Just as she was about to go back, Lin Shuyue received a call from Lou Fengqin, saying that the paternity documents that Lu Yinglan had sent the day before had come down. Lu Yinglan asked Lou Fengqin to go with her to get them, because the place was close to Lin Shuyue, so she simply called Lin Shuyue.
Lin Shuyue received a call and came out of the train station with Li Mingfang. Lin Shuyue picked up Lu Yinglan and Lou Fengqin, and Li Mingfang also got off the train. It was rare that she didn't have to go to work in the afternoon, so Li Mingfang wanted to go shopping in the mall.
Lin Shuyue drove Lu Yinglan and the others to the paternity testing agency and passed by the once popular Jirui Supermarket.
Since Louis's incident was exposed, many people have eliminated Jirui Supermarket from their must-visit places. Now the entrance of Jirui Supermarket is deserted, and the luxury cars that used to be parked anywhere have become few and far between. During this period of time, the new president of Jirui Supermarket has thought of many ways, but still can't reverse the decline.
The branch that was once planned to be built in Yangcheng has also been shelved. According to media reports, Jirui Supermarket has already considered withdrawing from China, and is now said to be holding meetings with the headquarters every day to discuss the matter.
The decline of Jirui Supermarket foreshadows the rise of similar supermarkets in China. The customer flow of several larger supermarkets in Pengcheng is much larger than before. This is something that everyone likes to see, especially the Pengcheng government, which is now vigorously supporting the development of local supermarkets.
Arriving at the paternity center, Lu Yinglan showed her ID, signed and took the documents. Before leaving the paternity center, she opened the paternity results. Not surprisingly, Zeng Guoqing was indeed Zeng Xiaoyi's biological father.
Lu Yinglan had already prepared herself mentally and was not surprised by this. She said to Lou Fengqin, "Sister Lou, Ah Yue, I'm going to trouble you to accompany me to report the case again."
"What's the trouble? Let's go." Lou Fengqin had been spending a lot of time with Lu Yinglan these days, and she fully supported Lu Yinglan's decision. She didn't think that women were dirty if they were abused by men, and she didn't think that women were abused because they were not decent.
She only knew that from the education she received since childhood, when something like this happened, the fault must be the man's doing.
The three of them arrived at the Public Security Bureau. When they entered, a group of people came out. The man in the lead was stunned when he saw Lu Yinglan. Lu Yinglan didn't recognize him and walked in while talking to Lou Fengqin.
"Lu Yinglan." The man called out to Lu Yinglan in a hurry.
Lu Yinglan heard someone calling her name and turned around to see that it was a strange man. She raised her eyebrows and asked, "Do you know me?"
The man saw this, shook his head, then turned around and staggered away. Behind him, Lu Yinglan rolled her eyes and complained to Lou Fengqin: "If I'm not mistaken, this man must be Zeng Xiuju's husband, the man named He Zhiyong."
Lin Shuyue turned off the good and evil radar. The man just now had a good and evil radar of only 10%. His good and evil value was not high, which was also quite miserable. But this misery was not deserved in the end. Lin Shuyue did not know the full picture of his marriage with Zeng Xiuju, so she did not comment on it.
But no matter what the situation was, he and Lu Yinglan had barely spoken to each other, and now he was acting so affectionate. To be honest, it was quite disgusting.
Lu Yinglan continued, "What's wrong with him? He seems to be deeply in love with me. I even saw what he looks like for the first time today."
Lou Fengqin said: "There is this kind of man in this world who loves to move himself."
As they were talking, they walked into the lobby. There were quite a few people coming to the police station lobby today to report crimes, most of whom had their money stolen by pickpockets.
After He Yuling left, the new female police officer who came to take over was called He Fangfang, who was also quite familiar with Lin Shuyue. She waved to Lin Shuyue in her busy schedule. Lin Shuyue then called Wu Dongyan.
Wu Dongyan came down quickly.
There is a statute of limitations for all cases. The penalties for criminal cases are five, ten, fifteen, and twenty years. For rape, the sentence is usually three years, and the statute of limitations is five years. More than ten years have passed since Lu Yinglan's case, and the statute of limitations is no longer valid.
