Chapter 16:

Zhou Deqing is gone.
He has no other relatives, and the funeral matters can only be entrusted to Zhou Sitian, his biological daughter.
There is a large ancestral hall in Qinghe Town, where the weddings and ceremonies are usually held there. Only this time, the He family and Yang family occupied the ancestral hall early. Wang Aijuan was crying at the entrance of the ancestral hall day and night, yelling "Zhou Deqing killed Yang Kaijian and He Zhiqiang."
People passing by the ancestral hall listened in their ears, and whether they believed it or not, they always left traces in their hearts.
The dilapidated house was probably because it hadn’t been inhabited for too long. Even though it had been cleaned, there were still many cobwebs in the corners of the house. This is the old house of Zhou Deqing's family. It has been abandoned for a long time, but apart from here in Qinghe Town, there is no place for Zhou Deqing to stop.
Unlike when Li Qiang left, there was no one to help Zhou Deqing's funeral. Even for the Zheng family, Zheng's mother just asked Zheng Xiaodong to deliver lunch.
"Sorry, they don't believe me, I can't prove your innocence." Zhou Sitian knelt on the ground with a hollow expression. The loss of two fathers in just one month is too cruel for this girl who lacks love.
Standing behind him with his lips pouted, Li Zheng didn't know how to comfort his cheap sister. On the second day of Zhou Deqing’s departure, the news that "Zhou Deqing killed He Zhiqiang and Yang Kaijian" spread in Qinghe Town, and the response of the Yantian County Public Security Bureau shocked Li Zheng. They gradually turned the direction of the investigation of He Zhiqiang's case to Zhou Deqing. Transfer, this is a very dangerous signal, they want to pour all dirty water on Zhou Deqing.
In doing so, the Yantian County Public Security Bureau can quickly close the two murder cases, demonstrating their excellent work ability; the Yantian County Committee can give an explanation to the Shennan area and will not affect cooperation with foreign businessmen; Wang and Yang are also Can suppress Yang Kaijian's affairs and leave him a good reputation. For the forces of Guinea, this is simply the best of three worlds.
"Sister..." Li Zheng understood for the first time the helplessness and suffering of ordinary people in the face of power. If it were him in his previous life, how dare they... how dare!
"Xiaozheng, I'm fine, you can go back." Zhou Sitian knelt on the cold ground.
Li Zheng quietly looked at Zhou Sitian's straight back, sighed, and then slowly withdrew from the hall. She probably needs her own space now.
Soon after leaving Zhou's house, Li Zheng heard the woman crying loudly from inside. He rubbed his flushed eye sockets with a sarcasm smile on his face, caring about the overall situation? The best of three worlds? In addition to crushing a young girl's life to pieces, the other is really "the beauty of the three worlds."
Li Zheng subconsciously touched his jacket pocket. After touching the rough cotton, he smiled bitterly again. He missed the smell of nicotine a bit.
Zhou Sitian cried in the ancestral hall all night, crying until her voice was hoarse. Li Zheng stood at the door until midnight, only when he saw that it was getting dark, he went home and took a little sleep. In the icy cold wind, he finally realized that in this age when the legal system is not sound, if he wants to protect himself and protect the people around him, he can only make himself stronger!

"That is, the murderer's daughter."
"No way, the little girl looks pretty good."
"Knowing people, knowing the face and not knowing the heart, when Zhou Deqing was young, he looked quite popular with little girls."
Zhou Sitian and Li Zheng were walking on the road, and the noise of pedestrians kept piercing their ears. Zhou Sitian's complexion became whiter and whiter, and he ran quickly.
"Li Zheng, wait for me"
Li Zheng wanted to chase Zhou Sitian, but when he heard someone calling his name behind him, he turned his head and saw Li Chaoyang running towards him quickly.
Li Chaoyang ran up to Li Zheng, leaning on his shoulder and breathing heavily.
"Oh, I'm exhausted."
The corners of Li Zheng's mouth twitched, brother, you didn't run a hundred meters in total...
"Okay, stand up straight by yourself." Li Zheng pushed Li Chaoyang disgustedly.
Li Chaoyang curled his lips, "I was worried about you for the night, so you treated me like that." He carefully observed Li Zheng's expression and continued: "Sister Si Tian is okay, she can take two days off... …"
"She said that there was a mock exam in the past two days, and she didn't want to lower the class average."
"Oh my God, with Si Tian's results, even if you take the exam with your eyes closed, you can't get below the average score. She doesn't have to come to class these days." Li Chaoyang exaggerated.
Li Zheng's brows slowly frowned, and Li Chaoyang had mentioned twice in his words that Zhou Sitian should not come to class these days.
"Did something happen in school?"
Li Chaoyang was startled, then scratched his head, "Am I so obvious?"
"The incident between Zhou Deqing and Yang Kaijian happened in our school. Naturally, there was a lot of rumors. In fact, it's nothing, but they speak awkwardly. I'm afraid Sister Si Tian can't bear it."
When he really arrived at school, Li Zheng knew how embarrassed Zhou Sitian was. One morning, he was pointed out several times because of Zhou Sitian, not to mention Zhou Sitian herself.
In this environment, in just a few days, Zhou Sitian quickly lost weight. Her face was pale and her nerves collapsed like a bowstring that might break at any time. Li Zheng knew that if this continued, Zhou Sitian would definitely There will be problems.
"Sister, let's leave." Li Zheng said suddenly.
Zhou Sitian, who was packing her schoolbag, was taken aback, "Leave?"
"Yes, leave Qinghe Town, Yantian County, and even Haidong Province." Li Zheng had been thinking about it for several days. It turned out that he didn't leave because he didn't want to affect Zhou Sitian's life. Zhou Sitian's results were very good. Following the normal trajectory, she can enter a good university and assign a good job when she comes out.
But now it's different. The school classmates and the townspeople of Qinghe Town almost overwhelmed Zhou Sitian's nerves with their colored eyes. If this continues, let alone the college entrance examination, Zhou Sitian's health will be problematic.
Leave? A gleam of light flashed in Zhou Sitian's eyes, and then immediately went out. How to leave? All the property of the Li family is in Qinghe Town. Can they survive if the two minors leave?
"Xiao Zheng, I'm fine, let's go to school." She closed her schoolbag clumsily, and forced a smile.
"Sister, has anyone told you that it's ugly to smile like this."
Li Zheng turned around and took out the stack of money Zhang Bingkun had given him from the bed, "Let’s go to Xiangjiang. This money will be enough for us to live for a while." Because the amount of money is huge for two minors. Some, so Li Zheng did not tell Zhou Sitian of its existence.
"Xiangjiang?" Zhou Sitian muttered to herself, a trace of yearning slowly emerged in his eyes.
Xiangjiang, just like China in the Middle Ages was to Europe, Xiangjiang seems to be an inaccessible paradise to the Chinese people today.
Zhou Sitian overlooked the Xiangjiang River from the elbow and saw the revolving restaurant on the top of the building. Men and women seemed to step on the clouds.
"Are you going to find your mother?" Zhao Qiuhua went to Xiangjiang, so Zhou Sitian's first reaction was that Li Zheng wanted to find her.
A glimmer of surprise flashed in Li Zheng's eyes. He really forgot about Zhao Qiuhua in Xiangjiang. He shook his head and said, "No, I'm going to find David. He still owes me something small."