Chapter 59: A Murder on the Beach

Zhang Yuandong rushed to the reef, and after talking to the children for a while, he quickly drove them back with a serious expression.

When he put on a stern face, he was still quite intimidating. The children all lowered their heads and listened to his lecture obediently, but when they heard Zhang Yuandong tell them to go home, they still resisted a little.

Zhang Yuandong pretended to be about to get angry, “If you don’t leave, the police will come soon, and you’ll all have to go to the police station!” He also kicked the biggest child lightly with his foot.

The group of kids who had just been muttering “Why should we listen to you” all ran away.

Lin Yue saw that none of the children were missing, and thought that nothing serious had happened. Seeing that the group of kids had all gone, she went up to him and asked casually, “What happened to them, are they okay?”

Zhang Yuandong looked solemn and said to Lin Yue in a low voice, “A body was found over there, you and the children can’t stay here. I’ll take you to the nearby village first, and I’ll take you back after the police take over.”

Lin Yue was startled and asked in a low voice, “What happened, can you tell me?” Seeing that Zhang Yuandong’s brows were even more furrowed, she was afraid that her question would involve secrets, and quickly said, “I can ride a motorcycle, you don’t have to send me, I can take the children back first. But will you be in danger here by yourself?”

Zhang Yuandong breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, “That’s the best, don’t worry, judging from the condition of the body, it shouldn’t be a matter of these few days, it should be safe now. I can’t leave now, you take the children to the nearby village to call the police, and then go home. I may not be able to go back tonight, but don’t worry, I will definitely find a chance to go back in the next few days.”

Lin Yue nodded, left the rake for him, it could at least be used for self-defense, and also gave him a few candies, and gave him a few words of advice.

Seeing that she was about to ride away on the sidecar, Zhang Yuandong grabbed her arm and said in a low voice, “So many people saw it here just now, this matter will spread sooner or later. I didn’t want to answer you just now, it’s just that I don’t know the details, I don’t know if it was murder or an accident. When I get home, I’ll tell you what I can say.”

Moreover, although the body had been soaked in seawater and swollen and rotten, he still vaguely felt that the person looked familiar, and suspected that the deceased was related to the enemy agents he was investigating.

Lin Yue had just asked casually, she hadn’t thought about it at all, but she didn’t expect him to take her feelings into consideration and explain so much to her.

Seeing his anxious look, Lin Yue felt a sour and swelling in her chest, her heart involuntarily thumped twice.

She flustered and waved her hand, “No, no need, you have your own discipline, I understand.” Her movements were a little big, and the handlebars tilted, luckily there was a sidecar next to it, and the car didn’t tilt over.

Zhang Yuandong helped her stabilize the handlebars, and then felt uneasy, he took out a few unused sacks and wanted to fix the two children in the car seat.

Lin Yue quickly stopped him, took out two old bed sheets from the space, got off the car and made a restraint belt for each of the two children with him, which served as a kind of safety belt.

Lin Yue’s so-called “knowing how to ride a motorcycle” was really just knowing how to ride. Luckily, the sidecar wouldn’t fall over, she fumbled around for a while and got familiar with it, she put her hand on the throttle and was about to rush out, Zhang Yuandong quickly stepped forward to stop her, “This thing will affect the balance, you’re riding for the first time, don’t be in a hurry, just go slowly.”

There were also two children in the car, Lin Yue also knew that she couldn’t go fast, just now because she was too flustered in front of him, she accidentally stepped on the accelerator to the maximum.

She nodded, no longer daring to be careless, she adjusted her sitting posture again and drove away slowly.

She rode the car to the nearby village and borrowed a phone to call the police at the brigade headquarters.

Because she was riding a sidecar, the few village cadres on duty agreed very readily, but when they heard her report, their faces turned very ugly. Their village was too close to the beach, they were worried that there would be danger in the village, and they kept asking Lin Yue questions.

Lin Yue understood them very well, but she really didn’t know much, she could only ask them to wait for the investigation results of the police station.

Lin Yue’s family went to the beach, and some things happened in the village.

The news about the relief grain had been circulating in the village for a few days, but the grain hadn’t been transported for a day, and everyone’s hearts were uneasy.

Today, the relief grain finally arrived, it was just transported back this morning, and when the villagers heard the news, they rushed to the brigade headquarters. They couldn’t wait for another time, they insisted on getting the grain now.

Zhang Zhiqiang had no choice but to have someone beat the gong in the village to notify everyone to come to the brigade headquarters to collect grain.

Except for Lin Yue’s family, almost every household in the village had someone at home, and when they heard that they were going to collect grain, they quickly rushed to the brigade headquarters, not one of them was dragging their feet.

The relief grain was also distributed according to work points, because things were urgent, the accountant had to calculate on the spot, every time he read a household head’s name, he had to quickly calculate the amount that should be distributed, check it and then distribute the grain.

This made the process very slow, but no one urged him, they were afraid that if he was in a hurry, he would miscalculate again.

Because Zhang Yuandong’s food relationship was not in the village, he didn’t go to collect grain.

It was always Lin Yue’s name that was called out in the village for such matters.

