Chapter 980

At eleven o'clock in the evening, Li Ji Bar.

Cao Shaozhen and several brothers were drinking in a private room, while two hostesses sat beside him, one pouring him a drink and the other lighting his cigarette.

The music was deafening, the colored lights spun, bathing the private room in a riot of colors.

He was in a good mood today.

He had just settled a freshly graduated college student.

"Cao Bro, did you have fun today?" a brother said enviously from the side.

Cao Shaozhen laughed and scornfully said, "Damn it, this cultured college student is different, acting like a saint. When she comes to work tomorrow, we brothers will have some fun together."

"Thank you, Cao Bro, I'll toast you."

Three social youths raised their glasses together to toast Cao Shaozhen.

Just as several were excitedly carousing.

The private room door was suddenly pushed open, and several uniformed police officers walked in, the leader being Detective Liu Dawei of the Jinkou Branch.

Liu Dawei glanced at the scene inside the private room, and in the next second locked his gaze onto Cao Shaozhen.

"Cao Shaozhen, we meet again."

"Captain Liu, did you come to the wrong place?"

Faced with the sudden arrival of the criminal police, Cao Shaozhen showed no panic at all, even returning a faint sneer, not taking Liu Dawei seriously at all.

Liu Dawei's face expressionless: "Cuff him for me!"

The two police officers beside him acted on the order, quickly subduing Cao Shaozhen! This scene frightened the several brothers beside him until they turned pale, not daring to move a muscle.

Cao Shaozhen struggled hard twice, but could not break free from the police's control.

He then roared at Liu Dawei: "Liu, you keep crossing me again and again! Believe it or not, I'll strip you of your uniform with a single phone call!"

"Today you're in my hands, yet you still talk tough—take him away!"

Liu Dawei had long loathed Cao Shaozhen, this social scum.

He had arrested Cao Shaozhen several times before, with charges ranging from provoking trouble to intentional injury, but each time the case was dropped under various pressures.

But this time is different.

This time the suspected charge against Cao Shaozhen is serious!

Moreover, the victim has already reported the crime, and the evidence is solid! Liu Dawei's confidence has also surged, believing he can surely bring this social scum Cao Shaozhen to justice this time.

After ordering someone to take Cao Shaozhen away.

Liu Dawei then fixed his gaze on the three social youths: "Around six this evening, when Cao Shaozhen was bullying He Wei in the private room, two people assisted him. Who are they? Step forward."

Among the three, a tall, thin youth quickly replied: "Officer, this has nothing to do with me; I got off work at 7:30 tonight."

The other two lowered their heads, trembling, and said nothing.

This scene made Liu Dawei feel distressed; seeing that the two were about sixteen or seventeen, he thought it a waste of youth not to go to school but to follow Cao Shaozhen in causing trouble in society.

Liu Dawei gestured to the police behind him: "Cuff these two as well."

When the officers came to handcuff them, the two youths still kept their heads down, silent; they had been bold and reckless when committing the act, but now they were so frightened they dared not even breathe.

All of this took less than five minutes.

The principal offender Cao Shaozhen and his two accomplices were all escorted onto the police car.

Li Ji Bar's owner Peng Xianjun, who is also Cao Shaozhen's maternal uncle, soon received a call from the bar Manager saying Cao Shaozhen had been taken away by police.

"I know."

Peng Xianjun, who was entertaining clients at the dinner table, didn't take it to heart.

After hanging up, he continued to accompany the guests.

Usually, this nephew has caused him plenty of trouble, repeatedly failing to mend his ways. He has bailed him out more than once or twice. This time he wants Cao Shaozhen to learn a lesson, and does not plan to intervene.

The next morning at eight o'clock.

Peng Xianjun was sleeping soundly when the blanket on him was suddenly jerked off angrily, a whining complaint ringing in his ears: "Shaozhen's been arrested, and you, his uncle, still have the mood to sleep in?"

"???!"

He had been entertaining guests until 5 a. m. before returning home to sleep.

So exhausted he could barely keep his eyes open, Peng Xianjun rubbed his weary, powerless eyes, gazing at the middle-aged woman before him whose eyes were red from crying, and found himself speechless.

This is his own sister, namely Cao Shaozhen's mother—Peng Xianlan.

In his early years, Cao Shaozhen's father died in a car accident.

It was Peng Xianlan who single-handedly raised Cao Shaozhen, always treating him as her precious treasure.

This elder sister truly protects her calf.

If Peng Xianjun doesn't comply with her wishes, she will assume the airs of an elder sister, crying and scolding.

But when her son talks back to her, she remains silent and endures.

Even when young Cao Shaozhen smashed things in the room or even laid hands on her in violence, she would endure without a word; afterward she would alone silently clean up the mess.

Peng Xianjun still remembers to this day:

That little beast Cao Shaozhen, at nine he was already peeking at girls bathing from the window sill, and at ten he escalated, daring to lift the homeroom teacher's skirt in the classroom.

The homeroom teacher called the parents to school.

At that time, he, as the uncle, in front of the homeroom teacher, gave Cao Shaozhen a stern beating, ordered him to apologize and promise to respect teachers and value morality henceforth.

The result was that he himself ended up bearing all the blame.

The elder sister not only shielded Cao Shaozhen without limits, but also turned around to blame the homeroom teacher for wearing a skirt too short, claiming the teacher was flaunting flirtatiousness at school and tempting her son to err.

The homeroom teacher's face turned livid with anger, and thereafter he never again concerned himself with Cao Shaozhen's studies.

Cao Shaozhen is now nineteen!

He's an adult!

Adults should bear the consequences of their actions.

Peng Xianjun, forcing himself to stay upright despite his exhausted body, spoke earnestly to Peng Xianlan: "Sister, don't worry about Shaozhen's affairs; I know what I'm doing."

"You know what you're doing, yet you're still sleeping here?" Peng Xianlan's emotions flared, and tears streamed down uncontrollably: "If I'm sentenced, I'll die just to show you."

...!!!

Peng Xianjun felt overwhelmed.

Peng Xianjun steeled himself and advised: "Sister, spoiling a child is like killing him; you watch Douyin all day, haven't you heard that? You're not doing this for his good; you're indulging his wrongdoing."

"What do you mean by that? Shaozhen has been arrested; are you saying you don't want to look after him anymore? Do you want to watch him go to jail with your eyes wide open? Fine!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Peng Xianlan dashed toward the balcony.

Startled, Peng Xianjun jumped up from the bed: "Sister, don't act rashly..." By the time he got out of bed and caught up, Peng Xianlan had already climbed onto the windowsill and was sitting there, weeping.

This is the seventeenth floor!

If you jump from here, it's not just a matter of getting bruised all over; you'll be smashed to pieces.

Peng Xianjun urged anxiously: "Sister, come down first, let's talk properly."

"Don't come over!"

"Okay, I won't come over; you calm down first."

"Shaozhen has been arrested, and you, his uncle, aren't asking about it—how am I supposed to stay calm? If Shaozhen doesn't get out, I won't live either!"

"I am taking care of it—isn't that enough? When did I say I wouldn't? Come down first."

Faced with his hysterical older sister, Peng Xianjun had no idea what to do. He knew her temper well; if he didn't comply, she would really jump from here.