"Hongxia!"
He Shenghua raised his voice, "Don't talk nonsense, I hit him, that's for sure."
Hong Xia did not back down, "I didn't make things up, I was the one who hit him."
As she spoke, she looked at Lu Yuan and explained, "At the time, I was cleaning up rabbit droppings with a small shovel when that person tried to steal the rabbit. When I tried to stop him, he saw that I was a woman and started talking rudely to me and even tried to touch me inappropriately. I was so angry that I hit him with the shovel."
He Shenghua was about to say something more when Lu Yuan raised his hand to interrupt him and asked Hong Xia,
"So the situation was that the other party tried to steal the rabbit, you tried to stop them, they verbally insulted you and even physically assaulted you, so you fought back and injured them, is that right?"
Hongxia's swollen face turned even redder, and she nodded, biting her lip.
Lu Yuan shrugged and said, "Then it's alright. What you did was self-defense. If you injured someone, they deserved it."
"real?"
"Don't worry, trust me."
The current laws are not perfect, and the concept of legitimate self-defense only appears in the draft law, but that is not important. What is important is that precisely because the laws are not perfect, this becomes an excuse to evade punishment.
He gestured with his chin towards He Shenghua, indicating that he should continue.
"Seeing that we were injured, we all stopped fighting. I went to the brigade to borrow a tractor and took the people to the health center. As a result, they called the police and arrested me and Hongxia. Before we could be interrogated after being detained, another comrade who was not injured in the fight with us came and beat us up like this."
"He beat you two up like this all by himself, and you didn't even fight back?" Lu Yuan asked, suppressing his anger.
"At that time, our hands and feet were tied, so we couldn't fight back or even stop them."
"Good, very good."
His tone was as calm as could be, yet it sent a chill down your spine.
"Officer Song, Officer Han, aren't you going to say a word?"
Song Minghao and Han Wenzhao's faces flushed red, and they cursed inwardly, feeling incredibly unlucky. Why were they the ones on duty tonight? What the hell were they supposed to say about this?
"I'm sorry, this is a dereliction of duty on our part as the police." It was Song Minghao who finally spoke.
He knew that if he opened his mouth, he would be scolded to death by the director, but he felt that he would be letting down his uniform if he talked nonsense.
Sigh, he's having such a hard time!
Lu Yuan was aware of their situation and did not want to make things difficult for them.
"Please have Officer Song and Officer Han take them to the health center for treatment. It doesn't make sense that the injured person can get treatment at the health center, but we can't."
"Also, tell your station chief that if this case cannot be handled fairly and justly, we will go directly to the county public security bureau chief to uphold justice."
What else could Song Minghao and Han Wenzhao do but follow their instructions?
When I arrived at the health center, there was only one intern nurse on duty; there were no doctors.
They were given a hospital room directly, and then they left after saying they were going to the dormitory to call the doctor.
Han Wenzhao also rushed to the director's house to report the situation.
The clinic had limited facilities, with only two wards in total. They stayed in the ward next to the one who had been injured while fighting over the rabbit.
The commotion at the hospital disturbed the neighbors, who quickly learned that they had come to the health center. Enraged, the injured person's family went directly to Song Minghao's house to confront him.
"Why were they released?"
The person asking the question was a middle-aged woman in her forties, who had an arrogant demeanor.
"Both comrades were also injured," Song Minghao replied truthfully.
“So what if they’re injured? My husband, Mr. Li, said that these two are criminals, the murderers who hurt my son, and they’re going to be arrested and sent to a labor camp.”
Lu Yuan stepped forward and asked curiously, "Is your Old Li some kind of god? Can he call someone a prisoner and make them a prisoner, or send them to a labor camp and make them go to a labor camp?"
The woman looked Lu Yuan up and down, and was startled. This man didn't look like an ordinary person. His clothes and appearance were comparable to those of a city dweller. And the young man behind him was burly and had a stern face. He looked even more imposing than her husband, Old Li.
I heard that the two people arrested were both sent-down youth. Do they have powerful connections? But even if they do, it's impossible for them to get here so quickly after this incident happened today.
Her eyes darted around, and she stammered, "Who...who are you? What do you have to do with these two?"
Before Lu Yuan could answer, a nurse came over.
"What's going on here, making such a racket?"
As the nurse approached and saw the woman, her expression immediately changed to one of smiles.
"Oh, it's the Party Secretary's wife! What's wrong? Why didn't you come to my office to call me?"
She then looked at Lu Yuan, her delicate brows furrowing immediately. "Why is it you?"
Lu Yuan also recognized the nurse. When Grandpa Liu was hospitalized, he often went in and out of the health center. This nurse looked at him with disdain.
"Hello, Nurse Yu!" he greeted casually.
Yu Fengjiao scoffed disdainfully, "Dr. Gao is no longer at the health center. You can't curry favor with him anymore."
Lu Yuandao said, "There's no need to curry favor now."
Yu Fengjiao rolled her eyes.
Seeing this, Wu Jinglan asked her, "Nurse Yu, do you know this comrade?"
Yu Fengjiao hurriedly said, "He's just a country bumpkin, who knows him? He was just a doctor from the Provincial Military Region Hospital when he was still at our health center. He used to come to Dr. Gao to freeload because some villagers were injured. I once saw him take a lot of Dr. Gao's good things."
"So that's how it is," Wu Jinglan said, immediately relieved, her tone becoming even more unfriendly.
"Arrest them immediately, or we will definitely pursue this matter to the end."
Lu Yuan smiled, "Don't worry, Madam Secretary, even if you don't pursue this to the end, we will."
Wu Jinglan was furious when she saw that he was not afraid of her after he knew her identity, but instead provoked her like this.
"Young man, do you know what you're saying?"
“Of course I know, does Madam not understand? Then I will say it again, our brigade will definitely investigate your son’s assault to the end.”
"Ha, overestimating himself." The woman was truly amused by his foolishness.
A country bumpkin, I don't know who gave him the courage to challenge their family, he really doesn't know his own limitations.
"We'll see if they're overestimating themselves!"
"We'll see. I want to see what makes you so arrogant in front of me."
He then yelled at Song Minghao, "Officer Song, didn't you hear what I said? Arrest them all!"
Song Minghao was speechless. How could she still not see the situation clearly? Since they had sent the person to the health center, it meant that the situation had changed and they could no longer do whatever they wanted.
He advised, "Madam, why don't we wait for our director to arrive first? My colleague has already gone to fetch him."
"Even if your director comes, he has to listen to me. Do you dare disobey?" Wu Jinglan was so angry that she couldn't hold back her words.
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