"I heard from Lin Zhuo today that the village building in our hometown was demolished and the government allocated a three-bedroom unit building. He went to help your uncle renovate it a while ago and saw that your uncle had reserved a bedroom specially for the convenience of our mother and daughter.
Go back to your hometown and have a place to stay."
When she said this, Lin Qinglian's tone was sad and her eyes were sad, as if she was remembering something?
Su Li expressed confusion: "This is a good thing! Mom, why are you still sad?"
Lin Qinglian let out a long sigh: "Oh, there are some things you don't know. Your uncle and I..."
He stopped talking and frowned.
"Is there any estrangement?" Su Li answered.
I thought to myself: It’s common for siblings to have conflicts after they get married! Didn’t my mother and Li Jiafeng have been stumbling together for decades?
"Speaking of it, it happened many years ago. I didn't handle it well. I can't forgive him..." Lin Qinglian frowned and leaned on the bedside, telling her daughter about the worries she had accumulated over the years.
*
It turned out that she was also an intellectual, having graduated from a serious art college, which was considered a high degree of education in those days. After being assigned to the county cotton spinning factory, she fell in love at first sight with Shu Aimin, a technical backbone.
When the two got married, Mrs. Shu was very proud and would brag about her son marrying a factory belle and an intellectual. However, Lin Qinglian was too cowardly and good-looking, so she was inevitably harassed by the uneasy and well-intentioned leaders in the factory.
…
She did not dare to tell her husband for fear that their work would be affected. Therefore, the only person who could stand up for her was her younger brother Lin Baozhu.
Back then, when Lin Baozhu was young and full of blood, his sister said he didn't dare to make things worse, so he beat the old pervert behind his back. He just wanted to give him a warning, but unexpectedly he had a cerebral hemorrhage and was beaten into a fool...
For this reason, Lin Baozhu spent several years in jail, and his future and studies were ruined.
After her brother-in-law Shu Aimin found out, he spent all his savings and connections to get his brother-in-law to commute his sentence. From then on, Mrs. Shu began to dislike Lin Qinglian and made things difficult for her in every possible way. Coupled with the jealousy of the eldest son and the third son,
Mrs. Shu began to suspect that Shu Li was not the father of her son...
This incident made Shu Aimin very anxious. Although he had no doubt about his daughter's blood relationship, his family often used this as an excuse to squeeze the couple. Over time, no one could stand it.
So, he quit his iron job in the cotton spinning factory in anger and took his wife south to Shenzhen to pursue a career. As a result, he suddenly became famous and was spotted by a clothing boss in Hong Kong. Both of them were successful.
Lin Qinglian worked in the design department and started as an apprentice, so she often traveled between Hong Kong and Shenzhen; Shu Aimin was the technical backbone, so he stayed at the processing plant in Shenzhen and was fully responsible.
This was a beautiful incident that everyone was happy about, but after word spread back to her hometown, it was said that Lin Qinglian instigated her husband to sneak into Hong Kong and engage in flesh and blood business.
Others only listened to the rumors, but Lin Baozhu couldn't stand this cowardice. So, he went directly to the factory where his brother-in-law worked in Shenzhen and came to seek refuge.
Shu Aimin readily agreed, but Lin Qinglian immediately refused. The reason was: they were the only two siblings in the Lin family, and Lin Baozhu had not asked for a wife. If he left, who would take care of his elderly parents?
But the young and energetic Lin Baozhu couldn't understand and thought his sister was selfish. The two siblings had a big fight that day, and Lin Baozhu came back in anger.
Two years later, Lin Baozhu got married and found a gentle and virtuous daughter-in-law. So, his brother-in-law Shu Aimin wrote a letter asking him to come to Shenzhen to develop together...
But this time, Lin Baozhu refused, saying that he was a "mason" in his cooking skills, and he was very successful in the town, so he didn't have to worry about lack of work.
