Chapter 45 Chapter 45 The Truth

The hospital does not have an inpatient department. The overnight ward is next to the emergency room, and next to it is the nurse's station.

Wang Nian was ordered to lie down and rest for the night. If nothing happened during the night, he could go home the next morning.

After the chaos passed, only the family of four and Zhou Yuying were left in the ward.

"How come you didn't even know you were pregnant?" Zhou Yuying criticized, and then she didn't let Shi Xiangming off the hook either: "How come someone with such a strict personality doesn't have any sense of responsibility!"

Wang Nian smiled foolishly, and Shi Xiangming looked like he was humbly accepting the criticism and admitting his mistakes.

Wang Nian was of course aware of the abnormality during her menstrual period, but because she had a lot of things to do and wanted to wait until she was sure before going to the hospital, she kept putting it off until it turned out like this.

"According to calculations, the pregnancy should have lasted more than two and a half months. You can come directly to see Director Hu in two days. She is a professional obstetrician and gynecologist."

Zhou Yuying talked for a long time, and seeing that the couple both admitted their mistakes with a good attitude, she finally got up and left after she finished explaining everything.

After walking to the door, he turned back and specifically told Shi Xiangming: "Wang Nian is in a special period now, you still have to endure what you should endure."

Shi Xiangming: “…”

His usually calm expression collapsed in an instant, and a blush crept up from his neck to his cheeks in the blink of an eye. Especially when Shi Wan asked innocently, "Dad, what are you enduring?" Shi Xiangming's eyelids were even smeared red.

Zhou Yuying left the rotten stall with satisfaction.

Shi Xiangming couldn't speak, and Wang Nian had to clean up the mess. She smiled and called Shi Wan to her side: "I have just agreed with Aunt Liu that you and Dad will go to her house for dinner tonight."

"I want to eat with you." Shi Wan pouted, as if she had been wronged. "My brother and I will wait for you to come home here."

"Mom has to sleep in the hospital tonight and can only go home tomorrow."

"Why?"

"Because I was injured today." Wang Nian raised his hand wrapped in gauze: "I need to sleep for a night before I can get better tomorrow morning."

"All right."

Shi Wan walked around to the other side of the bed, puffed up her cheeks, and blew carefully into the gauze a few times: "Just blow it and it will be fine."

Shi Shuwen sat in the corner, staring blankly at the bed, and hadn't said a word since entering the ward.

After comforting Shi Wan, Wang Nian raised his chin to Shi Xiangming and said, "You and the two children will sleep in the big bed tonight."

It would definitely take some time for an eight or nine-year-old child to recover after experiencing such a terrible thing.

Tonight is the most special time, and we should not let our children face it alone.

Shi Xiangming nodded and raised his hand to touch Shi Shuwen's head.

"Is Shuwen sleepy?" Wang Nian asked tentatively.

Shi Shuwen nodded, then quickly shook his head: "I'm not sleepy, I'll wait for you to go home together."

"Come here." Wang Nian patted the bed and moved to the side: "Mom wants to sleep too, let's sleep together. When we wake up, we can ask Aunt Zhou to make us food."

Shi Shuwen's eyes lit up and he quickly took off his shoes and climbed up.

"I want to sleep with Mom, too." Shi Wan pouted, stretched out two fingers to grab the corner of the quilt and shook it gently: "I'm sleepy too."

"You saw your brother almost getting hurt by some bad guys today, right?" Wang Nian reached out and took Shi Shuwen into his arms, patting him gently.

The hospital bed is a narrow single bed, which is uncomfortable for both adults and children.

The little girl nodded, thought for two seconds, and then sighed: "Okay! I will go home with my dad today."

"Our Shi Wan is the most obedient child." Wang Nian smiled.

Shi Xiangming stood up and tucked the mother and child in, then changed the direction of the IV bottle: "I'll ask Doctor Zhou to help send the child back. I'll stay here with you this afternoon."

"No, you don't have to accompany me when you go to work."

Shi Xiangming's eyebrows were slightly wrinkled, and worry filled his eyes. Just looking at Wang Nian, he immediately lost the battle. He pursed his lips and smiled, "Then go home and get me a pair of pants."

"good!"

After more than a year of marriage, Wang Nian has a deeper understanding of Shi Xiangming's character.

Even though he didn't say a word, he had actually made the decision in his heart a long time ago. It was just a matter of time whether he agreed or not.

