Chapter 178 The Food Supplies Squad was disbanded.
the next day.
Wang Yuqing arrived at the non-staple food team of the brigade headquarters as usual. Usually, when she came by herself, almost everyone would be there, but today the courtyard was deserted.
Wang Yuqing glanced around and only saw Tang Wan, Lei Yongxia, and Zhao Sufen.
Tang Wan and Lei Yongxia didn't look too good. The two wanted to go forward and comfort Wang Yuqing, but Wang Yuqing shrugged indifferently: "It's okay, come or not if you don't care."
Lei Yongxia said disappointedly, "I didn't expect that Chen E wouldn't come either. I really misjudged her. How could she be like this? She's so unkind and disloyal. I won't associate with her anymore."
Wang Yuqing was quite surprised. She had expected many people not to come, but she didn't expect Chen E to not come. However, she understood and comforted Lei Yongxia: "Aunt Lei, it's not really her fault that Aunt Chen made this choice."
However, Chen E arrived.
She felt ashamed upon hearing Wang Yuqing's words and stepped forward, saying, "My daughter-in-law insisted that I not come. I thought to myself, why shouldn't I come? What does it have to do with our food processing team? What does it have to do with Yuqing? Later, I had a big argument with her, and I ignored her and came here as soon as possible."
After saying that, she looked at Wang Yuqing and said, "Yuqing, what's our relationship? Don't worry, I'll definitely be the first to support you. Even if no one else comes, I will! Because of you, I've made a lot of money. I remember your kindness in my heart."
Then he said to Lei Yongxia, "You think you're so righteous? I'm even more righteous than you."
Lei Yongxia chuckled.
Chen E glanced around, her gaze landing on the limping Zhao Sufeng, and asked, "You're the only one here? Where are the others? Where are Cao Huan, Hua Yan, and Li Xiuer?"
Zhao Sufeng said, "They haven't come yet. I passed by Cao Huan's house, and her door was still tightly closed."
After saying that, he added, "Hua Yan and Li Xiuer, I guess their families don't want them to come."
Chen E said angrily, "These people are all more eager than anyone else when it comes to making money, but now that the food processing team has something to do, they all hide away. They're really despicable."
She grew angrier the more she thought about it, and yelled at the door, "A bunch of ingrates, ungrateful wretches! If they ever want to come back again, we won't accept their packages!"
Everyone looked very serious.
Chen E glanced around again and asked, "Where's Miao Ying? She didn't come either, did she?"
Lei Yongxia said, "She didn't come. She's usually the first one to arrive, but now I haven't seen a trace of her. She's such an ingrate."
Chen E gritted her teeth in anger: "I never expected that the usually honest and pitiful person would be the biggest ingrate! I never thought she would not come."
Lei Yongxia sighed, "Who could have guessed? She didn't come. I was shocked when I arrived. Logically speaking, she shouldn't have missed it."
Zhao Sufeng said, "I don't think she's that kind of person. Is it because her mother-in-law and husband don't allow her to come?"
Chen E said, "Does she not have legs? My daughter-in-law wouldn't let me come, but I'm here now, aren't I? She herself didn't want to come, afraid that this matter would implicate her."
Tang Wan said calmly, "That's fine. Through this incident, we can see everyone's true feelings."
Wang Yuqing sat to one side, watching everyone chatter away. She seemed relaxed and indifferent, having seen this kind of thing many times in her previous life.
Tang Wan thought she was feeling unwell, so she walked over quietly to comfort her.
Wang Yuqing said, "If they don't come, they don't come. Even if they do come, our non-staple food team probably won't be able to keep going."
Tang Wan thought Wang Yuqing was going to disband the team, but then He Guangliang arrived with several brigade cadres and the old Party Secretary.
He Guangliang said sternly, "Disband the non-staple food team."
Lei Yongxia was unhappy, hands on her hips: "Why? Why should we disband?"
Chen E said, "Yeah, why would they disband our non-staple food team?"
He Guangliang sneered: "What? On what grounds? You know perfectly well what you're asking. Your food processing team caused such a big incident by killing people with snails, do you still want to continue operating?"
Tang Wan frowned and said coldly, "Cao Hao's death has nothing to do with us."
He Guangliang retorted, "So, if someone ate your snails and died, can you escape responsibility? It was Cao Hao who ate them; otherwise, who knows how many people would have been poisoned to death."
Wang Yuqing remained silent throughout.
She glanced at the old Party Secretary, who sighed and said, "This is indeed a very serious matter. Let's stop for a few days and wait for the police to investigate before proceeding. If they don't investigate, even if you continue selling snails, no one will dare to buy them."
Wang Yuqing felt that what the old Party Secretary said made sense.
Tang Wan, Chen E, Lei Yongxia, and Zhao Sufeng all looked at Wang Yuqing, who smiled easily and said, "Alright, everyone go back and get some rest."
The food processing team was thus suspended.
On their way home, everyone guessed correctly, and many people gloated.
The happiest people were Yuan Fang, Liu Li, Shi Feng, He Ruhua, Hua Gui, and Zhao Si and Qian Juan.
He Ruhua was still uneasy, after all, Cao Hao was a human life. She was too scared to sleep at night and curled up in the corner of the bed, which made Yang Hui even more suspicious.
On her way back, Wang Yuqing ran into Yang Hui. She saw the scratches all over Yang Hui's face and went up to ask, "Did He Ruhua beat you up again?"
Yang Hui nodded in shame.
He looked at Wang Yuqing with a strange expression, as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.
Wang Yuqing found it strange and asked, "Teacher Yang, is there something you want to tell me?"
Just as Yang Hui was about to speak, Hua Gui came over and said, "Yang Hui, your father is sick. Go home and see him."
Yang Hui immediately fell silent.
After Yang Hui returned, he was beaten again by Hua Gui, while He Guangliang watched indifferently from the side.
For three days in a row, the police have been unable to find any clues.
Why would there be rat poison in the snails? When they finally went to Shuangdai Store to investigate, He Ruhua said, "A few days before the incident, I saw Wang Yuqing come to buy rat poison."
Upon hearing this, the project team approached Wang Yuqing again, who truthfully replied, "A few days ago, I did go to the Shuangdai Office to buy rat poison, but I used it the same day I bought it. Members of the non-staple food team can testify that I used it to poison rats."
She even mentioned the rat's carcass and the paper containing the rat poison in the garbage dump.
The project team then contacted several other members, all of whom could testify for Wang Yuqing.
But Cao Huan couldn't resist asking, "Who knows if she secretly kept a little bit?"
The project team began to suspect Wang Yuqing again. Wang Yuqing said, "I'll say it again, I have no reason to poison the snails. I wouldn't do something so stupid. I ask you, officers, if you were me, would you be so foolish as to put rat poison in the snails? Cao Hao stealing them was just an accident. If he hadn't stolen them, the snails would have been sold to residents of the surrounding market. At that time, several, a dozen, or even dozens of people would have been poisoned. Would I have just wanted to die?"
"I earn so much money, I have a harmonious family and a handsome husband, why shouldn't I live?"
Wang Yuqing said, "Someone must be trying to frame me."
It was He Ruhua's words that made Wang Yuqing think of something. She was quick-witted and said to Ji Xuening, "He Ruhua knows that I bought rat poison? Then she has a chance to slander me?"
This led her to think that Cao Huan had been getting very close to Hua Gui recently.
Her suspicions about Cao Huan grew stronger, so she quickly found Tang Wan. The two discussed it and, with the help of the police, put on a show.
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