"Shh, you know what I mean, no need to say it out loud." Yu Shuangjiang's eyes darkened. "Don't let your dad know, he's a very sentimental person."
"Mom, I knew you were the best to me! I'll definitely take good care of you when you get old." Huang Zizhong coaxed Yu Shuangjiang, then reached out and took his mother's arm. "Where's Jiang Jingzhou? Should we take care of them both?"
"Find out their background first. If it's not important, it's just a matter of convenience."
Yu Shuangjiang changed the subject, "However, you need to hurry up with your marriage. Don't always be so picky. The ones I've chosen are definitely not bad! The families you're interested in may not be interested in you. Son, you need to know your place. If you're outstanding, wouldn't good families be eager to marry you?"
Yu Shuangjiang knew very well what kind of person her son was.
Deep down, he was just an uneducated good-for-nothing, and Yu Shuangjiang spoiled him rotten.
"I know..." Huang Zizhong nodded impatiently and replied perfunctorily, "I'll hurry up."
Yu Shuangjiang didn't continue. Her son hated nagging the most, so she left it at that to avoid upsetting him.
...
The compound.
The day after returning from the Huang family's old courtyard, Hua Xiuyun had already arranged for someone to clean it up. Lin Zhaoyue had no worries about her mother-in-law handling things.
At noon, Jiang Jingzhou hurriedly returned again. After the last experience, Lin Zhaoyue was very worried when she saw him come back. What was wrong this time?
Sure enough, Jiang Jingzhou came back at this time for a reason, but it wasn't the bad thing that happened last time; this time it was a "good thing."
"My maternal grandparents died under suspicious circumstances."
Jiang Jingzhou frowned and said seriously, "The comrade who told me about my grandparents' death told me something else today. It was about what happened on the day my grandparents died. His mother-in-law went to borrow something from my grandmother and casually mentioned that she should be careful when using coal because there had been people suffocating to death in their village a couple of years ago. My grandparents told people that they knew, and they would leave a crack in the window whether it was day or night. But the next day, when my grandparents had their accident, his mother-in-law suddenly noticed that the window in their room was closed."
I mentioned it to your uncle and his family, but they just brushed it off, saying the old folks might have forgotten. They figured it wasn't their family's business, so they didn't think much of it. But when he brought it up with me today, I felt something was off.
Not to mention Jiang Jingzhou, Lin Zhaoyue also felt that something was not right.
My grandparents aren't senile yet, how could they possibly forget?
The windows are always open, day and night; it's impossible that I forgot to open them.
"Could it be that our house was burgled? The thief closed the window when he left!" Hua Xiuyun wondered.
Anything is possible; right now, they're just speculating.
However, does this mean that the deaths of the two elders were not accidental?
Thinking this, Lin Zhaoyue remained silent for a long time, pondering what Jiang Jingzhou had said.
Including my uncles' reactions yesterday, something really was off!
As if afraid of being discovered, they hurriedly arranged the funeral for the two elders.
The local custom is to hold a grand funeral, depending on how well the sons are doing. Those who are well-off hold a grand funeral, while those who are not so well-off hold a small one.
Given the status of his uncles, they should at least give his maternal grandparents a grand and respectable funeral, to show their sons filial piety and to save face.
“Jingzhou, there’s no way to investigate right now.” Her grandparents have already been laid to rest, and the crime scene has been destroyed. Even if they wanted to investigate now, they probably wouldn’t know where to start. But if this matter isn’t investigated thoroughly, Lin Zhaoyue feels she has let her grandparents down.
"There is no such thing as a perfect cover-up in this world. As long as something is done, there will be some clues left behind, it's just that no one has discovered them yet."
Jiang Jingzhou said in a serious voice, "Zhaoyue, if you want to thoroughly investigate this matter, I will help you investigate! I don't believe we can't find out anything."
"We definitely need to investigate, but we can't let anyone else know," Hua Xiuyun added from the side. "We need to avoid any troublemakers! We can't alert them."
"clear."
Lin Zhaoyue's heart suddenly started pounding uncontrollably; subconsciously, she felt that something was definitely wrong.
"..."
Two days later, Lin Zhaoyue went home and mentioned the matter to her father. Lin Erwu looked grief-stricken and said, "After a while, when your Aunt Qian's condition stabilizes, I will go to pay my respects to the two elders."
"Dad, I want to know what my uncles' relationship was like with my mom back then? Were the siblings on good terms?"
"Why did you suddenly ask me this?" His daughter had never asked this before. Could it be that she was hiding something important from him?
Lin Erwu frowned. "Zhaoyue, you're pregnant now. I don't care what you want to do, you're not allowed to do it now! Giving birth to the baby is the most important thing. The two elders are already dead, let's not talk about the past, okay?"
“Yes, I suspect there’s another reason for my grandparents’ deaths, so I’m planning to investigate it carefully.” Lin Zhaoyue didn’t hide this from Lin Erwu. Her father wouldn’t leak the secret to others, and besides, others certainly wouldn’t know as much as her father. “Dad, if you’re not willing to tell me, then I’ll have to ask others.”
"You... never mind, your temper is just like your mother's! You always like to get to the bottom of everything." Lin Erwu sighed helplessly; he really didn't want to bring up the old stories.
“When I was with your mother, your maternal grandparents didn’t get along well with their sons! They weren’t too estranged, at most they just felt that your maternal grandparents didn’t treat them equally. Every family has its own problems, and who can really say who is right and who is wrong?”
Lin Erwu said, "Among them, there is one thing I know that your maternal grandparents do not favor boys over girls, so they thought that if their son got married, they would need to build a house and give a dowry. If it was their daughter, they would not be any different! It had to be fair and just. As a result, your aunts were not happy!"
They insisted that a married daughter is like water spilled from a cup, and they ganged up on your maternal grandparents. Your mother didn't want to put them in a difficult position, so she offered to give it away, but they insisted on giving it to her, saying that anyone who dared to take it would have to sever all ties with the family and never have any contact with them again.
How could the bond between parents and children be severed so easily?
Anyway, our relationship has only been so-so over the years.
After Zhaoyue's mother died, they lost contact.
However, judging from the current situation, their relationship hasn't improved much.
"Grandpa and Grandma..." Lin Zhaoyue opened her mouth as if to say something but then hesitated.
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