Chapter 61: The teacher who wrote the apology letter hanged himself...
Wu Jiangxue doesn't remember how she got out of the Kowloon City Police Station.
Her mind was a mess, filled with the image of Anna lying at her feet, weakly saying she wanted to die.
When I came out, it was already raining heavily.
Standing in front of the police station lobby, she held a cat in her arms and looked out at the rain.
The air was damp with the scent of earth and rain, mixed with the fishy smell wafting from the direction of the sea.
The police chief caught up from behind, calling out, "Inspector Wu! Inspector Wu!"
Seeing that Wu Jiangxue hadn't left yet, he warmly extended his hand, "Wu sir, I've heard so much about you, I never expected you to come to our police station!"
"It's almost time to get off work, Officer Wu. Do you have time to go out for a meal together?"
"Thank you, but no need."
Wu Jiangxue forced a smile and slowly shook her head.
She looked down at the big, fat cat in her arms. "My kitten is hungry. I have to hurry home to feed her."
Hearing its owner's words, the fat cat found a comfortable spot to lie down and exposed its little belly.
Meow~
Its call was soft and tender, with a long trailing tone, as it looked pitifully at the police chief.
Most police officers in Hong Kong have heard of Wujiang Snow.
A police genius, a brilliant detective, he rose to the position of police inspector at a young age, and he also has a fat cat that is always by his side.
Moreover, Wu Jiangxue cherishes this cat very much; some people even say that she values the cat more than herself.
Now that the precious baby is hungry, the police chief naturally felt embarrassed to insist that he stay any longer.
He grinned so wide his eyes disappeared. "Alright, alright, then when Officer Wu has the chance, I'll definitely treat Officer Wu to a good meal!"
Wu Jiangxue nodded politely, holding the cat in one arm and an umbrella in the other, and slowly walked into the rain.
As he watched her walk away, the police chief's expression darkened.
He turned around to find Shen Zaikun and ask him what he and Wu Jiangxue had talked about, but as soon as he turned around, he bumped into Shen Zaikun, who was running out quickly.
Hey! Where are you going?!
He tried to block Shen Zaikun, but Shen Zaikun grabbed him and switched places with him, then disappeared into the rain.
The police chief looked at his small frame, then at Chen Zaikun, who had already walked into the rain.
I walked to my previous spot, turned around, and returned to the original position.
Holy crap! How did this kid do that?!
He shouted, "When are you coming back?!"
Shen Zaikun waved his hand at him, "Going to investigate a case in Kwun Tong District, I'll be back soon!"
Upon hearing that he was going to Kwun Tong District, the police chief couldn't help but jump up and down in anger.
"You're always running around on other people's turf, have you even finished the work on your own turf?"
His answer was the roar of an engine.
Shen Zaikun drove towards Kwun Tong District.
Dark clouds loomed outside the car, and there were hardly any people on the road.
The rain poured down, like someone was splashing water onto the windshield with a basin.
Due to limited visibility, he drove relatively slowly.
As I walked along a side road, a young woman with an umbrella was waving her hands frantically by the roadside.
As his car was about to pass her, she even threw away her umbrella and rushed towards him.
"Help! Help!"
The woman stopped the car, lay on the hood, and cried while pounding on it.
"Help! Please help me, sir!"
Shen Zaikun thought she was in danger, so he quickly cocked his gun.
"What's wrong? What happened?"
He opened the car door and got out. The woman rushed towards him, crying, but slipped and fell to the ground.
Her eyes were red and swollen from crying, and she clung tightly to Shen Zaikun's trouser leg.
"Sir, please save...please save my son! I beg you, please save my son!"
Ignoring the mud and water on her body, Shen Zaikun quickly pulled her up.
"Slow down, what happened to your son?"
"My son..."
The daughter cried as she pointed to the row of dilapidated bungalows behind her.
"My son has a fever, and I can't find a car to take us to the hospital..."
Shen Zaikun: "What about the clinic? Aren't there any clinics nearby?"
It would have been better not to ask; the woman's crying only intensified after she did.
She shook her head wildly, her eyes stinging from the pounding rain.
"Yes, but my mother-in-law offended the doctor at the clinic, and the doctor won't treat her..."
Shen Zaikun didn't care about anything else and hurriedly asked, "Where is your son? I'll take him to the hospital!"
The woman pointed towards the bungalows, "In the middle, my mother-in-law is holding a child and waiting for someone..."
Shen Zaikun nodded, watching her walk with a limp, "I'll go find your mother-in-law and son first, you wait for me here."
After saying that, he hurriedly ran towards the location of the bungalow.
