As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present was unable to move.
The policemen were knowledgeable and experienced. Just now, Lin Shuyue was eavesdropping under the window and the phone was connected, so even though the voice was a little quiet, they knew everything they needed to know.
Zuo Musheng was sitting in the car at the time, and the police saw it clearly. His expression did not change at all. The police who were sitting in the same car with him were full of admiration for his calmness.
Zhang Guangfen's confession when Geng Liqun was arrested was enough to shock them, but they didn't expect something even more shocking.
Zuo Musheng seemed not to notice the police's reaction. He looked at Ye Xueyu helping the police out and said calmly, "That year, Zhang Guangfen attended our factory's social gathering and met Officer Wang from our factory's publicity department. Later, Officer Wang took her to several of our gatherings."
"Once, everyone drank a lot. When I woke up the next day, Zhang Guangfen was lying next to me." Zuo Musheng's facial expression did not change when he talked about the past.
"I didn't take it seriously at the time. Not long after, Zhang Guangfen found me and said she was pregnant and wanted to marry me." At this point, Zuo Musheng smiled and said, "It's quite funny that a eunuch like me can make a woman pregnant."
Zuo Musheng's words "eunuch" drew everyone's attention to his lower body. Zuo Musheng didn't care whether they looked at it or not. At his age, being infertile was no longer something that embarrassed him.
"My parents wanted a daughter-in-law and a child. I never wanted to harm other people's good girls, so I went to those social parties just to deal with my family and leaders."
"Zhang Guangfen came to me and I asked her again and again if it was me that night. She said with absolute certainty that it was me, so it was not my fault."
"I'm married to her, and I want the baby in her belly too. I'm going to adopt the child anyway, so it doesn't matter to me who the child is, as it's not my own blood."
Zuo Musheng said lightly: "I originally wanted to take this matter to the grave, but I didn't expect this to happen."
Over the years, Zuo Musheng and Zuo Cheng have had a very good relationship. Zuo Cheng is smart and sensible, and filial to his elders. Zuo Musheng really likes him, otherwise he wouldn't help him pick up and drop off the children. Geng Liqun has invested a lot in Zuo Cheng over the years, but Zuo Musheng has also invested in nothing.
He spent almost as much as Geng Liqun on Zuo Cheng's schooling, marriage, and house purchase.
Maybe it was because he was born with a cold heart, and his liking for Zuo Cheng was far from love. He didn't ask much of Zuo Cheng, just to take care of him and provide for his old age. If that wasn't possible, collecting his body would be fine.
He didn't have that kind of special feeling of loving children. When Zuo Cheng died tragically, he was shocked but felt that it was as expected. He was the one who took the initiative to mention Geng Liqun to the police.
During the years that Zhang Guangfen lived with him, while still having an affair with Geng Liqun, she was also dating several other men. She was like dancing on a tightrope, and Zuo Musheng sometimes felt scared for her when he saw her.
Especially when he saw Zhang Guangfen using the excuse that Zuo Cheng was Geng Liqun's child to make Geng Liqun spend money and effort, and also forcing Geng Liqun not to get married, Zuo Musheng thought of this day.
There is an old saying that goes, "Even a rabbit will bite when it is cornered." Geng Liqun is still an honest man. Zuo Cheng felt that what the Zhang family said and did to Geng Liqun was excessive.
He had told Zuo Cheng a long time ago to stay away from Geng Liqun. Zuo Cheng didn't listen because Geng Liqun was rich and gave him money. Now that this happened, Zuo Musheng felt that it was all Zhang Guangfen's blessing.
What made Zuo Musheng angry was Zhang Guangfen's carelessness. Zuo Cheng was not his child, nor was he Geng Liqun's child, but he was Zhang Guangfen's child after all. How could she cry in the morning and follow Geng Liqun with a smile on her face in the afternoon?
Geng Liqun's expression was unpredictable at this moment. He suddenly laughed out loud, and looked at Zhang Guangfen with disgust: "I thought you were disgusting enough, but you can make me feel even more disgusted."
"I really regret not killing you earlier." Geng Liqun was too lazy to waste any more words with Zhang Guangfen. He got into the police car, and Zuo Musheng was too lazy to say anything more to Zhang Guangfen.
If it weren't for Zuo Cheng, he would have divorced Zhang Guangfen long ago.
After Zhang Guangfen married him and found out he was a eunuch, she slept in a separate room from him. Later, she cheated on him with a clear conscience and he had to beat her twice before she finally restrained herself.
