Northeast: My Absurd Woman

Chapter 118 Hanging

Zhang Changyao had already thought of this, but he was too embarrassed to speak first.

Upon hearing Yang Wuni's instructions, he immediately went to hitch up the donkey cart.

The two chatted and laughed all the way, and soon they arrived at the entrance of the grain depot.

"Hey? Why are there so many people at the entrance of the grain depot?"

Zhang Changyao reined in the donkey cart, tied it to a large tree by the roadside, and pulled Yang Wuni's hand to squeeze inside.

"Big sister, what's going on in this yard?" Zhang Changyao asked, tugging at the fat woman next to him.

"It seems she hanged herself. This girl was only in her early twenties, what a pity at such a young age," the fat woman replied regretfully.

"Zhang Changyao, that person lying on the ground, doesn't she look like Sister Lin Qiu?"

Yang Wuni had sharp eyes and spotted Lin Qiu lying on the stretcher at a glance.

"Lin Qiu! It's Lin Qiu! Wu Ni, go to Uncle Lu's room and wait for me."

I...I need to go see Lin Qiu, to see Lin Qiu one last time.

Tears streamed down Zhang Changyao's face like broken beads.

He wished he could slap himself a few times to ease the regret in his heart.

She blamed herself inwardly for partnering with Wang Ga to open a noodle shop.

If it weren't for saving a few hundred dollars, the house would have been built long ago.

If the house had been built sooner so that Lin Qiu and his wife could have moved in, perhaps Lin Qiu wouldn't have died.

Zhang Changyao pushed Yang Wuni into the guardhouse at the entrance, then staggered through the crowd and entered the courtyard.

In the center of the courtyard, the person lying on the stretcher was indeed Lin Qiu.

Her face was deathly pale, with a deep ligature mark on her neck, and she was dressed in red clothes, red pants, and red shoes.

He lay stiffly on the ground, motionless as if dead.

"Father-in-law, we don't blame you. It's just that this child doesn't know how lucky he is."

"Those who die a violent death cannot be buried in your family's cemetery, so I'll bury her in a mass grave."

Lin Qiuniang was a short, plump woman in her fifties who had gained weight in middle age.

She stroked her wavy hair with her hand and spoke to Eunuch Lin Qiu without any sadness on her face.

"Mother-in-law, thank you for your understanding. I won't let you take Lin Qiu away like this."

I will give your family a sum of money as payment for handling the child's funeral arrangements.

Now it's too late for anything, it's all because my Liao Zhi isn't lucky enough to have it.

Lin Qiu took out a blue and white checkered handkerchief and pretended to dab it on his eyes.

"Director Liao, if we don't call a doctor, do we need to notify the police station?"

A tall man in charge of logistics came over and asked Lin Qiu's father-in-law a question.

"No need, Lin Qiuniang will come to pick us up herself, there's no controversy."

"It's suicide; there's no point in wasting your time trying to save it."

Lin Qiu waved his hand, signaling the tall man in charge of logistics to step down.

The men who came with Lin Qiuniang saw that she was about to leave, so they came over and helped her into the carriage.

"Stop, stop..."

Zhang Changyao blocked Lin Qiu's stretcher, preventing the group from leaving.

"Who are you?" Lin Qiuniang walked over and looked Zhang Changyao up and down.

"I am Lin Qiu, and I want to see Lin Qiu one last time."

Zhang Changyao's body was trembling violently, but he tried to remain calm by spreading his arms to prevent the other party from leaving.

"Hey classmate! Aren't you my daughter's boyfriend from high school?"

Looking at your shabby appearance, even though my daughter is dead, you are not good enough for her.

"Get out of my way right now, or I'll have someone beat you up."

Lin Qiuniang was still the same as before, arrogant and domineering, not even giving Zhang Changyao a second glance.

"Auntie, just let me see Lin Qiu, just one look, and say a word to her."

"Once I say goodbye to Lin Qiu, I'll accept whatever you do, even if you hit me or scold me."

