Chapter 2: Lin Qin Calls the Police

Ma Cuihua was just about to say something.

Lin Qin spoke first, "Turn left out the door, turn right when you hit the street, walk straight until you reach the three-way intersection; it’s right around there."

The expressions of the four members of the Liu family darkened instantly.

It looked like Lin Qin was serious!

As Liu Yongguo moved to leave, Lin Qin blocked the doorway first, "Until the police arrive, nobody is leaving this room!"

"You bitch! Don't think I won't deal with you!" Liu Yongguo clenched his fists in a threat.

Lin Zhi was forced to step forward to back Lin Qin up, "Since my second niece has already called the police, we’ll just wait for them to get here. If you lay a hand on her now, you won't have an easy time explaining yourself to the police later!"

"This bitch bit my mother's arm until it bled! Even if I beat her to death, the police can't do anything to me!" Liu Yongguo stiffened his neck, not seeing anything wrong with his actions at all.

Looking at Lin Qin’s swollen face, Lin Zhi spoke with full confidence, "Didn't you lot beat my second niece too? It’s tit for tat, nothing more to say. I didn't see what happened before, so I won't speak on it, but I’m here now. If you try anything, things won't be so simple! The people of Shanglin Village aren't to be bullied!"

The director of the neighborhood office had been hiding in the crowd watching the spectacle, but seeing Lin Zhi mention Shanglin Village, he had to step out. With a dark face, he warned Liu Yongguo, "I say, Comrade Liu Yongguo, Lin Qin is your sister-in-law after all, how can you just hit her? When men get involved in women's affairs, the situation changes."

Women fighting was one thing, and since they were family, it wouldn't cause a major disturbance.

But if a man stepped in, it escalated a small conflict into something difficult to resolve, especially since Liu Yongguo was Lin Qin’s brother-in-law; he should have avoided the situation.

Once the director spoke, the neighbors immediately chimed in.

Seeing that the situation was turning against them, Xu Manzhi hurriedly stepped forward to pull Liu Yongguo back, signaling him to retreat. She then put her hands on her hips and pointed at Lin Qin, cursing, "You did such a shameless thing, so what if Mom hit you? You’ve made the Liu family the laughingstock of the whole street; it’s a mercy Mom didn't kick you out of the house!

Not only are you ungrateful, but you also hurt Mom and your sister-in-law like this. Lin Qin, are you even human?"

Lin Qin didn't even spare Xu Manzhi a glance. Out of the corner of her eye, she caught the man on the bed move slightly, and her eyes darkened a fraction.

Chen Wenjun!

The man who had been used by the Liu family in her past life to ruin half her life, and also the only man who had ever truly cared for her!

In this life, they would have no such entanglements!

Lin Qin moved at the sound of footsteps and looked toward the door.

"Comrade Police, it’s right here." Lin Yi led two police officers into the room.

Before Lin Qin could speak, Xu Manzhi began to shift the blame, "Comrade Police, you’ve come just in time. Please, save my mother-in-law and sister-in-law! This bitch Lin Qin was messing around with a strange man and tried to kill my mother-in-law and sister-in-law!"

Lin Qin cooperatively stepped aside to let the officers in.

Seeing her swollen face, the officer frowned, "Who is Lin Qin?"

"I am," Lin Qin replied calmly.

Seeing her upright demeanor, the officer raised an eyebrow in surprise, "Your father, Lin Yi, said you wanted to report a crime. Tell us, what’s the situation?"

Lin Qin pointed at the four members of the Liu family, "They conspired to frame me. They locked me and that stranger in this room to falsely accuse me of illicit relations."

"Comrade Police, she’s talking nonsense! This is our house; why would we frame her? If word of this gets out, we’ll have no face left!" Xu Manzhi responded cleverly, casting a smug look at Lin Qin.

The officer didn't listen to just one side and continued to ask Lin Qin, "Do you have any evidence to prove they framed you?"

"I do!"

Everyone looked at Lin Qin in astonishment. What evidence? How could there be evidence for something like this?

Not only were the onlookers confused, but even the four members of the Liu family were baffled.

Lin Qin reached up and touched her head, where a large bump had formed, along with some sticky liquid. She then held out her hand for everyone to see, "This is the evidence! I was in the kitchen washing dishes tonight when someone hit me with a club from behind, and I lost consciousness."

She had only discovered this injury in her past life after being taken back to Shanglin Village, and it was because of this injury that she realized she had been set up by the Liu family.

Seeing the blood, the officer’s expression turned grave, "Comrade Lin Qin, you need to go to the hospital immediately to have this treated. We have opened a case, and we will certainly get to the bottom of this."

The neighbors watching didn't realize Lin Qin had such a severe head injury, and the looks they cast at the Liu family turned fearful and strange.

"This—if this wasn't handled right, it could have been murder!" The neighborhood director realized the severity of the situation and dared not try to smooth things over anymore. He immediately scolded the Ma Cuihua family sternly, "You people have gone too far!"

"It wasn't us! She’s lying! We didn't hit her!" Ma Cuihua refused to admit it, shouting with her neck stiffened, "It’s clearly her own guilty conscience trying to divert everyone's attention! We caught her in bed today! The adulterer is still lying right there! She can't deny it!"

"Are you talking about me?"

Everyone looked at Chen Wenjun, who had woken up on the bed.

He was clutching his head with one hand and frantically patting his body with the other, his expression pained.

The officer immediately noticed something was wrong. He stepped forward, pulled Chen Wenjun’s hand away, and felt his head carefully. His face darkened, "Comrade, did you also suffer a head injury?"

"Yes! Yes, yes, yes!" Chen Wenjun looked at the officer’s uniform, grabbed his hand excitedly, and cried out anxiously, "Comrade Police, my money was stolen! My money is gone! Fifty-three yuan and twenty-five cents! That was fifty-three yuan and twenty-five cents!"

Everyone: "???"

Wasn't this about illicit relations? Wasn't it about a head injury? Why was money missing now? And fifty-plus yuan! That wasn't a small amount.

The officer comforted him patiently, "Don't be anxious, tell us exactly what happened."

Chen Wenjun sat cross-legged on the bed, wiping his tears as he choked out, "I’m a boat dweller from Nanxi, my name is Chen Wenjun. I came to the street this afternoon to sell fish. Business wasn't very good, and I didn't finish selling until it was almost dark. I was carrying my baskets back when someone hit me with a club from behind in the alley, and I lost consciousness. When I woke up, I was here!"

Just as he finished speaking, an old man watching the scene suddenly shouted, "I know, I know! Tonight, Li San’s mother carried two baskets and a shoulder pole back. There seemed to be things inside, and I could smell fish from far away. I even argued with her a bit; it was probably yours."

Nobody around here caught fish; that stuff had appeared quite suddenly. The point was, he had asked Li San’s mother if she’d struck it rich, and the old woman had cursed him out for it.

Hmph! He wouldn't let that old woman get away with it!

The other officer immediately told the old man to lead him to find Li San’s mother.

Lin Qin stared blankly at the scene, her mind a complete blank.

Chen Wenjun... in her past life, his reaction hadn't been like this at all!

And the missing money—that wasn't discovered until much later, and it wasn't that amount!

Before she could make sense of it, Chen Wenjun was already urgently begging the police to help him find his money.

The officer promised Chen Wenjun he would help while sternly eyeing the four members of the Liu family.

The Liu family was in a complete panic.

Liu Yongguo argued back excitedly, "Comrade Police, he’s lying! It’s clearly him and Lin Qin messing around, and they designed this to frame us! We didn't take his money!"