Faced with his brother’s question, Xiao Heng ultimately remained silent.
It was a private matter, and he didn’t want to talk about it. Lei Guotao couldn’t press him too much, so after a few words, they went about their own business.
Qiao Meili and Huang Yifang took Zhaozhao to the nursery together.
Zhao Zhao held his mother’s hand, and would look up every now and then, wondering if his mother would really not abandon him again.
Noticing her son’s little antics, Qiao Meili promised him that she would pick him up after school in the afternoon before he entered the daycare.
Zhao Zhao was happy and waved her little hand to say goodbye to them.
Huang Yifang’s eyes welled up with tears as she watched, and she secretly turned away to wipe them.
Qiao Meili saw all this and didn’t know what to say for a moment. She could only show her feelings through her actions in the future.
“We’ve delivered the person, let’s head back,”
Huang Yifang also intended to have a serious talk about Zhang Miao’s matter.
Just as I turned onto the red brick road near the residential building, I heard a commotion. Someone was shouting that something had happened, pointing to the east.
Qiao Meili was confused.
Huang Yifang reacted quickly, grabbing a military wife—Pang Chunju, the wife of the current battalion commander of the Second Battalion. “Chunju, why are you running? What happened?”
Pang Chunju was eager to watch the excitement, but that didn’t stop her from staring at Qiao Meili a few more times before saying to Huang Yifang, “I don’t know either. I heard that there was a commotion at Commander Zhang’s house.”
Huang Yifang immediately said to Qiao Meili, “Find out that girl; she’s Commander Zhang’s sister, Zhang Miao.”
Qiao Meili still wants to go and take a look.
Knowing yourself and your enemy, understanding your opponent, makes it easier to defeat her.
When they arrived at the courtyard of Commander Zhang’s house, several family members were already standing there watching the commotion.
The courtyard was also noisy. A boy of about ten years old was chasing and hitting a young woman. Qiao Meili recognized the woman as the one who had taken Zhao Zhao home yesterday.
As Zhang Miao dodged, she pointed at Zhang Ze and cursed, “I’m your aunt! You dare hit me? When my brother comes back, I’ll have him beat you to death!”
Zhang Ze, who was only ten years old, was already about the same height as Zhang Miao. He shouted urgently, “You hurt my sister! I’ll fight you to the death!”
Everyone was just watching the show and didn’t understand what was going on for a while.
Qiao Meili felt something was off about what she heard, and her attention fell on the Zhang family’s house, where she could vaguely see the figure of a woman kneeling on the ground.
Remembering what she had just said about harming her sister, she tugged at Huang Yifang.
“Sister-in-law, inside the house,”
Before the words were even finished, a woman rushed out of the house, carrying a girl who looked to be two or three years old, and ran out with her head down.
Qiao Meili immediately noticed something was wrong. The child’s face was purple and his eyes were wide open, clearly indicating that he had choked on something and that the situation was very urgent.
If they are not rescued in time, they could very well lose their lives.
After a moment’s hesitation, Qiao Meili couldn’t bear to leave them to die, so she ran towards the mother and daughter.
“Girl,” Huang Yifang, unaware of what had happened, hurriedly tried to grab her, but lost her grip.
Liang Qiong was desperate and had nowhere to turn. Her daughter was only two years old, and Zhang Miao had actually fed her peanuts, which made the child choke. She had never encountered such a situation before and was completely panicked. She picked up her daughter and tried to go to the clinic.
Just then, a figure rushed in front of her, shouting, “Give me the person!”
Liang Qiong was taken aback.
Qiao Meili didn’t care about anything else. She reached out and snatched the girl away. Then, following the first aid knowledge she had learned, she held the little girl in her arms, made fists with both hands, and pressed down quickly on the area above the little girl’s navel and below the xiphoid process.
What is she doing?
“I don’t know, do you understand?”
There were quite a few onlookers outside, but no one understood Qiao Meili’s actions, mainly because people lacked knowledge in this area at the time.
Huang Yifang didn’t understand what was going on either, and was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan.
Just then, someone shouted that Commander Zhang had arrived.
Upon receiving the news that something had happened at home, Zhang Jianshu rushed back immediately and found a large crowd gathered at the entrance of his courtyard.
His first reaction was that something was wrong; he feared that the Liang family’s exile had blown up and someone had come to his house.
It’s just that Liang Qiong is reluctant to get a divorce.
When he pushed through the crowd, he saw a beautiful woman in her own yard, holding her daughter in a strange position and pressing hard on her daughter’s abdomen.
What is that?
How dare they bully his daughter like this in public?
They treat him like a decoration!
Zhang Jianshu immediately shouted, “Who are you? Why are you beating my daughter?”
Time was of the essence, and the situation was delicate. Qiao Meili was on high alert and had no time to pay attention to him. Seeing that the little girl in her arms was getting worse and worse, she could only grit her teeth and try again.
Seeing that the other party ignored him and that there were so many people watching outside, Zhang Jianshu, who always cared about his reputation, felt that he had been humiliated. In a fit of anger, he didn’t care whether the other party was a woman or not and reached out to grab her.
Just then, the little girl in my arms gagged and spat out a whole peanut.
