"My name is Lin Feng, and I'm from the Criminal Investigation Team of Guantian Branch. You are the mother of the person you're talking to, right?"
In the hospital corridor, a plainclothes policewoman led a slightly fat woman carrying a vegetable basket deeper into the corridor.
She looked to be about fifty-six or seventeen years old, and her hair looked oddly shiny black at first glance, but if you looked closely, you could see some white hair hidden beneath the black hair.
Her name is Huang Guifen, Ye Sibei’s mother. She is 56 years old and makes a living by selling breakfast at a stall in front of the school.
Her husband, Ye Ling, was originally a primary school teacher, but was fired for violating family planning rules. He started to run a breakfast stall with her. She sold sticky rice, and he bought soy milk and fried dough sticks porridge.
The family is not wealthy and has two children. The eldest daughter is Ye Sibei, who is now 27 years old and works as an accountant in Fuqiang Real Estate. She has been married for half a year. Her youngest son is Ye Nianwen, who is 24 years old and a recent graduate of the law department. He is now engaged and is about to get married.
As a parent, your life is nothing more than giving birth to children, raising them, and watching them start their own families. That is considered a complete life.
Soon, her and Ye Ling’s lives were almost together, and they could start to have their own lives.
So she has been very happy recently. Although she knows that her daughter seems to have some disputes with her son-in-law, she doesn't take it to heart. After all, it's inevitable that couples don't quarrel. She and her husband have been quarreling all their lives, but they still continue to live this way, don't they
However, this morning, she suddenly received a call from Ye Sibei. Ye Sibei was unusually indifferent. She said five words on the phone: "Come to the People's Hospital."
After saying that, she actually hung up the phone.
Huang Guifen sensed something unusual about the phone call based on her more than 50 years of life experience, so she rushed to the People's Hospital, but was stopped by the police as soon as she entered the hospital.
She clutched the basket tightly and followed the young policewoman in her early twenties as she walked quickly forward. She nodded repeatedly as she listened to the questions, "Yes, I'm her mother. What's wrong with her? I heard something wrong with her voice."
"We received a call from her an hour ago, saying she needed a windbreaker. We found her hiding in the reeds on the outskirts of the city. She didn't suffer any financial loss, and her wallet and cell phone were all there. She didn't say anything, so I asked her to notify a relative or friend to come over, and then I took her to the hospital for examination. Others are still collecting evidence at the scene."
Lin Feng introduced it vaguely, but Huang Guifen's focus was on: "Reed Field?" She asked nervously, "Why is she in the reed field?"
Lin Feng didn't say anything. She stopped at the door of the gynecological examination room. There were two plainclothes police officers standing there. The three of them greeted each other. Then the female police officer turned around and saw the woman who seemed to have vaguely realized something. She was silent for a moment, and finally spoke: "From the scene, your daughter may have been sexually assaulted."
Huang Guifen stood there in a daze. She looked at the policewoman in shock. Her shock was mixed with a hint of panic and helplessness.
The policewoman was still young. Maybe she was thinking of her mother. She looked away and spoke in a businesslike manner, "She hasn't said anything yet. She asked for a vaginal examination. We just confirmed that she has no other problems. We also extracted the skin from her fingernails. When she comes out, we'll take her for a blood test and a urine test. Please wait here. If it's confirmed that something like that really happened, please try to comfort her and get her to cooperate with us."
"Don't worry," Lin Feng promised solemnly, "We will do our best to catch the murderer and make him pay the price he deserves."
"No!"
Huang Guifen finally came back to her senses and said this one word in a decisive tone. Lin Feng was stunned for a moment. Huang Guifen hurriedly said, "Don't worry about this matter. I know my daughter well. Nothing has happened to her. Wait for me to go in and ask her..."
Everyone's face changed slightly, and several policemen realized that this was probably a difficult person. Lin Feng walked up to her and tried to comfort her: "Auntie, don't worry, we won't disclose the case to anyone who is not involved..."
"Case details, what case details?" Huang Guifen raised her hand and pointed at the policewoman. "Don't talk nonsense. My daughter has always been very well-behaved. She just had a quarrel with her husband yesterday. I know everything. I still have the phone records of my calls to her last night on my phone. If you slander her reputation again, I will tear your mouth off!"
Her tone was excited, but her voice was not loud.
But this little sound was enough for Ye Sibei in the ward to hear.
