The police officer guarding the hospital called the police station and said, "Captain, Qu Yongming has been transferred to the general ward and has regained consciousness. The doctor said he can be interrogated."
Ji Shaoguo and Wen Mingguo rushed to the hospital immediately. Qu Yongming was lying on the bed with his eyes squinted, looking dead.
The police officers in the second team were filled with frustration. "No matter how we asked, he just wouldn't talk. The doctor said that his will to live was very weak."
With his great revenge achieved, the stone that had been weighing on his nerves finally fell to the ground, completely making Qu Yongming lose the desire to continue living.
Ji Shaoguo walked into the ward and walked out not long after. The other party didn't say a word and simply ignored him.
Having just escaped from danger, we couldn't even be tough in our attitude, for fear that he would commit suicide again.
Wen Mingguo said, "Let's start with Qu Yongqiang. He is a mentally retarded and mute child. It is impossible that the fifteen-year-old Qu Yongming could have raised him without any feelings for him."
Qu Yongqiang followed the police under the instructions of Qu Yongming. How can a person who cannot distinguish right from wrong understand the law?
Being able to raise this non-blood-related brother for twenty-five years, this must be the softest spot in Qu Yongming's heart.
With Qu Yongming in jail, Qu Yongqiang became a lonely man with no one to take care of him. He has low intelligence and cannot speak, so one can imagine how miserable his future life will be.
In the ward, Wen Mingguo told Qu Yongming that they would detain Qu Yongqiang for at least three years on charges of harboring a criminal and assaulting a police officer.
It is not ruled out that Qu Yongqiang was also suspected of being involved in the rape and murder of two women. If convicted, Qu Yongqiang's sentence will be longer.
Qu Yongming, who had kept his eyes closed, finally opened them and looked at Wen Mingguo. "My brother did nothing. He was not at the scene when I killed someone. I also instructed him to follow that woman that night. He didn't know anything and just listened to me. You can't convict him."
Wen Mingguo: "Whether he is guilty or not depends on the results of the police investigation. We found the bodies of your adoptive father Qu Zhaoyang and stepmother Gu Xiaomin in the backyard of Cheng Zhiji's house."
Qu Yongming's eyes trembled.
Wen Mingguo continued, "Your father stole the gold bars from Huixia Bank and went to find Cheng Zhiji. The two had a conflict, probably because of the uneven distribution of the spoils. The specific reason is now unknown. When your stepmother came to the door, Cheng Zhiji was worried that his murder of Qu Zhaoyang would be exposed, so he simply killed Gu Xiaomin. The bodies of the two were buried together and have turned into bones."
"When did you know that it was Cheng Zhiji who killed your adoptive father and stepmother?"
Qu Yongming opened his lips slightly, "I saw a photo of Cheng Zhiji in the newspaper. He was wearing a pocket watch on his chest. It was my father's heirloom. Even when our family was penniless, he didn't sell it. My father said he would pass it on to me."
Wen Mingguo: "Just based on a pocket watch, are you sure that Cheng Zhiji killed your adoptive father and stepmother?"
Qu Yongming: "I used a photo of my parents to test him. When Cheng Zhiji picked up the photo, he was completely stunned and looked around nervously. If he hadn't killed anyone, why would he be so scared?"
Wen Mingguo: "Did you suddenly decide to rape and kill those two women?"
Qu Yongming raised his lips sarcastically, "Who asked them to be so cheap? They called my brother a fool and scolded him. I was so angry when I got home that I locked my brother in the room and went out to settle the score with them. But Cheng Zhiji rushed in at that time and wanted to be a hero. His hypocritical face really made me sick."
Wen Mingguo stood up and said, "If your adoptive parents were still alive, they would definitely not let you do this. They would rather let you two brothers live well than avenge them."
"Why did she give birth to a child if she adopted me? If she didn't, my family wouldn't be broken up. Is her biological son so good? He's just a fool and a mute. He just hangs around me all day long. He's in his thirties and drools when he calls me brother. They've never thought about me."
The grievance and anger in Qu Yongming's heart burst out at this moment, and tears could not stop flowing from the corners of his eyes.
Wen Mingguo's hand stopped as he was about to open the door. He stood there for a few seconds before continuing to walk out. His hatred was real, and his love was not fake.
Otherwise, the fifteen-year-old Qu Yongming would not have raised Qu Yongqiang until he was thirty-five years old.
If it weren't for that pocket watch, these two unrelated brothers would have continued to live with mutual comfort.
The case was solved, and the wrongly accused Sha Zhengsheng was released from prison and returned home, while Qu Yongqiang was sent back to his hometown. No one knows how he is doing in the future.
Wang Shuning, who knew the truth, burned a pile of paper money in front of Widow Qiu's grave. If he had known the truth was like this, he would have rather let Cheng Zhiji die at that time.
If he had not heard the voice and rescued him, Qu Yongming would not have killed Widow Qiu later.
Song Guiying stood aside and sighed, "She is also pitiful. She didn't even have a family member to burn paper for her, and her only daughter didn't come either."
Wang Shuning turned to look at Song's mother, "She has another daughter?"
Song Guiying nodded. "Widow Qiu gave birth to a daughter after marrying her first husband. Later, she divorced and gave her daughter to her ex-husband. This man is her second husband, but unfortunately he died eight years after they got married. She never remarried."
Wang Shuning asked, "Has her daughter never seen her?"
Song Guiying shook her head. "She didn't even come when she died, let alone in the past. The girl is probably about thirteen years old now. She didn't remember anything when she died, so I probably don't recognize her. But when Widow Qiu was chatting with others, she mentioned her daughter and said that her daughter was as pretty as her."
Wang Shuning was silent, staring at the grave as if he could see Widow Qiu's face.
In the next two days, seeing that her younger daughter was in a low mood, Song Guiying did not mention the blind date again.
The train ticket Wang Shuning bought was for August 21st, which was five days away.
She hesitated again and again, thought over and over again, and finally secretly found out where Widow Qiu's daughter Dai Yinghua lived now.
I didn't carry anything or money, I just came here alone to take a quick look.
After Widow Qiu’s ex-husband divorced her, he married his current wife three years later.
Wang Shuning parked his bicycle in the shed and locked it.
"Auntie, can you tell me how to get to Painter Dai Ying?" Wang Shuning got the approximate location from others, and he would not go anywhere after he arrived at the street.
The lady who was washing vegetables by the road looked up at Wang Shuning, curious about why she was looking for the Dai family. She pointed to the intersection ahead and said, "Turn right at that intersection and keep going. The one with the chestnut tree at the door is painter Dai Ying."
"Thank you." After turning the corner, Wang Shuning walked for five or six minutes and finally saw a huge tree.
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