Kissed and Seduced By the Most Rough Man in the Village-Chapter 562: The Truth Unveiled

Everyone felt a bit awkward hearing Su Xiaoxiao’s words.

But after thinking it over carefully, they realized her reasoning was quite sound.

"I will apply for an experiment and personally try it out," Zhang Zhiyuan said, his brows furrowed, his tone serious.

Xue Zhen and Zhang Xiyue were both frozen in place, too stunned to react.

However, Grandpa Zhang turned to her and said, "Now you have two choices: either pack up your things right now, and I’ll send you to the countryside today, or you can go to prison and have your mother tell the truth."

Zhang Xiyue tightly pressed her lips together, her heart rising into her throat.

Su Xiaoxiao looked at her with a half-smile, "You’re afraid to answer, aren’t you? Because deep down you know your mother doesn’t care about your life, right?"

"You’re talking nonsense! I’m my mother’s biological daughter; how could she not care about me?!" Zhang Xiyue glared back in defiance.

But her angry yet weak appearance didn’t fool anyone.

"So, go ahead and try. See if your mom will protect you. After all, she’s going to die anyway, so why not try and save you on the way out?" Su Xiaoxiao continued, pressing her buttons.

As expected, upon hearing her words, Zhang Xiyue struggled for a moment before gritting her teeth and agreeing.

"Fine, I’ll go!"

Without giving her a chance to back out, they immediately got into the car and headed to the prison.

By this time, Peng Huijing, having resigned herself to the fact that her fate was sealed, no longer exuded the commanding presence she once had as the army general’s wife.

But when she saw Zhang Zhiyuan, her dim, defeated eyes suddenly gleamed with a flicker of hope.

"Zhiyuan, are you here to save me? I know I was wrong! I’ll never do it again! I swear I’ll be loyal to the country and never again commit treason. I swear!" Peng Huijing cried out excitedly, suddenly sitting up from her chair.

But Zhang Zhiyuan only narrowed his eyes, his gaze icy and filled with hatred as he stared at her.

"Tell me, how did Yuyao really die?"

"What do you mean? Are you here just to ask me about her?"

"Otherwise, what do I need from you?" Zhang Zhiyuan’s voice was cold.

Peng Huijing never expected that, after so many years as a couple, this man in front of her would have no emotional attachment to her at all.

"Ha!" She gave a self-deprecating laugh, her expression turning cold. "You already know how she died, don’t you? She wasn’t lucky and fell, suffering from complications during childbirth."

Zhang Zhiyuan said nothing but only stared at her, his expression growing even more terrifying and cruel.

Suddenly, she became agitated and shouted, "Why are you looking at me like that? Are you trying to blame her death on me? When she fell and gave birth, I wasn’t even in Beijing. Aren’t you throwing too much mud at me now?"

"But Xue Zhen was there, and with his relationship with you, helping you with this wouldn’t have been hard," Zhang Zhiyuan said coldly.

Peng Huijing paused for a moment, then realized that Xue Zhen must have been caught trying to cover things up.

Although she didn’t understand how their relationship had been exposed, she knew Xue Zhen was useless, and that was probably why he had remained just a lowly police officer after all these years.

"I don’t know what you’re talking about! Anyway, it’s already happened. You can throw whatever dirt you want on me," Peng Huijing snapped, her neck rigid with defiance.

But just then, a frustrated Su Xiaoxiao walked in from outside.

"Peng Huijing, there’s no need for you to put on this act. We all know that Zhang Hanyu and Zhang Xiyue are actually your and Xue Zhen’s children."

Peng Huijing’s pupils flickered in shock.

But soon, she regained her composure.

She knew very well that there was no evidence to prove it, and Xue Zhen wouldn’t be foolish enough to reveal such a thing.

"You’re talking nonsense! You little bitch! If it weren’t for you, I would never have ended up like this!" Peng Huijing screamed, pressing her face against the glass window, her eyes full of murderous intent toward Su Xiaoxiao.

One of the guards quickly stepped forward and pushed her back into her seat.

Peng Huijing took a deep breath, then glared at Su Xiaoxiao. "You’ve already ruined me, ruined the entire Peng family, and even killed Zhang’s only grandson. Now you won’t even spare my daughter and are trying to smear her name."

"Who said Zhang Hanyu is Zhang’s only grandson? Isn’t my brother the one the Zhang family searched for more than twenty years to find?" Su Xiaoxiao smiled wickedly, showing a row of white teeth.

Peng Huijing, seeing that all her careful planning had come to nothing, felt all her remaining strength drain away.

She glanced at the people entering the room, all of whom looked at her as though she were the punchline of a joke.

