Chapter 020 Jinjiang Debut
"You...you can stand up?"
Li Mengmei looked at her daughter as if she was watching a miracle, and was completely stunned. Then she realized that her daughter could stand up, which meant that what Bai Mian said was true. She instantly became furious, strode forward, and slapped her daughter hard.
"Can you stand up now? When you were doing rehabilitation in the hospital, with so many doctors and nurses surrounding you, you couldn't stand up no matter how hard you tried! You damned girl, it turns out you have been lying to us all along, playing tricks on your parents. Do you think it's fun?"
He Jing loudly lectured his daughter: "He Huashan, you really went too far. For so many years, just because of a prank of yours, we have been worried about you and I have to sell my house and car. Are you a three-year-old child? You have to compensate me for my house and car!"
The onlookers also came forward and started to accuse He Huashan. Facing the accusations from everyone, He Huashan did not make any excuses. She just stood there motionless with a sneer on her face:
"Yes, I am not sick. I poisoned myself. But maybe I have been sick for a long time. I have been sick since the first time I walked into my home in the city and saw my sister."
"Speaking of her sister, there is actually one more thing," Bai Mian asked He Huashan, "Do you want to tell me yourself, or should I tell you for you?"
Seeing that He Huashan had no intention of speaking, Bai Mian said, "Her sister's death—"
"It wasn't an accident."
As soon as the words came out, even the air in the store became several degrees colder. Lame Brother shuddered. Li Mengmei stared at He Huashan in an instant, as if she had guessed something.
"No way, does she hate her sister so much that she wants, wants to..." He Jing stuttered several times and still couldn't say the word.
"She hated me so much that she wanted to kill her own sister." Bai Mian took over his words, "For so many years, you have always believed that the water heater exploded because it was old. In fact, it was because He Huashan secretly turned off the pressure relief valve of the water heater before her sister took a bath, and then secretly turned it back after the incident. You were only concerned about sending your little daughter to the hospital at the time and didn't notice this detail at all, let alone think that a fourteen-year-old girl would have such a mind."
Everyone present gasped. Bai Mian continued, "During the days when my sister was in the hospital, she witnessed how well you took care of her. It was from that time that she had the idea of pretending to be sick to attract your attention, so she went to buy medicine online."
Before Bai Mian could finish, Li Mengmei grabbed He Huashan's neck tightly and shouted at the top of her lungs: "How can you be so vicious? Give my daughter back to me!"
Fearing that someone might die, Lame Brother hurriedly stopped Li Mengmei. After catching his breath, He Huashan touched the red marks on his neck and face, and a hoarse laugh came from his throat:
"Haha, what about you, mom? How can you be so partial? From childhood to adulthood, you always force me to give my sister something she likes. Why should I give it to her? I am also your daughter, but because of her, I am like an outsider in this family!"
Li Mengmei retorted without thinking: "Because you are the elder sister, you are older than your younger sister, so of course you should give in to her!"
He Huashan smiled grimly and said, "What about me? Has anyone cared about my feelings? Has anyone ever asked me if I want to be this sister?"
"Because I'm your elder sister, you take it for granted that you ignore everything about me! Every time it's her birthday, you make a big fuss, but for my birthday, you can't even remember the date! When we go shopping, you only care about what she likes, but I can only be responsible for carrying her bags! No matter what my younger sister does, you just laugh it off, but if I make a small mistake, you will give me the cold shoulder. You will carefully frame her handicrafts on the wall, but you can only forget my certificate for getting first place in the class in the drawer. If you were me, would you be willing to accept this?!"
Li Mengmei was stunned. She had never known that her eldest daughter had so much grievance and resentment in her heart. However, she could not admit that she was biased in front of so many people, so she gritted her teeth and said:
"I'm nice to your sister because she's a child. How can you compete with a child?"
He Huashan immediately asked, "What about when I was little? When I was this age and needed your love and care, where were you?"
Li Mengmei was at a loss for words. She said with an embarrassed look on her face, "Okay, even if I'm wrong, we used to be a very happy family. I remember you were an obedient and sensible child. Sometimes you would take the initiative to give your things to your sister without your mother asking. Why have you changed now?"
