Chapter 23 Chapter 23 Later. Later...

Later.

Everything that happened later returned to the present, and she withdrew her thoughts.

During the days when she ran away from home and hid, she didn't know what happened outside.

Xiaozhen dialed the number carefully several times, and after calming down, she called home.

The house picked up the phone and yelled at her "Hello".

"Do you know how big a disaster you have caused? Brother Hua will be killed by you soon! He has been suspended from work and is at home. People outside want to throw stones and rotten eggs at him, you know?"

This voice shook her whole body, and she chose to escape at the first moment.

Xiaozhen didn't know where she was going.

Dr. Xie's information clinic was closed.

This kind of special case will be heard in court very quickly, but there are more cases before the New Year, and the court will not be heard until after the New Year.

Qiao Yihua had to find Xiaozhen who had been missing for a long time, and at the same time, he was preparing to go abroad. The last meeting of the financing company in the United States did not pass the plan of 100 million US dollars in financing.

He was not as simple as being suspended, but the words from the company team in the United States meant that the investment amount was reduced by two-thirds, and Qiao Yihua himself would not take over the work for the time being.

At that time, there were too many Chinese companies. In addition to the real industry, the Internet has been rising in the past two years. As the most promising trend, almost half of the financing funds have poured into the Chinese Internet industry.

The company was in turmoil. At the annual meeting before the Spring Festival, all departments were dissatisfied with him and reported the plans for the next year perfunctorily.

It can be said that the pressure from the ministers made him let go.

The reason he let go was that he held too tight. After a series of actions in the past six months, everyone knew that Qiao Yihua was going to get rid of the donkey after he had done his job. He stayed because the company was optimistic and even a small share of the shares could make him a millionaire instantly, so

he had to swallow his anger. Now the financing is not going smoothly. The company's surplus has long been used for investment in other industries, and the year-end bonus may not be issued. In addition, he himself is entangled in scandals. This game is doomed no matter how you look at it.

Regarding this rape case, the lawyers of both parties were communicating before the court. Qiao Yihua went there for the first time to hear about this case. The content was harsh and shocking.

"The victim has been abused for a long time. Qiao Moumou had the opportunity to rape her in a step-by-step and purposeful manner. The victim was verbally assaulted and insulted during her childhood, including sexual assaults on January 2 and 5, 1999."

Dozens of wound photos were covered.

Qiao Yihua couldn't believe his ears after hearing all these things. He smashed the teacup to pieces.

On his way home, Fangzi called and said that he had found Xiaozhen and forced her to come to the villa. Fangzi

was angry and furious at first. When he found Xiaozhen, she was sitting on the roadside in the rain. When he wanted to escape, he dragged her into the car.

Seeing her like this, he couldn't blame her at all.

Maybe others don't know, but he knows very well what happened between them. He drove the most times, and it was he who sent them to the holiday villa in the end. He even saw them hugging and kissing in the car. Everyone else knew about the little things they had done together, so what could he pretend?

Fangzi repeatedly told him that he must cry and coax Brother Hua when he saw him, and he wouldn't get too angry.

But what did Fangzi know? One's career was about to be ruined, and the other was determined to escape.

Everyone's selfishness is different.

The people in the villa were Qiao Yihua's closest two or three people, including Zhou Yun.

No one said a word when she came over. It was raining in winter and the room was extremely cold. The sky was foggy and the light from the floor-to-ceiling windows made the room still slightly dark.

Xiaozhen seemed to realize the ending.

Qiao Yihua's car was very fast and the villa's security guard quickly opened the door.

He walked very fast and everyone was waiting for what would happen next.

Qiao Yihua came over and saw Xiaozhen standing there. Neither of them spoke. With a very cold expression, he took two steps over and slapped her.

He was extremely angry and his heart was heaving all the way. The anger in his chest had burned to his throat. The stinging pain made him endure it again and again.

He couldn't think of any words except anger. He

didn't want to look back on everything, nor did he have any thoughts about the past and the future. He just wanted to strangle her to death. He

didn't even take off his coat. He looked at her coldly and slapped her.

The slap was not all on the face, but mostly on the contour of the ear and neck, and the sound was muffled.

Xiaozhen was hit back a few steps by the force, but still couldn't stand firmly and fell to the ground. His head buzzed and he was unclear for a moment.

Qiao Yihua stepped forward and grabbed her shoulder, speaking sharply.

"What an ungrateful person! Why didn't you die in the garbage dump? How can a person like you live a few years like a normal person? Have you forgotten how you got it? You are ungrateful and a liar! You are just a beggar born to be poor!" Xiaozhen

's shoulder seemed to bleed from being pinched by him. The pain made her raise her head slightly. The blood at the roots of her hair slowly flowed down her hair to her face. She was beaten to the ground and the table just now was bleeding.

Qiao Yihua stared at her for a few seconds and then let go.

The silence of the people around was equally terrifying, and no one dared to say anything.

Qiao Yihua sank his face, and returned to normal after his veins popped out. He took off his coat and windbreaker, walked to the sofa and sat down gently.

No one knew what he was thinking.

No one knew how much pain she was in.

Xiaozhen covered her face and stood up with difficulty. Hair, blood, and tears probably covered half of her face. She walked slowly but left without looking back.

