Zhao Xiaojun was covered in sweat, his face pale. He had been shouting so loudly that his voice was almost splitting.

Li Lan stood up abruptly, slamming her chopsticks onto the table with a clatter.

Li Xiangdong had already kicked the stool aside and ran out quickly. He grabbed Zhao Xiaojun and asked as they walked, "Where is my dad? What happened?"

Zhou Hongsong and Bai Yulong exchanged a glance. Zhou Hongsong immediately strode after him, while Bai Yulong stopped Li Lan, who was also about to follow, saying, "You stay home and look after the children. I'll let you know if anything happens when I get back!"

We must not panic at this time.

Looking at the several terrified children, Li Lan forced them to calm down, and said in a trembling voice, "Then you go quickly!"

Li Ping then stepped forward, "I'll go with Uncle Yulong!"

With that, she took the lead and chased after him.

Zhao Xiaojun was almost in tears. As he ran, he said, "Just now, my dad and I came back from the county town. When we got to the lotus pond, we saw Uncle Liu being stabbed by a madman!"

Li Xiangdong's mind went blank; he had been stabbed...

He ran forward as fast as he could, and soon he left Zhao Xiaojun and Bai Yulong further and further behind, with only Zhou Hongsong running alongside him.

Lotus pond.

At the eastern end of Lijiapo Village, there was a small, smelly pond that has been transformed and is now filled with lotus flowers of various colors. A square has also been built next to the lotus pond.

In Li Xiangdong's words, this is a cultural and recreational square for the villagers.

Every summer, the lotus pond is filled with green leaves and red flowers, exuding a faint fragrance, and people are happy to bring a small stool to sit in the square.

At that time, there was nothing in the lotus pond, and it was located on the edge of the village. If the Zhao family father and son hadn't decided to go home on a whim and chosen this road, probably no one would have known that Li Jin had been stabbed to death by the madman.

Zhao Suixin and Zhao Xiaojun saw Li Jin and the madman wrestling together from afar and found it strange. But when they got closer, they saw that Li Jin had been stabbed solidly in the stomach, and blood was flowing all over the ground!

Zhao Suixin didn't have time to call for help. He quickly sprinted and then kicked the madman who was raising his knife to stab someone!

The knife fell to the ground with a thud, and the madman staggered a couple of steps before collapsing to the ground beside him, covered in dirt.

He chuckled, revealing large, yellowed teeth, messy hair, and two dark, piercing eyes that gleamed menacingly—all of which made him appear quite unsettling.

The madman quickly got up from the ground, and he even tried to pick up the knife that had fallen to the ground.

Zhao Suixin reacted quickly, kicking the knife into the lotus pond next to her.

The madman laughed and pounced on Zhao Suixin, grabbing him and opening his mouth to bite his neck!

"Holy crap! He's a fucking madman, he's got incredible strength!"

While cursing, Zhao Suixin tried her best to hold the madman's head down to prevent him from biting her.

Zhao Xiaojun was quick-witted. He saw that his father and the madman were evenly matched and had not yet lost ground, while Li Jin was lying on the ground bleeding more and more. He quickly ran towards the patrol team's daily patrol route.

Fortunately, someone was walking this way. Zhao Xiaojun called the person over, and the young men worked together to subdue the madman. Then someone went to the clinic to find the village doctor to treat Li Jin.

Zhao Suixin kicked the madman hard in the chest, panting heavily, and said to Li Kang, who had rushed over, "Quickly arrange a car, we need to take the captain to the county hospital!"

"Yes! Yes, yes!"

Li Kang's heart was in his throat with fear. The village doctor could only stop the bleeding temporarily; to save his life, he had to hurry to the county hospital!

While everyone was doing their best to treat him, Li Xiangdong and Zhou Hongsong arrived.

Seeing Li Jin surrounded by the crowd, Li Xiangdong felt a lump in his throat and almost cried. He reached out a hand to check Li Jin's nose and found that although his breathing was weak, it was still relatively even.

Li Xiangdong finally felt a little more at ease.

The village doctor bandaged Li Jin's wound with gauze, saying, "You need to get him to the hospital right away!"

Li Kang said, "The tractor has been arranged and will be here soon!"

Just then, Bai Yulong drove up in a Dongfeng 140. He rolled down the window and shouted to Li Xiangdong, "Quickly bring the person up!"

Everyone quickly and carefully lifted Li Jin onto the back of the truck, then signaled Bai Yulong to drive.

"Boom!"

A plume of black smoke rose, and the Dongfeng 140 was floored, speeding straight toward the hospital.

Looking at Li Jin's increasingly pale face, Li Xiangdong gripped Li Jin's large hand tightly, silently praying, "Dad, please don't let anything happen to you..."

They arrived at the county hospital soon.

Li Xiangdong watched the doctors and nurses coming and going, feeling completely dazed.

The image of his father's aged face from his past life overlapped with the bloodless face of his present life, and his heart suddenly ached as if it were being squeezed tightly by a large hand.

Half an hour later.

The nurse came out and said, "The patient is experiencing severe bleeding, and the hospital's blood reserves are insufficient. Does anyone here have type B blood?"

"I! I, I... I don't even know if I'm blood type B, please try taking mine!"

Li Kang was the first to step forward.

"I have type B blood, take mine!"

Li Xiangdong came to his senses.

The nurse glanced at him and asked, "What's your relationship with the patient?"

"Father and son!"

"No blood transfusions between relatives, everyone else follow me!"

The young nurse had a stern face, spoke crisply, and moved nimbly. A group of grown men obediently followed her to the blood transfusion area.

Li Xiangdong grabbed Bai Yulong, who was walking at the back of the group, and said, "Uncle Yulong, give me the car keys!"

Bai Yulong took out his car keys from his pocket and handed them to him, saying, "Be careful when you open it!"

"Um!"

Li Xiangdong rubbed his face with both hands, forcing himself to calm down.

He drove back to his own home first and took out an old ginseng root from under the cabinet.

Li Lan had already learned about Li Jin's situation from the villagers. She didn't dare stop Li Xiangdong, so she followed him and asked, "How is our father?"

Li Xiangdong put the old ginseng in his pocket and replied briefly, "Wait for news at home."

By the time he rushed back to the hospital, the blood transfusion had already started. He contacted a nurse to have slices of ginseng sent to the operating room. "Could my dad put this in his mouth?"

"Give it to me, I'll ask the doctor!"

The nurse took it without expression.

By this time, someone had already gone to Quanshui Village to bring Zhao Sufang and Doctor Gu over.

When Zhao Sufang entered the hospital, both her knees buckled, and she almost knelt down at the entrance of the operating room.

Since Dr. Gu became acquainted with the hospital director during Chunhua's surgery, he is now frequently invited to the hospital as an external expert.

He greeted the hospital director who rushed over, and the two of them put on surgical gowns, disinfected themselves, and went into the operating room.

Another half hour passed.

The doctor came out of the room and said to the group of people, some sitting and some standing, "The surgery is complete, and the person is fine!"

"call--"

"God help me!"

The crowd erupted in excitement.

Zhao Sufang covered her mouth to stop herself from crying out loud, but tears kept streaming down her face.