Chapter 78 Who is the Source of His Pain?
News spreads very quickly. After Zhai Jing found out that it was Yu Ke who took Yu Zhao away, she finally felt relieved after being worried for more than a month.
If someone else took Yu Zhao away, she would fight to the death.
She sat exhausted on the sofa. The coffee table was filled with all kinds of messy items. She stood up and slowly cleaned them up.
In the afternoon, Minghang passed by the kindergarten and picked up Mingluo. Zhai Jing happened to have finished wrapping dumplings for the winter solstice. She said in a neither loud nor soft voice, "I'm back."
"Um."
Minghang changed Mingluo's coat. After various things happened one after another, Minghang took the initiative to resign from Xia's job.
Except for the Xia party mentioned in the secret contract, no one else can propose to terminate the contract.
Ming Hang's resignation meant the end of their cooperation. Ming Hang lost his job overnight and was in debt of millions.
His original intention was to earn living expenses for Zhai Jing and her daughter. Although the family's expenses were not large, some money had to be saved, for example, in the future when Mingluo got married, perhaps she would need the money.
He never thought that he would end up losing the rice while trying to steal the chicken.
Zhai Jing personally served dumplings to the two of them.
The family atmosphere was extremely strange, but no one pointed it out. Even Mingluo, who was so young, had to act according to other people's expressions. She just buried her head and ate her dumplings obediently.
Zhai Jing remained silent. For Mingluo, she tried her best to balance her inner feelings. In fact, she simply could not accept a husband with a stain.
Can't accept betrayal.
Because stains and betrayal can still be seen in Zhai Jing's shadow.
So she was very resistant.
"Tomorrow I will go to Mr. Yu's place to see Zhao Zhao, you..." Before Zhai Jing finished speaking, Ming Hang said:
"I'll go with you. I'll apologize to Zheng Zhong and Zhao Zhao."
Zhai Jing pursed her lips and refused: "Take good care of Luo Luo at home. By the way, please find some time to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau with me."
She put down her chopsticks and wanted to escape from the table immediately.
Or avoid Ming Hang.
"Jingjing!" Minghang held her hand, "Why don't we sit down and have a good talk?"
"Minghang, stop making trouble. Don't scare Luoluo."
“…”
Minghang let go of her hand and said, "I'm sorry."
Mingluo raised her eyes slightly. She was careful with her words and actions. When she looked at Zhai Jing, she whispered "Mom."
Zhai Jing eventually failed in her marriage, and she was still considering whether to take Mingluo away.
On the winter solstice, a blizzard came.
The two of them had a quiet argument.
Minghang said he would change. "I will change. I am willing to make a comeback. I will not do such a thing again. Please, Jingjing, don't let our family break up..."
"But Minghang, I don't want to accompany you to make a comeback. I have been running this family for so many days and nights. This family is unwritten."
"What about Luo Luo? Can you please consider her existence? Luo Luo is so young. She will be sad if she loses any one of us. How will she face it in the future? When Zhao Zhao was taken away, didn't you feel how sad Luo Luo was?"
“…”
Zhai Jing was speechless. She severely rebuked Ming Hang: "Isn't everything that happened today caused by you? You knew Luo Luo liked Zhao Zhao very much, but you wanted to kill Zhao Zhao!"
"If you hadn't taken this path, Zhao Zhao wouldn't have been in trouble, Luo Luo wouldn't have become so sensitive, and you and I shouldn't have come to this point!"
She was afraid of getting too excited and waking up her sleeping daughter, so she suppressed her emotions, and veins bulged on her wrists.
"Let's get a divorce." Zhai Jing calmed down. "I'll take our daughter away and leave the house. If you want to come and see Luo Luo, tell me. I won't let Luo Luo lack fatherly love because of our emotional disputes."
"Yeah." Ming Hang compromised.
The entire city of A was covered in snow. Under the illumination of neon lights at night, the dead branches of the mountains and the balconies on the rooftops were all covered with heavy snow, with red spots and orange spots.
The car horns are getting louder and louder, and the Zhai family is about to face separation.
Minghang regretted it too late, but he could not catch up with anything.
He truly went from being a successful person to a failure.
The day of the final judgment is the last day of the year: December 31st.
The trial was broadcast live, after all, this was a case that the public was paying close attention to.
After Zhai Yan was forced to "voluntarily" donate her bone marrow, Xiao Ming wanted to imprison her. That night, Zhai Yan escaped, and several strong men were unable to stop her.
In court, Zhai Yan and her lawyer were speechless, so Yu Ke won the lawsuit that lasted about two months.
Just when they thought the case was over, Zhai Yan unexpectedly turned around and claimed on the spot that Xiao Ming had committed crimes such as running a black market, arson and robbery, and fraud group.
Including Xia Liwei making false company accounts.
She also claimed that Xiao Ming had "marriage fraud" and took her away secretly and forced her to donate bone marrow. The series of events were all recorded on video by reporters who were attending the trial.
On that day, a woman caused a news wave in City A, and the court quickly contacted the police.
It turned out that Xia Liwei had already cut off all ties with them, but Zhai Yan ended up betraying them all.
Her madness shocked almost everyone present.
