Chang Qingchuan still wanted to rush towards the stretcher, "You're talking nonsense. Your sister isn't dead, she's just sleeping. I can wake her up..."
Huo Zheng, suppressing his grief, held Chang Qingchuan's shoulder firmly. He watched the rescue workers carry Huo Jin's body onto the ambulance and comforted Chang Qingchuan, "Brother-in-law, older sister is gone. How can you let her rest in peace in heaven if you act like this?"
"Let go of me, don't hold me! She's not dead. She was talking to me underwater just now!"
"Chang Qingchuan, wake up! That was a hallucination." Huo Zheng, already heartbroken, had to comfort him, and could only roar, "You know better than anyone that when the police discovered her accident yesterday, they had already confirmed she had no breath in the car. My mother fainted on the spot from the shock and is still in the hospital. Do you think you're the only one grieving? We are her family, aren't we grieving too? If you go on like this endlessly, have you considered our feelings!"
Chang Qingchuan stared blankly and knelt on the ground. He no longer acted crazily trying to revive Huo Jin, and watched the ambulance door close and drive away.
Huo Zheng no longer held him. He patted his shoulder, "Older sister loved beauty the most. Let them dress her up nicely and let her go in peace."
Su Su saw this scene and buried her face in Qin Tianyi's shoulder and neck with difficulty, still sobbing silently.
"Let's go back first. No matter how sad you are, you must take care of your own body."
Su Su said nothing more and returned with him, crying.
Ten days later, no matter how sad Su Su was, she had to accept the fact that Huo Jin had died in a car accident when her car overturned into the pond.
Life is unpredictable. No one expected Huo Jin to leave like this, leaving behind her parents and relatives, and the person she loved the most, to another world.
Huo Jin's funeral was grand and dignified. Many celebrities and merchants who were on good terms with the Huo family attended, all dressed in black and with solemn expressions.
Huo Liangcheng and his wife had only one son and one daughter. Their daughter was gone so suddenly, and the couple seemed to have aged a lot overnight.
While welcoming guests, their eyes were still red. Besides extreme sadness, they looked at the guests expressionlessly, and Huo Jin's mother's gaze was even more vacant.
Huo Zheng was busy greeting the guests attending the funeral. Chang Qingchuan sat alone by the memorial table, like a walking dead person whose soul had been drained.
Qin Tianyi and Su Su arrived at the funeral discreetly and exchanged a few words with Huo Jin's parents.
They could understand the grief of parents sending their child away. No amount of comforting words would help; only time could help Huo Liangcheng and his wife emerge from their sorrow.
Qin Tianyi met acquaintances and spoke in hushed tones with them in a corner of the reception area.
Su Su slowly walked to Chang Qingchuan's side. No matter how sad she was, it couldn't compare to Chang Qingchuan's pain of losing his beloved forever.
"Qingchuan." Su Su gently patted his shoulder.
Chang Qingchuan turned to look at Su Su as if possessed, tears flowing without speaking.
"Are you alright? The deceased has passed. You must be strong..."
Chang Qingchuan didn't hear what Su Su was saying. He grabbed Su Su's wrist, still unable to accept reality, and murmured, "She wouldn't die. She was fine. Why did she drink and drive to a remote pond, and even drive the car with herself into the water? This is impossible. Her driving skills are better than mine. Even driving at night, she wouldn't miss the pond! What exactly happened, what went wrong..."
He began to repeatedly mutter this last sentence.
Yes, what exactly happened to Huo Jin?
Su Su also didn't believe it was an accident. The nightmare she had the night before the accident was still imprinted in her mind.
In the dream, Huo Jin said she was harmed by someone, but Su Su couldn't object to this accident based on a nightmare.
As far as she knew, after the police investigated the scene, they had already confirmed it was an accident due to drunk driving and found no other possibilities.
Moreover, there was no surveillance near the remote pond, and there were no eyewitnesses on the night Huo Jin had the accident. The only existing traces found were a few tire marks.
Based on the tire marks, the police deduced that Huo Jin, in a drunken state, had veered off the original road. The car had rushed into the pond and stopped for a while, but she still didn't turn back in time and drove directly into the pond.
These were the police scene investigation reports that Qin Tianyi had helped her obtain. It was likely that Huo Jin's family and Qingchuan had also seen some accident assessments.
The risk of drunk driving was indeed very high. Who could be blamed?
But in the face of the traffic police's assessment, Su Su still felt it couldn't be like this. She held Qingchuan's hand and said softly, "Qingchuan, I also think Huo Jin's accident was not an accident. But who would want to harm her?"
Chang Qingchuan snapped out of his grief and said to Su Su, "You also think it wasn't an accident, right? There's no reason for her to have an accident when she was fine. But I told the police, and they didn't believe me, thinking I was overcome with grief."
"I just have this feeling, but there's no evidence." Besides sadness, Su Su was also full of doubt and asked, "Did she contact you on the day of the accident? Why did she drive to that rural area?"
Chang Qingchuan recalled, "I contacted her early that morning. She said she had something to do, but didn't want to tell me what it was. I didn't ask further, thinking if she didn't tell me, she had her reasons. If she wanted to say it, she would."
Su Su suddenly thought, did Huo Jin drive alone out of Lancheng to see Shu Yan?
"Who was the last person she contacted before the accident?"
Chang Qingchuan shook his head sadly, "I don't know. Her phone hasn't been found yet. It might have fallen into the pond during the rollover. But the divers searched the pond thoroughly and couldn't find it. It's also possible it's deeply buried in the silt at the bottom of the pond. It's harder to search in the silt."
Su Su just wanted to know if Huo Jin was using her phone's navigation before the accident and where the destination was.
But now that the phone couldn't be found, it was probably difficult to confirm this.
Chang Qingchuan felt that Su Su might have some clues and asked, "Did you contact her that day?"
"We didn't contact each other that day, but before that day, she asked me for Shu Yan's rural address..."
As soon as Su Su finished speaking, she saw Shu Yan and her daughter arrive at the funeral and were talking to Huo Liangcheng and his wife.
Chang Qingchuan saw that Su Su stopped speaking halfway and followed her gaze, seeing Shu Yan and her daughter.
Su Su said softly, "Speak of the devil, and she shall appear. Wasn't she in the countryside taking care of her child? Why is she back in Lancheng?"
Chang Qingchuan didn't understand what Su Su was saying for a moment. Just as he was about to ask further, he saw Shu Yan leave Jia Nanfang and walk towards them.
Su Su let go of Chang Qingchuan's hand and stood still. Chang Qingchuan also remained seated. They both just looked at her calmly.
Shu Yan, with a sorrowful expression, walked to the memorial table, offered three sticks of incense to Huo Jin's portrait, and her attitude towards Chang Qingchuan had changed considerably, saying, "No one would have expected an accident. Please accept my condolences."