Lin Shuyue and the others had long known that Wu Xiulian wasn't a loving mother, but at this moment, their hearts remained cold. Their gazes towards Wu Xiulian were filled with curiosity. What kind of person, what kind of mother, could be so cold-blooded?
The life or death of the child didn't matter to her at all, and she didn't care at all. It seemed that the only person she cared about was Hu Jiaxiang, the man.
Lin Shuyue felt she would never understand someone like Wu Xiulian. She clicked on Wu Xiulian's sin value again and found that her goodness and evil values remained unchanged: sin at five, goodness at 40, and gray area at five.
Lin Shuyue frowned, and just when she was about to turn off the screen, she discovered that the gray area display on the good and evil radar interface had changed.
[ Name: Wu Xiulian, Sin Value: 5% (100%), Good Value: 40% (0%), Gray Area: -10 (100), Overall Evaluation: This person usually looks normal, but at certain times, when meeting certain people, her brain becomes a decoration. ]
[ Note: When the Gray Area score is negative, regardless of how high her Sin or Good points are, her Sin has reached 100% for the victim. Correspondingly, when her Sin reaches 100%, her Good points for the victim are also reset to zero. ]
Yes, from the moment Wu Xiu Lian wanted to use Tao Tao's disappearance to control Hu Jia Xiang, for Tao Tao, her guilt as a mother had reached 100%.
And in the eyes of outsiders, how foolish is she? Can she not live without a man? Or is Hu Jiaxiang the only man left in the world?
Lin Shuyue's gaze fell on Wu Xiu Lian's face. The hope in Wu Xiu Lian's eyes seemed particularly ironic to Lin Shuyue.
Again, it would be great if being a parent required taking an exam.
Not everyone is worthy of being a mother, especially a woman like Wu Xiulian who only has men in her eyes and heart. She is even less worthy: "You knew Taotao was murdered a long time ago, right?"
If Taotao had not been killed, Wu Xiu Lian would not have said that he would not be sentenced if she wrote a letter of apology.
Lin Shuyue's eyes were fierce, and Wu Xiulian flinched under her gaze. "I don't know, comrade police officer, how can I know? I just think that little bitch is not a good person."
"After she married Hu Jiaxiang, she abused my Taotao. My Taotao was still so young, yet she had the heart to beat him." Wu Xiu Lian gritted her teeth when talking about Luo Dongqin.
"What about Hu Jiaxiang? As Taotao's father, doesn't Hu Jiaxiang do anything wrong?" Lin Shuyue asked.
Wu Xiulian pursed her lips. "He's also at fault. Not only is he heartless, but he also can't see straight. Isn't Luo Dongqin younger than me? She's not even as pretty as me. She's so shameless, seducing other people's men. Hu Jiaxiang is also an idiot. She takes the bait whenever someone flirts with her."
Wu Xiu Lian kept talking, and her words seemed to be blaming Hu Jiaxiang, but if you think about it carefully, the fault was all on others.
"So, you know Taotao's whereabouts, right?" Ye Xueyu was impatient to listen to what Wu Xiulian and Hu Jiaxiang were saying. She just wanted to know whether Wu Xiulian knew Hu Taotao's whereabouts.
Wu Xiulian was very dissatisfied: "Comrade police, you haven't answered my question yet. Does signing the letter of forgiveness mean Hu Jiaxiang will be free from trouble?"
Wu Xiulian loved watching TV dramas. She couldn't read, so she only had a vague understanding of what she saw. But she clearly remembered a plot she had seen in which a character murdered someone. The victim's family offered a letter of forgiveness, and the murderer received a reduced sentence.
So Wu Xiulian thought, it was her son who died, and Hu Jiaxiang was her son Taotao's father. Taotao's life was given by his father. His father was just taking back the life he had given him.
In this case, the police and the judge had to show leniency and acquit Hu Jiaxiang.
Ye Xueyu looked at Wu Xiulian coldly and ruthlessly: "I'm sorry, but the sentencing matters have to be handled by the court and the procuratorate. Our public security personnel are only responsible for arresting the criminals, investigating the truth of the case, and clearing the innocent victims."
It was daybreak. It was a cloudy and foggy day. Wu Xiulian's face turned extremely ugly at this moment.