In the following years, their house was demolished and they moved to a new place. The old neighbors all separated and no one knew what Zhang Guangfen had done. With him keeping her under pressure, Zhang Guangfen no longer dared to look for a man as blatantly as before.
Zuo Musheng doesn't like getting along with the Zhang family, and he has had little contact with Geng Liqun over the years.
Half of the people disappeared in a flash. Zhang Guangfen was supported by Ye Xueyu, and she was very confused. She didn't understand why Zuo Musheng, who always treated Zuo Cheng as his own son, suddenly told this secret.
Obviously, they had already agreed that she would be the wife of Zuo Musheng, a natural eunuch, and that if she did anything with any other man, Zuo Musheng would not be able to control her. Apart from this, and except for normal food and drink, Zuo Musheng would not give her a penny.
Zhang Guangfen didn't think there was anything wrong with her finding a man outside. She couldn't spend her whole life with a eunuch, right? What's more, Zuo Musheng didn't give her money. Without money, how could she buy nice clothes and jewelry? These men were willing to give them to her, so why couldn't she take them!
Geng Liqun was raised by her family. Her parents told her since she was a child that Geng Liqun was her little follower and a slave of her family. She could do whatever she wanted to him. So she didn't want him to get married. What's wrong with that? It was Geng Liqun who was not ambitious. If he could have established the current family business decades earlier, why would she marry Zuo Musheng?
"Geng Liqun, you grew up in my family, you must love me, you can't feel disgusted for me!" Zhang Guangfen shouted.
Zhang Guangfen was taken to the Public Security Bureau. When questioned by the Public Security Bureau, she was very honest and told everything. However, she herself did not know who Zuo Cheng's biological father was.
She recalled that she attended the party that year and drank too much. She stayed at the end, and there were several other people with her. Once they drank too much, and they were in someone's home, the atmosphere between the man and the woman became wrong.
The game became more and more excessive. When she sobered up, it was already late at night. The whole living room was a mess. Zhang Guangfen sat on the sofa in the living room, her eyes set on Zuo Musheng who was drunk and unconscious. The plan to rely on him slowly came to her mind.
At that time, Zhang Guangfen really thought that Zuo Musheng was also involved. Later, after she married Zuo Musheng, she knew that he was a eunuch. Zhang Guangfen looked down on Zuo Musheng very much.
At the beginning, she ate and spent all of Zuo Musheng's money, verbally abused Zuo Musheng on a daily basis, and had relationships with other men without hiding from others. Sometimes when she was discovered, she was fearless. However, after a while, the rumors about her spread everywhere.
Zuo Musheng finally couldn't stand it anymore. She was scared of being beaten by Zuo Musheng. Zuo Musheng didn't beat her often, but every time he beat her, he would nearly kill her. Zhang Guangfen bullied the weak and feared the strong, so she had been quiet for so many years.
When Zhang Guangfen was taken out by the police, Luo Xuemei's family was in the yard of the Public Security Bureau. When she saw Zhang Guangfen, she rushed over, pushed her to the ground, and then sat on her face and beat her.
The police rushed out to stop them and it took them two minutes to pull Luo Xuemei away. Then Zhang Guangfen and Luo Xuemei, who had just come out of the Public Security Bureau, went back in.
•••••
Lin Shuyue didn't know about Zhang Guangfen's predicament. After she came back, she sent the coconut and chicken back home. After finishing the report and preparing to eat, she received a call from Hang Jiabai, who invited her to dinner.
Lin Shuyue changed into some clothes for going out and put on her coat. Lou Fengqin came in with a casserole in her hand. "What are you going to do?"
"A friend treated me to dinner." Lin Shuyue took out her sneakers to wear when going out.
Lou Fengqin put the casserole on the bamboo mat on the table: "With that policeman?"
Lin Shuyue did not hide it: "Yes."
Lou Fengqin went to the kitchen, took out a clean soup box, and put the stewed coconut chicken in it: "I stewed it for the whole afternoon, take it to him so he can taste it."
Lin Shuyue didn't have time to stop it.
Hang Jiabai said he would come to pick her up, so she was waiting outside with a soup box. Chaochao, the child from Feng Suqing's house opposite, was playing with a small ball in the street. When he saw Lin Shuyue, he called her "Auntie" very obediently. Lin Shuyue took a piece of candy from her pocket and gave him a piece of candy.
Hang Jiabai arrived. Lin Shuyue touched his head and got on the passenger seat.
