Fang Mei and the man behind her were both stunned.

Fang Mei and the others stared blankly at Wen Yu, who was taking off her coat as she walked, and subconsciously took a few steps back: "What are you doing?"

Wen Yu chuckled coldly: "What do you think?"

Before anyone could speak, Wen Yu kicked Fang Mei in the leg.

Wen Yu could bend a thick piece of iron with just a few kicks when she used all her strength, so she held back a bit. But Fang Mei felt a sharp pain all over her body and fell to the ground in the snow screaming.

"you……"

Fang Mei burst into tears and ordered the men behind her, "This is too much! All of you, get him! Kill that little brat Wen Li!"

When the police arrived, they saw seven or eight big men beating up a tall young man.

However, those who fell to the ground were the ones who had bullied the few with their numbers.

After bringing everyone back, Fang Mei and the others accused Wen Yu of beating them.

To everyone's surprise, Wen Xingming said, "Whatever you say goes. The police officers saw it all clearly. It was seven or eight of you men who ganged up on my brother."

Fang Mei stopped crying and looked at Wen Xingming as if he were a scoundrel.

"What are you looking at? You thugs and hooligans, are you acting all wronged?" Wen Xingming glared indignantly at the men who had been shot in the head and were squatting on the ground. "Legally, we are acting in self-defense!"

Fang Mei's eyes widened, and she exclaimed in surprise, "You were the ones who attacked us first!"

"Are we crazy? Bringing a child and attacking you for no reason?" Wen Xingming spat, his eyes full of disgust, and said to the police, "We were on our way to pay respects to my sister's master during the Lunar New Year. Who knew that as soon as we reached the foot of the mountain, this group of people stopped us, saying that they had raised my sister! They demanded that my sister pay for their upbringing and also wanted her to arrange for her child to move to a big city!"

As Wen Xingming spoke, he suddenly became dramatic, wiping away non-existent tears and speaking in a sorrowful voice: "To be honest, my family does have some money, otherwise my sister wouldn't have been kidnapped to this place and suffered so much with her master. To put it bluntly, this Fang Mei said she found a child and adopted my sister, but when we investigated later, we found that my sister only got her household registration after she turned six. If Fang Mei had reported it to the police before adopting her, we might have known much earlier that my sister had been taken away."

"Six years! A child has to go to kindergarten at three and primary school at six. How can he go to school without a household registration? If Fang Mei is really that good to my sister, it would only be a matter of going to the police station a couple more times, but she is unwilling to do so. It is clear that she is not good to my sister. My sister even said that Fang Mei almost starved her to death at home after she had a son!"

Wen Xingming's words were mostly true, but one part was false. Wen Li didn't say how she spent her childhood, but given Wen Li's usually unassuming nature, the fact that she hated Fang Mei so much shows that Fang Mei never took little Wen Li seriously.

Wen Xingming became more and more upset as he spoke. After glancing at Wen Li, he hugged his younger sister and burst into tears.

Wen Li paused for a moment, then reached out and patted Wen Xingming on the back: "It's alright, Second Brother, it's all in the past now."

"Waaaaah—"

My sister is suffering so much!

"Fang Mei, you vicious woman! You saw the child and didn't call the police, you just raised her yourself! You've got a son and forgotten about your adopted daughter, making my little sister do this and that! My sister is our whole family's precious treasure, sob sob—"

Wen Xingming's earth-shattering, heart-wrenching cries echoed throughout the mediation room and even the case-handling hall outside.

Fang Mei and the group of people around her were shocked to see Wen Xingming cry even more than the old lady for the first time.

One of the middle-aged policemen in the mediation room was stunned after hearing this.

He glanced at Wen Li, as if trying to see another person through her.

"You're the little girl who was abused back then?"

The mediation room fell silent. The Wen family members frowned, and Wen Tingsong asked in a deep voice, "What abuse?"

The middle-aged policeman recalled: "Twelve years ago, an old Taoist priest reported to the police that a six-year-old child in the town was being abused. The mother made the little girl, who was not even as tall as the stove, start a fire to cook and take care of her three-year-old brother. If she did not do a good job, she would be beaten. At that time, I went to the scene with the old chief. If we had not arrived in time, the little girl would have died long ago."

"I heard that the old Taoist priest later took the child up the mountain and adopted her. I wonder what happened to the little girl."

As he spoke, the middle-aged policeman looked at Wen Li. The little girl he remembered, who was as thin as a three-year-old, was completely different from the stunningly beautiful girl in front of him. Only her dark and deep eyes gave him a sense of familiarity.

"Are you the girl from back then?" the middle-aged policeman asked.

Wen Li gave a faint "hmm": "You must be Officer Liu. I remember you. You treated me to tomato and egg noodles and bought me a lot of clothes."

Officer Liu looked somewhat excited: "It really is you! I didn't expect you to remember me? How have you been all these years? Have you found your parents?"

"Yes, my master passed away a year and a half ago. He asked me to go to City A to find my biological father. I found him not long after. This time, my father and brother specially brought me back to pay respects at my master's grave."

After speaking, Wen Li looked at Fang Mei, who was squatting on the ground holding her head, and her eyes turned slightly cold: "It's easier if she's an old acquaintance. Officer Liu, you know what happened back then. Fang Mei and I didn't have an adoption relationship at the time. Today, Fang Mei has been threatening me in various ways, saying that she would expose me online. Just now, several people beat up my third brother. What do you think we should do about this?"

Officer Liu could already picture what had happened back then, and the more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He glared at Fang Mei and said furiously, "Fang Mei! You were sentenced to six months in prison for child abuse back then, do you want to go to jail again?!"

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