Compared with the woman's brightly dressed clothes, the child's clothes could be said to be shabby. His washed-out short-sleeves and shorts showed that he had been treated harshly in life.

The woman was still cursing, and her words were very unpleasant, calling him a bastard and a jinx. Su Ling couldn't bear to listen to her anymore and stepped forward to interrupt her.

"Hello, ma'am, we meet again."

Zhang Man was cursing happily when a pleasant male voice suddenly interrupted her. She turned around and glared fiercely, but when she met Su Ling's handsome face, she was stunned.

Is it him?

The young man who embarrassed her in the dry cleaner's shop!

She was very impressed with him!

She was so embarrassed that the suit she bought online for more than 50,000 yuan was exposed as a fake. Especially when the other party took out an authentic suit of the same brand, which was priced at more than 80,000 yuan, her eyes were red and bleeding.

That day she left the dry cleaner in disgrace and called the online store to demand compensation, but the customer service was like a ball kicked around. In anger, she complained to the platform. After a long argument, her complaint was finally successful and the merchant refunded her money and paid compensation.

Although the problem was solved smoothly in the end and the compensation was received, she was still holding a grudge in her heart. When she saw the young man again in the pet hospital today, she gave him a cold face and glanced at the fat beetle in his cat bag with a disdainful expression.

What? It’s actually a native cat of mixed descent!

Don't hit a smiling person. Zhang Man asked with a fake smile, "What's the matter?"

Su Ling gently advised: "When a child does something wrong, just teach him slowly. Beating and scolding him will only backfire."

Zhang Man asked bluntly: "What does my education of my own children have to do with you?"

As he spoke, he pulled the little boy's arm hard. The boy lost his balance and leaned forward, with his forehead hitting the marble edge of the counter. Su Ling was quick to block it, saving the child from a broken head.

"As a mother, it's inappropriate to be so rough with your own child, isn't it?" Su Ling asked with a frown. She straightened the little boy and patted his back soothingly. She inadvertently touched the row of tiny scars on the boy's arm, which were as small as pinholes, and was slightly startled.

This is...

"I was rude? I just pinched his ear, how is that rude?"

"She's not my mother!"

The woman's high-pitched voice and the child's fierce rebuttal formed a sharp contrast.

Zhang Man was furious when she heard the child's words. "You little ungrateful bastard! I feed you, clothe you, and house you, and this is how you repay me? If I hadn't adopted you, you would be an orphan! You killed your grandmother! You killed your parents! Do you want to kill me too?"

The unbearable curses made everyone in the hall shake their heads.

Su Ling frowned, took out his cell phone and dialed 110.

Seeing this, Zhang Man stopped cursing and reached out to grab Su Ling's phone. "What are you doing? What are you doing?"

Su Ling stepped back and evaded the attack swiftly. "Call the police."

Zhang Man sneered: "Call the police? I'm his guardian. When the police come, do you think he will believe you or me?"

Apparently, this was not the first time the police had called her for beating and scolding her children. She had never gotten into trouble before, and now she was even more fearless.

Li Dahai held up his phone and whispered to Su Ling, "Brother Su, I recorded everything."

Su Ling nodded and said to Zhang Man, "Whether it works or not, let's wait until the police arrive."

When Zhang Man heard that the video of her beating and scolding the child was recorded, she rushed to Li Dahai in panic. "Delete it for me! Mind your own business!"

Li Dahai was startled and pulled the little boy over and stood behind Su Ling.

Su Ling was tall, and when he was serious, he naturally gave off an intimidating aura. Zhang Man was frightened by his sharp eyes, so she took a step back and glared at him resentfully.

At this time, the doctor came, holding a beautiful ragdoll cat in his arms. He ignored the tense atmosphere and said to Zhang Man with a smile: "Ms. Zhang, Jenny is fine. She is not upset but in heat. It is normal for female cats to howl frequently and have a decreased appetite when in heat."

When Zhang Man saw the ragdoll cat, her expression suddenly changed. She gently took it, held it in her arms and kissed it lovingly. "My little baby, you scared me to death! Do you know that? You kept crying at night, and it broke my heart!"

The little boy hid behind Su Ling, half of his head stuck out, looking up at the ragdoll cat in the woman's arms, his dark eyes revealing infinite grievance.

Su Ling continued to call 110 at a leisurely pace. After the call was connected, he explained the situation and reported the address of the pet hospital.

After Zhang Man had a close encounter with the ragdoll cat, she took out her membership card and went to the counter to pay the medical bills. She turned around and shouted at the little boy hiding behind Su Ling, "Why don't you come over here quickly?"

The little boy looked at her with a blank face, without any movement.

Although he is young, he can clearly distinguish who is good to him and who is not.

