Chapter 171: Shazhu Suspects Yi Zhonghai

Shazhu and his wife misunderstood Jia Zhangshi's intention; Laoqianpo this time is not coming with ill intent, but bringing sincerity to seek Shazhu's opinion.

Some words.

It's inconvenient to speak in front of Yu Li.

She thought about sending Yu Li away and talking privately with Shazhu.

After a moment's thought.

My request is not only impossible to fulfill, but might also get me kicked out by Shazhu.

Not worth the loss.

She dismissed the original idea.

She closed the room door, walked over to Shazhu and Yu Li, sat heavily on the stool, and lowered her voice considerably.

"Shazhu, Shazhu's wife, what I, the old woman, say to you, you'd better not spread it around."

Although Shazhu and Yu Li didn't know what medicine Jia Zhangshi was selling in her gourd, they nodded honestly.

Good thing.

Bad thing.

Only by speaking it out can we know.

No guessing allowed.

"Dong Xu said a few days ago that he had an accident, asking my wife to come find you, to have you go to the street office and public security; he also left me a letter, telling my wife to give it to you when the time comes, you take that letter to find the street office and public security."

Shazhu and Yu Li exchanged a glance.

Yu Li's thoughts, Shazhu perhaps doesn't know, but his heart at this moment has risen to his throat.

Jia Zhangshi's expression.

Solemn.

In Shazhu's understanding, this is the first time he has seen Jia Zhangshi so serious; he instinctively believed three parts, the remaining seven parts turned into dislike for Jia Zhangshi.

Catch thieves, catch dirt.

Catch adultery, catch both.

You say Jia Dongxu's death had another cause, and that he left a letter; you'd be better off taking the letter directly to the street office and public security.

Why must you add this extra step?

Have me take the letter to find public security and the street office.

What am I to the Jia family?

Mortal enemies who will never reconcile!

Am I just full of myself?

Shazhu instinctively felt a surge of resistance.

"You can't fail to find the street office and public security; you'd be better off taking the letter directly."

"It's not that I can't find the letter; I put it under the mattress, just rummaged through boxes and cabinets, didn't find it, so I came to you."

Jia Zhangshi's answer thoroughly shocked Shazhu.

Good fellow.

Can only shout loudly, "Good fellow!"

Jia Dongxu left you a letter, said he had an accident to come find me, yet you came, and Jia Dongxu's letter to you vanished; according to Jia Zhangshi's meaning, you're just talking nonsense. You and I chatting nonsense is fine, but can't let me go to the street office and public security spouting nonsense; if I talk nonsense to them, I reckon I'll be locked up. Shazhu's earlier three parts of sympathy for Jia Zhangshi, in the face of the truth of her lost letter, also vanished.

Shazhu lost patience with Jia Zhangshi.

You can hold anyone in high regard.

Except Jia Zhangshi.

This brain!

"Jia Auntie, just say what you think."

Shazhu's tone.

Cooled a few degrees.

Savor it slowly.

Even carries a hint of driving away.

"Shazhu, I, the old woman, said before, Dong Xu said he had an accident, asking you to go to the street office and public security."

Shazhu was about to be amused.

Have me go find public security.

No key evidence.

Empty talk.

This favor can't be helped.

A thought of retreating arose in his heart.

"Sorry, I can't do it." Seeing Jia Zhangshi a bit anxious, Shazhu hurriedly gave his reason first, "Don't be anxious, first, you have no evidence; just what you're saying now, I'd still have doubts; second, I believe your words, but the problem is whether public security and the street office will believe you—they'll surely question it; empty talk lacks proof; third, how Jia Dongxu died, the Yegang chang baowei ke has already given the final answer."

Jia Zhangshi didn't cause a scene.

She was being shrewish.

Yet not stupid.

Before coming, she already had the thought of being turned away.

No letter.

Shazhu not helping her is understandable.

Yesterday Yi Zhonghai brought her to the Yagangchang to discuss specific aftermath; Jia Zhangshi already knew Yagangchang's specific opinion on Jia Dongxu's death.

Died unexpectedly!

The scene evidence and the eyewitnesses who saw Jia Dongxu's death clearly informed the Security Section that Jia Dongxu had been slacking off early in the morning in the rolling steel workshop, dozing off while sitting, until Yi Zhonghai woke him up. As he walked toward Yi Zhonghai, his foot accidentally slipped on an oily cylindrical pin, causing him to lose balance and fall. In the fall, his hand grabbed a nearby rack holding tools and workpieces, which tipped over, impaling his body with the tools and workpieces, resembling a hornet's nest, leading to uncontrollable bleeding and a gruesome death.

The terms present are Jia Dongxu, Security Section, Yagangchang (the rolling steel plant), and Yi Zhonghai; the cylindrical pin, the rack, and the hornet's nest are not in the glossary.

The cause of death.

It was Jia Dongxu who stepped on the oily cylindrical pin, and many people can attest to that.

