"Both are Xiao Zhang's biological children." An experienced person quickly raised a question, "But they are only half a year apart? Didn't Xiao Feng say he is six years old?"
"Six years old? That's what six years old looks like?"
"Yes, this child said he was three years old and some people believed him."
"If he's half a year older than Xuanxuan, he's four and a half years old."
"That's because they made it up out of fear of being embarrassed. The child was just sent here from the countryside. It's not up to them to say how old he is."
Xia Mian praised the policewoman's wit and immediately said, "She is my brother-in-law's biological child. Huang Xiaojuan took advantage of my sister's pregnancy and had an affair with Zhang Qiming."
"My sister had just given birth to Xiao Feng, and she couldn't wait to send her a photo of her big belly, saying that Zhang Qiming loved her. My sister was in confinement after giving birth, so she couldn't stand it. She immediately went to look for them, but she died in a car accident on the way."
She pointed at the house and said, "Otherwise, how could my brother-in-law, an ordinary worker, afford the house in Building 18? He took my sister's compensation, which I heard was about 40,000 or 50,000 yuan."
When Huang Xiaojuan heard the word "compensation", her face changed drastically.
The people watching the excitement behind him were even more shocked. In this era when the average savings of an ordinary family is three to four thousand, forty or fifty thousand is definitely a huge sum of money.
"Is it true? Isn't it said that Xiao Huang's family is well-off?" someone wondered.
Unexpectedly, Huang Xiaojuan also created a persona for herself that she came from a good family.
Xia Mian sneered, "Can a well-educated family let their daughter be a mistress?"
"You want to take the job my sister left for her child even if you have the conditions?" Xia Mian continued, "You killed my sister, took all the benefits from her, and you still want to abuse her child. How dark is your heart?"
Everyone was in an uproar.
"What?"
"what happened?"
Xia Mian explained, "My sister is from Ming Normal University. After graduation, she was assigned to be a teacher at Huagang No. 1 Middle School. Zhang Qiming was also able to work as a worker at Huagang because he was married to my sister and had family status."
Xia Mian looked at Huang Xiaojuan and said contemptuously, "Huang Xiaojuan is now working as a librarian at Huagang Junior High School. My sister died unexpectedly, and the school gave her this position out of humanitarianism and pity for Zhang Qiming and the child."
"I guess the school didn't expect that the position originally reserved for Xiaofeng would end up falling to the culprit who killed my sister!" Xia Mian said sternly, "Tell me if I'm right, Huang Xiaojuan!"
Huang Xiaojuan was still wondering how Xia Mian knew about the compensation, but Xia Mian told her the whole story again. She said angrily, "You are talking nonsense, you are talking nonsense!"
Ordinary people had never eaten such a melon before, and they immediately started to discuss it, which was comparable to the barrage of comments in later generations:
"Tsk tsk, if this is true, it's really..."
"If we can make up the child's age, what else can't we make up? Xiao Zhang really only came to the factory five years ago. Who knows who he was before?"
"That's true. Mr. Huang said that her parents and brothers are very powerful in the city. In the past four or five years, except for her sister who is a nurse, I haven't seen much of the others."
"Xiao Huang is really the mistress."
"She is no longer a mistress. She has already successfully killed the original wife and taken her place."
"Then isn't she a murderer?"
"He is more than a murderer. He used the compensation money to live in a big house, took the job of the other person, and abused the other person's children..."
"Tsk tsk, you can only know a person's face but not his heart. This person is worse than a beast!"
"Who would have thought, he looks so kind... Tsk tsk..."
"It's just that poor child... What a sin..."
The director's wife, who had been following Huang Xiaojuan closely, immediately took two steps to the side, frowned at her and said, "Xiaojuan, is what she said true?"
Huang Xiaojuan was furious, "Of course not, she's just talking nonsense! Sister Wang, don't listen to her nonsense, she just wants to stand up for her sister, and she can't bear to see our Lao Zhang and I live a peaceful life!"
At this point, he remembered something and his eyes lit up. "How old was she five years ago! How could a ten-year-old girl know so much? She just doesn't like my nonsense!"
Looking at the doubtful looks from everyone, Xia Mian was not afraid. Although she could not tell the source of the information, the facts were there:
"You said I made it up, so let me ask you: Isn't Xuanxuan my brother-in-law's child? Didn't you send a photo of your big belly to my sister when she just gave birth? My sister gave the photo to my mother, and I kept it. How about I show it to everyone?"
"Or did you not use my sister's compensation to buy a house? My brother-in-law and your family are both very poor, where did you get the money? Don't tell me that your family is well off. Your family is just in the suburbs. You can find out by asking around."