Lu Yinglan didn't know there was a statute of limitations. For a moment, her face turned pale. She tightly grasped the paternity test in her hand and said, "So after a certain period of time, we can no longer investigate or inquire about the crime, right? So those who were hurt but never knew who the preparator was, and found out about it many years later, can only think that they were unlucky, right?"
Wu Dongyan has been a police officer for a long time, and she has heard too many similar words, but every time, she feels uncomfortable: "I'm sorry."
Lu Yinglan stayed where she was. After a long while, she turned around and walked out. Lin Shuyue and Lou Fengqin hurriedly followed her. When they arrived at the door, they saw Lu Yinglan getting into a taxi.
Lin Shuyue hurriedly drove after her. Lou Fengqin and the others all knew that Lu Yinglan was going to look for Zeng Guoqing.
Lou Fengqin stared closely at the taxi in front of her and reminded Lin Shuyue in time every time it turned.
The taxi that Lu Yinglan was in was heading towards Zengwu, just as Lin Shuyue had thought. Zengwu Village and Luwu Village were in the same direction, but Zengwu Village was much richer than Luwu Village. When Lin Shuyue caught up with her, Lu Yinglan had already gotten out of the car and was standing in front of a house. Lin Shuyue hurriedly stopped the car, but before she could stop, Lou Fengqin ran out first. She grabbed Lu Yinglan's hand and repeatedly advised her not to be too impulsive and not to do stupid things.
Lu Yinglan has calmed down, but she still went to Zeng Guoqing's house. She had to vent her anger. Her life was ruined, so how could Zeng Guoqing live peacefully for so many years?
"Sister Lou, don't worry." Lu Yinglan strode into Zeng Guoqing's house, and Lin Shuyue followed and stepped into the yard with Lou Fengqin. In Yijin's house, her good and evil radar was turned on. On the good and evil radar, in addition to Zeng Xiumei, who had a good and evil value of 30%, there was another person with a good and evil value of 70%.
Lin Shuyue was stunned for a moment. How could a rapist have such a high value of good and evil? The movement in the room interrupted Lin Shuyue's thoughts.
"Brother, I just want to know whether you know about what Zeng Xiujiu did!" Lin Shuyue had heard this voice before, just a few days ago in Luwu Village. It was Zeng Xiumei's voice.
"How would I know? How could she tell me that she committed a crime? Ah Mei, now that something like this has happened to Ah Ju, it's fine if you're not worried, but why did you come back to question me? You disappoint me so much, Ah Mei." A male voice spoke after Zeng Xiumei finished speaking, with a hint of disappointment in his tone.
Zeng Xiumei was no longer buying into Zeng Guoqing's nonsense. She put her hands on her hips and said, "Zeng Guoqing, don't talk to me like that. Back then, you said He Zhiyong was a boss, rich, and a perfect match for Xiuju, and you gave me an idea to ruin their marriage. You also ruined Lu Yinglan. I should have known you were a piece of shit at the beginning, but I didn't expect you to be such a piece of shit!"
"Zeng Guoqing, let me ask you, last week, I asked Xiaoling to come to my house to get something, what did you do to Xiaoling?" The Xiaoling that Zeng Xiumei was referring to is her daughter, who is twelve years old this year.
Zeng Guoqing's voice was not panicked at all: "Ah Mei, what you said is very funny. What did I do to Xiaoling, can't you guess? Ah Mei, you have been with me since you were thirteen years old. I don't think you are that stupid, right?"
Lin Shuyue and the other two were stopped in their tracks by Zeng Guoqing's words. Lin Shuyue took out her camera and started filming.
The brother and sister who were confronting each other in the house obviously did not notice the uninvited guests in the yard.
When she recalled the past, Zeng Xiumei felt a surge of humiliation in her heart: "You forced me, Zeng Guoqing. You are shameless, you have no shame, you are a beast, you even didn't let your own sister go."
"Ah Mei, what you said is very interesting. Don't you enjoy the days with me? If you don't enjoy it, why do you fight with Ah Ju every day? After you married into the Lu family, why do you come back every day? Isn't it because your man is not good enough? Why, are you horny again after coming back today?"