Whose cylindrical pin is it?

The reworked piece that Jia Dongxu processed yesterday!

It bears a temporary number.

The only unexplained point of doubt.

It is an oil stain.

Who placed the bucket of oil stain under the table? Why is the oil stain bucket leaking?

Really, nobody knows, and nobody notices.

The Security Section also discovered similar situations in other workshops, so they ruled this out as a doubt regarding Jia Dongxu's death and concluded that Jia Dongxu died in an accident.

It has become an established fact.

How are you translating this?

Just as Shazhu reminded.

Jia Zhangshi went to the neighborhood committee or public security, which amounts to overturning the fact-finding report issued by the Yagangchang Security Section, thereby posing a certain risk to Qin Huairu.

Unless Jia Zhangshi has solid evidence.

She only has one letter.

The letter was also lost.

She had no choice.

Jia Zhangshi could only turn and leave.

Even though she was unwilling, there was nothing she could do.

The dead cannot be revived.

Given the established fact of Jia Dongxu's death, the only thing Jia Zhangshi can do now is to take Jia Dongxu's place and tightly bind Qin Huairu, preventing her from remarrying and making her serve the Jia family as a beast of burden for life.

: "……" No.

Shazhu's home.

Through the glass of his own home.

Watching Jia Zhangshi push the door and go.

Shazhu let out a soft sigh, bolted the door, drew the curtains, lay alone on the bed, and repeatedly thought about Jia Dongxu's death.

If you don't mention it, you won't know.

Saying it is startling.

At the beginning.

Shazhu also thought Jia Dongxu had died in an accident, but after Jia Zhangshi made a fuss, he realized Jia Dongxu's death might not have been accidental.

A perfectly normal person.

Died for no apparent reason.

Crucially, many people around him testified that Jia Dongxu died in an accident.

Is it a coincidence?

Yi Zhonghai shouted at Jia Dongxu.

The master called the apprentice to start work, ostensibly for the workers' skills competition a few days later, aiming to promote Jia Dongxu from a second-level to a third-level worker.

If it were someone else.

Nobody would suspect Yi Zhonghai.

Hope the apprentice becomes a dragon.

It's only natural.

But Shazhu always feels that Yi Zhonghai is involved in this.

At tonight's courtyard meeting, Yi Zhonghai, despite knowing that Shazhu has started a family and established a career, still tries to use moral coercion to force Shazhu to support Qin Huairu!

Just as Yu Li said earlier.

A widow's doorstep attracts many disputes.

Yi Zhonghai has a married man support a widow whose husband just died, calling it neighborhood assistance, but it always feels a bit rushed.

Too rushed!

It gives the impression that he deeply fears letting Qin Huairu and her two children go hungry.

His brows were furrowed, then relaxed.

In his mind.

He recalled some fragments from his previous life.

Yi Zhonghai secretly gave Qin Huairu millet noodles late at night, but actually gave her white flour; Qin Huairu steamed the white flour into steamed buns. Jia Zhangshi, who always likes to eat but hates to work, would rather eat the bitter, throat‑hurting cornbread than eat the white‑flour buns. When Bangeng questioned her, Jia Zhangshi openly shouted that the cornbread given by Shazhu is clean to eat, while the white‑flour buns given by Yi Zhonghai are dirty.

Bangeng still told Shazhu about this as a joke, and only then did Shazhu realize there was such a matter.

Yi Zhonghai is old enough to be Qin Huairu's father, while Shazhu is three years younger than Qin Huairu.

According to normal people.

Even if suspicion arises, it would be directed at Shazhu, who is the same age as Qin Huairu, not at Yi Zhonghai, who is over twenty years older than Qin Huairu.

But Jia Zhangshi does the opposite.

Could it be that...!

Shazhu sprang up and sat straight.

After finishing chores and preparing to sleep, Yu Li was genuinely startled by Shazhu, covering her mouth she jumped up on the spot, and without noticing, her body involuntarily fell toward Shazhu.

"What time is it? It's just the kids' little thing, why the rush?"

Looking at Yu Li.

Shazhu chuckled.

In his mind he repeatedly pondered Yu Li's words, sitting upright was utterly unintentional, yet Yu Li mistakenly thought he wanted to be intimate with her.

One thinks east.

One ponders west.

It's simply going south while aiming north.

Yu Li misunderstood him.

If this misunderstanding were applied to the matter of Jia Dongxu, it might not be without feasibility.

Yi Zhonghai called Jia Dongxu, Jia Dongxu died, and there were many people nearby.

Let's suppose.

If Yi Zhonghai really plotted Jia Dongxu's death, then those people nearby would be Yi Zhonghai's witnesses to prove his innocence, which is also the crux for the Security Section to quickly close the case.

Dozens of people could attest to it.

They naturally wouldn't say anything.

This also explains why Yi Zhonghai secretly aided Qin Huairu with white flour, and why Jia Zhangshi said Yi Zhonghai's aid was dirty.