Hang Jiabai was a little surprised when he saw the soup in Lin Shuyue's arms: "Why did you bring soup?" Hang Jiabai sniffed, and the fresh fragrance of coconut wafted into his nose.
"My mother made some coconut chicken and asked you to try it."
"Auntie knows that you came out with me?" Hang Jiabai was a little surprised, and then a smile appeared on his face unconsciously.
"She knows." Following Lin Shuyue's affirmation, Hang Jiabai's smile grew wider, revealing a mouthful of big white teeth.
Lin Shuyue saw him laughing so happily that she couldn't help but laugh too.
Hang Jiabai did not take Lin Shuyue to any high-end restaurant. Instead, he took Lin Shuyue to a food stall and had a special Chaoshan hotpot.
Clear water pot, fresh beef with shacha sauce, hand-made beef balls are springy in the mouth, and two servings of vermicelli are added to the soup used to cook the beef, which is extremely delicious.
After eating, the two were not in a hurry to leave. Even though there was a cold wind blowing, they did not feel that cold. They chatted in low voices about what had happened around them recently.
As they were talking, they started talking about Zhang Guangfen.
"While Zhang Guangfen was taking her statement, she kept asking the police to convey what she wanted to say to Geng Liqun."
Lin Shuyue drank a cup of warm tea to relieve the greasy feeling: "What does she want to convey?"
"She asked Geng Liqun if he could forgive her, and said that she had bullied Geng Liqun when she was young and ignorant, but now she knew she was wrong. She also said that although Zuo Cheng was not Geng Liqun's child, Meng Meng was definitely."
The cup in Lin Shuyue's hand almost fell down, and she screamed in shock.
"Mengmeng is her child?" Mengmeng is five years old this year, which means she was born to Zhang Guangfen six years ago. How old was Zhang Guangfen at that time? A woman in her forties?
It's also awesome.
"Mengmeng walked to the orphanage by herself and was taken back by her. In that case, isn't she guilty of abandonment?"
"We have done a DNA comparison between the child and her and Geng Liqun. If the comparison results show that Mengmeng is indeed her child, then she is undoubtedly guilty of abandonment." Seeing that Lin Shuyue's tea was finished, Hang Jiabai refilled her cup.
"So where is she now?"
"At the Public Security Bureau." After Hang Jiabai answered, the phone in his pocket rang. He glanced at Lin Shuyue, picked up the phone, and after saying a few words, the other party hung up.
"The police called and said Mengmeng is indeed Zhang Guangfen's child, but Geng Liqun's DNA does not match Mengmeng's."
Lin Shuyue sighed: "This Zhang Guangfen is also awesome."
Hang Jiabai smiled. After sitting for a while, they stood up and prepared to take a walk to the park across the street.
The moment Lin Shuyue stood up, the electronic sound of the mission completed rang in Lin Shuyue's mind. Lin Shuyue took a look and turned off the system.
Hang Jiabai had already paid and came out. She put on her coat, and the two of them walked across the street together.
The park is not big, but it has good greenery. There are many energetic children on the open space who want to come out to play even in cold weather. There are small stalls everywhere on the roadside, selling food and toys for children.
After taking just a few steps, Lin Shuyue saw Zhou Qianqian, the bullied girl rescued by Zeng Xiaoyi and Bai Pingping.
She also saw Lin Shuyue and walked up to her on her own initiative, and the hydrogen balloon in her hand moved with her.
"Second sister." Zhou Qianqian smiled shyly.
Lin Shuyue nodded: "Qianqian, are you out selling balloons?"
Zhou Qianqian glanced at Lin Shuyue and didn't see any children. She felt a little disappointed: "Yes, I finished my homework and came out to sell balloons to earn some living expenses. That's my mother."
Zhou Qianqian pointed and Lin Shuyue looked over and saw a woman with a disabled gait, wearing a hat and gloves, packing sausages for a child.
Lin Shuyue's heart suddenly soured, and she took out the money: "How much do you sell this balloon for? I'm buying one for my nephew. He was still asking for it when he went out the day before yesterday."
When Zhou Qianqian heard this, she immediately took down the largest rooster hydrogen balloon in her hand and said, "No money, no money, just take it, second sister."
"That won't work. I have to pay for it." Lin Shuyue put five yuan into Zhou Qianqian's arms without saying anything.
Then he took Hang Jiabai away.
Hang Jiabai looked at his wrist being held by Lin Shuyue's hand, feeling a delicacy that was different from his own, and smiled so hard that his teeth showed.
That look is totally worthless.
