Chapter 88 Past Events
Yue Yuan also looked at Wu Jing with a scrutinizing gaze: "Doctor Wu, think carefully, have you ever made enemies with anyone, and has the other party hated you so much that they wanted to kill your daughter?"
Wu Jing felt her hands and feet were cold.
Painful memories came flooding back like a tide, bringing her back to her unbearable youth.
She had clearly tried hard to isolate herself from this period of time, so why did it haunt her like a nightmare?
Wei Zeqing noticed that his wife's face looked strange, and his heartbeat suddenly quickened: "Jingjing, what on earth did you hide from me? Who hates you so much?"
Wu Jing didn't say anything, but her eyes were filled with fear.
Yue Yuan asked: "Doctor Wu has something to hide? Do we, the police, need to step aside?"
Wu Jing raised her head abruptly and stared at Yue Yuan: "No, no, no, don't leave! Let me ask you, my daughter's death was not an accident, but someone wanted to kill her?"
Yue Yuan chose his words carefully: "The suspect has no intersection with your lives, and he didn't know Wei Qiaozhen beforehand. The female student from the medical school who was kidnapped by him told the police that Wei Qiaozhen was a girl that a friend of the suspect asked for. Who do you think this friend could be?"
After confirming that her daughter's death was not an accident, Wu Jing's lips began to tremble.
Tears slid down her cheeks drop by drop.
"There is a person, there is a person..."
Wu Jing kept muttering to herself, but she never said who this person was.
Yue Yuan did not urge him and waited quietly.
It really takes great courage to uncover the scars and show the bloody wounds to your loved ones and the police.
Wei Zeqing looked at his wife steadily, his eyes full of suspicion.
How much has she hidden from me? Why didn't she reveal a word about her daughter's death even after two years?
Is there anything more important than the truth?
Is there any secret heavier than the death of a daughter?
After all, they had been in love and together for nearly twenty years. Wei Zeqing couldn't bear to blame his wife. He pursed his lips tightly and waited silently.
After a long silence, Wu Jing wiped the tears from her face and finally spoke.
"Zeqing, I first met you in 1976, do you remember?"
The past events were still vivid in Wei Zeqing's mind. He said softly, "I remember that you were covered in wounds and unconscious in a hospital bed. You didn't tell me where your home was. You were all alone and pitiful. You said that after you graduated from high school in 1968, you went to a farm in Liaoning Province as an educated youth. The cold weather in the north was too much for you to bear. You finally went home to visit your family but found that they were separated. You begged me to process sick leave for you to return to the city."
Wu Jing was lying on the hospital bed, her face as pale as paper, yet incredibly beautiful. Her dark eyes were full of misery. Wei Zeqing, who had never had any romantic feelings before, was immediately moved. He helped Wu Jing to obtain a sick leave certificate, used his connections to help her transfer her household registration back to Hui City, and then married her. After their daughter was born in early 1978, Wei Zeqing took over the responsibility of raising the child without hesitation and fully supported Wu Jing in her college entrance examination.
Wu Jing had a bitter smile on her face: "I'm sorry, I lied to you."
Wei Zeqing's breathing stagnated and he felt a little stuffy in his chest.
The wife has a secret, which she has kept for twenty years.
Wu Jing looked at her husband, her eyes slightly red: "When I married you, I was no longer a virgin. You know this, right?"
After hearing his wife's words, Wei Zeqing was silent for a moment, then said softly, "The world is too chaotic, it's good to be alive, these... I don't care."
Wu Jing never expected that her husband would say such a thing. She couldn't control her emotions and threw herself into Wei Zeqing's arms, sobbing.
Looking at his wife's shoulders rising and falling, Wei Zeqing's heart softened. He stroked her back and said in a trembling voice, "It's all over, it's all over."
After a while, Wu Jing straightened up, tidied her appearance, looked at Yue Yuan, and slowly told him the secret hidden in her heart.
It turned out that Wu Jing was from Zhushi City, Hunan Province. After graduating from high school in 1968, she should have gone to the countryside, but her family was reluctant to let her go to the north to suffer, and was worried that she would be at a disadvantage because of her outstanding appearance, so they used their connections to raise money to buy her a job and arranged for her to work in a military factory in Zheng'an Town, Huishi City.
Little did she know that it was this arrangement that pushed Wu Jing into the abyss.
As soon as Wu Jing entered the factory, she was spotted by a small rebel leader, who raped her on a rainy night. He then treated her as his concubine and did not allow her to contact her family. Wu Jing was inexperienced and had no choice but to pretend to be nice to him under his coercion. She gave birth to a son in 1971.
After giving birth to her son, Wu Jing once thought about living a good life. She took care of the household chores and took good care of her son, thinking that this would touch the conscience of the evil man.
