Return to the Day When My Pregnant Wife Jumped Off the Building-Chapter 147 Transcript_1

As they neared the hospital, Xiao Ming felt his phone vibrate twice in his pocket, and a glint of light flashed across his eyes.

It was the agreed-upon secret signal "The fish has been netted," their triple-win plan was successful!

"Honey, can you... maybe drive a little faster?"

Jiang Xue’s voice rose beside him, and Xiao Ming grabbed her hand.

"Alright. However, the surgery will take at least two to three hours, we couldn’t burst into the operating room to see Lei even if we flew there.

Furthermore, I’ve checked already, reattachment surgery for a severed finger is very advanced, and since it’s not a tear injury, the chances of a full recovery are very high.

At the very worst, Lei hurt his left pinky finger. Even if it can’t be reattached, it will have a minimal impact on his future life.

Everything will be okay. If need be, I’ll let him work at my company later on, so there’s no way he’ll go hungry.

So you can worry, but try not to be overly anxious and nervous, our child can certainly feel it."

Jiang Xue felt much better with her husband’s gentle words, intertwining their fingers and drawing warmth and strength from him.

After a while, Jiang Yonghan sighed from the back seat and said, "Lei has been spoiled rotten by his mother; if he learns his lesson from this hardship, it wouldn’t be too bad, better than struggling all his life.

Besides, his mother has been arrested, and she will definitely spill the beans about Xiao Ming’s offer of one million for a finger. Xue, when the police ask, we all have to claim ignorance, understand?

That wretched woman is just a lunatic, and Lei has suffered enough, we can’t let Xiao Ming be dragged into this."

Jiang Xue startled, turned to look at Xiao Ming, only to see her husband smile faintly and say, "Thanks, Dad, for considering me, but you don’t need to worry too much. When the police ask, just tell the truth, no need for lies.

They are professionals at this, and we ordinary people have not been trained. We could easily get caught in a lie and end up in a worse position."

"Won’t the police say that you incited it?" Jiang Xue asked worriedly.

Xiao Ming shook his head, "Incitement has four conditions that must be met, the first of which is that the incitement must be intentional.

By definition, the crime committed by the incited person must be committed because the inciter could foresee the action. Otherwise, it isn’t considered incitement.

For example, if I tell you now that once the child is born, you should slap him hard and I’ll give you one million, would you do it?"

"Not even for a hundred million," Jiang Xue said without hesitation.

"Exactly," Xiao Ming nodded, "any person with normal thinking would know that no mother would harm her child for money.

So my words back then were just harsh words spoken in anger, they can’t be considered incitement."

"But my mother... she’s obviously not normal," Jiang Xue said.

"No matter how abnormal, everyone knows that she dotes on Lei, and all the neighbors are aware of that. Including you and Dad, could either of you have imagined she would do such a thing for one million at that time?"

Jiang Xue looked back at her father, and Jiang Yonghan shook his head, "Although your mother agreed to exchange two of Lei’s fingers for two million, I thought she had agreed to take the money only because Xiao Ming said it had to be done, and she had no choice.

Later, when you told Xiao Ming to stop, he immediately did. It was obviously just to scare her.

She was so outrageous, a little scare was justified, so I thought nothing of it at the time, who would have expected her to be....

Ah... I’ve lived with her for so many years, only to discover today that she completely lacks humanity. How blind I’ve been."

The car fell into silence.

The actions of Zhou Aifeng had gone beyond the limits of morality. As her close relatives, the complex feelings Jiang Yonghan and Jiang Xue were experiencing were indescribable in words.

Upon arriving at the hospital, the surgery was indeed still in progress. The three could only wait outside the operating room.

There were two officers on the scene, but they simply took the trio’s information and offered a little comfort without asking too much.

Clearly, they too understood that relatives can be highly emotional at such times, and asking too many questions would not be beneficial.

After waiting for more than two hours, the lights in the operating room finally went out. The doctor came out and said that the surgery was very successful. Although Jiang Lei’s finger could not be completely restored to its original state, it would not significantly affect his daily life.

Jiang Yonghan and Jiang Xue gratefully bid farewell to the doctor, and then accompanied the still-unconscious Jiang Lei to the ward.

Xiao Ming withdrew some cash from the ATM, just finished paying for the surgery and hospital fees when a police officer approached him.

"Mr. Xiao Ming, regarding this assault case, we have some questions to ask you. Please come with us to the police station."

Xiao Ming nodded without hesitation, "Okay! Let me just inform my wife and elder relatives."

He handed the car keys to Jiang Xue and left some cash before leaving the hospital with the police officer and getting into the police car to head to the station.

After a routine questioning about name, place of origin, place of employment, and such, the police officer’s tone suddenly became stern.

"The suspect claims you instructed her to chop off the victim’s fingers, offering a million per finger. What do you have to say about that?"

Xiao Ming scratched his head and chuckled wryly, "Well... if you put it that way, I guess it’s not entirely wrong."

The officer’s expression grew serious, "So you’re admitting you incited the suspect to do that?"

"No. I want to phrase it differently from the exact words."

"What phrasing?"

"I give you one million to chop off a finger of your son. Would you agree?"

The police officer was taken aback.

Both phrases imply "buying" a finger, but the former is definitely incitement while the latter is at most questioning—there’s a fundamental difference.

After a moment, the officer asked, "Why would you say something like that?"

"Because the suspect was about to kill my unborn child at the time."

Xiao Ming recounted everything Zhou Aifeng did that day and continued, "As a father, having just experienced the near-death and resurgence of my child, I was both scared and furious, completely irrational.

If you ask me if I had the thought of really chopping off the victim’s fingers at that time, my answer is positive. At that moment, I had the mind to kill, I only wanted to vent my anger, so naturally, my words were quite extreme."

The officer did not expect there to be such an outrageous mother-in-law in the world. Seeing his female colleague beside him, her face was already flushed with anger.

After pondering for a moment, the officer said, "We will verify everything you’ve said. For now, let’s confirm something. You tried to scare the suspect by kidnapping her son, correct?"

Xiao Ming shook his head, "Whether there was a kidnapping, you can ask the victim."

"We don’t need you to remind us. Please answer the question."

"No. At that time, I only made a phone call to the victim’s friend, asked them to find my brother-in-law, explain the situation, and cooperate with me to scare his mother, that’s all." freeweɓnøvel.com

The officer raised an eyebrow, "Xiao Ming, I warn you, lying at this time won’t do you any favors."

Xiao Ming shrugged, "That’s why I said you should ask the victim! He can prove what’s true for me."

The two police officers exchanged glances, asked a few more details, and then began to have him review the statement.

After signing his name and pressing his fingerprint, Xiao Ming said, "Can I go now? I need to hurry back to the hospital to be with my wife."

Although the officer hadn’t been on the job very long, he had never seen such a composed suspect and felt that he had never controlled the situation from beginning to end. Instinctively, he did not like this.

"Not yet. We will let you go after we verify the authenticity of what you’ve said,"

Meanwhile, in the slum area, police lights were flashing, figures bustling about, and dogs barking endlessly, as if one had been startled, causing an uproar.

Wan Xingping followed Zhang Kehu into an empty residential house under the cover of darkness. As soon as the door closed, he collapsed to the ground, gasping for air like a waterlogged dog.