Chapter 43

  A cry of despair pierced through the gray-blue sky.

  The door was knocked loudly. You Xi took off his earpiece and walked into the living room with a look of discontent, opening the door.

  "What's all the knocking? Trying to knock down our door?"

  Youyou glared at the person standing in the doorway with a resentful look. Mrs. Zhang, who lived upstairs, was standing in the corridor with her son Xiaopang at this time. Mrs. Zhang, dressed in a yellow-faced woman's attire, had her hands on her hips, her eyes wide with anger, looking as if she was about to launch World War III at any moment. And her son was covering his eyes and wailing loudly. Youyou noticed that Xiaopang's nose was blue and swollen, there was blood at the corner of his mouth, and one of his front teeth was missing, making him look particularly comical when he cried with a toothless face.

  "What's going on?"

  Youyou sensed that something was amiss, and Xiao Pang's injury and Leizi hiding in the corner with his head down, clutching a ball, were probably related. So she decided to take the initiative and stood up straight, facing Mrs. Zhang's angry gaze without backing down. The confrontational gazes clashed in mid-air, sparking a metallic sound.

  "What's going on? Hmph! Your son pushed my son down the stairs! Unbelievable, you're so uncouth!" Mrs. Zhang scolded loudly without any courtesy. Her oily fat face was close to Youyou's nose, spitting saliva all over her face. She just wanted to cover her mouth to block out the smell of mixed vegetable scraps and cheap lipstick from the middle-aged woman.

  "Who's being rude! Watch your mouth!" You Yu was so angry that her fingers were trembling with rage, and she had to restrain herself from tearing off Zhang's pale, puffy face.

  "Laozi pushed my baby down the stairs, he's so ill-mannered!" Mrs. Zhang was relentless, clearly not taking Youyou, that blonde girl, seriously. Want to have a shouting match with her on the street? Not yet!

  As expected, seeing the neighbors next door opening their doors to take a peek, Youyou couldn't help but blush slightly, and her tone was somewhat at a loss. However, she still maintained an expression of righteous indignation. She knew that once this expression relaxed, the next thing would be chaos.

  "Who... who saw it? Who saw Le Zi push Xiao Pang down? You'd better find a witness!"

  This question really stumped Mrs. Zhang. She turned around to ask the surrounding children, but no one said they saw Lezi push Xiaopang down the stairs. Everyone said that Xiaopang chased Lezi upstairs and then saw Xiaopang roll down from the stairs.

  The little fatty who was wailing loudly pointed at Leizi and shouted: "It's him! He's the one who pushed me down the stairs!"

  The testimonies of the victims and onlookers were enough to convict Lok Chai of assault. Mrs Cheung suddenly became confident again, her barrel-like body shaking up and down with excitement, her eyes gleaming with a fierce light like that of a wild beast.

  "See? It's all because of you guys!"

  Lele, who was silent and looked like he had done something wrong, made Youyou angry. She pulled him in front of her and asked loudly: "Tell sister, was it you who pushed Xiaopang down?"

  Lezi hugged the leather ball and sobbed lightly, his grievances like a hand rubbing his sore heart. Warm tears welled up in his eyes, then flowed along the contours of his small face. He cried out, "It wasn't me! Waaah! It wasn't me!"

  "It's you! Who else could it be?"

  Mrs. Zhang pointed at Lezi's nose and shouted loudly. This momentum of questioning him made Lezi's eyes wide with terror, his crying voice intermittent. His young heart had never suffered such torture. Everyone suspected he was a bad kid, even his own sister.

  To get a frightened child to tell the truth, one should use a gentle tone. Yu Rou thought of this and softened her voice, she hugged her brother into her arms, wiped away his tears, and affectionately asked: "Le Zi, tell sister, who pushed Xiao Pang down?"

  "Is... is..." Lezi seemed reluctant to betray his little friend, and hesitated. But he felt that he should tell the truth to his sister, or else she would be scolded severely by Mrs. Zhang. So, he bit his lip tightly and finally managed to utter two words: "Ah Lian."

  "Alan?"

  That kid again! Yu You really wants to meet this elusive kid and see what's so special about him.

  However, she is now more concerned about the war in front of her. Youyou suddenly raised her head and almost shouted at Mrs. Zhang: "Did you hear that? It was A Lian who pushed your Xiao Pang down!"

  Mrs. Zhang did not expect the situation to take a dramatic turn, and she was intimidated by Ah Lian's furious expression, leaving her speechless. But with over a decade of experience as a shrewd woman, Mrs. Zhang quickly thought of something and coldly snorted, "Hmph, I've lived here for over ten years and have never heard of a child named Ah Lian living in this building!"

  Right. There isn't even a person named Alan in this building.

  Mrs. Zhang immediately turned the tables on Ling Ren's momentum. "Needless to say, it must be Leizi who is telling lies. Obviously, he was the one who pushed my precious baby down and dared to shift the blame onto a child named Alian! Look, this is evidence of his wrongdoing." Mrs. Zhang became more and more agitated as she spoke, her tone almost more unjust than Dou E's. She turned Xiao Pang's back around, letting the gathering neighbors see clearly the pair of wet handprints on Xiao Pang's vest.

  "This handprint is left by Le Zai, dare you still quibble? If you don't believe it, let's compare our handprints and it will be clear at once!"

  The neighbors were waiting to see the good show, and they also followed suit. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the situation had already become a tiger that was hard to get off. Youyou hesitated for a moment, then let Leizi stretch out his hands and place them on top of those wet handprints. Her heart was nervous and uneasy, afraid that Leizi would make her embarrassed again.

  However, many pairs of eyes clearly saw that Lok-tiu's hands and the handprints did not match. Yes, the handprints were smaller and thinner, like those of a younger girl, and they were only bones.

  "Satisfied now? Had enough?!" Yu Yu raised an eyebrow filled with contempt and disdain, slicing through Mrs. Zhang's speechless expression, "Dare to come to my house and cause trouble? Don't you even think about your own little fatty, how many times he bullied Le Zi! Ask these kids, isn't little fatty always like a little bully?"

  The little friends who were watching immediately exposed Xiaopang's old bottom with seven mouths and eight tongues:

  "Xiao Pang stole my candy yesterday!"

  "Xiao Pang also broke the doorbell of Li Bo Bo's house!"

  "Xiao Pang often urinates on people downstairs from the balcony..."

  The neighbors obviously did not expect that the troubles in the old building were all caused by Little Fatty, and they blamed Mrs. Zhang for her poor teaching. Mrs. Zhang, who had ignited the fire herself, was surrounded by the crowd's anger, feeling like she was sitting on pins and needles, her face getting uglier and uglier, her face as red as a steamed pig lung. Yu You felt a sense of revenge being fulfilled.

  Only saw Mrs. Zhang dragging Xiaopang away in a hurry, her face pale and frightened. Youyou saw the wet handprints on Xiaopang's back constantly swaying, like a faint, eerie smile floating in the darkest and quietest shadows.

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