Bonnie spent half the day at the hospital. The baby was born healthy, and with her mother and Lin Bo there, she went home and will come back tomorrow.

"Wenli, you rest, I'm going back first. I don't know if your brother-in-law and the others have returned yet, and I don't know how Liu Jiu and the others are doing at home."

Cao Wenli has recovered somewhat, and she is very grateful to her sister for taking care of her.

"Sister, you should go back now. I'm fine here. Lin Bo is here."

Lin Bo also said, "Yes, sister, you should go back. I took a few days off to take care of Wenli and her daughter here."

Bonnie left the hospital and went straight to the family quarters. She didn't know how her younger children were doing at home.

"Where are your parents? Get your parents out here. They have to give me an explanation for beating my Junjun like this."

Bonnie could hear a woman's voice from a distance; it was very rude.

"My mother isn't home. What explanation do you want? Tell me. I'm the one who hit him. Who told him to bully my second brother? It's okay for him to bully others, but it's not okay for me to fight back? Do you think you're the Emperor?"

Liu Jiu's voice was also quite loud, and he spoke clearly and logically.

“That’s right, your child is that big, hitting people and stealing things, he deserves to be punished.” Sanqi Xiao’s words were not as coherent as her older sister’s, but they were still clear.

"You little brats, how dare you talk to adults like that? Don't you have any manners?"

Bonnie took a few quick steps, grabbed the woman's hand that was pointing at the child, and flung it aside.

"You're an adult, yelling at a few kids, is that really good manners? I'm their mother, what explanation do you expect me to give you?"

The woman didn't expect this dusty-looking woman to attack her right away. Didn't she know who she was?

"Your child hit my son, shouldn't I demand an explanation? And how dare you lay a hand on me? Who gave you the guts?" The woman stood tall, acting as if she were the most important person in the world.

"Justice gave me the courage to do this. Why did my child hit someone? If your child hadn't done something that deserved to be hit, my daughter wouldn't have paid any attention to him."

Bonnie knew that Liu Jiu wouldn't hit someone for no reason. San Qi had just said that his child had stolen things.

"You, you..."

Bonnie ignored her and turned to look at Gu Xuanyi. "Gu Xuanyi, you're the older brother. Tell your aunt the whole story."

Gu Xuanyi had a bruise on his face; it seemed he had been beaten.

“Auntie, Sanqi and I were playing with toy cars in the yard when this kid saw us from over the wall and asked us to let him play with them. We didn’t know him and didn’t want to lend them to him, so he climbed over the wall and snatched them from us.”

I was afraid he'd bump into Sanqi, so I stopped him. He punched me, and Liujiu saw it and punched him too. He started wailing, and then his mother arrived.

“That’s how it is.” Sanqi confirmed his second brother’s words; he remembered them all.

"Is your child a bandit? Breaking into people's homes, stealing things, and assaulting people—who gave him the audacity?"

Bonnie crossed her arms and looked at the woman in front of her who looked like a little hen.

"You're lying. My child has all kinds of toys. Why would he want your beat-up car?"

The car was Gu Xuanyi's prized possession, which was why he had brought it all the way here. Upon hearing the woman's words, he protested, "My car is not a piece of junk! It was bought from the Friendship Store in Beijing, using several Overseas Chinese Coupons! It's not a piece of junk!"

When the little hen heard that the gift certificate was from the Overseas Chinese Store and that the boy's clothes were quite nice, she wondered if they also had connections.

"Mom, it hurts, my tooth hurts, am I going to die?"

The boy next to her was crying loudly, which also made the woman lose her temper.

“I don’t care, your child hit my son, you have to give me an explanation, otherwise, I will sue you.”

"Mommy, I want that car back. Make them pay for it." The little boy's purpose in crying was obvious.

“Yes, give my son the car back, and I won’t pursue the matter of her hitting him.” The little hen tilted her head back and agreed with her son’s suggestion.

Bonnie laughed. She thought, "How dare you try to extort money from someone like me!"

“I hope you will investigate this matter. Even if you don’t, I will. Come on, let’s find a place to talk about it.” Bonnie pulled the little hen, and Liu Jiu understood. He pulled the little boy who had been staring at the car in Xuan Yi’s hand, and followed his mother toward the logistics department.

"Let go of me, let go of me, where are you taking me?"

Bonnie ignored her and strode forward. If this wasn't resolved, there would be more trouble later. The neighbors lived on either side; if their brats tried to extort money from her child's things, would that ever end?

The women in the family compound saw Bao Ni holding hands with a woman, and Liu Jiu holding hands with a boy who was much older than her. They didn't know what was going on, so they followed them.

The logistics manager hadn't left work yet; when Bonnie arrived, they had just finished a meeting.

"Comrade Lin, what's going on?" Lin Baoni and the others knew each other well, and judging from the situation, it seemed like something serious had happened.

"Boss, I'm here to resolve something with you. Xuanyi, please explain the situation to the uncles."

Gu Xuanyi explained things clearly and logically, and everyone present understood.

“I wasn’t home, so I can only hear the details from my child. My child doesn’t lie. There should still be some marks on the walls of my house that can prove whether my child lied or not.”

Bonnie told the logistics manager what she wanted to say, then looked at the little hen.

"Your child doesn't lie, and neither does my son. Your child almost knocked out his teeth. Shouldn't you compensate him?"

Bonnie ignored her and said to the logistics leader, "We live next to each other. If similar things happen again, are we supposed to satisfy their demands? How is that any different from robbery? If all the other residential compounds follow suit and do this whenever they want something, how will we live?"

As soon as Bonnie finished speaking, the other sisters-in-law objected, saying they felt incredibly resentful if things continued this way.

“That won’t do. We’ve lived here for over ten years and nothing like this has ever happened before. We can’t start that.” Sister-in-law A was being honest; she was an elderly resident of the compound.

"Yes, we can't let people like that get away with it. You rob someone and then hit them; don't you deserve to be beaten?"

"that is."

...

The little hens seemed to be in complete control, unlike the old compound where they used to live, where a little intimidation would easily sway them.

"Whose family does this woman belong to? Call her husband over."

The logistics leaders also do not want such things to happen frequently, as it affects unity.

"She's from the family of the newly transferred Deputy Director Liang. Her father is some high-ranking officer in the fleet, though we don't remember exactly. She mentioned it herself. Should we call her father over too? After all, he has powerful connections."

A younger woman said that she must have been bullied, and her tone was very dissatisfied.

"Alright, that's enough. Go and fetch Deputy Director Liang. This matter must be made clear. Also, find a scout to go to Comrade Lin's house and see what's going on on the wall."

The young soldier received his orders and left, while Bonnie relaxed, trusting her child.

The little hen looked puzzled, her expression changing frequently. It seemed the situation was beyond her comprehension, and she didn't know how to smooth things over.

She opened her mouth, but nothing came out. She remembered that the other party didn't want to settle privately, and she felt a little uneasy.

There's a saying that goes, "What goes around comes around."