Courtyard House: Starting by inheriting the tradition and suppressing the barbarians.

now.

The interrogation room at the police station was dimly lit.

Scarface Liu and the other thugs were separated and detained.

Under Xu Guodong's eagle-like gaze, these usually domineering thugs quickly broke down.

Especially Old Ding, whose wrist was broken by Li Xuan.

In order to get leniency, they confessed everything.

"Captain Xu! I'll confess! I'll confess everything!"

"It's a man named Jia Dongxu! A worker at the Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill!"

"He paid us a hundred dollars to cripple that Li Xuan!"

"He said that was his neighbor who didn't like him and wanted us to break his leg!"

"Scarface Liu received the money, and he was also the contact person!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Guodong's face darkened to the point of being sullen.

"Fine, you hire someone to injure people, and you even want to cripple the orphan of a martyr?"

"This Jia Dongxu is quite something, he's got some nerve!"

"Someone come here! Go to the Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill and get the man!"

……

Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill, fitter's workshop.

After taking Yi Zhonghai to the hospital, Jia Dongxu returned to work.

He seemed particularly uneasy as he recalled the incident of "hiring a killer" last night.

Although he believed in Scarface Liu's abilities, he felt uneasy ever since he woke up in the morning.

"No...no way, Li Xuan has definitely already been dealt with by Scarface Liu..."

Just then, the workshop door was pushed open.

Two uniformed, serious-looking police officers strode in and headed straight for Jia Dongxu's workstation.

The noise from the machines in the workshop seemed to have subsided somewhat.

All the workers stopped what they were doing and stared in astonishment at the scene.

"Jia Dongxu, right?"

The police officer looked at him coldly. "You're suspected of hiring someone to commit assault. Come with us!"

"Clang!"

Jia Dongxu dropped the wrench in his hand and hit his foot, but he forgot the pain.

His face turned deathly pale instantly, his legs went weak, and he almost collapsed to the ground.

"Officers...are you sure you haven't made a mistake?"

"I'm a law-abiding citizen!"

Jia Dongxu's teeth were chattering.

He never imagined that Scarface Liu would get into trouble!

To my surprise, the police came knocking on our door so quickly!

"No mistake! Take it away!"

The police officers wouldn't listen to his explanation at all.

He pulled out a silver bracelet, cuffed him with a snap, and dragged him out of the workshop like a dead dog.

"Oh my god! Jia Dongxu has been arrested?"

Hiring someone to commit assault? That's too ruthless!

"He seems like a very honest person, but you can never truly know someone just by looking at their face!"

The workers' chatter buzzed like flies.

Jia Dongxu felt dizzy, and a warm sensation came from his crotch as a stream of yellow liquid flowed down his trouser leg.

He was so scared he peed himself on the spot!

……

Police station interrogation room.

Jia Dongxu sat in the chair, trembling like a leaf.

Faced with Xu Guodong's oppressive interrogation, he confessed everything before any methods were even used.

"Waaaaah... It was the person I hired... but I didn't mean to kill anyone!"

"I'm just jealous of Li Xuan and want to teach him a lesson..."

"Officer, I was wrong! I was really wrong!"

"I was just momentarily blinded by greed!"

"Bewitched? Hiring a killer for a hundred dollars? That's a serious crime!"

Xu Guodong slammed his hand on the table and shouted angrily, "Tell me! Your monthly salary is only thirty-odd yuan, where did this hundred yuan come from?"

"Are there accomplices?"

Jia Dongxu felt a jolt run through his body.

He subconsciously wanted to say Yi Zhonghai's name.

But he swallowed the words back down his throat.

He wasn't stupid. If he implicated Yi Zhonghai, he might be able to reduce his sentence a bit, but Yi Zhonghai would definitely be finished.

If Yi Zhonghai is finished, who will take care of the Jia family?

Who gives him money to spend?

Who will help him raise his children?

Moreover, when Yi Zhonghai gave him the money, he made it very clear that it was "money to buy nutritional supplements for Bang Geng".

As long as Yi Zhonghai denies it, Jia Dongxu can't kill him with empty words.

On the contrary, it would completely offend this only backer.

