Chapter 52: Bai Anna Jumps Off the Building
One officer was so disgusted by it that he threw up, while the other officer forced himself to ask:
"What's wrong with him? How can he be so terrifying?!"
"I don't know, maybe he's sick."
Grandma shook her head sadly and pointed to Zhang Wulai's mother.
“This is his mother. She won’t take her son to the hospital and insists that we pay her compensation. We’re really innocent!”
The officer, who had been disgusted and vomited, looked at him with loathing.
"Could this guy have gone to the red-light district and gotten himself into this state?"
The other person wholeheartedly agreed.
If that's the case, then they deserve it.
They didn't want to look any longer, covering their noses and waving their hands with disgust.
"Take your son to the hospital right away, stop causing trouble in front of their house."
Zhang Wulai's mother stared wide-eyed, gesturing for the officer to look at the blood on her ear.
"They've made me look like this, they have to pay me back!"
"If you hadn't refused to leave, would you have ended up like this?!"
The officer who had been disdainful of Zhang Wulai's tone turned cold.
"If you insist on making them pay you money, then first calculate how much you'll have to pay them."
He pointed to the newspapers of the Liang couple and their son lying unconscious on the ground.
"There are three of them, and you're alone. Do you want me to take you to the hospital to calculate the medical expenses?"
Zhang Wulai's mother: "..."
She glanced at the people opposite her, then made up her mind.
"I don't care, I have to pay compensation!"
"If they won't give me money, then you have to give me money!"
"If you don't pay me compensation, I'll cause a scene in front of the police station and let all the reporters in Hong Kong know that your police station is bullying people!"
However, the two officers were not afraid of her.
"Want to go to the police station? Sure, we'll take you!"
The two of them, one on each side, dragged the person into the elevator.
"No!" Zhang Wulai's mother was stunned. "Why are you arresting me?!"
"Aren't you going to the police station? We can help you!"
"You still need to take a taxi to the police station, but we're doing you a good deed by letting you ride in a police car."
Zhang Wulai's mother struggled and cried as she was dragged into the elevator.
The wife behind the newspaper paused in her crying and pinched her husband.
"What are you standing there for? Quickly find someone to carry her son out with her!"
The newspaper suddenly realized what was happening and quickly called for people to carry Zhang Wulai away.
The hallway quickly returned to calm.
Grandma cleaned the hallway, and Chu Ci disinfected the entire house.
He Lihua, who witnessed the whole thing, came over to help, saying, "Master."
She asked Chu Ci, "Zhang Wulai, looking like this, probably won't live much longer, right?"
"He looked deathly pale; it should be within the next day or two."
But in reality, Zhang Wulai died earlier than she had imagined.
The next day, the landlady brought Cheng Zhenzhen over as a guest and said that Zhang Wulai had died that very day.
She and her grandmother were cracking sunflower seeds and talking animatedly.
"You don't know, when that scoundrel Zhang was alive, the black sores on his body were just terrifying."
"After he died, he was like a rotten fish that had been sitting for ten days, he smelled awful!"
The landlady's features scrunched up as she pinched her nose, as if she could still smell the stench.
"When I arrived, the shopkeepers around his house were gathered together, urging Zhang the scoundrel's mother to deal with it quickly!"
"Serves him right!"
Grandma gave a heavy snort.
"She brought her son to our shop yesterday and made a scene, insisting that our Aci heal her son, or else she would have to pay compensation!"
"You're saying there's no such thing as a saying?"
"Luckily, the police took her away in the end, otherwise she would have died here and we would have had to argue with her!"
Cheng Zhenzhen, who had been sitting quietly to the side, suddenly spoke up:
"Isn't Chu Ci supposed to be a great fighter? Why didn't she kick the person out?"
Chu Ci, who was reading a book on the side: "..."
She blinked, stared at the book she couldn't possibly read, and sighed inwardly.
Perhaps it's an occupational hazard from her past life, but she's overly hesitant and cautious in this regard.
When dealing with a scoundrel like Zhang Wulai's mother, especially since the other party is a woman, she has to think a lot before making a move.
However, Cheng Zhenzhen is right.
