Transmigration: I Have Storage Space in the Apocalypse-Chapter 251 - 247 Completely Indifferent to Her Life or Death [-11 More]
Chapter 251: Chapter 247 Completely Indifferent to Her Life or Death [-11 More]
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Hearing the cry, Lin Zhaodi immediately looked up to see a beautiful little girl not far away, with swollen slits for eyes that still gleamed brightly. As Lin Zhaodi recognized the girl’s features, an innate sense of affection surged within her, making her gaze upon the child with an intense warmth.
This, this was her own daughter!
However, when Lin Zhaodi heard her biological daughter crying profusely and repeatedly calling the violent couple across from her ’Dad, Mom,’ she felt extremely bitter.
Thus, when she looked into Qi Chunlan’s eyes again, it was not fear she felt but a similar shade of bitterness.
Qi Chunlan and Lin Zhaodi were distant relatives, with grandmothers who were cousins and bore a strangely uncanny resemblance to one another.
As Lin Zhaodi grew up and realized she looked similar to Qi Chunlan, she saw that their fates were worlds apart!
Qi Chunlan had a loving grandfather and married a competent Rong Guard with a substantial family wealth, whereas Lin Zhaodi could only marry a farmer, inciting intense jealousy within her.
After their marriages, by chance, they were reunited upon having their children, but the disparities in treatment were just as stark!
Qi Chunlan gave birth to twins, auspicious dragon and phoenix twins, no less!
But indeed, fate is fair. Among the twins, the girl was strong and the boy weak!
Thus, Qi Chunlan, having prematurely given birth, could only entrust her daughter to be nurtured by Lin Zhaodi, who had given birth just three days prior, believing that with two baby girls and baby formula, plus the considerable amount of money and supplies she provided, the Zhang Family would certainly not be shortchanged.
It could be said that out of her four children, Lin Zhaodi received the most plentiful and comfortable compensation during the birth of her youngest daughter.
Furthermore, by a twist of fate, both children had a small red patch behind their ears—one on the left and one on the right, according to what the midwife said, of course!
Regrettably, Qi Chunlan was so weak after childbirth that she failed to grasp the significance and only vaguely remembered the small red patch by her daughter’s ear.
Speaking of midwives, there was a story there too.
Everyone knew that Zhou Dahu was the local midwife when she was younger. Given the close proximity of the two families, Granny Zhang and Zhou Dahu didn’t have much affection for each other at the time—after all, they were sisters-in-law, always compared by others behind their backs, causing some underhandedness in their lives. It was only in their later years that the two families truly became harmonious.
Since Lin Zhaodi and her mother-in-law both disliked Zhou Dahu, and it just so happened that Zhou Dahu was called away that month to assist with a childbirth, Granny Zhang specifically invited Aunt Chun from the neighboring village to deliver the baby.
Qi Chunlan gave birth while Zhou Dahu was still away, so Aunt Chun was the one to deliver her baby as well.
This kind of information was common knowledge among the older residents nearby, so when Yan Jinhao stepped forward and asked the driver to bring Aunt Chun from Qingfeng Village, even the people of Qingfeng knew the Zhang Family had encountered trouble again.
But with Xie Tiesheng, the Family Head, absent, and the couple Xie Jingwei busy working in the fields, the folks had neither the leisure to meddle in others’ affairs nor the inclination to do so. Most importantly, they believed that Zhang Shanni had already left the Zhang Family and thus her issues were of no concern to the Xie Family, with absolutely no desire to pry further.
As for Xiao Yi and Xiao’er, after all, they were just kids, whose main task was to study, and they didn’t really have the time to understand such matters. By the time they found out, the involved parties didn’t even know where to run off to.
Although Aunt Chun was old and frail, she had an excellent memory. Especially as there had been only a few pairs of twins she’d handled over the past twenty years, she had a very clear memory of Zhang Shan Ni, the hearing-impaired Feng Yin with speckled flowers!
With an accurate location of the incident and the blood type of the person involved being the evidence of guilt, combined with Aunt Chun’s testimony, the truth was clear without any official investigation; the villagers could each conjure up a drama in their minds.
Yan Jinxian looked hopelessly at the Yan Family members; the truth of the matter was so clear that there was no need for Lin Zhaodi to confess anymore.
To verify the facts, Yan Jinxian still paired up with Zhang Zhiguo and his wife to test their blood types. With Yan Dongsheng’s identity as Rong Fang, the hospital was very cooperative and soon brought out the results of the blood pairing—Yan Jinxian was indeed the biological daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lin Zhaodi!
While waiting for the outcome, the driver who Yan Jinchang had secretly sent to call the police arrived with the law enforcement officers.
The moment Lin Zhaodi saw the police, she panicked and hid behind Zhang Zhiguo, shouting towards Qi Chunlan, "How could you call the police! What has happened to Zhang Shan Ni anyway!"
In her mind, Zhang Shan Ni was fortunately married to a High-level Rong Guard, and hadn’t really died, so why call the police?
Being just a village woman, she had no idea that her child swapping was enough for her to be sentenced to jail, not to mention the infant abuse and inducing Zhang Shan Ni’s death, corroborated by the villagers’ testimonies her crimes would only weigh heavier!
"Hmph, with your way of thinking, does that mean that as long as one does not die, no one has to be responsible for their actions?"
Apart from losing his composure and punching Zhang Zhiguo, Yan Dongsheng had been calm from start to end. Hearing Lin Zhaodi’s unrepentant thoughts, he could no longer suppress the anger in his heart and scolded her maliciously.
With her attitude like this, not making her pay a lifelong price, how could he make up for his biological daughter, who had suffered for half her life?!
Especially when the Yan Family members found out that their daughter attempted suicide by jumping into the lake on the very day their young son had an illness crisis, they immediately connected it to the Yan bloodline reaction!
Even Yan Jinsi was induced to have an outbreak, one can imagine that Zhang Shan Ni must have truly felt a life-threatening threat when she jumped into the lake!
Drowning, suffocating, unable to catch her breath... On recollecting Shishi’s memories of the aftermath, the men of the Yan Family wished they could flay that malicious woman a thousand times over!
"I, I..." As Lin Zhaodi saw Yan Dongsheng’s towering figure and his sharp gaze, she didn’t dare to retort—she was truly afraid the man would come up and beat her too!
If he actually punched her, she would die! The pain from the hit she received from Yan Jinchang made her feel like she was going to die from the pain!
The strength clenched in Yan Dongsheng’s trembling hands was not something that Qi Chunlan, with her feeble strength, could compare with!
"Take her away!" Yan Jinhao bellowed.
The police, upon hearing this, immediately moved to arrest someone—
"No, no, I don’t want to go to jail, they—they have already beaten people, why should I be arrested and go to jail?? Daughter, my dear daughter, save me—"
Seeing the uniformed officer charging at her, Lin Zhaodi screamed in fright, and forgetting to feign pain lying on the ground, she sprang up agilely, trying to hide behind her husband. Yet, Zhang Zhiguo heartlessly moved aside, completely indifferent to her fate!