Reborn in the 1990s, I want my husband to live to be a hundred.

Chapter 206 Leniency for those who confess, severity for those who resist

Zhang Liuying took a bus, then rented a motorcycle, and then walked through a thicket of trees before finally arriving at her destination: a dilapidated mud-brick house in a remote village in Yinghua Town.

This is her home; she lived here for a period of time when she married Liu Jun.

She knew Liu Jun was poor before they got married, but she didn't mind.

She wasn't from Shenzhen; she came from Sichuan Province. Her parents wanted to marry her off to a bad-tempered butcher because of the high bride price.

She heard that the butcher had been married twice. His wife ran away the first time, and again the second time. Both times they ran away secretly because the butcher would beat his wife when he was drunk, and since he drank every day, he beat her every day.

Some people say that the butcher's wife didn't run away; he beat her to death...

Regardless of whether the butcher's wife was beaten to death or ran away, she was unwilling to risk her life. So she secretly ran away from home and worked as a dishwasher in a restaurant in the county town. She cleverly made some friends and heard that money was easy to earn in Shenzhen.

Then she came to Shenzhen, found a job in a factory, and then met Liu Jun. Under Liu Jun's pursuit, they fell in love and got married.

At first, Liu Jun's true nature hadn't been revealed. They lived what she considered a happy life for a while, working together and earning money to make ends meet. She planned that once they had saved enough money, they would tear down their mud-brick house and build a five-room brick house with blue bricks on the bottom and red bricks on the top.

But everything changed after she gave birth. Liu Jun never brought back a single penny, and even stole money from her. She caught him and gave him a good scolding, and Liu Jun slapped her. The Sichuan woman's fiery temper flared up; she chased Liu Jun down three rice paddy ridges with a kitchen knife, scaring him so much that he never dared to ask her for money again. But she never saw a single penny of Liu Jun's money again.

Zhang Liuying sighed heavily, feeling that perhaps she was destined for such misfortune. But she refused to accept it, because she had Liu Xiaobei, and she wanted to secure a good future for her. At the very least, she couldn't let Liu Xiaobei end up like her or Liu Jun.

The three rooms, which were once habitable, have been abandoned for more than two years. Parts of the roof have collapsed, and the interior is covered with a dense, tangled web of cobwebs. Rats scurry around the base of the walls, showing no fear of humans whatsoever.

Zhang Liuying asked Liu Xiaobei to sit by the door. She went inside, picked up a rusty hoe from behind the door, went to the east room, moved the bed aside, dug a small hole, propped up a space with wooden planks, and put the sealed contract inside. She then covered it with a layer of oil film, placed the wooden planks on top, and began backfilling.

"Don't move! Police!" Six or seven men, exuding a menacing aura, rushed in, guns in hand, all pointed at Zhang Liuying.

Zhang Liuying was startled and instinctively tried to block the hole that hadn't been completely filled in.

But a man yanked her away and kicked her, sending Zhang Liuying kneeling on the ground. Another man quickly stepped forward and handcuffed her hands behind her back. Before Zhang Liuying could react, her hands were already handcuffed.

Zhang Liuying's face turned deathly pale as she watched helplessly as the two men retrieved the tightly wrapped folder from the pit, glanced at its contents, and then placed it into a white, transparent plastic bag.

"Keep searching!"

Following the order, some people quickly searched the inside of the house, while others surveyed the outside.

Zhang Liuying was gagged, had a hood put over her head, and was led away. She heard Liu Xiaobei crying, but when she looked over, she couldn't see anything.

"Captain, there's something going on here!" Zhang Liuying heard someone shouting, but she didn't care. She hadn't been back for years, and only returned today to hide the contract. As for the other situation, she felt it was none of her business. She was just extremely worried about Liu Xiaobei, her little darling, her life.

Zhang Liuying was taken to a police car and detained. She knew she couldn't explain herself and would definitely be sentenced. But the police seemed very certain that she had stolen from Deng Xiuzhen's house, and now they had even found this transfer contract.

Now she is certain that Deng Xiuzhen is also in trouble, and that she has fallen into a trap set by someone else, becoming the scapegoat for the whole thing.

She had no doubt that the police would link her to the disappearances of Qin Yanlin and Deng Xiuzhen.

She sighed deeply and slumped into the car. She believed in the justice of the law, but she also knew that in major cases, if the truth could not be found, someone would have to confess.

She regretted it, she regretted it terribly. If she hadn't been so greedy and had just taken the contract to the police station, perhaps there would still have been a glimmer of hope.

Now that I've done this, unless the facts are clarified, she has no chance of escaping punishment.

Knowing she couldn't escape punishment, Zhang Liuying simply gave up on getting away with it and instead silently considered who should take care of the child.

Liu Jun? Would he be good to the child? Probably not. That gambler once asked him to look after the child, but he was so engrossed in losing that he completely forgot about the child. If I hadn't gone back halfway through, the child would probably be…

After much thought, she felt it was more appropriate to entrust the child to Yan Wenying.

This girl is quite down-to-earth; you can tell from how she treats Liu Lanlan…

Soon, the police officers returned to their car.

Zhang Liuying couldn't see it, but she felt the police carrying something into the car. And the police seemed very happy.

"Quick! Get him to the hospital immediately, treat him first and then see how he is!" someone ordered.

"Yes!" someone replied, and the car immediately started moving.

"Who should I take to the hospital? Where's my child?!" Zhang Liuying shouted. She hadn't heard her child cry for quite a while.

"Behave yourself! Your child is fine, in another car!" The policeman's tone was harsh and menacing, but he answered Zhang Liuying's question completely.

"Then who should I take to the hospital? I want to see my child!" Zhang Liuying was still worried.

"You're not pretending not to know who's hiding in your pigsty, are you?" Yun Qi's tone remained gentle, even with a smile on his lips, but his eyes were icy cold.

"Is someone in my pigsty? Who could it be?" Zhang Liuying remembered the pigsty behind her house, but she hadn't been back for two years. Who would be hiding in her pigsty and what would they be doing there?

"You don't know who the person you're hiding is?" Yun Qi sneered.

"I have a child with me, what kind of person could I possibly hide with?" Knowing that she couldn't escape, Zhang Liuying felt more at ease and spoke much more calmly.

Yun Qi didn't speak, but gestured to the policeman next to him. The man nodded, took out his phone, and made a call: "Check Zhang Liuying's social connections, find out who she has contacted in the past two weeks, and be quick about it!"

Zhang Liuying was stunned! Was this a suspicion that she had accomplices? And they were going to investigate her for half a month?

What has she done in the past two weeks? Who has she contacted? Apart from a few people in the company, she only contacted Liu Jun yesterday.

“Zhang Liuying, confess and you will be treated leniently, resist and you will be punished severely! If you confess your problems, you may be able to get a lighter sentence and reunite with your child sooner.” Looking at the stunned Zhang Liuying, Yun Qi launched a psychological offensive.