"Hongxia, are you worried about Rongjun? Rongjun and the Zhou family are only engaged, not married. Besides, even if they were married, they could get divorced."
"Didn't those two children from the Zhou family sever ties with the family in the newspaper? Don't worry, it definitely won't affect you."
Children are all debts. She raised Rongjun and had deep feelings for her. Hongxia is her biological mother, so her feelings for her are naturally even deeper, and she must be more heartbroken than she is.
He Shuyue felt bad seeing her crying so sadly.
Hongxia has always been timid and easily frightened by outsiders. For a period of time, she was particularly dependent on her.
She always felt that Bai Xiangdong was not good enough for her. That man was too proud, but he couldn't do anything right. He was ambitious but unlucky.
But in the past, no one got divorced, and now there are very few divorces.
Otherwise, she would have advised them to divorce long ago.
"I'm afraid..."
Chen Hongxia was afraid. She had been Chen Hongxia for more than 20 years, but whenever the night was quiet, she would think that her current identity was that of another woman, who was married and had children under her name.
Moreover, this identity is extremely unsafe. Chen Hongxia still has family. Although she has come to Xin'an, if her family comes looking for her one day, everything will be exposed.
She sleeps with this time bomb in her arms every night, hating that her life is like Chen Hongxia's, revolving around her husband and children, and having to worry about mundane things like food and household chores every day.
But she also wished she were Chen Hongxia.
She endured so much disgust and lived with Bai Xiangdong for so many years, had so many children, and was blackmailed by Zhou Qi for so many years, all just to become Chen Hongxia.
But before the Chen family could even come knocking, the bomb had already exploded.
Zhou Qi will definitely expose her. What should she do?
"Don't worry, what happens to the Zhou family is their own business."
He Shuyue handed her a handkerchief, and Chen Hongxia immediately buried her face in her shoulder and cried. After thinking for a moment, she patted Chen Hongxia's shoulder and sighed deeply.
No.
After saying that, she couldn't speak again. She was afraid that if she told everyone, even He Shuyue would leave her.
But only she will stand by her side.
Chen Hongxia took a deep breath, gripped He Shuyue's hand tightly, and was about to tell her what had happened when there was a knock on the door.
Why close the door in broad daylight?
While complaining, Lu Weiguo took out his key and opened the door, where he saw Chen Hongxia crying on his wife's shoulder.
He paused, then his face immediately darkened. Why was she here again?
For so many days, Chen Hongxia had been on edge, but the sound of Lu Weiguo opening the door startled her, and she trembled.
"you--"
Lu Weiguo immediately glared at his wife, Chen Hongxia, who quickly stood up, wiped away her tears, and walked out. He Shuyue tried to grab her hand but failed.
"Why are you yelling at her? Can't you see she's upset!"
“What does her sadness have to do with me? I’m warning you, don’t get involved. Even if you feel sorry for her, you have to think about your son and daughter.”
"Why should I get involved?!"
He Shuyue was also seething with anger, so she stood up and roared at Lu Weiguo.
What did the Zhou family's affairs have to do with her? But Hongxia was so upset, she couldn't help but comfort her.
“I’m not stupid. I will never get involved in the Zhou family’s affairs, but if you continue to be so rude to her, I won’t let you off the hook.”
After He Shuyue finished speaking, she slammed the door and left, leaving Lu Weiguo fuming and still in shock.
The Bai family is a menace! No matter the age.
Chen Hongxia wanted to tell He Shuyue everything, but Lu Weiguo's appearance immediately shattered her plans.
She killed someone.
She is not Chen Hongxia.
If He Shuyue knew these things, she would also cut off all ties with her.
They might even report her, Chen Hongxia thought. No one could accept that their friend was a different kind of person, a completely bad person who had even deceived her for over twenty years.
She didn't dare to gamble.
He Shuyue chased after her but couldn't find her. She finally found her at the Bai family's house.
"Hongxia, don't pay attention to Lu Weiguo."
Chen Hongxia wiped away her tears and looked at her with a relaxed expression, "I'm fine, the Zhou family's affairs can't affect us."
After saying that, he went inside, and He Shuyue could only leave after standing outside for a while.
"You went to find He Shuyue, but she couldn't save you?"
Bai Xiangdong came out of the bedroom with a gloomy face and saw Chen Hongxia standing at the door with a stunned expression, tears streaming down her face. His expression was full of sarcasm.
He's been forcing himself to go to work these past few days, and then he drinks heavily when he gets home.
When he got drunk, he began to doubt his decision back then. He didn't dare to use the gold bars he was given and kept them in the ancestral grave.
Instead, he had been living in fear all these years, only to find that this woman had cheated on him. Bai Xiangdong felt that he shouldn't have taken her in.
"If we get dragged into this because of you, I'll kill you first!"
He walked up to Chen Hongxia and grabbed her neck tightly with both hands.
She helped this woman, but got nothing in return.
Chen Hongxia closed her eyes in despair. It wouldn't be so bad if she just died like this; she should have died more than 20 years ago.
Bai Xiangdong pinched her until her face turned red, and then after a while he forcefully shook her off.
"You're going to kill my whole family!"
Zhou Qi had been inside for so many days, and he had been tortured to the point of being emaciated, with a dull look in his eyes.
He never imagined that one day all those methods would be used on him.
Those people pressed him to reveal whose money and gold and silver belonged to him, and he told them everything, regardless of whether it was real or not, as long as he remembered it.
"You're saying these belong to Chen Hongxia?"
Zhou Qi was startled to see them come in again and quickly nodded.
"As far as we know, this Chen Hongxia is a poor peasant who fled famine with her husband to Xin'an. How could she possibly have these things? Tell me, whose are they?"
They had thoroughly investigated Zhou Qi's interpersonal relationships and naturally knew that Zhou Qi's youngest son was related to the Bai family by marriage.
But they didn't believe these things belonged to Chen Hongxia.
"It's true, she gave them all to me."
"Oh, then tell me where she got these things, and why she gave them to you?"
"I don't know, no, no, these things don't belong to her. I stole them when I was searching someone else's house."
He shook his head repeatedly and hurriedly denied it, saying that he was only embezzling money now, and that his crimes would be much more serious once Chen Hongxia's affair was exposed.
"Yeah?"
Zhou Qi didn't know if the interrogators believed him.
He was extremely familiar with the entire process; he shouldn't have been kept in there for so many days. His crimes should have been thoroughly investigated.
"Hello comrade? Is there a woman named Chen Hongxia here?"
"Chen Hongxia?"
"Yes, yes, she's from our Yu County, and her husband's surname is Bai, he's also from our area."
A woman in her fifties, supported by two young men, arrived near the machinery factory. Speaking with a Yuxian accent, she grabbed several people.
"What do you want with her?"
Before, few people in the machinery factory might have known Chen Hongxia, but now, because of her feud with Li Mei, everyone is familiar with her name.
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