The smile disappeared from the old lady's face: "That child is dead."
Zhou Zhimo asked her: "Are you sure she is dead?"
The old lady replied firmly: "Of course."
Zhou Zhimo felt angry in his heart: "I went to see the attending doctor who delivered the baby last night."
"That's not what she said."
"I call you grandma. Since I came here specifically to ask you, I just want to hear the truth from you."
The corner of the old lady's mouth twitched: "You are a junior, are you now showing off in front of my old lady?"
"Your aunt is gone. It doesn't matter if you don't recognize this family, but you can't bully others."
"You are wearing a police uniform to serve the people."
"What's your attitude now?"
The old lady looked at Zhou Zhimo sternly and asked him: "Are you questioning me? Or interrogating me?"
Zhou Zhimo held back his anger and slowed down his tone: "Grandma, don't get excited."
"You are Haiyang's grandma, and I have always respected you."
"I'm asking you today for a reason."
Zhou Zhimo wanted to give the old lady a step down: "Remember it carefully, maybe you forgot something back then."
The old lady's face was still angry, but she still didn't speak.
Zhou Zhimo whispered softly: "My aunt has always been brooding about that child during her lifetime, and she has been sad for many years."
"My mother often says that my aunt is a lucky person. She has such a good mother-in-law and has never suffered from her mother-in-law."
"My mother sometimes can't help but say that my aunt is an unlucky person."
"My mother-in-law is so kind and my family is harmonious. Haiyang has just grown up, but my aunt is gone."
Having said this, he looked at the old lady with sad eyes: "Grandma, my aunt is gone. She died of depression because of that incident."
"Can you tell us what happened?"
"Let my aunt's spirit in heaven not be tortured anymore."
Zhou Zhimo's eyes were wet and he choked with sobs: "I dreamed about my aunt last night. She was still so thin, and she cried and said she was sorry for the child."
"In the past few years, I have never met that child over there."
"The aunt said it was all her fault that she went too late. She regretted not going with the child earlier."
"That way, you can stay with your child and won't let your child be so lonely all the time..."
Zhou Zhimo's crying voice made the old lady turn her head and look around: "Stop talking, it's so weird in broad daylight."
Zhou Zhimo was immersed in his own sadness: "Grandma, what I said is true."
"My aunt is so pitiful!"
"When I was alive, I tortured myself for this matter for so many years."
"Now that everyone is gone, there is still no peace and no relief."
Zhou Zhimo stretched out his hand to wipe the tears from the corner of his eyes: "People often say that those who leave will not live in peace and will affect future generations."
"I can dream about my aunt's pain. Haiyang is her biological son. I'm worried about how it will affect Haiyang."
The ocean is the old lady's treasure, and Zhou Zhimo is taking a gamble.
Sure enough, the flesh on the old lady's face trembled: "After so many years, I won't hide it anymore."
"That child is indeed not dead."
Liang Yinuo sat and did not dare to move, trying to be as transparent as possible, for fear that the old lady would stop talking if she was unhappy.
Fortunately, the old lady paused and continued: "I took it out and gave it to the people outside the door who were buying the baby."
The old lady defended: "I didn't use that money for myself."
"I took it all to buy food for your aunt."
The old lady tugged at the hem of her clothes and said, "It was your aunt who gave birth to a girl because of her unsatisfactory stomach."
Zhou Zhimo couldn't help it anymore and asked her in a deep voice: "Just because you gave birth to a girl, you have the heart to sell her?"
"That's your granddaughter too!"
The old lady said disdainfully: "What is the use of a granddaughter?"
"Can you inherit the incense? Can you support my family?"
"Didn't you end up marrying into someone else's family after all the hard work of raising her and continuing their legacy?"
The old lady looked at Zhou Zhimo: "Why, the ocean is not good?"
"I didn't give that baby to others. There are policies to control it. How can your aunt have the ocean?"
"Instead of giving birth to Haiyang, if she dies, can she have a son to die for her and hold her spiritual tablet?"
Zhou Zhimo looked at the hateful face in front of him: "Just because of your selfish old idea of inheriting the incense, you sold a baby."
"Doesn't your conscience hurt?"
"After all these years, watching my aunt suffer day and night and die of depression, have you never regretted it?"
The old lady retorted: "I did such a good thing, what do I regret?"
"She died because she couldn't figure it out. She was not lucky."
"I'm not satisfied watching the ocean, I want to think about a girl I haven't met yet."
Zhou Zhimo couldn't stand listening anymore: "Does your family have a mountain of gold and silver that you want to inherit, or is your family's bloodline so noble that no one can match it?"
"What do you think, you must have a son in the family to inherit the incense?"
Zhou Zhimo stood up and looked at the old lady condescendingly: "You are so stupid!"
Liang Yinuo also stood up and softly comforted Zhou Zhimo: "Master, don't be angry. Now that you know the truth, let's continue investigating other things."
Zhou Zhimo put his hands on his hips, twirled around in circles, and said angrily: "Old lady, you are committing a crime, do you know?"
The old lady looked at him without fear: "Don't label me an old lady, I'm not afraid."
"I'm half buried in the dirt, so I'm not afraid of trouble."
"As long as you leave me the incense of the ocean, I will be satisfied."
Hearing this, Zhou Zhimo angrily raised his hands and rubbed his hair, looking up at the sky.
After a while, he put his hands on his hips, stood under the locust tree, and looked at the old lady: "Let me tell you something."
"Did you know? The granddaughter you sold back then may have been killed."
"Now think about it, who was it sold to?"
"This is your only chance to atone for her!"
"We need to find her family and find out more."
The old lady stood up slowly while holding her thighs: "Are you dead?"
Liang Yinuo saw that Zhou Zhimo didn't want to say a word to the old lady, so he said, "Yes."
"In the murder case we found, the victim may be her."
The old lady was dubious: "You don't know who she is, what are you making random guesses about? You came here to scare my old lady."
Zhou Zhimo's cell phone rang: "Zhou Suo, the test results of the collected DNA from the ocean are out."
"That corpse has a brother-sister relationship with the ocean."
Zhou Zhimo hung up the phone and looked at the old lady: "It's not just a random guess, the result has already come out."
"That's Ocean's sister!"
He said word for word: "The granddaughter you sold with your own hands!"
"She was murdered and all that's left is a pile of bones."
The old lady's body shook: "Let me think about who bought it."