The voices of the confrontation in the room suddenly became ambiguous. They were all adult women. Lou Fengqin and Lu Yinglan felt nauseous. Although Lin Shuyue had never eaten pork, she grew up in an era of information explosion. What strange things had she not seen? It was just an orthopedic surgery. It was normal. There was no need to make a fuss.
Although Lin Shuyue said so, as the ambiguous voices in the room escalated, she also wanted to vomit. After all, the beast Zeng Guoqing kept asking Zeng Xiumei who was more powerful between him and Lu Chungang.
Zeng Xiumei, who was so aggressive just now, is now as docile as a cat. She answers whatever Zeng Guoqing asks and says a lot of words to belittle Lu Chungang.
The sex lasted for more than half an hour before they stopped. Zeng Guoqing's voice became calmer: "Ah Mei, when are you going to ask your neighbor Ah Yun out?"
"Ah Yun and her man have a very good relationship. Don't even think about ruining their relationship! I'm telling you, don't mess around."
"Okay, Ah Mei, I don't want to date someone like that. In my heart, you are my favorite. I just want to have some fun with her. I got a kind of medicine from Ah Ju before. As long as you give it to a woman, she will be obedient. I tried it on Ah Ling last time, and it really works."
"You are so good, Zeng Guoqing, you really admitted it. Ah Ling is your niece, how could you do such a thing! She is still young!"
"Look at you, you're angry again. Ah Ling will know about this kind of thing sooner or later. I just let her enjoy it a few years in advance." Zeng Guoqing's shamelessness made the three women outside the house very angry.
What is most infuriating is Zeng Xiumei, the mother, who seems to not care at all about her daughter being molested. Combining all her remarks, her initial angry questioning was ultimately intended to have sex with Zeng Guoqing.
Lin Shuyue listened to those words and recalled the 30% sin value of Zeng Xiumei when she first met her. She finally knew where it came from. It turned out that in addition to Lu Yinglan, she had designed more than one woman for Zeng Guoqing!
Lin Shuyue and the other two looked at each other and were about to go out when a woman came back with a bunch of cabbage in her arms. After seeing Lin Shuyue and the other two, her gaze finally fell on Lu Yinglan.
No one spoke, and the four of them fell silent. Lin Shuyue walked silently in front of Lou Fengqin and Lu Yinglan. The good and evil value of the woman in front was not high, 5%, but behind the 5%, there was a long shadow. This was something Lin Shuyue had never seen before.
As the four were confronting each other, a voice from inside the house came again.
"Brother, why hasn't my sister-in-law come back yet?" Zeng Xiumei asked in a tender voice.
"It should be soon. Don't worry about her for now. Let's do it again. I haven't seen you for a long time. I missed you so much."
Amid the ambiguous voices, Zeng Xiumei asked, "Brother, please stop making trouble. What will we do if my sister-in-law comes back and sees us?"
"It's not like she hasn't seen it before! If she dares to say anything, I'll beat her up."
The ambiguous sounds in the house escalated again. Lin Shuyue saw the woman at the door waving at them. Lin Shuyue turned off the camera and walked out. Lu Yinglan and Lou Fengqin followed closely behind.
The woman took Lin Shuyue and the others and walked around to the vegetable garden behind the house. The garden was well-maintained. The rapeseed hearts were fat and tender, and the Chinese spinach, lettuce, and bitter lettuce were lush and green. There were many leeks planted at the base of the wall of the vegetable garden, which were also very fat.
Lu Yinglan spoke first: "Aren't you angry that they are like this?"
The woman's pale, thin face was full of numbness. "I was angry. I was angry when I found out a few years ago, but I was beaten so many times and was also forced to watch the brother and sister abused people themselves. I didn't dare to be angry anymore."
The woman's words were like thunder, exploding in the ears of Lin Shuyue and the other two. Their shock pleased the woman, and she smiled: "If it weren't for fear, who would be such a turtle?"
The woman looked at Lu Yinglan and said, "Sister Yinglan, are you here to bring down Zeng Guoqing? If you say yes, then we will help you."
"You guys?" Lin Shuyue repeated in disbelief.
The woman said, "Yes, we are. There are so many people in our village who have been abused by Zeng Guoqing. You may not guess that we are still living like ancient women in the new China. Lu Yinglan, just tell me, do you want to bring her down?"
