The moonlight was clear, shining on the man's horrified profile.

He covered his face with his hands and pleaded weakly, "Don't look at me, please let me go. She seduced me, Li Chunfen seduced me on her own initiative."

A villager watching from the top of the wall exclaimed, "So they're here to catch you in the act! Old Li, are they catching your daughter or your wife?!"

Even if a girl in the countryside has a formal name, her family is used to calling her Da Ya, Er Ya, or Da Ni, Er Ni.

Even worse, some malicious people shone their flashlights directly into the adulterer's face, hissing as they did so, clearly recognizing him.

Shocked, I also felt a bit like running away...

"How could it be him?"

Hearing the adulterer shift all the blame onto her, Li Chunfen rushed out like a madwoman, even pouncing on the adulterer before Xiang Hongjun could, scratching and biting him.

"If you hadn't forced me and threatened me, who would have bothered with a mere show of strength like you? If I'm ruined, you won't live either. I'll take you down with me."

"Ah!" The bite was so hard that the man finally removed his hands from his face and shoved Li Chunfen away forcefully.

"You bitch, you're asking for it!"

Because of the movement, that face, which everyone present was very familiar with, was completely exposed.

Upon seeing this clearly, Xiang Hongjun was completely petrified. He spoke with a heart full of grief, his shock so intense it was almost palpable. He uttered those three words as if grinding his teeth to powder.

"Brother-in-law!"

"Good, good, good!" He pointed at himself and then at Li Chunfen, his scarred face turning purplish-red, and suddenly threw a punch straight at her face.

With a bang.

The adulterer, Li Guangzong, lay on the ground, his head hitting the stone floor hard, his face covered in bruises.

Xiang Hongjun took a step and straddled the man he had called his brother-in-law for many years, and his fists rained down like a dense storm.

The bewilderment, shock, and incomprehension on his face transformed into a double betrayal by family and loved ones—a despair that seemed to want to drag everyone down to hell.

Ruan Xianxian felt sorry for him.

Every punch landed squarely, and Li Guangzong went from wailing and begging for mercy to gradually falling silent. Ruan Xianxian glanced at him and knew that she couldn't continue the fight.

If you want to kill someone, you can do it quietly. It's not worth wasting your life on someone like that.

Li's mother was also wailing, "He's killing someone! Quick, quick, come and stop him!"

The one who got beaten was her son, the lifeblood of the Li family.

Li Chunfen would be furious and divorce anyone she stole from the Red Army, but she would never include her own brother-in-law!

How could anyone in this world do such a disgusting thing? Don't they find it repulsive?

He felt nauseous, but his fists kept pounding against him unconsciously...

He knew that Li Guangzong was barely breathing, but so what?

Suddenly, a small hand reached out from the side and firmly grasped his fist.

He struggled to break free from the Red Army, but to no avail.

He raised a pair of bloodshot eyes, reflecting Ruan Zhiqing's expressionless face. His dry lips parted, his voice hoarse.

"Are you going to stop me too?"

"No." Ruan Xianxian shook her head, and a wooden-clad fire poker she had picked up from the junkyard slipped from her sleeve. "Uncle Xiang, my hands are all cut, use this to hit them."

The iron fist of a martial artist causes far more damage than a wooden stick.

Xiang Hongjun looked at her and gradually stopped struggling. Ruan Xianxian gave him strength, word by word.

"As long as you don't die, but are badly injured or paralyzed, I'll protect you."

The words "I'll protect you" almost brought tears to the eyes of a grown man. He gradually recovered from the double betrayal by his family and took the wooden stick with his strong and firm hand.

He got up and struck Li Guangzong's left leg with the stick, who was lying dead on the ground...

Bang!

The sound of bones breaking is especially painful to the teeth.

The villagers, along with the two elderly people, gasped in shock; the force and the location...

It has been confirmed that Li Guangzong's left leg is ruined, with a fractured kneecap. Unless a miracle occurs, current medical technology cannot cure him.

Mr. Li choked and passed out.

Li's mother rushed forward, hitting and biting the Red Army soldiers, but was stopped by the goose that had secretly followed.

A large black goose, as tall as Li's mother's waist, flapped its wings, chasing the old hag away all over the yard.

"Quick, Da Kun, You Fu, stop this damned bastard! He's going to ruin Guangzong!"

Two burly men rushed over, and Ruan Xianxian cried out as if she had fallen flat on her face, grabbing one of them with each hand. Her eyes flashed with a frantic signal to the Red Army to strike their lower body.

"What did your daughter eat to grow up like this? She's so small, but her hands are heavier than iron pliers."

"Ouch, stop grabbing me! Stop grabbing me!"

The two farmers gasped as she grabbed their arms.

"Sorry, sorry! When I was little, Grandpa wouldn't give me any food, so I grew up eating iron. Don't move, I'll stand still and you won't grab me."

Ruan Xianxian tripped another one, and managed to pull all three of them apart by herself.

Li Chunfen had already hidden in a corner and dared not see anyone.

An old man lay on the ground, a woman was being chased by geese, and the fairly spacious courtyard was filled with people lying haphazardly.

Despite his numbness, Xiang Hongjun couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth when he saw this scene.

The child's eyes twitched with anxiety, and he kept blinking and gesturing to him: What are we waiting for? If we wait any longer, even more people will come!

This commotion must have alerted half the village, right?

The reinforcements will arrive in three minutes at the latest.

Without further hesitation, Xiang Hongjun took a deep breath, raised the stick high, and under the desperate shouts and gazes of Li Guangzong, who had just woken up in pain, the stick landed precisely on his lower body with a thud.

"don't want!"

"Ah! Ahh!"

Li Guangzong's face turned as white as paper in an instant, his eyes widened as if they were about to explode, and he didn't care about his broken leg. He covered his lower body and screamed in agony as he rolled and struggled.

Even the slaughtering of a pig for the New Year wasn't as agonizing as his screams.

"My son!" Overwhelmed with maternal love, Li's mother, braving the attack of the goose, pounced on Li Guangzong like a madwoman, trying to pull down his pants to check how badly he was injured.

Ruan Xianxian secretly thought, "Great job! A veteran should act like a veteran." She confiscated the tools used in the crime.

Why break his legs? Break his third leg!

The sight of his trousers being pulled down, revealing a bloody mess, caused onlookers to gasp in horror. Their gazes towards Xiang Hongjun, now completely calm, had changed.

"Brother Hongjun, isn't this too harsh?" Youfu asked hesitantly.

Xiang Hongjun smirked, "Aren't their actions that cross the line of human morality just as cruel to me?"

As they were talking, the courtyard gate banged loudly, and someone shouted, "The brigade leader is here! It's the Li family's! Open the gate!"

Ruan Xianxian stopped Xiang Hongjun, who was about to step forward, and personally opened the courtyard gate. There were at least 20 people standing outside the courtyard.

A young man looked the woman who opened the door up and down, and asked in a deep voice, "I heard that the Flathead Brigade brought people to attack your door. Is that you?"

Ruan Xianxian ignored him, her gaze meeting that of the captain of the Xinghua Brigade behind the young man. She spoke, her voice steady:

"Come in, I have something to say to you alone."

The young man got angry and was about to curse her out.

Captain Xinghua, who caught a glimpse of something, narrowed her eyes, waved to the young man, and stepped into the Li family's courtyard alone, closing the gate behind her.

Arriving at the room where Li Chunfen was having an affair, Ruan Xianxian flashed her work ID with one hand.

“National Defense Security, Ruan Xianxian, I order you to expel the team members and block the news. Call all the brigade officers here for a meeting.”