After walking a long way, Lin Shuyue stopped and naturally let go of Hang Jiabai's hand. Hang Jiabai took the big rooster from Lin Shuyue.
Lin Shuyue turned her head and saw Zhou Qianqian was surrounded by a group of children. While selling hydrogen balloons, she was also looking towards Lin Shuyue.
Lin Shuyue breathed a sigh of relief and said, "This Zhou Qianqian is a student at Ah Yang and Xiaoyi's school. She has very good grades and always gets first place in the exams. She's really amazing."
"Even children who study well are easily bullied."
Hang Jiabai was also a student, and he was very familiar with the bullying during his student days. He said, "It just so happens that the bureau is holding an anti-school bullying campaign during this period. I'll ask the bureau to hold the anti-school bullying lecture at the Experimental High School?"
Lin Shuyue was surprised: "Anti-school bullying activities?"
Hang Jiabai nodded: "Speaking of which, this has something to do with you."
Seeing Lin Shuyue's surprise, he continued, "Do you still remember the courier from Wancheng who sent you the cat corpse after you exposed the Taishida poisonous rice noodle incident?"
That was the first time in Lin Shuyue's life that she received a threat. It was something she would never forget.
"I remember it was sent to me by the son of Taishida's boss?"
"Yes, when he sent you the package, he had not yet graduated from high school and was a student about to take the college entrance examination, but he was already 18 years old. After this incident happened, we contacted the police there, and the police there investigated him according to the law, and discovered the things he had done in the past that he had paid for."
"Including but not limited to bullying male classmates, raping female classmates, robbing classmates, beating and corporal punishment of classmates. He was very arrogant. Every time he did something wrong, his father would give him money to suppress it. If that didn't work, he would threaten them. When the police were investigating him, the students he had bullied in the past exposed his evil deeds."
"The provincial education department and public security department took this matter very seriously. In particular, after they randomly checked 50 schools in the province and found that this kind of bullying existed, they launched this joint anti-school bullying campaign."
Lin Shuyue was a little dazed. She didn't expect that this anti-school bullying activity would be related to her. She suddenly thought of her previous life. In the beginning, no one cared about school bullying. The victims could only swallow their anger when they were bullied.
It was only later, with the development of the Internet and more and more bullying videos posted online, that people began to take this issue seriously.
Now is the early stage of the Internet development, and there are still more than ten years before the Internet is fully developed. But this life is different from the last life. The anti-school bullying campaign came out so early, which is undoubtedly a salvation for those children who are being bullied, and it is undoubtedly a deterrent for those children who are carrying out school bullying.
"This activity should be promoted throughout the city and the country, and it would be best if school bullying was included in the criminal law." Lin Shuyue was indignant.
Hang Jiabai looked at Lin Shuyue like this, and felt his heart melt into water, softening into a ball: "The country is developing, and the criminal law is also being improved little by little. What we don't have now, we will definitely see in our lifetime."
Hang Jiabai's eyes were firm when he said this, as if he had already seen that day.
Lin Shuyue also smiled. How many law enforcers like Hang Jiabai are there in the country? With so many law enforcers, how could what she hoped for not come true? Just like Hang Jiabai said, it was just a matter of time.
Lin Shuyue looked up. There was no moon tonight. Pengcheng was at a low altitude, so the stars were not visible. But she felt that there must be stars in the sky, but they were covered by the haze. Lin Shuyue only hoped that day would come sooner, sooner.
After the two of them walked around the area holding the hydrogen balloon, Hang Jiabai said, "Ah Yue, I'm going to the capital for further studies in a couple of days."
Opportunities for further studies are rare. There are only a few vacancies in a province, and with so many police officers, the competition is very fierce. Hang Jiabai participates in the selection every year, but was selected only this year.
New Year's Day is coming soon, and Hang Jiabai really wants to spend this New Year's Day with Lin Shuyue. This is the first year they meet.
"What a coincidence! I am also going to the capital to participate in the selection of the top ten young journalists." It is already mid-December, and in a few days, she will set off for the capital.
Hang Jiabai's going too was a pleasant surprise for Lin Shuyue.
Hang Jiabai felt as if a piece of pie had fallen from the sky and landed on his head. He said, "I'll go back and ask about the specific time. If the time matches, shall we go together?"
When Hang Jiabai said this, he looked at Lin Shuyue with a very nervous look.
"Okay." Lin Shuyue agreed readily. She was not afraid of going to the capital alone, but who wouldn't want to have someone to accompany them?
