“Wuqi, do you know why your mother did these things?” Shuqiu did not give up the investigation because of the child’s tears. “The neighbors all say that Liu has always been law-abiding and kind. She would never even kill a chicken. Why would she suddenly kill so many children?”
Wu Qi wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes and choked out, "Mother said she's sorry to me... I don't have a father, she can't give me a complete family, while those children... they have both parents, and their families are harmonious. Mother said... she said she gets jealous too. She said to me... why can other people's families be happy and fulfilling? It's not fair... But I don't think I need fairness. Although I don't have a father, I have a mother, and that's enough..."
Shu Qiu said, "Because of jealousy... Liu Shi ruthlessly killed these children?"
This reason seems too unreasonable, but it also seems to be reasonable in some way.
Liu had been a widow for many years and struggled to raise a child, while everyone around her had happy families. Perhaps at first it was just envy, but later... it turned into jealousy.
Jealousy is truly a terrible thing. It can make people lose their minds, become unlike themselves, and do many things against their conscience. A single spark can start a prairie fire, and this phrase is quite fitting to describe the word "jealousy."
Feng Guang lowered her head, and she remembered what Shu Feng had said to her back then: he had someone he liked. At that time, besides feeling lost and sad, did she also feel jealous?
Wu Qi continued, "Ever since I discovered those things... my mother has been living in a daze. She often talks to herself and keeps apologizing to me... I was terrified those few days..."
Shuqiu said, "Later, Liu was killed."
“No…” Wu Qi shook his head, “My mother… she wasn’t murdered, she… she committed suicide… right in front of me…”
In the end, Wu Qi clutched her head and squatted on the ground in anguish. A mother committing suicide in front of her child is a painful memory that the child can never erase.
"It's all my fault... If I hadn't discovered those things... Mother wouldn't have... she wouldn't have..."
“This is none of your business.” Feng Guang walked over, took out her small handkerchief and handed it to him. “Wu Qi, this is not your fault.”
“Miss…” The boy looked up, his eyes blurry with tears, “If I had discovered… if I had discovered my mother’s feelings sooner, she wouldn’t have died…”
"Your mother's situation has nothing to do with you." Feng Guang placed the handkerchief in his hand and sighed deeply in her heart.
The child abduction and murder cases that had plagued the Tongxian County government for days were finally solved, but no one could feel relieved. With the solving of the cases came the pain of five families. These parents had been hoping that their children were just lost or abducted by human traffickers, and that as long as they were alive, that would be enough. But death meant that they had no hope left.
No one expected that Liu, who was praised for her kindness and friendliness, would be the murderer in this incident. Even less would anyone have guessed that Liu actually committed suicide. It was only because the knife wound on Liu's neck was so severe, and there were no reports of Liu showing any signs of suicidal thoughts, that no one considered suicide as the cause of her death. If it weren't for the discovery of this cellar where the body was hidden, this matter would still be a mystery to this day.
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