After being transformed by the spiritual spring, Lin Zhilan is now in excellent physical condition and has considerable strength. Huang Ying tried to squeeze past her but found that she couldn't move her at all.

"What exactly do you want?"

Lin Zhilan smiled and said, "It's nothing, just confirming a few things."

Jiang Xiaohong nervously tugged at her sister-in-law's clothes, but her sister-in-law slapped her away.

Huang Ying: "I didn't say you abused Jiang Chengzhou, okay?"

Lin Zhilan raised an eyebrow. "Who said I came here to ask that?"

"You..." Huang Ying choked, "Then what do you want to ask?"

Lin Zhilan's eyes flickered, her gaze sweeping over Jiang Xiaohong's arm as she held Huang Ying's, finally meeting Jiang Xiaohong's eyes. "Before I joined the army, why did you portray me as a bad woman in front of my Chengzhou? Have we met before?"

Meeting Lin Zhilan's insightful gaze, Jiang Xiaohong panicked and quickly explained, "We were just teasing the child, we didn't mean anything by it."

Huang Ying turned her head and glared fiercely at her sister-in-law.

Didn't she just mean to admit that she said that?

Lin Zhilan gave a cold smile. "Our child is very honest. He takes everything people tease him seriously. You'll have to explain to him and apologize."

"Why should I?" Huang Ying's eyes widened, her ferocious expression completely ruining her originally pretty face.

Lin Zhilan lowered her head and asked the child, "Chengzhou, what should you do if you do something wrong?"

Jiang Chengzhou held his aunt's hand and said, "You should admit your mistakes and correct them, and... you should apologize."

Lin Zhilan gave him a praising look, then looked at Huang Ying and Jiang Xiaohong.

"Even children understand this, don't you? Or..." Lin Zhilan said meaningfully, "Because you're related to a teacher, it's okay for you to make mistakes?"

"What did you say?" Huang Ying panicked, glanced at the onlookers, and pushed Jiang Xiaohong forward. "You said it yourself, go apologize!"

Jiang Xiaohong clutched the hem of her clothes and squeezed out three words from between her lips, "I'm sorry."

Jiang Chengzhou leaned his ear in: "What did you say? I didn't hear you."

Lin Zhilan: "..."

This kid is still so cheeky.

But why is it a little funny?

A faint sound of laughter could be heard from the surrounding area.

Jiang Xiaohong blushed and, with her eyes closed, cried out, "I'm sorry!"

Neither Lin Zhilan nor the child said whether they forgave or not. She then asked, "I heard that recently there have been rumors that I abused Chengzhou again..."

Jiang Chengzhou interrupted her, "Aunt, what does abuse mean?"

"They just bully you, beat you, and don't give you food."

"oh."

Jiang Chengzhou's sudden interruption gave Huang Ying and Jiang Xiaohong some time to process what was happening.

They exchanged a glance, and Jiang Xiaohong spoke up, "We didn't say that."

Lin Zhilan laughed and said, "Really? Then I must have misunderstood. I thought you were just playing a prank on everyone again."

When the police station checks a criminal, they also have to ask if the person has a prior criminal record.

If someone has a criminal record, and something happens, people will suspect them first, and you won't have anything to say about it.

Huang Ying had never made such a fool of herself in the army. She gritted her teeth, turned around, pushed through the crowd, and ran away.

Lin Zhilan smiled at the crowd and left with her child.

Everyone held their breath.

Commander Su's new wife is indeed beautiful, but she's also not someone to be trifled with.

Soon, the news of Lin Zhilan abusing her nephew quickly faded away, and the focus of everyone's discussion shifted to the confrontation between Huang Ying and Lin Zhilan.

This is the effect Lin Zhilan wanted to achieve.

When faced with such baseless rumors, shifting the blame is far more effective than proving oneself.

Huang Ying didn't even go home; she went straight to Commander Qin to complain.

After listening for a while, Commander Qin sighed deeply. "Yingying, is there anything untrue in what Lin Zhilan said?"

Huang Ying couldn't deny what happened with Jiang Chengzhou.

Lin Zhilan had just arrived then and didn't know her at all; it was that brat Jiang Chengzhou who revealed it.

Huang Ying's mind raced, and she lowered her head to wipe away her tears. "I know I shouldn't have teased the child with those words. I was wrong."

But Lin Zhilan questioned me in front of so many people, and even implied that I was the one who leaked the story about abusing Jiang Chengzhou. Now what will people outside think of me?

Seeing her uncle remain silent, Huang Ying sniffed. "I was going to argue with her, but she dragged you into it, and I was afraid it would have a bad influence, so I held back."

Commander Qin nodded, then asked her, "You said you didn't tell me about her abusing Jiang Chengzhou, so do you think it's true?"

Huang Ying: "I don't know."

Commander Qin laughed. "Huang Ying, how could you not know? Didn't you even teach Jiang Xiaohong how to write a letter of denunciation?"

This was the first time her uncle had spoken to her in such a tone, and Huang Ying had a bad feeling about it. She asked in surprise, "Uncle, did Jiang Xiaohong write the whistleblower letter?"

Seeing that she was still pretending to be ignorant, Commander Qin's face turned cold. "Jiang Xiaohong is inseparable from you, don't you know that?"

"Uncle, do you suspect me?"

"Yes," Commander Qin said directly, "Do you know why? Because you made her hand the letter to the Family Committee, and this is the first letter of complaint the Family Committee has received!"

Huang Ying and Jiang Xiaohong have only been on the island for a few years. How could she know to write a complaint letter? And how could she know that this matter was under the jurisdiction of the family affairs committee?

You've outsmarted yourself; you've overcalculated!

Military spouses who come to accompany their husbands come from all over the country, but not many are like Huang Ying, who grew up in the military. Jiang Xiaohong's decision must have been influenced by Huang Ying.

But from the beginning, she said she didn't know anything about it.

They had already given themselves away to Commander Qin.

Huang Ying wanted to say that Jiang Xiaohong might have heard it from someone else, but seeing the disappointment in Commander Qin's eyes, she suddenly couldn't speak and just lowered her head and sobbed.

Commander Qin sighed, "Later, take Jiang Xiaohong and go apologize to Comrade Lin Zhilan."

"I'm not going. Why should I go? Everything in the whistleblower letter is true. I didn't make things up. Why should I apologize?" Huang Ying tried to argue.

Commander Qin angrily said, "How can you be sure it's true? Is it just hearsay? If everyone in the army is like this, believing everything they hear, suspecting each other, and writing whistleblower letters at the drop of a hat, how can the army be stable?"

"You don't need to say anything. Right now, take your sister-in-law and go apologize to Comrade Lin."

Huang Ying suddenly stood up and cried, "I'm not going! It's true, and I didn't write the letter, so what does it have to do with me?"

Commander Qin slammed his fist on the table in anger, "Why are you so disobedient now?!"

Huang Ying had always considered her uncle as her father, and seeing how stern he was with her, she blurted out without thinking, "It's all that vixen Lin Zhilan's fault! If I were your biological daughter, she definitely wouldn't dare to cause me any trouble..."

"Snapped!"

With a loud thud, Huang Ying covered her face, staring at her uncle in disbelief.

Commander Qin's finger trembled slightly as he pointed to the door and said, "Get out of here!"

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