She lay on the bed with her legs spread.
She really wanted to escape, this position almost made her collapse. But she knew that this was necessary.
Only in this way can she leave evidence.
This was what her mind told her to do, and she didn't dare to think about anything more. From the time it happened, until she woke up, to now, she didn't dare to touch any boundaries beyond "reason".
However, the arrival of Huang Guifen seemed to suddenly grab her out of her empty self-world. Countless noisy voices flooded into her mind, allowing her to see everything in this world except "law".
But Huang Guifen is the only person she can rely on at this moment.
She couldn't tell her father, let alone her husband, about this.
Her mother and she hated each other, but also relied on each other.
"She just called the police to ask for a piece of clothing, and you guys are thinking such nonsense. You are also a woman, can't you put yourself in other people's shoes? How will my daughter live in the future if you do this?"
"It wasn't her fault that this happened? You will catch the murderer? Are you crazy?"
"What happened to her? You say it's not her fault? What's the point of catching the murderer? What's the point of upholding justice? Will people stop talking about her? I tell you, there is more than law in this world. You are still young, you don't know, you are harming her for life!"
Huang Guifen was like a hen trying her best to protect her chicks. She attacked Lin Feng with all her might and denied Lin Feng's guess.
Ye Sibei lay on the examination bed, looking at the ceiling indifferently.
The female doctor who examined her looked up at her, then lowered her head and said nothing.
Soon, the inspection was over and Ye Sibei stood up calmly.
She had changed into hospital gown and was wearing a windbreaker the police had brought her. Her hair was hanging on both sides, and she still had a lingering smell of alcohol around her.
The doctor looked up at her face, stood up and helped her, and opened the door for her. As soon as the door opened, Huang Guifen immediately turned around, saw Ye Sibei, grabbed her, and said excitedly: "Why are you embarrassing yourself here?! Come on, go home with me!"
"no."
Lin Feng stubbornly grabbed Ye Sibei and stared at Huang Guifen: "We have already filed a case, you can't take her away."
"I'm his mother!" Huang Guifen threw angrily, "She didn't break any law, why are you holding her captive?"
"You're her mother, shouldn't you be more considerate of her?!"
"Stop arguing."
The doctor looked at the two people who were in a stalemate and gently advised: "The patient is not in good condition. Please help her to the next ward to rest."
The doctor lowered his voice and said, "Let's discuss this by the way."
Hearing this, Lin Feng hesitated and let go of his hand. Huang Guifen quickly helped Ye Sibei into the next ward.
She asked Ye Sibei to sit down and kept asking about his condition: "Are you okay? Where does it hurt? Is it not a serious injury?"
Ye Sibei shook her head, and Lin Feng followed her in. Her two colleagues, both men, decided to stand at the door.
Lin Feng looked at Ye Sibei who was sitting numbly on the bed. Just as he was about to say something, he heard Ye Sibei suddenly say, "I want a glass of water, please."
Hearing Ye Sibei's words, Lin Feng guessed that Ye Sibei wanted to say something to Huang Guifen. She hesitated for a moment, and then heard Ye Sibei say, "Thank you."
Lin Feng understood what Ye Sibei meant, and the older colleague outside advised her: "Lin Feng, come out."
Lin Feng lowered her head, took a deep breath, turned around and left, closing the door of the ward.
Ye Sibei and Huang Guifen were the only two people left in the ward. Huang Guifen saw that everyone had left and immediately sat down next to her, anxiously holding her hand: "Sibei, are you okay?"
Ye Sibei shook his head, and Huang Guifen felt relieved. She thought for a moment and said with difficulty: "Did something really happen last night?"
Ye Sibei nodded, and Huang Guifen's eyes instantly turned red. She pursed her lips tightly, controlling her emotions. After a long time, she asked hoarsely, "Do you know who it is?"
"I was blindfolded," Ye Sibei said coldly, as if he was an outsider. "I didn't see it."
Huang Guifen breathed a sigh of relief, as if the worst situation had been ruled out.
Blindfolding proves that the other party does not want Ye Sibei to make a big fuss, so he probably won't tell anyone.
She turned around and chose her words carefully: "Sibei, just pretend this never happened. Tell the police that you had a quarrel with Qin Nan and we will go back immediately."
