Chapter 157 I still lost, Aunt Li
Li Banxia clenched her wet palms, looked up and quickly searched for the person. She saw the man who appeared in her line of sight, carrying what she wanted and walking over quickly.
"Inside."
The man handed the item to Li Banxia, gesturing to her.
Li Banxia took the bulky tape recorder, turned it on, glanced at the cassette tape inside, and a ruthless glint flashed in her eyes.
"Thanks."
The man nodded slightly and retreated into the crowd.
Su Laosan looked at the man in surprise and asked in a low voice, "Aren't you my uncle's comrade-in-arms, Xiao?"
The man hummed in agreement.
Fang Erniu was curious, so Su Laosan leaned close to her ear and whispered a few words to her.
Li Banxia carried the tape recorder and placed it on the open ground in the center of the field.
She glanced at He Taohua, who was glaring at her as if she wanted to tear her apart, and snorted lightly, "He Taohua, not pretending to be virtuous and gentle anymore? When you go crazy, your features are all distorted and you look as ugly as a ghost, do you even know that?"
He Taohua: "...None of your business!"
"Yeah, I don't care if you die." Li Banxia said, seemingly joking but also serious, as he looked at He Taohua.
He Taohua felt her hair stand on end under his gaze, and anger surged within her. "Li Banxia, you..."
"Mom, don't let her lead you by the nose."
Lin Jiefang held down He Taohua, who was about to go crazy, and asked Li Banxia, "Aunt Li, what is this?"
"this……"
Li Banxia smiled mysteriously, "I thought this thing was useless, but it seems it's still useful. Come on, let's all listen to it together..."
A sizzling prelude begins, followed by footsteps and voices approaching from afar.
The first voice to come out was Lin Jiefang's, "...Let's use dichlorvos, just a little bit, enough to cause symptoms. We'll bribe the doctor later to get a prescription..."
"Yes! The man almost died from poisoning after eating the chicken he sold us. Su Laosan is definitely going to be arrested!"
This was He Taohua's excited voice, "When the time comes, I'll take the list to Li Banxia. If she wants to save Su Laosan, she'll have to come up with 30,000 yuan..."
There was a ripping sound in the middle, followed by He Taohua's displeased voice, "Son, isn't giving them ten thousand yuan all at once too much?"
"If you want people to risk their lives, you have to pay them a price. This money buys their cooperation, compensation for physical damage, and their silence afterwards." This is Lin Jiefang's statement.
The ripping sound rang out again, and finally, it was Lin Jiefang's voice: "Then it's settled. Let's split up and take action."
The recording ends here.
The hall was deathly silent.
Everyone stared blankly at the tape recorder.
Su Youfu stared at Li Banxia in shock, opening his mouth several times as if to say something, but Li Banxia's murderous gaze kept him from speaking.
He Taohua's body went limp, and she collapsed to the ground, grabbing Lin Jiefang's arm and shaking her head in disbelief. "Jiefang, what was that? How could we hear our voices coming from inside? What was that...?"
After saying that, without waiting for Lin Jiefang to answer her, she pushed Lin Jiefang aside, got up, and pounced on the tape recorder.
"I'll smash it to pieces, let's see how it talks then..."
The police rushed over and stopped her.
Li Banxia quickly took out the cassette tape and handed it to the vice-captain, asking, "Does this count as evidence?"
"……Calculate."
The vice-captain and the captain exchanged a glance, looking at Li Banxia with disbelief.
This woman...
How did you come up with the idea of recording their conversation?
After the two finished looking at Li Banxia, they went to see Lin Jiefang. Lin Jiefang's face was ashen, and there was disbelief in his eyes.
He stiffly raised his head and asked Li Banxia, "This...where did you get this recording? This recorder is..."
Lin Jiefang turned to look at Su Youfu.
He recognized it; the tape recorder was the one Su Youfu had bought for his mother, He Taohua, a few days ago.