Especially Wu Shi.
Although she didn't want to harm the people with such things, she had her own interests in hiding it from Xiao Ming.
She immediately contacted the company's secretary and asked him to remove the company's name from the database. If it was any later, both the Wu and Yu families would be implicated.
Zhai Yan smiled softly at the camera, "Since no one wants to be well, then die with me. Those who use me and deceive me must die!"
She told him everything and took out a contract, which stated that Ming Hang, as a senior management of Xia Group, accepted bribes and committed corrupt deeds.
She told everyone who had harmed her, and it was almost a fight to the death.
After that, the final verdict was that Zhai Yan was sentenced to life imprisonment, and the amount of compensation was changed from the original 2 million to 2.4 million. The other results were handled one by one according to the initial verdict.
The life imprisonment is because everything Zhai Yan exposed is true.
The police arrested Xiao Ming and a group of company executives. Xia Liwei was forced to announce the temporary closure of the company, and all the company's cash flow was put under investigation.
Ming Hang, who committed the least crime, only needs to pay Yu Zhao 500,000 yuan in compensation.
However, these three were punished, and Zhai Yan, as a partner, was affected to a certain extent.
Before the verdict came out, Zhai Jing went to the court in person to confirm the truth about Zhai Yan's murder of Yu's parents, including charges of child abuse.
The evidence was collected by her over many years. The last time she met Zhai Yan was in prison.
Zhai Yan asked her, "You are paying attention to me silently, Zhai Jing, do you regret doing things for me?"
Zhai Jing laughed, "I regret listening to you. If I had known you would end up like this, my family would be ruined. When you said you wanted to jump, I should have agreed, but I know you are actually afraid of death."
Zhai Yan suddenly wanted to smoke. She looked around and found that there were surveillance cameras everywhere. She retracted her gaze, glanced at Zhai Jing and said, "So what? I tell you, I have been sentenced to life imprisonment, and I will not repent."
She only hated all men, including Xiao Ming, for deceiving her and treating her as a plaything.
But on second thought, she had committed many evil deeds throughout her life, mostly taking bribes, and was beyond redemption. Lifelong imprisonment was the best sentence for her and the victim.
After much hardship, the matter came to an end.
Zhai Yan's life came to an end.
Lifelong imprisonment is a pain that she cannot bear.
So after witnessing Xiao Ming going to jail and Xia Liwei losing his company and going completely bankrupt, in the first month of the new year, the prisoner Zhai Yan applied for the death penalty.
Zhai Jing was right, Zhai Yan was indeed afraid of death, but the prison with no desire to live made Zhai Yan's life worse than death.
Her application for the death penalty turned out to be a kind of freedom.
She died quietly.
Like the pure white jasmine withering.
When Yu Zhao learned that Zhai Yan was executed, he remained calm.
He kept changing the exercise books in his hands, as if that was a way he came up with to avoid worrying too much.
Yu Tang just turned 18 on the New Year's Day, and he took the initiative to change his name. He leaned against the wall outside the room, sighing silently.
In fact, Zhai Yan’s death sentence may not be a big deal for Yu Zhao.
But at the same time of the day, Yu Zhao finally learned from Yu Hao that Shen Wuhuai, whom he had been thinking about day and night, had disappeared for more than three months.
Yu Tang knew clearly what kind of feelings Yu Zhao had for Shen Wuhuai, but he did not step forward to persuade him. If Yu Hao suddenly wanted to leave, he would do the same as Yu Zhao.
There were always similar question types in each exercise, which were the questions he had taught Shen Wuhuai personally.
The words Yu Hao and Yu Tang said kept repeating in his mind:
"I didn't want to tell you that Huai was missing because he asked me to take good care of you, but I still couldn't find him. He might have been taken away by someone else the day he carried you down the mountain."
Yu Tang: "Brother, your mother behaved well in prison, so she applied for the death penalty."
"Brother Huai said he would come back. How could he abandon you?"
Yu Tang: "Your mother left you a message, just three words, I'm sorry. She said she didn't have that much money to give you as compensation, so she is willing to give you the remaining 50,000 yuan as support."
"Believe me, I will definitely find Brother Huai. Brother Huai will not abandon me, absolutely not..."
Yu Zhao stopped writing, and Shen Wuhuai's face appeared in his mind. The frames of the picture were the markings of their journey side by side.
Too much accumulated longing turned into stagnant water after the truth was revealed.
The only thing he couldn't remember was Zhai Yan's face. It was a shadow covered by foam. He hadn't seen Zhai Yan for a long time.
For him, Zhai Yan's death should have been a relief.
And why was the pain so clearly imprinted in his mind?
Who was the source of the pain? Was it Shen Wuhuai who loved him, or Zhai Yan who said sorry but died.
He couldn't tell the pain from that.
Yu Zhao put down his pen and silently closed the test paper. He had to go to bed early tonight. After almost three months of rest, tomorrow would be a new day for him.
He is about to catch up on his studies and go to school with Yu Tang.
Instead of thinking too much, it is better to live according to Shen Wuhuai's temperament: sleep a little longer and stay in bed a little longer.
Seeing that the lights in the room were turned off, Yu Tang chose to leave.
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