Chapter 29 What is Zhu Mingzhu trying to achieve?
Chapter 29 What is Zhu Mingzhu trying to achieve?
Xia Chunmei, who was standing next to her, became even more angry when she saw Zhu Mingzhu trembling with fear because of Shen Anan. Mingzhu was too pitiful. She must seek justice for Mingzhu!
Xia Chunmei stood in front of Zhu Mingzhu and glared at Shen Anan fiercely.
"Shen Anan, don't confuse right with wrong! It was clearly Shen Yuanjia who did the wrong thing, why are you glaring at Mingzhu!"
"I'm telling you, if you don't give Mingzhu an explanation today, I'll go to the town police station tomorrow. I don't believe no one can handle this!"
"Chunmei, this is none of your business. Go home with your mother!" Aqing's wife grabbed her daughter's arm and tried to pull her aside, but Xia Chunmei broke free.
This silly girl!
She looked at the expressions of the Shen brothers and sisters, and Shen Anan's words, and always felt that this matter was not so simple. This matter had nothing to do with their family. After all, Shen Yuanxing was the captain, so there was really no need to rush to offend others.
"Mom, don't pull me. I must seek justice for Mingzhu today!"
Shen Anan was so angry that she almost laughed when she saw those people who jumped out to uphold justice. The mother and daughter of the Wu family were quite resourceful. They encouraged everyone to stand up for them, while they hid aside and pretended to be innocent.
"You mean well, but your good sister is not as pitiful as you say. Being loyal is a good thing, but don't become a knife in someone else's hand that kills people." Shen Anan hinted.
Shen Anan looked around and raised her voice, "Just now, my sixth brother took me home on his bike. When we walked to this grove, we suddenly heard someone shouting for help. He was worried that someone might be in trouble, so he rushed in."
Shen Anan took a few steps towards the Wu family mother and daughter, pointing her flashlight at Zhu Mingzhu. "I didn't expect that the thief wasn't seen, but this one... with disheveled clothes, threw herself into my sixth brother's arms and wouldn't let go. And then, by coincidence, everyone came looking for us at that very moment."
Shen Anan spread her hands: "Think about it carefully, if my sixth brother really asked her to have a tryst here, would he bring his own sister with him? He's not stupid!"
"What An An said makes sense!"
"That's right. Even if Shen Yuanjia was a bit of a scoundrel, he wouldn't bring an unmarried girl with him to have a tryst with someone!"
"What did I say? I said Shen Yuanjia is not that kind of person."
"Hey, that's not what you just said!"
Wu Lanxiang listened to the discussions around her and cursed in her heart, what a bunch of fence-sitters.
Wu Lanxiang protected Zhu Mingzhu behind her, wiped away her tears and took a few steps forward with a determined look on her face, like a person who was forced into a desperate situation and fought back after failing to bear it any longer.
"You and Shen Yuanjia are siblings, so of course you're on his side. Maybe Shen Yuanjia brought you here specifically to keep you out of the spotlight, so that even if someone bumps into him, he can completely deny the responsibility."
"Our Mingzhu is considered one of the most beautiful girls in this area. Is it necessary to risk her innocence to blame Shen Yuanjia?"
"How can you bully others like this? Aren't you just relying on your second brother being the team leader?"
"Wuwuwuwu, mother, I don't want to live anymore..."
Shen Anan looked at the performance of Wu Lanxiang and her daughter with some amusement. This was really going to divert trouble away.
Shen Ligen also recovered and accused: "Don't think that just because Shen Yuanxing is the team leader, you Shen family can bully others."
"I didn't do it, and it has nothing to do with whether my second brother is the captain or not! Don't try to put the blame on me for something that didn't happen. Even if I get shot, I will not marry Zhu Mingzhu." Shen Yuanjia's face was dark, and he clenched his fists tightly.
Shen Anan couldn't help but applaud Wu Lanxiang and her daughter: "What a wonderful show!"
Shen Anan suddenly turned around and looked at Xia Chunmei, who looked fearless. "What did Wu Lanxiang say when she went to the village entrance and asked everyone to help find Zhu Mingzhu?"
Xia Chunmei was stunned. "Ah, Aunt Wu said Mingzhu disappeared after dinner. She was worried that something might have happened to her, so she asked everyone to help look for her."