Unexpectedly, when he arrived, the old lady holding the child was arguing with someone.
The old woman held the hand of a middle-aged nun, her voice high-pitched and loud:
"My grandson has a fever, and I have to go find my daughter-in-law! It's raining so hard outside, I can't possibly take the child with me!"
"My only grandson is getting worse after being caught in the rain!"
The middle-aged nun who was being pulled along frowned, her eyes filled with displeasure as she looked at the old lady.
But when his gaze fell on the swaddled baby in the old lady's arms, he felt a pang of pity.
She pursed her lips, intending to take the child, when suddenly another nun rushed over and grabbed her hand.
"Wait! We can't help!"
The old lady glared at her. "Ahua, what are you doing! My grandson is in trouble, what's wrong with me asking someone to hold him for a bit!"
Ah Hua, also known as the newspaper's good wife, was panting heavily, tightly gripping her friend's hand.
"No, you can't hug me."
She pointed to the old lady's own room and said, "Go find your daughter-in-law and leave the child at home. Why do you insist on having someone else hold the child?"
"You heartless Ah Hua!"
The old lady held her grandson, her face long and drawn.
"My grandson is sick and needs to be cared for. What's wrong with me asking someone to hold him for a bit?"
Her eyes darted around, and she walked towards the newspaper-reading woman with her child in her arms.
"Since you won't let me ask someone else for help, then you can hold the baby for me!"
"Damn it!"
The newspaper's good wife quickly pulled the person away.
"Get out of the way! Take your child away from here!"
The old woman's face was so dark it looked like it could be wrung out of water. "Ahua, what do you mean? Are you disgusted with my child?"
Her friend didn't quite understand her either, and gently shook her arm, "Ahua, what's wrong?"
The newspaper reporter glared at her friend, "Do you remember the master who saved my son, A-Yong?"
“I remember,” my friend winked. “What does it have to do with that person?”
"What does this have to do with that master? The master said your family is about to be ruined and you'll be burdened with debt for the rest of your life!"
The newspaper article deliberately exaggerated, even pointing to the swaddled baby in the old lady's arms.
"The master said that if you help this old lady, you will not only be burdened with debt, but you will also be involved in a murder case!"
"Think about your two children. Are you going to ruin your whole family for this old woman who's always causing trouble?"
His friend's expression changed, and he quickly withdrew his hand.
"No, no, no, I just felt sorry for the child..."
This is not a favor I necessarily have to do.
The old lady didn't hear what they were saying, but she could tell they were unwilling to help.
She glanced down at the swaddled baby in her arms, her eyes darting around rapidly.
Suddenly, her gaze sharpened.
A young man stood not far away in the rain, followed by his limping daughter-in-law.
"Hey!"
Her face lit up with joy, and she waved frantically.
"Over here, over here, Shu, over here!"
As she spoke, she rushed over with the swaddled baby in her arms, shouting as she ran:
"You're here to help, right? Quick, quick, help me hold the baby!"
She tried to shove the child into Shen Zaikun's hands, but he dodged it by sidestepping.
The newspaper's wife followed behind the old lady, and seeing that Shen Zaikun didn't accept it, she clapped her hands excitedly.
"Don't answer! Absolutely don't answer! If you do, you'll be stuck with this person!"
The old woman was holding the child in one arm. She turned around and reached out to grab the child's face.
"You old hag, you heartless bastard! What nonsense are you spouting!"
As she spoke, she tried to shove the swaddled baby into Chen Zaikun's arms, but he dodged her again.
The limping daughter-in-law, Ashu, caught up and, seeing her mother-in-law carrying the child without even holding an umbrella, said anxiously:
"Mom, what are you doing! Xiaobao is sick, and you're taking him out in the rain!"
"That's what I thought, it's all because of that heartless gossip!"
The old woman glared at the newspaper and said, "Good wife."
"If she hadn't refused to help, Xiao Bao wouldn't have gotten soaked in the rain!"
Her fingernails were dirty and long, almost poking into the face of the newspaper's "good wife".
"Ah Hua, you just wait! If anything happens to my grandson, our two families will never be finished!"
"Hey, you old hag..." The newspaper's good wife rolled up her sleeves.
The daughter-in-law didn't want to talk to her unreasonable mother-in-law anymore, so she reached out to hug the child.
"Alright, Mom, give me the child. This gentleman is willing to take us to the hospital."
She reached out to hug the child, but her mother-in-law glared at her fiercely and slapped her hand away.
"Don't touch it!"
She glanced at Shen Zaikun, who was standing to the side, completely soaked, and forced a smile.
