Aunt Tian clapped her hands. Her eldest son had a job, her youngest son was too young to meet the requirements, and Song Qing was already confirmed to work at the textile factory, so this matter had nothing to do with her.
Her mind is now completely focused on Zhou Han's matter.
A few months ago, Chen Hong stole things among the educated youth, and now Zhou Han is a middleman. Their team leader and the Party Secretary are too ashamed to go to the county meeting, so they naturally don't allow them to discuss it much.
"Hey, what do you think of those two educated youths doing now?"
The other women, shaking the dirt off their hands, quietly joined in. "I heard they're still interrogating people. You have no idea how many have been arrested. I heard that no one dares to operate the black market here anymore."
"That's right. So-and-so from our village bought a bicycle before. I think he bought it on the black market. Now it's locked at home and he's afraid to take it out."
"Hey, if it wasn't bought on the black market, where did it come from? How could he get a bicycle ticket?"
Aunt Liu, who was close to the Party Secretary's family, had overheard a lot of news. She lowered her voice and quietly leaned closer.
"Let me tell you, these two are inherently bad."
Everyone had heard something, more or less, and assumed that Aunt Liu had other news, so they held their breath and stared at her.
"Capital!"
"Oh, everyone's heard about it, they thought you had some other news."
Seeing everyone's expressions, Aunt Liu's competitive spirit was immediately ignited.
"That's not all. I heard that Bai, the educated youth, had slept with Zhou before, and even got pregnant, but she secretly had an abortion."
No one had heard of this before, and they stared wide-eyed at Aunt Liu.
Aunt Liu was very proud of herself. "Otherwise, do you think they would come to our place just to avoid this matter?"
That educated youth's father was a notorious corrupt official. If his reputation hadn't been ruined in their area, he wouldn't have been sent to the countryside like us.
Everyone let out a long hiss; the more they dug up about these two, the more they found out.
Lu Ronghui and Liu Ruo were not far away, so they naturally heard their discussion. Liu Ruo gave Lu Ronghui a complicated look.
Although everyone is very wary of the two of them, it doesn't stop them from being curious.
"Stop looking, I don't know anything."
The educated youth at the settlement used to just dislike and hate Zhou Han and his companion, but now they can be described as hating them.
Putting aside the villagers' strange attitude towards them, whenever they finished work and chose another route back to the educated youth settlement, they could see the villagers secretly glancing at them.
What angered them most were the self-criticisms and meetings held by the educated youth offices at each level. Every time, the names of the educated youth from Yanghe Village were directly called out. Even though it was the two of them who had committed the crime, everyone else was nailed to the pillar of shame.
Now all I hope is to pass the exam for a job in a textile factory as soon as possible and get away from all this awful stuff.
Liu Ruo said somewhat awkwardly, "I thought what they said was true. I've been so busy reading these past few days that I'm dizzy. I shouldn't have asked about them."
Words tend to go awry as they're passed around, and the two of them have caused quite a stir, leading to all sorts of rumors and speculation.
Lu Ronghui is no longer interested in these things. The fate of the two of them is predictable, and even the Bai and Zhou families will not escape it. The anger that has been building up in her heart for a long time has finally been released.
Perhaps the meaning of her rebirth was to watch them get their comeuppance, and now that she has seen it, she should find something else to do.
In her past life, her only regrets were that they hadn't received their just deserts, her older brother's unhappy marriage, and failing the college entrance exam.
However, there are still 5 years before the college entrance examination is reinstated, so she needs to pass the exam to get a job in a textile factory first.
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It was another routine interrogation. So far, the investigation into Lin Yingyu only has concrete evidence for the murder case; there's nothing else yet.
She might be stubborn and refuse to cooperate until she's faced with a life-or-death situation.
“Police officers, I did the murder, and I kept it a secret for over 20 years. My children were unaware of it, and it has nothing to do with them.”
She muttered several sentences in a row, completely immersed in her own thoughts, a state that mirrored Bai Xiangdong's almost manic state.
This couple is probably on the verge of going mad.
The interrogator crossed his arms, leaned back, and looked at Lin Yingyu with a half-smile. He wondered what was going on in her mind. Having a murderer as a mother, her children were bound to be affected.
Moreover, she clearly had four children. Her eldest son lived in Xin'an, her eldest daughter ran away to a place thousands of miles away, and her other two daughters were also in the north.
Her eldest son had also been imprisoned long ago, and she hadn't asked him a single question about it. Only after hearing about her youngest daughter's situation did she become emotional.
He only cared about whether it would affect his youngest daughter who was still in the countryside, and didn't even care about his second daughter who was also in the countryside.
As expected, normal people can't understand this kind of person.
"As long as you tell the truth, it definitely won't affect them."
What is your relationship with the Lin family?
As expected, she started dodging the question again, neither admitting nor denying anything, letting the staff ask her until their throats were dry.
"Bang!" One of the young interrogators couldn't hold back any longer and slammed his pen on the table.
"Don't be ungrateful. We already have evidence, we're just giving you a chance to confess and receive leniency!"
No one knows what she's still stubbornly insisting on. Everyone has pieced together the general truth from Bai Xiangdong and Zhou Qi's words. Let's see how she can still be so stubborn when Lin Yueyu comes back.
The murders committed against her alone are enough to convict her, but the most important thing now is to investigate her connection to the Chen family incident.
If foreign forces instigated Zhou Qi to drag the Chen family into this mess, once the investigation is complete, they will definitely be exonerated.
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