Forced to marry a disabled man in the countryside? I'll repay you tenfold!

"I saw him get on the tractor with my own eyes!"

"I saw it too!"

Zhao Shupi was speechless and could only nod stiffly, "Yes... I went with them."

Liu Shuqing pressed, "Then why did you come back alone? What business did you go to the county town for? Why didn't you take a tractor back?"

With his shoulders pressed down, Zhao Shupi was flustered and confused, his mind a complete mess. He stammered, "I...I went to the county town to buy meat! Yes, to buy meat! But then I thought they were taking too long to come back, so I ran back myself. You can go to my house and see, the meat is still there!"

The meat was indeed bought by his mother the day before yesterday.

Upon hearing this, Aunt Zhang spat, "Then hurry up and go to his house to see! Is it one piece of meat or two? The day before yesterday, Granny Wang also went to the market and bought a piece of meat, then walked halfway around the village showing it off. These days, everyone in the village is saying that she ruined her good daughter-in-law; Chen Xiuer is now living the high life, while her family can't even afford meat? Granny Wang is indignant, so she bought a piece of meat specifically to show off. If there's only one piece of meat at home, it's the one Granny Wang bought!"

Zhao Shupi was completely dumbfounded.

He never expected that his own mother would walk half a block to show off when she bought a piece of meat, and he never expected that Aunt Zhang would remember such a thing so clearly.

There's only one piece of meat at home, where would we get two pieces?

He quickly corrected himself: "I...I remembered wrong. I didn't buy meat yesterday, I went to..."

It's too late. No one present was a fool to hear that.

Just then, Li Laowu's wife's husband and the men from Lao Liu's family—several young and strong men—rushed in. They had worried all night and searched outside all night. They had just learned from Qin Xiao that the person was still alive, and rushed to the command center, only to hear the whole story.

Without saying a word, several men pounced on him and started punching and kicking him.

"You son of a bitch! Why do you have to drive a tractor when we can just have a peaceful life?! You almost killed my wife!"

"My child is only three years old. If he loses his mother, can you afford to compensate him?! Why the hell did you do this?!"

Zhao Shupi was beaten until he screamed like a banshee. Zhou Yanshen stood aside with a stern face, seemingly trying to break up the fight, but he showed no mercy. Su Wanqing watched from behind and saw that Zhou Yanshen was the one who hit the hardest.

Zhao Shupi was in so much pain that tears and snot streamed down his face.

Seeing that the beating had gone on long enough and that someone would die if it continued, Liu Shuqing finally spoke up to stop it: "Alright, alright, stop hitting him, this is outrageous! Zhao Shupi, you'd better confess now. If you confess, you'll be sent to the police station; if you don't... we'll beat you to death right here."

Zhao Shupi collapsed to the ground, trembling all over: "It was me...it was me. I hate Su Wanqing, I just wanted to kill the child in her womb. I didn't mean to hurt anyone else...besides, aren't you all alright? You're not dead!"

Liu Shuqing's face turned ashen: "Speak properly, start from the beginning." He immediately ordered someone to take his statement. This kind of person wouldn't be kept in the troupe. He could be so ruthless over such a trivial matter, almost causing the entire busload of people to die outside.

Chen Xiuer stumbled over, carrying the child, her face pale and her legs weak. She had heard that Su Wanqing was still alive and had run all the way here, just in time to overhear Zhao Shupi's words. She wanted nothing more than to pounce on him and tear him to pieces, but when she saw Su Wanqing standing there unharmed, tears welled up in her eyes first.

"Dr. Xiao Su... It's all my fault, it's all my fault! If it weren't for Zhao Shupi, you wouldn't have almost..." She held the child, crying so hard she could barely breathe.

Su Wanqing patted her shoulder: "Alright, alright, everything's fine now, isn't it? It's better to leave someone like Zhao Shupi sooner rather than later. Even without me, he would hate someone else."

Chen Xiuer felt both guilty and resentful, wishing she could be Su Wanqing's slave for the rest of her life.

The rest was easy. Zhao Shupi confessed everything, and Liu Shuqing carefully collected all the evidence. He locked Zhao Shupi in the special interrogation room of the regiment and planned to send him to the Public Security Bureau after the snow stopped.

Uncle Ding stepped forward, cupped his hands in greeting to the crowd, and said, "The person has been found! This is wonderful news! With such huge hailstones, everyone still went out to help search; our whole family is deeply grateful. Enough said, we'll treat everyone to lunch at the cafeteria; we've prepared food!"

For once, Zhou's mother was very generous: "Brother, you didn't have enough. There's still plenty of meat at home. Take it all out and add a couple of dishes." Now that her son had been found, she was in a good mood and didn't care about such things anymore.

Su Wanqing stopped her: "Keep the meat. There are still pork meatballs and braised eggs in the cellar; just take them out to add to the dishes."

The meat hanging on the wall was out in the open; if it were given away now, it would be difficult to explain why Dongtian wanted to take it out of her spatial storage. She would occasionally hide things in the cellar; if she took them out now, Dongtian could still openly "conjure" them up.

Besides, there are still over nine thousand catties of meatballs lying in the space, which will be good to use some of them.

"Alright! I'm in a good mood today, let's add two meat dishes for the whole village!"

Zhou Yanshen and Qin Xiao went to the cellar to move things themselves. Before long, four large buckets of frozen pork meatballs and two large buckets of braised eggs were carried out.

Qin Xiao's eyes nearly popped out of his head as he stared at the two large carts of stuff—his sister-in-law's cellar actually had so much meat hidden away? They were living such a lavish lifestyle!

This was Zhou Yanshen's second time entering the cellar. Looking at the piles of meatballs, he thought to himself: "My wife works so hard. She secretly made so many things without me even knowing."

Uncle Ding stood to the side, looking puzzled.

He usually manages the cellar, and the meatballs are usually kept in the kitchen, right? When did Wanqing hide so many inside? She probably put them there when he wasn't looking because she was worried they'd go hungry.

In short, Su Wanqing and Zhou Yanshen had just escaped death, and Uncle Ding didn't have time to think about where the meatballs came from. Since they could take so much stuff from the cellar, it must have been something Su Wanqing had painstakingly made—

It couldn't have just appeared out of thin air, could it?

The cafeteria was bustling with activity today.

The whole village came with bowls to get their food. Each person had a large bowl of fluffy white rice, and the broth from the stewed cabbage and pork was thick and fragrant. A stir-fried mushroom dish was refreshing and light. This was already the best hospitality they could offer.

In previous years, when someone held a funeral, those who helped out would be considered lucky to get a bowl of rice with a stew and some minced meat. But Dr. Su added two crispy-on-the-outside, tender-on-the-inside meatballs and a glistening braised egg for each person. The four dishes were mostly meat, making it even more lavish than during the Lunar New Year.

Furthermore, before they could even put in much effort to find someone, they were scolded by the host.

Everyone says: Dr. Su is so kind!

Su Wanqing and her group finally returned home. Gu Yuan had already prepared dinner, and the house was bustling with activity. They had been so busy before that they only realized now that Old Shen, Tian Dahua, and Aunt Wen had all come to help, so they decided to invite them to stay and eat together.

Grandpa Gu and Aunt Wen sat to one side with Gu Zhixing, feeling quite uncomfortable.

If it weren't for Dr. Su's immense kindness to them, they would never have shared a room with that ungrateful Gu Yuan. The atmosphere at the dinner table was strange, but Gu Yuan remained calm, eating and drinking as usual.