Su Ling said: "I have called the police. You can't leave now."

Zhang Man stuffed the cat into a cat bag, put it on the counter, and grabbed the little boy regardless. The little boy turned around and ran, running into the hospital.

Zhang Man was stunned for a moment, and shouted to the doctor: "Quick, quick, find him out, this kid has dirty hands and feet!"

For a while, the pet hospital was in chaos.

Li Dahai whispered, "Brother Su, that child is so pitiful."

"Yeah." Su Ling pursed his lips. He couldn't bear to see a child like Lu Feng being scolded and slandered like this. Moreover, the row of needle holes on the child's arm could not be ignored.

This is a child who has been abused for a long time.

When the two policemen arrived at the pet hospital, the child was also caught by the doctor and handed over to Zhang Man. Zhang Man, carrying a cat bag, roughly pulled the little boy away, but was stopped by Su Ling.

"Who called the police?" the young policeman asked.

"It's me." Su Ling said politely, "I suspect the child has been abused."

Zhang Man shouted loudly: "Comrade police, this man is simply insane. I educate my own child, but he actually said that I abused him! Ask the other people present whether I hit him or not!"

Everyone in the hall was silent, no one wanted to get involved in trouble.

The middle-aged policeman asked Su Ling: "Do you have any evidence?"

Li Dahai immediately played the recorded video to the police. After watching it, the two police officers shook their heads and said, "Pinching the ears and pushing them are not considered abuse."

"He has needle marks on his body." Su Ling pointed at the boy and said, "I'm going to take him to the hospital for a checkup."

Zhang Man's originally smug face suddenly froze, and she said with a pursed mouth, "What a joke! It's normal for children to have some minor injuries after bumps and bruises! You said to take him to the hospital for a check-up, so who are you? Police comrade, I don't know this man at all. He looks like a decent person, but he is inexplicably pestering me. Who knows if he has dirty thoughts and wants to sexually harass me!"

The middle-aged policeman looked at Zhang Man's face, which was covered with crow's feet even with cosmetics, and then looked at Su Ling's natural, young, handsome and flawless face. He coughed twice and said, "Let me see the child first."

Zhang Man looked reluctant, but the young police officer acted quickly, bending down to check the child's arm. A hint of uneasiness flashed across her eyes. Su Ling took the opportunity to lift up the child's sleeves, exposing his upper arm, revealing a row of tiny scars.

"This is..." the young policeman was surprised. Anyone with eyesight could tell that these dense "wounds" were caused by needles, some new and some old, and appearing on the body of a five or six-year-old child was heartbreaking.

The pinholes crawled all the way to the back. The police turned the child over, lifted his clothes, exposing his back, and more pinholes appeared in front of everyone.

Su Ling's eyes turned red.

So much, how badly did the child suffer?

"Brother Liu, look..." The young policeman looked at the middle-aged policeman, who asked Zhang Man seriously, "Are you his mother?"

"No..." Zhang Man explained subconsciously, "I adopted him not long ago. He was like this when he came. It has nothing to do with me. Really! Police comrade, if you don't believe me, go ask the people in our community. He is an orphan. I adopted him out of kindness. How could I abuse him?"

The middle-aged policeman pondered and said, "This matter could be big or small. You all should come back to the police station with us."

"I'm not going!" Zhang Man picked up the cat bag on the counter, took the little boy's hand and dragged him out, "I have other things to do and don't have time to go to the police station."

Su Lingyang asked, "Are you in such a hurry to run? Are you feeling guilty?"

The people watching around were whispering.

"I must be feeling guilty!"

"A normal person would definitely take the child to the hospital for a checkup."

"I felt something was wrong with her just now. How could anyone hit or scold a child like that?"

"Most foster mothers are vicious!"

"It's so pitiful for the child. He has become an orphan at such a young age."

"I know them. This kid is from our community. Two months ago, his parents took him on a self-driving tour. They had a car accident on the way. His parents died on the spot. Only he survived. Poor him! This woman is Zhang Man. She is a relative of his family and adopted him."

"Really? With her personality, would she be so kind as to do that?"

"Oh, of course not! This kid has a house worth more than two million, and his parents have hundreds of thousands in savings. Just think about it..."

"so it is!"

Zhang Man was so angry that her face turned pale when she heard these comments. "Don't spit blood on me! My family has plenty of money, how could I covet other people's money!"

She held the phone tremblingly and called her husband.

"Husband—someone is bullying me!"

Half an hour later, in the Liuxian Town Police Station, a pot-bellied man in a suit slammed the table and angrily said, "Were you the one who called the police?"

Su Ling sat calmly, facing the man's anger, and admitted it neither humbly nor arrogantly. "It was me."

