Siheyuan: After becoming a traitor, first let the Huai Ru River overflow its banks.

Li Jianjun thought this fit the character of Sha Zhu, whose silliness was only directed at Qin Huairu.

"Alright, Sha Zhu, so you're not so stupid after all. But there are some things you might not know."

"For example, why did your father elope with the White Widow back then?"

"You really think your dad fell for the White Widow and was willing to raise someone else's child, abandoning you and your brother?"

Li Jianjun acted very mysteriously, as if he knew the inside story of what happened back then.

This won't fool Sha Zhu.

"Come on, Li Jianjun, if you want to know, just say so. Don't try to be mysterious."

Li Jianjun knew that Sha Zhu wouldn't admit defeat until he was faced with the truth, so he decided to let him die knowing why.

Chapter 261 There is an inside story

"To tell you the truth, back then, your father eloped with the White Widow, and it was someone who specifically suggested it."

This time, not only was Sha Zhu stunned, but even Li Weiguo and Ma Sijiu looked at Li Jianjun's mysterious appearance and felt that there was something going on.

As the saying goes, when things go wrong, there must be a monster.

Li Jianjun must have his reasons for saying that.

Li Weiguo and Ma Sijiu also looked at Li Jianjun inquiringly, as if trying to verify the authenticity of the matter.

After all, Li Jianjun's age is about the same as Sha Zhu's. If Sha Zhu doesn't know something, how much could Li Jianjun know?

"Li Jianjun, don't talk nonsense."

Li Jianjun immediately named someone, leaving Sha Zhu stunned.

"That's right. The reason your father eloped with the White Widow was entirely due to Yi Zhonghai's matchmaking."

"That's utterly ridiculous," Sha Zhu retorted.

"That's impossible! What reason would an old man have to do that?"

"What benefit would my father gain from eloping with the White Widow?"

Seeing that Sha Zhu had fallen for the trap, Li Jianjun immediately began to explain to him.

"You really are stupid. Think about it, after your father eloped with the White Widow, didn't you and Yu Shui become fatherless children?"

"If you two want to survive, shouldn't you find an elderly person to help you?"

"Looking at the whole hospital, Yi Zhonghai and his wife are the best candidates for you and your sister."

"They can't have children, and the key thing is that Yi Zhonghai is prestigious in the compound and is one of the few level eight fitters in Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill."

"You know, for you at that time, it was definitely the best choice..."

At this moment, Sha Zhu stood up angrily, wanting to defend himself, but he had nothing to say... He just pointed at Li Jianjun, his face ashen.

"This can't be right, can it? Just so I can take care of him in his old age and see him off in his death, Yi Zhonghai would set up my father and the widow Bai together? This is like listening to heavenly books!"

Li Jianjun ignored his expression and continued speaking.

"There are many more such stories. Yi Zhonghai is an old man in the compound. In order to show that he is a moral exemplar, he would bring rice, flour, and oil to the deaf old lady during festivals, and even make dumplings. He would give these things very generously."

"But when he was helping the Jia family, he only delivered flour to Qin Huairu at night. You didn't know that, did you? There was another time when Yi Zhonghai delivered something to Qin Huairu, and he actually delivered it to the sweet potato cellar..."

"The goddess you've been fawning over, Qin Huairu, might already be with Yi Zhonghai..."

Sha Zhu's first reaction upon hearing this was that Li Jianjun was absolutely making this up.

"You're talking nonsense! How could such a virtuous man like you possibly be with a widow..."

Li Jianjun took out a report and handed it to Sha Zhu.

"Take a look at this. I finally managed to get it out of the hospital."

Li Jianjun's uncle is the hospital director, so getting Yi Zhonghai's medical records would be a piece of cake.

Sha Zhu took the report, glanced at it, and looked at it as if it were a book written in a foreign language.

"Li Jianjun, you're deliberately messing with me. You know I can't read, yet you still make me look at the report."

Ma Sijiu took the report directly, but the words he read out left Shazhu dumbfounded.

"This report is Yi Zhonghai's lab report, proving that everything is normal for him..."

Sha Zhu looked completely bewildered.

"What does this mean?"

Li Jianjun knew that Sha Zhu wouldn't understand the intricacies of this situation...

"That's too simple. It means that Yi Zhonghai is normal, and the one who can't have children is an old woman."

"However, due to public pressure, Yi Zhonghai cannot divorce the older woman, so he has to find a way to have his own illegitimate child..."