She refused to give up, "You’re telling me that after all the effort the Su family put into raising him for over twenty years, you’d be willing to let your son change his last name to Zhang?"

"Does the last name matter that much? The most important thing is bloodline," Grandpa Zhang countered firmly.

No matter what the child’s surname was, if they were part of the Zhang family, they were still their responsibility to protect.

A child from another family, even if they carried the Zhang surname, even if they grew up by their side, didn’t matter.

It was just a deceptive lie from the start.

The Zhang family wasn’t foolish enough to treat someone else’s child as their own and boast about how great they were.

"You don’t need to worry about the Su family. Xiaoxiao and I can name our children anything we want," Jiang Yexun said seriously, holding his wife’s hand.

He’d never wanted the Jiang surname anyway, so whether they used the Gu surname or the Su surname didn’t matter to him.

"We’ll have more children, one with my surname, and one with your mom’s," Su Xiaoxiao said, looking up and sweetly smiling at Jiang Yexun.

She had been given a second chance at life and had overcome her guilt to be with him, all thanks to the Gu family’s ancestors.

Having a child with the Gu surname was only natural.

"Alright, I’ll go with whatever you want," Jiang Yexun replied gently.

Su Hongchen, with a calm gaze, glanced at the lovey-dovey couple, but said nothing further.

"Get out! Get out of here! I never want to see any of you again!" Peng Huijing screamed in despair.

She had never expected that her decades of scheming would all end in failure.

"Mom, just tell Dad the truth about how Gu Yuyao really died. If you don’t, they’ll send me to the countryside today, and I’ll have no way out." Zhang Xiyue rushed forward, pleading desperately.

Peng Huijing’s eyes flickered, but after a brief hesitation, she refused.

"If you can’t even handle the hardship of going to the countryside, then you’re useless. It would be better for you to just die."

"Mom! I’m your daughter!"

Zhang Xiyue’s eyes widened in disbelief. She could never have imagined that her own mother would say such things to her.

"Do you think I wanted to have a useless daughter like you? I was hoping for more sons, but your birth wasted my chance, leaving me with only that useless brother of yours. If you two had been more capable, I wouldn’t have ended up in this situation!" Peng Huijing sneered with disdain.

Originally, Peng Huijing had hoped to cover up the affair, but now that it had been exposed, even without direct evidence, the Zhang family had already branded her as an illegitimate child.

Without the Zhang family’s protection and with a spy for a mother, Zhang Xiyue would never marry into a powerful family.

She was just a pawn to be discarded.

But Peng Huijing thought that she didn’t care about Zhang Xiyue. By stubbornly clinging to something from over twenty years ago without explaining, she would make those in front of her feel anguished and indignant.

However, Su Xiaoxiao tilted her head, looking at her thoughtfully.

Until she made Peng Huijing feel uneasy, she said, "So, you actually started calculating when you married into the Zhang family. Your son and daughter were just tools to you."

"I did use them as tools! I love Zhang Zhiyuan, so I needed his children to marry into the Zhang family, but he never once looked me in the eye. That’s why I sold out the country in a fit of anger, to take revenge on him. But now that I’m about to die and can never stay by his side, those children are of no meaning to me anymore," Peng Huijing coldly replied.

"Hm, what you’re saying sounds reasonable, but I don’t believe you," Su Xiaoxiao shrugged.

She then turned to Su Hongchen beside her, "Brother, is what she said true?" 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

Peng Huijing sneered, thinking that Su Hongchen would never disclose such confidential matters.

However, Su Hongchen directly said, "What we’ve discovered is that, twelve years ago, she and the Peng family indeed connected with spies who had infiltrated China."

"How could you tell an outsider about such things?" Peng Huijing shouted angrily.

But no one paid any attention to her.

"I think we should have started investigating from when Peng Huijing first wanted to marry into the Zhang family. And since it’s all about stealing children, all of whom were sent to Shanghai, I think we should also combine the child abduction cases we found in Shanghai into the investigation," Su Xiaoxiao suggested.

Upon hearing Su Xiaoxiao’s words, Peng Huijing immediately panicked, "What you’re doing doesn’t comply with regulations! State personnel are not something you can manipulate or waste like this!"

"Since you hate my brother so much, why did you send him back to Shanghai? Don’t tell me it was a sudden change of heart. People like you have a conscience?" Su Xiaoxiao raised an eyebrow, "I suspect that you originally planned to use the children as a backdoor to control the Zhang family, but Xue Zhen, out of guilt, sent my brother back to the Su family. All the money over the years should have been intercepted by Xue Zhen, and it’s possible that he only leaked it recently. Otherwise, last year, our family wouldn’t have encountered such a disaster. You can’t say this is just my imagination. For over twenty years, there were remittance slips every month, and when we didn’t know, they could be well hidden. But once we started investigating, nothing could be hidden anymore."

