Chapter 160: Scars
Ling Li never said a word to Shi Meina.
Even if they have met repeatedly in the past eight years at the court session, even if they know that each other's fates are deeply involved, they have never talked.
Therefore, when she saw Shi Meina at close range and heard her voice with her own ears, Ling Li still had the illusion of a dream.
Shi Meina's voice is very special, not coquettish, not soft, and even a little rough, but it is not hoarse and ugly.
Her voice was as clean and clean as her person, and even the thin lip and tooth sounds came out of her mouth with a sonorous meaning.
Placing the two cups of tea in front of Shi Meina's mother and daughter, Ling Li also sat down on the sofa, waiting for Shi Meina to speak.
Shi Meina didn't rush to speak, glanced at Ling Li, and then turned her head to look at Zhong Zhuowen: "Wenwen, when adults talk about things, don't get involved, go home first." ”
Zhong Zhuowen, who had always pretended to be an adult in front of Ling Li, was understated by her mother, so she honestly hung her head and went out, so obedient that she couldn't be obedient anymore.
Hearing her footsteps disappear into the corridor, Shi Meina stroked the broken hair on the side of her ear, the corners of her mouth raised a polite and proud arc, and said lightly: "I only learned yesterday that Wenwen has secretly come to you these days, I'm really sorry." ”
Ling Li also smiled politely and detachedly: "It's okay, children, many things can be forgiven." ”
Shi Meina was noncommittal, lowered her eyes and picked up the tea on the table, smacked her mouth gently, and frowned slightly.
Judging from her expression, it was probably because the temperature of the freshly brewed tea was a little high, and she was burned.
The brief pleasantries at the beginning were followed by a dozen minutes of silence.
Ling Li sat on the other side of the sofa, glancing at Shi Meina from time to time.
At the first court session, Shi Meina's impression of Ling Li was just a vague back with long hair and waist. When Zhong Chengheng saw her when he appealed for the first time, her long hair became short hair that was not ear-catching.
At that time, Ling Li didn't realize that this woman would have such a big impact on the case.
A few months after the sentence was announced, Shimena seemed to have her hair back and would hang down to her cheeks.
In terms of appearance, although Shi Meina is not as beautiful as her sister Ling Ling, she is also a temperament beauty with good facial features and elegant temperament.
In terms of personal temperament, Shi Meina, who is rigid and soft, is obviously more compatible with a man like Zhong Chengheng who is so sharp that he can sting people's eyes.
Ling Li knew that Shi Meina's coming this time must be related to Zhou Qingchun's sudden death.
Regarding the death of Officer Zhou, there has been a lot of uproar these days, and all kinds of news have been circulating, but such a big news has not been reported in the newspaper, and there is no official report. Behind this, there seems to be another mystery hidden that she doesn't know.
I don't know what Shi Meina wanted to say when she came this time, or if the purpose was the same as Zhong Zhuowen, which was to persuade her to participate in the rehabilitation of Zhong Chengheng.
Thinking of this, Ling Li was a little unwilling.
This family has brought an uproar to her life, she has never apologized before, and now there is a place where she can be used, so she has come to the door again and again, Rao is she has been persuading herself to uphold a normal heart to know how to empathize, not to be angry in this matter, but she can't stand being annoyed by them like this.
So, she couldn't hold her breath at first, and opened her mouth with a prickly sentence: "I heard that you still want to remarry Zhong Chengheng?" In that case, why did you agree to divorce him in the first place? If you live together for the rest of your life, you won't let him harm others. ”
Shi Meina was slightly stunned, and then smiled faintly, the embarrassment, anger, and discomfort that Ling Li expected did not appear on her face.
Then, she stared at Ling Li and said slowly: "You and your sister are very different." ”
There was no joy, no anger, no resentment, and no ridicule in that voice, as if it was just narrating a fact, and there was no emotion, but it made Ling Li extremely angry.
Shi Meina was able to mention Ling Ling so indifferently, obviously she didn't care about that past for a long time, she had to step on someone's painful feet, not only did she not step on it, but she almost stumbled, and she fell behind in just one sentence.
Looking at Ling Li's annoyed look, Shi Meina put down the teacup in her hand and sighed: "You are this year's Mengshan Tongue, Ming Qian Tea, but it is a good thing, it is rare on the market, where did you buy it?" ”
This is clearly easing the atmosphere. However, Ling Li had forgotten whether this tea was given to her by Tian Zhengyan or Nan Zhiyi, and she had just opened it and had not drunk it a few times.
She doesn't know much about tea, she only knows that this tea is fragrant and sweet, and compared to the heavy mouth of bamboo leaves, obviously this light flavor is more suitable for her.
She had no choice but to shake her head: "I don't know, my friend sent it." ”
Ling Li thought that Shi Meina would say a few more words about tea to ease the atmosphere, but who knew that as soon as she opened her mouth, she directly answered Ling Li's question just now.
"Your sister once said that the one who is not loved is the third party. Although I don't agree with her words that she should set up an archway, but the two of them join forces to deal with one, and I am weak, what else can I do? If you are unwilling, you can only let go, and if you don't let go of others, where can you let yourself go? If I didn't come to my senses back then, I was afraid that they would be fine, and I would have gone crazy first. ”
Listening to her smile and say this paragraph in the same indifferent tone, Ling Li was silent.
Shi Meina downplayed the events of that year for a while, but Ling Li knew that Shi Meina's counterattack at the beginning was not unintense.
As for what kind of person her sister Ling Ling is, Ling Li only had a clear understanding when she was sixteen years old.