But, a dog will never stop eating shit.
Whenever he drank, he would beat and insult Wu Jing, and sometimes even beat their son. Finally, when their son was five years old, Wu Jing made up her mind and abandoned her son and ran away.
Wu Jing came to Hui City People's Hospital with wounds all over her body, begging Wei Zeqing to help her get a sick leave certificate. With the cover-up of her family, she pretended to be an educated youth returning to the city and erased the information about her marriage and childbirth from her file.
At this point, Wu Jing's eyes were filled with tears: "I didn't mean to hide it, I just wish I had never met that person."
Wei Zeqing sighed, held his wife's hand tightly, and kept repeating: "Don't blame you, don't blame you. It's not your fault. It's that person and that era that are wrong."
Xia Mufan, who was standing nearby, felt his heart tighten when he heard this.
Zheng'an Town, a military factory, a drunken and violent husband, and a child abandoned by his mother.
All this is so similar to Ke Lu's experience!
Thinking of the newly opened coffee shop on Fenglin Road, which is only five or six minutes’ drive from the Provincial People’s Hospital.
Is it a coincidence, or a deliberate approach?
Xia Mufan's intuition told him that there was something fishy going on!
Yue Yuan asked: "Doctor Wu, do you mean that person has a grudge against you?"
Wu Jing nodded, her eyes full of fear: "He is violent by nature and possessive. After I ran away secretly, he tried to go to my parents. Fortunately, our family was alert at that time and he avoided me. Later, I got married, gave birth to a daughter, and went to college. I never saw him again, but I was always afraid that he would find me."
"When Qiaozhen got into trouble, I actually thought of him, but I was lucky enough to think it was an accident, so I kept it a secret. I was wrong! I killed my daughter!"
Wu Jing said that later on, self-blame and guilt overwhelmed her and her face became as pale as the hospital walls.
Yue Yuan's eyebrows twisted into a line: "What's his name?"
The memory was too painful, Wu Jing's voice was trembling: "He, his name is Ke Zhigang."
Last name: Ke!
Xia Mufan asked: "What is your son's name?"
Wu Jing then noticed the policewoman and stammered, "Kelu. The foot of Yuelu Mountain."
Xia Mufan asked: "Have you seen your son since then?"
Wu Jing shook her head violently: "No, no, I haven't seen him."
Xia Mufan saw her wandering eyes and knew that she was hiding something, so he said gently: "Doctor Wu, we police are here to help you, please don't hide anything anymore."
Wei Zeqing glanced at Wu Jing with a painful look in his eyes: "You...are you still going to hide it from me?"
Wu Jing grabbed Wei Zeqing's arm tightly, like a drowning person grabbing a piece of driftwood: "No, no, no, I won't hide it from you. I will never hide anything from you again."
Wu Jing turned around and looked at Xia Mufan pleadingly: "In 1993, a young man came to the hospital to look for me. He said his name was Ke Lu. I was scared at the time, afraid that Ke Zhigang was behind him. I denied it repeatedly and refused to recognize him. I asked the hospital security to drive him away."
Three years ago, Ke Lu came to see Wu Jing, but Wu Jing did not recognize him.
Two years ago, Wei Qiaozhen was murdered.
Now, Ke Lu has opened a coffee shop on Fenglin Road, just a few kilometers away from his mother.
Is he loyal or treacherous?
Seeing his wife pale with fear, Wei Zeqing couldn't bear it and held her hand tightly: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, we will face anything together."
Wu Jing's tears flowed silently: "I, I have never dared to tell you. I'm sorry, Zeqing, I'm sorry..."
Yue Yuan felt very uncomfortable when he saw this scene.
It is understandable that Wu Jing is unwilling to recognize her son after suffering so much. But now, because he had to uncover her scars in order to track down the murderer, he had to harden his heart and confess: "Ke Lu came to Hui City to work two years ago. Now he has opened a coffee shop on Fenglin Road and started his own business as a boss."
Wu Jing stared at Yue Yuan blankly: "Then, where is that person?"
Yue Yuan shook his head: "I don't know."
Perhaps, Ke Lu, like Wu Jing, also longs to escape from Ke Zhigang? I just don’t know what’s happening to Ke Zhigang, the man who hurt Wu Jing.
Wei Zeqing suddenly stood up: "I'll go see this kid."
Wu Jing pulled his arm: "No, no, no, don't go. He is that man's son. I'm afraid!"
Wei Zeqing was firm: "No matter what, he is your child. He came to this city and wanted to see you. It is reasonable for us to meet him and listen to his thoughts."
Wu Jing kept shaking her head: "No, no, no, I'm scared."