Zhang Changyao's knees buckled, and he knelt down in front of Lin Qiuniang.

You guys come here and drag this scoundrel away.

Lin Qiu's father-in-law pointed to the tall man who had been in charge of logistics earlier.

"You're not allowed to come any closer, I... I'm heavily pregnant!"

"If anyone manages to cause me to miscarry, I'll go lie on their kang (heated brick bed)."

Ignoring Lu Shi's obstruction, Yang Wuni stepped in front of Zhang Changyao to prevent others from getting close.

"You damned woman, your daughter is dead and you didn't even report it to the authorities."

If Sister Lin Qiu was killed by bad people, how can you, as her mother, feel at ease?

Zhang Changyao, go and see how Sister Lin Qiu died.

If anything goes wrong, no one in this courtyard can escape responsibility, including you, their mother.

Yang Wuni was carrying a steel bar about the thickness of a finger.

Pointing at Lin Qiuniang, the old woman was so frightened that she dared not utter a sound.

The people carrying the stretcher put it down and moved aside.

Zhang Changyao's feelings for Lin Qiu had reached a point where they were difficult to control.

The guilt he felt towards Lin Qiu over the years made him wish he could lie down with her right now.

Let's go somewhere no one knows us and start over.

"Lin Qiu... Lin Qiu... I am Zhang Changyao, can you hear me?"

Lin Qiu... The house is finished, I'll come and pick you up to live there.

Just one day... just one day... and you won't be able to wait for me to come.

Are you trying to kill me?

Zhang Changyao cried so hard it shook the heavens and earth, and spoke with deep sorrow.

His reluctance to part with Lin Qiu and his deep-seated guilt made him hold Lin Qiu in his arms and shake her repeatedly.

"Young man, I urge you to have some self-respect and loosen Lin Qiu's body."

"Lin Qiu is my daughter-in-law. I can sue you for indecent assault for what you've done."

Unable to bear it any longer, Lin Qiu's father-in-law stepped forward to stop Zhang Changyao.

"You old man, you just said you didn't want Sister Lin Qiu and wanted her mother to take her home and bury her in a mass grave, didn't you?"

After turning his back on himself, he denied what he had said and then claimed that Sister Lin Qiu was his daughter-in-law.

You call yourself a leader? You'd even pick your own ass and smell it yourself.

If you won't let our Zhang Changyao hug you, then come and hug Sister Lin Qiu.

"If you dare hug Sister Lin Qiu, we'll leave immediately."

Yang Wuni walked forward with her pregnant belly, pointing the steel bar in her hand at Lin Qiu's father-in-law.

Lin Qiu's father-in-law covered his nose and took a few steps back, giving a wink to the person next to him.

The person understood and quickly ran off to find the security personnel.

"You woman, you've really got some nerve! Do you even know who he is?"

"Do you think you, a country bumpkin, can just point fingers at Director Liao of the grain depot?"

Lin Qiuniang squeezed through the crowd and, like a protective mother, came to Lin Qiu's father-in-law's side to shield him.

"Oh dear! I'm so ignorant, I've never seen an old woman like you before."

You're not saddened by your daughter's death, but you're concerned about your father-in-law being criticized.

"If you two weren't having an affair, even the ghosts in the underworld wouldn't believe it."

Yang Wuni did not back down and continued to point at the two people.

"Wu Ni, don't lower yourself to the level of someone like that. We're no match for them."

They have no shame, how can they be considered human and know what shame is?

Lin Qiu is gone; let her body rest in peace.

Don't cause any more trouble, lest she be disturbed even in death.

Zhang Changyao touched Lin Qiu's face again, and the tears he had stopped falling fell again.

It hit Lin Qiu's face and slid into her slightly open mouth.

Yang Wuni withdrew her hand, only to realize that the injury on her hand had not yet healed.

A sharp pain shot from her palm to her chest, causing her to furrow her brow.

"Changyao, my neck hurts and I'm really thirsty. Could you get me a glass of water?"