Upon hearing this, Su Shizhong felt a pang of unease and exclaimed, "Damn it, how could this be so tragic?"
Yang Guohua smiled bitterly, "Who wouldn't say it's a disaster after hearing this?"
Su Shizhong then asked, "Where is it?"
Yang Guohua took a sip of wine and slowly said, "The Shuiwen Village in Wucheng to the south is now called Wushi."
Su Shizhong thought for a moment, but he had no recollection of this village at all.
That night, Su Shizhong had a dream. When he woke up, he didn't even wash his face before rushing to ask Yang Guohua.
"What's the name of the girl you mentioned yesterday? Is it Su Yue?"
Although Yang Guohua was puzzled, he still answered truthfully, "Her name is Su Yue."
Upon hearing this, Su Shizhong instinctively took a step back, bumping into the threshold, his face filled with shock and pain: "She is my daughter, how could I have forgotten her?"
As he spoke, he slowly sat down on the ground, covered his face with his hands, and began to cry in grief.
Yang Guohua knew all too well how desperate it was to lose a child.
He recounted to Su Shizhong in full detail what he had found out over the years and the events of that year.
After hearing this, Su Shizhong insisted that Jiang Huaidong had plotted to kill his daughter and that soldier.
Thinking of how his daughter had become mentally impaired and was then married off to an old man by Liu Meili, which led her to run into the river and drown, Su Shizhong was overcome with anger and fainted.
When he woke up, the doctor told him that he had late-stage stomach cancer and might only have half a month left.
Su Shizhong felt that half a month was enough time. He asked Yang Guohua to find out where Jiang Huaidong was. He learned that Jiang Huaidong had returned to his hometown before retiring.
Su Shizhong thought to himself: The opportunity has come.
He told Yang Guohua, "I don't have much time left to live. I want to go back to my hometown and wait to die."
Yang Guohua bought him a plane ticket and personally saw him off on the plane.
Back home, Yang Guohua told Wang Jingyi and hurriedly bought a plane ticket to Wuzhou.
By the time he arrived at Shuiwen Village, it was already too late.
Su Shizhong bent down, his eyes filled with hatred as he looked at Jiang Huaidong, who was still breathing on the ground. He said with a mocking tone, "Weren't you very powerful? You didn't care about other people's lives. Look, all the people who were flattering you just now have run away. No one came to save you. You felt your life slipping away bit by bit. Did you feel very happy?"
Upon seeing Yang Guohua arrive, he smiled and said, "My wish has been fulfilled. After I die, please bury me next to my daughter's grave."
Yang Guohua stared at Su Shizhong without saying a word. Su Shizhong joked, "Old brother, I've helped you twice, and you can't even help me once?"
He helped dig the pit and bury Yang Guohua's parents and son.
Yang Guohua said, "I'm telling you everything not so that you'll lose your life. It's not worth it for someone like that."
Su Shizhong shook his head, his eyes resolute: "I don't have many days left to live. I won't be able to leave in peace until I deal with this kind of scum."
Yang Guohua only said one word: "Okay".
Over the years, he had been searching for evidence that had caused the deaths of Fu Shen and his two sons. All the suspicions pointed to Jiang Huaidong, but he had never found the key evidence that could directly convict him.
Especially regarding Fu Shen's case, even though everyone knows that Jiang Huaidong killed him, there's nothing that can be done about it. There are so many people in Shuiwen Village, yet not a single one is willing to stand up and testify.
His two sons suffered an undeserved misfortune. Years ago, he secretly investigated the cause of Fu Shen's death, but Jiang Huaidong discovered it. Jiang Huaidong then joined forces with Gao Qiang to meticulously plan this accident in the Great Northern Wilderness, killing Yang Yimiao and Yang Yijing so that he would not have time to continue his investigation.
Although Jiang Huaidong is nearing his end, he can't be as decisive as Su Shizhong. He still has people to take care of and doesn't dare to face death easily.
As the sirens of police cars and ambulances blared at the village entrance, Jiang Huaidong was near death. Only then did Su Shizhong end his remaining life with a knife.
Following Su Shizhong's wishes, Yang Guohua buried him next to Su Yue, and then went to Fu Shen's grave and stayed there quietly for half a day.
On the third day after he left Shuiwen Village, someone found Jiang Huaidong's mother.
Jiang's mother had never dared to die, precisely because she was waiting for this day.
Ultimately, Jiang Huaidong's military rank was revoked, Fu Shen's reputation was restored, and his remains were returned to the martyrs' cemetery.
Many of the villagers who knew what happened back then are now old, and some have already passed away.
But Jiang Huaidong, who had only been back in the village for less than a day, had his throat slit, a fact witnessed by many young people.
Everyone knew this person was of extremely bad character, so they didn't arrange a funeral for him. They just made a phone call to the funeral home to take him away, burn him to ashes, and then left him alone.
Jiang Huaidong's son, daughter-in-law, and grandson didn't even come to see him.
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