Chapter 772
“Pregnant?!!”
Su Miao's fingers gripping the phone suddenly tightened, her knuckles turning blue and white from the excessive force, and the cold metal casing of the phone hurt her palm.
Uncle Feng sighed on the other end, his voice filled with an indescribable heaviness:
"When she first told us that, we didn't believe her either. But after a medical examination, we confirmed that she was already six months pregnant. And... even more outrageous, the father of the child was Wang Dachui."
With a "clang", the glass next to Su Miao fell to the ground, and the water stains spread on the light-colored floor, like a pool of blood that quickly spread.
She stared blankly at the messy glass fragments on the ground, her pupils suddenly contracted, and the last scene before she fell from the building in her previous life uncontrollably surged into her mind.
On Wang Dachui's greasy face, a pair of eyes were like poisonous snakes spitting out their tongues, their sticky gaze glued to her with disgusting greed;
The television in the living room, which had been deliberately turned up loud, was humming. Liu Xu stood outside the closed door, her face a look of almost cruel calmness and indifference, and every word she uttered was as sharp as a knife.
Wang Dachui's furious curses made his eardrums hurt, but all these sounds were finally drowned out by the dull sound of his bones hitting the ground. The severe pain of the broken bones seemed to still linger in his nerve endings.
"Miao Miao, what's wrong? Are you okay?" Uncle Feng's voice brought her back to her senses.
Su Miao took a deep breath, and it felt like there was a piece of ice in his chest, and even his breath was cold:
"Uncle Feng, did Wang Yue tell you why she got pregnant with Wang Dachui's child? They are now father and daughter."
"Alas! This family is really in chaos. Wang Yue and Wang Dachui each have their own opinions on this matter, and both of them sound true.
Wang Yue said that she was forced and was so scared that she didn't even dare to tell Liu Xu and kept it a secret.
Wang Dachui, on the other hand, turned the tables and said that it was Wang Yue who seduced him. He also said that Wang Yue told him that Aunt Liuxu had been married for so long but had not given birth, and it was a pity that he had no biological child, so she was willing to help him give birth to a son to carry on the family line.
This will bring up another case. If it is proven that Wang Yue was forced, then Wang Dachui will have to be charged with another crime."
"So...whose story do the public security departments tend to favor?"
Uncle Feng's voice deepened:
"According to the information we have, Wang Dachui's statement is more true, because we found a love letter written by Wang Yue to Wang Dachui in their home, and the words between the lines were so explicit.
During the investigation, it was also discovered that they had stayed in the same room at the Yongcheng Hotel many times, and the front desk staff there had a deep impression of them.
The key point is that the household registration book they produced clearly stated their father-daughter relationship, so the front desk staff didn't think much of it, simply thinking it was an elder taking the younger one out to do some errands. Who could have imagined that there was such a dirty secret hidden behind it?"
"When did her relationship with Wang Dachui begin?"
Uncle Feng's voice was filled with disgust:
"According to Wang Dachui, it all started last winter. At that time, Zhucheng's business was booming, and Wang Yue wanted Wang Dachui to give her two villas, and the bargaining chip was herself..."
Uncle Feng didn't say the rest of the words, but Su Miao could already imagine the dirty scene.
This man and woman, each with their own ulterior motives, one coveted the other's young body, the other coveted the money in the other's pocket. They fell deeper and deeper into the deformed relationship and eventually regarded the catkins as a stumbling block.
"Uncle Feng, Wang Yue is pregnant. Will she still be sentenced? Could the child be used as a bargaining chip to escape punishment?"
Uncle Feng explained: "Generally speaking, the sentencing for pregnant women is indeed special, and there are relevant humanitarian considerations in the law.
But the specific sentencing must be considered comprehensively based on factors such as the severity of the crime, the degree of subjective malice, and the social harm it poses. It doesn't necessarily mean a lighter sentence will be given if a woman is pregnant."
Because this case caused a huge sensation in society and all kinds of rumors were flying around, the higher-ups issued an order to solve the case as quickly as possible to calm public opinion.
Therefore, the investigation phase was declared over within just one week after Wang Dachui and Wang Yue were controlled.
The suspect's crime process was clear and the chain of evidence was complete, so the case soon entered the review and prosecution stage.
As a pregnant woman, Wang Yue originally met the conditions for bail pending trial. However, no one came to bail her, so she continued to stay in the detention center.
During that period, major newspapers used a lot of space to report the details of this case, and the headlines were more eye-catching than each other.
The focus of the report is very clear, which is to convey several messages to the public:
First, this was just a tragedy caused by an internal family dispute, not a bizarre case;
Second, the occurrence of the case has nothing to do with ghosts and gods, so please do not believe in rumors;
Third, this is not a case of robbery and corpse disposal. The public security in Nanning is generally good, and citizens can travel with confidence.
The successful resolution of this case, privately referred to by the masses as the "Yongjiang Water Ghost Case," naturally caused a stir in the old alley where Su Miao lived.
The neighbors were discussing this matter after dinner, and everyone was sighing.
But from somewhere or some point, someone got the news that the deceased in the case was Su Miao's mother. When the neighbors in the alley discussed the matter on weekdays, they would deliberately avoid the Su family to avoid reminding Su Miao of her "sad story".
During this period of time, Su Miao had no time to pay attention to other people's eyes. She had too many things to do.
Liu Xu's legal husband Wang Dachui and niece Wang Yue became her murderer and accomplice. Her only brother is still serving his sentence in prison, so the burden of handling the funeral naturally fell on Su Miao, her only daughter.
Accompanied by his father, Su Miao signed the "Consent Form for Corpse Disposal" and sent the body, which was rotten beyond repair, into the incinerator.
However, she did not take the ashes out for burial, but paid a small storage fee and temporarily stored them in the funeral home.
Afterwards, Su Miao participated in some matters during the prosecution and sentencing stages as a family member of the victim.
When the procuratorate was reviewing the prosecution, it would inform her in detail every time there was progress in the case.
Su Miao carefully studied all the files and then submitted a written opinion to the procuratorate demanding severe punishment for the murderer. At the same time, she also filed a civil lawsuit, demanding that Wang Dachui and Wang Yue compensate for her mother's funeral expenses and mental damages.
The trial began in mid-August.
Su Miao and his father attended the trial and, before the end of the court debate, applied to make a statement in court, calling for severe punishment for the murderer.
She stood up, her voice choked but extremely firm. She denounced the cruel acts of Wang Dachui and Wang Yue word by word, spoke of her mother's kindness and innocence when she was alive, and called on the judge to severely punish the murderer according to the law and give her mother justice.
Su Miao felt that this scene should be the pinnacle of his acting skills.
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