Chapter 395 The Coward's Black Moonlight Witch 26
In the afternoon, as soon as Chen Lanru got to work, she hurried to find Shen Xinran and asked, "Can you help me ask her where she was tied up?"
Shen Xinran's gaze penetrated Chen Lanru and looked at the void behind her. The little girl's figure was looming in the black air, but fortunately her voice was clearly audible.
Shen Xinran relayed the little girl's words to Chen Lanru: "She didn't know exactly where it was, but she said there was a tree there that would be full of peaches in the fall."
The first thing that came to Chen Lanru's mind was Jia Wenxiu's hometown, which was on the edge of the county town. She had only lived there for a few days when she had just married Zheng Guanqing.
In her memory, there was a peach tree outside the yard of her hometown. It was said that it was planted by Jia Wenxiu in the year Zheng Guanqing was born. It has been nearly 30 years now.
Chen Lanru had no classes in the afternoon, so she decided to go directly to Jia Wenxiu's hometown. The old house had been uninhabited for a long time and was covered in dust.
Chen Lanru didn't have the key to the old house, so she had to borrow a hoe from her next-door neighbor, then go back to the peach tree and start digging.
The peach tree is still standing tall, but the weeds around it reveal a desolation that has been forgotten by time.
The neighbor next door poked his head out curiously and asked, "Mrs. Zheng, what are you digging under this tree? Do you need any help?"
Chen Lanru shook her head and said firmly, "No, thank you."
About half an hour later, Chen Lanru suddenly felt the hoe hit something hard. She threw the hoe aside and dug up the soil with her hands.
As the soil was dug up bit by bit, a worn mat was revealed.
Chen Lanru's heart beat faster, her hands trembled as she carefully lifted the mat. The scene before her almost made her breathe stop.
Her daughter lay on the mat with her eyes closed, her body covered with corpse spots, and her body was tied with circles of hemp rope.
Just then, a neighbor who was watching the fun said, "I've heard from the elders in the village that tying up a girl's body will deter any reincarnated daughter from visiting that family, thus preventing the next child from being a girl. I can't believe that such a ridiculous legend still exists."
At this moment, Chen Lanru's world seemed to collapse. She fell to her knees, tears blurring her vision, despair and pain overwhelming her.
Everything around her became distant, and only her daughter's cold body and bound posture became the eternal pain in her heart.
Chen Lanru hugged her daughter's cold body tightly, tears rolling down her cheeks like pearls from a broken string. Her voice was choked with sobs and despair. "Mom is sorry for you. It's Mom who is sorry for you."
Memories are like a sharp knife, cutting open the wounds of time.
At the time, she was in class at school when she suddenly received a call and learned that her daughter had fallen from the swing.
But when she rushed back, her daughter had already left this world.
At that time, she was just like she is now, holding her daughter's body tightly.
Seeing that she was heartbroken, Zheng Guanqing asked Jia Wenxiu to handle his daughter's funeral.
Jia Wenxiu sent his daughter for cremation without her consent. After she found out about this, she had a big fight with Jia Wenxiu.
But she didn't expect that Jia Wenxiu did not cremate her daughter, but tied her up and bound her here forever.
Chen Lanru's grief echoed in the empty fields, and her cries trembled in the wind, seeming particularly desolate.
Jia Wenxiu's eyelids kept twitching, and she had a bad feeling. She decided to go back to her hometown to see if there was anything wrong under the tree and bring some food.
But when she arrived, she found a group of people gathered under the tree, talking a lot. She quickly pushed through the crowd and walked in, only to see Chen Lanru holding a corpse, crying uncontrollably.
Jia Wenxiu's heart tightened, and he quickly said, "What are you doing? Bury her quickly. Only by doing this will the girl not come to our Zheng family."
Chen Lanru raised her head, looked at Jia Wenxiu, and said through gritted teeth, "You tortured my daughter's corpse just for this."
Jia Wenxiu tried to defend herself: "She's dead anyway, and I just wanted to give our Zheng family a successor."
Chen Lanru's grief and anger intertwined, nearly tearing her apart. She reached out and tried to untie the hemp ropes that bound her daughter's body.
Without any tools, she could only use her hands. Although the hemp rope rubbed her fingers and made them bleed, she no longer cared about the pain.
Suddenly, she saw a pink bird pattern on the hemp rope. It was drawn by her daughter on the swing. Could this be the rope on the swing?
Then why is there a neat knife-like edge where the rope breaks?
Her mother-in-law had always disliked Tongtong for being a girl and wanted them to have another boy. However, she and Zheng Guanqing both worked in public institutions and had to abide by the country's family planning policy.
Thinking of this, Chen Lanru felt a chill run down her body. She looked at Jia Wenxiu again and asked, "I've never asked why Tongtong fell off the swing."
Jia Wenxiu's eyes widened. "It's all her fault for being playful! How can you treat a little girl like this? Hurry up and give birth to a big fat boy for our Zheng family. That's better than anything else."
Chen Lanru gently put down her daughter's body and approached Jia Wenxiu, her eyes sharp as a knife. "Why are there knife marks on the rope?"
Jia Wenxiu's voice became hesitant: "I cut it off later, is that not okay?"
Chen Xiulan and Jia Wenxiu have been mother-in-law and daughter-in-law for so many years that their understanding of each other has already penetrated deep into their bones.
At this moment, Chen Xiulan keenly caught the gleam in Jia Wenxiu's eyes and the trembling in his voice, which was an unconcealable guilt.
A strong anger and grief surged in her heart, burning in her chest and turning into a heartbreaking cry: "Give me back my daughter's life!"
Zheng Guanqing was still at work when he suddenly received a call from a neighbor in his hometown: "Guanqing, something bad has happened. Your wife and your mother are fighting."
Zheng Guanqing frowned, immediately put down the work at hand, asked for leave from his leader, and rushed back to his hometown.
When he arrived at his hometown, he saw Chen Lanru and Jia Wenxiu fighting each other.
Although Jia Wenxiu worked hard all year and was physically strong, Chen Lanru, as a mother, was given extraordinary strength by her anger at the moment. The two were evenly matched in this fight.
Zheng Guanqing quickly stepped forward, blocking the two men with his body, and shouted, "Let's talk it out nicely."
Chen Lanru looked at Zheng Guanqing and complained, "Tongtong was killed by your mother. She even tied Tongtong up with hemp rope in order to help us have a son!"
Zheng Guanqing glanced at the body on the ground and sighed, "I know Tongtong's departure was a big blow to you, but my mother is not that kind of person. Is there some misunderstanding here?"
When Jia Wenxiu saw her son coming, she straightened her back and said, "I'm your mother-in-law. How dare you lay hands on me? That's outrageous!"
Chen Lanru's emotions began to stir again. She looked at Jia Wenxiu with the look of a wolf about to eat someone. "Tongtong at least called you grandma, how could you be so cruel? Are you still human?"
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