Reborn in the 80s: My Whole Family Secretly Hears My Thoughts and Goes Wild with Success! - Chapter 140

Yao Chuwu had managed to get some information. Yue Mingde informed Ye Zhiqiu, and the two of them rushed to Yao Village on Saturday morning.

“Old Yao helped find the man who made the medicine pot for Shen Daqiang. He’s an old man. He was sick and in the hospital a while back, and only returned home a few days ago.”

Yue Mingde cautioned Ye Zhiqiu: “Zhiqiu, try not to be too intense when you speak with him later.”

“Brother, I know.”

Yao Chuwu led the two of them to Yao Shugen’s home. The shelves under the shed in the yard were filled with medicine pots.

There was only one small, dilapidated house. The smell inside was particularly unpleasant.

Ahem, ahem, ahem.

Yao Shugen coughed a few times, looked up at Yao Chuwu and the other two, and waved them in. “Come in.”

“Uncle Gen, these are colleagues from my unit. They’re here to ask you about something.” Yao Chuwu sat down beside Yao Shugen, took the rolling paper and tobacco leaves from his hands, rolled a cigarette for him, lit it, and handed it to Yao Shugen.

Yao Shugen took a deep drag, followed by another bout of coughing.

“Ask whatever you want to ask.”

“Uncle Gen, did this man ever come to you to make a medicine pot?” Ye Zhiqiu took out a photo of Shen Daqiang and showed it to Yao Shugen.

Yao Shugen nodded. “He came.”

“Did he make any specific requests at the time? Like adding something else into the medicine pot?”

Yao Shugen sighed. “Yes.”

Without waiting for Ye Zhiqiu to ask further, he said directly: “It was arsenic ore.”

Yao Chuwu’s eyes widened. “Uncle Gen, how could you agree to that? That stuff can kill people!”

“Your aunt’s treatment needed money. I had no choice.”

Yao Shugen hung his head, smoking one puff after another. “In the end, we still couldn’t save your aunt. Now I’ve gotten my retribution.”

“Uncle Gen, after my mother started using the medicine pot you made, she passed away in less than a year. I was only seven years old at the time.”

“Now that I’ve found the real culprit, are you willing to help me testify against him? To make him face legal sanction and bring justice for my mother?”

Ye Zhiqiu forced herself to stay calm, but her trembling voice betrayed her.

“I’ve been expecting this day. The reason I, an old man, am still alive is because I was waiting for you to find me.”

Yao Shugen slowly moved to get off the bed. “Let’s go. I’ll go with you to the police station.”

He had been dreaming about his wife a lot recently. In the dreams, she kept urging him to turn himself in, saying that if he didn’t, they wouldn’t be able to meet after he died.

The existing evidence was sufficient to prove Shen Daqiang’s suspicion of murdering Ye Yunshuang. After interrogation, Shen Daqiang also admitted to the crime and revealed that Wang Fengqin was an accomplice.

It was Wang Fengqin who had found that piece of arsenic ore.

Using the medicine pot to kill Ye Yunshuang, and having her cremated after her death—all of that was also Wang Fengqin’s idea.

Even if Shen Daqiang knew nothing about the law, he understood how serious the charge of murder was.

When he came out of the interrogation room, he seemed to have aged twenty years in an instant. He became dazed and slow-witted.

It wasn’t until he saw Ye Zhiqiu that a bit of light returned to his eyes.

“Zhiqiu, save me! Dad knows he was wrong!”

“Dad treated you badly before, I admit it. Please, I’m begging you, let me off, okay?”

“Zhiqiu, I’m your father! I gave you your life! You can’t do this to me! You’ll be punished for this!”

Shen Daqiang was panicking, his words spilling out recklessly. “Zhiqiu, if you just let me go, I’ll leave everything in the house to you after I die! Shen Xiang isn’t my biological son, he gets nothing! Liya won’t get a single cent either! I’ll give it all to you, all of it!”

“Save your apologies for when you see my mother. See if she’ll forgive you.”

Ye Zhiqiu glared at Shen Daqiang. “Do you have any idea how much my mother suffered all those years?”

“How could you… how could you do something so cruel to her, just for a house?!”

“I… I… I was led astray by that bitch Wang Fengqin! I didn’t want to harm your mother! But your mother, for all her pretty looks, she had no charm, and she was always nagging me about this, looking down on me for that.”

“What man could stand a woman like that? It’s not my fault, it really isn’t!”

Ye Zhiqiu stood up, not wanting to hear any more of Shen Daqiang’s nonsense.

“Zhiqiu, don’t go!”

Shen Daqiang made a move to grab Ye Zhiqiu’s hand. “If you’re not satisfied with my offer, then you name it! Whatever you want, I’ll agree to it!”

“I can divorce Wang Fengqin! From now on, your mother will be my only wife, how about that?”

“And you! I can have your name added to our Shen family register!”

“Shen Daqiang, have you forgotten that I’ve already changed my surname to Ye?”

Ye Zhiqiu looked coldly at Shen Daqiang. “After the trial, I will sever the father-daughter relationship with you.”

“If you had truly repented and sincerely apologized to my mother, I might have still arranged a proper funeral for you after your death, bought you a burial plot, and visited your grave during the holidays!”

“But it seems that’s unnecessary now. You don’t deserve it!”

“Shen Daqiang, I guarantee no one will collect your body! You’ll be thrown into a mass grave! You can just lie there and wait to be eaten by stray dogs and cats, to rot and stink!”

“No! You can’t!”

Shen Daqiang couldn’t help but picture the scene Ye Zhiqiu described. His face instantly turned deathly pale, and he fainted on the spot, scared out of his wits.

When he woke up again, he had gone mad. One moment he would yell that Ye Yunshuang had come to demand his life; the next, he’d say the underworld guards were coming to take him away.

The people sharing his cell were driven crazy by his noise. Every time he had an episode, they would beat him up. Eventually, he didn’t dare rant anymore.

When Wang Fengqin learned that the matter of the medicine pot had also been uncovered, she collapsed to the ground, utterly despair.

“Ye Yunshuang, Ye Yunshuang! Why won’t you let me go, even after death?”

“I should have been more ruthless back then. I should have gotten rid of the little scourge you left behind too.”

“It’s because I was too soft-hearted that I’ve ended up in this situation!”

Wang Fengqin beat her chest hard, her eyes filled with venom. She turned and grabbed Shen Liya’s hands. “Liya, your mother isn’t getting out of here. I might not even live. I’m going to take the blame for everything, so you can get out.”

Shen Liya’s eyes immediately lit up. “Mom, really?”

“But you have to promise me one thing.” Wang Fengqin gripped Shen Liya’s shoulders tightly, staring into her eyes.

Shen Liya was terrified by her mother’s appearance. She quickly nodded repeatedly. “Mom, I promise, I promise you.”

“Go kill that little bitch. As long as you kill her, your mother can be saved! We’ll have endless wealth and luxury in the future!”

Shen Liya shook her head. “Mom, I… I don’t dare. If I kill Ya Ya, the Yue family will never let me go.”

“I don’t want to come back here! I don’t want to eat cornbread and pickles! I don’t want to work all day long! I don’t want to…!”

Slap!

Wang Fengqin viciously slapped Shen Liya across the face, then immediately wrapped her hands around her daughter’s neck. “If you don’t agree, I’ll strangle you right here and now! You can keep me company in death!”