"Take them all away!" The government officials stepped forward, handcuffed the Tang father and son, and took them away.

Zhou Qiaoyun stopped the government officials and shouted, "Song Erzhuang attacked first, and my husband and son fought back."

The government officials ignored Zhou Qiaoyun and arrested the Tang father and son.

Among the onlookers, Han Zhiyuan, holding his youngest daughter in one arm and pulling on the IV stand with the other, saw Song Qiuxue in the ward.

He remembered that in his previous life, Song Qiuxue had a good relationship with her uncle's family and the Tang family. Even at her wedding, it was her uncle and his wife who gave the speech, leaving her own mother standing below.

That was after her father was so angered by her uncle's family that he hanged himself.

At the time, he felt that Song Qiuxue had forgotten her roots after studying in the provincial capital for a few years, and that she looked down on her family for being poor, even letting the person who had angered her father to death appear on stage as her parents.

When Li Wenxiu, heavily pregnant, went downstairs, Han Zhiyuan followed her.

Song Yinhua had already discussed it with the doctor. The health center would issue a transfer certificate and have the health center's ambulance transport the injured person to the county hospital for examination.

Going to the provincial capital is a long journey.

My father is in a coma again, which is really inconvenient, so we can only treat him conservatively at the hospital in the county town for now.

The medical conditions at the health center are too poor, and it's uncertain how serious my father's condition is.

If the condition is severe, surgery may be necessary at a major hospital in the provincial capital. If the condition is not so severe, conservative treatment with medication may be available at a county hospital.

Li Wenxiu entered the ward and told them about the arrest of the Tang family father and son.

“Sister, Baogen is still at the police station. Will he be in trouble?” Li Wenxiu asked worriedly. “The fortune teller had already told the authorities that he had fallen, but Baogen still wanted to call the police and say that the fortune teller was a fraud and was promoting feudal superstition. Now he’s dragged himself into this mess.”

"I'll go to the police station this afternoon to check. The health center has already started the transfer process and filing..."

Song Yinhua was halfway through her sentence when Zhou Qiaoyun suddenly rushed in.

"Song Yinhua, what has my family done to wrong you? Why are you hurting my husband and son like this?"

“Aunt Qiaoyun, you know best why your husband and son were arrested!” Song Yinhua pointed to the hospital bed. “My father is lying here. It was your son who smashed him with a chair. The doctor said my father needs to go to a big hospital in the provincial capital for brain surgery. Once the surgery is done, his life or death is uncertain.”

Zhou Qiaoyun looked at Song Erzhuang, who was unconscious on the hospital bed, and couldn't believe that the man who had been arguing with her just last night and could throw people eight meters away with one arm was now like this.

Surgery on the head—just thinking about it is terrifying.

“Aunt Qiaoyun, back then your son Dafei set fire to my new house in the middle of the night, and he burned it down twice. He should have been locked up and made to reflect on his actions back then. Then Qiuxue wouldn’t have suffered a miscarriage and severe bleeding because of Dafei, and my father wouldn’t be seriously injured and in a coma now!”

"It's all because you switched Tang Su'e's grandson's amulet. You're dishonest and have ruined my family," Zhou Qiaoyun retorted stubbornly.

She knew better than anyone how her father-in-law's family had framed Song Erzhuang's family and ruined Song Yinhua's reputation.

"I found that jade pendant in the cave, but my uncle pocketed it and then turned around and accused me of being a thief!" Song Yinhua realized that this family was exceptionally unreasonable. "I'm too lazy to argue with you. My father was seriously injured by your son, so your family should pay for his medical expenses!"

"Why should my family pay? Your father's injury has nothing to do with my family. It was your great-uncle and sixth cousin who harmed your family. Go find them!" Zhou Qiaoyun hated her father-in-law and sister-in-law to the core.

The nurse came in at this moment, "Song Erzhuang, patient's family member, come and sign the form."

Song Yinhua ignored Zhou Qiaoyun and left with the nurse.

After Song Yinhua left, Zhou Qiaoyun said to Qiao Guilan, "Second Aunt Guilan, our two families are relatives. Erzhuang's injury has nothing to do with my Dafei. Tell your Yinhua not to harm my Dafei."