When he said this, Lin Qinglian and his wife couldn't stand it. So the incident at the beginning planted a knot in the hearts of the siblings. Fortunately, after so many years, Lin Baozhu, who has entered middle age, has already thought about it.
But later, Shu Aimin's unexpected death rekindled the knot between each other...
"Why did such a good brother-in-law die? How did he die?!"
That day, when Lin Qinglian returned home with her husband's ashes, Lin Baozhu couldn't accept the bad news than the Shu family. But her sister just kept crying and said nothing. Even if the Shu family asked, she only said two words: car accident.
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Since the compensation has been received, Lin Qinglian has nothing to hide, and the Shu family no longer pursues the truth. Lin Baozhu is still confused, always feeling that her sister still has reservations about the truth about her brother-in-law's death.
*
The above is the grievances and grievances of the Lin family siblings.
After listening to this, Su Li had mixed feelings and admired Lin Baozhu as his "uncle". At the same time, like Lin Baozhu, he also suspected that Lin Qinglian had concealed her husband's death, so she asked cautiously:
"Then your husband's car accident was really..."
"How could I hide it?" Lin Qinglian interrupted with a frown, her expression anxious, "It was just an ordinary car accident, but..."
He pursed his lips and lowered his eyes, wanting to speak but stopping.
"But what?" Su Li answered softly.
Lin Qinglian lowered her head and whispered: "The person who caused the accident while drunk that day was the mistress of the Hong Kong boss."
Su Li suddenly realized, but at the same time he was confused: How could it be such a coincidence? Xiaomi, who was kept by his boss in Shenzhen, killed the person in charge of the Shenzhen factory? Is there some business conspiracy? Or an emotional dispute?
Shu Aimin got hold of evidence of his boss’s economic crimes and was murdered to silence him?
Xiaomi fell in love with Shu Aimin because of her loneliness? Will she destroy her if she doesn’t get it?
Or maybe Shu Aimin betrayed Lin Qinglian and got involved with the boss's Xiaomi. Then the boss "paid the murderer", but put the blame on Xiaomi?
Or maybe the boss fell in love with Lin Qinglian and ordered Xiaomi to kill Shu Aimin?
For a moment, Su Li's imagination was widened, and he suddenly felt that the inside story here was enough to make an emotional movie about business war!
Lin Qinglian didn't seem to suspect that there was something fishy here. She looked at Su Li sincerely and her tone was pure helplessness:
"Boss Renjiang has been kind to me and your father. He begged me to settle out of court. What can I do?"
No matter how difficult it was for Su Li to answer, he thought about it carefully and decided that "emotional dispute" was not feasible. The most likely possibility was that he had obtained evidence of economic crimes and was murdered to silence him!
Lin Qinglian may not know about this...
Su Li secretly planned to find an opportunity to reverse Shu Aimin's case in the future. Not for the "father-daughter relationship" in this life, but for justice!
Well, saying "justice" is a bit hypocritical and exaggerated, because it is because of the detective complex in my heart. Su Li has not been interested in romance since he was a child. He prefers Jin Yong's martial arts in movies and TV shows, and only Keigo Higashino in novels.
Later, I became obsessed with "Celebrity Detective" and even submitted a script to the program team. Now that I have personally encountered a complicated and confusing case, how can I let it go?
The next day, Su Li got up very early and ran out without even eating breakfast.
The people of Hecheng are very hard-working. It’s only seven o’clock in the morning, and morning markets can be seen everywhere along the streets. Vegetable farmers set up fresh vegetables on the roadside, mixed with breakfast stalls, butcher stalls, and small commodity stalls.
There was no urban management in those days, so the vendors stood in separate areas without disturbing each other, and they could chat with each other about household matters, exuding the human touch that was so lacking twenty years later!
Riding Shuli's 24 bicycle, I had a joyful trip to Suli, like a spring breeze!
After arriving at the destination "Jianzi Street", I saw a completely different scene...