Qiao Meili breathed a sigh of relief, but then a strong force struck her, grabbing her arm and throwing her to the ground…
Hmm— pain!!
That bastard really went for it! She’s practically broken!
“Commander Zhang, what are you doing?” Huang Yifang exclaimed anxiously, rushing to Zhang Jianshu. “Even if you are the commander, you can’t just start hitting people without knowing the facts—”
She didn’t understand what Qiao Meili had just done, and wanted to speak up for Qiao Meili, but couldn’t find a way to approach her.
Zhang Jianshu recognized Huang Yifang and snorted, “Don’t rush to speak. Why don’t you ask this woman what she did to my daughter first?”
At this moment, Liang Qiong had already rushed to her daughter’s side. Seeing her daughter’s face gradually regaining color and her breathing becoming less rapid, Liang Qiong, though she didn’t understand the posture she had just performed, reacted quickly and realized that this woman had saved her daughter.
Just as she was about to speak, Zhang Miao suddenly shouted loudly.
“Brother, you’re back. I recognize her. She’s Deputy Regiment Commander Xiao’s wife. I don’t know what she’s up to, bullying our Bao’er.”
Zhang Miao was quick-witted. She recognized the woman as Qiao Meili and, remembering the humiliation she suffered in the Xiao family’s courtyard the previous evening, immediately decided to take revenge.
Besides, if she could use this opportunity to get Deputy Commander Xiao and Qiao Meili to divorce, wouldn’t that be her chance?
Upon hearing his sister’s words, Zhang Jianshu had no doubt whatsoever. Considering that Xiao Heng had shown him no respect whatsoever, he also harbored a secret desire for revenge.
“Well, I have no grudges against Deputy Regiment Commander Xiao, yet he allows his wife to bully me in my home. If I don’t do something today, won’t I become a laughing stock?”
Zhang Miao chimed in, “That’s right, brother. We don’t bully others, but we can’t let them bully us either.”
Huang Yifang glared at Zhang Miao fiercely, “You brat, if you don’t speak, no one will think you’re mute!”
Then he said to Zhang Jianshu, “So what do you want? Besides, we just saw it. Your daughter’s face turned purple. Something was wrong. Why do you say that Meili hit your daughter? In my opinion, maybe Meili saved your girl!”
It must be said that although Huang Yifang didn’t understand much, she was quick-witted and knew how to seize the initiative even amidst her unreasonable arguments.
Zhang Miao turned her face away guiltily.
Zhang Jianshu glanced at his daughter, whose complexion had returned to normal and who did not look sick or injured at all.
“What nonsense are you talking about? My daughter is perfectly fine!”
Huang Yifang resolutely refused to back down, saying, “Everything’s fine now, but it wasn’t just fine a moment ago. You can ask your wife if you don’t believe me.”
As she spoke, she grabbed Liang Qiong, who was kneeling on the ground beside her, and said, “You tell me, did your daughter choke on something? Just now, you were carrying your daughter and running outside. Meili only rushed over to help you because she saw that things were not right.”
Liang Qiong’s eyes were red and swollen, and her hair was a mess.
She was usually the most image-conscious person in the family compound, but now that her family is in trouble and her husband wants a divorce, she is in a daze all day long. She has lost a lot of weight, looks haggard, and her eyes are lifeless.
Qiao Meili could almost see a faint aura of death emanating from the other person.
Just then, Zhang Jianshu glared fiercely at his wife, his gaze carrying a strong warning.
From Qiao Meili’s perspective, she saw Liang Qiong shiver.
How afraid is she of her husband?
Qiao Meili seemed to be deep in thought.
Seeing that Liang Qiong remained silent, Huang Yifang grew anxious. “Say something! Meili clearly saved your daughter. You can’t let a good person down. Otherwise, if any family in the compound gets into trouble in the future, who will dare to lend a helping hand?”
Zhang Jianshu also noticed something was wrong. He glared at his sister, Zhang Miao, who met his gaze and silently lowered her head.
Zhang Jianshu had a bad feeling. He was afraid that his sister had caused this trouble. But now he could only stick to his guns and push the blame onto Qiao Meili.
He narrowed his eyes, looking at Liang Qiong meaningfully, but his voice was very gentle, “Wife, you tell me, we can’t let our daughter be bullied, don’t you think?”
Liang Qiong stared blankly with her mouth agape for a moment before silently lowering her head.
Seeing this, Huang Yifang rushed over and shoved her, saying, “Why can’t you tell right from wrong? It was clearly Qiao’s daughter who saved your daughter, and you’re framing an innocent person. Have you lost your conscience?”
Seeing how anxious Huang Yifang was, Qiao Meili was deeply moved, and she also learned the general situation of the Zhang family.
So he reached out and tugged at the other person’s hand.
When Huang Yifang gets angry, she attacks indiscriminately: “Look at you, you’re trying to be a good person and you still get misunderstood. I told you it’s hard to be a good person, and you can still laugh—”
No one paid any attention to her, so Qiao Meili could only lift her aching back and get up by herself, stretching her muscles and wincing in pain. “Sister-in-law, don’t worry, I have a way to prove myself.”