"Well, let's first talk about Comrade Hu Yuanfang being beaten and hospitalized." Seeing that Xiao Li was already emotional, another comrade who was taking the statement with him kindly reminded him.
"Okay, okay. Public Security comrade, you ask, and I'll answer whatever you ask. I promise to tell you everything I know." The neighbor brother put away his overflowing desire to express himself.
"When was Comrade Hu Yuanfang beaten and hospitalized, and why?" Xiao Li regained consciousness after being reminded by his colleagues and began to ask for details.
"It was last Tuesday!" The neighbor replied without hesitation, "I go to the supply and marketing cooperative every Tuesday to queue up to buy eggs. Last Tuesday, just as I was about to go out to the supply and marketing cooperative, I heard the Wang family next door starting to make a fuss again. I didn't pay much attention to it at first. Their family's fuss is commonplace. Those of us who live on the left and right sides are used to it."
"But the noise that day was particularly loud. I even heard the old woman from the Wang family shouting, 'Kill this thief who stole the money for no reason. If I don't teach her a lesson this time, there will be another time. Sooner or later, this house will be robbed.'"
It’s true, this neighbor’s voice is quite similar to Wang Ma’s.
"I live next door to the Wang family. In the past, the noises in their family were nothing more than eating too much, or scolding the little girl for being a bad luck star and not being able to give birth to a son. This is the first time I have heard of a thief. So I stopped and listened for a while."
At this point, the neighbor brother showed an embarrassed expression on his face. Eavesdropping on other people's affairs is not a glorious thing.
"The boy from the Wang family beat me so hard that I could hear his wife's voice at first, but soon I could not hear it anymore. I could only hear the sound of beating, the child's crying, and the scolding of the old woman from the Wang family."
"I was afraid something might happen, so I went over to take a look. When I went over, Wang's daughter-in-law had already fainted on the ground, not moving at all. I thought she was dead, I was so scared."
Thinking of the scene he saw that day, the neighbor still feels scared.
People of their generation have seen everything, and beating a wife is nothing new. However, beating someone to that extent is rare. Anyone who can do such a cruel thing must be a ruthless person.
"I said I wanted to send him to the hospital, but the old lady of the Wang family was unwilling to do so. She insisted that this was their family's business and that outsiders like us had no right to meddle in it."
"But I thought that if someone was beaten to death, it would be a big deal, so I called a few neighbors and forced the Wang family to send their daughter-in-law to the hospital."
"Comrades from the Public Security Bureau, I'm telling you, it was fortunate that we, the neighbors, insisted on sending the woman to the hospital. The doctors at the hospital said that if we had sent her later, the woman would have died. We did a good deed."
Perhaps in order to save his own face, the neighbor brother even described his eavesdropping as a good deed.
"Thank you for your cooperation. If necessary, we will still ask you to come back to verify the situation." Xiao Li thanked his neighbor who was willing to come to the police station to take a statement.
"You're welcome. We are serving the people!" The neighbor was very easy to talk to.
In fact, he did not come here for nothing. The person who asked him to testify said that as long as he told the truth and testified, he would be rewarded with 20 yuan.
In case someone sets him up against something later on, it can also help him solve a work problem.
He is a warm-hearted person. As for whether he has money or not, whether he works or not, that is not important.
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