Chapter 81: Prison and Hair Pulling
Song Qianyue, who was following him from below, saw him disappear behind the courtyard wall and felt that the matter was half done.
After getting the things, let's see how Ye Tan threatens her. She will stay on the island in the future, and Ye Tan will hang around in front of her every day. He will also seduce her husband and see how she cries and how proud she is.
Song Qianyue was daydreaming outside the wall when Sun Chao, who had landed in the yard, dodged a little. Fortunately, he made no noise, but his heart was pounding. He felt a little nervous and a little excited.
He had never thought that there was such a way to steal the beauty before, but when he really did it, he felt that it was not that difficult.
He just needs to climb over the wall and pry open the door lock. Once the door is closed, who would know what he is doing in there?
Thinking about this, Sun Chao looked around excitedly as his dream was about to come true, then carefully walked towards the door.
When he reached the door and pushed it, he found that it was locked from the inside. Sun Chao did not panic, as he had expected this. He took a piece of wire from his waist, carefully inserted it into the door through the crack, and turned the lock little by little by feeling.
Ye Tan didn't sleep well that night. She didn't know if it was because Gu Zhao was not there, but she always felt uneasy in her heart. She also had a dream. The dream was full of strange things and there was the sound of wind in the frame.
In the dream, Ye Tan subconsciously wanted to find a sense of security, but after searching for a long time, she couldn't find the familiar source of warmth. She only touched a soft pillow with a familiar scent. She hugged it in her arms, and her frown relaxed slightly.
Twenty minutes ago, a military truck drove in from the dark night at the gate of the base, slowly entered the base, and stopped in the square.
Gu Zhao came out from the passenger seat, looked up at the night sky, and waved his hand to let everyone else disperse. Gu Zhao, wearing muddy military boots, also hurried home in the night.
The family compound was very quiet. Gu Zhao's footsteps were always light, and he made almost no noise as he walked along. In addition, he was wearing a dark green camouflage uniform, so he couldn't see anyone coming from a distance.
Song Qian, who was standing outside at the intersection and paying careful attention to her surroundings, didn't see it. She just took a few casual glances and then went back to squat behind the tree.
The cold night air made her face pale and her body shiver a little. She tried to squeeze into the corner to avoid the cold, while complaining in her heart that Sun Chao was so slow and she didn't know how long she would have to suffer the cold outside.
Song Qianyue leaned against the wall with her hands in her pockets. Unable to bear the cold, she buried her face in her arms and lay there. As she lay there, she felt a little sleepy. When Gu Zhao walked past the intersection, she didn't notice him at all. Of course, Gu Zhao, who was in a hurry to go home, didn't notice her either.
He arrived at the door of his house and subconsciously looked around. When he didn't find anything strange, he took out the key to open the door.
For fear of waking Ye Tan up, he moved very quietly, and the iron gate only made a slight creaking sound. Song Qianyue outside was almost dozing off, and did not react at all to the slight noise.
At this moment, Sun Chao took out a flashlight immediately after successfully entering the living room. He wrapped a piece of cloth around the flashlight, so that the light was dim. This made Sun Chao feel safer because no one inside or outside the room could see the light.
He followed the light to find the stairs to the second floor and went upstairs lightly. Thinking that Ye Tan was in the room upstairs, he licked his lips and took out a bundle of cloth strips from his pocket with his other hand. He had prepared them specially for Ye Tan.
He couldn't bear to knock such a delicate beauty unconscious. What was the point of sleeping like that? She had to be awake. Then he would stuff her mouth with a cloth and watch her cry out of fright. It must be very beautiful.
Sun Chao's eyes were glowing green. He quickly came to the bedroom door, pushed it gently, and found that the door was also locked.
He muttered to himself that he was still being very cautious, while he took out a piece of wire and continued to pry the door open.
Gu Zhao outside opened the door and was about to lock it. He had just turned halfway when a faint light flashed before his eyes. Gu Zhao suddenly stood still, scanning the surroundings and finally looking at the door of the house.
With the help of moonlight, Gu Zhao, who had good eyesight, noticed something was wrong. He deliberately walked to the door with light steps. Seeing that the door was open, Gu Zhao's heart trembled.
Ye Tan was very cautious when he was alone at home. He always had the habit of locking the door, and there was also the light that just passed by his eyes.
Something is wrong!
Gu Zhao felt a chill in his heart. Without bothering to continue observing, he immediately opened the door and walked into the living room. He turned on the flashlight and quickly swept his sharp eyes across all corners of the living room. There was no one there.
