Chapter 1094: Chapter 1094: Out of Control
Wei Qingran heard what He Jie said and couldn’t help but look at Song Wenjun.
Song Wenjun covered her face, bent down, and was already crying, shaking her head constantly, trembling as she said, "No, I don’t know what’s happening... that, that was not my intention, how could I want to hurt my own daughter..."
"I, I didn’t know what was going on at the time, suddenly looked up, and saw Little Caihong was gone, replaced by a pale-faced ghost on the hospital bed, and she told me she had eaten Little Caihong. I, I lost control..."
"I can’t remember at all now what I was thinking at the time..."
Wei Qingran, hearing this, seized on a key point and asked, "Teacher Song, you couldn’t remember what you did at the time?"
Song Wenjun kept nodding, "Yes, I, I felt like I was in a daze, when I heard He Jie’s voice and came to, I found that I, I was choking Little Caihong’s neck..."
Song Wenjun kept shedding tears, like someone about to drown in the sea, desperately trying to find a plank to stay afloat, grasping Wei Qingran’s hand and looking at Wei Qingran with pleading eyes.
"Qingran, you believe me, Little Caihong is my daughter, how could I possibly hurt her? I, I really didn’t know what happened to me at the time... I couldn’t control my own hands, they wouldn’t obey me, I wanted to let go, but the hands only gripped tighter..."
Song Wenjun broke down and cried, with an already haggard face further marred by tears and smeared makeup, the glamour of a former superstar vanished instantly, leaving only a mother’s desperate and powerless self-defense, and endless self-blame.
Wei Qingran turned her hand over to hold hers, turned to look at He Jie, and asked, "He Jie, do you remember the situation at that time? Was Teacher Song unwilling to let go?"
He Jie hesitated and shook her head, "It didn’t seem like..."
She also felt that Song Wenjun’s hands at the time seemed not to be her own, immensely powerful, and she couldn’t pull Song Wenjun’s hands apart.
Wei Qingran heard this, her heart jumped a few times, with a sense of unease, "I somehow feel like Teacher Song might really have been controlled by something at that time..."
He Jie was stunned.
A glimmer appeared in Song Wenjun’s eyes, as if she had found a lifeline, "Qingran, you, you believe me, don’t you?"
Wei Qingran patted the back of her hand, "Teacher Song, it’s not that I believe you, I just thought, earlier when I put the amulet on Little Caihong, it seemed like a dark shadow ran out from you..."
She asked He Jie for confirmation, "He Jie, you should have seen it too, right?"
He Jie carefully recalled, there really seemed to be such a thing, nodding in shock, "Yes, yes, it seemed like some shadow ran out, didn’t look like a human... don’t know what it was..."
At the time, with a quick glance, their attention was entirely on Little Caihong and Song Wenjun, they didn’t really see closely what that thing was.
Moreover, that thing disappeared in a flash in the hospital room, moving so fast, it was impossible to make out clearly.
Wei Qingran, as if thinking of something, muttered, "The Abbot must have known in advance of all this happening, which is why he gave me a talisman and told me to hurry back..."
Song Wenjun, hearing this, stopped crying, "The Abbot, knew?"
Wei Qingran nodded, and recounted to Song Wenjun and He Jie the matter of her earlier meeting with Jiangli and Xia Xin.
When she went according to the address Xia Xin had sent, she saw Xia Xin waiting at the door for her.
Seeing her approach, Xia Xin stuffed an amulet into her hands without a word, saying it was from the Abbot.