"And wasn't your current position as the librarian at Huagang Junior High School found for you by Zhang Qiming? You can find out by asking the principal why he arranged such a good position for Zhang Qiming, a worker's wife."
The job of a junior high school librarian is easy and the money is good, it's a welfare position and most people can't get it.
"Yes, speaking of connections, Mr. Li's connections are much stronger. His daughter-in-law is still a college student, and she hasn't got a good job."
"Before, they said it was arranged by their family, haha..."
"This matter is indeed easy to handle. Our old Li is familiar with Principal Chen. Just ask him and you will know."
Huang Xiaojuan became more and more flustered as she listened. She was at a loss for words and could only insist that Xia Mian was lying:
"You're talking nonsense. I borrowed the money from my family to buy the house. I got the job at the school because my dad doesn't have the resources here, so I switched with Xiao Feng for the convenience. We agreed that when Xiao Feng grows up, my dad will find him a job at a power plant."
Xia Mian knew that she was good at speaking, and such groundless remarks would not produce any result even after arguing for several days.
But there was one thing she couldn't avoid, "So, how old is Xuanxuan? Is he Zhang Qiming's biological son?"
Seeing Huang Xiaojuan's eyes fall on Xiao Feng, Xia Mian reminded, "Don't try to confuse Xiao Feng's age. Our family has Xiao Feng's hospital birth record."
Huang Xiaoxia took a deep breath and said angrily, "I didn't want to say it, but you forced me to."
"Xiao Feng is not your brother-in-law's child. It's your sister who cheated on your brother-in-law!"
Holy shit! After confusing right and wrong, you want to confuse black and white again
If she hadn't been holding the child in her arms, Xia Mian would have slapped her. "Huang Xiaojuan, you are such a heartless person. You enjoyed stepping on my sister's corpse and you still want to slander him?! We will know if Xiaofeng is Zhang Qiming's child after a test!"
Huang Xiaojuan blurted out, "Blood test is unscientific and not accurate at all!"
"So you are sure of this, so you dare to throw dirty water on my sister," Xia Mian sneered, "Nowadays, the blood test is not used to determine the relationship between father and son."
An old lady with gray hair nearby explained, "Now it's a DNA test. As long as there's hair from the child and the father, it's 100% accurate. That's what our Xiaobai said."
Someone immediately agreed, "Your Xiaobai has just returned from abroad, so what he said must be correct."
Seeing that Huang Xiaojuan wanted to say something else, Xia Mian said coldly, "You'd better think about it before you speak. If you dare to make up rumors about my sister, I will sue you for defamation."
The policewoman corrected her, "It's defamation."
Xia Mian instantly became more aggressive, "Did you hear that? I'm going to sue you for defamation, and you can expect to spend the rest of your life in jail!"
With the police's support and hearing that she would go to jail, Huang Xiaojuan didn't dare to say anything else. Her eyes rolled around anxiously in her sockets.
What else don't people understand? No matter how much she says, she can't get away with the child abuse. As for the rest, it's just the first step in destroying the Zhang family's reputation. Xia Mian is not in a hurry.
She led the police and onlookers to the bathroom and pointed to the colorless clothes in the aluminum basin, saying, "These are all the clothes our children have, and they have always washed them themselves."
Huang Xiaojuan caught up and said, "How could they have no clothes? The two brothers are about the same age, and they both wear clothes together."
Xia Mian glanced at her and said, "You don't feel any pain? Your legs and feet are very nimble."
Huang Xiaojuan immediately revealed a pitiful look of strong endurance.
Unfortunately, there is a saying that justice lies in the hearts of the people.
The old lady next door who was cursing Xia Mian just now came in at some point and stood at the bathroom door and said, "This child has been here for more than half a year. Except for when he was first brought here by his grandmother, he looked like a clean child. Since then, I have never seen him wear any good clothes. Anyway, since summer came, he has been wearing these few pieces in the basin."
"I remember I mentioned that the child's clothes needed to be washed, but Xiao Huang said that the child was too noisy and dirty, and that all the good clothes were worn out by him, so he just wore Xiao Zhang's clothes for now."
Huang Xiaojuan didn't expect the old lady to interrupt, and said anxiously, "Aunt Liu, you have only met this child a few times..."
Old Lady Liu retorted to her rudely, "Yes, you locked me up at home and beat me all day long. How often can I see you? I actually believed that you were a good person. If I had known that you were so vicious, would I have let you live in this building?!"
Huang Xiaojuan's face suddenly changed.
You have to know that all the people living in this building are leaders. The reason why Zhang Qiming was able to get a salary increase in the past two years is because he has good relationships with the people here.