"Yes." Lu Yinglan answered decisively, her response particularly crisply.
At this moment, the woman finally smiled: "Okay, I, Liang Pandi, have finally waited for this day. You go to the old village office in front and wait for me. I will bring people over in a while."
The village office was just in front. Lin Shuyue and her friends passed by it when they entered the village. There were a few tiled houses with a lot of grass growing in the middle of the yard. It seemed that it had been abandoned for many years.
"Are you going?" Lou Fengqin asked.
Lu Yinglan made the decision: "Go."
As soon as the three of them arrived at the village office, Liang Pandi arrived with four women. The four women were of different ages, and the youngest was 20 years old. They were all like Liang Pandi, with low virtue and evil values.
Liang Pandi pushed open the door of the village office. Unlike the shabby appearance of the house, the inside was relatively clean. In the corner of the wall there was a wooden ping-pong table covered with old bedding.
Liang Pandi saw it and said, "Those are where they lay when Zeng Guoqing 'favored' them."
It was an ordinary sentence, but it was like a hammer hitting Lin Shuyue and the others' hearts.
After a brief silence, Lin Shuyue took out the camera again: "Can I record it? I won't take pictures of your faces."
"Okay, you can record it. Let's talk about this matter today. We never thought about letting it go peacefully." said one of the women who came.
After Lin Shuyue got the angle right, they started telling their stories.
Their experiences were similar. Their natal families were unreliable and their husband's families were a hell of a lot. Like Liang Pandi, they got married at about the same age and were targeted and abused by Zeng Guoqing within a month or two.
After being abused, they didn't even dare to seek justice, because in those days, a woman's innocence was most important. They didn't know what the consequences would be for Zeng Guoqing if this matter were exposed, but they knew that their fate would definitely not be good.
But it's not that they didn't resist, it's just that their resistances all failed.
"Yunhua was beaten to death by him when she resisted him. We were watching from the side. The three brothers and sisters were crazy. They were still not satisfied after beating Yunhua to death, so they chopped her to pieces with knives." This incident is the nightmare of Liang Pandi and the other four people. Even today, more than ten years later, they still often dream about Yunhua.
"It's been more than 20 years. We are old now and Zeng Guoqing has lost interest in us. We should have been happy." A fat woman next to Liang Pandi said this with an agitated expression: "But Zeng Guoqing should never have done that to my daughter."
"My life is ruined, but my daughter's life cannot be ruined. She just got married."
"Yes, it's enough for us to ruin our lives. Why would Zeng Guoqing want to ruin our daughter's life? Why?" The five women talked at once, looking at each other and telling the reason why they decided to resist Zeng Guoqing again despite their fear.
From Liang Pandi, Lin Shuyue learned that Zeng Guoqing had been ill since childhood. He would feel uncomfortable and miserable if he didn't have sex with a woman. Zeng's father and mother, who had already passed away, couldn't bear to see their son suffer such pain, so they gave him the 13-year-old Zeng Xiumei.
Zeng Xiumei's appearance was the first time Zeng Guoqing had a real woman. From then on, he fell into this wonderful taste and couldn't extricate himself. The latter Zeng Xiumei could no longer satisfy him, so when Zeng Xiuju was thirteen years old, he took Zeng Xiuju away.
When Zeng Guoqing was 20 and Zeng Xiumei was 18, old lady Zeng introduced her to Liang Pandi. Liang Pandi's family was from a mountainous area in another city, and giving a betrothal gift of 100 yuan was equivalent to buying off Liang Pandi.
After marrying Liang Pandi, Zeng Guoqing was very quiet for a few days, but the good times didn't last long. Liang Pandi soon discovered the affair between Zeng Guoqing and his two sisters. Liang Pandi couldn't accept it and exposed the matter during dinner. But the window paper she exposed was useless. Her parents-in-law didn't take it seriously at all, and her two aunts looked at her as if she was an enemy.
Zeng Guoqing beat her and broke her leg. During the time when her leg was broken, she could see Zeng Guoqing and his sisters having sex in her room and in her house every night.
