometimes as thin as paper and can withstand a single blow.
Lu Dongping sighed, "Actually, it's a good thing she's dead. They say a good death is worse than a miserable life, and she's been living a miserable life for almost twenty years. She's been stabbed by Zhou Mingqing's blunt knife for so many years. Now that Zhou Mingqing has been arrested, the whole story has been exposed, and the fig leaf has been completely torn off. Even without Zhou Mingqing's torture, her life will be difficult. After so many years, there's still no end in sight. Death is the only way to be relieved."
Wen Wan pinched the needle and thread in her hand, and after a while she said, "So, you can't make do with life. If you can get by, get by. If you can't, then break up. We only have this one chance to live, so why bother yourself?"
The most important thing is that even if you suffer grievances, you may not necessarily get perfection.
"Lu Dongping, I now realize that the people here are really quite scary. I was not very knowledgeable before and thought too highly of people's hearts."
Lu Dongping frowned: "Why do you suddenly say that?"
Wen Wan argued with him seriously, "Lu Changgui's family schemed against the educated youth, taking advantage of Chen Xiuping and treating her like an animal. Zhou Mingqing's wife was taken advantage of, and she wanted to divorce him, but she felt it would be difficult to find another one after that. The child had no one to take care of him, so they kept him there and tortured him every other day. Also, your team, everyone says Zhang Yongmin and his family who live in the cowshed are bad people, but do you know what evil deeds they have done? Have they actually done anything to harm the collective or others? They just follow the crowd, fooling around and enjoying humiliating others."
"I used to think the conditions here were bad and life was hard, but now—" The good impression was gradually eroded.
Zhang Yongmin's family, in particular, was in a situation very similar to Old Wen's. When she saw these people on the team sending people to PD for no reason, targeting and ostracizing them during work, and treating them as if they were not human beings, she thought of Old Wen and wondered if he would be like this in Gaotai.
It is said that man is inherently good at birth.
Where is kindness? Why can't she see it!
Lu Dongping felt confused for a moment when he heard her words. He was not used to Wen Wan being like this.
He reached out and rubbed her head. "Don't overthink it. No matter if it's Lu Changfa's family or Zhou Mingqing's family, they all ended up in a bad way. It shows that people should be kind, otherwise they will only suffer the consequences. As for Zhang Yongmin's family, I think I understand what you mean. The current situation is like this, everyone is pushing the wall to fall. Don't pay too much attention to them, it's not good for you. I can't control what others do, but in the future, when there are struggle sessions, I will try my best to let the people in my family go. If you can avoid it, don't go. If you do, stand farther away."
He knew something about Zhang Yongmin's family, although not all, but he knew much more than the other members of the team. Zhang Yongmin was a professor at a university, and his son was also a teacher. Lu Dongping didn't know what professor meant, but he knew it was a scholar, the kind who held a pen.
He wasn't entirely sure how he was sent down, but he felt that a family of intellectuals couldn't possibly commit such heinous acts. If they had done anything truly evil, they should have been sent to a labor camp or executed long ago.
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