Suti took the two children to wash their faces, and soon Li Baichuan returned. After understanding what had happened, he took the children's hands and went directly to the next room.
He's been wary of this family ever since that day; he learned from his wife that you shouldn't fight a battle unprepared.
He first investigated the Deng family, and after returning from his heyday, he kept reminding them not to go to faraway places.
The Deng family didn't have the guts to do anything to Chaochao Hehe, but he still couldn't stand these grievances.
"Everyone's home." Li Baichuan knocked on the door and went straight in.
Suti and her grandmother followed behind, and even the family's nanny came along.
The Deng family was taken aback when they saw them, and remembering Xiao Jiu's expression when he returned earlier, they knew they must have gotten into trouble.
"Comrade Li is here. Have you eaten yet? Would you like to have something to eat at my house?" Deng Xiaojiu's father hurriedly came over with a smile.
He guessed that the children in the family must have gotten into trouble, and looking at Chaochao and Hehe's faces, he could tell they had been crying.
"Could you please call Deng Xiaojiu out? There might be some misunderstanding between the children, but we don't know why he threw and smashed our toys."
“We’re all neighbors living here, and we all know each other. If he still holds a grudge because of your family’s careless remarks last time, it’s better if we talk it out.”
Li Baichuan is not the same Li Baichuan as before; he can now stand on his own.
"Comrade Li, there must be some misunderstanding. Deng Xiaojiu, come out here." Deng Xiaojiu's father came into the house and pulled Deng Xiaojiu out from hiding inside.
"Apologize to me right now! I think you're itching for a beating if you don't get a beating every day. Why did you have to break other people's things?"
"Comrade Li, how much are those things from your house worth? We'll compensate you," Deng Xiaojiu's father quickly admitted his mistake.
"If there's any compensation, it's yourselves. We haven't separated yet, so don't even think about touching the public funds."
"That's right. I've always thought Xiao Jiu was a troublemaker since she was little. Who knows what kind of trouble she'll get into in the future? She dares to offend anyone."
"If he were my family, I would beat him to death this time. Keeping him around is just asking for trouble."
Before Li Baichuan could say anything, the other members of the Deng family were already dissatisfied, and they all jumped out as soon as they heard that they had to pay compensation.
They never ask why, they just stir up trouble. Even if it's their own child's problem, shouldn't they first ask why they did it?
It would be a miracle if a child raised in a family that only thinks about profit could succeed.
Deng Xiaojiu's father looked at his family members, then at the Li family members over there, and without saying a word, picked up a broom stick from the ground and started hitting people.
"I'll teach you to cause trouble, I'll teach you to be naughty, I'll beat you to death." He said while hitting Li Baichuan and his group.
Li Baichuan had covered Chaochao and Hehe's eyes long before he made a move.
"I did nothing wrong. All I did was break their toys. Who told them to show off?" Deng Xiaojiu looked at Chaochao and Hehe with a face full of resentment.
"Alright, is the performance over?" Li Baichuan saw that more and more people were gathering at the door. Since they had come to his door, he wouldn't let his family be the subject of gossip.
"Comrade Li, look at the mess this has made. It's all because the child was so ignorant." Deng Xiaojiu's father could only keep apologizing.
"Comrade Deng, our Chaochao and Hehe are very well-behaved. They only got angry last time because you said their mother didn't want them anymore."
"Even when he was angry, he only argued back to Deng Xiaojiu and didn't lay a hand on her, right? In the end, Deng Xiaojiu ran back crying."
“We thought the child was still young so we didn’t hold it against him, even though what he said made my wife inexplicably bear the reputation of abandoning her husband and child.”
“It also made my child worry that his mother might really leave. He couldn’t eat or sleep well for several days, but we didn’t hold it against your family.”
Li Baichuan started from the root of the matter, making it clear to those watching the show that the Deng family had started the whole thing from the very beginning.
"Kids are just like adults; if they get along, they play together, and if they don't, they just let it go. But this time? Our family didn't actively seek out your Deng Xiaojiu, did we?"
“He was watching Chaochao and Hehe from the side. My child is kind-hearted and didn’t hold a grudge, so he invited him to play together. But he threw and smashed our toys.”
“We came here, still wanting to find out the reason. After all, we are all neighbors, and it wouldn’t be good to have a falling out.”
"But you didn't say a word, you started cursing and hitting people, putting on a show in front of us, but you didn't say why."
"Deng Xiaojiu even complained that it was because our family was showing off. So it's all our fault, and you just say a few words and hit us a couple of times and that's it?"
"Just because someone makes a fuss doesn't mean they're right. Those toys were handmade by our elders, who wore their hands out over a long period of time."
"What are you going to use to compensate us? How are you going to compensate us for the child's mistreatment? Do we need your money?"
Li Baichuan stood before the two children, upright and indomitable, providing them with a safe haven.
Chaochao Hehe stared blankly at his father, while Deng Xiaojiu, who hadn't cried when he was hit earlier, now had red eyes.
"Um... Comrade Li, we... we didn't take good care of the child. So what do you suggest we do about this?"
The Deng family never expected that Li Baichuan would bring up the previous incident again, and even said that he didn't want compensation. What were they trying to do?
Li Baichuan squatted down and quietly asked Chaochao and Hehe for their opinions.
"Apologize, sincerely apologize to my child, and please keep your child away from mine in the future."
Chaochao and Hehe are kind children; they just want to know why Deng Xiaojiu is smashing their things.
Li Baichuan told them that it was because of jealousy, and that they should stay away from people like that since they couldn't get along with them.
After thinking for a moment, Chaochao Hehe only asked him to say sorry, and that they would no longer play with him.
Li Baichuan also promised them that his grandfather and the others would make them new toys as compensation.
“I’m not apologizing. I did nothing wrong. Why is Li Tengyuan’s father speaking up for them? They’ve been wronged, and he’s standing up for them.”
"They're unhappy, but I can cheer them up. Their house is always filled with laughter. Why is my house filled with nothing but curses?"
“Am I not your biological child? You never ask me anything, you only ever hit me. Li Tengyuan’s father would never hit them.”
"Their mothers would only look at them tenderly, and their grandparents would treat them like treasures."
"What did I do wrong? Why should I apologize to them? I hate you. I don't want you to be my parents. I despise you."
Deng Xiaojiu burst into tears, finally releasing the pent-up grievances she had kept inside for so long.
He was scared too. He knew he shouldn't have done that, but he couldn't control himself when he saw Li Tengyuan and the others smiling.
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