Chapter 32 The Cause of Chen Dahua's Death
Unable to utter a single word, Lin Yuesha's vision blurred, and she vaguely saw her stepbrother Xiao Qi rushing towards her.
Then, the rope was cut, and Lin Yuesha fell into a slender but warm embrace.
"It's over so quickly?"
When Lin Yuesha opened her mouth, she found that her voice was extremely hoarse and her throat was swollen and painful to speak.
"Don't talk, take a deep breath."
Xiao Qi held his little sister in his arms and whispered.
Lin Yuesha nodded obediently, and her uncle's family all gathered around, while Chen Xiaohua cried incessantly.
In fact, the process was much shorter than she had imagined, and Lin Yuesha didn't suffer too much, even though she thought it would be a long and torturous process.
"this……"
The leading official was too embarrassed to say it was too short a time, after all, the little girl was Xiao Shusheng's sister, and no one could bear to part with her.
The coroner stepped on the stone and immediately discovered the problem.
In a very short time, the bark around the tree was completely worn away, and in one place, a deep groove was worn out.
Lin Yuesha was not as tall as Chen Dahua and was also lighter. If Chen Dahua had committed suicide, the bark would not have been rubbed off in such a long process.
Therefore, this verifies the fact that Chen Dahua was strangled and then hung from the tree.
"She couldn't have strangled herself; Chen Dahua was murdered."
The officials and the coroner quickly reached a conclusion, and the villagers were in an uproar.
Unlike before, this time, Gou Dan's mother also spoke up, "Officer, we've watched Da Hua grow up, she couldn't possibly have any enemies!"
"Yes, how could this girl have been harmed? Did someone have malicious intentions?"
The villagers had a different idea than before. They believed that someone had taken a liking to Chen Dahua's beauty, so they used force on her, and then, not feeling safe, killed her.
The villagers were all grim after such a tragedy, and those with daughters were filled with worry for their little ones.
The leading officer raised his hand to silence everyone, then turned to Chen Tieniu and Wang Jinhua, his tone this time extremely formal.
"Since Chen Dahua has no enemies, how is she doing in her husband's family?"
Chen Dahua's man, Ma Laosan, has not shown up yet. He doesn't even know how to look for his lost woman? This is quite suspicious.
“Our Da Hua has been married for over a year and rarely goes back to her parents’ home. She’s afraid her mother-in-law won’t like it.”
Speaking of her eldest daughter, Wang Jinhua kept wiping away tears. She didn't know how her daughter was doing in her husband's family.
Every time he saw Da Hua, he could only catch a glimpse of her from afar or exchange a few words with her. Chen Da Hua always reported good news and never bad.
Therefore, Wang Jinhua was not entirely sure either.
"I know."
Chen Xiaohua stepped forward; her mother didn't know, but she was better informed.
Chen Xiaohua knew a relative of the Ma family, who was like a close friend to her. This relative told her that when she visited the Ma family, she saw the eldest sister being chased and beaten by her mother-in-law.
The reason is simple: Chen Dahua had been married for over a year but had not conceived, and was scolded by Ma Laosan's mother as a barren hen.
Upon hearing this, Wang Jinhua couldn't help but burst into tears.
Wang Jinhua knew that her eldest daughter had never conceived after marrying into the Ma family. That's why she never went to the Ma family, for fear that her mother-in-law would cause trouble for her daughter.
Of the three unfilial acts, the greatest is having no offspring. More than a year has passed, and Wang Jinhua herself is getting anxious. She is even thinking of going to the county after the New Year to inquire if there are any old doctors who can prescribe medicine to take Dahua's pulse.
"It's all my fault as a mother! For the sake of saving face..."
Wang Jinhua slapped herself and knelt on the ground, wailing.
These days, once a woman marries, she's considered "water spilled out" (meaning she's no longer part of her family). The only time she can truly relax is when she's at her parents' home.
Unfortunately, the villagers almost universally favored sons over daughters, and the girls in the family had to take on most of the work before they got married.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