After the couple talked for a few sentences, the breathing in the crook of the arm had become steady, and Wang Nian winked at Shi Xiangming.

"Can you see if Shuwen has any other injuries?"

"Doctor Zhou has examined it carefully and found that the palm of the hand is just a little scratched." Shi Xiangming took Shi Shuwen's hand and opened it. The purple medicine applied on it had dried up. He put it back into the quilt and said, "You should get some sleep too. I'll take Xiaowan back."

Wang Nian nodded.

After the father and daughter left, Wang Nian boredly counted the drops of water in the dropper for a while, and then fell into a deep sleep.

***

Factory Health Hospital, Internal Medicine Office.

Zhou Yuying stood up, holding onto her desk. She looked solemn and pursed her lips as if thinking about something. Even the corners of her eyes, which usually always looked smiling, became gloomy.

"You've found out so much in just a few hours?"

The person sitting opposite the desk had a blank expression on his face, not even blinking. After Zhou Yuying finished speaking, he said indifferently, "Hmm."

Zhou Yuying withdrew her gaze with a complicated expression.

Although I really wanted to ask Shi Xiangming how he could find out so much about Xu Fen and Xu Jie's past in just one afternoon.

The reason I told her all this was so that I could find the right direction to guide the conversation when the Security Department interrogated Xu Jie in the afternoon.

"Tell me more about Xu Fen and Xu Jie's situation, and I'll think about it."

As a doctor who had once diagnosed Xu Jie as mentally ill, Zhou Yuying will also participate in this trial to help the Health Department make the final judgment.

"Xu Fen and Cui Shulin once had a son who died at the age of eight... I remember Zhang Liye said that Xu Jie had shouted for revenge before he hurt Shuwen... and by coincidence, Shuwen was also eight years old."

Shi Xiangming's expression changed slightly, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, his bony right hand tapped lightly on the desk, his long legs casually crossed together, looking very casual.

"You figured out so much from what Liye said casually?" Zhou Yuying was shocked. She didn't expect Shi Xiangming to be so meticulous.

"You can easily find out the family situation of Cui Shulin by randomly asking any of his former neighbors. The child died, Xu Jie wanted to seek revenge on the eight-year-old child, Xu Fen took her sister to her home even though she knew she was sick... All it takes is one cause to make everything clear."

After learning that the couple had a son, Shi Xiangming went to Huang Qiuhong to inquire about the cause of the child's death. The work of the Women's Federation also includes the children of employees.

The child died of drowning. According to Huang Qiuhong's recollection, there were two children who drowned at that time, and the other one was the daughter of Xu Fen's brother.

"The little girl is not Brother Xu Fen's daughter."

Xu Fen's political science file had detailed that her brother had died on the battlefield a few years earlier. He was only nineteen years old and had never been married.

Shi Xiangming sneered, then returned to his cold and indifferent expression.

"You said... if it's not her brother's child, then whose is it?"

Zhou Yuying: “…”

With just one sentence, Shi Xiangming was able to find out so much, and he could even look through the files of the Political Department at will...

This person is not only meticulous, but also has far deeper connections than she sees.

Knock knock knock——

Just at this moment, there was a knock on the office door.

The young nurse pushed open the door and immediately realized that the atmosphere in the office was not simple.

"Director, please go to the Security Department." After saying this, he immediately shrank back.

"Okay." Zhou Yuying cleared her throat and asked Shi Xiangming, "Do you want to go and listen together?"

"Wang Nian should wake up. I'll go heat up some food for her."

"I'll tell you the result as soon as I get it." Zhou Yuying said.

Two people went out, one went downstairs, and the other walked to the office at the end of the corridor.

Emergency room ward.

"Are you hungry?" Wang Nian asked

Shi Shuwen rubbed his sleepy eyes and nodded drowsily.

"Why hasn't your dad come yet?" Wang Nian yawned and raised his head to rub his eyes: "How about I go to the cafeteria to see if there is any food left?"

"No!" Shi Shuwen was so scared that he sat up immediately and held Wang Nian's arms with both hands: "Auntie Zhou said you should lie down."

He was there when Zhou Yuying criticized Wang Nian and Shi Xiangming just now, and he remembered clearly the words "lie still" in his heart.

"Rub my hands for me."

His right arm was numb and he had lost consciousness. Wang Nian wondered how the hero in the novel managed to get the heroine to sleep with her arm as a pillow for the whole night.

The eight-year-old child used this arm as a pillow for three or four hours until his arm became numb and separated from his body.

