However, no matter what, I still had to go.
After some thought, Ding Yun finally decided to bring the original body's cancer diagnosis report and took a taxi to the hospital.
As a late-stage cancer patient, was it wrong for her to be in a bad mood, enduring pain with painkillers, and not wanting to exert herself while suffering from a terminal illness to pick up a drunk person late at night?
No, anyone who heard it would sympathize with her.
About ten minutes later, Ding Yun arrived at the hospital and met the public security staff who were handling the aftermath, her mother-in-law, her second brother's wife, her nephew and niece, and her sister-in-law's entire family at the mortuary entrance.
Her second brother was working out of town and couldn't make it back in time.
Ding Yun's own children had also not been contacted.
The moment Ding Yun appeared, her mother-in-law rushed towards her, her voice choked with sobs, and yelled:
"It's all your fault, all your fault! You didn't keep an eye on your own husband, you didn't pick him up when he was drunk, and you made an old man go get him, and that's how he died.
The old man died so miserably...
He died of excessive blood loss!"
"If you're going to blame me for this, then you're being completely unreasonable. I wasn't involved in the whole process. Did I call my father-in-law to pick him up? Did I get drunk and couldn't come back, so I asked my father-in-law to pick him up?
It was all your son's doing, what does it have to do with me?
If you want to settle accounts, please find the right person, find the real culprit. Here, I've brought the kitchen knife from home, go find the culprit yourself.
I won't hold you responsible even if you kill him on the spot.
Whether the public security bureau will pursue it, I don't know." Da Feng Novel Network
Ding Yun was not as meek as the original body. As she spoke, she took a cleaver out of her bag and tried to stuff it into her mother-in-law's hands. However, her mother-in-law dared not take it. The other relatives on the side looked at Ding Yun in astonishment, and the public security staff quickly rushed over.
They confiscated the cleaver and criticized her.
Ding Yun and her mother-in-law argued fiercely throughout the process.
"It's all your fault. Before my son married you, he barely drank. If you hadn't been unable to control him, how could this have happened?"
"Your family was so poor back then, even if your son wanted to drink, he didn't have money. Others got married with 'three rounds and one sound' (a symbol of wealth), but when he got married, even the bicycle was borrowed. How dare you say he barely drank?
Could he afford to drink?
Besides, wasn't all the alcohol in your family drunk by your husband?
Gu Jianguo's drinking is hereditary..."
"You're talking nonsense! Drinking isn't hereditary. If drinking were hereditary, why didn't Haomiao inherit it? Jian Guo drinks all day, but our good grandson Haomiao doesn't touch a drop."
"Yes, but wasn't it me who taught Haomiao to abstain from alcohol? I taught my son to abstain from alcohol, what's wrong with that? Your son was taught by you to be addicted to alcohol!
Doesn't this also prove that this has nothing to do with me? Gu Jianguo's addiction to alcohol is your responsibility.
You, as a mother, can't even manage your son. How can I, as a daughter-in-law, manage him? So, in the final analysis, it's your own fault. It was you and your son Gu Jianguo who colluded to send off my father-in-law's life!"
"You..."
"What do you mean, 'you'? Haven't you seen me argue with him when he drinks? Back then, who advised me that it's okay for men to drink a little outside? It's all normal, it's called drinking culture, how can men discuss business without drinking?
Father-in-law said this morning that he would quit drinking, but he still had two cups at night. His son is just like him. He says drinking is bad in the morning, wants to quit drinking, and then comes home drunk at night, muttering that drinking a little is fine, it softens blood vessels, and is good for his health. I run every day, and drinking is fine. I remember you old lady often agreed!
I think this life can't go on. He doesn't go to work all day, drinks six meals a week. Tomorrow, I'm divorcing him. I don't want to have to take care of him in my old age!"
By the end of the argument, although Ding Yun had won, she had made up her mind to divorce. She truly did not want to continue with someone who drank every day, and who, except for breakfast, couldn't go a single meal without alcohol. The smell of alcohol was disgusting.
Perhaps due to the shock caused by Ding Yun's sudden assertiveness, her sister-in-law and sister-in-law didn't say much afterward, only offering some comfort.
Finally, the public security bureau stated that the pit they fell into was dug by the telecommunications company yesterday evening, as they were apparently preparing to replace optical fibers. There was originally a perimeter around it, but someone had removed the barriers at night. Gu Jianguo's father, Gu Weidong, might not have been aware of this, and without any lighting, he walked according to his sense of direction and accidentally fell in.
The relatives could claim compensation from the telecommunications company.
The public security bureau was willing to provide relevant proof.
Additionally, if they could identify who took the warning items, some criminal liability could be pursued.
They were checking the surrounding surveillance footage and would notify them when they had news.
"I won't participate in the compensation matters. I don't want to deal with Gu Jianguo anymore. If you want to handle it, handle it.
It's fine if you don't want to.
Please inform him when he wakes up that I want a divorce and want to see him at the Civil Affairs Bureau. Also, tell him I'm not joking, nor am I trying to create a scene, I've truly thought it through and won't regret it."
After the public security personnel left, Ding Yun said this calmly and turned to leave.
"Sister-in-law's attitude doesn't seem fake!"
"I remember Sister-in-law never said such harsh words before, nor did she ever say 'divorce, divorce' all the time like some people. This is probably the first time she's mentioned divorce. This matter might be difficult!"
"I think it's Big Brother's fault. I haven't seen him go out to work much this year. He has a son and a daughter, just like Second Brother, but Second Brother works so hard! Three hundred and thirty days a year he's working. Big Brother is too content with his easy life. As long as he's not starving and has alcohol to drink, he's satisfied.
Isn't Sister-in-law holding the family together?
I suspect Sister-in-law has been unhappy for a long time, but only kept quiet because of the children. Now that the children are married, and Big Brother is becoming more and more excessive, from working one day and playing one day, to working one day and playing for two or three days. If it were me, I wouldn't want to continue living like this either."
"If you ask me, Sister-in-law also has problems. Jianye used to be the same as his Big Brother. Now he hands over his salary on time every month, and sometimes when I'm busy, he can cook lunch or do laundry by himself.
This is all my doing! If I hadn't managed him strictly, using both rewards and punishments to teach him, he wouldn't be like this now. So, if a man is too lazy, we women also have problems, it's because our hearts are too soft!"
"Alas, what's the use of saying all this? Let's not interfere with family matters, let them handle it themselves. Let's talk about Dad's matter. Let's not cremate the body yet. Let's claim compensation first. We'll cremate after we get the results. After all, Dad can't die for nothing. The compensation money can be used for Mom's old age."
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