Married to the army by mistake, abstinent boss becomes addicted to pampering his wife

Chapter 258 Caught
"Xiaoshan, rest assured and get well soon. We'll have our wedding ceremony later..."

As soon as Wei Qing stepped outside the ward, she heard Zhao Jingyang asking Wei Shan about her well-being from inside, and she felt a pang of sadness.

I thought that after Wei Shan suffered such a hardship, the Zhao family would feel it was bad luck to break off the engagement, but I didn't expect Zhao Jingyang to be such a devoted lover.

She walked into the ward carrying fruit candies.

Upon seeing her, Liu Sufeng glared at her as if she were an enemy.

"Why are you out here? You troublemaker, weren't you arrested by the police?!"

The health center was in poor condition, with more than a dozen beds crammed into one ward.

Upon hearing Liu Sufeng's words, all the dozen or so pairs of eyes in the ward stared at Wei Qing.

Wei Qing walked calmly to Wei Shan's bedside. "Auntie, I've already made things clear with the police. Xiao Shan's murder has nothing to do with me. Xiao Shan, I'm not lying to you. If you hadn't been greedy and wanted to embezzle that money, those people wouldn't have been so cruel to you."

Wei Shan stared at her, her face flushed with embarrassment, but she was speechless.

She and Wei Qing had agreed to go up the mountain together the next afternoon, but she secretly went up the mountain alone in the middle of the night to take the money, so she was indeed in the wrong.

Liu Sufeng didn't care whether her daughter was in the right or wrong; all she knew was that Wei Qing had almost caused her daughter's death on the mountain.

She grabbed Wei Qing by the collar and unleashed a torrent of abuse: "Bullshit! You know perfectly well that those people are thieves and scoundrels, yet you don't report them to the police. Instead, you're plotting something despicable with Xiao Shan. What are you up to?"

"If it weren't for Xiaoshan's divine protection, she would have died on that mountain! You caused your father-in-law to lose an eye, and now you're harming Xiaoshan. The police should take you and execute you!"

Wei Qing struggled: "Auntie, can't you be reasonable? It was Xiao Shan who ran up the mountain in the middle of the night, what does it have to do with me?"

Liu Sufeng glared at her, "If you hadn't told Xiaoshan that there was no truth to it, would she have been led to run up the mountain? You still dare to say it has nothing to do with you? I can tell you're up to no good!"

"Shameless slut, you think you can get away with losing Xiaoshan? Take a good look at yourself in the mirror. You're a used slut who's been married before. Do you think Jingyang would even look at you?"

Not satisfied with just cursing, he spat in Wei Qing's face.

Wei Qing felt so disgusted she almost vomited, and she hated Liu Sufeng's vulgarity to the core. "Your whole family agreed to me impersonating Xiaoshan to deceive the Zhao family. Compared to Xiaoshan's safety, didn't you value the marriage with the Zhao family more? I was clearly helping you and Xiaoshan, but now I'm the one who's caught in the middle?"

Wei Qing's words were meant for Zhao Jingyang and Wei Shan to hear.

On the one hand, they wanted to sabotage the marriage between the two families.

She refused to believe that the Zhao family would not hold the Wei family's previous deception against them.

On the other hand, it was to sow discord between Wei Shan and her family.

If Wei Shan knew that after she went missing, her family didn't think about finding her, but only about how to save her marriage, she would probably feel heartbroken towards her family.

"Who cares about your help? All this trouble is your fault, you jinx! Pack your things and get out of here, and don't ever think about setting foot in my house again!"

Wei Qing was mentally prepared to be kicked out of the Wei family.

She was just frustrated that she had worked like a slave for the Wei family for a whole month for nothing.

With nowhere else to go, she had no choice but to move into the old thatched hut left by her biological father.

The house was in disrepair for many years; the roof was exposed in many places, and the mud walls were covered with cracks of all sizes. There wasn't even a bed.

Wei Qing sat on the dry firewood, feeling frustrated, pondering her future.

There's no hope of her marrying into the Zhao family; now, her only option is to take the college entrance exam.

After making up her mind, she went out to her third uncle's house at the end of the village to borrow two quilts and pots and pans to settle down temporarily.

When she arrived at her third uncle's house, not only was she not allowed to borrow anything, but they wouldn't even let her in the door, dismissing her with a simple "nothing."

Wei Qing was furious after being shut out, but she could only return to the old house dejectedly.

Before long, it got dark.

Wei Qing cleaned up an old house, laid out dry firewood and straw, and made do with it as a bed.

If there were no blankets, they would burn dry firewood for warmth.

For the past month, she went up the mountain every day to chop firewood, filling half a house, enough to last her until the New Year. In fact, she went up the mountain every day not to chop firewood, but also to dig a tunnel.

They dug a little bit every day, and after nearly a month, they dug a hole three meters deep.

To save time and effort, she deliberately chose a place with soft soil and accidentally left her shovel in the hole, which ironically gave Wei Shan a chance to survive.

The thought of this made Wei Qing extremely angry.

Smelling the fragrant aroma emanating from the fire, Wei Qing quickly snapped out of her reverie and used a stick to pull out the sweet potatoes buried in the fire.

With no food to eat, she could only roast two sweet potatoes to fill her stomach.

These sweet potatoes were stolen from Wei Shan's cellar.

Sweet potatoes may not be expensive, but they are quite fragrant when roasted.

However, she couldn't eat sweet potatoes every day. She would go to town tomorrow to ask Li Hongying for some money to buy some grain and then repair the house.

Having made up her mind, Wei Qing lay down on the dry straw and went to sleep.

The next day, she was woken up from her sleep.

She opened her eyes and found that it was already daylight. The two policemen who had interrogated her the day before were looking down at her.

Behind the police officers stood many villagers.

Seeing that she was awake, one of the police officers said coldly, "Wei Qing, get up and come with us."

Her mind was still in a daze. "Where to?"

Another policeman immediately pulled out handcuffs, bent down, picked up her left hand and handcuffed it, then took her right hand and handcuffed it as well.

Wei Qing stared blankly at the police officers' actions, clearly not understanding what was happening.

"What are you doing? What did I do?"

The police officer who had spoken earlier scoffed, "You are suspected of intentionally murdering Wei Shan, and you are hereby arrested in accordance with the law!"

Wei Qing's mind was racing. "I didn't! I explained everything to you yesterday. I didn't do it!"

The police officer picked her up and carried her out, saying, "Don't worry, you'll have plenty of time to talk when we get to the station."

As soon as she stepped out of the house, the intense sunlight made Wei Qing instinctively raise her hand to shield her face.

The handcuffs binding her wrists gleamed and jingled.

During the days that Wei Shan was missing, the sky over Lianhua Village had been overcast, but today was a rare sunny day.

The villagers who had gathered were in an uproar when they saw the gleaming shackles on her hands.

"What happened? Why did the police arrest Wei Qing?"

"It seems they're saying she murdered Wei Shan!"

"No way, she wouldn't dare?"

"If it weren't for her, would the police have come to arrest her? Why haven't they come to arrest you?"

"Pah, pah, pah! Stop cursing me!"

Some busybodies inquired with the police about what Wei Qing had done, but were refused by the police who said, "The case is under investigation and it is inconvenient to disclose information."

The villagers' curiosity was not so easily appeased, and they turned to Wei Shuan's family to inquire.

Wei Shuan was dumbfounded.

He never dreamed that the person who harmed his daughter would be his own niece, Wei Qing.

He kindly took in his niece; that's a great kindness. How could his niece repay kindness with enmity?