Chapter 82
779 Institute, interrogation room.
Second interrogation.
The strong light shone on the elderly woman in an oppressive manner, and her lifeless gray eyes faced the light without any change.
Molanke and his assistant sat on the opposite side with their backs to the light.
The assistant's hands were on the keyboard, typing away at the conversation between the two.
Ma Jiaolan has confessed to them that she is the leader of Chao Yuan Sect, and also answered questions about the operating mechanism of Chao Yuan Sect. Because the amount of information is too large, the interrogation is divided into two parts.
Now, basically all the truth has been revealed.
Very cooperative.
But Molanke felt that the interrogation went too smoothly, which made it a little weird.
She held a black pen in her hand, and there was a notebook on the table in front of her, on which was drawn the network of interpersonal relationships provided by Ma Jiaolan. But at this moment, the pen cap was closed, and she tapped the table in her hand with a slow rhythm, becoming the only sound in the interrogation room. The assistant felt the pressure doubled when he heard it.
Molanke was thinking for a while, and then she confessed: "I thought about it for a long time, but I still couldn't figure out the reason why you betrayed Chaoyuan Sect so decisively. You are one of the four guardians of Lingfeng God. Standing in that position, the benefits must be huge."
Granny Ma remained calm: "It has nothing to do with me."
Molanke's eyes narrowed suddenly, and he leaned forward from the chair and asked, "Since you are not doing it for profit, why do you believe in this evil cult? Is it really faith? No, it's back to the original question. You cooperated with us very well, and you can even be said to be a traitor to Chao Yuanzong."
"I don't have any god to believe in." Granny Ma, who has spent her whole life relying on the magical powers bestowed by the evil god Lingfeng, said calmly.
Her whole body, including her face, was motionless, like a still picture.
But it didn't take long. There seemed to be a fleeting moment of relief on her face, and she said four more words: "He will perish."
"Who? Who will perish?"
"Lord Lingfeng."
Ma Jiaolan's original name was not Ma Jiaolan, but Ma Zhaodi. She was born in a small village in Zhennan County.
Girls of that era could help the family with chopping wood, making fire, cooking, washing clothes, and carrying food from a very young age, but they were not eligible to go to school or learn to read.
There are six brothers and sisters in the Ma family. Ma Dad is the third child. His two older sisters and two younger sisters were married at the age of fifteen. The other one is his youngest brother, Ma Zhaodi's uncle.
Like all rural families, the Ma family has two sons living with their elderly mother.
Uncle Ma was promising, and his first child was a son. When Ma's father gave birth to Ma Jiaolan, he immediately named her Ma Zhaodi.
The old mother of the Ma family already loved her youngest son, so she loved her grandson even more.
When Ma Zhaodi was very young, she didn't know why her grandmother only let her uncle and cousin eat meat when they finally had meat to eat. Her father could also get a little, while her mother, herself, and her aunt could only eat cassava, which was as dry as firewood.
I don’t know why my cousin can entertain cats and dogs all day long while I have to carry water and chop firewood.
Countless nights, her mother would show a look of heartache or pity, stroke her face and say, "It would be great if you were a boy."
Fortunately, when Zhaodi was eight years old, she finally had a younger brother.
Only then did the old mother of the Ma family look at the people in her third son's room with a different eye.
From then on, Ma Zhaodi's life, in addition to working, also included taking care of her younger brother.
Although her younger brother also had eggs and meat to eat, Ma Zhaodi did not feel uncomfortable as she did in the past when her cousin could do something but she could not.
The younger brother is very cute and he loves her very much.
When she was fifteen and her younger brother was eight, they needed to go to school.
The old mother of the Ma family spent all the property of her two sons, but could only pay for the tuition of her eldest grandson.
My eldest grandson is already in the sixth grade, so we must not stop providing financial support. We must support him until he reaches junior high school.
But the little grandson is also a piece of flesh on the back of the hand.
The old mother and father of the Ma family decided to marry Ma Zhaodi off and use the dowry as the tuition for their grandson.
