"I don't know! I really don't know!"
Zhou Mingyuan shrank back like a startled turtle, his head slamming heavily against the back of the iron chair with a dull thud.
"She...she came to me and said she was out of money...I didn't know anything about it!"
Large beads of sweat glistened on his forehead under the glaring interrogation lights.
His voice was filled with genuine terror.
He really didn't know where Li Xiaorou had gone or what she had done in the past two days.
But now, this crazy woman has done something that may have dragged all the people they were dealing with into jail!
The iron door to the interrogation room was suddenly pushed open, and a young policeman strode in, handing a file to Lao Zhang.
The rustling sound of papers turning over was particularly jarring in the quiet room.
Old Zhang glanced at it, and his pupils suddenly contracted.
According to informants in the black market, Li Xiaorou also asked them to keep an eye out for her, as she wanted to buy a large number of firecrackers.
This confession dramatically escalated the seriousness of the entire case.
Zhou Mingyuan's lips began to tremble uncontrollably, and he suddenly heard Li Xiaorou's sinister warning: "If anything happens, I'll say you ordered it!"
He had taken it as a joke at the time, but now those words were like a venomous snake, tightly coiling around his throat and making it hard for him to breathe.
He can't just sit here and wait to die!
We can't wait until Li Xiaorou is arrested and then pin everything on him!
"I'll confess! I'll confess everything!"
Zhou Mingyuan suddenly broke down and shouted, his face covered in snot and tears, his usual meticulous city person image completely gone.
Just as he was about to speak, the interrogation room door opened again.
The bureau chief walked in with a solemn expression and leaned down to whisper a few words in Old Zhang's ear.
Old Zhang's expression changed drastically. He grabbed his hat and headed outside, sternly instructing Xiao Wang before leaving, "Keep an eye on him!"
Zhou Mingyuan slumped into the chair like a deflated balloon, the iron chair creaking under its own weight.
He knew they were all doomed!
*
In the corridor of the village clinic, Li Xiaorou sat blankly on a bench, staring intently at the test results in her hand.
The urine pregnancy test was positive; those few words in red were particularly glaring.
"Comrade, do you want this child?"
"If you don't want it, you need to deal with it quickly, otherwise it will be troublesome if it's been more than three months."
The female doctor pushed up her glasses, which had slipped down to the tip of her nose, and reminded the young girl in front of her.
Li Xiaorou clenched the test report tightly, the paper crumpling into a ball in her palm.
The pain of her fingernails digging deep into her palm kept her conscious.
Given her current situation, this child absolutely cannot be kept!
What's more, this is Zhou Mingyuan's child, that beast's bloodline!
When I pushed open the mottled green wooden door of the clinic, a cold wind mixed with snowflakes rushed towards me.
Li Xiaorou instinctively lowered the brim of her straw hat, but froze the moment she looked up. At the entrance of the supply and marketing cooperative opposite the clinic, two uniformed policemen were checking letters of introduction. One of them had a brass whistle on his waist, the same one she had seen at the state-run restaurant that day!
She instinctively took a half step back, her lower back slamming hard against the door frame.
The pain made her suddenly realize something strange that she hadn't noticed that morning: while queuing at the grain station, she felt like someone was staring at her face.
Without hesitation, Li Xiaorou turned around and rushed towards the back door of the clinic.
As she walked through the storage room filled with glucose bottles, she panicked and knocked over a stack of metal trays, the loud crash particularly jarring in the quiet corridor.
"stop!!"
A loud shout came from behind.
Li Xiaorou went berserk, kicking open the back door and rushing into the dense cornfield.
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