Reborn As Lucky Star
Chapter 433: To Surrender or Not to Surrender

Chapter 433: Chapter 433: To Surrender or Not to Surrender

The people in the square gradually dispersed.

Si Xi took a deep breath in and out, but in the end, couldn’t hold back.

He carefully moved closer to Yan Sinian.

"Um... Senior Yan, what do you plan to do?"

Yan Sinian said, "Leave it to the junior sister to handle."

Si Xi looked down at Yue Qingqing, with an indescribable expression on his face.

So Senior Yan, you’re not incapable of solving the case, you’re just planning to shift the responsibility onto a child, right?

Yue Qingqing, however, was feeling dreadful and sighed.

When faced with dire straits, all notions of propriety, righteousness, integrity, and morality become nonsense.

No different from beasts, they only think about surviving.

Yue Qingqing had once heard her master say that during times of famine, what was sold in the market wasn’t vegetables, but "vegetable people."

Humans treated as vegetables, exchanging children to satisfy hunger.

These people were detestable, loathsome, yet pitiable.

But the pregnant woman in the story made Yue Qingqing feel especially hateful—birds and beasts know gratitude, yet she would not spare a sliver of life for her savior.

If that person turned themselves in, it would show they still have a shred of guilt, and thereupon let the law punish them.

If they remained obstinate, then Yue Qingqing would not be softhearted either.

The sun gradually rose until noon, but not a single person from the mayor’s family had come forward.

Yue Qingqing looked at Yan Sinian, "Brother, let’s go."

Yan Sinian nodded and led his junior sister away.

"Wait..." Si Xi was somewhat puzzled, "You really found the murderer?"

But clearly, there were no fluctuations in Spiritual Energy just now; they couldn’t possibly have solved the case by looking at facial expressions. That would be far too rash.

Yue Qingqing thought about it. Since the other party was a cultivator and affiliated with the government, she didn’t need to reveal any secrets.

"Sister Si Xi, follow us."

The two officers were still left at the mayor’s house.

In a yard to the south of Changle Village.

The middle-aged woman sewing shoe soles sat on the doorstep, looking up at the sky.

It was as if she could hear the old man’s heart-wrenching cries again.

"I saved you... why did I save you..."

"Please, just leave me a bag of rice, take the rest."

"Why do you treat me like this, is it really so hard to be a good person in this world?"

"I have been kind and virtuous all my life, why has it come to this?"

The middle-aged woman wasn’t paying attention for a moment and her awl poked hard into her thumb, causing her to jump in pain.

The woman came to her senses and watched as blood beads rolled out from the wound, dropping onto the ground and blooming into a crimson flower.

Why? Because she needed to live, and so did the child in her womb.

Her husband and father-in-law had stolen the man’s food and broken his legs so he couldn’t go out and seek help.

All of this, just because he had given her a bowl of porridge.

Ye Chunhui had also been afraid and guilty at the time.

She had told her husband to at least leave some food for the old man. How had her husband responded?

"Are you crazy? If he lives to tell what happened, everyone will know our family stole the food, and then more people will come to steal from us. That’s just how the world works; only the heartless can survive!"

Her father-in-law had also scolded her, "You’ve become soft-hearted now, huh? Who was it that came home with eyes red, saying they found food? Spit, if it weren’t for the seed of our family in your belly, you wouldn’t be surviving either."

Ye Chunhui was still in a daze when her drunken husband suddenly came out, spewing nastiness.

"Hey, go buy me some booze, I’ve finished the last of it."

Ye Chunhui bowed her head to take the money, then suddenly whispered, "The police came to the village today, they mentioned the past."

She hadn’t finished speaking when her husband kicked her hard.

"You’re the one who talks too much. If you don’t say anything, I don’t say anything, dad doesn’t say anything, who in the village could know? It’s an old matter from decades ago, I just don’t believe they can still figure it out!"

No sooner had the words left his mouth when a voice suddenly came from the doorway.