Chapter 315: Illegitimate Daughter

When the report was flipped to the last page, Qi Fei finally understood the reason for Cai Ding writing this report. Wu Shulan had once denied that her daughter wasn't lost by herself, but was killed by Wu Chongyue.

In other words, those accusations from the clan members against Wu Shulan were not groundless—she had a concrete motive for murder.

In the sunset, Wu Shulan sat in the messy courtyard with a cigarette in her mouth. She exhaled a puff of smoke, and the tiny mosquitoes circling in the air fled in panic, just as those clan members did when they saw her, fearing to avoid her.

The tightly closed courtyard gate was knocked on, again and again.

She didn't rush to open the door. She finished the last puff of the cigarette, threw the butt on the ground, and stepped on it to extinguish it before going.

"I said I wouldn't let you come again." When she saw Qi Fei, Wu Shulan immediately said with a straight face.

"But you still opened the door." Qi Fei said.

"Heh, I thought it was someone else." Wu Shulan sneered.

"You were waiting for someone?" Qi Fei asked immediately.

"No." Wu Shulan denied flatly, lifting her hand that looked like dry firewood, "Then come in."

The sun set, and the courtyard was shrouded in the mist unique to Sanwu Town. The contours of the messy old items scattered around actually had a bit of alternative beauty.

Qi Fei looked around, always feeling that he had been obsessed by the two paintings of Wu Xingzhou and Ge Ming, and actually began to pay attention to these meaningless aesthetic things.

It was still the familiar sound of opening the door, carrying the stale breath of time.

"I heard you went to find that guy Wu Chongyue. I guess you didn't ask anything out, right? Hmph, that old fox." Wu Shulan said unpleasantly. With a "pssh" sound, the flame of a match lit up, and she lit another cigarette, still sitting down impolitely as before. "Speak, what else do you want to know? But you might have to run for nothing. I've told you everything I know."

"We didn't come to ask about Wu Xingzhou's matter this time. We want to know about your daughter's situation." Qi Fei said straight to the point.

Wu Shulan's hand sending the cigarette to her mouth stopped in mid-air. Obviously, this question was unexpected. After being stunned for a moment, she suddenly laughed loudly: "Hahaha! Wu Chongyue, it must be him. Let me guess, he bit back and said I retaliated against him and killed Wu Xingzhou, right?"

"You reacted quite quickly." Qi Fei looked at Wu Shulan with suspicion. "Unfortunately, you guessed wrong. Wu Chongyue didn't say anything. It was your clan members who said it. You accused Wu Chongyue of killing your daughter."

"First of all, they are no longer my clan members. Secondly, he, Wu Chongyue, is not a thing, but I am still a person. Otherwise, I wouldn't have called him to tell him Wu Xingzhou had an accident." Wu Shulan tapped the cigarette in her hand on an empty soda can, and the ash and sparks scattered impatiently.

"But people in the town recall that you took the child and left Sanwu Town alone, and when you came back, the child was gone. It looks more like you abandoned this child." Cai Ding couldn't help but say.

Wu Shulan puffed on her cigarette irritably and coughed twice, saying anxiously: "It was Wu Chongyue who tricked me into going. It was he who persuaded me to give the child away. At that time, he used the posture of a head of the family to persuade me; actually, he was forcing me. I, I was a weak girl in my early twenties, with no one to rely on, and I couldn't refuse at all!"

"He used sweet words to say that this child would suffer if she followed me, and even if he could keep my clan genealogy, those dividends wouldn't be enough for two mouths."

"He also said he found a good family for me and would give the child the best life. I naively believed it."

"That day, he made an appointment for me to go to Nancheng, saying he had made an appointment with the other party, and he would send the child over. Because of this adoption matter, the other party was worried that I would regret it later and wouldn't let me meet them."

"I believed it again. I still remember when the child left me, she seemed to perceive something and cried desperately, and even the milk bottle couldn't soothe her."

"I watched him hold the child and get into a taxi. At that moment, I regretted it and rushed up to pull the door handle, wanting to get the child back, but Wu Chongyue deliberately locked the car door and urged the driver to leave quickly."

"I still can't forget his eyes now. That fierce look was just like a wolf that would eat people."

"I ran after the car with all my might, but how could I catch up? I just sat on the side of the road and cried and cried, not knowing what to do, and there was no one who could help." Wu Shulan told these heartbreaking past events, and there was no ripple in her words, only full of exhaustion and numbness.

"And then..." Qi Fei asked.

"Then, I returned to Sanwu Town in a daze. Those nosy people came to ask me where the child went. I ignored them, ignored every one of them. I knew they just wanted to know to chew their tongues behind my back, just another topic for after-dinner conversation, not really caring about me. This is what they call me abandoning the child."

"They weren't wrong; I was stupid and trusted the wrong person."

"Then Wu Chongyue tricked you into giving the child away. Why do you think he killed your daughter?" Wu Shanqiu couldn't help but ask.

"Hmph, at first I didn't think in the worst direction. Later, I quarreled with someone, and the other party said I didn't even want my own child. I was so angry that I said Wu Chongyue helped me find someone to adopt her. He just wouldn't admit it, saying I was talking nonsense, that he had never done this thing, and even pulled his wife as a witness, saying that on the day I took the child out, he wasn't at home at all."

"Heh, his house, you've been there. Except for his wife, no one knows if he is at home. Is it the rapeseed flowers in the field outside that are the witnesses?" Wu Shulan said sarcastically.

Wu Shanqiu didn't understand upon hearing this: "That's not right. Why would Wu Chongyue take your daughter away? What does this matter have to do with him? Could it be..." She looked at Wu Shulan, as if discovering something extraordinary. "They said you had a child out of wedlock. The child's father wouldn't be Wu Chongyue, right?"

As soon as Wu Shanqiu said this, Wu Shulan was choked by the smoke and coughed violently. Although she couldn't speak for a while, her hand waved vigorously, denying it repeatedly.

Wu Shulan finally stopped coughing and said disdainfully: "When he was young, he looked like a bear. How could I have taken a fancy to him?! That child of mine..." It was here that her tone finally had a bit of sighing, "was from an outsider. I thought he really liked me, so I followed him in a daze. I didn't expect, hmph, he treated me as a free prostitute. They were right, I am a slut, I deserve it!"

Looking at Wu Shulan like this, she shouldn't be lying. However, Wu Shanqiu's gossip nerve was finally used in the right place. She touched her chin and pondered: "Since this child has nothing to do with Wu Chongyue, why did he trick you into sending the child away?" ===== CHAPTER 316 =====