Ye Xueyu took out the handcuffs from her pocket and said, "Ms. Wu Xiulian, we need to find out something from you. Please come with us."
Wu Xiulian saw the handcuffs and her face turned pale. "Officer, I haven't done anything illegal, have I?"
"Does harboring someone count?" Lin Shuyue interrupted, "Ms. Wu, if you know about this and don't report it, you're suspected of harboring someone and could go to jail for three to five years."
When Wu Xiu Lian heard that she was going to go to jail, she was stunned. Ye Xueyu took her to the interrogation room.
Lin Shuyue said goodbye to the police officers present and stood at the door to hail a taxi. Before she could get one, she received a call from Li Weisheng.
"We received a call from Hong Kong, saying that someone would go to the construction site at 12 o'clock tonight to do something." Li Weisheng did not expect that the matter would come to a conclusion so quickly.
It is not difficult to find out from Fu Jianqiang's words last night that this kind of "practice" of inviting Feng Shui will definitely cost a child's life.
The fact that Master Wuwo was able to gather the most important element of the Feng Shui so quickly meant that they were raising children who could be "sacrificed" at any time in a place that no one could see.
Lin Shuyue didn't even bother trying to get into the car this time, but went straight back to the Public Security Bureau to look for someone.
Ye Xueyu was interrogating Wu Xiu Lian, and Lin Shuyue was taken to Captain Zheng's office by Jiang Zhou.
Captain Zheng was on the phone. There was an ashtray on the desk in front of him, which was full of cigarette butts. The room was filled with the smell of tobacco.
He nodded at Lin Shuyue, walked to the windowsill, opened the window, and the cool air of the winter morning rushed in.
He finished the call standing by the window and then sat back down at his desk.
"Xiao Lin, tell me about the situation." Although Master Wuwo used to be a mainlander, his household registration has long been in Hong Kong.
The mainland and Hong Kong have the "one country, two systems" model of governance, so the law enforcement is slightly different. It is obviously not possible to arrest these termites in the mainland without catching the "queen worm" in Hong Kong at the same time.
As long as this kind of thing exists, there will be countless people rushing to believe in it.
Captain Zheng has been communicating with higher-ups since he learned about this last night and just got in touch with the Xiangjiang Police Station.
The two parties had just reached a preliminary cooperation on the phone, so even if Lin Shuyue didn't come, he would still look for Lin Shuyue.
Captain Zheng had listened to Ye Xueyu's confession to Lin Shuyue countless times, but he was still confused about some parts.
Lin Shuyue began to narrate, and Captain Zheng opened his recorder and took out his pen to begin recording. Captain Zheng hadn't done anything like this in years, but it didn't seem strange to him at all.
Lin Shuyue spoke in more detail this time. She felt a little thirsty in the middle of the conversation, so Captain Zheng personally poured her a glass of water.
At 7:30 in the morning, Lin Shuyue left the Public Security Bureau again.
She went straight back to Xijiang Apartment. She had been busy since yesterday and felt exhausted. She grabbed her pajamas and went to the bathroom to wash up.
During this period, Lin Shuyue kept on talking to Hang Jiabai on the phone, and she briefly told Hang Jiabai about the case she encountered.
Hang Jiabai discussed this with her from time to time.
When she came out of the bathroom, Hang Jiabai had already started the class, so Lin Shuyue went to the water dispenser to get some water.
There is a slightly yellowed newspaper on the water dispenser.
Lin Shuyue drank the water in the cup and sat on the sofa to read the newspaper.
The headline of the newspaper is a fancy title written in traditional Chinese characters.
Looking at the publication date, it was 2018, and the title was "Skeletons Swept Away by the Typhoon."
Lin Shuyue went to see the content.
In 2018, a Category 7 typhoon landed in the Hong Kong Bay. The heavy rain brought by the typhoon destroyed many infrastructure and buildings in Hong Kong.
The incident happened in the Heya community. After the typhoon dissipated and the flood receded, the people who had been trapped in their homes for several days due to the typhoon walked out of the community and found that the walls of the gates on both sides of the community had soaked and fallen off.
What surprised the public the most were the skeletons of two young children found beneath the exposed wall.
After receiving the report, the Hong Kong police immediately sent police to investigate. After three months of investigation, a group of "masters" who specialized in selling children's home talismans surfaced.