Ling Ling is innocent and pitiful on the surface, but in fact, she is very calculating in her heart, and her every move has a purpose.
She is indeed outstanding in appearance, she is smart and talkative, and it is very face-saving for men to take out, and since she was a girl, there has been an endless stream of people pursuing her.
The White Lotus Green Tea is very deceptive, and the men just eat it.
Before hooking up with Zhong Chengheng, Ling Ling had been involved with several men, the other party was either powerful or rich, Ling Ling relied on them, and climbed up step by step. When he met a character like Zhong Chengheng, who was as smart as Ling Ling, he naturally refused to let go.
Unfortunately, this time her opponent is not the wife of the mine owner who does not know a few words, nor is it the hotel proprietress who only knows how to cry, make trouble and hang herself in the first Chinese, she is facing Shi Meina, who is as smart as her.
Before the case, Shi Meina was a financial manager of a large state-owned enterprise, with a stable job and a lot of income, and she was a real strong woman.
How could a woman in her early thirties sit in that position be a good match?
Shi Meina actually noticed Ling Ling's behavior of robbing her husband very early.
However, after she noticed the reluctance of the two, she first remained silent for more than half a year, and then secretly investigated, digging deep into one thing after another, and put the ugly things such as Ling Ling being raised by the coal mine boss during her college years, relying on a senior doctoral supervisor of Funan University to enter the Affiliated Hospital of Funan University, etc., were all placed in front of Zhong Chengheng.
This is just a few improper relationships, Ling Ling enjoys the material and vanity provided to her by a man of status, and has a nominal boyfriend, talking about pure campus love with peace of mind.
The most important thing is that all her men think that he is the only one for her.
In today's terms, she's a green tea with great means.
However, Zhong Chengheng was so determined that he didn't look back.
Shi Meina had no choice but to stab Ling Ling as a junior back to the Ling family, wanting the people of the Ling family to put pressure on Ling Ling and force her to leave Zhong Chengheng.
The eldest daughter, who had high hopes for herself, actually did such an unbearable thing, and Ling Jiashu was so angry that she almost died of a myocardial infarction.
It was also at that time that Ling Li knew that her sister, who was close to her, turned out to be such a monster.
Later, I don't know what, the ugliness of the family became public, and everyone knew that the eldest sister of the Ling family had been a junior for a long time and destroyed other people's families. Ling Jiashu felt disgraced, his temper became more and more irritable, and his body deteriorated.
Once Ling Li came home from self-study at night, and after seeing her father and sister arguing, she was so angry that her hands and feet did not obey the call and kept trembling, and she couldn't sit steadily, so scared that she couldn't sleep all night.
Since then, my father's hands have trembled so much that he can't hold the needle, and in the Ling family's clinic, there is no longer a treatment of intravenous infusion, and business is getting worse and worse.
Thinking of the past, Ling Li's heart was astringent.
Although Shi Meina's methods are also disgraceful, this is completely caused by Ling Ling's behavior of robbing other people's husbands.
In the end, it was because of Ling Ling's selfish desires that the family was implicated. And for this, Ling Li couldn't let go of it no matter what.
What love is supreme, what is desperate, what is destined, is just an excuse for her to fall in love with other people's good things and say that her behavior of digging into the wall is above board.
Moreover, the most ironic thing is that after a fight, Shi Meina finally withdrew, signed a divorce agreement, took the money and moved out of the Zhong family with her daughter, but there was no common foreign enemy, Zhong Chengheng and Ling Ling, but their relationship was no longer suspicious, and they quarreled for three days.
Even, Ling Ling also knocked out a pair of twins.
It is said that the three generations of the Zhong family have been passed down alone, and when it comes to Zhong Chengheng's generation, it is a single seedling. However, after marriage, she only gave birth to Zhong Zhuowen, the eldest daughter, and Shi Meina was not suitable to get pregnant again because of heavy bleeding during childbirth.
For other enlightened families, maybe boys and girls are the same, but for the Zhong family, which has a strong clan concept from Chaoshan, it is very different.
Therefore, when Ling Ling privately beat a pair of twins and was still a pair of sons, this behavior completely annoyed Zhong Chengheng.
This is a reasonable deduction of Zhong Chengheng's motive for committing the crime by the public prosecutors and prosecutors, and it is also derived from Zhong Chengheng's first three guilty confessions.
Similarly, this is the fundamental reason why after the court made a not-guilty verdict, Ling Li still believes that Zhong Chengheng is the real murderer.
In the past eight years, although some of Officer Zhou's behaviors have caused her trouble, he has said more than once that in Zhong Chengheng's case, he has absolutely not tortured to extract confessions, and everything is Zhong Chengheng's own confession.
The police's mistake lies in the fact that there were no strict evidentiary standards eight years ago, and when Zhong Chengheng was interrogated, the regulations that the entire process must be recorded and videotaped have not been implemented.
Therefore, Zhong Chengheng pointed out that he was tortured to extract a confession, and it happened that he also had some scars on his body, coupled with the lack of objective evidence collected by the police, which caused flaws and doubts in the case.
Of course, Shi Meina's guidance to incite public opinion, as well as her eight-year struggle, are also important reasons why Zhong Chengheng was acquitted.
As if knowing what Ling Li was thinking at this moment, Shi Meina leaned back with her arms around her, leaned her back into the sofa cushion, and then said indifferently: "Cheng Heng admitted that he was guilty because he thought that the person who did it was me, so he would bear it with all his might." It was precisely because of his act that I let go of his previous betrayal and fought for eight years to prevent him from being sentenced to death. ”