Wei Zeqing pursed his lips and said, "What are you afraid of? He is just like Qiaozhen, you carried him for ten months and gave birth to him. No one can choose their parents, right? Since he has come to find you, you should sit down and talk it out. If there is any hatred or grudge, why don't you talk it out face to face?"
Wu Jing remained the same: "I won't see him. His eyes are exactly the same as that person's, cold and icy. I get scared when I see them."
Wei Zeqing looked at Yue Yuan: "Officer Yue, please arrange for me to meet that kid. If it was really Ke Zhigang who killed my daughter, maybe I can get something out of him, right?"
Yue Yuan and Xia Mufan exchanged glances.
They both nodded slightly at the same time.
From the age of eighteen to twenty-four, Wu Jing encountered a demon in her most beautiful and youthful years, which left an indelible psychological trauma on her. As a result, she did not have any kindness towards Ke Lu.
If she doesn't want to see Ke Lu, then it's okay for Wei Zeqing to go and see her.
Was it Ke Zhigang, the alcoholic who desperately pursued Wu Jing, who killed Wei Qiaozhen, or Ke Lu, who was abandoned at the age of five and was driven away again after finding his mother?
Perhaps the truth will be revealed after meeting Ke Lu.
A Dream
——When he saw this sign again, Xia Mufan felt that it was filled with a kind of madness that was like a broken jar. Could Cui Lebang’s friend be Ke Lu?
There was music playing faintly, and the coffee shop was filled with the sweet aroma of pastries and slightly bitter coffee.
Ke Lu looked up again and saw Xia Mufan. He was about to raise his eyebrows and smile, but his smile froze when he saw Wei Zeqing.
His attitude was polite and courteous: "Welcome, are you three?"
When Wei Zeqing saw Ke Lu for the first time, he looked at him gently and tried to find the shadow of his wife in his face.
If you look closely, Ke Lu and Wu Jing have very similar facial features.
Deep big eyes, high nose bridge, thin and bright lips.
Wei Zeqing didn't know how to start, so he finally said, "Hello, I'm Wei Zeqing."
Ke Lu lowered his eyes: "Mr. Wei, please sit down."
Yue Yuan's eyes were like lightning: "Boss Ke, I'm afraid you have to chat with us for a while."
Ke Lu obediently walked out from behind the counter, led the three of them to a booth in the corner, and asked Qiao Rui to bring three cups of coffee and a few snacks: "Please."
Xia Mufan was only concerned about one thing at the moment: "Ke Lu, where is your father?"
Ke Lu looked at Xia Mufan's cold eyes, but a faint smile spread across the corners of his mouth: "He's dead."
Wei Zeqing was stunned: "Dead?"
Ke Lu looked at Wei Zeqing: "She has always been afraid of my father, right? The last time I went to see her, I wanted to tell her that my father was dead. But she didn't give me a chance to speak and drove me away."
Wei Zeqing asked, "When did your father die?"
Ke Lu had a smile on his face, but there was no smile in his eyes: "When I was in junior high school, he drank too much and his body couldn't handle it, so he died."
Wei Zeqing is just simple-minded, but he is not stupid.
If the person who killed my daughter was not Ke Zhigang, then who else was left?
The young man in front of me looks similar to my wife, with handsome eyes and eyebrows, which makes people feel good about him at first sight. Could it be him?
He hated Wu Jing for abandoning him and for ruthlessly driving her away three years ago, so he wanted to kill Wei Qiaozhen and let Wu Jing taste the pain of losing her loved ones?
Wei Zeqing felt a chill coming from the soles of his feet.
He lost his daughter, and his loving fatherly heart had nowhere to go. Before coming here, I was still thinking about how to build a good relationship with Ke Lu, after all, he is my wife's biological child.
But now, Wei Zeqing only felt a dryness in his throat. He stared at Ke Lu blankly for a long time before asking, "Why?"
Ke Lu looked at Wei Zeqing as if he were a fool: "Why?"
Wei Zeqing's hands were shaking, tears welled up in his eyes: "Qiaozhen is your sister, she is only sixteen years old, very sensible and outstanding, why did you want to harm her?"
Ke Lu stood up suddenly: "What are you talking about? Why would I hurt her?"
Wei Zeqing said word by word: "In November 1994, my daughter Qiaozhen disappeared while on her way out. The police found her body three days later. Was it you who did this?"
Yue Yuan did not stop Wei Zeqing.
There is no evidence at the moment, so even if the police question Ke Lu, they cannot use any interrogation techniques. Let the family of the deceased go to the door and ask questions directly, perhaps they can find some clues.
Ke Lu sneered: "What? Your daughter is dead, so it must be my fault? Do you have any evidence?"
Wei Zeqing is an intellectual who is proficient in thoracic medicine, but he has no idea how to deal with Ke Lu's questions. Jia wanted to ask a few more questions, but he was just suspicious at the moment.
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