The leader among them was the long-famous Master Wuwo in Hong Kong. After Master Wuwo was arrested, he and his minions confessed that they had been taking advantage of the businessmen's superstition about Feng Shui since the 1980s.
They began to make a fortune by using feudal dregs such as "Aquarius to ward off evil" and "Children to ward off evil" and so on. Initially, their business was only in Hong Kong.
Later, people from the mainland also came there because of its reputation.
Over the past twenty years, they have amassed tens of millions of dollars and persecuted thousands of children.
Some of their boys and girls were abducted, some were sold by their parents, and more were brought from the neighboring country of South Korea.
At the end of the newspaper, it was reported that Master Wuwo and a group of people were sentenced to death.
And those who bought "house-guarding" items from them escaped all punishment with just one lie.
Lin Shuyue held her breath in her heart, unable to spit it out or swallow it.
The phone rang and Lin Shuyue answered it. It was Ye Xueyu calling.
"Ah Yue, Wu Xiulian said." Ye Xueyu was drinking water from a cup in the tea room.
"On the day Taotao disappeared, she separated from him and returned to her rented apartment. But she left again around 10 o'clock because that day was Hu Jiaxiang's birthday according to the Gregorian calendar."
"Wu Xiulian remembered the days related to Hu Jiaxiang very clearly. She decided to go back and cook a good meal for Hu Jiaxiang."
"She was afraid Hu Jiaxiang would chase her away, so she went around to the back of the house."
"There was a window with shutters in the bathroom at the back of the house that was always half open. She heard someone talking in the bathroom and stopped to listen."
"She heard the entire process of Hu Jiaxiang killing Taotao. Luo Dongqin was an accomplice in that accident."
"Wu Xiulian said she was very angry and wanted to go to the police station that night to report the incident. But then she realized Taotao was already dead. Even if she called the police and had Hu Jiaxiang arrested and executed, it would be useless."
"So after she cried that night, she decided to pretend she knew nothing and wait a few days to go to the police station to report the case and have Hu Jiaxiang and Luo Dongqin arrested."
"She has a good idea. The police will definitely check Taotao's whereabouts when the time comes. Maybe they will find out that Taotao is gone."
"When Hu Jiaxiang is formally arrested and sentenced, she will issue a letter of forgiveness. Once the letter of forgiveness is issued, Hu Jiaxiang will be exonerated and will definitely be grateful to her. Then they can be together again."
Lin Shuyue held the phone for a long time, speechless: "Why isn't Wu Xiulian the one who died?"
How innocent is Taotao? In Wu Xiulian's eyes, his birth is probably just a tool to please Hu Jiaxiang, right?
"Luo Dongqin also said that Hu Jiaxiang had wanted to kill Taotao for a long time. The dinner that day was instigated by Hu Jiaxiang. At the table, he was the one who took the initiative to get everyone drunk. They didn't even drink much."
"While Taotao was out looking for Wu Xiulian, he had been on the phone negotiating the price with someone he didn't know. The final agreed price was 150,000 yuan."
"Taotao came back late that day, and Hu Jiaxiang went to the alley through the bedroom window. Taotao was handed in through the window by Hu Jiaxiang."
"Hu Jiaxiang gave Taotao a glass of water with sleeping pills in it. Then he took Taotao to the bathroom and covered his face with layers of tissue paper."
"The employer who bought Taotao's life said that only by letting Taotao die miserably would their anger remain and protect the house. The reason Hu Jiaxiang avoided surveillance was to pin the blame for Taotao's disappearance on Wu Xiulian."
"Jiangzhou has already checked. They found a glass in Luo Dongqin's suitcase. The test results are out, and it contains sleeping pills. Taotao's DNA and Hu Jiaxiang's fingerprints were also on the glass. It's clear that she is always on guard against Hu Jiaxiang."
"Ah Yue, tell me, how can there be such selfish parents in the world?"
After Ye Xueyu finished speaking, Lin Shuyue was speechless for a long time. After a long while, she gritted her teeth and said, "Bastards, because they are bastards, beasts, a pair of beasts worse than pigs and dogs."
Lin Shuyue closed the curtains, took out the Realm of Reincarnation from the system backpack, wrote the names of Hu Jiaxiang and Wu Xiu Lian and put them in.