He then turned around and ran upstairs. As soon as one foot stepped on the stairs, the flashlight was already shining upwards. Sun Chao, who was lying at the door, was so focused on picking the lock that he didn't notice someone coming back at first. He only panicked when the light shone on him.
But there was only one corridor on the second floor, and there was no place for him to hide. His mind was in a mess, and the flashlight shone directly on his face.
At that moment, three words came to Sun Chao's mind: he was finished.
He was indeed finished. The moment Gu Zhao saw his face, he was furious. He strode up the stairs, grabbed the man and threw him down to the first floor.
Sun Chao was frightened and thought Gu Zhao wanted to kill him, and he screamed "Ahhhhh".
Ye Tan in the bedroom was awakened by the shouting. When he sat up, he found that the sound actually came from downstairs.
Ye Tan's heart sank. There was a thief in the house. She didn't dare to hesitate. She turned around and pulled out a wooden stick as thick as her arm from under the long bed. She got out of bed, walked to the door and lay down to listen for any movement.
She wasn't stupid enough to just rush out. She knew her own weight. She stood at the door thinking that if the thief broke in, she would beat him to death with a club.
Of course, if he didn't come in, he was stealing something downstairs, and she would take the opportunity to shout "Stop thief" on the balcony.
This thief is so bold that he steals things in the military compound.
Gu Zhao downstairs remained silent, only his iron fists hitting Sun Chao's face again and again with surging anger.
If he had come back a little later, he couldn't imagine what would have happened. Thinking of this, Gu Zhao attacked even more ruthlessly.
Sun Chao didn't dare to shout at first, but after being beaten so hard that he couldn't bear it anymore and thought he would die if he was beaten any further, he started shouting.
"Gu Zhao, if you kill me, you will be held responsible..."
"You're going to go to jail...Ah! Stop it, stop it, ahh ...
It would have been fine if Sun Chao hadn't said anything. As soon as he spoke, Gu Zhao changed his hand and continued, punching him hard. Each blow was so fierce that Sun Chao seemed to hear the sound of bones breaking. He almost fainted and couldn't hold back any more, so he began to beg Gu Zhao for mercy.
Gu Zhao kicked him in the stomach, and Sun Chao lost his voice in pain.
Ye Tan upstairs carefully opened the door and walked to the stairs with a stick in hand. When she saw the man downstairs beating Gu Zhao vigorously, she breathed a sigh of relief and her nervous heart relaxed immediately. Then her eyes turned red and her body trembled with fear.
"Husband." Ye Tan called Gu Zhao tremblingly. Gu Zhao, who was beating someone, turned around when he heard the voice. Seeing Ye Tan's thin figure and hearing the sob in her voice, he didn't bother to continue beating her. He turned around and ran upstairs to hug Ye Tan to comfort her.
"Don't be afraid, I'm back, don't be afraid, it's okay, it's okay..." Gu Zhao patted her back gently, feeling both scared and relieved.
Fortunately, he came back and the terrible consequences did not befall Ye Tan, otherwise he would never be able to forgive himself for the rest of his life.
Being held tightly in Gu Zhao's arms, Ye Tan absorbed the sense of security conveyed by the man, and her trembling body slowly stabilized. She raised her hand to wipe the wet corners of her eyes. Gu Zhao saw it and kissed the corners of her eyes with heartache.
Ye Tan said stubbornly: "I don't want to cry."
Gu Zhao's eyes were gentle, and his voice was hoarse from the fear he felt afterwards: "I know, it just blew out of its own accord."
Ye Tan...almost laughed.
"Is he trying to run away?" Ye Tan said when he saw the person crawling out downstairs.
Gu Zhao turned his head and took a look, then asked Ye Tan to go back to the room to change clothes. He bent down to pick up the cloth belt at his feet and went downstairs. He kicked Sun Chao and turned him over. Gu Zhao grabbed his hands and tied him up.
Sun Chao: "Gu Zhao, Captain Gu, please let me go. I won't dare to do it again. I just wanted to steal something. I didn't intend to do anything else. Really, if you let me go, I will leave the island immediately and never appear in front of you again, okay?"
Gu Zhao sneered: "Stealing? You pried open my wife's door to steal?"
Sun Chao looked at Gu Zhao approaching. The place where he was hit was still painful. He swallowed and said nervously, "I really was stealing something. I didn't find any money downstairs, so I wanted to go in and see if there was any."
After a while, Ye Tan came down after getting dressed. She walked over and turned on the light in the living room. Sun Chao was blinded for a moment by the sudden light. When he opened his eyes again, Ye Tan was already standing in front of him holding a stick as thick as his arm.