The man in the suit glared at him with disdain and said to the middle-aged policeman, "Hello, police comrade. I am the legal representative of Xinghong Company and her husband. This child is called Fang Qi and is our adopted son. The property left by his parents is temporarily kept by us and will be handed over to him after he turns 18. Here are the notarized property documents and the adoption certificate. Please have a look. As for the injuries on the child, he had them when he came here. We don't know what the condition is. We took him to the hospital and the doctor said it was not serious, so we didn't take it seriously. This gentleman accused my wife of abusing the child, which is pure nonsense!"

Li Dahai tugged at Su Ling's clothes, looking worried.

Su Ling patted his hands and told him to calm down.

Zhang Man choked with grievance. "Jenny suddenly fell ill and refused to eat even cat food. I thought Xiaoqi had fed her something she shouldn't have, so I scolded her in a hurry. But I didn't expect this gentleman to call the police."

She held the little boy's wrist tightly and coaxed him gently: "Xiaoqi, tell me yourself, are we good to you? If we hadn't adopted you, you would have almost starved to death, right?"

The little boy shrank back and made no answer.

The man in a suit reached out and touched the little boy's head, and said with a smile, "Don't be afraid, your uncle is here."

The little boy hunched his shoulders, fear in his eyes, and quickly lowered his head without saying a word.

The man in the suit said kindly, "Don't be shy. Tell the police officer clearly. Don't let others misunderstand your aunt."

The little boy trembled and said, "...Okay..."

"Police comrades, listen, the children have said it." said the man in the suit.

The police officer looked at Su Ling helplessly. "This matter... cannot be filed. It is normal for foster parents to discipline their children."

Su Ling said: "The child is injured. I think it is necessary to go to the hospital."

The man in the suit snorted coldly: "Don't bother with that, we will take you there ourselves."

With her husband's support, Zhang Man felt more confident. "We are not related to each other, what does it have to do with you? It's good enough that we didn't sue you for defamation!"

The police officer tried to smooth things over: "This gentleman is also enthusiastic. It is inevitable that people will misunderstand you for beating and scolding a child for a cat. I think we should just forget about it and go home. Don't forget to take the child to the hospital for a checkup."

The man in the suit patted his big belly and assured, "Of course, of course!"

Zhang Man pointed at Li Dahai and said, "He recorded the video, it must be deleted!"

Li Dahai was furious and deleted the video on his phone under the watchful eyes of the police.

Before leaving, Zhang Man taunted Su Ling: "Don't meddle in other people's business in the future. If you do that again, I will sue you!"

She pulled the child over, proudly got into the car of the man in the suit, and left.

Su Ling stood at the door of the police station, watched the car leave, and wrote down the license plate number.

Li Dahai lowered his head and said sadly: "Brother Su, are we just going to let it go like this?"

That child is so pitiful, his whole back is covered with needles. That woman is so vicious and scary!

"Of course not." Su Ling said in a deep voice. It was obvious that the child was abused, but there was no evidence and no case could be filed. They had legal adoption procedures and property notarization, so the police were naturally more willing to believe them.

It was getting dark, so the two got in the car and headed back to Shixi Village.

Li Dahai fiddled with his phone and opened WeChat. Fortunately, he was quick and had forwarded the video to Brother Su.

When they arrived at Shixi Village, it was completely dark. Su Ling first sent Li Dahai home and then returned to his own home.

When I saw the black car on the basketball court, I knew that Lu Feng was back.

After parking his car and walking to the gate of the courtyard, the door was opened from the inside, revealing the tall figure of Lu Feng.

"Why so late?" Lu Feng took the cat bag from his hand and glanced at the fat fox flower who was sleeping soundly inside.

"Something has delayed me. Let's talk inside." Su Ling hugged his arm. "Are you hungry? I'll go cook first."

"Well, no rush."

The two returned to the living room, King wagged his tail and barked, Su Ling took Lion out of the cat bag and gently placed him in the cat bed, letting him continue to sleep. King saw that his little friend had fallen asleep, so he lay down beside him and rubbed against him.

"I met a kid who looks a lot like you." Su Ling opened WeChat and played the video that Li Dahai sent him.

The sound of a woman scolding and beating was heard, and Lu Feng frowned.

Su Ling lowered the volume, pointed at the little boy in the corner and said, "Look carefully at this kid. Does he look like you?"

Lu Feng took the phone and stared at the video.

The child did not cry when the woman beat and scolded him. Instead, his face was tense and his eyes were stubborn. His brows were somewhat similar to his.

The author has something to say: When Su Ling was at the ancestral home of the Lu family, he came across an old photo album.

Su Ling: Were you so serious when you were a kid? Your little face was chubby, so cute. Ha, this photo is just a butt!

Lu Feng: ...This is my brother.

Su Ling: ???