She's not a police officer anymore, so she really shouldn't be as timid and hesitant as she was in her previous life.
"Yes, I was wrong yesterday. If Zhang Wulai's mother comes to cause trouble again, I'll throw her out."
Cheng Zhenzhen stared at her for a while, then slowly turned her head away.
The landlady didn't notice her daughter's condition; instead, she sighed.
"Sigh, Zhang Wulai's mother probably won't be coming again."
"Why?"
The landlady curled her lip, "I saw her come home last night, and she had black sores on her arm just like Zhang Wulai's."
She lowered her voice, "Back then, Zhang Wulai spread rumors about Tongtong, and she, as her mother, helped him a lot."
"I think she's definitely being retaliated against by Granny Guo!"
When Guo Po was mentioned again, Chu Ci paused for a moment.
Speaking of Granny Guo, it seems like she hasn't heard any news about the Bai family in a long time.
Since Zhang Wulai died such a tragic death, what about Bai Anna, the culprit?
Before she could ask, Grandma changed the subject:
"What brings you to Kwun Tong District today?"
The landlady paused, pursed her lips, and unconsciously looked in the direction of her daughter.
Cheng Zhenzhen sat quietly on the sofa, fidgeting with her hands.
He seemed completely unaware of the look she was giving him.
"Grandma Dan, the reason I brought Zhenzhen here this time is actually to ask you for a favor."
Grandma glanced at Cheng Zhenzhen, and her heart jumped.
She hadn't forgotten any of the good deeds Cheng Zhenzhen had done before.
But the landlord and his wife had been helping the grandmother and granddaughter before, and since they had finally asked for help, she felt bad refusing.
"Ah Jun, what's wrong?"
The landlord glanced helplessly at his daughter, "Zhenzhen wants to move out of the house."
"I'd like to ask you to help me see if there are any rental apartments in your building. She wants to move here."
"ah?"
Grandma's heart sank back down, but she asked in confusion, "Why does Zhenzhen suddenly want to move out of the house?"
She looked at Cheng Zhenzhen as she said this, but Cheng Zhenzhen kept her head down, picking at her nails, and showed no intention of looking up.
The landlady smiled awkwardly and answered for her, "She's planning to go back to work and found a company around here."
"Really?" Grandma exclaimed in surprise. "Zhenzhen is planning to go back to work? What kind of work?"
This time, Cheng Zhenzhen spoke up, "Computer programming."
Chu Ci: "!!!"
She stared wide-eyed at Cheng Zhenzhen in disbelief.
How could Cheng Zhenzhen, who is so careless about relationships, choose such a serious and promising job?
Sensing her shocked gaze, Cheng Zhenzhen turned to look at her, her eyes still somewhat gloomy.
But compared to his previous paranoia and madness, he is much more peaceful now.
Grandma was pleased to see Cheng Zhenzhen's improvement.
"Okay, Ah Jun. Don't worry, I'll take care of this!"
She patted her chest and agreed, then thought of something else.
"But Ah Jun, the houses here might be more expensive. You know why our rented place is so cheap..."
"It's okay, it's expensive if it's not."
The landlady waved her hand dismissively.
“Zhenzhen’s salary is high, she can afford it.”
This means they intend to completely let go and allow Cheng Zhenzhen to live her own life.
Grandma chatted with the landlady for a while longer. She originally wanted to invite the two of them to stay for lunch, but the mother and daughter had to leave first.
After seeing the two people off, Grandma couldn't sit still.
"Ah Ci, let's not cook today. Go downstairs and buy some food. I'll go ask Ah Hua about the house. She's well-informed."
The "Ahua" that Grandma mentioned is their current landlady, He Lihua.
"Okay, go ahead. I'll just buy something random for lunch."
She took the elevator down and saw a group of familiar faces while sitting in the store waiting for her things.
The people at that table were engrossed in their food and clearly didn't notice her.
The female reporter, Linda, who had not appeared until now, sat among the other authors, with bruises around her eyes from being hit, looking pitiful with her eyes downcast.
Seemingly noticing the stares of others, she brushed her bangs aside to cover the bruises around her eyes before raising her head.