"I want to ask Aunt Wu, you discovered Zhu Mingzhu was missing after dinner, and it was less than half an hour before you went to the village entrance, right?"
"You live in the west end of the village, right? If your daughter is missing, shouldn't you look for her near your home first? What if Zhu Mingzhu just went to visit her sister? Why did you go straight to the east end of the village and yell for everyone to come look for her together?"
"And even if we brought people to look for them, we shouldn't have headed straight for this grove, right? Don't you think that's too much of a coincidence?"
After Shen Anan's words, Xia Chunmei also felt something was wrong, and couldn't help but look at the Wu mother and daughter with some curiosity.
Wu Lanxiang sighed deeply: "Ah, I can see that you are determined to help your sixth brother slander our Mingzhu."
"The reason why I led people to look for Mingzhu here as soon as I found out she was missing was because I heard Mingzhu mention this grove before, so I wanted to try my luck."
The surrounding villagers listened to the arguments of both sides and became hesitant for a moment, not knowing which side to believe.
Shen Anan laughed sarcastically: "You mother and daughter really won't cry until you see the coffin!"
After saying that, Shen Anan took out an iron box about the size of a palm from the backpack she was carrying and shook it in front of the Wu mother and daughter.
"Do you know what this is? It's a state-of-the-art radio with a recording function."
"What a coincidence! I was just testing the recording function and accidentally recorded something else!"
Zhu Mingzhu panicked for a moment and pretended to be calm: "You... are lying. I've seen radios before, and they're not like this at all. They don't have any recording function."
Shen Anan smiled and said, "We'll know if it's a lie once we listen."
As Shen Anan pressed the play button, she heard the voices of Shen Anan and Shen Yuanjia chatting, and suddenly a cry for help rang out...
The recording ended with Shen Yuanjia's somewhat helpless words, "Girl, please let go. I am a police officer. You are safe now."
Shen Anan held the recorder and raised an eyebrow at the Wu family mother and daughter: "Anything else to say? If I didn't hear it clearly, I can play it a few more times."
Zhu Mingzhu sat down on the ground exhausted. Ever since she heard her cry for help from the radio, she knew she was finished.
Wu Lanxiang couldn't maintain the expression on her face, revealing a bit of guilt as if she had been exposed.
The surrounding villagers were already in an uproar, and once the recording came out, it became immediately clear who was right and who was wrong.
"Oh my god, it turns out what Shen Yuanjia said was true. We were all deceived by Wu Lanxiang!"
"What is Zhu Mingzhu trying to achieve? Now her reputation is ruined!"
"Yeah, who says it's not true? How can you wrongly accuse someone?"
Xia Chunmei looked at Zhu Mingzhu in disbelief: "Mingzhu, it turns out you were the one who lied all along. How could you do this?"
Zhu Mingzhu became more and more frightened as she listened to the accusations from people around her. After hearing what Xia Chunmei said, she suddenly broke down and burst into tears.
Wu Lanxiang wanted to help her daughter up out of heartache, but was pushed away by Zhu Mingzhu.
Zhu Mingzhu's face was filled with resentment: "It's all your fault. If you hadn't said that this method could make Brother Yuanjia marry me, I wouldn't have ended up like this."
Wu Lanxiang was somewhat at a loss. She dared not look directly at her daughter's hateful gaze: "Mother... Mother was wrong. It's all Mother's fault. Mother just wanted you to live a good life."
"I'll never get better, and it's all your fault!"
"It's all your fault. I hate you so much!"
Wu Lanxiang burst into tears, shaking her head in frustration. Suddenly, she got up from the ground and pleaded with the people around her, "This is all my fault. It has nothing to do with Mingzhu. I forced her to do this. If you want to blame someone, blame me."
Shen Anan felt mixed emotions watching this scene. If she hadn't been afraid of accidents and hadn't been recording the audio with the recorder she got when she signed in, it would have been hard to explain what happened this time.
But looking at Wu Lanxiang like this, I felt that she was both annoying and pitiful.
Shen Yuanjia looked at the farce in front of him and felt that it was really boring. "An An, let's go home. Mom and Dad are waiting for us to eat!"
"Hey... let's go!"
After seeing the Shen brothers and sisters leave and there was nothing more to watch, the surrounding villagers also left in twos and threes.
Soon, the only sounds in the grove were Zhu Mingzhu's wailing and Wu Lanxiang's frantic attempts to comfort her...
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