The police station personnel did not say anything at the time, but news soon came from the hospital ward: Zou Xiaojun had been resuscitated by Shen Ci using acupuncture.
When he woke up, he told everyone that it was Eldest Brother Zou who had removed his oxygen mask; he had seen it while he was struggling.
Attempted murder with suspected complicity, even if not complicity, was giving false testimony.
The comrades at the police station decided to arrest all the Zou family relatives and friends including Old Madam Zou for questioning.
Eldest Brother Zou immediately protested, "It wasn’t me, Xiaojun must have seen wrong."
The Zou family’s relatives and friends also testified in his favor.
"Yes, yes, he must have seen wrong. We can prove that he really didn’t go out just now."
"Yes, it’s very likely to see wrong under those circumstances."
Captain Lee sneered, "We found Zhou Daguo’s fingerprints on the oxygen mask."
Brother Zhou urgently retorted, "Impossible. I was covering my hands with cloth at the time; there couldn’t be any fingerprints..."
He didn’t finish his sentence when he realized he had incriminated himself and slumped to the ground.
Shen Ci and Meng Chuyue were speechless.
If they had known he was this stupid, they wouldn’t have placed the recording pen in their room.
But no, the recordings from the pen could be used against Old Madam Zou and the Zou family relatives and friends.
In the end, the comrades from the police station took Old Madam Zou and the Zou family relatives and friends away.
After all the unrelated people had dispersed, Shen Ci handed over the recording pen to Zou Xiaojun to negotiate with Mr. Zou and Mrs. Zou.
No one knew how they talked about it, but the next morning Mr. Zou went to see Old Madam Zou at the police station and then proposed to withdraw the charges.
In the afternoon, Zou Xiaojun told Shen Ci and Meng Chuyue with a smile, "My grandma promised my dad that she won’t bother our family anymore. From now on, she will live with my uncle, and my family will give her a hundred yuan per month as living expenses."
Shen Ci nodded, "Then, will you still go with us to Imperial? Or do you want to study here and let them go ahead?"
Zou Xiaojun shook his head, "I want to drop out and retake the exams like Muyang. Anyway, even if I don’t get into a university, I won’t worry about finding a job, right?"
"That’s also fine, but they still need to go first because you need to stay here for tutoring until the end of the year."
Shen Ci deliberately did not tell him that he and Meng Chuyue planned to stay in Hai City for a while longer to, on one hand, train tutors for the father and son duo, Song Zhitin and Song Yan’s tutoring classes, and on the other hand, to help Han Muyang finish this period’s tutoring."
Indeed, influenced by Meng Chuyue’s suggestion, Song Yan and Song Zhitin decided to open a large tutoring school.
Five days later, Han Zheng took Zou Xiaojun’s parents along with his younger brother and sister to Imperial.
Zou Xiaohua was in the first year of high school, and the youngest sister Zou Xiaoqing was in the first grade of elementary school; Han Zheng helped them with the transfer procedures, taking care of all their concerns.
However, after deciding to go to Imperial, Mr. and Mrs. Zou decided to use their savings to open a steamed bun shop instead of depending on Shen Ci for their livelihood.
Everyone thought this was a good idea and sincerely praised it.
It was also at this time that Zou Xiaojun learned that Shen Ci and Meng Chuyue were both going to stay in Hai City.
He was almost bursting with happiness.
But what he didn’t know was that the happiest person was Shen Ci.
Without Han Zheng supervising, he could freely date his Yueyue again.
This time period had really frustrated him.
Ah, it seemed like they could get married right away, but what a pity Han Zheng insisted they wait until Yueyue’s age on her ID card reached twenty.
No, he had to change Yueyue’s age on her ID card to her real age, then it wouldn’t be long before they could get married.
Because of this idea, Shen Ci began discussing with Meng Chuyue about changing their names.
Regarding this matter, the main change was the surname, which they had mentioned many times before.
However, because Shen Ci did not want to take the surname Song and preferred to follow Wei Lan’s surname, Song Ting told him, "Your grandmother’s surname is also Shen; if you are too lazy to change it, you can continue to use Shen."
The parents favored the elder brother, so Song Ting did not obsess over what surname to use.
And he knew that Shen Ci had many properties in his name, and changing the surname would be very troublesome.