Ji Hong looked at her with unusually bright eyes, her tone resolute, "I want to be locked up with my husband's family who are now powerless to fight back."
Upon hearing this, the soldier responsible for guarding Ji Hong immediately became alert.
While I sympathize with her, her thoughts are dangerous.
When Ruan Xianxian met her gaze, she knew that after losing her parents, relatives, and only daughter, this woman was already dead; what lived in her body was only a flame of revenge.
What she wanted was not the justice and fairness provided by the law, but to understand everything herself and avenge her deceased relatives.
Moreover, the charge of abandoning a baby girl and causing her death is not currently punishable by death.
The supernatural and ghostly are not within the scope of the law.
If Ruan Xianxian puts in a little effort, he can send either the cop or his grandparents down to keep Ji Hong's daughter company.
This is the limit.
Sending peanuts to a family is normally an impossible task.
Ji Hong must have realized this, which is why she wanted to take matters into her own hands.
She lowered her gaze and asked Ji Hong, "Where's the booklet your second brother gave you? Give it to the military."
"I buried it under the crooked tree in my husband's family home."
Ruan Xianxian nodded and called to Xiaobing, "Yazi, go over there."
Seeing the young soldier hesitate, she laughed, "What? Are you worried she'll eat me? Take out the booklet and send it to the interrogating soldier so we can convict her as soon as possible."
Upon hearing this, Ya Zi gave a military salute, turned around, and jogged away.
Remembering something, Ruan Xianxian withdrew her gaze. "You said that after you were struck by lightning in the coffin, you sent a message out. When and where? And to whom did you send the message?"
“My husband’s family, no, I should say the entire Baishi Village, keeps a very strict watch on me. There are guards at all times on the roads leading out of the village. If I want to leave the village, I have to go into the mountains.”
But I fear that if I take this step, I will follow in my parents' footsteps and never give them another chance to avenge themselves.
I waited and waited, month after month, until finally the opportunity came when lightning struck the back of the mountain, and half the village was summoned to the ancestral hall by the brigade leader.
I wrote down everything I had experienced and my deductions in a letter, and that night I took advantage of the chaos to run to the county office and anonymously mailed the letter into the mailbox, hoping that the leaders who saw it would take it seriously.
This is my only chance.
Is Ruan Xianxianmo a county-run office?
She roughly knew where the information had leaked from, whether it was unintentional or deliberate, and she asked Feng Bai to investigate further.
She got up and stretched, and Ji Hong watched her movements with hopeful eyes. Ruan Xianxian was about to go outside the tent to call another soldier to take Ji Hong away...
As I passed by her, a rusty kitchen knife suddenly fell out of the belt at my lower back.
Ji Hong opened her mouth...
Ruan Xianxian touched the back of her head and muttered to herself, "It seems like something fell out? Oh well, it's not important."
I hope whoever finds it won't use it for anything bad, or I'll be the one to take the blame.
Just as Ji Hong was about to remind her that the kitchen knife had fallen, she tightly shut her mouth, tears streaming down her face. In her hazy vision, she seemed to see a scene of her mother's strictness and her father's loving kindness.
She lunged forward and gripped the knife handle tightly, her voice barely audible, "I picked up a knife on the road and killed the Zhou family, killed the Zhou family."
Upon hearing this, Ruan Xianxian smiled slightly.
If you ask someone for help, you have to bear the consequences yourself, right?
If the Zhou family members die, what does it have to do with Ruan Xiaolian, who also lost her knife? She's a victim too!
At least... a knife was lost?
In the case of the military, if a lethal weapon is lost, the person who lost it will bear partial responsibility for the consequences.
Firstly, she didn't throw a lethal weapon, and secondly, she wasn't under the military's jurisdiction, so if someone died, would it have anything to do with her?
Ruan Xianxian asked herself and answered: No!
Who hasn't lost a kitchen knife at home?
You've never lost a kitchen knife, but you've surely lost nail clippers before, right?
Never mind, I'll still report it!
Ruan Xianxian, who was about to step out of the tent, paused and turned her head slightly. Ji Hong had already hidden the kitchen knife in her bosom.
"I want to know, if this accident hadn't happened, how did you originally plan to take revenge?"
Ji Hong looked at the red floral shirt she was wearing, which her mother had sewn by hand for her wedding, and said softly:
"Probably, he will sacrifice himself in exchange for the complete annihilation of the Zhou family."
"knew."
Ruan Xianxian wondered if, if there were no "what ifs," and Ji Hong had sacrificed himself as he wished, the stone spirit would have done as he hoped.
She thought it was highly likely, since that thing was meant to take lives, and it wouldn't refuse something offered to it!
Lifting the tent flap, besides the guard, there was another soldier on duty at the entrance. Because of her special status and Fan Caicai's busy schedule, Feng Bai had arranged for someone to go in and out to deliver messages.
“Yuan Gen, take the people inside away. She has said everything she needed to say.”
Yuan Gen was dumbfounded, "Take him where?"
"You're asking me?" Ruan Xianxian raised an eyebrow, then said, "Her name is Ji Hong, she's the old village chief's granddaughter-in-law. You decide what to do."
With that in mind, Yuan Gen knew where to place the people.
When a family is locked up together, their conversations often inadvertently reveal information that is difficult to obtain during interrogation but that they desperately need to know.
Yuan Gen entered and led the person out, saying, "Alright, I'm going to see Sister Ruan off. I'll be back after I drop her off."
Just as Ruan Xianxian was about to wave her hand, she remembered something and touched her lower back. "By the way, when I was beating up Jin Fei, the kitchen knife I brought for cooking went missing. Can you come back and help me find it?"
Ji Hong's eyes flickered, realizing where she must have found her kitchen knife.
"Got it." Yuan Gen was speechless. Who goes out on a mission carrying a kitchen knife?
No wonder Sister Ruan drank deer blood and got a nosebleed!
Watching the two leave, Ruan Xianxian wasn't worried at all that Ji Hong would betray her. So what if she did? Someone would have to believe her anyway.
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