It was drizzling outside, and the winter rain was particularly cold. She didn't wear many clothes, but she still walked away resolutely.

Zhou Yun watched the whole process. Just a few minutes ago, she still hated this woman. Since they got engaged, she had no good feelings for this so-called "sister". Qiao Yihua said that she was quiet, sensitive but sensible, but in her opinion, as a woman, she understood the means used on men after living under someone else's roof. There is no so-called innocence, sensitivity and fragility. She is a person with deep scheming and desire to live a good

life and know how to please Qiao Yihua. Maybe the little girl who was really abandoned in the past, who would not remember the days of neither life nor death after the passage of time. What's more, people like Qiao Yihua, once they have power and money, like to listen to flattery and pretend to be weak and sandwiched between them.

Seeing the photos taken by the two people, they were reluctant to accept and kissed each other.

So Zhou Yun beat this woman very straightforward that day, even if she was very scared and afraid, she did not show any mercy.

But in these few minutes, she seemed to have no hatred anymore. Zhou Yun's heart skipped a beat when Qiao Yihua slapped her. Every word she said pierced her deepest heart. It seemed that they were really going to fight to the death.

Seeing her leave without looking back, Zhou Yun couldn't think from a woman's perspective. Someone who had lived with her for seven or eight years would write "physical torture", "mental control", "living like a slave every day".

Perhaps no amount of upbringing could offset the despair of a woman's physical torture.

The day before New Year's Eve, Xiaozhen's family, who had not appeared for many years, joined the ranks of the denunciation.

No one notified her family. For so many years, Xiaozhen never mentioned the past.

Everyone knew that this father didn't care about Xiaozhen at all, he just wanted money.

I don't know where so many relatives came from, four or five people came to the downstairs of the law firm, demanding justice for their daughter.

They were downstairs of the company before, and they called the police and drove them out.

Then they came to the law firm, which was the only place that was still on duty during the Spring Festival.

In eight years, Xiaozhen saw her father for the first time after not seeing him for a long time. He looked so old, only in his forties but seemed to be sixty years old. He kept cursing Qiao Yihua in dialect, saying that he abducted his daughter and violated minors.

She seemed to realize that Dr. Xie didn't know that many parents in the world were disrespectful of others.

Her father didn't recognize her at first glance, and after looking at her for a few times, he realized that she was his daughter who escaped many years ago. He didn't comfort her, but stretched out his hand to hit her head and body, and insulted her with "no sense of propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame", "no sense of public morality" and "shameless"

. These were just civilized words that were retelled.

The lawyers on both sides held the crazy father to stop him from hitting her.

The father grabbed her hand and spoke dialect very fast.

Others couldn't understand, but she could.

He asked her to tell Qiao Yihua that he would give her 100,000 yuan and leave to keep things quiet.

She didn't know the relatives who came, so they must have been hired. She didn't expect that her father, who was always very frugal, would be willing to spend so much money. He

dared to ask for 100,000 yuan

right away. Xiaozhen said heartbreakingly in the chaos: "Get out, get out, get out!"

What attracted her was even greater insults and scolding from her father, who said that she was an ungrateful person who had no conscience and tried to hook up with a rich man to become a prostitute.

Xiaozhen wanted to escape quickly, but was caught by her father and several hired people, who were their cash cows and hostages.

As she struggled to break free, Xiaozhen turned her head and saw Qiao Yihua coming out of the car, and brought many police officers with him.

She wanted to reach out to him to save her again, but tears welled up in her eyes and she finally couldn't help.

The police uniforms came over and still had a deterrent effect. The father quickly let go. The lawyer who followed Qiao Yihua said, "We have reason to suspect that this is a joint fraud case. This case is full of loopholes. The specific evidence has been handed over to the public security organs and the court. The slander and defamation have caused serious consequences and will be sentenced to a fixed-term imprisonment of more than three years but less than ten years. Are you all involved? When the case is announced, you will all go to prison."

The father is from a remote town. He has never seen such a scene. When he heard about going to prison, his legs trembled with fear.

He pushed Xiaozhen over here and said that the country could execute her for any crime she committed, and that she should not harm others. He said that this daughter has been a motherless thing since she was a child, uneducated, and it has nothing to do with him if she comes out to mix in society.

Several people in this farce were detained for fifteen days. Because they were waiting to go home for the Spring Festival, several people came to Shanghai for the first time and didn't know anything. They knelt down and kowtowed, and the public security personnel kindly let them go.

Back in that town, everyone spread the rumor that Xiaozhen was going to be shot. From the beginning, she was caught for swindling, to stealing someone's things, and finally for drug trafficking.

In fact, who still knows the little girl who was nearly trafficked to marry while crawling on a train many years ago? Probably no one remembers what she looks like, but they are still willing to spread their own rumors.

The Spring Festival was in chaos because of these things.

The first court session after the holiday.

Zhou Yun knew that no matter what kind of evidence and lawyers she had, this woman would definitely lose. She might be in jail, or she might return to her previous life.

After the court session, Xiaozhen did not show up. The incident was widely reported, and Qiao Yihua's company was on vacation. After all, she was a minor, □□, adopted daughter, and all kinds of fabrications made up, and any tabloid would be willing to report this kind of news.