The two chatted for a while about going to the capital, and then Hang Jiabai's phone rang again. Zhang Guangfen was making a big fuss in the Public Security Bureau, so Hang Jiabai had to go back.
"I'll go back with you." Lin Shuyue said to Hang Jiabai.
"Let's go."
The two walked to the parking lot, got in the car, and went to the Public Security Bureau. Hang Jiabai tied the hydrogen balloon to the armrest of the back seat of the car.
When she arrived at the Public Security Bureau, Lin Shuyue walked towards the lobby as soon as the car stopped. Before she reached the lobby, she heard Zhang Guangfen's sharp voice.
"Why are you detaining me? Mengmeng is my child. I can do whatever I want. You have no right to control me!"
Zhang Guangfen was handcuffed and twisting on the ground. Ye Xueyu and the others stood by and watched. Jiang Zhou even had a cup of instant noodles in his hand.
Lin Shuyue walked over, and at this moment Zhang Guangfen's good and evil value changed to 40%.
Ye Xueyu glanced at Lin Shuyue, and before she could ask, she told her, "She has been making a fuss ever since they were about to send her to the detention center. She was pulled up and then fell to the ground again. It's been ten minutes. When Jiangzhou and the others tried to pull her out, she shouted that the police were hooligans."
Zhang Guangfen is a tough guy. When she gets angry, she throws things with great force. The policemen haven't eaten since the afternoon and they really can't beat her.
Hang Jiabai came in a step behind Lin Shuyue and just happened to hear Ye Xueyu's words. He frowned and said, "With so many of you, you can't beat her?"
Zhang Guangfen rolled over and sat up from the ground when she heard Hang Jiabai's voice. "You are the leader, right? I am telling you, please let me go. I have not committed any crime. I just gave birth to a child. I gave him his life. I can do whatever I want with him. You have no right to arrest me."
Zhang Guangfen was so confident that she didn't realize the problem at all. After she finished speaking, before Hang Jiabai could say anything, she continued, "Where's Zuo Musheng? A spineless bastard. His wife was arrested by the police for no reason, yet he managed to hide away."
Hang Jiabai had someone help her up and force her outside, while telling her: "According to Article 261 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, abandonment is the crime of refusing to support an elderly, young, sick or other person who is unable to live independently. If the circumstances are serious, the person shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, criminal detention or surveillance."
"You have committed a crime." As the words fell, Zhang Guangfen was forcibly taken out.
She shouted loudly that the police were being hooligans, but no one paid any attention to her.
After she left, Lin Shuyue asked Ye Xueyu: "Are you sure that Zuo Cheng is her child? Are you sure Meng Meng is hers? Are you sure?"
"They are all hers. She doesn't care whether Zuo Cheng lives or dies, because Zuo Cheng is the child she have after a gang rape. She doesn't even know who the father of the child is."
"According to her account, Zuo Cheng's birth caused irreversible damage to her body, such as stretch marks and urinary incontinence. She felt that her body was not perfect, so she hated Zuo Cheng as her son. If it weren't for him, she would have been able to get money from Geng Liqun and have Zuo Musheng to look after her."
"Zuo Cheng may not be able to survive." Ye Xueyu finished speaking, and then said: "Meng Meng was born to her five years ago. She didn't want to raise the child after giving birth, so she sent Meng Meng to a family in the countryside to be raised."
"Since Zuo Cheng had no children in recent years, she came up with the idea of taking Mengmeng back to raise as a child. She first kidnapped Mengmeng, then left her in front of the Love Orphanage that Zuo Cheng and Hu Xinxin often visited, and finally successfully adopted Mengmeng back."
After listening to Ye Xueyu's narration, Lin Shuyue was speechless: "What do you think is going on in this brain?"
"Otherwise, why would there be words like lunatic and weird? How could normal people understand weird ideas?"
"Oh, I forgot to tell you that Zhang Guangfen and Zuo Musheng divorced ten years ago. According to Zuo Musheng, Zhang Guangfen met a businessman from Hong Kong. She said she had found true love and divorced Zuo Musheng without wanting anything else."
"Later, the businessman from Hong Kong left without telling her where he lived or what his real name was. Her true love was gone, and she didn't want to go back to Longhu Town and be laughed at. So she shamelessly clung to Zuo Musheng."
"Zuo Musheng repeatedly tolerated her for Zuo Cheng's sake. Zuo Musheng just said that now that Zuo Cheng is dead, the bond between them is gone, and he will throw away all of Zhang Guangfen's things when he returns."