Sun Chao swallowed nervously: "You, what do you want to do?"
Ye Tan raised his stick, showing the same sneer as Gu Zhao, and said, "What do you think?"
Sun Chao was terrified when he saw the stick. He was really afraid that Ye Tan would hit him on the head with the stick and he would die. He was so scared that he quickly pulled Song Qianyue out to be a scapegoat.
"To be honest, it was Song Qianyue who asked me to come to your house to steal something. She said it was a photo. It was really her who asked me to come. If you don't believe me, go check outside at the wall. She might still be there."
Ye Tan raised his eyebrows when he heard this. Thinking about the time he saw the two of them together before, he felt that it was somewhat possible.
He gestured to Gu Zhao: "You go and take a look?"
Gu Zhao didn't go, and said calmly: "There's so much noise here, the people must have run away long ago."
Ye Tan thought so too.
Sun Chao thought he had escaped, but he didn't expect Ye Tan to raise the stick again. This time, he didn't give him any room to talk. The stick, as thick as his arm, hit Sun Chao's thigh heavily. Sun Chao immediately let out a pig-killing howl.
At this moment, the lights of several surrounding households lit up instantly.
Rongsheng, who was closest to their home, quickly appeared at their door. When he came in, he saw a man with a bruised face and a beaten nose lying on the ground, Ye Tan who was on high alert, and Gu Zhao who was full of anger.
Rong Sheng breathed a sigh of relief. "You're back! I was startled by the noise I heard at your house just now. What happened? Someone came to steal something?"
Gu Zhao nodded, but did not say that he suspected Sun Chao of having seen through Ye Tan's affairs. He directly charged Sun Chao with the crime of stealing, thus avoiding any negative impact on Ye Tan. Anyway, this alone was enough to punish Sun Chao.
Rongsheng stepped forward and kicked the person on the ground. Because Gu Zhao had hit him too hard, and coupled with the blow from Ye Tan's stick, the person was now motionless and looked like he had fainted. Rongsheng kicked him but he didn't respond.
Rong Sheng breathed into his chest: "Is he dead?"
Ye Tan: "He fainted." She used all her strength in that hit.
Rongsheng felt relieved and breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good." Although he was a thief, it was still not good to cause death directly.
As Rongsheng came over, people who heard the noise came to the door one after another soon.
When they came in and saw the situation in the living room, they heard Rongsheng say that this person came to steal things but was caught by Captain Gu who came back. Everyone started to curse at Sun Chao.
"He actually came to our family compound to steal things. This guy is really brave."
"It's been over ten years, and this is the first time I've seen someone dare to sneak into our compound. They're really brave."
"Who is this? Is he from the island?"
"It should be from outside. There are no bad guys like this on our island."
"Hey, he looks familiar to me, like the one in the store before."
As soon as this man's curious voice came out, the others also looked at him carefully. As they looked, they really could make out some meaning from his bruised face and nose.
Finally, Aunt He, who had just arrived, pointed out his name: "Isn't this Xiao Sun? I heard that he quit his job and was going to work in a factory. How did he become a thief?"
"Others took a closer look and exclaimed in surprise, 'It really is him. He's such a nice guy, how could he be so desperate to end up in this line of work?'"
"Who cares what he thinks? Thieves are not good people. Let's send him to the disciplinary office and let them investigate to see if he has done anything else bad."
"Speaking of which, I lost a pair of new shoes a few days ago. I hadn't worn them yet. I said I'd put them in the yard to dry, but they disappeared the next day. Maybe he stole them. My shoes are made of sheepskin, not cheap."
"Then there are two eggs missing from my rice jar. Was he the one who stole them?"
"Two of the salted fish I dried earlier are missing..."
...While everyone was talking, several strong men carried Sun Chao to the disciplinary office.
Gu Zhao and Ye Tan had no chance to intervene at all.
There was a thief in the base. This was the first time the director of the Discipline Department had encountered such a thing in his ten years of work, and he found it quite strange.
It's not surprising to see thieves anywhere, but seeing thieves in a military base is like seeing an old man getting tired of living.
Therefore, needless to say, the director himself felt that the case must be strictly investigated and dealt with, and it must be set as an example to prevent anyone from sneaking into the base again.
However, this investigation did reveal a problem. It turned out that Sun Chao had a history of being a hooligan towards female comrades. Further investigation revealed that he had embezzled store receipts and intercepted store goods for resale.
Stealing was already a serious crime at that time, and with these additional charges, Sun Chao was directly sentenced to twenty years of labor reform in the local area.