Since Lin Yue’s family was not there, Zhang Zhiqiang had the grain stored in the warehouse and said they could go and collect it when they came back.

Sun Hongmei heard that Lin Yue’s family was not there, and her mind became active again.

She had a lot of little thoughts, but unfortunately, everyone in the village knew that the relationship between the two families was not good, and they wouldn’t let her have her way.

She knew that even if she, the biological mother, went to help her son collect the grain, Zhang Zhiqiang wouldn’t agree to give her the grain.

Sun Hongmei rolled her eyes and said to her twin sons, “Your elder brother is not at home, there is no one to collect the grain, don’t let them be left with nothing at the end, you two go and collect it for them, and send it back to them later.”

The two brothers looked at their mother suspiciously, not quite believing that she would be so kind.

Sun Hongmei said angrily, “What are you two little brats thinking? No matter what, he is my son, it’s okay for our own family to have a little quarrel behind closed doors, how can I just watch them being bullied by others?”

The two brothers thought that was right, they would just collect the grain and send it to their elder brother’s family as soon as possible, so that their mother wouldn’t have the chance to play tricks.

Zhang Zhiqiang knew that the two children were good kids, and they were also close to Zhang Yuandong, they were not the same kind of people as their parents.

Knowing their thoughts, he didn’t want to hurt the children’s feelings, so he agreed without much hesitation.

Just as the two of them had loaded the grain onto the small cart and were about to go to their elder brother’s house, Zhang Zhiwei came over.

He came in and started scolding, insisting that the two of them push their own grain back first.

Don’t look at Zhang Zhiwei’s honest and simple appearance outside, he is actually very domineering at home, he doesn’t usually manage things, but as soon as he speaks, everyone in the family has to listen to him, he has the air of the head of the family.

No matter how clever and intelligent the two children were, they were still only teenagers, as soon as their father got angry, they couldn’t resist at all, they could only obey.

In the end, after going back and forth, more than half of their elder brother’s grain was gone.

The two brothers were immediately dumbfounded, they had also considered that this was a trap set by their mother for them, but they didn’t expect their mother to be so greedy, she directly took away more than half of the grain.

The two of them went home to reason with their parents, but how could Sun Hongmei and her husband spit out what they had swallowed? No matter how much their two sons argued, they insisted that there was only their own grain at home, and that they hadn’t taken anyone else’s.

The twins were both angry and self-blaming, and they were also ashamed to have such parents.

But their resistance was useless, after all, they were small and weak, and what they said was not taken seriously by their parents, not only did they not get the grain back, they were also beaten up for nothing.

By the time Lin Yue learned about this, it was already the afternoon.

She was now worried about Zhang Yuandong, she didn’t have time to care about the grain.

Moreover, she knew very well that as a daughter-in-law who had already been driven out, if she went to ask for grain, it would definitely cause a lot of trouble, so she simply didn’t bother with it, she would wait for Zhang Yuandong to come back and talk about it.

In the middle of the night, Lin Yue couldn’t sleep, she kept thinking about things in her heart, the more she thought, the more she couldn’t sleep, she simply endured until the second half of the night.

She was tossing and turning on the kang, when she suddenly heard voices coming from outside.

She quickly went out, and by the bright moonlight, she saw Zhang Yuandong saying goodbye to his colleagues through the half-collapsed courtyard wall of her own house.

Lin Yue’s heart finally settled down.

The courtyard door was not closed, Zhang Yuandong pushed open the courtyard door, and saw Lin Yue standing at the door of the house waiting for him.

It was late at night and the wind was cold, she was wearing a set of dark blue old cloth clothes, with a yellowish coat over it, and she was also holding a dim kerosene lamp in her hand.

This was the first time that someone had waited for him to come home late at night, a wave of warmth swept through Zhang Yuandong’s heart.

It was a scene that was common in other people’s homes, but it was the part that was most lacking in his life.

He took a few steps forward, his hand reached out halfway, then awkwardly retracted it again.

He asked, “It’s so late, haven’t you been sleeping?”

Lin Yue softly hummed, “I’m a little worried.”

She was born under the red flag and grew up in the spring breeze, she couldn’t say that she had never seen death, but from Zhang Yuandong’s reaction, it was not difficult to guess that this matter was not simple.

This was the first time she had truly come into contact with this kind of thing, she was not only afraid, but also worried about Zhang Yuandong’s safety.

Zhang Yuandong curled his fingers as if he wanted to grab the feeling at this moment, his voice unconsciously softened and softened again, “I’m back, don’t worry. It’s too cold outside, let’s go inside.”

Lin Yue nodded and went into the house first.

Zhang Yuandong followed behind her, his gaze always following her figure.

From the moment he knew her identity, he had decided to dedicate his whole life to repaying the person in front of him.

But now, he increasingly felt that the identity of a guardian alone was no longer enough to satisfy him, he wanted to go further.

But how to go further, to what extent, he didn’t know himself.

He only knew that recently, he had a strange feeling in his heart, making his heart restless.

He couldn’t help but call out to her.

Lin Yue turned around, looked at him questioningly, waiting for him to speak.