Qiao Guilan smiled apologetically, "My Yinhua is just that kind of person. There's nothing I can do about it. She won't listen to me. I told her not to report Dafei to the authorities because he's Qiuxue's younger brother, but she insisted on sending Dafei to jail!"

When Li Wenxiu, who was standing to the side, heard Qiao Guilan's words, her heart sank to the bottom.

She knew her mother-in-law was timid and indecisive. Whenever someone came to her for work or to borrow money, she would abandon her own work to help others, take her son's surgery fees back to her parents' home, and then spread rumors everywhere that her daughter and son wouldn't let her work for other people.

She hadn't taken Song Baogen's casual remark seriously before.

But now, hearing her mother-in-law badmouth the girl who helped her family solve their troubles in front of the person who caused her father-in-law to be seriously injured and fall into a coma, her blood pressure rose.

Qiao Guilan dared not offend anyone, and thinking that this was Qiu Xue's biological mother, she was afraid that Qiu Xue would get angry and no longer recognize her as her adoptive mother. So she wanted to please her and join forces with her to criticize the eldest daughter's stubbornness and unreasonableness.

Li Wenxiu couldn't bear to listen anymore and cried out, "Mom!"

Qiao Guilan then noticed that Li Wenxiu was also in the ward, and a guilty look flashed across her face.

"Her family and Qiu Xue hired a fortune teller to plot against our family, and they even got Bao Gen arrested. Now Dad is lying here, and my older sister is running around taking care of everything. You don't do anything, you don't contribute a single penny, and you still talk about my older sister like this behind her back?"

Zhou Qiaoyun got angry, "How can you talk to your mother-in-law like that? You have no respect for your elders. What kind of mother raised you?"

“My father-in-law was beaten like this by your son, and my family even paid the deposit for his hospitalization.” Li Wenxiu has thickened her skin now, unlike when she was first married and was too embarrassed to talk back to her elders when they scolded her. “You should go back and prepare. My father-in-law’s condition will cost a lot of money. Your family might have to go home, and you might not even have a place to live in the future. At least your son has a prison cell that provides food!”

"Guilan, look at your daughter-in-law! What kind of person is she!"

"That's all thanks to your family for teaching me!" Li Wenxiu directly revealed to her face how the Tang family, including Tang Suxiang, spoke ill of her in-laws behind her back and how they instigated her to fight with her mother-in-law and husband.

Qiao Guilan was angry, but dared not utter a sound.

Zhou Qiaoyun denied it, saying, "What Tang Su'e and Tang Suxiang did to you behind your back has nothing to do with me. I don't get along with them."

Han Zhiyuan, standing outside the ward, overheard the conversation inside and discovered that Song Yinhua's family was also a bunch of scoundrels.

In her past life, Song Yinhua should really thank him. If she hadn't married him, her mother would have ruined her life.

Did Song Baogen end up in jail because of a fortune teller hired by the Tang family and Song Qiuxue?

This sounds familiar.

In his previous life, Song Baogen was imprisoned for injuring an old fortune teller. Because the old man was too old and in poor health, he accidentally killed him.

His wife divorced him and left with the child.

But that's all many years from now.

He remembered that this matter was related to Song Qiuxue, but at that time Song Qiuxue had long been married and lived in the provincial capital, and rarely came back.

Song Baogen accidentally killed someone, and even until his sentencing, he desperately kept it a secret from Song Yinhua, preventing her from spending any money or effort to get involved in her brother's affairs.

Qiao Guilan had visited his home, but his own mother stopped her and sent her away.

Song Yinhua only learned about this after Song Baogen was sentenced to prison.

Han Zhiyuan wondered why the incident of Song Baogen beating the fortune teller to death had happened ahead of schedule.

After his daughter finished her IV drip, he immediately took her to the town to inquire about the fortune-telling shop where Song Baogen had caused trouble.

The surrounding shopkeepers all knew about it and were discussing it in small groups.

Han Zhiyuan learned from their discussion that the fortune teller had not been beaten to death.

Could it be because the fortune teller was a few years too early and hadn't aged enough to have health problems, so Song Baogen beat him up and the other person only suffered minor injuries, not death?