Witty Wife, Better Life

Chapter 832: Chapter 822 Funeral Chapter 832: Chapter 822 Funeral Li Hongjun, upon hearing the entire sequence of events, felt his head buzzing.

He took a deep breath and said, “Big brother, right now it’s just the two of us here at home, we must stay composed. Here’s what we’ll do: Dad can’t be left alone, we don’t know when the surgery will end, so you and sister-in-law should stay here and look after Dad. I’ll go with Officer Zhang to see what has happened to Mom, and when I return, we’ll discuss further.” For now, that was all they could do.

Li Hongxing and his wife didn’t have any ideas of their own and could only follow what the second brother said.

So, Li Hongxing and his wife stayed at the hospital, while Li Hongjun followed Officer Zhang to the detention center in the police car. Qiu Shuping’s body was still kept there.

At that time, no one who died in a detention center was entitled to compensation; death meant simply that—death. Li Hongjun’s purpose was to find out whether his mother had truly died suddenly or if she had been murdered. If it was the latter, he was determined to demand justice.

The final outcome confirmed that Qiu Shuping had died from sudden death, then the police helped arrange a vehicle to transport the body back to Taoshu Village. In many places, cremation had not yet been implemented, so the dead needed to be kept at home, where the family could hold a vigil and perform rituals before burial.

Due to the urgency of the situation, Li Hongjun couldn’t handle everything alone. While at the detention center, he called his eldest sister, Li Xianglian, asking her to come help prepare their mother’s body and to see if her husband could find a coffin they could borrow. It was difficult to source one on short notice, so they planned to borrow one prepared for an elder and later pay or repay the favor.