Li Mancang… “Mom, what are you doing?”

The old lady is alright. She's not stupid. As long as she's not stupid, that's good. She can move around a bit. Can her arms and legs still work?

Li Mancang... he hit his head!

Seeing that Li Mancang was alright, the old lady and Wu Zhiqi were relieved.

The police are currently taking a statement from Mr. Guan.

Police officer: "What happened to your leg injury?"

"Last night I went to the bathroom, and when I came out the floor suddenly became very slippery. I lost my balance and fell, my leg cracking loudly. I wanted to go to the hospital, but they wouldn't let me, saying it's unlucky to go to the hospital during the Lunar New Year. They said they'd just buy some medicine to apply and it would be fine, but it hurt so much!"

They wouldn't listen. I tried to call my godson, but they took my phone away. I was helpless, crying out to heaven and earth for help. Old Guan's eyes were filled with tears, and his voice was sorrowful.

The police asked, "Who are they?"

“It’s my wife, my stepson, and my stepson,” Old Man Guan sobbed.

Police officer: "The ground suddenly became very slippery. Isn't it usually slippery?"

Old Man Guan said, "It's not usually slippery. I'm so old, and the yard is always very clean; there's not a speck of ice. It was perfectly fine when I went in."

After the police finished taking notes, they asked, "Tell me what happened today?"

"This morning my leg was killing me, and I begged them to take me to the hospital, but they refused. I tried to call them, but they wouldn't let me. Around 10 a.m., I heard my godson, Li Mancang, knocking on my door. The old lady said it was bad luck for someone to come visiting during the Lunar New Year, and she wouldn't open the door."

I was in pain, I wanted to live, so I screamed at the top of my lungs. My stepson covered my mouth, but Li Mancang heard me and kicked the door open. My stepson and stepson ran out to stop him. I don't know what happened outside, but I saw my stepson carrying a brick and bringing Li Mancang in.

Seeing that I was about to die, Li Mancang wanted to take me to the hospital, but the old lady and her grandson stopped him. Li Mancang was also quite old, and seeing the situation, he wanted to go out first to find help. His step-grandson let Li Mancang go out.

He was about to kill me with a brick and then frame Li Mancang. The old lady came over and tried to hold me down, but I couldn't just wait for him to hit me. When the brick came down, I pulled the old lady in front of me to shield her.

That kid hit her too hard, and the old lady fainted. When he saw that he had beaten his mother so badly that her head was bleeding, he dropped the brick and tried to take her to the hospital. I took this opportunity, picked up the brick, and smashed it into the kid's head with all my might. I was crazy at the time. They wouldn't let me live, so I would take them with me even if it meant my death.

He's a young man, after all. I beat him until his head was covered in blood, and he even snatched the brick from me. He hit me, and when I woke up, I was here. Officers, they want me dead! My house is going to be demolished, and they're definitely after my compensation money. They want to kill me! You have to help me!

Old Guan cried with tears streaming down his face, pinching his nose and forcefully wiping away a mouthful of snot.

The police asked a few more questions and then took a statement from Li Mancang.

Li Mancang told the old man what he was told, but he didn't know who hit him; he was knocked unconscious as soon as he went outside.

Then the third brother gave a statement, and the murderer who hit Li Mancang with a brick was found. The Li family members stared at the third brother in death, almost killing their father. What a promising young man.

The third brother lowered his head, thinking it was all Changshun's fault. If he hadn't hidden from his father, would he have suffered like this?

Then Zhou Changshun and the old lady gave their statements. Zhou Changshun's son was still unconscious.

The statements in the records differed; the old lady's account and the old man's account were not consistent at all.