"No! Don't say it!" Xie Xiaojing saw Aunt Yue coming in, lying on the bed and screaming hoarsely, "You can't say it! Mom! I beg you! Don't say it!"
"They already know what you want to hide, so there's no need to hide what they don't know." Aunt Yue sighed and walked to the bed, gently hugging her who was trembling all over.
"No! Mom, I beg you! Don't say it! Don't say it, okay?" Xie Xiaojing held Aunt Yue's hand tightly and kept crying.
"It's been six years, you should let it go and stop torturing yourself like this."
"I killed Huanhuan, so I should be punished. I deserve it!"
"Silly child, Huanhuan's death is not your fault. Don't blindly take the responsibility on yourself," Aunt Yue hugged her with tears streaming down her face. "If you are really wrong, it is also my fault. It's because I didn't take good care of Huanhuan that that beast Qian Daqing took advantage of her and took her away. "
"Mom, I can't blame you! It's not your fault! It's my fault! I shouldn't have provoked Qian Daqing! It's my fault!" Xie Xiaojing beat her chest for a while.
"Xiaojing! Don't be like this! Even if it's your fault, you tortured yourself to death, can Huanhuan survive?" Aunt Yue grabbed Xie Xiaojing's bony hand with a look of regret on her face, "Don't forget that you still have Lele!”
"Lele! Where is Lele?" Xie Xiaojing's whole body was filled with excitement. She immediately sat up and wiped her tears while looking towards the door in panic.
"Don't worry, Lele is not here. I begged them to take Lele out to play. Xiaojing, Lele is so good, even for Lele, you have to be strong. You are not a competent mother now! You can’t do anything for Lele, but Lele has to work hard for you. Lele is only seven years old and is just a child. "
After saying this, Xie Xiaojing's tears that had originally stopped burst into tears again.
"I'm sorry for Huanhuan and Lele." She covered her face and cried, "I'm also sorry for you and Shuibao, and I'm sorry for our family."
"No one can resist natural disasters and man-made disasters, and it's not your fault. But you know you're wrong, but you don't remedy it in time. Instead, you let yourself sink into depression and don't care about the people around you. This is the real mistake."
"Mom, I..."
Aunt Yue hugged Xie Xiaojing and sighed in pain: "Mom, I know you are suffering, and I understand, but you can't always use other people's mistakes to punish yourself. If you torture yourself like this, you are also torturing our family. Look at it. Water conservation, working overtime and overtime, but using hard-earned money to take you on a trip every year, isn't it just to let you get out of the shadow of the past and face life calmly? Look at Lele again? , he is just a seven-year-old child, but he does not have the naughty and innocence that a seven-year-old child should have. He is always careful to make you happy, and has cried in front of me countless times behind my back. Do you know what he is afraid of? He was afraid that one day he would be without a mother. He said that he did not want to be a child without a mother. He wanted his mother to love him, eat the food he cooked, wear the clothes his mother bought, and hold her hand while traveling. He wants to play in the paradise and wants his mother to hold a parent-teacher meeting for him... "
"Mom, please stop talking. I was wrong. I know I was wrong. I'm sorry." Xie Xiaojing pressed her face against her mother-in-law's arm and cried into tears.
"Mom has wanted to say these words to you for a long time, but every time the words come to her lips and she sees you so sad, she can't help but feel sad.
. "Aunt Yue cried and touched her head gently, "I just want to protect a child. Although you are my daughter-in-law, I love you as a daughter. Mom, I hope you are well. I hope you are all well. "
"I know, I know." Xie Xiaojing hugged her and burst into tears.
Aunt Yue let out a long sigh, hugged her, and suppressed her sobs.
Seeing the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law hugging each other and crying in pain, Mu Yu, who had been standing silently by the side, felt extremely sad and turned around to quietly wipe his tears.
"Officer Mu, I will tell you everything I know." After a while, Xie Xiaojing gently pushed Aunt Yue away and spoke to Mu Yu in a hoarse voice.
"Okay!" Mu Yu was surprised and stepped forward to help Aunt Yue help Xiao Jing sit down.
Worried that her identity as a disguised police officer would cause psychological pressure to Xie Xiaojing, she hurriedly called her sister-in-law with a chuckle, "Just call me Mu Yu like you did before. I'm used to it."
In fact, she wasn't used to the title "Officer Mu" either.
Xie Xiaojing, who was already sitting on the back of the bed, forced a smile and lowered her eyes again. Tears flowed down her cheeks like a bank, and her thin hands tightly grasped the thin quilt covering her body.
Knowing that she was calming down, Mu Yu said nothing and just looked at her with pity.
"Officer Mu, please sit down." Aunt Yue moved a stool to Mu Yu, "I'll get you some water."
"No, no, I'm not thirsty. Thank you, Aunt Yue. Please sit down too."
Aunt Yue stopped Mu Yu who was about to get up and move the stool, and pointed to the edge of the bed: "I can just sit here."
"Officer Mu," Xie Xiaojing choked up and said, "I know you have been looking for old neighbors in the back streets to find out the situation. In fact, the prostitute they talk about is not a prostitute at all. She is someone who came to the city from the countryside to work. A serious girl, I rented a small single room at Niula’s house.”