"It's...it's my secret stash of money!"

"I've been saving this up for so long!"

Jia Dongxu gritted his teeth and took the fall, saying, "It has nothing to do with my master!"

"It was all my idea!"

……

Red Star Hospital, ward.

Yi Zhonghai was lying on the bed, groaning and moaning.

The wound on his buttocks had just been stitched up, and the anesthesia had worn off, causing him to break out in a cold sweat from the pain.

Just then, an older woman ran in, sobbing.

"Old Yi! Something terrible has happened!"

"Dongxu...Dongxu was arrested by the police at the factory!"

"They say it was a hired attack to injure someone!"

"What?"

Yi Zhonghai was shocked and tried to sit up abruptly.

This aggravated his wound, causing him to scream in pain again and lie back down.

"Arrested? Hired to commit assault? How...how could this have been exposed so quickly?"

Yi Zhonghai was extremely flustered.

What he feared most was not that Jia Dongxu would go to jail, but that Jia Dongxu would implicate him!

He paid for that hundred yuan!

This would be classified as "instigating a crime" or "complicity".

Then his career as an eighth-level fitter and an old man in a courtyard house is over!

"No! We have to save him!"

"Saving him is saving myself!"

Despite the excruciating pain and drenched in sweat, Yi Zhonghai shouted to the elderly woman, "Quick! Help me up!"

"I'm going...to...to find connections!"

Of course, he wouldn't dare go directly to the police station to bail someone out; that would be courting death.

But he knows some old connections who are quite capable.

While we can't distort the truth, we can at least inquire about the details of the case.

Or try to find a way to downsize the situation.

The next two days.

Ignoring the injury on his buttocks, Yi Zhonghai lay on the cart and was pulled around by others.

The money in my hand was spent like water.

He greased the palms, consulted a lawyer, and compensated the victim, Li Xuan.

Although Li Xuan wasn't injured, he still had to show some respect...

The family's savings had visibly dwindled, causing Yi Zhonghai to tremble with heartache.

Fortunately, Jia Dongxu had some sense and didn't betray him.

In addition, Li Xuan was indeed unharmed, and his statement last night was that the thugs chased him but failed to catch him.

This constitutes attempted crime.

After a series of extremely difficult operations and the payment of huge fines,

Jia Dongxu was finally released, but his sentence was changed to probation.

……

At the entrance of the courtyard house.

Jia Dongxu returned looking like a ghost, completely lost and dejected.

He was locked up in the cell for three days, and he became emaciated, with a dull look in his eyes and a sour smell about him.

Yi Zhonghai was perched on Sha Zhu's back, waiting at the door.

Seeing Jia Dongxu in this state, Yi Zhonghai felt no pity, only anger and heartache.

He spent several hundred yuan to salvage this piece of trash!

That was his retirement savings!

"master..."

When Jia Dongxu saw Yi Zhonghai, tears streamed down his face. "I..."

"Shut up! We'll talk about it when we get home!"

Yi Zhonghai let out a low shout, his face terribly gloomy.

Back at the Jia family home, they closed the door.

Yi Zhonghai looked at Jia Dongxu kneeling on the ground with an extremely complex expression.

"Dongxu, your master has risked everything, even his own savings, to save you this time."

Yi Zhonghai's voice was hoarse, "You'd better watch yourself from now on."

Jia Dongxu lowered his head, not daring to look Yi Zhonghai in the eye.

He felt a mixture of gratitude, fear, and deep suspicion.

My master is so willing to spend money to save me, is he afraid that I will expose him?

Looking at his apprentice, who was more trouble than he was worth, Yi Zhonghai's trust in him had also collapsed.

This kid can't keep a secret and is unreliable. He got lucky this time, but what about next time?

If something really happens one day, will he turn around and bite the hand that feeds him in order to get a reduced sentence?

Although the master and disciple were face to face, their hearts were worlds apart.

The once-solid alliance of elderly care has been cracked by this turmoil, with an irreparable rift.

And Li Xuan, the one who started all of this, is sitting at home right now.

He leisurely sipped his Lingquan tea, a slight smile playing on his lips.

"Is this bitter pill to swallow taste good?"

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