Chapter 13: Self-love
hospital.
Lin Hua went to buy some food, and Lin Li lay on the companion bed, "chatting" with Ling Xiao who was lying on the bed next to him.
Suddenly, I heard the nurse shouting outside the door: "Patient No. 27, a comrade wants to see you. He said he is a police officer."
Then, Zhou Qiang's voice was heard again: "Comrade Lin, I am Zhou Qiang."
"Come in quickly." Lin Li responded quickly.
Just as I was about to get up, Zhou Qiang and the nurse came in in plain clothes.
Zhou Qiang walked over quickly and held Lin Li down: "Comrade Lin, don't move. Be careful of getting hurt..."
The nurse nodded and said to Lin Li, "Comrade Lin, call me if you need anything. I'm going to leave first..."
Lin Li said "hmm" and watched the nurse leave.
Zhou Qiang put the fruit he brought aside.
Take out an orange and peel it.
Rough big hands are not suitable for delicate work, but Zhou Qiang tried to peel it as carefully as possible.
Even the white veins were removed somewhat.
Hand the oranges to Lin Li.
Lin Li watched him busying himself with a smile, and took it over without any psychological burden at this moment.
He bit off two petals: "Hmm, so sweet... Hehe..."
Then he started to talk: "Thank you, people's police comrade, I didn't expect you would come all the way to visit me... I am really moved beyond words..."
Zhou Qiang was distracted by Lin Li's heartless smile.
Feeling embarrassed, he coughed lightly.
"Comrade Lin, don't..." He almost said the words "self-indulgent", fortunately Zhou Qiang braked in time.
He was so used to using this word with his male colleagues that he forgot for a moment that men and women should not joke around with each other.
Thinking of this, he looked at Ling Xiao lying on the bed next to him with a guilty conscience.
He didn’t know if it was an illusion, but he actually felt that Ling Xiao’s expression was... um, not right?
"Comrade Lin, I have something important to talk to you about." Zhou Qiang put away his smile and sat upright. "Today, the organization came to talk to me and delayed my time. Therefore, I haven't gone to Sanhe Village to investigate early."
"Oh... then it's not too late to go now."
"But guess what," Zhou Qiang laughed again, "Just when I was about to go there, Liu Gang's whole family arrived at the police station."
Then, Zhou Qiang briefly recounted what had just happened in the police station.
It was obvious that Liu Gang and his wife forcibly took Liu Jinduo to the police station.
Liu Jinduo suffered several injuries, walked with a limp, and her ears were pinched red.
After arriving at the police station, Mrs. Liu Gang kicked Liu Jinduo viciously in front of Zhou Qiang.
Her action annoyed all the police officers in the police station.
The team members reprimanded Mrs. Liu without any hesitation.
Mrs. Liu Gang cried and said, "Police comrade, my daughter came to turn herself in! The person who beat up Lin Li was not my son at all! It was my daughter Liu Jinduo!"
Liu Gang also shouted at the side, "Police comrade, our family is for the greater good, we can't let Liu Jinduo go unpunished! Now that she's brought here, it's up to you to decide whether to kill her or not!"
Zhou Qiang was shocked by the actions of Liu Gang and his wife.
So what Lin Li had told him, that Liu Gang and his wife had a serious patriarchal mentality and had never treated Liu Jinduo as a human being, was absolutely true.
Zhou Qiang first had Liu Gang and his wife locked up by force.
And asked the female comrade to take Liu Jinduo to the health room for examination.
Now, Zhou Qiang briefly told Lin Li about these things.
"Liu Gang and his wife are really bad enough," Zhou Qiang sighed, "Liu Jinduo has injuries all over her body. Let's not talk about those old injuries. Just today, one of her ribs was broken. In the state of unbearable pain, she was dragged by her parents to walk 30 miles to the commune..."
After hearing this, Lin Li felt a little regretful.
She asked her eldest brother and his wife to go to Liu Gang's house and make trouble, and even to the street, because she knew that Liu Gang and his wife would push Liu Jinduo out to take the blame in order to protect their beloved son Liu Jinpeng.
As long as Liu Jinduo is pushed out, Comrade Zhou Qiang will believe what she said, that Liu Gang and his wife were severely committing domestic violence.
But she didn't expect that before pushing Liu Jinduo out, Liu Gang and his wife would beat her so badly that not only did they break one of her ribs, but they also had to drag her by the hand and walk more than thirty miles.
"Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs. This couple is worse than animals." Lin Li clenched his fists in anger. "I knew they would abuse Liu Jinduo, but I didn't expect them to use such vicious means. If I had known earlier, I should have brought Liu Jinduo out earlier..."
The last sentence was not sincere. Lin Li was thinking, if he had known earlier...
Shouldn't we have let our eldest brother and his wife use such strong provocations on Liu Gang and his wife?
I really wanted them to thoroughly expose their evil deeds of abusing Liu Jinduo, but I didn't expect that Liu Jinduo would be hurt to such an excessive extent.
"That's not what I said," Zhou Qiang shook his head. "For domestic violence, no matter how much help outsiders give, it's just auxiliary. The most important thing is that the person involved must be tough. Otherwise, the help of outsiders will only further anger her parents, which will be counterproductive."
"That's true." Lin Li was comforted.
After all, she did it to help Liu Jinduo.
"It's so hard to get rid of the original family..." Lin Li sighed, "We have been brainwashed since childhood and can't see any light. We are used to darkness and become numb. We think the world is dark. Those who know how to resist do so because they know that there is light in the world... So if we want to pull them out of the sea of suffering, we must use love to resolve the pain in their hearts and let them know that there is light in this world."
Think about it, the heroine in this book also exhausted all her strength to break away from her original family.
The heroines in most period novels are either reborn or travel through time, but the heroine in "I Opened a Seed Shop in the 1980s" is so pitiful. She neither travels through time nor is she reborn. She is just a local farm girl with a miserable life experience who is too old to get married.
"Hey," Zhou Qiang subconsciously looked at Lin Li a few more times, "Comrade Lin hasn't read many books, but he can speak so philosophically?"
"Hehe...I learned it from my second elder brother. He studied until his third year of high school." Lin Li responded calmly.
She had been concentrating her mental energy, so she could hear Zhou Qiang's mental activities. While Zhou Qiang was talking to her, he was always thinking about how he should mention Lin Hua to Lin Li.
Lin Li was very concerned about her second brother Lin Hua. She was really curious why Zhou Qiang's thoughts always leaned towards Lin Hua.
Obviously Zhou Qiang didn’t know Lin Hua.
In order to find out the truth as soon as possible, Lin Li simply gave Zhou Qiang a topic about Lin Hua.
As expected, Zhou Qiang showed a look of joy.
Then he thought again: Thank God, Lin Li sent the message, and I finally don’t have to worry about how to bring up the topic.
He is a straight man and is not used to beating around the bush. Now he can speak openly.
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