Tan Xiuying's face became paler and paler until she lost all color. Her face and limbs began to tremble constantly, and saliva flowed from the corners of her mouth. After half an hour, she finally collapsed and stopped breathing.
The resentment in Hu Yiyi's heart did not lessen with her death. She went to the kitchen to get a knife and stabbed Tan Xiuying's body one by one.
When she was tired of poking, she sat on the ground beside the bed, still feeling uneasy and resentful looking at the corpse.
She took off Tan Xiuying's clothes, dragged her into the bathroom, and poured hydrochloric acid from toilet flushing onto her face and body.
I had long learned in chemistry class that acid is a very corrosive substance. Although the concentration of the hydrochloric acid in the bottle at home is low, it is enough to destroy Tan Xiuying's originally smooth skin.
She squatted on the ground, looking at the unrecognizable corpse, and her head gradually calmed down.
The killing was done purely out of resentment. Now that the person is dead, how to dispose of the body becomes a problem.
After all, she was still a minor girl. After the momentary impulse passed, fear slowly came over her.
At this time, the first thing Hu Yiyi thought of was her brother, who had been by her side since she was a child, held her hand when she went to school, and helped her drive away the bad boy who bullied her...
She dialed Hu Yifan's number, but she didn't know how to tell him.
After hemming and hawing for a long time, she just said that she missed him.
How could Hu Yifan, the sister he had grown up with since childhood, not sense her abnormal emotions?
But no matter how hard she pressed, she refused to say anything and hung up the phone directly.
Hu Yifan called again, and there was a notification sound that the phone had been turned off.
He didn't know what happened, and he was far away and couldn't rush back immediately. So he called his father and asked him to go home and see his sister.
Hu Tiankui rushed home overnight and was stunned by what he saw.
My daughter was nestled in the corner, and the door of the bathroom opposite her was wide open. There was a corpse lying on the ground. The corpse had no visible features.
Hu Yiyi couldn't remember what happened next.
She only remembered that her father took her back to the room and talked to her repeatedly. Later, she fell asleep, and when she woke up again, everything in the house was as usual.
There was a steaming breakfast on the dining table, the living room was clean, and even the bodies in the bathroom were gone.
Her father, who was not often at home on weekdays, greeted her with a smile to eat quickly and go to school.
She noticed that the door to the master bedroom was closed and wanted to push it open, but her father directly grabbed her wrist and pulled her to the dining table, reminding her to eat quickly so as not to be late.
Under her father's urging, she finished eating quickly.
Her father picked up her schoolbag, put it on her back with his own hands, and told her how to answer if someone asked.
He said he would handle the matter and let her study hard in the future and get into a good university like her brother.
After sending his daughter to the door, Hu Tiankui gave her a last hug and repeated what he just said.
In Hu Yiyi's eyes, his father has always been a man of his word. Since he said he would handle it well, then everything will be fine.
She nodded heavily, indicating that she had remembered it. She waved her hand to her father and said goodbye, naively thinking that if Tan Xiuying died, he would go home to be with her more often in the future.
The day went by just like any other day, but when she got home from school, she felt like her sky was falling.
In the bedroom, the body was covered with sheets, while the father was sitting on the floor, leaning his head on the edge of the bed.
Hu Yiyi called "Dad" repeatedly and rushed over to shake him in an attempt to wake him up. However, Hu Tiankui did not respond at all and fell to the ground instead.
The crying alarmed the neighbors. Someone called the police, someone called an ambulance, and a kind-hearted neighbor aunt helped Hu Yiyi to her home.
The police came and set up a cordon outside the door to isolate the crowd of onlookers. The ambulance came, and the doctor in emergency clothing only glanced at the two bodies and left quickly.
The chaos at the scene quickly subsided. The police found Hu Tiankui's suicide note on the bedside table. Forensic doctors examined the body, and technicians examined the body inside and out. Everything was going on in an orderly manner.
The aunt in police uniform asked Hu Yiyi how she discovered the body. Her attitude was gentle and her words were tactful.
Hu Yiyi's mind kept thinking about the scene when her father sent her out in the morning, and what he told her.
At this point, she still doesn't understand. Her father had already made up his mind to take the blame for her at that time.
She stared blankly at a point in the air that did not exist, and mechanically repeated what her father had said.
The police aunt thought she was frightened and kept comforting her. She even touched her head and told her not to be afraid.
An uncle who used to live in the same village came and said that his brother had entrusted him to take him back to the village.
elder brother……
When she thought that she only had such a relative left, her heart felt like a knife.
When Hu Yifan rushed back, she was sitting by the bed, looking out the window without focus.
A gentle call woke her up. Seeing a familiar person walking towards her, the tension she had been feeling finally relaxed.
She didn't remember how long she cried in her brother's arms. She only knew that his arms were safe. He wiped away her tears with his fingers and told her softly that it was over, that everything was over, and that it would get better in the future.
Hu Yifan took care of everything, while Hu Yiyi stayed in the village until his father's ashes were brought back and buried with his mother.
After the funeral arrangements were settled, Hu Yifan took her away to Liancheng. I don't know how he did it, but he actually applied for a loan for her in a pretty good high school.
The brother and sister had a tacit agreement not to mention Tan Xiuying's murder or her father's suicide. In the following years, even when they went back to visit their parents' graves every year, they never mentioned it.
This matter seems to have been sealed in the dust. Hu Yiyi's life is like other girls, going to school, graduating, working, falling in love, until getting married...
But unlike most people, her life trajectory changed after she got married.
The fact that she has no children has become a thorn in her side that cannot be removed.
At the beginning, the husband tried to reconcile it, but as time went by, the embarrassment of being caught between his own mother and daughter-in-law made him more and more breathless.
He was not a responsible man. He chose to escape and was transferred to work elsewhere. This caused cracks in the already unstable relationship between the couple.
Hu Yiyi was not unaware of this, but she still held on to a glimmer of hope, feeling that as long as she was pregnant with a child, everything could change.
She took care of her body, drank bowls of bitter medicines, and even tried many folk remedies she heard from hearsay.
But the child didn't wait, but the mistress came to the door with a full belly.