Chapter 149 Letter of Understanding
When Lin Ruxue heard the words "child molestation", her eyes suddenly turned red and her breathing became heavy. She stopped the tears in her eyes and asked weakly: "What did he do to the baby?"
Xia Mufan knew that she was breaking a mother's heart, but in order to bring Zhang Jianren to justice, she had to tell the whole story.
——In order to find out the reason why the baby kept crying at night, they specially placed a mynah bird at home. From the mynah bird's words of making money, they guessed that a teacher named Zhang often came to their home. Considering that Sun Hanxiang had to take the baby out every afternoon, they decided to come together to check out the situation. Unexpectedly, they found Teacher Zhang hiding halfway up the hill with the baby in his arms, committing indecent acts.
Lin Ruxue's head buzzed and everything went dark before her eyes. She felt like a child trapped in a small space. She wanted to scream, she wanted to cry, she wanted to roar loudly, and she even wanted to swing her fists and smash this space to pieces!
The baby is only six months old, Zhang Jianren...how dare Zhang Jianren!
Sun Hanxiang's expression also changed.
Zhang Jianren would knock on her door every afternoon and kindly invite her to go to the small square. This was the happiest time of her boring day.
Although Zhang Jianren was more than ten years older than her, he looked very elegant, spoke gently, and respected her very much. Knowing that she likes square dancing, I took the initiative to take over the task of taking care of the baby so that I could free up time for her to dance.
She originally thought that Zhang Jianren's target was herself, but she didn't expect that his target was actually her granddaughter!
Sun Hanxiang knew that she was the one who let the wolf into the house, but she was unwilling to admit it.
If she admitted her mistake, wouldn't that be showing weakness in front of her daughter? How did you control your daughter before?
Sun Hanxiang didn't show any guilt at all, and she yelled at Lin Ruxue at the top of her voice: "I work so hard to help you take care of the children and do the housework, but you don't believe me and even send this damn starling to spy on me!"
Lin Ruxue had been used to being suppressed by her mother since she was a child. When she faced her mother's strong attack, she immediately reflected on herself and subconsciously defended herself: "I didn't do that. I didn't ask Bage to monitor you. I didn't even know about it."
Seeing her daughter honestly defending herself, Sun Hanxiang felt that she had found her weakness. She immediately became very angry. She raised her hand and slapped her thigh, howling: "If it wasn't you, who else could it be? If it wasn't you who told the police, why would the police intervene in such an affair? There are still daughters like this in the world. Sending people to monitor her own mother is unfilial, extremely unfilial!"
Sun Hanxiang's voice was two degrees higher than that of the average person. When she cried and made a fuss, and got slapped in the face too many times, the entire reception room seemed to echo with her voice, making her ears buzz.
Xia Mufan shouted coldly: "What are you arguing about? If you want to cry or make a fuss, go home. This is the Criminal Investigation Team!"
Sun Hanxiao was a bully who only knew how to bully honest people. When he saw Xia Mufan's cold face, his momentum was suppressed by him. His voice became much lower, and he only muttered: "How can a daughter be a mother in this world? It's too unreasonable. She has done it, can't I say something?"
Xia Mufan looked at Lin Ruxue: "Have you checked the baby's health? How is the baby feeling now? Is he still crying?"
Lin Ruxue's voice choked with sobs: "I checked, the baby's lower body is a little red and swollen, but fortunately there is no damage or bleeding. I actually saw redness and swelling there before, but it was fine after one night. I thought it was eczema, and I really didn't think about it in that way. The baby is still so young..."
The more Lin Ruxue spoke, the more painful her heart felt.
"Zhang Jianren is a retired teacher from our school. He lives alone after his divorce. We often meet in the corridor. He is always friendly and smiling to everyone he meets. He looks like a gentle and polite elder. Who would have thought that he is worse than an animal?"
Thinking about how she had cherished her child so much, but unexpectedly he met a child molester, causing the child to cry all night long, Lin Ruxue fell into deep regret and self-blame.
"I am not a good mother. I failed to protect her. Why was I so busy with work that I left her alone at home? Now that something like this has happened, what should I do in the future? My baby has suffered such an injustice. I don't know if he will be traumatized in the future. All of this is my fault as a mother. I deserve to die."
Sun Hanxiang not only did not comfort her daughter, but added fuel to the fire: "It's your fault in the first place. You didn't take good care of the child and insisted on going to that crappy class. If you quit your job and went home earlier, wouldn't everything be fine? Girls still have to be raised by their mothers. I raised you to this age, and you are safe, aren't you?"
Hearing her mother's words, Lin Ruxue burst into tears: "It's my fault. I've already said it's my fault. What else do you want? Okay, I'll quit my job when I get back and concentrate on taking care of the children. Is that okay? I've read so many books and finally became a housewife. Are you satisfied? Didn't you have to go to work when you took care of me? You left me in nursery classes, kindergartens, and schools. Why do I have to quit my job and stay at home wholeheartedly when it's my turn?"
Later, all the grievances in Lin Ruxue's heart turned into tears, and she cried until she was out of breath.
Feeling the mother's painful emotions, the baby in her arms suddenly woke up and started crying too.
Lin Ruxue quickly stopped crying, tried hard to force a smile, and patted and coaxed the child.
Sun Hanxiang was still not satisfied, and continued to complain to her daughter in her unique loud voice: "Look at you, you don't act like a mother at all. How can you lose your temper so loudly while holding a child? If the mother has a bad temper, the daughter's temper will not be good in the future. I tell you, this matter is mainly your responsibility. Don't compare with me. At that time, our unit had welfare benefits, and nurseries, kindergartens, and primary schools were all free. It's not like you now have to spend money on everything, and you still feel uneasy. Alas, this world has too many bad people."
