DF Chapter 82
by VolareSong Ningqiu prepared to announce everything on the day Sheng Jia was discharged from the hospital.
This was the conclusion she reached after careful consideration.
Things had developed to this point, and no one could escape, and the only two unknowing people closely related to this matter were actually Song Ji’an and Sheng Huaiying.
Auntie Liu had already obtained Sheng Huaiying’s hair and conducted a paternity test with Song Ji’an. The result was no different from Song Ningqiu’s idea: Song Ji’an was Sheng Huaiying’s child.
This only represents one thing: either Sheng Jia and Song Ji’an were switched at birth, or this was a man-made accident.
The disaster plunged the entire city into chaos. It was not an easy task to thoroughly investigate what happened. Seventeen years ago, surveillance was not as widespread as it is now. Even if there was surveillance, how could the surveillance footage from seventeen years ago be preserved?
So, to find out what happened, one can only start with people.
Song Ningqiu actually didn’t believe that the hospital would switch her child. Even though the city hospital was in chaos at the time, the wards were in short supply, and the staff was mixed, that didn’t mean their work had lost efficiency and standards.
The doctors and nurses at the city hospital had undergone strict disaster drills and had plenty of experience in dealing with emergencies. They rarely made mistakes, and even if they did make mistakes, how could it be that only two pregnant women happened to make mistakes and switch places?
Even without surveillance, hospital records can be reviewed. Including herself, there were only three women who came to the city hospital to give birth that day. There were so few children born on the same day. Even if they were all girls, they would be given bracelets with their mother’s name on them at birth. How could they easily make mistakes?
Song Ningqiu had a hunch that this might be a man-made accident. The source of this intuition was not some sixth sense, but Sheng Jia.
Sheng Jia and Fu Minglang had said that she didn’t need Fu Minglang to help her deal with Wang Jian—that is, her so-called father on her household registration book. She had her own way.
Fu Minglang had already said that she believed scum should always stay where scum belongs, and Sheng Jia agreed with this point. This shows that Sheng Jia at least has evidence that can keep Wang Jian in prison for at least twenty more years.
Wang Jian’s release date is only half a month away, and Sheng Jia’s lack of action now can explain the problem.
Song Ningqiu didn’t consider the possibility that Sheng Jia was coaxing Fu Minglang. She believed that with Sheng Jia’s character, since she dared to let Fu Minglang tell her everything, she would definitely not lie about this kind of thing.
So Song Ningqiu directly targeted Wang Jian and investigated his life, and she really found a problem.
Seventeen years ago, Wang Jian was introduced to the engineering project that Song’s Heavy Industry bid for in Jingjiang. During this period, he owed a debt of up to 100,000 yuan, just three days before Song Ningqiu gave birth, or perhaps it should be said three days before Sheng Huaiying gave birth.
Song Ningqiu used this incident as an anchor point to investigate the source and destination of this loan.
She got a result that made her furious.
——The money came from a peasant family in the south, but this was only on the surface. When telecommunications fraud was not yet popular, ordinary people did not realize the infeasibility of lending out deposit books and bank cards. The superficial source of this money was only like this. Investigating further, one can find that the source of this money behind the scenes was a lending institution established in 2005, and the main person in charge of this lending institution had already been arrested twelve years ago for the crime of child trafficking and was executed that year.
His offline sources were complicated, but included one of the most eye-catching clues—selling relatives. Children were sold by their fathers like commodities, and there were even options to pre-order children who were about to be born, 200,000 for male fetuses and 100,000 for female fetuses.
Song Ningqiu felt chills all over her body when she saw the investigation results.
She didn’t expect that whether it was Sheng Jia or Song Ji’an, they might have already been on the verge of death at birth.
She didn’t know at first why Wang Jian didn’t choose to sell Sheng Jia again after exchanging the children, but at this moment she was extremely grateful that God made Sheng Jia lucky enough.
Or perhaps it wasn’t God who made her lucky enough, but because she had a good mother who was watching her every moment.
She should thank Sheng Huaiying.
Wang Jian’s 100,000 yuan went to various places, but Song Ningqiu found that a payment of more than 30,000 yuan had entered the account of a male nurse at the city hospital.
She was sensitive enough to know that to switch children in the hospital, it would be impossible without inside and outside cooperation, so she followed the clues and investigated this male nurse. Seventeen years ago, he used the 30,000 to curry favor in an attempt to transfer to the provincial hospital, but the head of the department and the president of the hospital were extremely upright people. They refused his behavior, and the male nurse was soon fired from the hospital for being unclean and went to prison for stealing hospital drugs. He was only released three years ago.
When Song Ningqiu found him, he was begging on the street, pretending to be a beggar.
When he saw the luxury car and the swarm of bodyguards in suits, his first reaction was to run away.
Song Ningqiu frowned and asked people to force him into the alley. Auntie Liu took people directly to block him, kicked him on the knee, and the man knelt in front of her.
“Spare me, spare me, I haven’t done anything bad since I came out.” He knelt on the ground and kowtowed, looking extremely frightened. “I haven’t done anything like that before…”
What responded to him was Auntie Liu’s kick again.
Auntie Liu actually followed Song Ningqiu after graduating from college. After Song Ningqiu had children, she went to accompany her children to grow up. She had deep feelings for Song Ji’an, but that didn’t mean she wasn’t angry at the instigator of everything when she learned that Sheng Jia was Song Ningqiu’s real child.
