Chapter 284

"Grandmother didn't dare to resist that person and could only secretly send some food to me. I knew that even if I told my maiden family, they wouldn't help me. In that basement where I couldn't see the light, I thought of death."

"I tore the old bed sheet into strips, intending to use them to hang myself."

"However, when I tried to put the bed sheet around my neck, the necklace Sisi gave me pressed against my neck. That was given to me by Sisi when my family forced me to drop out of school. She said if anyone bullied me in the future, I must tell her."

"This necklace aroused my will to survive, but my phone had long been taken away by that person. I could only secretly give the necklace to the grandmother. I knew the grandmother was old and it was almost impossible to contact Sisi, but this necklace was like a drifting bottle thrown out on a desert island, making me fantasize that I had a day to be saved."

"Later, the grandmother never came again, and the water in the basement had been drunk up."

"I could often hear footsteps coming in and out in that place, but during that period, there were often long periods when no one was there."

"Later I found out it was because the grandmother had an accident, and this family had to go out often and were not there."

"I didn't know that at the time; I only knew my chance to escape had come."

"That rope made of bed sheets became my last hope."

"On the day I escaped, it was quiet upstairs for a long time. I thought they had gone out like before. So I decided to take a risk and try."

"I used the last bit of strength I had to climb to the entrance of the basement."

"That person might have never thought I had a way to escape, and even the cover on top wasn't locked."

"In order not to let him find out immediately that I had escaped, after climbing out, I restored the entrance so that the person would think I was still in the basement."

"The back door was locked, so I could only take the risk of going through the shop."

"As soon as I went in, I saw my father-in-law lying on the ground. I was terrified, thinking he was taking a nap in the shop."

"Looking closer, the other two were also lying on the ground. The complexions of all three were wrong. I guessed something had happened."

"Did you move the air conditioner and the rolling shutter door?" Qi Fei asked.

Huang Ruifen nodded: "This family is very stingy. Usually, they wouldn't turn on the air conditioner no matter how hot it was. I suspected the air conditioner had a problem that made them pass out, so I turned off the air conditioner before leaving."

"You wanted to save them." Qi Fei had mixed feelings. Sheng Tianbao treated her like that, yet she actually still wanted to save this family.

Huang Ruifen didn't seem to think there was anything special and nodded, saying: "I didn't want to be like them. They are very bad, bad to the point of being pathetic."

"If you hadn't pulled open the rolling shutter door for ventilation in time, it wouldn't have been just Sheng Tianbao who died." Qi Fei said.

Huang Ruifen muttered upon hearing this: "If I had known the grandmother was dead at that time, I probably wouldn't have saved them."

"No, you wouldn't." Qi Fei said gently, "You are different from them. So what happened later?"

"I kept running, kept running, only thinking about going to Sisi in my heart. I found a kind person fishing by the river and borrowed his phone to call Sisi. For all these years, that person wouldn't let me contact my friends. I didn't know Sisi was actually not far away." Huang Ruifen said, grabbing Ge Sisi's hand even harder.

Ge Sisi put her other hand on the back of Huang Ruifen's hand and turned to say to Qi Fei: "You all know what happened later. I went to pick her up and brought her back to live together. We learned about the series of changes in that family from her mother-in-law's short videos. Xiaofen said Sheng Tianbao is dead. If she went back, that family would ask her father to take back the betrothal gift. I'm single anyway, so I wanted to let her live with me for a while. After the storm passes, I'll take her out to find a job and not associate with those people!"

Qi Fei looked at Huang Ruifen and said: "We are re-investigating Luo Yongmei's death case. Judging from the traces of the vehicle, we cannot rule out that Sheng Tianbao committed intentional homicide. We will hand over the evidence to the prosecution and prosecute Sheng Dazhi and Zhang Yingdi for the crime of harboring. In addition, their behavior of slandering Dr. Li has constituted the crime of false accusation and framing, and they will be prosecuted together. What I want to say is that you don't have to hide because of the Sheng family."

Qi Fei walked into Nancheng Hospital. Today was the day Zhang Yingdi was discharged, but the investigation into her had not ended.

From afar, he saw Zhong Kui standing outside Zhang Yingdi's ward, playing with something in her hand.

Looking closer, it was a yellow paper iris folded in half.

"Forget it, she has already lost her son and grandson." Qi Fei took the origami from Zhong Kui's hand and said. Although he had no evidence, he always suspected that Zhong Kui's yellow iris was a signal of death. In previous cases, her iris had been closely linked to the death of the perpetrator.

Zhong Kui was noncommittal, as if she hadn't heard the sentence he said, leaning against the wall and saying: "Zhang Yingdi's video account has been banned. I feel a bit of sympathy for her relatives and friends."

Qi Fei didn't understand Zhong Kui's meaning at first and looked inside, then understood. Zhang Yingdi was sitting on the hospital bed, not in a hurry to pack up and leave, still holding her phone, having a video call with someone. The content was nothing more than crying and complaining about her own pity.

"Just a histrionic personality, but it can help you ask for the truth." Zhong Kui said indifferently, walking into the ward before Qi Fei, and snatched the phone when Zhang Yingdi was unprepared.

"Hey, hey, hey! What are you doing?" Zhang Yingdi was excited to snatch the phone back, but Zhong Kui had already reached behind Qi Fei in two or three steps.

Seeing Qi Fei appear, Zhang Yingdi immediately complained: "You police can't just snatch people's phones! I want to..."

"Want to post it online, right?" Zhong Kui preempted, "However, your account has been banned. What a pity. After you answer our questions and verify that you haven't lied, I'll return the phone to you."

"What else do you want to ask? I have nothing left, nothing left..." Zhang Yingdi said, her emotions of snot and tears rising again.

"We found Huang Ruifen." Qi Fei's sentence made Zhang Yingdi stop crying and making a scene immediately.

"Where did Afen run to? Then, what about my grandson?" Zhang Yingdi clearly didn't care about Huang Ruifen's life or death; what she cared about was Sheng Tianbao's son.

"You said it yourself, you have nothing left." Zhong Kui said coldly, "The grandson was thrown to death by your son. You should know that Sheng Tianbao could do this kind of thing." As she spoke, she returned to Zhang Yingdi, her face very close. That fierce expression scared Zhang Yingdi into retreating again and again.

"Moreover, did you really not hear the shrill crying coming from the ground at all? Actually, you knew it long ago, knew what your son had done. Stupidity is not equal to innocence. Stupidity and evil are often inseparable. For example, you, Zhang Yingdi, right? Do you prefer to be called Tianbao's mother?"