Chapter 106 Was Zhizhi kidnapped or found by them back then?
"It has to be okay!"
"I'll go with you in a bit!"
Xie Zhizhi couldn't help but ask, "You're not thinking of taking me through connections, are you?"
"What are you saying? My sister is such a powerful person, why would she need to go through any back channels? I'm just here to escort you."
Xie Zhizhi raised her hand and gave him an OK sign, then went to wash her face and brush her teeth to wake up.
After breakfast, accompanied by Wen Jinzhou and Zhou Lin, Xie Zhizhi went to the Cultural Relics Administration Department.
However, Xie Zhizhi only asked the two men to drop her off at her destination. She went to see Director Liu alone. "I'm going to work. What would it look like if I brought two family members with me?"
“Others will doubt my work ability,” Xie Zhizhi said to Wen Jinzhou, who insisted on seeing her to the door.
Wen Jinzhou then parked the car far away. "If the work is easy, then do it; if it's not easy, then don't do it. Your second brother's money is for you to spend."
Perhaps worried that Xie Zhizhi wouldn't have enough money, Wen Jinzhou pointed at Zhou Lin and said, "There's also Zhou Lin's money, so don't worry about not having enough."
Xie Zhizhi said "I know" and ran away.
Wen Jinzhou leaned against the car window, watching Xie Zhizhi's retreating figure, and couldn't help but say, "If my sister hadn't been lost back then, I wouldn't have met you, Lao Zhou."
"Um!"
But Wen Jinzhou changed the subject and said with a smile, "But I might introduce my sister to you."
Zhou Lin expressed doubt, "Really?"
"Would you really introduce your sister to a man eight years older than her?"
Wen Jinzhou "..."
"Sorry, I forgot about the age difference between you two!"
Zhou Lin “…”
You don't have to be so honest.
What's done is done. Can't you at least say something nice?
"What did the Xie family say?" Zhou Lin asked.
"The Xie family?"
"Hmm, was Zhizhi kidnapped by them back then, or was she found?"
"My dad is asking about this, but it seems like we haven't heard back yet."
The day after Wen Changyu made the phone call, someone stormed into the Xie family's house and arrested Tian Fang and the others.
Only Zhou Xie is left in the family; he's now called Xie Xie.
The villagers nearby gathered around, chattering amongst themselves, "What did the Xie family do wrong?"
"I don't know!"
"Could it be that their son-in-law, who's an officer, is getting revenge on them?"
“It’s possible,” some agreed.
Then everyone thought that Xie's son-in-law was too ruthless.
After a long exchange of words, someone asked Xie Hongchao's son, who was just a child.
"Let's notify the eldest daughter of the Xie family to come and take care of things. Such a terrible thing has happened in the family, it's really..." The person speaking shook their head.
Then a relative of the Xie family rode a bicycle to Xie Lanlan's house.
Upon hearing that her family had all been arrested, Xie Lanlan rushed back to her parents' home with her relatives without even locking the door.
On the way, I couldn't help but ask why they arrested her family members.
According to what everyone was gossiping about, the person told Xie Lanlan that Xie Zhizhi had retaliated against their family, so she had her mother, brother, and sister-in-law arrested.
"Go and beg your sister, what deep-seated hatred could this family have to commit such a cruel act?" the man said, letting out a long sigh.
Xie Lanlan gritted her teeth in hatred, "That bitch, she's trying to drive our family to their deaths!"
Then Xie Lanlan took Xie Xie to the Zhou family's house, sat down at the entrance of Xie Zhizhi's courtyard, slapped her thigh and cried, and pulled Xie Xie to sit on the ground with her, but Xie Xie didn't cry, she just wailed by herself!
"Everyone, come and judge this! They're leaving no way for anyone to live! What kind of heartless daughter is she? Relying on her husband's abilities, she had her entire family arrested!"
She sat on the ground and howled loudly, which quickly attracted a lot of people to come and watch.
When it comes to matters of filial piety, everyone around reacts like mosquitoes to blood, each with their own venomous sticks.
"What happened?"
Once the first person asked, a second person followed suit. Everyone was concerned and wanted to know if the Zhou family's son was really the kind of person who bullied others by abusing his power, and if the Zhou family's daughter-in-law was really so heartless that she dared to harm even her own family.
Hearing someone ask, Xie Lanlan stopped wailing and began to sincerely wipe away her tears, sobbing as she said, "You must have all heard about the Zhou family's son's situation; he is infertile."
These words silenced those around them. They had heard about the Zhou family's son's health condition, but no one could say for sure whether he could have children.
It's a bit unethical to say that, and what if the other person is actually able to have children?
So nobody responded to that.
Xie Lanlan didn't care and continued, "My sister couldn't get pregnant after marrying him. My mother felt sorry for her daughter and was afraid that no one would take care of her in her old age, so she gave our Xie family's only grandson to them as an adopted son." Xie Lanlan said, pulling Xie Xie's arm.
“My mother thought, how can someone else’s adopted son be as trustworthy as her own nephew? Who knows if someone else’s son will grow up to be unfilial.”
"But she's his own aunt, how could he possibly be unfilial?"
"My mom does everything she wants for their own good!"
“They accepted it at first, and were even happy to take my nephew to the city to go to school.”
"Because my sister was worried that my nephew would be mistreated, and she couldn't bear to leave her family's belongings behind, she asked my brother and sister-in-law to go to the city to help them take care of the child."
“My brother and sister-in-law went because they felt sorry for the children, but who knew…” Xie Lanlan cried even harder, “Who knew that just over a year after my brother and sister-in-law left, my heartless sister, I don’t know who bewitched her, actually came to the city and drove my brother and sister-in-law away.”
"Not to mention that, she doesn't want my nephew anymore."
“If she doesn’t want it, fine, but she even made my brother and sister-in-law return all the money they’ve spent raising my nephew over the past year to her.”
“My brother and sister-in-law are very loyal people. They scraped together all the money she asked for and gave it to her!”
"But she's still not satisfied. My brother and sister-in-law have only been back for less than a month, and her husband has had my mother, my brother, and sister-in-law all arrested!"
"They've all been arrested..." Xie Lanlan slapped her thigh, crying and wailing.
The people around them also looked solemn, unable to believe that Zhou Lin and his wife were such ruthless people.
"Is there some mistake?" someone who was on good terms with the Zhou family said.
"That's right, Zhou Lin isn't that kind of person!"
“That’s right, Zhou Lin is someone I watched grow up. He’s a very kind and righteous kid.”
Only Zhang Fenfen (Zhou Lin's sister-in-law) stood in the crowd, scoffing, "Heh, she's good at putting on an act in front of outsiders!"
People were watching her.
Zhang Fenfen crossed her arms and asked, "Why are you looking at me like that?"
“Look at me again, and I’ll still say it: you’re good at pretending. The couple is worse and more wicked than anyone else behind the scenes.”
Just then, Wu Caifeng was called back from the field.
She happened to overhear her eldest daughter-in-law's words, and immediately cast a cold glance at her. She didn't care how Zhang Fenfen usually behaved.
But situations like this, where someone helps outsiders slander their own family members...
"What did I do wrong to you?"
"What did I do to you?"
"Did I benefit from your fame, or did I get involved with you in some way?"
"Zhang Fenfen, aren't you afraid of your tongue rotting from saying such baseless and unscrupulous things?"
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