Chapter 818

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

"Big trouble! Huangsheng New City, two beautiful women tearing at each other! Heard it's because one stole the other's husband!"

Someone posted the video on Weibo.

It immediately drew a crowd of netizens to watch.

Meanwhile, the fight between Liu Mei Qi and Yao Xueqin hadn't ended yet.

The two grappled until hair covered the ground.

Yao Xueqin was stronger; Liu Mei Qi was visibly losing ground.

As the mother, Deng Cuihua couldn't bear to watch any longer.

She hurried forward to help.

"You dare tear my daughter? Watch me tear you to shreds!"

Deng Cuihua also grabbed Yao Xueqin's hair.

Two against one, the situation instantly reversed.

Yao Xueqin retreated step by step.

A large handful of her hair was ripped out.

Beneath the tangled hair, her face showed an expression of pain.

"Zhang Zong, save me!"

With no other choice, Yao Xueqin could only appeal to Zhang Sheng for help.

Zhang Sheng originally didn't want to intervene; deep down he wanted Yao Xueqin to learn a lesson.

But seeing the situation about to spiral out of control, he ultimately stepped in.

"Alright alright, stop fighting all of you!"

Zhang Sheng walked over and with difficulty separated Yao Xueqin from the mother-daughter pair Deng Cuihua and Liu Mei Qi.

When Liu Mei Qi was pulled away, she was still furious and spat in Yao Xueqin's face.

Yao Xueqin couldn't dodge in time; her face took a mouthful of phlegm.

It instantly made her mindset explode:

"Liu Mei Qi, you bastard, I won't let you off! I'm calling the police right now!"

Yao Xueqin called the police immediately.

Before long, the police arrived.

Yao Xueqin thought the police would surely side with her.

After all, Liu Mei Qi struck first.

There's surveillance footage on site, plus so many witnesses.

Liu Mei Qi being punished by the police was a certainty.

However, what Yao Xueqin never expected was that the police took both sides to the station, conducted an investigation, then said either settle privately or both get fifty strokes of the paddle — both accept detention.

"On what grounds!"

Yao Xueqin was indignant.

"Liu Mei Qi clearly struck first, why should I be detained!"

The police replied:

"Because you fought back; fighting back makes it mutual assault, and mutual assault naturally means both sides accept punishment — that's explicitly stipulated by law, not whoever strikes last is in the right."

Yao Xueqin was furious about this:

"So my hair was ripped out for nothing!"

Yao Xueqin glanced at the liability determination the police issued and grew even angrier:

"Why only punish me and Liu Mei Qi but not mention Liu Mei Qi's mom at all? Liu Mei Qi's mom also pulled my hair — by the sentencing standard you just used, Liu Mei Qi's mom should be punished too!"

The police explained patiently:

"Under normal circumstances Liu Mei Qi's mother would indeed be punished — she did pull your hair, that's an undisputed fact — only unfortunately this isn't normal circumstances. Liu Mei Qi's mother is mentally ill and lacks the capacity to bear legal responsibility."

Hearing this, Yao Xueqin was instantly rendered speechless to the extreme.

At this moment she seemed to suddenly understand why Liu Mei Qi brought her mom along to pick a fight.

Good thing Liu Mei Qi isn't clever enough.

If she were slightly smarter, didn't fight herself, and only let her mom Deng Cuihua tear into Yao Xueqin, Yao Xueqin would definitely have suffered a huge loss.

The police then added:

"Ms. Yao, I advise you to choose private settlement — it benefits both sides."

On the other side, another officer was persuading Liu Mei Qi and Deng Cuihua.

The one persuading Liu Mei Qi and Deng Cuihua was actually Zhang Duizhang, who handled their dispute with Wang Erhai this morning.

Seeing this mother-daughter pair, Zhang Duizhang was quite speechless:

"You two never stop, do you? This morning you caused trouble at Shanhai Real Estate, how long has it been since you were released, and now you're causing trouble at Huangsheng New City this afternoon — can't you settle down a bit?"

Zhang Duizhang didn't want to handle this kind of mess in the first place.

This kind of mess is thankless — handle it poorly and you're accountable; handle it well and the case is too small to count as a bonus point in your work record.

Deng Cuihua said:

"Police Comrade, that Yao Xueqin stole my daughter's husband. We went to demand an explanation from her. Are we in the wrong?"

Zhang Duizhang said coldly:

"There's nothing wrong with you going to demand an explanation, but the two of you, mother and daughter, ganged up to tear at Yao Xueqin's hair — that is a huge mistake!"

Liu Mei Qi said:

"Yao Xueqin tore my hair too. Look, this patch of my hair was ripped out by her!"

Zhang Duizhang said coldly:

"You tore her hair, she tore your hair, so this counts as mutual assault! Unless both sides can reach a private settlement, you'll all have to accept public security punishment! According to the Public Security Administration Punishment Law, Article 43, whoever beats another person or intentionally injures another person's body, if the circumstances are relatively minor, shall be detained for no more than 5 days or fined no more than 500 yuan!"

Zhang Duizhang was still quite familiar with the legal provisions; he could cite the legal basis to Liu Mei Qi and Deng Cuihua right off the bat.

After hearing these legal clauses, Liu Mei Qi didn't argue for herself anymore, but simply went all out in desperation:

"Detention then, anyway I don't have a job right now. Wanting me to settle with Yao Xueqin — that's impossible!"

Deng Cuihua chimed in:

"Exactly, exactly. If we settle, wouldn't that be letting that mistress Yao Xueqin off easy!"

Zhang Duizhang was speechless and sighed:

"Do you even know the severity of this? Once you accept detention punishment, a stain is left on your personal file — that will have an impact on both you and your children!"

"What impact?" Liu Mei Qi indeed didn't know the severity of it.

"For example, taking the civil service exam or public institution exam — it affects you, and it affects your children too."

Zhang Duizhang said truthfully.

But Liu Mei Qi just waved her hand coldly, not caring in the slightest:

"I'm not taking any exams, this has zero impact on me! As for my kids, that's something that hasn't even begun to take shape yet — why think so far ahead? I only care about the present, and the present is that I must make Yao Xueqin receive punishment. Even if it's killing a thousand enemies while losing eight hundred myself, I'm willing!"

Deng Cuihua compromised:

"Right, that mistress bullied my daughter. No matter what, we can't let her have it easy!"

Zhang Duizhang sighed, thinking to himself: truly a pair of crazy mother and daughter, they can't tell priority from triviality at all!

"Why not call your guardians over to discuss?"

Zhang Duizhang finally said this one sentence.

On the other side, Yao Xueqin had already called Wang Erhai over. Wang Erhai was on his way rushing over. Right now she really needed Wang Erhai's support.

Regarding the choice between settlement or accepting punishment, she fell into hesitant struggle.

She herself didn't care, just afraid it would affect the child.

Don't forget, she was married before and gave birth to a child.

Although the child went with the father, she is the biological mother. If the biological mother commits an offense, it will definitely affect the child.

That child of hers is already in first grade of primary school.

And her grades are pretty good.

When the child graduates in the future, if she doesn't go take the civil service exam, that's fine. But if she wants to take the civil service exam, yet is hindered everywhere because her mother left a criminal record, won't she hate this mother of hers to death?

Better to settle then.

But persuading Liu Mei Qi probably won't be easy.

So she needs Wang Erhai to come help.