Xia Canglan jogged over and saw a crowd of onlookers gathered at Xia Zhaodi’s door.
She glanced around and immediately spotted Zhou Fumei standing in the best spot for watching the drama unfold.
She shrank back and forth, successfully passing through the human wall, and silently stood next to Zhou Fumei, joining in the gossip.
Just as she stood still,
“Slap slap slap…” Kong Miaomiao slapped her several times, almost making the already weak Xia Zhaodi dizzy.
“Xia Zhaodi, let me tell you, if you don’t give me an explanation for this, I’m useless to you. At most, I’ll go to jail with you, at least I’ll have lived so many more years.”
“Hehe, what about you, Xia Zhaodi? I’ve heard. You fled the country, repeatedly refused to reform, and even gathered a group to engage in sexual misconduct. With these charges, you’ll only be able to work on the farm until you die.”
Xia Canglan nodded. Not bad, not bad. These words hit Xia Zhaodi’s sore spot.
It seems that Kong Miaomiao isn’t just someone who can talk nonsense and use brute force. Has her venomous tongue finally opened up?
Xia Zhaodi, who was beaten and looked disheveled, was about to explode with anger.
From the moment she came over and went crazy this morning, Xia Zhaodi felt that something must have gone wrong.
She suppressed her anger, but a glimpse of the onlookers made her panic.
“You… Sister-in-law, what explanation do you want from me? I was innocently framed and made into—that kind of woman, and now I’m desperate to die, and instead of comforting me, you’re yelling at me and hitting me, waaaah~~”
Xia Zhaodi, feigning tears, lowered her head, a venomous glint in her eyes.
Xia Canglan, with her sharp eyes, caught it before she lowered her head.
Heh, what a poisonous white lotus flower, so—it makes one want to trample it.
“You…you’re talking nonsense! You clearly asked Song Rencai to pass on a message to me, saying that if I just wanted to deliver something to you, I’d get a hundred yuan if you came out.”
“Hiss!” The onlookers gasped.
“Wow, a hundred yuan for anything? Do they even need people for this? I feel like I could do it too.”
“Tch, with your pathetic attitude, I’d rather go.”
Xia Zhaodi wiped away her tears, looking at Kong Miaomiao with disappointment.
“Sister-in-law, you’re framing me without any evidence. Don’t you feel guilty? These days, you need evidence to prove what you’re saying. What proof do you have that what you’re saying is true?”
Looking at the speechless and stunned Kong Miaomiao, Xia Zhaodi’s smugness was almost undisguised. Her gaze suddenly met Xia Canglan’s, who was watching the drama unfold. Seeing her silently utter a sentence, Xia Zhaodi thought she had misread it.
Just as she was about to look more closely, the two policemen guarding the gate seemed to finally react, and began to shoo people away and arrest them.
“Comrade Xia Zhaodi, please go back to your ward and rest. Of course, if your condition improves now, we can go back to the station now.”
“What Xia Zhaodi? How many times have I told you? My name is Xia Wenlan. Are you illiterate and unable to understand human speech?”
“Pfft!”
“Oh, so your name really is Xia Zhaodi. Why add ‘Lan’? It’s inappropriate.”
The voice wasn’t loud, but it was enough for everyone still in the corridor to hear.
“Who? Who was that spouting nonsense? Step forward, or I’ll beat her to death!”
Xia Zhaodi roared, her face contorted with rage. In both her past and present lives, the thing she hated most was this patriarchal name.
Because of it, she had been mocked for so long, and her boyfriends had all suspected she was a Voldemort, fearing that marrying her would be like marrying her entire family.
Every relationship ended within six months.
With the drama over,
Xia Canglan prepared to return to her department for a busy day when she saw three more police officers arrive.
A quick glance revealed they were heading towards Xia Zhaodi’s ward.
It seemed the heroine’s devoted follower, Song Rencai, had succumbed to interrogation and confessed everything.
At lunchtime, during the break,
Xia Canglan had just finished eating when Zhou Fumei secretly pulled her aside to gossip.
“Lanlan, don’t go out unless you have to. If you do go out, stick close to Director Xia, okay?”
Xia Canglan raised an eyebrow. “What? What big news did you get this time, little chubby girl?”
Zhou Fumei’s face was unusually serious, without any joking.
“Lanlan, didn’t I tell you before that we have new neighbors moving in next door?”
Xia Canglan nodded, confirming that she had indeed said that.
“Yesterday my mom came home with a cold face and ordered me never to go out again, or she’d break my legs. I asked her what was wrong?” ”
She didn’t say anything, just that the new people who moved in aren’t good people, and I shouldn’t go near that area, not even pass by. Do you think that’s serious?”
Very serious.
Zhou Fumei’s mother is the director of the street office; she usually knows about any news from the street immediately.
Unexpectedly, just today, this person had said that, and Xia Canglan, walking home alone after work, was stopped.
Looking at the greasy smile on the man’s face as he got out of the car, his eyes darting around with unbridled sizing, his arrogance made you want to punch him in the head.
“Beautiful lady, may I have the honor of inviting you for a drink?”
Xia Canglan rolled her eyes, her eyes stinging.
“Who are you? You think you can invite me for a drink? Besides, what beautiful lady? Did you get left behind during the Dragon Kingdom’s extermination efforts? You look like a grotesque creature, and you can’t even speak properly, yet you dare to embarrass yourself?”
The man grinned, his eyes gleaming with a triumphant light.
“It’s alright, everyone’s always so tough at first. Once you’ve seen my ‘power,’ even if you’re a dragon, you’ll have to cower before me.”
“Beautiful lady, I’ll be waiting for you. Next time, I won’t be so nice.”
Watching the car drive away, Xia Canglan’s eyes were like ice pillars. She pressed her tongue against her gums.
Damn it, she almost threw a punch! Luckily, she held back.
Otherwise, if she were extorted, she’d be in the wrong, putting her in a very passive position.
She kicked the wall to calm her anger before slowly strolling home. It was around 11:30 PM, which was still too early to do anything bad.
However, Xia Canglan really wanted to strangle that disgusting man and didn’t want to wait a moment longer. Realizing everyone in her family was asleep, she immediately climbed over the wall.
Perhaps in her haste, she didn’t notice another figure following her.
Arriving at the disgusting man’s house, she had just climbed over the wall into the yard, and before she could even reach the shadows, she was drawn by a sharp, brief scream.
The scream was probably abruptly cut off, her mouth covered.
Xia Canglan’s mental power was strong; a quick scan revealed a pregnant woman bound in the brightly lit hall.
The woman was probably five or six months pregnant, her belly slightly protruding, trembling and trying to avoid an outstretched hand.
“No, please let me go! My family is rich, sob sob…”