She said impatiently to the male nurse: “Shut your mouth, or I don’t mind making it unable to speak again.”
The other party was immediately frightened and trembled, and quickly closed his mouth, not daring to speak again.
Song Ningqiu looked at him coldly, and suddenly asked, “Seventeen years ago, at the city hospital, you received a sum of money. What did you use it for?”
The male nurse’s face immediately turned pale, as if he had recalled some terrible experience. Auntie Liu couldn’t help but kick him again, “Speak!”
“I, I,” his spirit seemed to suddenly collapse, and he cried out, “I really know I was wrong. I was just greedy for money and wanted to switch the children. I didn’t do it on purpose. I have already been punished.”
This time, what responded to him was Song Ningqiu’s slap. The woman who had never been angry since she was a child was suddenly trembling with anger at this moment. She said sharply: “A sum of money? Just for a sum of 30,000 yuan, you can switch other people’s children? Do you know what kind of miserable life she might lead in the future because of your actions?”
She didn’t need the other party to answer anything, and didn’t want to hear him defend himself. If she could, she would strangle this idiot to death right now.
She took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down, then asked, “Three years ago, did someone also look for you and ask you this question?”
Her question made the man shudder. It was a fear that seemed to emanate from his bones. He quickly shook his head, “No, no, no one has looked for me.”
Song Ningqiu let go of him and sneered.
Auntie Liu asked in a low voice, “How should we deal with him?”
Song Ningqiu was already walking forward while saying softly: “Isn’t he always pretending to be a cripple and begging? Cripple his two legs.”
There was no emotion in her eyes.
This was a sharpness and coldness that had never been shown in front of the elders.
Even Auntie Liu, who had been following her for a long time, had rarely seen her like this and was slightly stunned.
“Auntie Liu, I want him to be in so much pain that he faints,” Song Ningqiu turned her head and gave Auntie Liu a deep look, “Do it cleanly.”
Auntie Liu responded with a deep “okay.”
At Song Ningqiu’s level, as long as it wasn’t too outrageous a violation of law and discipline, this kind of small-scale private feud would not be able to do anything to her. The huge team of lawyers was enough to appease most of the things she did.
For so many years, Song Ningqiu had adhered to her moral bottom line. This was the first time in so many years that she had acted arbitrarily.
At least at this moment, she was extremely grateful that she had the power to do so.
The condescending gaze of the high-ranking person in power showed that she would definitely not give up on this matter.
Auntie Liu vaguely remembered the scene when she first met Song Ningqiu. Without Song Ningqiu, there might not be the bright and beautiful Auntie Liu now.
She was indeed very good at doing what Song Ningqiu told her to do. In fact, for a long time before she graduated from college, she was indeed doing this kind of thing.
Screams rang out in the alley behind them. Song Ningqiu stood at the entrance of the alley without saying a word until the sound inside subsided, then she slowly moved her steps forward.
Whether it was this male nurse or Wang Jian, all that awaited them would only be imprisonment. They would not have the opportunity to walk out of that prison again. They would die painfully inside. This was the ending that Song Ningqiu had decided for them, or perhaps it should be said that this was the ending that Sheng Jia had decided for them.
It had also been raining in Jingjiang recently. It seemed that wherever Song Ningqiu went in the past half month, there was a drizzle accompanying her. Even her heavy mood was due to facing Song Ji’an or because of the rain.
There were still candies in her suit jacket. These were small gifts that she rewarded Song Ji’an with when she was a child. She had always advocated happy education. No matter what her daughter did, she would smile and praise her, using candies and a string of numbers in her bank card to encourage her. Later, this became a habit, and even though Song Ji’an had grown up, this habit had not changed.
Unconsciously, the driver had already driven to the bottom of Sheng Jia’s building.
This was Song Ningqiu’s order, but when she really got here, she didn’t say a word, she just tore open the candy wrapper and stuffed the candy into her mouth.
The hard candy had a familiar watermelon flavor that spread in her mouth. Song Ningqiu looked at the bustling neighborhood in a daze.
What was Sheng Jia doing while she was accompanying Song Ji’an all these years?
She had thought about this question many times. In her mind, the images of her getting along with Song Ji’an and the information she had learned about Sheng Jia’s life appeared in a staggered manner, causing her head to ache, and the pain in her heart was even more intense.
After an unknown amount of time, a ringtone came from her pocket. It was a special ringtone set by Song Ji’an. She slowly reached into her pocket, not knowing how to face it.
But the determination she had already made drove her to answer the phone.
“Hello? Mom, I’m home,” Song Ji’an’s unguarded voice came, along with the click of opening the fingerprint password.
Song Ningqiu calmed her mind and said softly: “Okay, wait for me at home, okay?”
Song Ji’an had been taking care of Sheng Jia these past few days, but Sheng Jia was very resistant to others taking care of her in every possible way. When Sheng Jia was about to be discharged from the hospital, Song Ningqiu sent a message to Song Ji’an asking her to return to Jingjiang.
…Ji’an is a very obedient child. Even if Song Ningqiu didn’t say anything, she would say goodbye to Sheng Jia and rush home immediately.
And now she must personally tell her this news that will change her life.