The middle-aged man stepped forward; he was none other than Deng Fangyuan's father. He said hesitantly, "It wasn't me who hurt him on purpose. He came in and immediately hit my son on the head with a stick. I had no choice but to use my sickle to block it. Who knew he would fall towards my sickle? It's really not my fault that he got hurt."

Li Fang was filled with hatred. At this moment, she really wanted to kill this family. She didn't believe that Xiao Liang would pour the sickle on himself; it must have been intentional.

But saving lives is the priority right now.

Fortunately, some of the onlookers saw the situation and a young man from a well-off family voluntarily brought out his tricycle.

Two young men helped lift Li Liang onto the tricycle.

Li Fang bowed to the two people and said, "Thank you."

Then they got on the tricycle together.

This incident caused a huge uproar; almost everyone in the county knew that Deng Fangyuan's father had injured someone with a knife.

When Li Qin got home from get off work, before she even entered the house, her neighbor stopped her and said, "You should go to the hospital right away! I heard that your Xiao Liang was slashed in the leg with a sickle by the Deng family men."

Li Qin was utterly shocked by these words; "What did you say? My Xiao Liang was attacked with a knife?"

"Yes! I heard you bled quite a bit. You should go to the hospital to get checked out."

Upon hearing this, Li Qin ran straight to the hospital.

Once inside the hospital, they saw Li Fang standing outside the operating room.

She quickly stepped forward and pulled Li Fang aside, asking, "What happened to your brother? How did he get slashed?"

Tears streamed down Li Fang's face. Seeing her like this, Li Qin became extremely anxious: "Say something! What happened? Why was your brother injured by the Deng family?"

Li Fang said guiltily, "It's all my fault. When he came back, he heard me crying in my room. He asked me what was wrong, and I told him that I had run into Deng Fangyuan today. He thought that I had been bullied by Deng Fangyuan, so he went to settle the score with him. I chased after him right away, but I was too late. When I got there, I saw Xiao Liang lying unconscious in a pool of blood."

After hearing Li Fang's words, Li Qin slapped her across the face.

"Why did you tell Xiaoliang about Deng Fangyuan? You killed your own father, wasn't that enough? Now you're ruining Xiaoliang too. Why are you so troublesome? I told you before that Deng Fangyuan's family wasn't right for you, but you wouldn't listen. Now you've ruined the family's peace. Are you happy now?"

Hearing her mother's words, Li Fang also felt like a sinner. She broke down in tears, saying, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, I didn't want to, I didn't want Dad to get hurt, and I didn't want Xiao Liang to get hurt."

Finally, the mother and daughter hugged each other and cried bitterly.

An hour later, the operating room door opened. Li Qin quickly wiped away her tears and walked up to the doctor, asking, "Doctor, how is my son?"

The doctor shook his head: "His life is fine, but his leg is in bad shape. The sickle cut too deep, and with current technology, he may have to use a wheelchair for the rest of his life."

After hearing the whole story, Li Qin staggered. If Li Fang hadn't caught her, she would have fallen.

She shoved Li Fang away, saying, "It's all your fault, you wicked woman! If you hadn't talked nonsense in front of him, how could your brother have gotten into this mess? Why weren't you the one who died?"

Hearing this, Li Fang felt a pain so intense she could hardly breathe. Yes! She was the one who should have died.

She squatted at the hospital entrance, crying incessantly. Li Qin ignored her and stayed with Li Liang inside the hospital until he woke up.

The first thing Li Liang looked at was his leg; "Mom, what did the doctor say about my leg?"

Faced with her son's question, Li Qin could only hold back her tears and comfort him, saying, "The doctor said you should rest well, and everything will be alright."

Looking at his mother, Li Liang asked uncertainly, "Mom, are you telling the truth? You're not lying to me, are you?"

She nearly broke down upon hearing this, but managed to hold back. "Son, the doctor told you to rest and recover. Tell me, why did you go to the Deng family in the first place?"

"That bastard Deng Fangyuan bullied my sister first, and I was so angry that I went to confront him. If his father hadn't been so stubborn, he would have found someone else by now. Now he's bullying my sister again, so I impulsively went to his house. I was just thinking of giving him a piece of my mind, but I didn't expect him to hit me. I was so angry that I just grabbed a carrying pole from the ground and hit him with it. He got hit twice. Just then, his father came back from working in the village with a sickle in his hand. When he saw me hitting his son with the carrying pole, he grabbed the sickle and slashed at my leg without saying a word."

Li Qin's heart clenched after hearing this; "Old man Deng did it on purpose, this matter cannot be left like this."

She told her son to rest well, and then, as she left the ward, she said to Li Fang outside the door, "Go to the ward and take care of Xiao Liang. Don't tell him about his leg problem yet. I'm afraid he can't handle it. I'm going to the police station now. This matter can't be left like this. I want to make sure that old man Deng rots in jail."

After saying that, she walked straight out of the hospital and went directly to the police station to report the case and explain the situation.

While taking a statement, the young police officer asked, "You mean your son was stabbed and is in the hospital now?"

Li Qin nodded while crying, "Yes, the doctor said he'll be in a wheelchair from now on and will never be able to walk again. You must arrest that person, otherwise my son will have been killed for nothing."

The young policeman said, "Okay, then come with me now."

Li Qin led the police directly to Deng Fangyuan's house, only to find that their door was tightly closed.

The young policeman went up and knocked on the door, and it took a while for the person inside to open it.

"Is Deng Youwei here? Someone reported him for injuring someone with a knife."

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