Chapter 227 is causing a stir
Zhang Dezheng took his last drag of the cigarette, "No, Luo Qiao wouldn’t be looking for trouble. If Luo Qiao’s foster mother treated her well, she wouldn’t have sent her back to the countryside to suffer. Let’s get something to eat first, and then we’ll go wait outside the Great Theatre’s family compound."
Zhang Dongze saw the conviction on his father’s face and stood up, "Alright, then where can we go to find something to eat?"
Zhang Dezheng replied, "When we came over just now, I saw a state-run restaurant after the turn. Let’s head that way."
In Chaoyang Commune, the news had spread throughout the production brigades: Qingshan Village Secretary Zhang Dezheng had been expelled from the Party, stripped of his duties, for his daughter, who, out of jealousy for someone doing better than her in exams, had resorted to harming them.
This news, somehow, spread like wildfire in just one morning, and many who had attended school with Zhang Qiaoyan had trouble believing it.
However, there were a few who didn’t get along with Zhang Qiaoyan, claiming she had always been pretentious and deceived everyone; perhaps she had inadvertently revealed her true nature this time.
When Shang Hongying heard the news at her parent’s home, she didn’t know whether to be happy or angry. Her younger sister-in-law had often targeted her, frequently using her primary school education as a point of contention.
Now that trouble had arisen, at first she felt a schadenfreude, but upon hearing that things could escalate to being sent to a reformatory, she began to worry too.
In truth, she couldn’t comprehend—wasn’t Luo Qiao fine? Why had the police detained her sister-in-law, who was now reportedly sent to a detention center in the county?
As she was lost in thought, someone pulled back the curtain and walked in.
Shang Hongying looked up to see her mother, stood up and said, "Mom, I was thinking of going back today. With such a big incident happening at home, no matter what, my mother-in-law has been good to me. I want to go and see her."