"My mother told me that people outside the mountains follow the law. She said that as long as I left the mountains and went to the city, I could find the police to stand up for us. I saved up money for a very long time to pay someone to tell my father that there were people in Hucheng willing to pay a lot of money to buy me as a wife. If he sold me, he could use the money to buy a new wife. He actually followed me to Hucheng. I even got a kind-hearted woman to help me call the police. Once the police see my father beat someone to death, they will make him pay with his life..."
As Du Yuqing said this, she suddenly recalled what Sheng Xia had told her earlier—that even if her father beat her to death, he would not have to pay with his life. She gripped Sheng Xia’s hand, her eyes filled with earnest entreaty. "Auntie, tell me, why won’t it work? I thought about it for so long, and I was sure this would make my father pay for my mother's death. How can it not?"
At this point, the full history of Du Yuqing and her mother had become clear. Sheng Xia could only imagine what a brilliant, dazzling phoenix Du Ruo must have been over a decade ago when she was a university student, only to fall into the abyss of those deep, remote mountains due to filthy hearts and cruel calculations. If not for such a brilliant and intelligent mother, how could her young daughter, Du Yuqing, have managed to lure her scum of a father to Hucheng and orchestrate a plan for the police to witness his crime…
Chapter 236