Upon seeing Chu Ci, her eyes widened in surprise, then instantly lit up.
"Master Chu!"
Her voice was quite loud, and people who were engrossed in their meals in the shop all looked up at her.
"Master Chu, what a coincidence!"
She excitedly brought her bowl to Chu Ci's table, her face beaming with delight.
"Master, we were planning to come find you after we finished our meal, but we never expected to run into you here!"
Chu Ci smiled and nodded, his gaze unconsciously falling on the corner of her eye, "Your injury..."
"This..."
She touched the bruise at the corner of her eye, her gaze momentarily forlorn, before she smiled again.
"It's nothing, he was beaten by that jerk. But my colleagues and I have already taken him to the police station!"
“We also wrote a report that forced his company to fire him, as well as his mistress.”
"I'm currently contacting a lawyer to prepare for divorce and try to make him leave with nothing!"
She smiled as she said this, but there was still a hint of disappointment in her eyes.
"Master Chu, I really have to thank you this time,"
She looked at Chu Ci with gratitude.
"If you hadn't reminded my colleagues, I would be starving to death in the basement right now, locked up by that scumbag and his mistress."
"You don't need to thank me. If you want to thank someone, thank your colleagues. They care about you a lot."
Linda chuckled: "Thanks already!"
After saying this, the two fell silent.
Chu Ci hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help asking, "Could you tell me what exactly happened?"
"Yes, yes, Master, that's the main reason I came here today."
She turned around and went to the table behind her to get her bag, from which she took out a notebook.
"Master, do you still remember what happened between Cheng Yana and Li Fushui?"
"Remember."
That was the first case Chu Ci encountered after arriving here, so she remembered it very clearly.
"But what does it matter?"
"Yes! Master, do you remember when you told me that Li Fushui's husband was infertile and that she was being cheated on?"
Her eyes lit up when she talked about her job.
“Back then, you saw the photos of the female secretary and her son and said that the child might not be the female secretary’s biological child, so I followed up on that investigation.”
She deliberately kept everyone in suspense, "Guess what I found out after my investigation?"
"What did you find?"
Linda slammed her hand on the table and lowered her voice: "The secretary's child was just something she picked up from the hospital. The child's mother died in childbirth, but the child is the illegitimate child of the head of the Bai family!"
"Later, the head of the Bai family recognized the child and even got involved with the child's adoptive mother, who was also the female secretary!"
"My God!" she exclaimed, covering her mouth in excitement. "The Bai family and the Cheng family have such a good relationship. They call each other brothers every day, but behind their backs, the Bai family is cheating on their good brother."
"And he even made his good brother raise his son for so many years for nothing! Master, isn't that exciting?"
Chu Ci: "..."
She never expected that the secretary's son was actually Anna Bai's half-brother.
But it's not surprising that Anna Bai's father had so many mistresses and affairs.
She looked at Linda, who was still agitated, and asked, "What does that have to do with your injury?"
Linda sighed when she mentioned her injury.
"I never expected that my husband would cheat on me, especially with his sister-in-law, all to curry favor with the head of the Bai family."
“I told my husband, no, my ex-husband, what I had found out. When I told my ex-husband, he started to want to kill me.”
"In order to climb up the social ladder to the Bai family, he and his mistress planned to use me as a pledge of loyalty."
But having worked in this industry for so many years, she was incredibly perceptive and quickly noticed that something was wrong with her ex-husband.
Realizing that things had gone wrong, her ex-husband took action.
"Why."
Linda shook her head and sighed.
"Men, not one of them is any good."
The male colleagues at the table behind him silently raised their heads.
The burly colleague who always kept Linda's photo raised his hand, "I'm not included in this picture!"
"Why aren't you included? Aren't you a man?!"
The male colleagues were making a ruckus.
Linda smiled and then suddenly remembered something.
"Master, I heard that the Bai family recently invited a master to perform a ritual at their home, and now the Bai family is in turmoil."
"Not only the head of the Bai family, but his most beloved daughter seems to have had an accident too. She almost jumped off a building yesterday!"
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