"Aren't you afraid?"

"Um?"

The child who asked the question lowered his head awkwardly and rubbed Wang Nian's arm very seriously.

"I'm asking if you weren't scared when you came to rescue me at noon?"

Under the dim light, the pair of eyes that were always arrogant and evasive were now red and his shoulders were shaking slightly.

"I'm not scared." Wang Nian struggled to sit up, stuffed a pillow behind his waist, and exhaled: "What mother would be scared to see her child injured? I wanted to kick the bad guy away at that time."

"But she beat you." Tears dripped from the corners of his eyes. Shi Shuwen raised his hand and wiped it again and again, but it was not clean. He poked Wang Nian's knee again angrily: "She also pulled your braid."

"Hiss..." Wang Nian rubbed his head with a bitter face, pretending to be in pain, and suddenly laughed: "But didn't you see that I kicked her away with one kick in the end?"

Shi Shuwen nodded quietly.

"As long as I am here, I will definitely protect you."

"I still believe in you."

What happened today left an indelible impression on Shi Shuwen's little mind, so much so that whenever he encounters setbacks in his youth or middle age, he will recall Wang Nian who rushed towards him without looking back.

"Don't we already recognize each other as mother? Why are you calling me 'you, you, you' again?" Wang Nian pouted and deliberately put on a serious face: "Are you going to regret it?"

"I've already called you just now...

Children are children. They were led astray by Wang Nian after just a few words and started to explain in a hurry.

"That's more like it."

Gululu——

Wang Nian smiled a little embarrassedly and raised her hand to cover her stomach.

"Mom is so hungry, why hasn't your dad come yet?"

I don’t know if it’s because I didn’t eat enough at noon or because of my pregnancy, but I feel hungry whenever I want. When I feel hungry, I feel like I can eat a whole bowl of rice at any time.

"I'll go take a look." Shi Shuwen wiped away his tears and hurriedly got out of bed to put on his shoes.

After putting on her shoes, she turned around and saw Wang Nian rubbing her stomach. Her heart skipped a beat: "Do you have a stomachache?"

"I'm just hungry." Wang Nian smiled.

"Is there a little brother in mom's belly now?" Shi Shuwen suddenly became curious again and wiped the tears from her cheeks with her sleeves: "Does pregnancy mean there is a child in the belly?"

Wang Nian nodded and asked, "Do you like your brother or your sister?"

Shi Shuwen thought about it for a moment, then answered seriously, "You should choose your younger brother! Then there will be someone to protect you and your sister."

"Mom likes my sister more!"

"Then...how can I protect three people by myself?" Shi Shuwen was very confused.

Crunch——

"Where did you put your dad?" Shi Xiangming pushed the door open and interrupted the conversation between the mother and son with a smile: "Your aunt Liu even killed a chicken to make soup. After eating it, you will definitely have the strength to protect your mother and sister."

Shi Xiangming did not say that Granny Hu was so angry that she sat at the door and wiped her tears for half an hour because the laying hens were killed.

"Any news from the Security Department?"

It was not convenient to eat in bed, so Wang Nian lifted the quilt and tried to get out of bed, but was immediately pushed back by two people, one big and one small.

“…”

Shi Xiangming sat down on the bed and brought the lunch box to Wang Nian: "Do you want me to feed you or do you want to eat by yourself?"

Shi Shuwen obediently picked up his portion, found a stool, squatted down and started eating.

"I'll eat it myself." Wang Nian compromised helplessly.

"It seems like the time is almost up." Shi Xiangming finally answered the question.

"Is it confirmed that Xu Jie is mentally ill?"

This time the accident happened when there were a lot of people around. If the children were playing outside alone and were attacked, Wang Nian didn't dare to imagine the consequences.

In fact, she had always kept Zhou Yuying's words in mind, so she was usually very cautious when taking the children out. Today, she subconsciously wanted to protect Shi Wan, but she didn't expect that the person being attacked would be a boy.

"It's not that simple..."

When explaining to Wang Nian, Shi Xiangming spoke in greater detail, including how he came to have suspicions and who he asked to help him transfer the political files.

"If everything goes well, Doctor Zhou should have gotten the result by now."

Wang Nian kept chewing in his mouth, and grabbed Shi Xiangming's chin with his injured hand and turned it left and right, trying to get some clues from this face.

Science and engineering guys have strong logical abilities, but I didn’t expect them to be so strong.

"What are you laughing at?"

