Chapter 252 Uncovers the Events of That Year

"That's lame. Take your pants off, and I'll apply the medicine for you."

From his sarcastic words, it was clear that he had overheard the conversation that had just taken place in the ward. Bai Ye decided to stop pretending, took off his pants, turned over, and lay face down on the blanket. "I'm sorry, I was too inconsiderate about what happened today."

Red, striped bruises covered his calves and thighs. Jiang Chao snorted coldly and said, "You should be glad Xiaxia wasn't injured, otherwise... I'd beat you up again, and I won't let a single person from Wuyun Village get away with it."

He doesn't believe in the saying "the law doesn't punish everyone." He'll just go door-to-door in the middle of the night and beat everyone up.

"A good horse is ridden, and a kind person is bullied. This time, I will not be soft-hearted."

Her eyes, which were once as clear as a pool of water, now resembled a bottomless abyss, inspiring fear.

"Heh, what kind of solution can you come up with? When the time comes, everyone will just lay out their difficulties, and moral blackmail alone will drive people to their deaths."

Upon hearing this, Bai Ye smiled contemptuously and said, "So, we need to strike first before they try to morally blackmail us. I instructed Uncle Zhang to take action before we went down the mountain. Using family difficulties as a pretext to do shady things, then let them...become truly in trouble! I'm not some heartless philanthropist! Ouch, easy, that hurts!"

"You deserve to be in so much pain!"

Looking at the pale yellow ointment, I vaguely felt that it would be great if some salt water could be added. If he were in so much pain, he would dare not kidnap my sister again.

Meanwhile, Yunxia, ​​whose sweltering heat had subsided slightly, went to the cafeteria and brought back some light meals to Bai Ye and Jiang Chao.

That night, he wanted to stay and keep an eye on her, but Jiang Chao chased him away, afraid that the two of them would fight in the middle of the night. He pulled him into the stairwell and instructed him, "She is a patient now, so be a little gentler. Also, the blow he took on his back was to protect me; otherwise, I would be lying in a hospital bed right now."

Haha, a hero saving a damsel in distress, what a show!

He clenched his fist and gave him a sharp rap, saying helplessly, "Do I look like someone who has no sense of propriety? Hurry up and go back, don't make people worry."

After saying that, he put his hands behind his back and slowly returned to the ward. Yun Xia followed him with small steps. After repeatedly reminding Bai Ye to pay attention to his personal safety, she was pushed away from the ward by someone.

The next day, before dawn, she got up to cook chicken soup. After it was ready, she took a car directly to the hospital. When Jiang Chao returned from the water room, he saw the girl feeding someone chicken soup spoonful by spoonful.

The emotion in someone's eyes was practically overflowing; the scene was exactly the same, a complete recreation of what it was like a few years ago.

"What's wrong? Did your arm break after sleeping all night?" Jiang Chao sneered as he came in carrying a thermos.

Bai Ye, who was in a good mood, wasn't angry at all. He smiled, took the soup bowl, and sipped it slowly.

"He slept with his arm bent all night, and it was sore that he couldn't hold the bowl properly, so I fed him. Come and eat quickly after you've washed up. Scallion pancakes and chicken soup go best together."

Along the way from the platform to the hospital, there were many stalls. Yunxia deliberately chose the one with the best smell. Jiang Chao rolled his eyes at the big bad wolf, then chewed on his pancake and drank his soup in big gulps.

For the rest of the day, Jiang Chao personally did everything from washing dishes and sweeping the floor to helping Bai Ye get out of bed and walk, and applying ointment, to prevent Bai Ye from having any physical contact with his younger sister.

Before being discharged from the hospital, he even asked the school for leave. When Yun Xia heard this, he clicked his tongue repeatedly, thinking to himself that the sharp-tongued man had changed his ways and was preparing to take the warm man route. Bai Ye knew exactly what he was up to, but he couldn't tell anyone else.

On this weekend, Yunxia and An'an were tidying up the backyard when Bai Ye, who had just been discharged from the hospital, came to visit and told them with a smile about the outcome of the disturbance in Wuyun Village.

The shifty-eyed man who instigated the disturbance was sentenced to two months of detention and fined 200 yuan. If he did not pay, he would be detained for another month. The remaining participants in the disturbance were each sentenced to half a month of detention and fined 50 yuan. If they did not pay, they would be detained for another half month.

Yunxia believed that most of them would choose to be detained for a longer period of time and pay the fine, but that was impossible!

"Then...didn't any of their family members cause trouble? I remember someone saying that his wife has high blood pressure and can't stop taking medication all year round. I'm worried..."

“Don’t you trust me to handle things? The fact that they can repay kindness with ingratitude shows that they are evil at heart. They have done a lot of petty theft and other despicable things. I have sent people to find out their backgrounds and tell their families and victims about all the bad things they have done. They have a lot of bad debts to deal with right now and no time to cause trouble at the factory.”

Bai Ye was afraid that revealing the specific sins would offend the young girl's ears. He didn't want to tell her the details, but he knew who was having an affair with whom, who was having an affair, whose ducks were being stolen and eaten by whom, and who were sworn brothers who looked down on each other on the surface but even tried to take advantage of each other's wives.

The veil of shame has been lifted, and all the sordid deeds have been exposed to the public. Some of the troublemakers' wives, seeing their husbands taken away by the police, slaughtered chickens and fish that very night and prepared a feast.

"As for the woman with high blood pressure, a relief association was established in the name of the factory, and Village Chief Li was asked to distribute antihypertensive drugs on time every month."

"What about Tao Huaiming? He's the worst of them all, always instigating others behind their backs. I haven't forgotten that piece of paper from back then, which was supposed to have you and me give him half of our shares."

"Don't worry, he won't get away with it. All the evidence you handed over is real. At first, he denied it to the death, and the troublemakers who were arrested also implicated him. So I sent someone to report his renovation business, and guess what? They uncovered a major case, the kind that resulted in a death."

"Human life?" Yunxia threw away a handful of weeds and asked in confusion.

"It's an old case, something that happened when Tao Keyu (Tao Huaiming's son) was a teenager..."

Twenty years ago, a teenager went missing in the township where Wuyun Village is located. A few days ago, the police station received a report that the decoration company run by Tao Huaiming and Tao Keyu was involved in shoddy workmanship, malicious competition, and bullying of the villagers.

The police station took the matter very seriously and sent a group of officers to the countryside to investigate. Coincidentally, a newly graduated police dog was brought by its owner for a trial run. As soon as they arrived at a few tiled houses in the field, the police dog started frantically scratching at a floor tile. The owner immediately realized something was wrong, found some tools, pried open the floor tile, and discovered a small cellar with a cement pillar inside. The police dog sniffed around and kept scratching at it with its paws.

Later, police cars were dispatched to Wuyun Village, where they caught the Tao family father and son trying to escape, and also uncovered the truth behind the boy's disappearance case from years ago.

On a bitterly cold winter day, a group of teenagers stole some wine from their parents and ran to the fields to drink it with roasted sweet potatoes. Before long, they were drunk. They ran into Li Mao, who was visiting relatives, and took a liking to the roast chicken he was carrying. They went up to snatch it.

It's customary to bring gifts when visiting relatives during the New Year. Li Mao fiercely protected the roast chicken, but Tao Keyu, enraged, picked up a broken brick from the ground and smashed it open on Li Mao's head.

After the man collapsed and became unconscious, everyone panicked. After a while, Tao Keyu suggested pulling Li Mao into the cornfield. The panicked group hurriedly helped pull the 'body' away. They then agreed that no one should tell anyone about it and went home.