Chapter 220 Still trying to frame someone, but the truth is getting closer.
Chapter 220 Still trying to frame someone, but the truth is getting closer.
Jiang Xiaoran held an axe in her hand, chopping at the wood that she couldn't split. Despite her large frame, she was soon panting heavily from exhaustion.
Zhang Dalan sat to the side watching Jiang Xiaoran. When she saw her stop, she walked over, picked up a piece of wood, and hit her on the buttocks: "Did I tell you to stop?"
Jiang Xiaoran was in unbearable pain and burst into tears, crying out, "Fine, I'll chop you up!"
"No food until you finish chopping wood today."
Jiang Xiaoran's snacks were confiscated by Zhang Dalan. After saying this, she went back to her room and started eating snacks.
"You know what, these things are really delicious."
Zhang Dalan hadn't had a decent meal in a long time, so Jiang Xiaoran treated her to some snacks.
When Jiang Xiaoran returned to her room and pretended to get a drink of water, she saw that Zhang Dalan had eaten all her snacks. She was furious. Snacks were Jiang Xiaoran's bottom line, and Zhang Dalan had crossed it.
She glared at Zhang Dalan, her eyes fixed on the snacks in Zhang's hand: "Those are my snacks. Who gave you permission to eat them?"
"Your snacks? Song Qiao bought them for me. What are you looking at? Get back to work!"
"I want to drink!"
Jiang Xiaoran never dreamed that her grandmother, who had always doted on her, would turn out like this. If she had known that this would be the outcome, she would never have agreed to let Song Qiao send her here.
Zhang Dalan tossed the ladle of water to Jiang Xiaoran: "Drink up, there's no boiled water, I've been drinking this water all along."
Jiang Xiaoran was exhausted from chopping wood, so she had to pick up a water ladle and drink raw water.
In the dead of winter, Jiang Xiaoran started to have a stomachache shortly after drinking untreated water: "Grandma, my stomach hurts so much!"
"Just bear with it, we don't have any medicine at home."
After saying that, Zhang Dalan walked out the door; she was going out to buy some delicious food.
Jiang Xiaoran, her face pale, watched Zhang Dalan leave and cried out, "Grandma, I'm in so much pain!"
Zhang Dalan snorted and left home.
Upon seeing this, Jiang Xiaoran endured the pain, clutched her stomach, and chased after her, saying, "Grandma, take me to the hospital."
"Taking you to the hospital will cost money, won't it? Just bear with it."
"I can't hold back, give me my phone, I need to call my dad."
Hearing that Jiang Xiaoran was going to call Jiang Ming, Zhang Dalan panicked and quickly turned around to look at her: "Wait here, I'll go get you the medicine."
Zhang Dalan understood that Jiang Xiaoran's stomachache was entirely due to drinking untreated water, so she went to the village clinic and got medicine for the stomachache, which she then gave to Jiang Xiaoran.
She dared not give her raw water again. She knew that Jiang Xiaoran was shrewd despite her young age and could not be fooled. If her son found out that she was abusing her, he would not forgive her.
Jiang Xiaoran couldn't chop firewood because of a stomachache, so Zhang Dalan had to cook noodles for her.
After buying meat and vegetables from the store, Zhang Dalan planned to cook herself a nice meal.
Jiang Xiaoran noticed that Zhang Dalan had hidden her snacks, so she started looking for them while Zhang Dalan was cooking.
Jiang Xiaoran accidentally found the money that Song Qiao had given her, took a look at it, and ran away.
Zhang Dalan was cooking when she saw Jiang Xiaoran run out. Feeling something was amiss, she chased after her, calling out, "Ranran, where are you going? Dinner's ready!"
Zhang Dalan tried to lure Jiang Xiaoran out by offering her a meal, but no one answered after she called out for a long time. She hurriedly went back to check the hidden money under the pillow and ran out.
Jiang Xiaoran was too fat and couldn't run any further when she reached the village entrance. When Zhang Dalan caught up with her, she was panting heavily.
