Yu Sui was speechless for a while.
They are already an elderly and vulnerable group, yet they still bully each other.
But if it was just a replacement job, the rat poison incident shouldn't have happened. What on earth did she miss?
Yu Sui thought for a moment and then asked, "Then, won't Old Octopus's family feel something is wrong? I mean, he often works for others but doesn't take much money home. If his son and daughter-in-law find out, won't they cause trouble for Yu Zhu?"
Yu Laojiu: "Well, Old Octopus's life is no better than mine. His three sons and daughters-in-law don't even consider him family. He usually lives in a pig shed and has little to no food. Who knows where he goes? No one cares!"
Yu Sui still felt that this was not good: "How can you treat an old man like this?"
Yu Laojiu continued, "However, it's retribution for his sons and daughters-in-law treating him like this. Old Octopus wasn't a good person when he was young. He cheated on his wife and had affairs outside. He didn't know how to take care of his wife and children. Why do you think he's called Old Octopus? It's because he had affairs with this one and that one. He has eight legs!"
Yu Sui was speechless.
It turns out that he is not as good at work as the legend said before?
Tsk tsk, upon hearing this new legend, there is only one evaluation: it’s not that the old people have become bad, but that the bad people have become old.
Yu Laojiu was also very emotional:
"He treated his son badly, and now that his son has grown up, he doesn't recognize him. It's only natural. Unlike me, when I was young, I worked hard to earn money. I didn't want to eat or wear anything, and even wanted to save money for travel, just so that my sons could have a better life. Who knew that my wife was not a reasonable person. On the one hand, she used my hard-earned money to eat and drink well, and on the other hand, she accused me of not being at home and not caring about the family.
I was so angry. At that time, I was in Shanghai, so I only sent money back home, not in person. Gradually, I became estranged from my wife and children. When I returned after my injury, my sons were very unfamiliar with me, and I couldn't speak, so slowly it became like this.
Yu Sui wasn't there to listen to the story, so she didn't join in the sentimental conversation. She just wanted to know some useful information about the rat poison incident, so she asked:
"Uncle Laojiu, let's not talk about this for now. After all, it won't help you in your future. Think about it. Since you started working with Yu Zhushi, Yang Shuisheng, and Old Octopus, has there been anything that you find suspicious?
Or, tell me about any strange things someone in the factory or production team said or did. We have to catch this bad guy who did this. Only then can we get Zhang Caifeng back, and your life can go back to the way it was before!
"Alas!" Yu Laojiu sighed. "The police asked me that, but at the time, I really didn't dare to say anything."
Yu Sui keenly caught the thoughts behind Yu Laojiu's words:
"So what about the present situation? Tell me about it. Tell me this. I will definitely not accuse you of lying. I also promise that I will secretly investigate it thoroughly and will definitely not implicate you."
silence.
Yu Laojiu lowered his head and spent a long period of silence sorting out the confusion and hesitation in his heart.
Yu Sui didn't say anything either, but was a little excited.
It seems that Yu Laojiu really knows something, and it seems that I asked the right question.
The two of them sat on the ground for a long time. Yu Laojiu raised his eyes and looked at Yu Sui: "You have to promise that no matter what I say, you can't say it was me who said it!"
"That's for sure!" Yu Sui controlled her heart that was about to jump out of her chest and said calmly.
Yu Laojiu stuttered as he began to speak: "How can I tell you? Where should I start? There was one time, in March, when Old Octopus and I had nothing to eat, so we went to the river to catch snails, and I met Old Octopus's daughter-in-law. I heard... I heard... that... Old Octopus's daughter-in-law scolded him, 'If you steal your grandson's biscuits again, I'll give you rat poison and kill you!'"
Yu Sui's sweat stood up: "What about the queen?"
"Later, on that day, the day the accident happened, Yu Zhushi told Yang Shuisheng that she was going to buy fish and asked Old Zhangyu to come take her place. Yang Shuisheng said that when he went out early in the morning, he heard Old Zhangyu's daughter-in-law scolding Old Zhangyu again, and told Yu Zhushi not to go to Old Zhangyu to avoid being scolded too.
Yu Zhu grabbed a handful of candies from the packaging table and stuffed them into her pocket. She said this matter was easy to negotiate. She could just give the vicious daughter-in-law a handful of candies. Since there was no wrapping paper, no one would know she had stolen them.
Yu Laojiu spoke very slowly and used his hands to describe the shape of the candy. The candy had to be wrapped in two layers, first a layer of glutinous rice paper and then a layer of wrapping paper.
Yu Suishi didn't know what this part had to do with the incident, and worried about missing something, so she refrained from interrupting and continued to listen patiently to Yu Laojiu's words:
"After about a quarter of an hour, Yu Zhu came over with Old Octopus, cursing and slapping her hair and shaking her clothes. She complained to Yang Shuisheng that Old Octopus's daughter-in-law was even more of a shrew than she was.
From what I heard from her, she said that when she went there, Old Octopus's daughter-in-law was throwing a stool, which almost hit Old Octopus. In order to bring Old Octopus to the factory to replace her, she smiled ingratiatingly at the woman and stuffed the candy she stole from the factory into Old Octopus' pocket, asking Old Octopus to give it to the child.
Old Octopus listened to her and really took two candies and gave them to his grandson next to him. However, Old Octopus's daughter-in-law not only knocked the candies away with a "bang", but also stepped on the candies to pieces when she saw Yu Zhu was about to pick them up.
Yu Zhu also got angry and scolded the woman for wasting things. The woman said, "Eat, eat, eat. You will die if you eat the old octopus's food. If you want to die, let the old octopus die. Die far away and don't stay in her house."
Seeing that the candy was broken, but in a small piece, Yu Zhu was reluctant to give it up and wanted to pick it up to feed the chickens. "Yu Sui, you understand this, right? Even though she stole the candy, these days, we won't waste anything edible. If people can't eat it, we can give it to animals, right?"
But Yu Zhu said that the vicious daughter-in-law still did not let her go. When she saw Yu Zhu said she wanted to feed her family's chickens, the woman rushed over, grabbed the crushed things on the ground with both hands and threw them far away, her hands full of mud, and she cursed.
Yu Zhu was furious and chased after the woman to argue, only to have the dirt in her hand fly all over her head and face. "Tell me, why did that woman not even let go of the things that fell on the ground and were crushed?"
Yu Laojiu looked up at Yu Sui, his eyes filled with an incomprehensible fear.
Yu Sui asked quietly, "I don't know. I don't understand the connection here. Have I missed something?"
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