Chapter 9: In-depth
Liu Jinpeng overestimated his current ability. He simply didn't have the strength to open the door.
"Liu Jinpeng, you're the one who beat me like this, give me back my life..." Lin Li said with a trembling voice.
Liu Jinpeng was so frightened that he pissed and farted, and his extreme panic made his limbs even weaker.
But he still howled in a hoarse and weak voice.
"Shut up! If you keep making noise, I'll kill you..." Lin Li threatened.
She concentrated her mental strength to listen to Liu Jinpeng's inner voice.
"Auntie, I really didn't mean to hit you..." Liu Jinpeng was at a loss. He wanted to kneel on the ground and kowtow, but he tried very hard and ended up knocking himself to the ground again.
"Please don't take me away... I beg you, auntie, I will burn paper for you every day..."
Liu Jinpeng tried hard to make a sound, but it was still hoarse and weak. Not only others, but even Liu Jinpeng himself couldn't hear what he was saying.
But Lin Li kept concentrating his mental strength and could hear Liu Jinpeng's inner voice.
"Bah! I'm not dead yet! Why are you burning paper?" Lin Li scolded.
Liu Jinpeng: “…”
He himself couldn't understand what he said because of his hoarse and incomplete vocal cords. How could Lin Li understand him?
So he became even more certain that Lin Li was a ghost!
Ghosts have super powers!
Liu Jinpeng trembled, still trying to make a sound with a hoarse and unclear voice: "But aren't you a ghost now?"
"My soul is out of my body. The doctor said that I can survive if I am resuscitated. But..." Lin Li said sternly, "It will cost me 300 yuan for medical treatment. You have to give me 300 yuan now so I can use it for treatment."
"Auntie, I don't have any money now..." Liu Jinpeng burst into tears, "And even if I did, I wouldn't have that much... Even if we sold our entire family, we wouldn't be able to get 300 yuan..."
"Write me an IOU, saying you are willing to reimburse my medical expenses and mental damages, totaling three hundred dollars. That way, we can settle the matter of you beating me privately. I will let my brother withdraw the lawsuit..."
“But…but…” Liu Jinpeng was tangled.
But he was really exhausted and couldn't make any sound.
He simply stopped talking, and only thought: "What if you die and can't be rescued?"
"Bah! How dare you curse me!" Lin Li's eyes widened in horror again.
Look, Lin Li is indeed a ghost!
Oh my god, what a scary ghost! Even if he didn't say anything, Lin Li could hear what he was thinking!
He was so frightened that he almost fainted again.
"No, no," he thought, his legs trembling, "I'm just afraid... I'm afraid..."
"Even if I die, I will appear in my brother's dreams and force him to withdraw the lawsuit. Being a ghost has more rules than being a human. If you don't keep your promise, you will be punished by heaven. You can rest assured about this..." Lin Li used coaxing again.
"Wuwuwu," Liu Jinpeng broke down and cried again, "Where can I get three hundred yuan for you..."
"Don't worry, as long as you write a promissory note, I won't force you to death in the future. I will find a way to not only not ask you to pay back the money, but also give you some money..."
Seeing that Liu Jinpeng wanted to talk more, Lin Li threatened again, "Liu Jinpeng, you are already eighteen years old, and you have to bear the legal responsibility yourself. I tell you the truth, you are committing malicious injury. Even if I can wake up, you will be detained for more than twenty years. Moreover, you see the current situation, the probability of me waking up is very low... So you are very likely to be sentenced to death..."
When Liu Jinpeng heard this, his mind was buzzing with excitement.
In this era, if you have a criminal record, you will be gossiped about for the rest of your life and it will be difficult to find a wife. Moreover, when Liu Jinpeng was released 20 years later, he would be almost 40 years old, so he could forget about getting married.
And if it's the death penalty... it's even worse.
Lin Li brought paper and pen, and she read word by word and asked Liu Jinpeng to write it down by hand.
We tried to use simple characters as much as possible. Even so, there were some characters that Liu Jinpeng didn't know how to write, so we asked him to write them in pinyin.
Finally, Liu Jinpeng was asked to sign and put his fingerprints on the document.