Su Xiaoxiao said in a slow, deliberate tone.

With every word, Peng Huijing’s face grew paler.

At this point, no one could still miss what was going on.

Su Xiaoxiao continued, "For a long-term plan, you guys were still somewhat clever, directly hiding a point that was exposed and discovered twelve years ago. You abandoned some things that seemed very useful but, compared to deeper operatives, were just small fries and lackeys. Based on everyone’s expectations, they would certainly think they had uncovered the truth once they reached this point. Even the most meticulous investigator would probably never find anything out for another two or three years, or even five. Sacrificing the pawns to protect the king, you guys really know how to play this."

Peng Huijing’s face turned ashen as she slumped into the chair in despair.

However, when she raised her head and gave Su Xiaoxiao and Zhang Zhiyuan a sidelong glance, she sneered.

"What’s the point of knowing now? The Zhang family has been separated from their eldest grandson and blood relatives for over twenty years, and Zhang Zhiyuan has lost his lover. He deserves it! If he hadn’t ruined the plan to marry that bitch Gu Yuyao, she wouldn’t have died! I deliberately showed up at the Zhang family, secretly boasting about how close I was to Zhang Zhiyuan, and deliberately said ambiguous things. I was the one who caused her to fall and prematurely deliver, even bribing hospital doctors and nurses, forcing her to die during childbirth!"

"So, are you really Chinese? Or is your Peng family Chinese?" Su Xiaoxiao tilted her head, looking at her curiously.

"I’m definitely Chinese! It’s just that because Zhang Zhiyuan betrayed our bond, I went down the wrong path. It’s all because of him, and them, the Zhang family that ruined me and the Peng family!" Peng Huijing gritted her teeth, angrily saying.

"You really are something. Even now, you haven’t forgotten to smear the Zhang family. But Uncle Zhang is 48 years old this year, born in ’28. During such a tumultuous time, you two families were only together for a few years, and then certainly separated, wandering separately. Where would you have had such a deep bond? In that case, the problem must lie with your mother, right?" Su Xiaoxiao boldly proposed a hypothesis.

At this, Peng Huijing finally had nothing more to say.

She couldn’t understand why, in front of Su Xiaoxiao, all her secrets had been exposed.

"Brother, you saw her reactions all the way. It should be clear by now which parts I got right, right? You guys should work harder on the investigation!" Su Xiaoxiao grinned, giving an innocent smile.

Su Hongchen helplessly shook his head and reached out to pat her head. "Our Xiaoxiao is really smart, thank you for your hard work this time."

Su Xiaoxiao proudly shook her head, then turned to Zhang Zhiyuan, "Uncle Zhang, you now understand the truth behind my aunt’s death. Although my aunt wasn’t killed by you, the fact is, she married into the Zhang family, and the Zhang family failed to protect her. I think you owe the Gu family an explanation."

Zhang Zhiyuan nodded in guilt, "After the Zhang family finishes the investigation, I’ll go to Shanghai and personally apologize to my father-in-law and mother-in-law."

"We will go too! It’s all our fault for not taking better care of your aunt back then," Grandma Wang hurriedly added.

After they finished speaking, they all eagerly looked at Su Hongchen.

But Su Hongchen didn’t give them a single glance. Instead, he turned to the already pale Xue Zhen and said, "All the relatives who are connected to you by blood, we’ve already taken them all into custody. After their interrogation, they will all have their proper place."

"This is what I deserve. I’ve ruined them," Xue Zhen said, having no objections.

He had been wrong for over twenty years, and the guilt had tormented him all these years. Now, it was finally coming to an end.

The National Security Office personnel, after completing the handover with the soldiers escorting Su Xiaoxiao and Jiang Yexun, were about to take Xue Zhen away.

Su Hongchen naturally would follow.

Although this matter involved his family, both the cases of the children in Shanghai and the Peng family were closely tied to him and Su Xiaoxiao.

The higher-ups wouldn’t, at this point, pull the biggest contributor, Su Hongchen, out of the investigation just before all the criminals’ masks were ripped off.

That would be no different than betraying him after using him.

Su Hongchen glanced at Su Xiaoxiao, saying with concern, "Beijing is going to be in chaos next. You guys go with these comrades, pack up your things. I’ll have someone take you back to the Dai City military district family quarters tonight. Stay there for a while, and when everything in Beijing settles down, you can come back."

"Brother, Xiaoxiao and I can’t leave just yet," Jiang Yexun furrowed his brow, speaking very seriously.