Anyway, Ma Zhaodi is of marriageable age.
That night, her mother looked at her with a smile in her eyes and stroked her head, "My sister, you have grown up in the blink of an eye and are now able to get married."
Ma Zhaodi knew about this matter. When grandma and dad discussed it, they did it in front of her.
Her cheeks were sunken and thin, but she looked childish: "Mom, if I get married, can my brother go to school?"
Mother smiled and nodded, "Now both of my children have a place to go." It seemed as if life had become easier.
Ma Zhaodi nodded and said, "Then I'm willing to marry." It was as if someone had asked for her opinion and she could make the decision.
The Ma family was looking for a son-in-law, and within two days, they found a suitable person.
The eldest son of the third family at the entrance of the village, Pang, is 27 years old. His ex-wife did not lay eggs and was driven out by Pang's mother. Pang's mother is worried about finding a new wife for her son.
After discussing it with Ma's mother, they felt that it was possible, so they consulted a fortune teller who was quite prestigious in the village. The fortune teller said that the two people's horoscopes were compatible, but Ma Zhaodi's name was not okay and had to be changed.
The old mother of the Ma family asked what it should be changed to. The witch thought for a moment and said, "Ma Jiaolan."
The next day, Ma Jiaolan was welcomed into the Pang family.
Since it was the man's second marriage, it was difficult to hold a grand wedding. And even if a wedding was held in the countryside, it couldn't be that big. There might just be a few people in festive attire to welcome the bride, and suona music playing from one end of the village to the other.
Ma Jiaolan went out wearing only a red dress and a veil on her head.
Little brother Ma cried heart-wrenchingly, and finally broke free from his parents, ran to his sister and hugged her tightly.
"Sister, I don't want to study! I don't want to study! Don't go!" He cried so hard that his snot was all over Ma Jiaolan's wedding dress.
Ma Jiaolan didn't feel anything at first, but when her younger brother asked her to stay, she felt touched and reluctant. She wiped her younger brother's face with her fingertips and said, "Silly boy, I'm going to someone else's house to eat meat."
Ma Xiaodi thought about it and realized that his sister had never eaten meat at home... He also wanted to let his sister have a bite of meat.
"Well, can you eat meat every day?" asked Ma Xiaodi in the village dialect.
Ma Jiaolan blinked and said, "Maybe only after giving birth to a son."
Little Brother Ma has stopped crying, and his face is clean except for some tear marks.
His expression was as innocent and relaxed as a child's, and he said encouragingly, "Then Sister, you have to give birth to a son soon!"
"Well," Ma Jiaolan pinched his face, "then you are the uncle."
The bride's receptionist urged: "Hurry up, bride. It will be bad if you miss the auspicious time."
Without Ma Xiaodi's obstruction, Ma Jiaolan sat on the ox cart tied with red cloth and entered the Pang family's door.
In the first year, there was no movement in Ma Jiaolan's stomach.
In the spring of the following year, Pang's mother cursed every day: "What did my Pang family do wrong? Both of my daughters-in-law won't lay eggs!!!"
The following winter, Pang Da drunkenly pushed open the door, and the cold wind rushed into the narrow tile house, waking Ma Jiaolan up from the cold.
The first thing I felt when I woke up was my scalp tightening, then it was pulled painfully, and the back of my head was slammed against the concrete wall.
But Ma Jiaolan has become accustomed to her man getting drunk and beating her at every turn.
She just groaned and waited for a few more hits until the other party would have no energy to rest.
This time, however, the fight lasted particularly long.
As Pang Da was getting violent, he kept saying, "You bitch, you and Zhu are cheating on me, right? I'll kill you!"
Before Ma Jiaolan even had time to ask, she was punched one by one until her eyes were dizzy.
The beating lasted perhaps half an hour, the whistling of the winter night wind drowning out the sobs.
Ma Jiaolan's body and face were covered with bruises, and she lay on the ground unable to move, while Pang Da was exhausted from the fight and fell asleep on the kang.
