Yu Zheng and Yu Zhining had just squeezed their way over when they saw that Huo Mian’s face was swollen, with five deep finger marks stamped across it!
Yu Xiaxing shook out her hand and looked at her arrogantly.
Yu Zheng and Yu Zhining both breathed a sigh of relief.
Huo Mian covered her face and stared at her in disbelief. “You hit me?”
Yu Xiaxing said, “Weren’t you the one who said just now, ‘If you have a problem, come at me. Don’t bully the elderly’? Look at you—now that I’ve really come at you, you’re panicking.”
Yu Zheng and Yu Zhining both knew that their little sister always had a reason for doing anything she did.
She would never walk up to someone who was just standing there minding their own business and slap them for no reason.
Whenever she hit someone, it was definitely because she was helping someone fulfill a wish.
With that, Yu Xiaxing moved forward again, ready to loosen up her muscles.
Several students nearby finally came to their senses and rushed over to help Huo Mian.
The moment they moved, Yu Zheng walked forward while speaking to Yu Zhining. “Come on.”
For some reason, he had been getting the feeling these past few days that he was destined to fight a major battle.
Back at Qizhi, he had taken his sister’s contract-renewal mission into consideration and held himself back no matter how angry he was.
So this was what it had all been leading up to!
He had only taken two steps when Yu Zhining pulled him back.
Yu Zheng turned around and raised an eyebrow at him. “You’re not going to try to talk me out of it, are you?”
Yu Zhining said, “…Listen to me. I’ll tell you where to hit them so the injuries will look the least serious on a medical assessment while still causing them the most pain. With the assistance of the Yu family’s legal team, the three of us can get out of this completely unscathed.”
“Deal!”
The two brothers then joined forces, and before long, a scattered heap of people lay sprawled across the ground.
On Yu Xiaxing’s side, she had one knee pressed against Huo Mian, pinning her to the ground as she continued pounding her!
Huo Mian was terrified and began to cry. “Yu Xiaxing, calm down! If you keep this up, we’re calling the police!”
In truth, she was only trying to scare Yu Xiaxing. Given what her mother had done, she would never dare attract the police’s attention.
Yu Xiaxing did not tell her that she had already called them. Instead, she hit even harder. “Perfect! Before the police get here, I’ll collect some interest for my Tang Tuan!”
The production crew was still filming beside them. The cameraman swung his lens from side to side, probably wishing he had two extra arms!
There was simply too much material tonight!
They wouldn’t have to worry about finding news to broadcast for the entire next week!
Before long, several police officers arrived at the edge of the lotus pond. When they got there, they saw people lying all over the ground!
Apart from the production crew, only three people were still standing.
Yu Zheng had finished fighting and was lazily dusting the dirt off his hands.
Yu Zhining’s expression was cold, and his sleeves were slightly dirty.
Yu Xiaxing stood in the very middle, bristling with aggression. She clearly hadn’t had enough yet.
The police officer said, “This is a case of fighting and disturbing the peace. You will all cooperate with us in giving statements! Who is Yu Xiaxing?”
Yu Xiaxing immediately said, “I am! I’m Yu Xiaxing, and I’m the one who called the police. There are still many elderly people here being defrauded. We suspect the scammers are carrying out a coordinated operation tonight. Some of the people here are relatives of key members of the scam ring. We fought them to protect the elderly who were being scammed!”
The moment Mr. Gu heard this, he jumped to his feet and shouted, “Nonsense! They’re not scammers! What do you young people know?”
Because he was over seventy, no one had hit him earlier. He had merely been frightened into sitting on the ground. Now, his spirit had returned.
The reporters immediately turned their cameras toward him.
With the cameras pointed at him, Mr. Gu felt even more strongly that he could not lose face.
He straightened his back and glared righteously at Yu Xiaxing. “Young people today only care about money! You don’t have the slightest sense of national duty!”
On his way over, the officer in charge had already watched the auction video Yu Xiaxing sent.
Now, he said very seriously, “This is a scam—a classic one. The bidding conflict was staged by hired actors, and the talk about safeguarding the nation’s fortune was emotional manipulation. That so-called dragon-vein rough stone is nothing more than an ordinary piece of sodalite.”
Mr. Gu was still unwilling to accept it. “Impossible… You don’t understand!”
That was why people said that if someone suddenly obtained more money than their understanding could account for, that money would inevitably return to the market by some other means.
Before the police arrived, they had already investigated the matter. The resort itself was legitimate overall, but one of its managers had colluded with the scam ring and taken a cut.
The police immediately contacted the resort’s top executive and borrowed a conference room. They also obtained the elderly victims’ information and planned to question them all together.
At the same time, they summoned the victims’ children.
The reporters carried their cameras along, filming as they went while frantically contacting their platforms.
—
On the other side of the resort.
Mrs. Xu had just finished recording the voice-over for the latest episode of a new comic drama and uploaded it to an account.
She had worked for many years as a radio announcer. Later, radio stations gradually began to disappear, but that did not affect her much—she had already reached retirement age, and her monthly pension was as high as ten thousand yuan.
Through years of hard work, she and her husband had bought a 150-square-meter apartment in Pu City. It was now worth more than ten million yuan.
Later, her husband passed away. Her son got married, and soon afterward, her daughter-in-law became pregnant. Her daughter-in-law brought her own parents over to help care for the baby.
Mrs. Xu had assumed that her in-laws would leave after looking after the child for a year or two. She had never expected them to stay indefinitely. Now, her grandson was eight years old, and the two of them still had no intention of leaving.
Little by little, she found herself with no say in her own home.
Whenever she opened her mouth, her daughter-in-law and her family would look at her with obvious annoyance.
A radio announcer who loved to talk was now forced to sit alone at home every day, unable to exchange a single word with her family from morning to night.
Her son even advised her to move back to her hometown and live alone. After all, didn’t she still have a house there?
She tried living in her hometown for a while, but after spending several decades in Pu City, she simply could not adjust to it.
Besides, she had no relatives or friends left there. If she died in her house, no one might even know until the place began to smell.
She might as well live in a nursing home. At least if she died today, a caregiver would discover it during rounds tomorrow.
So she sold the house in her hometown for 750,000 yuan.
Then she quietly returned to Pu City and chose a high-end senior-care center.
With her savings and pension, she had enough money to live there alone until the end of her life.
That was until she met Qin Mei.
Qin Mei encouraged her to try new things. It was never too late to pick up one’s professional dreams again, even at her age!
She then introduced Mrs. Xu to a comic-drama production team, and Mrs. Xu began learning how to voice comic dramas.
Suddenly, a line of text appeared on the computer screen.
Yu Sheng Comic Drama Studio: “Sister, your performance today was as steady as ever! The moment your voice came in, the quality of the entire comic drama improved!”
Mrs. Xu smiled so widely that her mouth nearly reached her ears. “That’s wonderful. This was the final episode, right? I can finally start releasing it. I want more audiences to hear my voice!”
Yu Sheng Comic Drama Studio: [Transferred 5,000 yuan]
Yu Sheng Comic Drama Studio: “Sis, this is your voice-over payment. We’re settling your wages.”