Shi Xiangming obediently allowed Wang Nian to examine him. He couldn't help but curl up the corners of his lips because of the sunny smile in front of him, and the ending of his words unconsciously took on a hint of tenderness.

"Laughing at me for marrying someone who is not only good at making money, but also so smart."

"How could I marry you if I wasn't smart?"

Snap——

Shi Shuwen's chopsticks fell to the ground for unknown reasons and he was bending over to pick them up.

"I'll go wash the chopsticks."

Perhaps the impression of his father as a tall and steady figure suddenly collapsed. Shi Shuwen did not even dare to look back. He stood up and reached out to open the door.

"Eating!"

As soon as the door opened, I ran into Zhou Yuying with a serious expression.

Shi Shuwen called out "Auntie Zhou" and ran away with his lunch box without looking back.

"What's wrong with this child?" Zhou Yuying felt very strange when she entered the room: "Did he not recover from the shock in the afternoon?"

Wang Nian smiled without saying anything and continued to put the tasteless food into his mouth.

Today, Liu Chaoxian specially prepared dishes to suit her taste, but the food was just a little too good and not enough...it had basically no taste.

"Has Xu Jie's inquiry yielded any results?" Shi Xiangming asked directly.

"The situation is more complicated than we thought." Zhou Yuying put one hand on her waist, and it was obvious that she still had some anger on her face. "You can't tell anyone else until the factory makes a decision on how to deal with it."

After the couple nodded in agreement, Zhou Yuying dragged a stool and sat down before slowly telling them the truth.

The truth is far more complicated than Wang Nian imagined.

Xu Jie is the murderer who hurt Shi Shuwen today, and he is also a tragic victim.

Before Xu Jie turned 17, she was raped and gave birth to a child. After the birth of her daughter, Xu Fen raised the child as her niece.

"Do you know who □□Xu Jie is?" Zhou Yuying said with gritted teeth.

"Cui Shulin!" Shi Xiangming coldly spat out a name, and also explained the reason: "Her own sister was forced, and Xu Fen neither reported it nor raised the child with her. It's easy to imagine who did this."

Wang Nianji stopped eating in surprise. He never expected that the beast was actually... Cui Shulin.

"You guessed right." Zhou Yuying sighed.

Xu Fen thought she had pretended to be flawless, but the neighbors still caught some clues.

In addition, Xu Fen quarreled with Cui Shulin about this matter from time to time, so their eldest son heard some words from his neighbors and parents.

One day, the boy suddenly pushed his sister into a well. The little girl did not fall directly, but lay down beside the well and asked for help.

Instead of saving the girl, the boy tried to pry his sister's hands apart.

This scene was witnessed by Xu Jie and Xu Fen who happened to be returning home. The last scene was that the girl grabbed her brother's arm and both fell into the well.

After this, Xu Jie went crazy.

Xu Fen did not dare to defend herself and only said that the two children were playing near the well and fell into the water. She then quickly sent Xu Jie back home.

Six years passed like this, and Xu Jie seemed to have returned to normal.

Cui Shulin and Xu Fen, out of guilt, paid and worked hard to get Xu Jie to work in Changshenggou.

In fact, the reason why Xu Jie agreed to come to Changshenggou was that he wanted to kill Cui Jiao personally to avenge his daughter.

But she couldn't do it...

"She had another attack because she had a lot of inner troubles and no place to vent her emotions, and that beast Cui Shulin wanted to..." Zhou Yuying couldn't continue.

The main culprit behind all this was Cui Shulin, her sister was an accomplice, and in the end Xu Jie suffered another attack of illness because she could not bear it hard enough.

"Cui Shulin is a dog who is worse than an animal!" Wang Nian was so angry that he cursed loudly: "We must not let him have an easy time!"

"He can't hide anymore," Zhou Yuying said.

While Zhou Yuying was guiding him in the conversation, Xu Jie suddenly came to his senses.

Not only did she clearly recall what happened many years ago, she also wrote a report by hand, insisting on sending her brother-in-law to labor reform.

After the incident today, Cui Shulin took the initiative to suggest to the Security Department that Xu Jie be sent directly to a mental hospital, and even hypocritically offered to send him there himself.

If Shi Xiangming had not communicated with the chief of the general security department in advance, Xu Jie would have been taken away by Cui Shulin.

"There were four or five people in the interrogation room at the time, including Director Luo, so Cui Shulin could not escape."

