Meng Chuyue didn’t anticipate such a stunning twist in events.
However, she welcomed it with great pleasure.
The police station immediately dispatched five officers to Phoenix District to apprehend Meng Jingfen.
Since Meng Jingfen was a woman, two of the officers were female police.
At this time, the Meng Jinhua family had already gone to bed.
Meng Jinhua, Fu Hongfang, and Meng Hui were watching television in the living room.
Meng Yajun was reading, engrossed in a light novel.
He was supposed to be self-studying, but had missed two supplementary classes already, and was feeling so agitated that even the sight of schoolbooks gave him a headache.
He could only resort to reading for pleasure.
Meng Jingfen was in the bathroom, practicing drawing her eyebrows.
She used to think she did a decent job with her brows, but after overhearing colleagues saying behind her back that her eyebrows looked like caterpillars just the day before, her confidence had shattered.
Ever since then, she’d been trying to perfect her eyebrow makeup whenever she had the time.
Because of many failed attempts, the skin beneath her eyebrows had reddened from her frequent wiping with tissues.
When the police volunteers were led into the house by a decidedly panic-stricken Meng Jinhua, she had just finished drawing one eyebrow and was about to start on the other when she heard that the police were looking for her, scaring her almost out of her wits.
My God, could it be that Lin Fangwei’s kidney theft had been exposed?
Was she going to prison?
In such a case, how many years would she have to serve?
Please, let it not be too long, she can’t come out old and faded.
Life would be meaningless by then.
Dazed, Meng Jingfen emerged from the bathroom with only one eyebrow drawn, and before she even opened her mouth, she heard Fu Hongfang, sitting desolately on the floor, crying out, "No, you must be mistaken, my Jingfen is definitely not a trafficker, she’s not acquainted with Fu Peng, and I don’t even know that Feng Shan, let alone be involved."
Fu Hongfang was sitting on the floor because she had fainted from shock.
After the police officers revived her by pinching her philtrum, she immediately began defending Meng Jingfen.
Her character was not the best, but she truly loved her children.
Realizing the accusation wasn’t about organ theft, Meng Jingfen breathed a sigh of relief.
She wasn’t a trafficker, she had nothing to fear.
When the officers saw her, the chief scrutinized her and asked sternly, "Are you Meng Jingfen?"
Calmly, Meng Jingfen responded, "Yes, I am, what’s the matter?"
"We’ve caught two traffickers today, and they’ve accused you of being their accomplice. We need to take you in for investigation," one officer said.
Meng Jingfen had her defense strategy ready, "I haven’t, I have never done such a thing. You mentioned those two traffickers were Fu Peng and Feng Shan, right? If so, I can tell you with certainty that it’s a false accusation stemming from their failure to borrow money from me."
This was Meng Jingfen’s strategy for deflection.
Of course, the comrades from the police wouldn’t believe her word alone.
But Meng Jinhua and the others did.
Meng Jinhua quickly came to her defense, "My daughter doesn’t know Fu Peng or Feng Shan, there’s no way she’s their accomplice."
The police chief responded, "We’ll need to conduct a further investigation. Rest assured, we won’t let a guilty person go nor will we wrong an innocent one."
One of the female officers chimed in, "If you cooperate, we can help you maintain some discretion, or else you’ll have to be handcuffed."
Listening to the increasingly loud noises outside the door, Meng Jingfen conceded, "Fine, I’ll go with you, but I’m really being framed, so please take a moment later to explain to our neighbors that I haven’t committed a crime."
The police officers agreed readily.
Meng Jingfen wasn’t the first person to make such a request.
Besides, the case wasn’t closed yet, and Meng Jingfen wasn’t yet a convicted felon.
Meng Jingfen thought the police would just take her away, but they produced a search warrant to search her room. They explained it was because Fu Peng, in his accusation, had said, "She’s been working with us for several years and has already taken her share of over a hundred thousand yuan."