Chapter 121 Finding the whereabouts of Zhu Fugen and his wife
Huang Yuezhen really didn't have so many ideas. After Lin Qin's reminder, she suddenly had an epiphany. She immediately grabbed Lin Qin's hand with gratitude, "My dear cousin, you are smart and think far ahead. You are right. I have to think long-term. I will listen to you. I will take a batch of goods back to set up a stall at the end of the year. If my eldest son can take up the responsibility, he will do this job and I will come back to continue cooking!"
Xu Dahai benefited a lot from Lin Qin's words and praised her. "That's why they say knowledge is power. My sister-in-law has changed her mindset after going to school!"
Lin Qin felt a little embarrassed.
After seeing Xu Dahai off, she continued to live her life as usual.
In the blink of an eye, it was the tenth month of the lunar calendar and frost began to fall here.
The sweet potatoes and calla lilies planted by Lin Yi can be harvested. This year, the calla lilies cover a full four acres of land. As long as they are not dug up, they can be kept in the field until the New Year.
Lin Yi had no plan to dig calla lilies now, and only asked Huang Yuezhen to help harvest the sweet potatoes.
Sweet potatoes are grown in every household, especially in seaside fishing villages, where they are the most abundant. You certainly won't get a good price for them, so you can keep them for your own consumption or sell them cheaply to the boat people.
The Tanka people have no land and do not know how to farm, so they have to buy food or exchange it with villagers. In most cases they suffer losses.
As long as Chen Wenjun goes to the port and greets everyone, and quotes a price lower than the market price, all the nearby boat people will drive their boats to Nanyu to buy sweet potatoes. Not only are there many people buying, but the quantity is also quite large.
Lin Yi planted eight acres of crops and sold 80% of them in just three days, making a profit of less than three thousand yuan, and kept the rest for his own consumption.
With this money, the cash-strapped Lin Yi straightened his back and worked even harder.
It was also at this time that Shen Wenfeng finally tracked down Zhu's father, who had left the village to deliver food to his son and daughter-in-law, and followed the clues to find the rental house of Zhu Fugen and his wife.
The couple hid in the suburbs of Anshi during this period, and they also happened to catch up with the government's highway construction, and they both worked on the construction site.
When the police came to the door, Li Lan was so scared that she couldn't speak, and Zhu Fugen was also shocked and scared.
The two policemen looked at each other and told him about the abandoned baby in the city hospital. "We now suspect you of abandoning the child. Please come back to the police station with us to cooperate with the investigation."
The couple was horrified.
Zhu Fugen denied it emotionally, "No! We didn't abandon the child!"
The police officer's face darkened and he said seriously, "Whether it was you who said it or not, there were so many nurses in the city hospital who had seen the child's parents at the time. As long as they could identify it, they would know if it was you. It is the duty of every citizen to cooperate with the investigation."
Zhu Fugen insisted that they had not given birth to the child, let alone abandoned the child, and refused to cooperate.
The police visited the construction site and people nearby, and only found out that Zhu Fugen and his wife had just arrived there not long ago and were completely unaware of the situation.
Later, the police could only contact their colleagues at the police station and ask them to invite the relevant nurses from the municipal hospital to come for identification.
Several nurses came over accompanied by the police, took a closer look at the couple, and shouted excitedly: "It's them! It's this couple! Their medical bills haven't been settled yet!"
"How wicked! They threw the baby away right after it was born, and even dumped it in the hospital. The director scolded us all."
"That's right! Such a young child, isn't he afraid of being struck by lightning for doing such a wicked thing?"
A group of nurses were filled with righteous indignation and accused Li Lan, scolding her until she turned pale and was on the verge of collapse. Zhu Fugen was so angry that his eyes turned red and he drove those nurses away frantically.
The policeman immediately got angry and stepped forward to restrain Zhu Fugen, "Take him away!"
Zhu's father, who had been silent the whole time, finally couldn't sit still anymore and yelled at Li Lan, "Useless thing! If my son is caught, you'll jump into the river! My Zhu family can't keep a useless daughter-in-law like you! Hurry up and go to the river!"
Everyone's expression changed when they heard this.
Forced by Zhu's father, Li Lan cried pitifully, her eyes full of fear.
The policeman angrily scolded Zhu's father, "You forced someone to die, do you also want to go to the police station?"
Father Zhu, however, sat on the ground with a desperate look on his face, "Anyway, she has to take responsibility if anything happens to my son. It's all her fault! It has nothing to do with my son!"
The police were not easily threatened and immediately had Li Lan arrested, completely ignoring Zhu's father who was throwing a tantrum.
Seeing that his son and daughter-in-law were arrested, Zhu's father had no choice but to go to Nanyu to ask Lin Yi for help.
Lin Yi opened the gap in the courtyard door. When he saw Zhu's father, his first reaction was to ask about Zhu Fugen and his wife. Unexpectedly, Zhu's father interrupted him and said, "Brother-in-law, Fugen and Li Lan were taken away by the police. I know you in the city. Can you help me think of a solution?"
Lin Qin has already followed by now.
Then Lin Yi said angrily, "Brother-in-law, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but Fugen's behavior is too unkind. He just abandoned the child at the hospital after giving birth and ran away without paying the medical bills. Even if they don't want to adopt a girl, they should pay off the medical bills and find someone to adopt the child! How can you do things like this?"
Father Zhu was so anxious that he stamped his feet and was a little impatient. He didn't think carefully about how Lin Yi knew these things.
"It's useless to say all this now. Our Fugen is a good boy. If Li Lan hadn't been pregnant, Fugen wouldn't have done such a thing! He was forced! Brother-in-law, do you have any connections here? Please help me."
Before Lin Yi could speak, Lin Qin stepped forward coldly and said, "What are you saying, uncle! My husband is a boatman, and my father has been farming all his life. If he could have gotten in touch with the police station, he wouldn't have to suffer all his life. The matter between my cousin and his wife shouldn't have gotten to this point, but they just wouldn't listen to our advice, and we have no other options. Now it depends on how they plan to deal with it. If they admit their mistakes, pay the hospital's medical bills, and take the child back, maybe everything will be fine.
If they insist on doing it their own way, even gods can’t help them! After all, the hospital can find out whether my cousin’s wife has given birth to a child. Can they deny it? Besides, so many medical staff have seen them. It’s impossible for them to team up and frame them! They have no choice but to admit it! "
Seeing that Zhu's father's expression was unpredictable, Lin Yi quickly pulled Lin Qin's clothes to make her shut up, then turned around and said to Zhu's father in a gentle voice, "Brother-in-law, Aqin speaks frankly, don't take it to heart, but she is not wrong. You have to admit it and can't act tough with the police station. If you piss them off, what if they really catch you?"
Zhu's father was so upset that he cursed and clenched his teeth, "It's all that money-losing bastard's fault! I think he should have been taken out of the hospital and thrown into the water to drown, so as to avoid bringing disaster to our family!"
Seeing that Lin Qin was so angry that she was about to curse, Lin Yi quickly covered her mouth and urged Zhu's father to go to the police station to rescue her as soon as possible.
Lin Yi didn't close the door of the gap until Zhu's father got on the fishing boat. He breathed a sigh of relief. Facing Lin Qin's murderous gaze, Lin Yi had to comfort her for a while.
(End of this chapter)
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