Ye Bingyu took a deep breath. "Did your wife say anything to you yesterday?"
Zhang Baosheng replied with some confusion, "Did something happen?"
After speaking, he remembered that his wife had indeed been acting strangely yesterday, lying in bed all morning without getting up, claiming she wasn’t feeling well.
Ye Bingyu asked, "How did your second daughter go missing back then?"
Zhang Baosheng didn’t understand why he would ask that. "We were doing a big cleanup at home, and it was only after we finished that we realized the little girl was gone."
Ye Bingyu struggled to suppress the urge to curse. "I heard that after you returned to your hometown, you left the child with your parents and never gave her a shred of love from you or your wife. Is that right?"
The more Zhang Baosheng listened, the more baffled he became, but he understood that Ye Bingyu wouldn’t call for no reason. "Bingyu, what exactly are you trying to say?"
Ye Bingyu didn’t know whether Zhang Baosheng had just gone with the flow back then or had truly been ignorant, but the fact that they hadn’t treated their own daughter right was unforgivable to him. Orıginal content can be found at 𝔫𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔩⁂𝖿𝗂𝗋𝖾⁂𝔫𝔢𝔱
Zhang Baosheng was stunned. "Bingyu, what exactly happened?"
Ye Bingyu did not reveal anything. After all, long-distance calls were connected by telephone operators, and he didn’t want their family’s business to become a joke for others. "If you want to know what happened, go back and ask your wife."
With that, he hung up the phone.
Zhang Baosheng’s cheerful mood had vanished. After hanging up, he ran home as fast as his legs could carry him.
Fang Zhichun was still hiding in bed. She was terrified, unable to understand why someone would investigate something that happened years ago, especially someone who seemed to know the inside story. If the truth really came out, how could their family face anyone?
Thinking back to when the village loudspeaker had called her husband to answer the phone, she was in a state of panic. If Zhang Baosheng found out what she had done, she truly couldn’t bear to imagine the consequences.
Just as her head felt like it was about to split from worry, the door was forcefully pushed open from the outside. Startled, she looked up at the doorway and saw Zhang Baosheng walk in with a grim face.
Her heart skipped a beat. "Baosheng, what’s wrong?"
Zhang Baosheng strode up to her. "I’m asking you, what exactly have you been hiding from me?"
Hearing his words and thinking of the earlier phone call, Fang Zhichun felt a sense of doom. It’s over. But she still tried to feign composure. "Baosheng, what do you mean by that?"
Zhang Baosheng had no patience for her games. "If you don’t speak now, you’ll have to talk to the police."
When Fang Zhichun heard the words "the police," she jumped in fright. "Baosheng, I..."
Zhang Baosheng’s last bit of patience ran out. "What exactly did you do? Spit it out now!"
This was the first time since their marriage that Zhang Baosheng had ever been this angry with her. Her eyes welled up with tears. "Baosheng, don’t be angry. I... I really have been hiding something from you."
The Ye Family’s daughter wasn’t swapped by me, she thought. At most, I just switched my own daughter with my sister-in-law’s daughter. As long as my sister-in-law doesn’t pursue it, there shouldn’t be any problem, right?
Originally, she had it all planned out. If this was exposed, she would vehemently deny seeing Qin Lijuan switch the children. She would just say she accidentally mixed up her own daughter with her sister-in-law’s, claiming that little children all look so similar.
But she hadn’t foreseen what happened the night before last. She didn’t expect that person to be violent. It threw her previous excuses into disarray, and the excruciating pain made her panic. Just thinking about it filled her with anxiety and frustration.