This kind of mother-daughter relationship is really suffocating.
The reception room was full of women, so Lin Ruxue had no scruples and just unbuttoned her clothes to feed her baby. With the comfort of his mother, the child fell asleep again, contentedly, after feeding for a while.
Xia Mufan didn't want to get involved in the argument between the mother and daughter, she just wanted to protect the child in front of her.
"Teacher Lin, you just said that Zhang Jianren is divorced. Do you know why he divorced? Where is his ex-wife and his children now?"
Lin Ruxue tried hard to recall the discussions other colleagues in the school had about Zhang Jianren.
"I don't know the details, but I heard that it was a big fight. His wife had a bad temper and threatened Zhang Jianren with a kitchen knife, demanding a divorce. Zhang Jianren was reluctant at first, but he finally agreed to his wife's request. His wife left the school with their son and daughter and there was no news of her since."
"When my colleagues mentioned Chang Chien-jen, they were full of sympathy, saying that Chang Chien-jen's ex-wife was not well-educated and had a bad temper. Now I wonder if it was because Chang Chien-jen's shameful deeds were known to his wife, so she had to leave him?"
Feng Xiaoyu was in charge of taking notes. When she heard this, she couldn't help but say, "Zhang Jianren didn't even let go of a six-month-old baby. He is definitely a repeat offender. His ex-wife must have known something, so she divorced him."
Sun Hanxiang glanced at Feng Xiaoyu and Xia Mufan, her eyes flickering, and she suddenly spoke: "You police officers can't wrongly accuse a good person, right? Although I haven't known Teacher Zhang for a long time, I can tell that he is a gentle and loving man. I don't believe that he molested a child."
Xia Mufan couldn't believe his ears, staring at Sun Hanxiang: "There are witnesses and evidence, why don't you believe it?"
Sun Hanxiang was determined to clear Zhang Jianren's name so that she could get herself out of trouble.
"What evidence? I opened the baby's diaper and took a look. It was just slightly red and swollen, nothing serious. Girls have delicate skin, so it's normal to get eczema if the diaper is not changed in time. What's the problem? How can it be considered that Teacher Zhang is molesting a child? He just helped me change the diaper for my child, and you said his behavior was obscene. Isn't that a bit too much?"
This is the first time I see a parent not protecting his or her own child but instead protecting the molester. Feng Xiaoyu was furious: "Aren't you the child's grandmother? The child cries every night, which is a manifestation of his psychological trauma. The redness and swelling are not caused by eczema, but by repeated touching. You don't even understand this, and you are questioning our police evidence. What kind of grandmother are you?"
Xia Mufan glanced at Feng Xiaoyu and signaled her to take notes seriously.
Feng Xiaoyu snorted, lowered his head and continued writing quickly.
Xia Mufan said to Sun Hanxiang: "I am the witness. I was the first to arrive at the scene. I saw with my own eyes that he put his hand into the child's pants and rubbed it repeatedly. His behavior was extremely obscene."
After hearing Xia Mufan's more detailed description, Lin Ruxue felt as if a knife was cutting her heart, and the pain was so severe that she couldn't breathe.
However, Sun Hanxiang only wanted to clear herself of the charge of "letting a wolf into the house".
"What do you mean by repeated caressing? He was just changing the baby's diaper. Maybe because he is a grown man, his movements were not so skillful, so you misunderstood. I'm telling you, don't wrongly accuse Mr. Zhang, he is a good person."
"A little girl is only six months old, how can you bully her? It's really funny that you keep calling her obscene! There are not so many bad people in this world, only you have dirty minds, and you think everyone is a bad person."
Lin Ruxue was completely enraged by her mother's words, but because she was holding the baby in her arms and was afraid of waking her up again, she had to lower her voice and stop her mother from continuing: "Mom, please stop talking. This is the police station, not a place for you to talk nonsense. Now that we have witnesses and evidence, let the police arrest Zhang Jianren. People like him must be severely punished."
But Sun Hanxiang was not willing to make a big deal out of this matter. In her opinion, it was just holding a little girl and touching there, so what? The child hasn't grown up yet and doesn't know anything. Why torture him to death? Besides, family disgrace should not be made public. When something like this happens, just curse a few words in private. Is it fun to make such a big fuss and be laughed at by others?
Sun Hanxiang was completely unaware of her daughter's pain. She ignored Lin Ruxue's words and looked at Xia Mufan and said, "As the child's grandmother, I don't intend to pursue Zhang Jianren. Can you please issue a letter of understanding? This is just a misunderstanding. There is nothing wrong. Just let Zhang Jianren go. I will try my best to be careful in the future and not let him be alone with the baby."
Feng Xiaoyu, who was in charge of taking the statement, was so angry that she wanted to tear the paper with her pen. But now she had to record the conversation truthfully and accurately, so she had to keep her mouth shut.
Xia Mufan curled his lips and asked Sun Hanxiang: "Are you and Zhang Jianren in love?"
Sun Hanxiang's reply was flawless: "Nothing, just neighbors visiting each other."
Xia Mufan's eyes were cold: "Only the child's guardian, her mother, is qualified to issue a letter of understanding; you, as the child's grandmother, do not have this qualification."
Sun Hanxiang was a person with a very strong personality. She always had her way in front of her daughter. Now that the baby was hurt due to her negligence, she absolutely could not bear the blame, lest she would have to bow down to her daughter and son-in-law in the future.
Hearing the police say he was not qualified, Sun Hanxiang looked at her daughter and said, "Then you should quickly sign a letter of apology, and the matter will be over. Will the charge of child molestation really follow your baby for the rest of his life? Have you ever considered your baby's feelings?"
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