Chapter 23 Exposing Liu Qing's Shame in Public
Liu Qing's anger overwhelmed his reason, and he desperately wanted to take the ledger away.
But just as she raised her wrist, Deng Qiu, who had rushed back, grabbed it, her voice icy cold.
"You dare touch a single hair on my child again?!"
She had just helped An Chao inside when she came out and saw this shameless woman attacking the children.
Deng Qiu was furious and raised his other hand to slap her across the face without any hesitation.
*Smack!*
*Smack!*
She used both hands, and her strength was great; her fingertips even drew blood from Liu Qing's face.
Liu Qing felt a burning pain on her face, and tears instantly streamed down her face.
"You dare hit me? I'm calling the police!!!"
Liu Weiguo lay on the ground, barely breathing, only able to groan, "Yes, call the police, sis... we're both injured, they'll lose a fortune..."
Li Zhengyang walked up behind him without making a sound and stuffed a towel into his mouth.
He smiled and said, "Brother Liu, let me bandage you up. Don't say anything."
Deng Qiu glanced at Li Zhengyang gratefully.
Then she turned her head and forcefully pulled Liu Qing's arm, gripping it tightly as if it were steel, as if she wanted to break it off.
"Ah!" Liu Qing's face turned pale with pain. "You vixen! Let me go!"
"You want to call the police? Don't worry, the police will be here soon."
Deng Qiu displayed an unprecedented ferocity and toughness, saying, "The drink your brother gave me was spiked. When the police come and test it, he'll be in big trouble."
"And you, we'll settle every penny you've skimmed off Zhenwei and Gansu over the years. You'll have to pay back every single penny you've taken!"
The neighbors all looked surprised. What was the background of Commander Jiang's wife?
He speaks and acts logically and methodically, unlike a country bumpkin.
Liu Qing flinched under the stare, but she still stubbornly insisted, "You hit me too, I'll report you for assault, and you'll have to go to jail too!"
Zhizhi immediately became unhappy upon hearing this.
She pulled Xiao Zhenwei down to sit on the ground, and mimicked Liu Weiguo by covering her head and humming.
"Ouch, Aunt Liu hit me! Zhizhi's head hurts so much... ...She hits a little kid!"
Zhenwei didn't understand, but he did as instructed.
She imitated Zhizhi, clutching her legs and wailing, "Waaah, Aunt Liu is mean! My feet! My head! My chin!!!"
The two cubs lay on the ground, rolling around and fussing, saying mostly the words of Liu Qing and her brother.
Jiang Gansu, standing to the side, stared blankly in Deng Qiu's direction.
She just said, "Don't touch my child..."
Are you talking about him?
Jiang Gansu's hand, gripping the ledger, suddenly trembled. A heavy, oppressive weight in his heart seemed to be quietly crumbling...
Liu Qing's face was as ugly as a public toilet. The two brats had copied her excuse for staging the accident so well that she couldn't help but feel resentful.
Just when the situation had reached a stalemate that seemed impossible to resolve.
Suddenly, a commotion arose outside the courtyard. The whistling of a hand-cranked siren grew louder as it approached. Soon, three policemen in dark blue military uniforms with red collar insignia entered.
"What's going on?! Let go of each other! Stand still!"
This is the military dependents' compound of the Suzhou Military Reserve, which mainly houses active-duty military personnel and their families. The security management has always been very good.
I never expected that my first time here would involve two major cases.
When Liu Qing saw the police arrive, she felt as if she had seen a savior. She scrambled to the police and cried out.
"Your Honor, please come and do something! They're trying to kill me! Please help me!"
The police officer's face was cold and hard. "Who is Liu Qing?"
"Me! I am it!"
Liu Qing immediately raised her hand, tears streaming down her face, and pointed at her younger brother, crying, "My brother came to cause trouble at the wedding, and look how badly we've been beaten! Please arrest them all!"
"So you're good at playing the victim, aren't you? We're here to arrest you!"
The police officer's eyes fell on her bandaged foot, then he took out an evidence bag containing half a rusty broken needle.
He spoke seriously:
"We received two reports. The first one was about someone hiding a needle in food to harm people. We found the other half of the needle. Liu Qing is the main suspect. You'll have to come with us."
"The second incident: someone drugged someone, deliberately causing trouble and fighting... ...Is it this one on the ground? Hmph! You two are related, aren't you? Take them both with you!"
The police officers looked even uglier. They had come to arrest Liu Qing, but unexpectedly received another report from the same location on the way.
These two really are a menace!
One of the young policemen stepped forward and kicked Liu Weiguo. Seeing that he was still breathing, he dragged him out like a dead dog.
Upon hearing the policeman's words, Jiang Gansu stared at Liu Qing in disbelief, his voice trembling:
"It was you?! So it really was you who hid a needle in the fried egg to frame Aunt Deng? And the needle Zhenwei ate last time, was that also you? Aren't my brother and I sensible and easy to take care of? What did we do wrong that you can be so heartless?"
Tears welled up in the young leader's eyes. He realized that he had really wronged Deng Qiu and understood that the real venomous snake had been hiding right beside him all along.
Grandma Li frowned. "Gansu, are you saying that Liu Qing put needles in your food on purpose, so that you two children would find them? Is that true?"
"Yes! And this isn't the first time."
Jiang Gansu wiped away her tears with her sleeve and spoke through gritted teeth, "When Dad's blind date came to cook, Zhenwei swallowed a needle and almost died. Aunt Liu said my stepmother was vicious and wanted to kill us, so I thought it was that aunt who did it. But this time, when Aunt Deng came to my house, I also swallowed a needle... If Zhizhi hadn't found out quickly, I probably would have had my throat cut by that needle... It turns out that she was the one who caused all this trouble!"
At that moment, he fully realized how terribly wrong he had been before.
He felt ashamed for having misunderstood Aunt Deng.
What he didn't understand was that he and his younger brother had tried their best not to cause trouble for Liu Qing, and they would rather go hungry than complain to their father.
What did I do wrong to make her so cruel?
He always thought that as long as he was sensible enough and tried to please everyone, he could be accepted and liked...
Jiang Gansu took a deep breath and looked at Liu Qing with eyes full of disappointment and anger.
"Aunt Liu, all these years you've been greedy for our food stamps and wages, and you've been single-mindedly focused on marrying my father, trying to hold onto our family tightly. I know all of this, but I've never said a bad word about you... I thought that by pleasing you, you would treat us well, but I was wrong..."
He shook his head with a self-deprecating laugh, "No wonder you rushed over to sow discord in my family when you saw my injured mouth. It turns out you were the one who did it all!"
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