CHAPTER 572: CHAPTER 565: SPARE THE CHILD, REMOVE THE MOTHER

Tian Xinhua arrived, parked his car, got out, and nodded to Sisi, indicating that everything was arranged.

At this moment, several traffic police came over and asked if they had negotiated well. If so, they should quickly take the body to the crematorium to be burned. If not, they would need to freeze the body due to the hot weather, fearing it would decay further.

Tian Xinhua spoke before Tian Mantong could, "Please wait a little longer, Captain Guan from the Police Station’s criminal investigation team is on his way."

The lead traffic policeman’s expression changed. Captain Guan is coming? Could this case not be a traffic accident?

Zhong Yuying was deeply shocked inside, quickly bowed her head to compose herself before raising it again, still maintaining a weak and sad demeanor, but her mind was racing about what to say to avoid suspicion when the police arrived.

Indeed!

The deaths of Huang Debiao and Yuanyuan were not just an ordinary traffic accident; someone had tampered with the bicycle Huang Debiao rode.

The Police Station arrived rather quickly this time, unlike their usual tardiness, probably due to the mayor’s intervention.

Captain Guan was a middle-aged man in his forties with ordinary looks, of average height, and his most distinctive feature was his small eyes, which could penetrate a person’s heart like X-rays.

He brought two subordinates with him, both looking sharp and capable. Tian Xinhua first went up to shake hands with them, expressed his suspicions, and Captain Guan, an experienced case officer, immediately took over the case from the traffic police upon seeing the frayed brake cable, his lips curving into a smile.

Bystanders watching this major turn of events were dumbfounded; they hadn’t expected that the father and daughter were actually murdered!

Who could be so heartless to harm such a young child, not fearing to descend into the eighteen layers of hell after death!

Tian Mantong was also stunned, truly not expecting such an outcome, especially since he was prepared to resolve it with money.

"Xinhua, now that the police have taken over, do I still need to provide compensation?" Tian Mantong was anxious and uneasy.

"Uncle, don’t worry, let Captain Guan solve the case first, I too am eager to know who the real murderer is," Tian Xinhua sneered, secretly harboring an appalling suspicion, but he found it difficult to voice it.

With the mayor’s backing, the police were indeed very efficient. After Captain Guan questioned all the Zhong Family members and the neighbors, two days later, he took Zhong Yuying away, and she never returned.

The murderer was Zhong Yuying!

Captain Guan found Tian Xinhua and revealed the truth.

It turned out that Captain Guan had immediately realized the bicycle had been tampered with. At the Zhong Family, he found a small file which he sent for analysis. The file contained fragments of the brake cable, and the clearest fingerprints on the file were Zhong Yuying’s.

Captain Guan was also hesitant to believe Zhong Yuying was the murderer; it’s said a tiger does not eat its cubs, and while it might be possible for a woman to kill her husband, the idea of a mother killing her own child was unheard of, even in his many years of handling cases.

However, after enquiring the Zhong sisters and their neighbors, as well as neighbors from the Shanghai Tenement, Captain Guan learned that Zhong Yuying had a terrible relationship with her husband and daughter and barely stayed at home throughout the year. Whenever she returned, she would argue with Huang Debiao or abuse her daughter, and the people of the tenement were thoroughly annoyed with her.

Moreover, according to their investigation, the child in Zhong Yuying’s belly was not Huang Debiao’s but her lover’s, a man of impressive family background. This man had many women, yet none could bear his child. Therefore, he promised his lovers that whoever bore his first son would become his official wife.

It seems that Zhong Yuying took this perilous path for that very reason!

Zhong Yuying had a strong psychological fortitude. No matter how Captain Guan’s subordinates questioned her, she firmly denied everything, insisting she didn’t know what happened. Finally, it was Captain Guan himself who managed to break her, making her confess to the details of her crime.

On the night she finished the funeral, Zhong Yuying seduced and intoxicated her husband. After Huang Debiao was heavily drunk, she stripped her daughter naked and left her outside to catch the cold wind all night long. It was early autumn; although the days were still hot, the nights were cool, especially for a four-year-old child. After spending a night in the cold, the child developed a high fever the next day.

The next step, she used a file to nearly sever the bicycle’s brake cable, leaving it hanging by a thread. Early next morning, when Huang Debiao found out his daughter had a fever, she deliberately didn’t mention that there was a clinic in the village but said the nearest one was in the town.

Huang Debiao, not being a local, believed her and took his daughter on the bike to the town. The nearly broken brake cable snapped on a downhill, leading to the tragic death of Huang Debiao and his daughter!

It turns out Zhong Yuying’s plan was indeed very successful. If she hadn’t been too greedy, this case would never have been discovered, and everyone would have thought it was a mere traffic accident.

Tian Xinhua relayed this to the Zhong family, and everyone was profoundly shocked, hardly believing that such a monstrous person could come from Zhongjia Bay!

The Tian family were also frightened by Zhong Yuying’s viciousness. Thankfully, Xinhua and Ah Nan uncovered the truth. Otherwise, treated as a regular traffic accident, Zhong Yuying would have gotten the money and remained free, possibly harming countless more in the future!

Although Huang Debiao and his daughter’s deaths weren’t directly Tian Mantong’s responsibility, he still offered to pay for their funerals, arguing that they died under his vehicle’s wheels after all.

Huang Debiao had no other family, so Tian Mantong ended up buying a burial plot, burying the pitiful father and daughter together, hoping that they could still be father and daughter even in the netherworld.

Mantong’s generosity was praised by everyone in Yuequan Village, even the Zhong Family people couldn’t help but admire him, acknowledging that the Tian Family were truly a grand household with dignified actions.

Although everyone thought that such a vile and heartless woman like Zhong Yuying deserved a death penalty like Lingchi, the nation’s laws are quite humane, showing great leniency towards pregnant women. Because of the child she was carrying, Zhong Yuying was spared death and sentenced to life imprisonment, a decision that was facilitated by Tian Xinhua and the mayor.

Life imprisonment!

Sisi wasn’t very satisfied, for life imprisonment seemed more like a term with a limit. In a previous life, many inmates sentenced to life were released after just a decade or so. If a naturally wicked person like Zhong Yuying was reformed in prison and released, wouldn’t she be even more venomous?

"Brother Xinhua, can we have someone keep a closer eye on Zhong Yuying in prison, and, preferably, ensure she never gets out, or even better, dies there?" Sisi suggested.

Tian Xinhua smiled, "Don’t worry, Ah Nan. Zhong Yuying won’t have the chance to get out."

Since Zhong Yuying chose her own destructive path, how could he allow her another chance out?

If her lover wasn’t also from his faction, he might have already had someone kill Zhong Yuying. But now, it was just about letting her live until the day of childbirth.

This arrangement was the result reached in consultation with that lover— "spare the child, remove the mother."