Chapter 25: Trouble Comes from the Mouth

【What does the streamer mean? Is she saying the little girl fell into the cesspit?】

【To be honest, that’s really possible! If she did fall in, it would explain why the police searched the whole village and couldn’t find her.】

【Ah? No way!】

“Ma—Master, do you mean… my granddaughter is… in there?” Chen Xiufen asked in a trembling voice.

Shen Chujin sighed, “Yes.”

She never expected to ultimately find the little girl’s body there.

“You’re talking nonsense!” Chen Xiufen’s son, Jiang Mingtao, immediately got angry.

He glared at Shen Chujin on the screen. “My daughter hates bad smells. How could she possibly run so far from home to play near the cesspit all alone?”

Shen Chujin looked coolly at the man she didn’t think much of.

“As soon as you clean out what’s inside, you’ll naturally know if what I’m saying is true.”

Besides, who said the little girl came here to play on her own?

“If you dare trick me, I won’t let you off!”

Jiang Mingtao fell silent for a moment, then said one sentence and turned to leave.

“Where are you going?” his wife hurriedly asked.

Jiang Mingtao replied with a serious face, “To borrow a sewage pump.”

The cesspit was large, and trying to scoop out the waste by hand would take a very long time.

Just after he left, a middle-aged couple arrived.

They were slightly older than Chen Xiufen.

Seeing the newcomers, Shen Chujin’s eyes grew meaningful.

“Xiufen, why are you out here at night in my vegetable field?” Jiang Guoliang asked in confusion.

“Big brother, Lingling is missing. We asked a master for a reading, and she said… Lingling is in your family’s cesspit.”

Although unwilling to believe it, since there was finally a clue about her granddaughter, they had to check it out no matter what.

Of course, Chen Xiufen prayed in her heart that Master Shen was a fraud and everything she said was wrong.

Because if she was right, it meant her granddaughter had already…

Thinking of this, Chen Xiufen’s eyes filled with tears.

“That’s complete nonsense! Lingling could never fall into the cesspit. I think you’ve probably been scammed.”

Jiang Guoliang’s wife, Yang Huaqiong, glanced sharply, then quickly walked over to Chen Xiufen and linked her arm.

“Xiufen, I’m not trying to criticize you, but no matter how worried you are about Lingling, you shouldn’t believe in this kind of crooked, deceitful nonsense. Didn’t you see the news? Just a few days ago, someone blindly trusted a fake fortune teller, treated talisman papers like magic medicine, delayed real treatment, and a small illness turned into a serious one — and they died.”

Yang Huaqiong seriously patted Chen Xiufen on the shoulder. “I know you’re worried about Lingling, but right now, the most important thing is not to lose your head. You should go home and rest early. Tomorrow, we’ll all help you look.”

“Heh, aren’t you the one who knows best where the little girl is?”

Just as Yang Huaqiong tried to pull Chen Xiufen away, a cold, mocking voice suddenly came from Chen Xiufen’s phone.

“Who? Who’s speaking?” Yang Huaqiong was startled.

Chen Xiufen pointed at the phone screen. “This is Master Shen.”

But then…

“Master Shen, what did you mean by what you just said?”

Shen Chujin raised her chin and nodded slightly toward Yang Huaqiong, then said, “The person who killed your granddaughter has been found.”

Chen Xiufen and her daughter-in-law all showed expressions of disbelief.

“You… you’re saying… Lingling was killed by my…”

Chen Xiufen glanced at Yang Huaqiong, her voice trembling, “my sister-in-law?”

“That’s right.”

Upon hearing this, Yang Huaqiong’s pupils suddenly constricted.

Her heart pounded wildly.

How could this be?

The police found no evidence against her, so how could this young girl know?!

She struggled to keep calm, but her eyes betrayed her.

“Auntie, it’s really you!”

Chen Xiufen’s daughter-in-law immediately spotted it and angrily pointed at her.

“It’s not me!” Yang Huaqiong snapped. “How can you believe a scammer’s words and accuse me like this?”

“Exactly, don’t spread rumors about this,” Jiang Guoliang chimed in to help explain. “Lingling is basically our grandniece. How could your auntie harm her?”

“What are you talking about?”

At that moment, Jiang Mingtao returned with two other men, carrying the sewage pump.

His wife immediately explained everything.

Jiang Mingtao’s face darkened at once.

But he didn’t lose his temper immediately. Instead, he put the sewage pipe into the cesspit, switched it on, and started pumping out the sewage water.

Seeing this, Yang Huaqiong panicked.

Her complexion visibly turned pale.

When the small, thin figure at the bottom of the pit appeared, Chen Xiufen and her family all felt their legs go weak.

“Wuwuwu! My Lingling, you died so miserably!”

“Damn it, who was so cruel to throw you here?”

Seeing Jiang Lingling’s lifeless body, covered in filth, Chen Xiufen and her daughter-in-law immediately collapsed to the ground, crying in unbearable grief.

Jiang Mingtao clenched his fists tightly and grabbed Yang Huaqiong by the collar.

“Auntie, did you do this or not!” he shouted angrily through clenched teeth.

Yang Huaqiong hurriedly waved her hands, “It wasn’t me, it wasn’t me…”

But the next moment, her tone suddenly changed.

“That’s right, it was me — so what!”

She stared at Jiang Lingling’s corpse with a crazy smile.

“Hahaha… good riddance. Now your family has nothing to brag about, right?”

“Having a granddaughter is such a big deal? And mocking my son for not getting a wife or having children? I’ll show you!”

Yang Huaqiong kept accusing them bitterly.

Only then did everyone realize that everything was caused by Jiang Mingtao’s careless mouth.

Jiang Guoliang and Yang Huaqiong had a son — Jiang Mingtao’s cousin.

He is already over thirty but still hasn’t married.

This is because years ago, when he worked at a construction site, he had an accident that damaged his reproductive ability and his right foot.

The whole family was very upset.

In the countryside, having no descendants is considered very shameful.

But Jiang Mingtao repeatedly made jokes about this, with a mocking tone.

After mocking, he would still boast about how cute and obedient his daughter was.

Who wouldn’t be angry?

As the incidents increased, Yang Huaqiong’s heart began to twist with dark thoughts.

That day, they were helping Chen Xiufen’s family harvest grain.

Seeing Jiang Lingling playing alone happily in the yard, she grew jealous.

So, when no one was paying attention, she tricked Jiang Lingling to the cesspit behind her house, knocked her unconscious, tied her up with stones, and then pushed her into the cesspit — a place that could hide the smell of a body and would not be easily discovered.

After learning that it was because of herself that her daughter died so tragically, Jiang Mingtao regretted it deeply, slapping his own face over and over again in anger.

The slapping sounds were so harsh in the quiet countryside.

A grown man cried uncontrollably.

But what use was regret now?

A lively little life was just gone like that.