"But what can you do if you're envious and jealous? A year has passed, and these guys have given up and gotten married one after another."
How could the plain-looking wife I married compare to the girl from the Shen family?
Gradually, more and more jealous women in the village began to resent Shen Ling.
The incident occurred the year Shen Ling gave birth. She had a difficult labor that lasted a day and a night, and ended up giving birth to a girl, much to the disappointment of the two elders of the Hu family.
Logically speaking, if the first child is a granddaughter, the second and third children might be grandsons. If you want a son, just have more children.
The two elders of the Hu family treated their daughter-in-law and granddaughter fairly well.
Until Hu Heshuo went to university, a strange wind blew into the ears of the two elders, saying that the girl from the Shen family had hurt her body during childbirth and would never be able to get pregnant again.
After hearing these words repeatedly, they won over the Hu family elders. Furthermore, under the instigation of others, they began to treat their daughter-in-law with disdain and hostility.
Before the incident involving the leader's daughter happened, the two elders advocated that Hu Heshuo divorce his wife and remarry. At that time, marriage certificates were not common, and weddings and funerals were decided by the brigade office.
"Just get a certificate saying you're divorced, and that's it."
He took a breath, his gaze lowered, as if lost in memories, "When Heshuo went to university, the Shen family girl always reported good news and never bad."
Perhaps they didn't think it was a big deal; the two elders wanted a grandson, and the man could have one after he graduated and returned home.
Until a very stylishly dressed young woman, with an air of nobility in her every move, came to the village.
The daughter is of average appearance, but she is generous and has a sweet tongue, which immediately won over the two elders.
Despite their many conflicts on ordinary days, when it came down to it, the two elders suddenly became indecisive, insisting that Heshuo personally return and give his consent before they could even get a divorce, saying that they couldn't make the decision themselves.
Seeing that these two old geezers were as stinking and stubborn as rocks in a latrine, the pampered young lady finally revealed her true colors.
Not only did he send gifts to the ancestral homes of various ethnic groups, but he also promised them a job in the provincial government.
At this point, Hu Tiezhu's emotions suddenly became intense, his eyes bloodshot as he stared intently at the dark corner where the light couldn't reach.
"Working in the provincial government? That's a job in the provincial government! Hu Heshuo, a university graduate, would have to struggle for countless years to even become a marginal figure in the provincial government."
"If we help Heshuo divorce Shen Ling, our dream job will be within our grasp. Who could refuse?"
He suddenly looked to one side, as if piercing through the darkness, and asked the interrogator sitting at the table, "Can you?"
He turned his head to one side again, facing the empty corner. "Still you?"
His manic behavior made both interrogators gasp slightly.
After being pressed back into the interrogation chair, Hu Tiezhu calmed down for a while before giving his account of what happened next.
"After the conditions were laid out, several clan elders came to their door to pressure them, and Heshuo's parents finally agreed to help their son get a divorce."
Shen Ling, upon learning the truth, would naturally disagree, but how could she possibly win against the powerful?
Soon, witnessed by a group of clan elders, the marriage ended in divorce.
Before leaving, Shen Ling was very calm and told us that divorce doesn't erase feelings, and that He Shuo would not forgive them as elders if he came back.
At that moment, the leader's daughter stared at Shen Ling's back with a twisted look that bordered on madness from jealousy.
She asked us how much money would make Shen Ling disappear from Hu Heshuo's life forever?
We were all terrified by the ruthlessness in her words and fled in panic.
Afterwards, the girl probably realized that her words and actions were inappropriate, and she went to each of them with gifts to apologize.
Just when we thought the matter was over, one day, the bodies of Shen Ling and her daughter were found on the riverbank.
They were barely clothed, their bodies covered in sores; anyone who had been through it could see what had happened to the mother and daughter.
The interrogator in charge of taking notes circled the phrase "not a single good piece of flesh on his body."
"And then?" the person next to me asked.
Hu Tiezhu covered his face with both hands and rubbed it vigorously, his voice trembling with tears.
"Then...then the clan elders got scared and unanimously decided to push the body into the river, let it swell up and fake a suicide, that he couldn't accept the blow of the divorce and committed suicide."
This was the worst decision we ever made.
We've been scammed! We were all scammed by that woman!
"What did she lie to you about?" The interrogator asked, a hint of anger lingering in his voice, which he managed to suppress, keeping his tone relatively calm.
“She said, she said…” Hu Tiezhu sobbed in anguish, “She said that she and Heshuo were in love in the provincial capital. Scholars cannot have any stains on their reputation, so she asked the clan to be the bad guy.”
We agreed to act first and report later because we listened to her nonsense.
Unexpectedly, only three days after the body was submerged, He Shuo returned from school.
Upon learning of his wife and daughter's deaths, he descended into madness, a madness that drove him to want to take everyone down with him.
It was only then that we learned that Heshuo was deeply in love with the girl from the Shen family, and that the idea of a leader's daughter being a lunatic was wrong. We realized that we had all been deceived by her words.
If only I had known, if only I had known that He Shuo had no intention of divorcing, who would have been the bad guy to break them up?
The interrogator remained noncommittal, but asserted definitively, "With the provincial department's involvement, even if you knew everything, you would still commit a series of despicable acts."
Indeed, when benefits are readily available, who cares about the truth?
She's just a woman; didn't they prepare better ones for him?
I even secretly thought that doing so was for Heshuo's good, after all, this woman's background was obviously not simple, and she casually promised a job that an ordinary person could not get even after reincarnating eight times!
With Heshuo marrying her, is there any hope for the future?
They're helping him avoid thirty years of hard work!
He's sick; he doesn't know what's good for him.
Although he thought so in his heart, a single sentence from the interrogator was tantamount to tearing off his veil of hypocrisy.
The young man taking notes coughed, and the interrogator immediately fell silent, then asked, "And then?"
"Then, as you all know, Hu Heshuo went mad while holding his wife and daughter, wanting to report to the police and take the entire clan down with him."
Fearing exposure, we blackmailed Hu's mother, forcing her to take full responsibility.
He thought the matter was over, and that even if He Shuo was ruthless, he wouldn't call the police to arrest his own mother.
Unable to withstand the pressure from the entire clan, Hu's mother accepted the matter, and Heshuo, as we expected, calmed down.
Little did we know that these were all tricks by that kid to deceive us. Just when we were most relaxed after he agreed to marry the leader's daughter, he ran out of the village to call the police.
When we went to the Hu family's house to demand an explanation, we found that Hu's mother had hanged herself.
Officer, Shen Ling's matter has absolutely nothing to do with me. I didn't even participate in pushing the body into the river.
The mistake was overstepping my bounds and unilaterally helping Heshuo get a divorce, but they didn't even get the marriage certificate. That's not illegal, is it?
The two interrogators looked at each other, and one of them asked, "Did Hu's mother really hang herself, or was she forced to hang herself as a scapegoat?"
"No," Hu Tiezhu answered decisively, adding, "Actually, she had already regretted it after her daughter-in-law died and her son went into a frenzy."
Perhaps it was the silence that led them to this point.
Just then, the interrogation room door was kicked open, and a police officer surnamed Shen, dressed in frost, strode in.
“Not a single word of the truth. The neighbors have already confessed everything. Shen Ling was clearly gang-raped to death. You little beasts of life, you were all involved.”
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