novellhall Chapter 149 Confess and be treated leniently; resist and be punished severely.
Chapter 149 Confess and be treated leniently; resist and be punished severely.
Ordinary people are afraid of government officials, and even though Zhuang Qingxiang was reborn, she was still afraid.
Even if you're scared, you still have to ask questions to find out the answers.
"Comrade Meng, I'm not trying to curry favor, I just hope you can explain things more clearly. I don't understand what you're saying, what stealing factory data and all that, it's too absurd. I just moved back to my parents' house this morning, and after settling the children in, I went to the county town. I just got back and you brought me here. I'm very wronged."
Meng Shuisheng said seriously, "Zhuang Qingxiang, as far as we know, you have been working as a nanny at Comrade Lu Congyue's house taking care of the children. You disappeared for three days for unknown reasons a few days ago. After returning, you only stayed for one day and moved out of the factory early this morning. On the night you returned, important data from the factory's technical department was lost."
"And after you moved out of the factory this morning, you immediately went to the county town, right? May I ask, who did you see in the county town? What did you do there?"
"Did you take the documents to the county town and give them to someone?!"
Meng Shuisheng's questions grew faster and faster, giving Zhuang Qingxiang no time to think. In the end, he even slammed his hand on the table, trying to frighten Zhuang Qingxiang into confessing everything.
Zhuang Qingxiang finally understood what had happened, and she was completely distraught.
Important factory documents were lost the very night she went back to her place to stay. After she moved out, the police started keeping an eye on her...
It's quite a coincidence, really; if she were a police officer, she would have been suspicious too.
But she never did it!
"Comrade Meng, I don't understand why you suspect me. I've been living in the factory for months, and nothing has happened there, has it? If I wanted to steal something, I wouldn't have waited until today." She argued logically.
Meng Shuisheng sneered: "We knew you would say that, but you weren't in a hurry before, you wanted to play the honest guy. Now you can't keep up the act anymore, right? You were being watched by comrades from Beijing, and you were afraid that if you didn't act now, you would never have another chance. So you couldn't wait to act the night you returned to the factory, and then you fled early this morning. Zhuang Qingxiang, we have everything we know about you. You should tell the truth."
As he spoke, Meng Shuisheng pointed with his pen to the large characters on the wall.
"Confess and you'll be treated leniently; resist and you'll be punished severely. You should recognize these words, right?"
"No, how did this get involved with the comrades from Beijing? You can't just blame me if you can't catch them." Zhuang Qingxiang hurriedly approached.
Zhang Ning, standing next to Meng Shuisheng, couldn't help but slam his hand on the table and said sternly, "Zhuang Qingxiang, stop resisting. We already know your identity. Confess honestly, did the Zhuang family members who fled abroad give you orders to steal important information and send it out?"
"Zhuang Qingxiang, do you know what your behavior is called? This is treason!" Meng Shuisheng said sternly.
Zhuang Qingxiang's face turned deathly pale. She stood up abruptly and shouted, "I didn't! I didn't steal anything, nor did I commit treason. I have absolutely no connection with any Zhuang family! I grew up in Qianjia Village. My mother's surname is Zhuang, and I took her surname. I've told all this to the comrades from Beijing. If you don't believe me, you can ask them. I'm not an enemy agent, and I didn't steal anything!"
Meng Shuisheng also stood up, pointed at her, and said sternly, "What are you doing? Sit down! Who told you to stand up? Behave yourself!"
Zhuang Qingxiang swayed slightly, and her vision blurred.
She's been locked up for the past few days and is exhausted. She just had a day off, and now this has happened. She hasn't eaten anything since noon and is feeling very unwell.
Hearing Meng Shuisheng's roar, Zhuang Qingxiang had no choice but to sit down again.
Composing herself, she pursed her lips and said, "Comrade Meng, I will not admit to things I did not do. Instead of wasting your time here, you should investigate other places and make sure the real bad guys don't get away."
"Of course we investigated," Meng Shuisheng said sternly. "We interviewed many colleagues in the factory today, and some of them identified you. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to trace it back to you."
"Me? Who identified me?" Zhuang Qingxiang was dumbfounded.
"Don't worry about that. Do you think we'd tell you so you can retaliate against them?"
Zhuang Qingxiang felt that she hadn't offended anyone except Lin Wei, so why was someone pointing the finger at her?
In the midst of her confused state, Zhuang Qingxiang suddenly remembered something and quickly said, "I remember now, I remember something. When I got home last night, it was already dark, and I saw a figure outside the factory..."
Zhuang Qingxiang recounted what she had discovered the previous night, adding that she had spoken to the security guards when she entered the gate, suspecting that the person in question was the real thief or enemy agent.
"Heh, you think there's a shadowy figure just because you say so? Do you have any evidence? Besides you, has anyone else seen it?" Meng Shuisheng frowned and asked sternly.
Zhuang Qingxiang shook her head, secretly regretting that she hadn't thought to chase after that dark figure last night to see what was going on.
"But I really saw it! If you don't believe me, you can ask the security personnel!" she insisted.
Meng Shuisheng and Zhang Ning interrogated Zhuang Qingxiang for a long time but couldn't get anything out of her, so they had no choice but to temporarily lock her up.
Zhuang Qingxiang wanted to say that she was truly wronged, but the police wouldn't listen to just her side of the story, so she could only stay quiet and wait for the truth to come out.
As Meng Shuisheng and Zhang Ning left, they discussed the case in hushed tones.
Although they were very fierce when interrogating Zhuang Qingxiang, they didn't really believe that Zhuang Qingxiang was truly the culprit.
"Old Meng, those two people from Beijing should be here soon. I'll talk to them. You go to the factory and find Niu Jianzhong. Have him take you to the security department to ask if Zhuang Qingxiang actually said those things last night," Zhang Ning said in a low voice.
Meng Shuisheng nodded, then sighed, "That Zhuang Qingxiang is really unlucky. Look at all the trouble she's gotten into since she became Lu Congyue's nanny. I don't even know if it's targeting her or Lu Congyue."
"Niu Jianzhong said Lu Congyue will be back in the next few days, but we don't know when he'll arrive..."
As the two were whispering to each other, someone called them to the reception room, saying that two comrades from Beijing had arrived.
Zhang Ning immediately strode towards the reception room, while Meng Shuisheng rode his bicycle straight to the factory.
Zhuang Qingxiang, who had been locked up in the warehouse for three days and then imprisoned, was on the verge of collapse. She desperately hoped that the police would clear her name, and she was also worried about the two children in the Qian family.
It looks like she won't be able to go back tonight, and she doesn't know if she'll be able to go back tomorrow. Can Qian Dayou's family help her take good care of the child?
Time flew by, and Zhuang Qingxiang had already been in jail for two days. She was interrogated once a day, and each day she was sent back to jail without any progress.
The only change was that the two people from Beijing, upon seeing that she had committed a crime and been arrested, simply left behind all the information they had gathered and left, clearly not wanting to get involved in this mess.