I don't know if it was because he finally talked about the years of humiliation, but after pressing the fingerprints, Xu Jie did not get confused again. Instead, he asked Zhou Yuying to apologize to Wang Nian and her son on his behalf.

The truth finally came out, but it only made everyone feel regretful.

If Xu Jie had not met the hypocritical beast Cui Shulin, he could have had a bright future and a happy family.

“…”

The factory quickly posted the results of the treatment two days later.

With the consent of Comrade Xu Jie, the announcement exposed the illegal crimes committed by Cui Shulin by real name, and also criticized Xu Fen for shielding her husband.

Xu Jie will be sent to a mental hospital by the factory for further treatment, but the exact location has not been disclosed.

Cui Shulin was suspected of □□ and was dismissed from his position as vice-principal of the children's school and his factory membership. His case was handed over to the Anhuai City Public Security Bureau for further investigation and conviction.

Xu Fen was fired from the factory and sent back to Anhuai City.

As soon as the news broke out, the factory became busier than Chinese New Year, with employees talking about the incident everywhere.

As the vice-president, Cui Shulin committed such a beastly act. Is it possible that he also harmed other female comrades?

There are also female students in technical schools, and even parents who are worried about their daughters in primary school.

People gathered in groups of two or three in front of the school gate to seek justice and urged the school to investigate the teachers before they could continue to send their children to school.

Because employees' families kept making trouble, the school had no choice but to issue a written notice that it would conduct a lifestyle survey on all faculty and staff.

What was originally intended to be an investigation to calm parents' anger actually revealed several problematic faculty and staff members.

Among them, two were suspected of having problematic conduct, and three were suspected of embezzlement and bribery. Among them, Cui Shulin was also one of those who embezzled student cafeteria funds.

When Wang Nian heard the news, he was so angry that he almost choked.

At that time, Cui Shulin angrily stated that he would seriously deal with the student cafeteria problem, but in the end... he turned out to be the biggest culprit.

The internal termites were dealt with one after another, and the school also announced that primary and secondary schools would have early winter vacations.

The kids didn’t care how much blood and gore there was in the factory; the four-month vacation was the happiest thing for them.

Early in the morning, the sound of Liu Chaoxian beating his child next door could be clearly heard on the first floor of the 43rd family building.

"Your brother Liye must have had no breakfast this morning. Send him two buns later."

Wang Nian placed the steamer into the pot and said with a smile to Shi Shuwen who was eavesdropping at the door.

Shi Shuwen took a deep breath, suddenly ran over and touched Wang Nian's arm with his head: "My mother is still the best. Not only does she cook delicious food, but she also doesn't hit people."

Wang Nian laughed: "If you dare to use your father's documents to clean your ass, I will beat you harder than your Aunt Liu."

Every beating Zhang Liye received was not in vain. This morning, there was no paper in the toilet, so he used the sketch drawn by Zhang Guoqiang as toilet paper.

Zhang Guiqiang was so angry that he pounded the wall so hard that even dust started falling off Wang Nian's wall.

"It's not too hard." Shi Shuwen curled his lips in disdain: "You can just go to the vegetable garden and pluck a leaf."

Wang Nian: “…”

Is this the obvious effect of the saying "Birds of a feather flock together"?

Although I am happy that Shi's eldest son is becoming more and more cheerful, I don't miss having another Zhang Liye No. 2 in the family...

Shi Shuwen not only inherited Shi Xiangming's height, but also had the same talent for making fire.

Now he is Wang Nian’s good partner in cooking. Just by saying high heat or medium heat, he can get the perfect fire.

Wang Nian watched him picking and choosing from the pile of firewood. After selecting a large piece of firewood and stuffing it into the cave, he clapped his hands and jumped up again.

"I'll go call my sister."

"By the way, take out the lunch box for your dad."

"The biggest one?"

The figure rushed into the house so quickly, and the ending sound was soaring and happy, forming a sharp contrast with the howling of ghosts and wolves next door.

"Yes!" Wang Nian replied loudly, and couldn't help but laugh softly: "This kid is quite disloyal."

Because she was pregnant, Wang Nian turned down all offers to help, and thus had more free time.

However, Shi Xiangming has been busy working overtime in recent days.

I worked overtime all day last night, and I heard from Zhang Guiqiang that I will have to work all night today. It depends on whether I can finish the experiment tomorrow.

Wang Nian thought it was nothing to do, so he delivered breakfast this morning while delivering the clothes.

And...she also wanted to see what Shi Xiangming was like at work.