But now, denying it was no longer an option; she could only recount the events of that year in detail. Zhang Baosheng’s face grew darker as he listened. His hand clenched into a fist, and he slammed it onto the table at the edge of the kang. A canning jar used as a cup was on the table, and his arm knocked it to the floor. Fortunately, it was an earthen floor, so the canning jar didn’t break. Zhang Baosheng’s eyes were bloodshot with fury. "Fang Zhichun, are you even damn human?" Fang Zhichun was scared by his demeanor and immediately sat up. "Baosheng, listen to me," she pleaded. "I was just thinking about us returning to the countryside. Since it was Qin Lijuan who was swapped, I thought I’d just go with the flow and spare our daughter the hardship of returning to the countryside." ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡~𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔢~𝙣𝙚𝙩 Zhang Baosheng said angrily, "You wanted your daughter to live a good life, but what about their daughter? Even if, as you say, you wanted your own daughter to have a better life, why didn’t you treat their child well after you brought her here?" Thinking of the question Ye Bingyu had asked, his expression turned ugly. "Did you intentionally take that child out and abandon her back then?" he demanded. Fang Zhichun didn’t dare to admit it, but she couldn’t deny it either. After all, that night, she had told Ye Bingyu everything, whether she should have or not. Zhang Baosheng thought of Ye Bingyu’s call, feeling utterly ashamed. The fact that Ye Bingyu hadn’t exposed everything was probably to save me some face, wasn’t it? Seeing her expression, what was there left not to understand? "Are you human?" he roared. "How old was that little girl back then? How could you be so malicious?" Fang Zhichun didn’t know where she found the courage, but she yelled back, "It’s all because you’re useless! If it weren’t for your incompetent command during that mission, would we have ended up back in the countryside? Wasn’t I doing it so our children could have a little more to eat?" Zhang Baosheng was so enraged he felt his head spin, and he slapped Fang Zhichun across the face. "You still have the nerve to mention that mission?" he yelled. "If you hadn’t been raising hell at home, causing such a commotion, how could I have made a mistake like that?" Just as Ye Bingyu had predicted, before the couple could even finish their argument, the police arrived at their door. Fang Zhichun was terrified. "We all lived in the same family compound!" she cried. "How could they disregard our past connection and just report this to the police, just like that?" Saying this, she shrank into the farthest corner of the kang. Regardless of what the two male police officers who entered said, Fang Zhichun refused to get off the kang. One of them had to call out to a female officer waiting outside, "She’s all yours." The female officer took off her shoes, climbed onto the kang, and yanked Fang Zhichun down. She had the least patience for people —those who acted recklessly without considering the consequences and then played innocent and pretended to be weak. Dragging her to the floor, the officer said curtly, "If you don’t want to suffer more, get dressed properly. Now." By this time, a crowd had gathered outside the Zhang family’s courtyard. Police entering the village was a rare sight, and everyone was chattering, "What did the Zhang family do to alarm the police ?" "Earlier, Baosheng went to the brigade office to take a call. I heard his expression was terrible when he came out." "Look, they’re coming out! They’re coming out!" "Oh, why is Baosheng’s wife being led out in handcuffs?" One of the bolder onlookers stepped forward to ask, "Officer, what crime did Zhang Baosheng’s wife commit?" The officer was quite reasonable. "The case is still under investigation," he replied. "It’s not convenient to disclose details at this time. Please understand." In those days, even the county police station had only a few vehicles, so the officers had come by bicycle. One of Fang Zhichun’s hands was cuffed to the back rack of a bicycle, and the female officer warned her, "My cycling skills aren’t the best, so you’d better behave yourself. Otherwise, I’ll have no choice but to make you run alongside the bike." Fang Zhichun didn’t dare cause any trouble now. Hearing the villagers’ chatter, her mind was buzzing, and she kept her head hung low, not daring to look up.