Li Rongjuan acted quickly. She took the key and ran out soon after, asking, "Take a look, see if it’s right."
Qiao Yuxiang understood Li Rongjuan well. "No need to look."
Nothing was more important than her leg right now. She looked at the Brigade Leader, her eyes filled with urgency.
The Brigade Leader didn’t delay further. "Wang Jianhui and Li Rongjuan, accompany her. After all, she is from your Zhiqing Point."
Since the Brigade Leader had spoken, neither of them could refuse.
As the oxcart departed, everyone began to discuss noisily, "What exactly happened here?"
"We’re not too clear either. We called her for breakfast this morning and saw she hadn’t woken up. Thinking she didn’t have to work today, we saved her meal. Who would have thought that when we came back, we’d hear her shouting?"
"This is too strange. Could she have gone out last night? But if that were the case, you guys didn’t hear anything at all?"
"I don’t think that’s possible. If she really had gone out, how could she have gotten back with a broken leg?"
"That’s why this whole thing is so odd."
"This Qiao from the Zhiqing Point doesn’t have much interaction with us villagers. How could something happen to her?"
"I did notice her always heading south. Could she have provoked someone?"
"That’s hard to say."
"She must have provoked someone she shouldn’t have. Otherwise, how could her leg have been broken so secretly, without her even knowing it herself? How is that possible?"
"This is terrifying! If that person can just come and go from the Zhiqing Point as they please, isn’t it extremely unsafe?"
"True. And other young women from the Zhiqing Point live in that house too. It’s fortunate nothing else happened."
As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of everyone from the Zhiqing Point turned grim. In their hearts, they utterly detested Qiao Yuxiang.
Deng Xiaojie’s expression upon hearing the news was frightening. Finally, someone else’s reputation was ruined, just like hers.
She perversely thought to herself, Why should I be the only educated youth sent to the countryside to live in hell? Now the others from the Zhiqing Point won’t have it easy either.
So, she changed her clothes, hiding the bruises Pockmarked Zhang had left on her the previous night. She then hurried out the door, determined to drag everyone down to hell with her. Follow current novels on NoveI[F]ire.net
Meanwhile, the Brigade Leader had taken Qiao Yuxiang to the commune health clinic. The doctor examined her and then stated, "The doctor who can perform surgery has gone to the city for further studies. This injury is too severe; you should go to the county hospital."
Having no other choice, they had Old Lock turn the oxcart around and head for the county hospital.
He rushed Qiao Yuxiang to the county hospital. Then, not daring to delay a moment longer, he hurried to the Public Security Bureau and filed a report. After all, this was no small matter.
He was the Brigade Leader. With an incident occurring, he had to provide an explanation to the Zhiqing Point and the commune members.
Anyway, with the incident involving Xu Wenchang, Songling Village had no hope of being recognized as an advanced brigade.
The veteran public security officer who attended to him had never encountered such a case in all his years of service. Someone capable of injuring a person so covertly?
They accompanied Brigade Leader Qiao Yougen to the hospital. First, they questioned Li Rongjuan and Wang Jianhui, who had come along. After all, one was the leader of the Zhiqing Point, and the other shared a room with the victim.
However, they didn’t obtain any useful information. They only learned that Qiao Yuxiang didn’t like to get close to people, never confided in anyone from the Zhiqing Point, and was somewhat of a loner.
Afterward, to investigate the case as quickly as possible, they first went to Songling Village. After a round of inquiries, the accounts were largely consistent. However, several commune members mentioned having seen Qiao from the Zhiqing Point heading south alone on multiple occasions.
The investigating public security officer thought, This could be a breakthrough. However, the answer to this could only come from Qiao Yuxiang herself.