"Young man, look at me, an old woman, and my daughter-in-law walks with a limp. Could you help us carry the baby?"
Shen Zaikun stood in the rain without saying a word, his dark eyes making the old lady panic, and even the smile on her face froze.
"No way! Young man, you mustn't fall for this old woman's tricks!"
The newspaper quickly stood in front of Shen Zaikun.
"She's a terrible person! When her son was sick as a child, she insisted that the doctor was an incompetent doctor, and she made a scene and cheated him out of several hundred yuan!"
"People are turning away whenever they see her family! She's offended everyone in the neighborhood, so don't get involved!"
"Nonsense!" The old woman instantly exploded, "I'd say your newsstand sells fake newspapers! You slanderous bastard, you rotten gossip..."
She used incredibly foul language, hurling every filthy insult imaginable.
The daughter-in-law next to her was very afraid of her, but seeing that she was not holding an umbrella and was arguing with someone in the rain, she couldn't help but reach out and snatch it.
"Mom! If you want to argue, then argue. I'm begging you, please give me the child. I'll take the child to the hospital, okay?"
The old woman saw that she still dared to snatch it, so she slapped her across the face.
It hit the daughter-in-law squarely in the face.
Braving the rain, she tightly hugged her child and spat at her daughter-in-law:
"Fine, fine, fine, fine my ass!"
"You heartless troublemaker! You dare to disobey your mother-in-law! Wait till my son gets back, and you'll see how he deals with you!"
She slapped her hard, and her daughter-in-law's face swelled up visibly.
The daughter-in-law stared at her in disbelief, her expression changing.
"Mom, when your son comes back, you can settle accounts with me however you want, but you have to give my son back to me now!"
"He's had a fever for days, we can't delay any longer! Give me my son!"
She tried to take it, but the old lady held the swaddling clothes tightly and wouldn't give it up.
He tried to pull Shen Zaikun away, yelling, "Young man, hurry up and take the child to the car! Hurry up!"
But after a few attempts, the daughter-in-law couldn't take it anymore and bit her wrist.
She used all her strength to bite, and the old lady screamed and quickly let go of the swaddling clothes in her arms.
The swaddling clothes weren't wrapped properly, and when she loosened them, the baby inside was immediately exposed to the rain.
"Xiao Bao!"
The daughter-in-law's eyes widened in horror, and she quickly reached out to grab the child.
The baby fell out of its swaddling clothes and landed in the water on the ground, but didn't cry.
The daughter-in-law scooped up the child, but when she held the child in her arms, she was stunned.
"Xiao Bao?"
The torrential rain poured down on her head, and she stared blankly at the child in her arms with his eyes closed, unable to come back to her senses for a long time.
The old woman peeked at the newspaper and screamed in fright.
"This...this child..."
She pointed tremblingly at the child whose body had turned bluish-purple, and then plopped down on the ground.
Shen Zaikun glanced at the child and frowned deeply.
"No...no..."
The old lady's face turned pale. She looked at her stunned daughter-in-law and the screaming Ahua, not knowing where to put her hands.
She opened her mouth, her lips trembling, and finally her eyes darted around, pointing directly at her daughter-in-law kneeling in the rain.
"Oh dear, what a tragedy! My grandson!"
She cried and screamed, and went up to her daughter-in-law, tearing at her hair repeatedly.
"You good-for-nothing, troublemaker! How are you going to take care of my grandson!"
"I only have one grandson! How can you, as his mother, take care of him?!"
The daughter-in-law, holding her child, sat in the dirty water, her whole being seemingly ripped from its soul.
She held the child tightly, letting her mother-in-law tear at her hair and drag her around.
The good wife read the newspaper for a while, but couldn't continue.
"What are you doing! Your daughter-in-law has no idea what's wrong with the child, okay?"
"But you, you're giving this person a hug one minute and that person a hug the next, like you're trying to distance yourself from them!"
"I think you're the one with a guilty conscience! You're the one who killed your grandson!"
The daughter-in-law held the child tightly, and after hearing what the good wife in the newspaper said, her dull eyes moved slightly.
"mom……"
She held her already stiff baby in her arms, looked up at her mother-in-law, her face calm and almost expressionless.
His voice was hoarse as he asked, "Xiao Bao, when did you die?"
The old lady was startled by her expression, and after realizing what she meant, she became furious.
He pulled his daughter-in-law's hair even harder.
"What do you mean! I'm your mother-in-law, Xiaobao's grandmother, would I kill him?"
She wanted to say something more, but this time her daughter-in-law couldn't hold back.
She pushed hard, sending the old woman tumbling over.
As the old woman lay in the rain, screaming in agony, she picked up the soaking wet swaddle and wrapped it around the child's stiff body.