Later, Zeng Xiumei got married. When Liang Pandi thought that this disgusting life could finally end, Zeng Xiumei tricked a woman back when she returned to her parents' home. Just like the ancient brothel owner, she gave the woman to Zeng Guoqing.
"That woman is Yunhua. She has some mental problems and can't speak, but she is very hardworking. Everyone in the village likes her very much." Speaking of Yunhua, Liang Pandi and others all sighed.
Zeng Xiumei gave Yunhua to Zeng Guoqing because she had a mental problem. Zeng Guoqing was afraid that she would run away and get into trouble, so he imprisoned her in the house. Yunhua's husband and his family have been looking for Yunhua for many years. Until now, Yunhua's husband would occasionally go to the village entrance to wait for Yunhua to come back.
Yunhua's man is not a healthy person either.
The incident with Yunhua seemed to have opened a new door for Zeng Guoqing. He seized the opportunity and raped several women present one after another. The reason he raped them was that he saw that they had no support and were timid.
Decades passed, they grew old, Zeng Guoqing was no longer young, and he began to think of his young love again. So last week, they received a notice from Zeng Guoqing, asking them to offer their daughter.
After Lin Shuyue heard this, she asked, "Could your child be Zeng Guoqing's child?"
Liang Pandi said with disdain: "Yunhua resisted him at the time, and she resisted very hard, biting his balls to pieces. Later he had an operation to take out both balls. Although he was not affected in any way, he was no different from a castrated pig."
Liang Pandi and others were extremely disgusted with Zeng Guoqing.
After Liang Pandi finished speaking, she looked at Lu Yinglan again and said, "Zeng Guoqing only has two children in his life, one is my son Xuyong, and the other is Xiaoyi."
Liang Pandi's words made Lin Shuyue suddenly realize. She said that Zeng Guoqing had no humanity at all. How could he be so good to Zeng Xiaoyi? Zeng Xiaoyi was a very sensitive child. She could feel who was really good to her and who was not. It turned out that because he had become a man without any guts, he was very good to his two remaining children.
Your own children are treasures, while other people's children are just weeds.
Lin Shuyue looked at them and asked, "Do you want to call the police?"
The statute of limitations for Zeng Guoqing's rape of Lu Yinglan has expired, but theirs has not.
Everyone, including Liang Pandi, was silent. After a long while, one of the women said, "Now society has changed. We women have hands and feet. We can find a job sweeping the streets and survive."
"I've had enough of the days in Zeng's house. I've raised the children to this age. They're studying now and getting married now. I gave birth to them but I don't owe them anything. Even if I do, I have done so much for them over the years and I have a clear conscience. I'm going to call the police, so you guys don't have to go. Anyway, I'm the only one left and Yunhua is dead, and Zeng Guoqing and Zeng Xiumei will be in trouble."
"I'd better go. My husband is dead. I'm a widow now. My parents-in-law are gone too. My son and I are not close to each other. I'm the most suitable person to go."
Lin Shuyue, Lu Yinglan, Lou Fengqin, and Liang Pandi watched the four of them arguing with each other. Liang Pandi waited until they had almost finished arguing and said, "I'll go. I'm Zeng Guoqing's wife, so what I say is more trustworthy."
Liang Pandi was the leader of this group of people. Her words were the final word and the others did not refute her.
Liang Pandi said to Lin Shuyue and the others, "Before I became pregnant with Xuyong, I had given birth to a child. Zeng Xiuju and Zeng Xiumei were not married at that time. After my child was born, Zeng Xiumei threw my child into a bucket of water. By the time I cut the umbilical cord from the bed and ran over, the child had choked on too much water and could not be saved."
"I was locked up at home and my legs were broken. Zeng Guoqing only let me move freely after I admitted my mistakes and said I was a good girl. Later, I had Xuyong, and I swore that I would take revenge when Xuyong grew up and went out to work."
"Xuyong graduated from university last year. He told me that he would settle down in the north and would not come back. He asked me to go there. I didn't want to go because I hadn't taken revenge yet."
"To be honest, if you hadn't come today, we would have tied him up and tortured him to death."
As soon as Liang Pandi finished speaking, the closed door was kicked open: "Who do you want to tie up?"