Sun Chao's mother fainted when she heard the news. Everyone felt that she was an old lady and had no one to take care of her son who had gotten into trouble, so they kindly sent him to the hospital. Unexpectedly, after he woke up, not only was he not grateful, but he also cursed anyone who harmed her son.
Finally, after she was released from the hospital, she went to Ye Tan's house every day to curse and make trouble, saying that Ye Tan was a vixen who seduced people, falsely accused her son, and harmed her son. She asked Ye Tan to bring her son back, otherwise she would hang herself at the door of her house.
Ye Tan was frightened by her. At first, considering that she was an old lady, he tried to persuade her to find the person who instigated his son to steal and not to make trouble with her. It was useless.
When the man continued to make trouble without listening, Ye Tan was not polite. She reported it directly to her superiors and followed the people from the Women's Federation to expel the man from the base on the grounds of disturbing the peace.
After dealing with the old lady, Ye Tan turned around and planned to deal with Song Qianyue.
They originally wanted to let her go and live their own lives in peace without interfering with each other, but she didn't expect her to jump out again and let Sun Chao, a man with lustful intentions, sneak into her house. This time, Gu Zhao came back in time, otherwise who knows what would have happened.
If she let it go any further, she would be putting herself in danger, and she was afraid she wouldn't be able to sleep at night.
Ye Tan went to find Zhao Xiaoya. After discussing it, they decided to make a desperate move against Song Qianyue by publicizing her beautiful and romantic past so that she would not be able to continue staying on the island.
After Gu Zhao knew their plan, he felt that it was too troublesome. Based on Song Qianyue's behavior of being involved with two unmarried men during her time on the island, he planned to accuse her of having a bad work style and have the garrison send her off the island on the grounds of causing a bad atmosphere.
But before they could make a decision, they heard that Song Qianyue was beaten by Sun Chao's mother.
The cause was that Sun Chao's mother found that no one paid any attention to her after she had been making a fuss at the gate of the base for several days. This kind of person is like this, the more you pay attention to her, the more excited she becomes. When no one pays attention to her, she becomes tired of howling and stops.
Then she patted her butt and said she wanted to go see her son. Although Sun Chao was in prison, it was not impossible to visit him. The higher-ups did not stop her, so she went to see Sun Chao.
Sun Chao has been locked up for several days. The cell is damp and cool, the wooden bed is hard and uncomfortable, and the only quilt has been there for who knows how many years. The cotton wool inside has hardened into lumps and does not keep him warm at all. The weather has been bad recently and there are signs of snow.
Sun Chao lived a free and happy life for the first twenty years of his life under the protection of his uncle. Even though his uncle got into trouble and was transferred away, his life was not as good as before, but he still had a stable job in the local store.
Apart from being jealous of others who lived better than him and not being able to get the beauties he liked, he had hardly ever suffered any grievances.
It was not until this time when he landed himself in jail that he finally realized the suffering that he had not experienced in the previous twenty years.
He hadn't slept much in the past few days, and even when he did fall asleep he would wake up from the cold. His heart was already tormented, and now his body couldn't get any rest, which doubled the torment. In just a few days, his eye sockets became sunken and his face turned blue.
When Yu Dinglan saw her son like this, she burst into tears.
Sun Chao finally couldn't hold back his tears when he saw her, and the mother and son cried to each other, staging a real-life version of tears behind bars.
After she finished crying, Yu Dinglan asked him why he had the idea of stealing other people's things. Now he was going to be sent to labor camp for twenty years. What would she do alone?
At this time, Sun Chao, who had been suffering and regretting for several days, gritted his teeth and said that it was Song Qianyue who instigated him to do it.
Sun Chao really thought so, and he hated Song Qianyue sincerely.
It wasn't Song Qianyue who seduced him, hinted at him, or provoked him to do this. He never had such thoughts at all. Sun Chao thought about it these days and realized that everything was because of Song Qianyue. If it weren't for Song Qianyue, he would still be working as a salesperson in a store.
It doesn't make sense that he is now in jail and has to do labor reform for twenty years. His life is over, but Song Qianyue is still living a carefree life outside.
He took Yu Dinglan's hand and narrated the whole story with exaggeration. Only then did Yu Dinglan realize that her son had been murdered.
And Song Qianyue of course knew about Sun Chao's arrest.
When she heard Sun Chao's wailing inside, she knew something was wrong and ran away. She was terrified for two days afterwards, fearing that Sun Chao would push her out to take the blame in order to shirk responsibility.
She was thinking of excuses while hoping that Sun Chao would not expose her. However, after waiting for a long time and no one came to find her, she slowly felt relieved.