Yi Zhonghai killed Jia Dongxu!

What reason?

A romantic scandal?

As an original resident of the courtyard, Shazhu had heard a bit about the romantic gossip between Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu, and thanks to Xu Damao, Biesun could tell Shazhu about his affair with Qin Huairu.

In Shazhu's eyes, Qin Huairu was no longer a pure, lofty goddess, but a person harmed by Xu Damao.

What Xu Damao could do.

Couldn't Yi Zhonghai do the same?

Shazhu suddenly felt a jolt in his heart, as if he had found a breakthrough in the matter.

Gaze.

At tonight's gathering in the dayuan, Yi Zhonghai's gaze toward Qin Huairu's two children was no less intense than Shazhu's gaze toward Yu Li.

Inside, it was full of love!

The difference lies in.

Shazhu's gaze toward Yu Li was that of a lover's affection.

Yi Zhonghai's gaze toward Bangeng and Huaihua was that of a father's kindness.

Shazhu felt his head was as big as a bucket.

Qin Huairu was Jia Dongxu's wife, and Jia Dongxu was Yi Zhonghai's apprentice; the couple called Yi Zhonghai "master".

Holy shit.

The most impossible thing became possible.

Qin Huairu and Yi Zhonghai!

This also corroborated Jia Dongxu's death; he discovered their secret affair.

Yi Zhonghai then harbored murderous intent, using the accident to kill Jia Dongxu, and cleverly leveraged his status as a Level 8 Technician at the Yagangchang and Jia Dongxu's master, framing his motive as righteous; had he not urged Jia Dongxu, Jia Dongxu would not have stepped on the cylinder and died.

Thus.

Shazhu therefore had to be cautious toward Yi Zhonghai.

If his memory is not mistaken, Yi dama was fine before bed, but in the middle of the night Yi Zhonghai wailed, saying Yi dama died of heart disease.

Someone who could kill Jia Dongxu could naturally also kill Yi dama.

It's possible they both died for the same reason.

Holy mother.

Ruthless person.

In a situation where the enemy is clear and we are hidden, it benefits Shazhu; at the very least, Yi Zhonghai doesn't know that Shazhu has begun to suspect him.

Everyone says you shouldn't startle the snake by beating the grass.

But Shazhu wanted to strike first against Yi Zhonghai; he originally intended to do it now, but seeing Yu Li, he temporarily set aside the plan to deceive Yi Zhonghai.

Yu Li is important.

……

Jia Family.

Returning indoors, Jia Zhangshi.

The moment she entered the door.

On a whim, she suddenly thought of her obedient grandson Bangeng; out of concern, she grabbed Bangeng's schoolbag and carefully rummaged through it.

She was disappointed.

Inside Bangeng's schoolbag, besides the textbooks he had drawn various fighting pictures on and the homework sheets marked with big crosses by the teacher, there were also several paper toys for children to play with.

The letter Jia Zhangshi had been expecting was not in Bangeng's schoolbag.

Perhaps that was the reason for her disappointment.

She unconsciously muttered.

"Where did it go?"

Having said that.

His gaze fell on Bangeng and Huaihua.

He didn't know what he had thought of.

Jia Zhangshi took down Jia Dongxu's posthumous photo, placed it between the two children, and compared them.

The more she looked.

Jia Zhangshi's heart grew colder.

Although the newborn showed nothing yet, Jia Zhangshi also knew a few clues; after all, Bangeng and Xiao Dang had come before, and she compared them with Bangeng and Xiao Dang's appearance back then.

She seemed to have guessed something!

Her whole body instantly went limp.

……

The Yi family.

Only Qin Huairu and Yi Zhonghai were inside the house.

Before the scheming woman entered, she had a face-to-face with the auntie who brought dinner to the deaf old lady, so she could take the opportunity to speak plainly.

She also didn't hide anything.

She got straight to the point as soon as she started.

"Zhonghai, I ask you, was Dongxu killed by your hand?"

Yi Zhonghai smiled slightly and countered Qin Huairu with, "Is that important?"

Qin Huairu, fearing the auntie would come back and leave her no time to clarify the letter with Yi Zhonghai, hurriedly sped up her speech and lowered her voice as much as possible.

Walls have ears.

After all, this matter wasn't done very properly.

"You know or not, Jia Dongxu wrote a letter to Jia's old lady a few days ago, saying that if he met with an accident, he wanted Jia's old lady to take the letter and go find the neighborhood office and public security."

Originally, Yi Zhonghai was stooped.

With a sudden "teng" sound, he straightened his waist.

In his eyes.

Also burst forth with the gleam of questioning.

Upon seeing Yi Zhonghai's expression and demeanor, Qin Huairu realized she had guessed correctly.

Jia Dongxu was indeed killed by Yi Zhonghai's hand; even if not, he was still closely related to Yi Zhonghai.