Upon hearing this, Sha Zhu's pupils contracted, and he was completely dumbfounded.

"Then what do you mean? Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu have been doing *that* for a long time? And what about Banggeng Huaihua and Xiaodang…"

Sha Zhu simply didn't dare to think any further.

His psychological defenses began to crumble; everything Li Jianjun said had completely exceeded his understanding of Yi Zhonghai.

"No, that can't be... You're not telling the truth..."

Sha Zhu's mind started to go blank.

Li Jianjun pressed his advantage.

"Why not? Take a good look at Bang Geng. Doesn't he look like Yi Zhonghai?"

Sha Zhu's brain suddenly seemed to have shut down. The goddess he had been longing for was actually hanging out with the old man he respected most, which shattered his worldview.

Seeing that the fire was ready, Li Jianjun continued to tend it.

"Think about it again. Why did Yi Zhonghai take Jia Dongxu as his apprentice? Wasn't it because he liked Qin Huairu's ability to bear children?"

"The reason he secretly helped the Jia family was because the Jia family was raising his son."

"Among our courtyard houses, the Jia family isn't the only one facing financial difficulties. Why did he specifically target the Jia family?"

"His sister is an old lady, because she is outwardly a martyr's family member. He is showing respect for the elderly and care for the young, which helps improve his image in the courtyard."

Hearing this, Sha Zhu was a little confused.

"What do you mean by 'the old lady is a martyr's family member on the surface'? What about in reality?"

Sha Zhu felt that he had wasted his time in the courtyard house, unable to see through these inside stories.

"Then you don't need to worry about it, this has nothing to do with you."

"The key issue now is that Yi Zhonghai isn't as morally upright as you imagine in many things; on the contrary, he's trying to undermine you at every turn..."

"Are you still protecting someone like that?"

Li Jianjun has now completely breached Sha Zhu's last line of defense.

After thinking through the events, Sha Zhu easily concluded that he had been deceived.

He ran his hands through his hair, on the verge of a breakdown.

Li Jianjun seized the opportunity to stir up trouble.

"Tell me, did Yi Zhonghai instruct you to do these things? If you just tell me, the people at the police station will put in a good word for you and reduce your sentence."

Things had come to this point, and Sha Zhu could no longer hold back.

"Okay, then I'll tell you."

"The last time I stole things from the factory, and this time I lowered the temperature of the furnace, these were all things that Yi Zhonghai instructed me to do."

"Li Jianjun, you can't go back on your word."

Li Jianjun never intended to deceive him.

"Don't worry, I will definitely do what I say I will do."

As Sha Zhu spoke, Li Jianjun took notes and finally had Sha Zhu sign and put his fingerprint on the document.

After doing all this, Li Jianjun immediately delivered Sha Zhu's statement to Director Yang's office.

Factory Director Yang was immediately enraged.

"You're saying that Yi Zhonghai, an eighth-level fitter and a well-known figure at Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill, would do something like this?"

"To frame you, they are willing to sacrifice the interests of the country. Such a person no longer deserves to stay in our Red Star Steel Rolling Mill."

"Xiao Li, go and arrest Yi Zhonghai, and then make sure this matter is handled properly."

“Once it’s done, I’ll report directly to my superiors and have Yi Zhonghai dismissed from his post…”

Li Jianjun hummed in agreement, then left Director Yang's office and returned to his own.

He ordered Ma Sijiu and Li Weiguo to arrest Yi Zhonghai.

Li Jianjun hadn't even had time to eat breakfast while interrogating Sha Zhu early in the morning, and suddenly felt dizzy.

To prevent low blood sugar, he quickly took out a piece of candy he had prepared beforehand from his pocket and licked it a few times.

If only there were some desserts right now, Li Jianjun remembered he still had one chance to win a prize and immediately pulled out the prize draw platter.

When the pointer stopped, Li Jianjun saw where it was pointing and immediately became a little uneasy.

"Love...lingerie..."

Chapter 262: You can meet but cannot ask for it

Li Jianjun was hoping to win some delicious food in the lottery to fill his stomach.

Unexpectedly, the lottery draw resulted in a fun set of women's underwear.

Li Jianjun has only ever seen this outfit in Japanese adult films.

The top was just a few strings and two pieces of cloth, each about the size of a date, barely enough to cover the body...

The underwear below was even more outrageous; the front looked like a leaf, unable to even cover the dense forest.