Recently, she has been trying to please the director's wife in various ways in preparation for being named an outstanding advanced worker at the end of the year. If Zhang Qiming is named an advanced worker again this year, he will be promoted again next year.
Huang Xiaojuan racked her brains to think of a reason to pass the buck, but Xia Mian had already opened the door to the north room and said to Huang Xiaojuan sarcastically, "So the reason you let the child sleep here is because he's too dirty and sloppy?"
The people behind him who had followed in to watch the fun because of Old Lady Liu's lead fell silent instantly.
The dark windowless room was about five or six square meters in size and was filled with miscellaneous items. There was only a dirty mattress thrown on the open space at the door. The cotton had already clumped into pieces, and only the black ball in the middle proved that the child had been sleeping here for quite some time.
"How do you explain this?"
Old Lady Liu pounded her cane hard and sighed angrily, "What a sin..."
In the novel, the villain Zhang Yuxuan suddenly rose to prominence when he was 18 years old and became known as a talented painter. As his reputation grew, the prices of his paintings became higher and higher, and he moved away. In other words, the child was probably locked up in this dark little house for more than a decade...
Thinking of this, Xia Mian couldn't help but burst into tears, "This murderer has such a cruel heart. If he didn't like the child, he could just send him away. Why did he torture him like this..."
Seeing Xia Mian crying, Xiao Feng was a little scared. He suppressed his fear, carefully touched Xia Mian's eyes and said, "Auntie, don't cry." His voice was like a child's tender cry.
He was too young and didn't even understand what kind of vicious harm he had suffered. In his clear eyes, there was only worry about Xia Mian.
Xia Mian felt extremely uncomfortable. She tried hard to hold back her tears, pressed the child's head on her shoulder, and choked up, "It's okay, auntie is okay, Xiaofeng, don't be afraid. Auntie will definitely protect you." After she finished speaking, she still couldn't hold back her tears.
Many people's eyes turned red.
"Beast!" Someone in the crowd cursed.
Huang Xiaojuan looked embarrassed and said aggrievedly, "It's not what you think! Xiaofeng doesn't sleep here at all! She is the one who is slandering me!" She also put her learning into practice, "I'm going to sue her for defamation!"
"Whether it's defamation or not, let's go to the police station and talk about it." The middle-aged policeman said, "Liu Hong, have you taken all the photos?"
The policewoman named Liu Hong put away her camera and said, "It's all."
"Why are we going to the police station? I, I didn't commit any crime!" Huang Xiaojuan panicked and tried to shirk responsibility. "I didn't abuse the child. It was Qiming who said the child wasn't his and he didn't want to see the child, so he occasionally let him stay in there. He was so dirty and sloppy that he could make the bedding dirty in just three days."
Xia Mian sneered. She had never openly linked herself to Zhang Qiming because in the novel he was an extremely terrible hypocrite. He looked honest and enthusiastic, but he was extremely cautious and thoughtful in his actions. In addition, he was eloquent, so no one believed that he was a bad person.
I didn't expect that Huang Xiaojuan would bite the person out first, which is just right.
"So, he allowed you to abuse the child?" Xia Mian suddenly realized, "Yes, if he didn't agree, how could you abuse the child like this under his nose?"
"So what you mean is that Zhang Qiming suspected my sister of cheating on him, and he was right to cheat on her, and you were also right to be a mistress?"
Xia Mian pointed at the torn mattress and said angrily, "The child should suffer all this just because of your groundless suspicion? If it is finally found out that the child is Zhang Qiming's, will you two kowtow to my sister and apologize?"
"That's right," someone cursed, "No matter what Xia Chun is like, it's true that Zhang Qiming and Huang Xiaojuan are having an affair."
"It's not..." Huang Xiaojuan shed tears, "We..."
"You are committing murder!" Xia Mian suddenly shouted.
"Police comrade, I want to sue them for murder! Zhang Qiming suspected my sister of cheating on him, so he conspired with Huang Xiaojuan to murder my sister. Otherwise, how could my sister be called out by them right after giving birth, and then have a car accident?! They abused the child because they felt guilty, so they wanted to get rid of the root of the problem!"
Huang Xiaojuan was stunned. She just wanted to shift the blame to someone else, but the other party framed her with a more terrible crime. Listening to the buzzing discussion, Huang Xiaojuan couldn't help but scream, "You're talking nonsense! What evidence do you have?!"
Xia Mian said coldly, "Then what evidence do you have to prove that my sister cheated? They say that an adulterer must have a partner, right? Or was it Zhang Qiming who told you this himself? Who knows if he was just looking for an excuse to cheat so that he could feel at ease? Anyway, Xuanxuan is the ironclad evidence of his cheating!"