"Jiang Xiaoran, where's the money Song Qiao gave me?"
Zhang Dalan walked along, cursing and shouting.
"This money was given to me by my mom." Jiang Xiaoran began to hide it behind her back.
When Zhang Dalan heard Jiang Xiaoran call Song Qiao "Mom," she laughed: "You still call her 'Mom'? Song Qiao was so good to you back then, why did you betray her? You're an ingrate! Give me back my money."
"I won't give it to you!"
Jiang Xiaoran tightly clutched her pocket, preventing Zhang Dalan from taking the money back.
The two started fighting in the field. Because Zhang Dalan was old, Jiang Xiaoran pushed her to the ground, and her head hit a rock, causing her to lose consciousness on the spot.
Jiang Xiaoran was afraid that her grandmother had died. She called out to her grandmother twice, but received no response. She took the opportunity to run away.
She needed to get home as soon as possible to call Jiang Ming and tell him that his grandmother had bled profusely from her head and had died!
When Jiang Xiaoran called Jiang Ming, he was waiting for Zhao Xiaoya at his apartment in the Sunshine Community. He answered the phone when it rang: "Mom!"
"Dad! It's me, Grandma is dead."
"What? What are you doing at home?" Jiang Ming's voice sounded like a donkey's bray.
“Song Qiao brought me back. She also gave my grandma money, but my grandma wouldn’t buy me anything good to eat. So I took the money and tried to go back to my mom, but my grandma wouldn’t let me. I pushed her and she bled a lot from her head.”
Jiang Ming panicked, but then he suddenly thought of a solution.
"Ranran, I'm telling you, if Grandma really can't go on, just say that..."
Jiang Ming was instructing Jiang Xiaoran on how to frame Song Qiao over the phone when a policeman came up the stairs: "Jiang Ming, right? Come with us!"
Jiang Ming hurriedly put his phone away: "You... I haven't committed a crime, you can't arrest me."
Jiang Ming's voice rang out in the hallway, and the neighbors opened their doors and peeked out to see what was happening.
"Zhao Xiaoya has been arrested by us, and she has confessed to your crimes."
When Jiang Ming heard the police say this, he realized that Zhao Xiaoya was the one who had ruined him.
"Let me explain...!"
"Go back and explain."
"That bitch Zhao Xiaoya!"
Jiang Ming cursed fiercely, never expecting that he would be dragged down with her in the end.
Xing Rui waved his hand, and two policemen restrained him and took him down the stairs.
“Something happened to my mother back in our hometown. Jiang Xiaoran just called me and said that Song Qiao killed my mother!”
"What?" Xing Rui frowned. "What nonsense are you talking about? How could Song Qiao kill your mother? She sent Jiang Xiaoran back to her hometown. We know about that."
“She took advantage of the opportunity to send Jiang Xiaoran back to her hometown to take revenge on us and kill her.”
Now that things have come to this, Jiang Ming doesn't want Song Qiao to have an easy time either. He believes that Song Qiao is the reason he's in this situation today.
"Come with us first, I'll report to my superiors now."
Xing Rui had someone take Jiang Ming into the police car, and from the passenger seat, Jiang Ming called Da Liu and explained the situation.
"I'll send someone to Bottle Village immediately. You bring Jiang Ming back first."
When the police found Zhang Dalan, she was already dead. Jiang Xiaoran was brought back from her hometown, and Da Liu issued a summons to Song Qiao.
After learning about the situation, Song Qiao sighed: "Even after hiding here and there, I still couldn't escape Jiang Ming's false accusation."
In the interrogation room, Song Qiao recounted the incident of dropping Jiang Xiaoran off: "Officer, I have a dashcam in my car."
Last time she was framed, Lu Mingxuan used her dashcam to clear her name, and she's ready to do it again this time.
When Jiang Ming learned that Song Qiao had been acquitted, he was completely dejected.
After bringing Jiang Xiaoran back, Song Qiao declared that she would no longer concern herself with her affairs. Helpless, the police had no choice but to send her to an orphanage.
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