Wu Meijuan said angrily, "Liu Guilan, what exactly do you want? We've already said we want to go back, why are you still arresting us?"
Lu Dajuan whispered, "You've already hit and scolded me, your anger should have subsided by now."
Sun Jinmei also said, "Second sister-in-law, this matter has nothing to do with us. It's a bit unreasonable for you to arrest us all. Go find whoever is in the wrong."
When Old Mrs. Huo heard that her youngest daughter-in-law was trying to push her out to take the blame, she immediately frowned and said, "Fourth son's wife, what do you mean by this?"
Sun Jinmei wasn't afraid of her mother-in-law. She retorted, "What else could it mean? Every wrong has its perpetrator, and every debt its debtor. Is it wrong for me to tell my second brother and sister-in-law to go find whoever is at fault?"
She can't go with these people and be taken to the police station!
Originally, she just wanted to go with the flow and see if she could gain some advantage, but now, not only has she not gained any advantage, she's also gotten herself into this mess. She's not going to stand for it!
Huo Yuanming's arm was being pinched so hard by his wife that the flesh was almost falling off, but he had no choice but to go along with her wishes. "Mother, what exactly happened? I think you should tell us. I believe your second brother and sister-in-law won't really be so heartless as to send you to the police station. After all, whether he's your biological son or not, you raised him from a young age, didn't you?"
After saying that, Huo Yuanming looked at Huo De and said, "Second Brother, please don't hold it against me for the sake of our past relationship."
Liu Guilan was about to speak when Huo De stopped her. He took a step forward and looked at the Huo family members. "You mean you raised me from childhood? You mean you made me start cutting pig feed and feeding chickens and ducks when I was three years old, and that counts as raising me as being raised by your family for over twenty years? Who raised whom here? And what about past relationships? What relationship do I have with your family of bloodsuckers? Huo Yuanming, don't you feel ashamed saying these things?"
Huo Yuanming was speechless after being rebuked by Huo De.
The reason he singled out Huo De was because he thought that his second brother had always been a quiet, hard-working, and easy-to-manage person. Little did he know that his second brother had changed and could now talk a lot!
Once Hord opened his mouth, he felt particularly at ease. He was just not good with words and didn't like to argue with people, but he wasn't stupid or ignorant of right and wrong.
"You don't need to keep trying to emulate me. I don't want to hear anything you say now. You should think about how to talk to the police!"
"Huo Hai, Huo Jiang, go get ropes and tie these people up. We're going to the police station to report this!"
"yes!"
The Huo brothers, Huo Hai and Huo Jiang, immediately took out a bundle of rope hanging on the wall and tied each member of the Huo family around the waist.
Seeing the Huo family members tied up in a string still struggling to untie the ropes, Huo De looked at Ye Weiwei and said, "Third brother's wife, go and break their arms!"
Ye Weiwei replied crisply, "Yes!"
Then, she quickly dislocated the arms of all the Huo family members except for Old Madam Huo.
Immediately, screams and wails filled the air.
Huo Yuanfeng and his companions had never suffered such torment before, and they immediately begged for mercy. Then they started clamoring for Old Lady Huo to tell the truth.
Hord didn't want to hear a single word and didn't give them a chance to speak, so he had their mouths gagged.
Then, Huo De walked ahead, holding the rope and dragging the string of candied hawthorns to the police station to report the case.
Liu Guilan arranged for the wives of the eldest and second sons to stay and look after the children, while the rest of the Huo family went to the police station.
Zhao Dabao, Wu Dayou, and several others followed along, helping to keep an eye on the Huo family members to prevent them from causing trouble on the road.
When they arrived at the police station, Li Hao saw that it was Ye Weiwei and immediately came out to greet her. He then called Fang Ming, who was out on business, to come back. The two of them interrogated all the members of the Huo family in less than two hours. They also interrogated Old Madam Huo, who was under special scrutiny, in less than half an hour, and found out everything they knew.
The main problem was that Old Mrs. Huo chickened out. She was terrified when she was interrogated and confessed everything before they could say anything.
But she was getting old, and so many years had passed, so her memories were limited, and she spent most of her time reminiscing.
It turns out that Huo De was indeed not Old Lady Huo's biological son, but rather someone she had traded a whole grain cake for years.
When she gave birth to her second son, she took the child back to her parents' home shortly after her postpartum confinement period. On the way back, she encountered a group of robbers. In her panicked escape, she lost her own child.
When she went back to look for it, she could no longer find it.
She did discover a woman hiding in the reeds. The woman was injured and was holding a boy who was about the same age as her son.
She was worried about losing her child and not knowing how to explain it to her when she heard that the woman wanted to entrust her child to her, so she immediately agreed without thinking.
To prevent the woman from changing her mind, she even offered her a piece of mixed grain bread.
However, since he was not her biological son, Old Mrs. Huo could not treat him as her own. Moreover, the thought that her own son had not escaped that calamity and died somewhere unknown, with no trace of his body, made her dislike and even resentment towards Huo De grow stronger. Therefore, she began to find ways to torment him...
"When that woman entrusted the child to her, she didn't leave any words about taking the child back or about the child's background. So, Old Mrs. Huo didn't know whose child Huo De was."
Fang Ming told Huo De about the interrogation results, and at the same time felt sorry for his eldest son's father.
Unexpectedly, he had such a background and experiences.
Ye Weiwei frowned; "Could it be that my father-in-law didn't have anything on him that could identify him back then?"
Li Hao immediately said, "I'll go ask again."
A moment later, Li Hao came out with a small, emerald-green jade pendant.
"Grandma Huo said that back then, Uncle Huo always carried this small jade pendant. She found it in Uncle Huo's small swaddle blanket. She thought it was valuable, so she always kept it secretly on her body. That's all."
I just looked at it carefully; there's not a single word on this little pendant, it's just a simple little charm.
Huo De took the small jade pendant with trembling hands, overwhelmed with mixed emotions.
Ye Weiwei's eyes swept over the small jade pendant carefully, her gaze flickering.
Although this small jade pendant is only the length of a thumb and is crescent-shaped, the jade is delicate and full, and the carving is exquisite. The fish on it is so lifelike that it seems to be about to jump out of the pendant.
What's even more amazing is that when the pendant is flipped, there is a faint stream of light that flashes by, and upon closer inspection, it turns out to be the character "余" (yú).
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