Everything went smoothly and Lin Li put away the receipt.
She waved her hand and threw out some colorless and odorless powder, which frightened Liu Jinpeng again.
He wanted to shout, but before he could make a sound, he slowly fell down.
After the matter was settled, Lin Li left.
I changed my clothes first and put the "bloody" clothes into my backpack.
I also washed my face again.
Feeling sleepy and tired, Lin Li simply went back to the bed in the lounge and had a proper rest.
Lin Rong was also taking a nap and had no idea that the girl was busy with something important.
When it was almost noon, Comrade Zhou Qiang came back after finishing his work and found that Lin Rong had woken up, but Lin Li was still sleeping soundly.
When Zhou Qiang came in, Lin Rong put his index finger to his lips and made a "hmm" sound, then pointed at Lin Li who was sleeping soundly on the bed.
Zhou Qiang understood, and he raised his legs high, stepped lightly, and walked over carefully.
But Lin Li was a light sleeper, and the slightest movement woke her up.
"Where is this?" She rubbed her sleepy eyes, but pulled the wound, "Bite..."
Then her memory came back.
"Don't move, don't move, you've got the wound on." Zhou Qiang hurried over, grabbed Lin Li's wrist and pressed it down.
After taking a closer look at the wound on Lin Li's head, he asked worriedly, "Why do I feel that there is more blood than when you came? I have medical workers here too, let's get someone to take a look at your wound."
"No, no, I feel much better after a good sleep."
Lin Li thanked him politely.
But she felt guilty, and she actually took advantage of Zhou Qiang's trust and pretended to be a ghost in the police station...
But Lin Li still had to continue to make a request: "Comrade Zhou, I want to confront Liu Jinpeng now..."
"No..." Zhou Qiang was in a dilemma, "Comrade Lin, Liu Jinpeng is crazy..."
"Crazy..."
"Mad?"
Lin Rong and Lin Li spoke in unison, but Lin Rong's voice was a little too loud.
"He's not crazy, he's just been stimulated. He just fell into a coma, so we sent him to the infirmary and used drugs to wake him up." Zhou Qiang explained calmly.
"And then?" The brother and sister looked over expectantly.
Zhou Qiang went on, "When he woke up, he had a nightmare. He dreamed of a ghost... He said the ghost was..." Zhou Qiang paused.
Seeing that Lin Li was a timid girl, Zhou Qiang was afraid of scaring her.
If he said that the ghost Liu Jinpeng dreamed of was Lin Li, Lin Li would have a psychological shadow for the rest of his life.
So Zhou Qiang swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth.
"Then," Lin Li understood, and said calmly, "He had nightmares and dreamed of ghosts, which proves that he is guilty. I guess someone must have lied to him and said that I was seriously injured, right?"
"Yeah." Zhou Qiang nodded. "Before I went to Sanhe Village, someone did scare him and said that you were seriously injured."
Lin Li thought, this is just a coincidence.
She then changed the subject, "Comrade Zhou, how was your undercover visit to Sanhe Village?"
Zhou Qiang was silent again.
Lin Li concentrated his mental strength and heard his inner voice.
The villagers were all disgusted with the fact that Lin Li was spending his subsidy on a gigolo.
But what he couldn't stand even more was what Liu Gang's family did.
So in the end the balance still tilted towards Lin Li.
Good people hate the Liu Gang family for setting up such a sinister trap to cheat money, while bad people are jealous of the Liu Gang family for setting up such a sinister trap to cheat money.
Therefore, their accusations against Lin Li were relatively mild, and they only said that she was no longer worthy of receiving the subsidy.
The accusations against Liu Gang's family were even stronger, saying that everyone in their family except Liu Jinduo deserved to die.
Now that Liu Jinpeng had maliciously injured Lin Li, he had to pay for his crime.
Liu Jinpeng has been bullying the village in recent years and has no popularity at all.
Now, Zhou Qiang thought about it for a long time and he wanted to create some psychological burden for Lin Li.
He deliberately said ambiguously: "We still need to investigate further. Comrade Lin needs to wait a little longer. If there is still anything that requires Comrade Lin's cooperation..."
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