Shen Zaikun kept watching her as she carefully wrapped the child and gently placed him on a slightly higher rock.
When she turned around again, her face was still expressionless.
The newspaper reporter's wife pulled her friend's hand and stepped back, finding her calmness somewhat frightening.
"Oh my god, this is outrageous! Everyone come and see!"
"My daughter-in-law is going to kill me! She's going to kill someone!"
"Waaaaah, my son saw that her family was having a hard time, so he brought her to our home to enjoy a comfortable life."
"She actually wants to kill me now! Son, your wife is going to kill your mother!"
Just as the old lady was crying and begging her son to stand up for her, her daughter-in-law suddenly rushed over and grabbed her neck tightly.
Before the old lady could react, she was grabbed by the neck and pushed into the water.
She glared at her daughter-in-law, reaching out to pry her hands off her neck, making "heh heh" sounds as if she wanted to say something, but no sound came out.
The cold rain soaked her hair and flowed into her ears.
Her lips trembled, her breaths grew shallower, and the water roared in her ear canals.
Just when she thought she was going to die, the pressure on her neck suddenly loosened.
Shen Zaikun pulled his daughter-in-law away and shouted sternly, "What are you doing!"
The daughter-in-law wouldn't look at him; her eyes were filled with hatred, and her attention was entirely on her mother-in-law.
"You old hag, it's you! You're the one who killed my little Bao!"
She tried to rush over, but Shen Zaikun grabbed her and held her down.
Even so, she still leaned her body and kept struggling toward her mother-in-law.
"I already told you I was going to take Xiaobao to the hospital! But you just wouldn't let me!"
They insist that children don't need injections or medicine and can get better on their own!
"I was wondering why you suddenly changed your mind and agreed to let me take Xiaobao to the hospital..."
"So you killed my little treasure all along!"
Her last words were screamed with heartbreaking intensity.
Neighbors who were sheltering from the rain at home were drawn out by the rope and stood not far away with umbrellas to watch the commotion.
"Oh dear, what happened?"
"It seems to be that old lady from that family. Her grandson was sick, but she didn't take him to the hospital. The child is now dead!"
"Oh? It's that serious!"
"Not only that, I saw the whole thing! This old lady, seeing her grandson gone, is trying to find someone to hold him, planning to extort money from people!"
Everyone was familiar with the mean-spirited old lady's personality and could guess her motives pretty accurately.
In the end, Shen Zaikun was unable to go to Chu Ci's shop. Instead, he sent the bodies of the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, and child to the Kwun Tong Police Station.
The story of this mother-in-law and daughter-in-law was told to Chu Ci by Liang's wife, who brought her friend to thank her.
She described the story vividly, slapping her thigh from time to time, making the grandmother and He Lihua, who hadn't witnessed it themselves, feel as if they were there.
"Really? That old lady is really that outrageous. She's been exposed, yet she's still blaming her daughter-in-law?"
"That's right!" The newspaper-loving wife took a sip of water and answered Grandma's question.
"I really underestimated her before. I thought she was at least someone who loved children, but who knew she could do something like this."
"Even her grandson is gone, and she still wants to use his corpse to scam people again!"
"Tsk! How despicable!"
Listening to their discussion, Chu Ci asked, "What happened to the old lady's daughter-in-law who tried to kill someone?"
"Oh, Master, you'd never guess how coincidental this is!"
When this was mentioned, the newspaper's wife's eyes lit up.
"Ah Shu, that's the old lady's daughter-in-law. She went to ask for help, and by some twist of fate, she ended up with a police officer!"
"The officer witnessed the whole thing. Ah Shu was just emotionally agitated, but no actual harm was caused, so she shouldn't be punished."
"But that old lady is the unlucky one!"
No sooner had she finished speaking than someone walked in from outside, and the newspaper-wearing wife quickly shut up.
But upon closer inspection, her eyes widened.
"Officer? You're the officer from yesterday?!"
Shen Zaikun raised an eyebrow in surprise when he saw the two of them there.
"you……"
"Officer, we're here to thank the master!"
The newspaper's wife walked up to Chu Ci, beaming with joy.
"Thanks to the master's reminder, my friend was spared from getting into trouble!"
Her friend nodded repeatedly, looking at Chu Ci with grateful eyes.
"Yes, yes, yes! If Master hadn't asked Ah Hua to remind me, with that old woman's sharp tongue, I would have been accused of killing her grandson."
Shen Zaikun lowered his eyes and nodded gently.
The newspaper reporter looked at him, smiled, and asked curiously, "Officer, are you here to have your fortune told too?"