At the same time, she was surprised that Sun Chao was still loyal and didn't tell her about it. It seemed that he didn't care about her as much as he seemed. Thinking of Song Qianyue, she felt a little secretly proud.
Good things come in pairs. She then received a notice from the factory that she had passed the exam and would be able to officially start work after the Spring Festival. She was now considered a worker in the factory, so the clerk who had been asking her to leave quickly recently no longer urged her. Song Qianyue was in an extremely good mood.
Although Ye Tan failed to get the photo, Sun Chao had stumbled, so she could only take things one step at a time and focus on the things at hand.
Unfortunately, her happiness didn't last two days. When she went out to play with the young ladies she had recently met, she was stopped by an old woman. Before she could even ask her what was the matter, the old woman spat in her face.
The fishy smell almost made Song Qianyue vomit on the spot. Of course, she didn't have the chance, because the next moment Yu Dinglan grabbed her hair and pulled her down. Before she could say a word, she was slapped several times in the face and was stunned.
Yu Dinglan not only beat him, but also scolded him while beating him. The old lady in the countryside cursed people so badly that it could make people vomit blood. Song Qianyue was not a good person and had done a lot of bad things, but she had never been beaten and scolded like this. How could she accept it? She fought back as soon as she realized it.
But although she was young, her physical strength was still not as good as that of the old country lady who was used to doing farm work. Seeing that she dared to fight back, Yu Dinglan didn't let her go. She slapped her in the face several times. Song Qianyue was beaten so hard that she saw stars and her mouth hurt so much that she couldn't speak.
Yu Dinglan continued to curse: "You slutty vixen, you seduced my son to help you steal things, and now my son is in jail, but you are fine. You deserve to be killed, you slut, you bitch, you have to explain yourself now and get my son out. You made him do it, so you should be the one in jail!"
Yu Dinglan cursed without caring whether Song Qianyue heard clearly or not. She grabbed her hair and was about to drag her away. However, after taking just one step, she felt her hand become heavy, and then light. Turning around, she saw that she was holding a handful of bloody hair. Song Qianyue had already fallen to the ground unconscious.
The beating continued until the man fell down. The onlookers could no longer bear to watch and started calling for emergency help.
Yu Dinglan had not expected such an outcome and was unable to react for a moment. By the time she came to her senses, Song Qianyue had already been carried to the hospital.
That was it. Yu Dinglan still didn't want to give up. She had to replace her son. Otherwise, what would she do for the rest of her life? No one would take care of her in her old age, and no one would help bury her when she died.
Yu Dinglan rolled up her sleeves and cursed, "Don't think that just because you're in the hospital, it's over. Even if you run to heaven, it won't be over."
A woman nearby heard her words and pulled her back, kindly saying, "Forget it. She beat someone up and sent him to the hospital. It's time for her to have her revenge."
The man next to him also said: "Yeah, someone pulled out a lot of your hair. How can you, a young and beautiful girl, face people in the future?"
Yu Dinglan didn't listen to these people's gossip. She waved her hand and said in disgust, "What do you know? My son was killed by her. She is not a good person. She fainted. I think she was pretending."
She wanted to see whether the vixen who harmed her son was really fainting or just pretending. Yu Dinglan waved away the other person's hand, telling them not to meddle in other people's business, and quickly followed her to the hospital.
When Song Qianyue was found in the hospital, she had just finished the examination. A doctor was holding the examination form and saying something. She didn't hear clearly, but she saw that Song Qianyue on the bed was awake.
She quickly pushed aside the hospital nurses who were blocking her way and stepped forward to slap Song Qianyue's red and swollen face again, but was stopped by a nurse who was hanging an IV bottle on Song Qianyue.
"Auntie, this is a hospital. Please don't assault the patients here. Otherwise, we will report the situation to the higher authorities and deny your visitation rights."
Yu Dinglan was particularly unwilling to accept this, but she couldn't move her hands. She kept talking: "I knew you were just pretending, you bastard. You thought I couldn't do anything to you just because you pretended to faint and went to the hospital, right? I'm telling you, I'm not buying it!"
Song Qianyue was in a daze. She didn't react at all to Yu Dinglan's appearance. However, the doctor, who was almost knocked down by Yu Dinglan, couldn't bear to see this.
He stood up and said, "Comrade, do you know that the patient is pregnant? Your insults will have a negative impact on her mood, indirectly affecting the fetus and causing the risk of miscarriage later."
Yu Dinglan: "What about miscarriage? Let me tell you... What? What did you say? She's pregnant. This vixen is pregnant?"
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