He had just received his salary and said that on his way home, someone was selling them at a low price on the roadside, so he bought one for his mother to listen to music.
Su Youfu opened his mouth, then shook his head, "Jiefang, I really don't know what's going on."
Lin Jiefang didn't expect any answer from him, so he turned his head and continued to wait for Li Banxia's reply.
Li Banxia said calmly, "You think you're the player and they're the pieces? Haven't you considered that I've been watching you play chess all along?"
Upon hearing this, Lin Jiefang felt a jolt throughout his body, a chill running from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, his scalp tingling, and his mind going blank.
He took a moment to come to his senses, and called out, slightly out of breath, "Aunt Li, you...you knew? How did you know?"
Li Banxia didn't answer his question, but instead looked up at him slightly.
He said, "Lin Jiefang, your mother and Su Youfu have been entangled for so many years, and you, the ultimate beneficiary, not only haven't mentioned a word about it to me, but you've also taken my kindness for granted..."
She sighed softly, and when she spoke again, her voice was much softer.
“Jiefang, everything I said to you outside the auto parts factory was from the bottom of my heart, but unfortunately you didn’t believe me. You feel that your mother stole my man and wronged me, and that you also wronged me by not telling me. You put yourself in my shoes. You won’t forgive someone who wronged you, and you assume that I won’t either, right?”
Lin Jiefang opened his mouth and found it dry. He smiled bitterly and said, "It was my narrow-mindedness. I'm sorry to Aunt Li."
"You set this up for several reasons, didn't you?"
Li Banxia looked at him and said, "Let me guess, one... you promised the bride that you would give her the best of everything, so your plans include a new courtyard and new furniture, and you need money for that; two... you want to send Lao San to jail so that I have to beg you, and you will put on a merciful act and plead with the poisoned family for me, making me indebted to you; three... you want to send Lao San to jail, so that his life will be over after he goes to jail, and I will live in pain for the rest of my life. Am I right?"
Lin Jiefang shook his head.
She said, "Aunt Li, you missed one."
He turned to look at Su Youfu.
Li Banxia raised an eyebrow and said "Oh".
“Su Youfu… If your mother wants him, give him to her. I don’t want him simply because I think he’s dirty inside and out, his behavior is disgusting, he doesn’t deserve to be my husband or my child’s father, that’s all.”
Lin Jiefang didn't speak, but his eyes revealed disbelief.
Li Banxia smiled sarcastically, "You've really lived with your mother for too long, and you've been corrupted by her suspicious mindset."
"...I admit I was truly in love when I was young, but so what? I'm human, not a god. No matter how much love or patience I had, it was long ago defeated by the mundane realities of daily life and deeply hurt by his neglect of our children. That little bit of love was long gone."
Lin Jiefang nodded, "Yes, I miscalculated."
He asked Li Banxia, "How did Aunt Li discover that I had set up this scheme?"
Do you remember those two phone calls you made to me?
Lin Jiefang said he remembered.
Then it dawned on her, and she said, "That's because I didn't tell you that I bought chickens from Lao San?"
Li Banxia nodded.
Lin Jiefang chuckled. "The second thing is that I shouldn't have advised you to let Lao San run away."
"yes."
Li Banxia looked at him and said, "Jiefang, you are really smart."
“But I still lost, Aunt Li. Does this mean I was too clever for my own good?” Lin Jiefang asked.
Li Banxia didn't reply to him, but looked at the captain and deputy captain.
The vice-captain coughed lightly.
The captain ordered, "Arrest Lin Jiefang, and bring He Taohua, the poisoned woman's family members, Su Youfu, Su Laosan, and others back to the police station for questioning."
The police stepped forward and restrained Lin Jiefang. This time, no matter how heartbroken He Taohua was, she couldn't stop him.
The bride looked eagerly at her uncle, then at her parents.
The bride's mother looked at her younger brother, and the uncle shook his head.
Overwhelmed with emotion, the bride fainted.
“Nannan…”
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