Tang Dafei has been criminally prosecuted for maliciously causing serious injury to another person.
Officials advised Tang Youliang and his wife to ask the injured party's family for forgiveness so that they could receive a lighter sentence.
Old Man Tang, along with his family and Tang Suxiang, went to the county hospital to cause trouble, cursing Qiao Guilan for causing Tang Dafei and Song Hanwen to be arrested.
Qiao Guilan lacked the ability to handle conflict. She kept apologizing to her uncle's family and her sister-in-law, promising not to pursue the matter further.
“It was all Yinhua who reported it to the authorities. I told her not to pursue it, but she wouldn’t listen to me.” Qiao Guilan shifted all the blame onto the eldest daughter. “Yesterday on the way to the county town, I tried to persuade her, but she scolded me severely and said she wouldn’t support me in my old age.”
Qiao Guilan wiped her tears with the corner of her clothes, looking very pitiful.
Song Yinhua was called to the hospital to discuss her father's condition. When she entered the ward, she saw a room full of menacing and hostile people.
Qiao Guilan was wiping away tears.
She entered the ward. "Are you here to pay for my dad's medical expenses?"
When the Tang family members looked at Song Yinhua, the hatred in their eyes seemed as if they wanted to rush up and stab her.
"Yinhua, is it you who reported Dafei to the authorities and tried to send him to jail?" Old Tang looked at Song Yinhua with hatred in his eyes, making no attempt to hide his disgust and aversion towards her. "What did my grandson do to you? Why would you do this to my grandson?"
“Debts must be repaid, and murderers must pay with their lives. Tang Dafei beat my father like this; he should pay the price for everything he did.” Song Yinhua came to her father’s bedside. “The doctor said my father might never wake up again. Even if he does, his intelligence will be impaired, his bodily functions will be controlled by his brain, and his mobility will be greatly reduced. I ask you, Uncle, will your grandson stay by my father’s side to take care of him, feeding him, cleaning up his excrement?”
"Song Erzhuang is your father, my grandson has no obligation to serve him!" Old Tang glanced at the unconscious Song Erzhuang, and his momentum weakened.
Tang Suxiang said angrily, "Dafei injured your father, which has nothing to do with my Hanwen, so why are you suing my Hanwen?"
“Your son is an accomplice!” Song Yinhua looked at her uncle. “Uncle, Hanwen is my father’s nephew. You know best what kind of person my father is to Hanwen. But Hanwen helped Tang Dafei beat my father up like this. You didn’t even come to the hospital to see my father. Instead, you came to the hospital with your uncle’s family to make a scene. Aren’t you afraid of retribution?”
"Yinhua, you know your father loves Hanwen the most. How can you bear to report him to the authorities and have him arrested?" Song Dazhuang retorted to Song Yinhua. "Won't this make your father die with regrets?"
"My dad isn't dead yet, and you're already cursing him to die?" Song Yinhua asked. "Or are you guys afraid that my dad will become a vegetable and your Hanwen will have to pay for his care?"
Tang Suxiang was displeased by this. "Yinhua, you're wrong. My Hanwen is just your father's nephew. Your father has sons of his own, so it's not his place to take care of your father!"
"If that's the case, then whoever injured my dad should pay compensation or go to jail!"
Tang Suxiang was about to yell at Song Yinhua when Song Dazhuang stopped her.
Song Dazhuang adopted a gentle, elder-like demeanor and tried to appeal to Song Yinhua's emotions, hoping she would drop the case.
After playing the emotional card, they started using moral blackmail.
After Song Dazhuang talked for a long time, Song Yinhua only said one sentence: "As long as you, Uncle, pay for my father's medical expenses and future nursing care, I can drop the case."
Tang Suxiang said angrily, "Your dad wasn't beaten like this by my Hanwen, so why should we pay for it?"
"Then there's no point in discussing it!"