"Are you familiar with her?" Mu Yu asked.
"It's not that familiar. At that time, I was working as a waiter in a small restaurant in Houjiekou. The restaurant closed around 8:30 every night. Since my home was nearby, I took over the job of cleaning up after the restaurant closed. There were a few jobs. When I was cleaning the house, I saw a very thin girl with a ponytail standing at the door of the restaurant, looking at the promotional menu we posted on the outside wall, but she had never eaten in our restaurant. I felt strange when I came and went. One night When I went out and asked her what she was looking for, she was a little embarrassed and told me that the dishes were very beautiful. I thought she wanted to learn to be a chef, so I told her with a smile that we don’t want apprentices in the store. She said she didn’t want to be an apprentice, she just watched. Look, and then leave with a blushing face.
"Her clothes were very rustic, her skin was very dark, and she spoke very unskilled Mandarin. I immediately guessed that she came from the countryside and could not afford to go to restaurants, so I looked at the pictures on the posters. I am also from the countryside. I grew up in a poor family, and I can understand her feelings very well, so when she looked at the menu later in the evening, I wanted to give her some snacks to try, which were the snacks that the guests had not finished eating and had not been stained. , I planned to pack it and take it home. Although she wanted to eat it, she refused to accept my offer. At that time, I realized that it was not appropriate for me to give food to a little girl as a stranger. I didn’t do it anymore, I just said hello to her when I saw her coming to the store again to look at the menu.”
"Do you know what she does?"
She works as a waitress in a supermarket. "
Mu Yu's eyes suddenly lit up. This corresponded to Zhao Yongli's message!
She immediately asked: "Has she told you anything else? For example, where is she from and who is her family?"
Xie Xiaojing shook her head: "She doesn't come here every day. Every time she comes, she only stays for a few minutes to look at the posters and rarely talks to me. Unless she encounters some grievances at work, she will chat more with me. In this way The days lasted for about two months and it was late winter. My mother was a cleaner in the back street. She had to clean the back street at three o'clock every morning. She was feeling a little uncomfortable that day, and the plumber worked the night shift. , I went out to take her place. Unexpectedly, when I reached the bamboo forest in the back street, I saw Qian Daqing dragging a girl into the bamboo forest. I was so scared that I dropped the shovel in my hand and cried. I shouted "Sister, help me", and when I heard her voice in dialect, I realized that she was the girl who often looked at the menu in front of my store. I immediately picked up the shovel, and Qian Daqing immediately grabbed the girl and rushed to me. He kicked the shovel out of my hand and threatened me fiercely that he would kill me if I dared to meddle in my own business and told me to get out. He smelled of alcohol at the time and must have drunk a lot. He looked very fierce. I was extremely scared at the time. He didn't care about the girl and ran home alone."
When Xie Xiaojing said this, her whole body began to tremble, as if she was in the environment at that time again. Aunt Yue hurriedly hugged her and took her words and said to Mu Yu, "I am used to getting up at three o'clock every day. Although I was sick that day, I still couldn't change my old habit. I woke up early, Xiaojing cried. I was already up when I ran home. She threw herself into my arms as soon as she entered the room, crying nonstop, her face was frighteningly white, and her whole body was shaking, just like you see her now. He cried and told me what he saw and asked me what to do. I immediately called the police.”
"It's just that when the police came to the bamboo forest, Qian Daqing and the girl had disappeared." After Xie Xiaojing calmed down slightly, she took over what her mother-in-law said, "There is an abandoned house where the ranger lives in the bamboo forest. I thought Qian Daqing would drag the girl there and took the police to look for her, but nothing was found because I didn’t know where the girl lived and I couldn’t take the police to her house that night. The police found nothing and suspected that I was dazzled. They scolded me and my mother before leaving. Because I was worried about the girl, I wanted to inquire about her whereabouts early in the morning. Unexpectedly, I heard my neighbor hear her as soon as I left. It was said that Qian Daqing's wife had caught Qian Daqing's rape and was dragging the prostitute through the streets. I had an ominous feeling, so I immediately followed the crowd and ran to see, and saw a naked girl with disheveled hair curled up on the ground, her face and body covered with blood. There were bloody scratches, and her big eyes were full of fear. Wanhua Hua kept slapping her, kicking her, and scolding her with very unpleasant words, while the naughty old woman stood beside her and spat on her and talked to Xingzi. Wan Huahua made obscene remarks about the girl. Some of the people around me spat at the girl, and some scolded the girl. At that time, I looked at the girl and felt really pitiful. I didn't care about Qian Daqing, so I rushed forward and tried to push Wan away. Huahua protected the girl, but Wanhua pushed her away. She was tall and strong, and I was no match for her. Plus, I had not slept all night and was weak. My mother had been following me and she fainted. Behind me, I hurriedly called to the neighbors to take me home. When I woke up, I asked my mother-in-law how the girl was doing. My mother-in-law said that she had been carried back to the rental house. I asked my mother-in-law to call the police. At this moment, Qian Daqing walked in. ”