"Bullshit!" He Huashan said sarcastically, "I don't even want to be a sensible child! I was just pretending. I pretended to be humble and friendly just to make you like me!"
Li Mengmei took a deep breath, covered her face with both hands, rubbed her face hard, and her eyes were red. "Daughter, Dad and Mom did a lot of things wrong, but you could have communicated with us properly. Why did you take such an extreme approach? There is no deep hatred between you and your sister, so why would you kill someone?"
A cold light flashed in He Huashan's eyes. "No, Mom, you forced me to kill someone. Remember the earthquake that year? We lived on the third floor, and Dad went to work the night shift. You, me and my sister slept in the same bed. You were a light sleeper, and you woke up when the house started to shake. After waking up, you ran downstairs holding your sister in your arms, completely ignoring my life or death."
"Fortunately, the earthquake wasn't that big that year, otherwise how could I still be standing here now?"
"That night, when I woke up and looked at the empty house, I suddenly understood that no matter what, my sister would always be the first in your heart. As long as she was around, you would always treat me as an outsider. Only when she died could I become your child again."
He Jing looked bewildered: "There is such a thing? I actually never knew about it..."
Li Mengmei finally showed shame on her face. She collapsed and knelt down, covering her face and crying: "I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, I don't know what happened to me, maybe it's controlled by hormones. Since I gave birth to your sister, my attention has been completely focused on her. I don't have any feelings for you at all. I know it's wrong to do this, but I really can't control it!"
At this point, Li Mengmei finally admitted the most shameful thing in her heart: "In fact, when your sister was still alive, I didn't care about you at all. I was just fulfilling my obligation to raise you. It wasn't until your sister passed away and you fell ill that I really started to worry about you..."
He Jing looked at Li Mengmei with disdain and cursed: "You are such an irresponsible mother! It's all your fault that the child has become what he is today!"
"Mr. He, don't be so quick to pass the buck," Bai Mian looked at He Jing coldly, "As far as I know, you didn't need to work the night shift on the night of the earthquake. You took the initiative to stay in the company dormitory and then lied to your family that you were working the night shift because you thought the children at home were noisy and didn't want to participate in childcare. You just wanted to play with your phone alone in peace."
Everyone was in an uproar again. Li Mengmei grabbed He Jing's collar angrily and yelled, "F*ck you, are you still a human being? I'm almost dying of exhaustion taking care of the kids, and you're playing with your phone alone at work?"
He Jing shook off Li Mengmei's hand and defended himself: "I was too tired from work, so I stayed at the company to sleep. I didn't make any principled mistakes. At least I'm not like you, who is partial to the two children and turned your daughter into a psychopath!"
"Mr. He, educating children is not just the mother's job," Bai Mian emphasized, "Your wife has always treated the two children differently, and you've seen it all, but you've never stopped her. You're also an accomplice in this matter. You're all responsible for what's happened today."
"Who said that?" He Jing was still stubborn, "I treat both children equally, unlike their mother!"
Bai Mian exposed him directly: "Do you remember how you introduced your two daughters when you first came in? You said that your younger daughter was beautiful, well-behaved and smart, but when you introduced your older daughter, you didn't use any words. You said that you were a fair father, but in fact, you were biased in your heart. Even if you didn't show it obviously, your older daughter would have noticed it a long time ago."
"I, I..." He Jing repeated weakly several times, and finally had nothing to say. He took a few steps back, sat down against the wall dejectedly, and rubbed his messy hair, "We are such failures as parents!"
"Interesting," Lame Brother ate the melon with gusto, "In the past, the clients who came to you for pulse diagnosis were all victims. This seems to be the first time that the client is a murderer."
"No, strictly speaking," Bai Mian turned to look at He Shiqiu in the crowd, "she is the real patron today. She was the one who won the fortune-telling opportunity."
"Oh, by the way," Cripple Brother recalled, "You said at the beginning that what happened today was related to her."
"Me?" He Shiqiu pointed at himself blankly, "What does it have to do with me? I've already said that I came to Qingshui Town after the college entrance examination. I've never been here before."
Bai Mian asked: "After you came to Qingshui Town, did your body experience any strange changes?"
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