Tang Suxiang looked at Qiao Guilan and said, "Guilan, say something. Erzhuang is your man. It's not up to Yinhua, a junior, to make decisions."
Looking at her uncle's family and his wife, who had come with a menacing air, Qiao Guilan forced a smile and said, "What can I say?"
She looked at Song Yinhua and said cautiously, "Yinhua, how about we listen to your uncle and drop the case..."
"Yinhua, look, your mother has already said the case has been dropped."
“I don’t disagree with dropping the case. As long as you pay my father’s medical expenses and future care costs, I will go to a public phone booth right now and call the authorities to drop the case.”
Tang Suxiang looked at Qiao Guilan with disdain in her eyes: "Guilan, can you control your young lady? Is she trying to extort money from us?"
Qiao Guilan could only try to persuade Song Yinhua, "Yinhua..."
"Mom, if you don't make them pay for the medical and nursing care expenses, will you pay for Dad's medical expenses?" Song Yinhua asked her own mother. "Mom, don't expect me to pay. I'm just a woman who grows some vegetables in the field to barely support myself. The fruit trees were just planted last year and won't bear fruit so soon. They beat Dad like this. If they don't pay for the medical expenses, Dad won't last more than a few days."
Qiao Guilan deeply resented her sisters-in-law and uncle's family for ruining her husband, but she never had the courage to stand up to them.
Seeing that Qiao Guilan remained silent, Tang Suxiang's gaze towards Qiao Guilan was filled with even more disdain and contempt.
She glanced over unintentionally and saw Song Yinhua staring at her coldly, so she awkwardly withdrew her disgusted gaze.
Seeing that appealing to emotions and moral blackmail was useless, Song Dazhuang turned cold and gave his wife a look. Tang Suxiang then berated and accused Song Yinhua of being cold-blooded, disregarding family ties, causing Hanwen to be arrested, and even scolded Qiao Guilan.
No matter how much they argued, Song Yinhua wouldn't budge, she only had one request: she would drop the case if they paid her medical and nursing expenses.
The Tang family and Song Dazhuang and his wife caused a scene in the ward for two hours before being chased away by the doctor on rounds.
That evening, Song Qiuxue went to the county town again to look for Qiao Guilan.
She shed tears in front of Qiao Guilan, and Qiao Guilan's heart softened.
She had cried to Qiao Guilan when she was at the town's health center, and threatened to sever ties with the Song family if they didn't give up on pursuing Tang Dafei's responsibility.
Qiao Guilan and Song Erzhuang, a married couple, have sacrificed too much and kept too many things to do for Song Qiuxue, and Qiao Guilan is unwilling to accept this.
Not wanting to lose Song Qiuxue, she agreed to persuade Song Yinhua to drop the case.
But she couldn't persuade Song Yinhua either, caught in the middle and in a difficult position.
"Mom, I've never begged you. Dafei is my own brother. As long as you let my brother go, I will still be your third daughter. I will take you to the provincial capital to take care of you and take care of you in your old age."
Qiao Guilan was very moved by Song Qiuxue's words.
The eldest daughter is unreliable; she will live with the third daughter in the provincial capital from now on.
“But your older sister won’t budge, so there’s nothing Mom can do,” Qiao Guilan said. “If I had known, I wouldn’t have let your older sister know about this.”
"Mom, I have a way to get my eldest sister to agree," Song Qiuxue whispered in Qiao Guilan's ear.
"What? You want me to unplug your dad's oxygen tube?"
“Mom, Dad is only a burden to you in his current state. He is also suffering. Please help Dad get out of this predicament so that my eldest sister won’t be so fixated on medical and nursing care expenses.”
In front of the Third Sister, Qiao Guilan had completely lost the ability to think independently.
While Song Yinhua was resting at night, she secretly unplugged Song Erzhuang's oxygen tube, only to be caught red-handed by Song Yinhua, who suddenly returned to the ward.
"Mom, what are you doing?"
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