In the early morning, Pang Da woke up, sat up from the bed, looked down at the woman on the ground with his inverted triangle eyes, kicked her hard again, and saw that she moved slightly. He said, "It's good that you are not dead. I will go up the mountain and settle the score with you when I come back!"
Ma Jiaolan had been lying on the ground for the whole morning. Her mother Pang didn't see her coming out to work and thought she was being lazy and staying in bed, so she rushed in and saw Ma Jiaolan beaten like this.
He cursed and said, "Not only can you not lay eggs, but you can't even do the work."
After saying that, he called a neighbor lady over.
The neighbor lady saw the girl lying on the ground with blood all over her face and in a very twisted posture. She was shocked and asked, "Should we send her to Old Zhong?"
Lao Zhong is a doctor in the village clinic.
Mother Pang said, "Send an egg. Doesn't it cost money to treat her? Just apply some herbal compresses and she'll be fine!"
The two women worked together to lift Ma Jiaolan onto the bed.
Mother Pang picked some herbs that were easily found in the weed pile in front of the house, went back to the house and threw them on Ma Jiaolan's face, "Chew them up and apply them on your face, don't expect me to serve you!" After that, she went out to prepare lunch.
The neighbor lady hadn't left yet. She sighed, sat down on the kang, took the herbs on her face, chewed them up and applied them to her body. "Don't blame your mother-in-law. The herbs she got for you are the best for stopping bleeding and removing blood stasis."
Ma Jiaolan didn't say anything.
When the old lady applied the medicine to her arm, she suddenly looked at the door. Seeing that there was no one there, she leaned over and whispered to her, "Have you been close to the man from the Zhu family these days?"
Ma Jiaolan's eyes were full of confusion.
"My son told me a few days ago that you and the man from the Zhu family have a special relationship. You always talk and laugh happily. I guess your man is unhappy and beat you up because of this."
"If you didn't do this, then talk to Pang Da about it. It's taboo for a couple to have a rift. If you did do this, then it's spread. You should stop it immediately and never admit it."
After applying medicine to her, the old lady saw that her lips were peeling, and then fed her a glass of water before leaving.
Ma Jiaolan was seriously injured this time. In the past, she would be able to move after a night, but now it was afternoon and when she tried to move, she could only move her fingers and limbs.
And my vision is always blurry from time to time and I can't see clearly.
She couldn't sleep either, so she lay flat on her back, looking at the bricks and tiles above her.
There was a slight "bang" sound, the sound of a small stone thrown against the wooden window.
Ma Jiaolan felt something was wrong, but she couldn't get up and her voice seemed to have been lost.
When the pebble didn't get a response, Ma approached the window, knocked on the wooden bar, and whispered, "Sister, sister!"
Still getting no response, Ma looked around the Pang family's courtyard and saw no one there, so he went around to the door and walked in directly, holding an egg in his hand, only to see his sister lying on the bed with a bruised face and nose.
He immediately became anxious and ran to the kang, "Sister!" He glanced at her whole body. Her body was bloated under her flowery cotton jacket and she couldn't move at all.
"He hit you again?!!!" This time he hit you so hard! The ten-year-old Ma was extremely angry.
"It's... okay..." Ma Jiaolan said breathlessly. She wanted to touch her brother's head to comfort him, but she couldn't lift it up.
"No, I have to ask you for an explanation!" Little brother Ma walked around the room quickly and said foolishly, "Where is he?!" But he soon remembered that his brother-in-law worked in a lumberyard and should have gone up the mountain by now. He went back to the kang, sat down, and persuaded himself in his heart. He calmed down temporarily. "Sister, this time I picked the biggest egg and snatched it from my cousin. I'll break it into pieces and feed it to you." He said and began to peel the eggshell.
"You eat." said Ma Jiaolan.
"No, you need to eat to get better quickly."
Ma Xiaodi always remembered the day when his elder sister got married, she said that she would only have meat if she gave birth to a son, but now, she had not given birth to a nephew for two years, so there was no meat to eat. So, every month when the Ma family ate meat or boiled eggs, he would bring them to his elder sister.
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