Ye Sibei didn't say anything. She slowly raised her head and swept her cold eyes across Huang Guifen's face from bottom to top, staring straight at her: "Where is the murderer?"
"Who cares about the murderer?"
Huang Guifen lowered her voice and said hurriedly: "The most important thing now is to keep this a secret and not let anyone know!"
Ye Sibei's heart trembled slightly. She couldn't tell what the feeling was, but she felt as if her heart was suddenly tightened by someone, and suffocation and pain came over her all at once.
"Why?" Ye Sibei asked.
Why should she hide when she is hurt
Huang Guifen hated her for being a fool, but she still analyzed the pros and cons for her: "If this gets out, what will you do in the future? Will Qin Nan still be with you? How will the people around you see you? Don't say that you don't even know who he is now. Even if you know, even if you win the lawsuit and send him to jail, what's the use? He'll be in jail for a few years, but you'll lose your whole life!"
Ye Sibei's eyes moved slightly, but he still looked straight at Huang Guifen without saying a word.
Huang Guifen was afraid that she was upset, so she deliberately slowed down her voice, as if to comfort herself: "Mom doesn't want to wrong you, she just wants to choose the best way for you. Those policemen only care about catching criminals, will they think about your future? Listen to mom, I'm doing this for your own good."
"Think about it, if it gets out of hand and everyone spreads that you were wearing that kind of clothes and drinking, and you reported rape, what would everyone say?"
This sentence made Ye Sibei's eyes red, and she explained hoarsely: "I was at a company dinner, I wasn't fooling around."
“Will others believe it?”
Huang Guifen looked at her: "I'm your mother, I know you, what about others?"
Huang Guifen didn't say anything more unpleasant, but Ye Sibei had already thought of it.
As a woman, in her long life, she will have to watch the endings of other "wrongdoers" countless times. When she is watching, they are just bystanders. But when something happens, the tragic future of those who watched immediately becomes her possible future.
Ye Sibei felt his vision blurred by tears.
She didn't know why, she couldn't see Huang Guifen clearly at all. She just saw a figure sitting next to her, talking non-stop.
The voices of Tao Jie and Chen Xiaoyang a few days ago are still ringing in my ears.
"I have always told my daughter that she cannot go out after 8pm. How can a girl who is still hanging out in the middle of the night be a good woman?"
"Girls need to be well educated. In fact, men also look at women and try to attract them. I'm not saying that the girl is wrong, but look at her at one o'clock in the night, wearing high heels, a hip skirt, and makeup, isn't this a sheep among wolves, deliberately seducing?"
Their words were just sparks, and in an instant, like a match lighting the fuse, they suddenly exploded a piece of the past.
Words of judgment and admonition from countless people in the past swarmed in on the girl, they quickly woven and gathered together, forming an airtight net that fell from the sky like the Five Finger Mountain breaking through the clouds.
She was wrapped in layer upon layer, and all her struggles seemed ridiculous.
Is she wrong
But she couldn't ask this question, because she already had an answer in her heart that she had been trying hard to bury, and at this moment Huang Guifen tried hard to dig it out.
She even began to realize why she called Huang Guifen over.
Whether it was her father or Qin Nan, they found it difficult to understand her true fear, except Huang Guifen.
She is her mother, and should be the woman in the world who loves her the most and understands her the best.
She was waiting for Huang Guifen's trial, waiting for Huang Guifen to say to her: "It's okay, we'll continue the lawsuit."
This way she would have the courage to do what she wanted to do.
But Huang Guifen didn't. She pulled her and drowned her tiny hope in the water: "I'm doing this for your own good, Sibei. Actually, you're already married. The most important thing about this kind of thing is not to spread it out. Just think of it as a dog bite, okay?"
Ye Sibei looked at her through blurry eyes.
She couldn't understand.
Her mother gave her so many instructions when she was young and cared so much about her relationship with men, emphasizing over and over again the sanctity and uniqueness of sex, as if all women who had relationships with two men had problems.
But at this moment, she told her lightly that as long as no one else knew about it, it would be just like being bitten by a dog and had nothing to do with it.
She was unable to reconcile these contradictions, nor could she forget the humiliation and pain of that moment.
But she didn't have the courage to face all that Huang Guifen said alone. She struggled and held her ground. While the mother and daughter were at each other's throat, a familiar voice suddenly came from outside: "Hey, Sister Lin, Brother Zhang, Brother Wang, are you here?"