Shen Zaikun looked at Chu Ci, and seeing that Chu Ci was also looking at him, he shook his head.
"No, I have something I want to say."
He looked at Chu Ci, and Chu Ci nodded.
Grandma and the others tactfully left, leaving only her and Shen Zaikun in the room in the blink of an eye.
"Would you like some water?" Chu Ci asked.
"No need." Shen Zaikun shook his head. "I came here today to remind you of something."
He pursed his lips and continued, "The newspaper about Granny Guo was just published yesterday, and the Bai family contacted the publishing house right away."
"And the teacher who wrote that apology letter, she hanged herself at home this morning."
Chu Ci: "..."
She took a deep breath and looked at Shen Zaikun.
"You don't think she committed suicide?"
“I do think so, but…”
He paused, subconsciously pursed his lips, and touched his nose.
"But I don't know whether she was killed by Granny Guo or by the Bai family."
"Grandma Guo?"
Chu Ci stared at him, making Shen Zaikun feel a little uncomfortable.
Logically speaking, a policeman shouldn't have said such a thing. But...
He coughed lightly twice, "After all, there's Anna Bai in front of us."
"Yes, you have a point."
Chu Ci also felt that it was Granny Guo who killed him.
After all, it was the biggest reason that indirectly drove Guo Miaotong to her death, and she also felt that the teacher's death was caused by Granny Guo.
She opened her mouth as if to echo Shen Zaikun's words, but before she could utter a sound, a loud bell rang in her ears.
Chu Ci's expression changed, and he subconsciously looked towards the doorway.
A familiar figure stood in the dimly lit stairwell.
Seeing the slight change in her expression, Shen Zaikun turned his head and looked over, only to see an empty corridor.
His heart skipped a beat. "What's wrong?"
"Speak of the devil, and he shall appear."
Shen Zaikun: "..."
He pursed his lips. "Is it Granny Guo?"
"Um."
"She came to see you?"
Chu Ci glanced at him sideways, "She clearly came with you."
Shen Zaikun: "..."
He subconsciously glanced again at the empty hallway outside the door.
But I still didn't see anything.
What is she doing here?
"...She kept shaking her head."
"Shake your head?"
The two looked at each other and stopped simultaneously.
In a flash, his pupils trembled slightly.
"It wasn't her."
"It wasn't her!"
The two spoke in unison.
Shen Zaikun stood up and wanted to go out, but he turned back at the door.
"...Is she still outside?"
Chu Ci looked at his expressionless face and suddenly tugged at her lips.
"So you're afraid of ghosts."
Shen Zaikun: "..."
Seeing that he didn't show any expression even after being humiliated, Chu Ci smiled and said, "Let's go, you can go out without worry."
Shen Zaikun lifted the curtain and went out, but after taking two steps, he came back.
"By the way, Shen Xiuhe asked me to pass on a few words to you."
"Shen Xiuhe?" Chu Ci slapped his forehead. "I remember now, I promised to help him! Is this what he wanted to say?"
However, once Granny Guo's incident occurred, she was so busy that she forgot about it.
She checked the time and figured there wouldn't be any customers coming in for a while, so she grabbed her coat.
Are you going to Kwun Tong Police Station? Can you take me with you?
When the two arrived at Kwun Tong Police Station, it was already in a state of chaos.
The once quiet police station lobby was now packed with people, and even the police officers' offices were full.
The shouts of people and the cries of children were a chaotic mess, so loud it hurt people's ears.
Shen Zaikun found Shen Xiuhe, who had been brought in to do hard labor: "What's wrong with your police station?"
Shen Xiu, disguised as a member of the Major Crimes Unit, couldn't suppress his rage.
Upon seeing his older brother, his expression relaxed, and a wave of exhaustion and grievance washed over him.
"There was a multi-vehicle collision at the T-junction over there, and a fight broke out. Two people died at the scene, and several others are in the hospital..."
He sighed, "I don't know what's wrong with me today. I should have gone on this business trip with Ji Jingtong!"
"Oh, right!" He suddenly remembered something, his expression turning serious. "Brother, do you remember that teacher you mentioned at home this morning?"
Chu Ci glanced at Shen Zaikun's profile, and he nodded. "What's wrong?"
Shen Xiuhe's eyes widened in astonishment: "Brother, Miss Chu, you would never guess, it's all such a coincidence!"
Chu Ci raised an eyebrow. "Was he one of those people in this series of car accidents?"
"That's not all!"
Shen Xiu lowered his voice, "He's the one who caused this multi-vehicle collision! The car was speeding through the road, and he died on the spot!"
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