Siheyuan: At the beginning, I can integrate everything!

The sweet potato skin was slightly charred, with a sweet and warm aroma.

Zhang Huaimin chewed slowly and deliberately.

His gaze, however, was like a knife, scraping across Qin Huairu's deathly pale face.

"Aunt Qin, why aren't you saying anything?"

He blinked his big eyes, a naive smile on his lips, but his tone was icy cold.

"Could it be that my aunt and brother weren't paying New Year's visits, but instead practicing some kind of unparalleled martial arts on my window?"

Qin Huairu slumped down in the snowdrift.

His lips trembled, and he couldn't utter a single word for a long time.

Her face was covered in tears and snot, and she no longer had any of her usual pitiful appearance.

She understood the sarcasm in Zhang Huaimin's words, and she also saw the undisguised contempt in the eyes of her neighbors.

"Oh my, so-called peerless martial arts skills?"

In the crowd, Xu Damao hunched his shoulders, pulled his coat tighter, and grinned maliciously.

"I think this grandfather and grandson haven't seen meat in eight lifetimes. They just stick to it because of the smell. Now they're stuck to the wall and can't get down!"

"That's right!" The third aunt sneered and spat on the ground.

"On the first day of the Lunar New Year, instead of staying home, you're sneaking around through someone's back window. What good intentions could you possibly have?"

"That petty thief is a disgrace to our compound!"

The neighbors' accusations came like a tidal wave.

Qin Huairu covered her ears, wishing she could disappear into a crack in the ground.

at this time.

The Jia Zhangshi and Banggeng hanging on the window were still trembling frequently.

The electric current wasn't strong enough to be fatal, but the tingling, bone-deep torment made the two feel like they were living a life worse than death.

Jia Zhangshi rolled her eyes and made a strange "clucking" sound from her throat.

Bang Geng's pants were soaked and smelled strongly of urine.

"Ahem, make way, everyone."

Yi Zhonghai, with his hands behind his back and a furrowed brow, squeezed his way in from the back of the crowd.

He didn't want to get involved in this mess.

But if something really bad happens to the Jia family, his hopes for a comfortable retirement will be completely dashed.

"Huaimin."

Yi Zhonghai adopted the airs of an old man, trying his best to make his voice sound authoritative.

"Look at the mess this has made, especially during the Lunar New Year, it's so unlucky."

"No matter what, Aunt Jia and Bang Geng are both near death. You...you should turn off this mechanism first, shouldn't you?"

He tentatively took a step forward, but upon seeing the eerie blue lightning, he quickly withdrew.

Zhang Huaimin swallowed the last bite of sweet potato and patted the dust off his hands.

"Sir, I don't understand what you're saying."

He tilted his head, looking completely innocent.

"My window was perfectly fine; they just pried it shut themselves. I'm just a kid, how would I know anything about mechanisms?"

"you!"

Yi Zhonghai was furious, pointing at Zhang Huaimin, unable to speak for a long time.

Just then.

Chen Bing, who had been standing behind Zhang Huaimin, stepped forward with a cold face.

He was dressed in civilian clothes, but his soldierly demeanor instantly overwhelmed the entire room.

"I've already called the police."

Chen Bing's voice was deep and cold, each word as sharp as ice.

"A violent attack on the residence of security personnel, attempting to break in and steal."

"This is a serious crime. The police are on their way, and nobody is leaving."

boom!

These words were like a bombshell, exploding directly in the crowd.

Did they call the police?!

Qin Huairu suddenly raised her head, her eyes filled with desperate terror.

Yi Zhonghai's expression also changed drastically. He never expected that the bodyguard next to Zhang Huaimin would actually use the state apparatus!

It's the first day of the Lunar New Year!

If they get arrested and taken to the police station on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the Jia family will never be able to hold their heads high in Nanluoguxiang for the rest of their lives!

"Sir! Sir, please have mercy!"

Qin Huairu scrambled towards Chen Bing and grabbed his leg.

"Bang Geng is still a child! He's just naughty and doesn't know any better!"

"My mother-in-law is senile, please, please let them go!"

"We'll lose money! Can we lose money?"

Qin Huairu cried her heart out, her head banging against the snow-covered ground.

Chen Bing withdrew his leg expressionlessly, his eyes cold.

"Before the law, there is no distinction between young and old."

"If you have something to say, go talk to the police."

The voice just fell.

A piercing police siren blared from outside the alley.

The red and blue police lights stood out brightly in the hazy morning light.

"Hurrah—Hurrah—"

The police car drove directly to the gate of the courtyard house.

The car door opened.

Zhou Jianguo, the director of Hongxing Police Station, strode in with four or five fully armed police officers.

Zhou Jianguo was on duty at the institute today, but after receiving a call from Chen Bing, he immediately led a team over.

He had personally witnessed Zhang Huaimin's miraculous acupuncture skills and had long regarded the child as a living Bodhisattva.

I've heard that someone dared to sneak into the little bodhisattva's house to steal things on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Director Zhou's temper flared up instantly.

"What happened? Who called the police?"

Zhou Jianguo strode into the front yard, his sharp eyes scanning the entire area.

Chen Bing stepped forward and gave a standard military salute.

"Chief Zhou, I'm the one who called the police."

He pointed to the two people still twitching on the window.

"The suspect, Jia Geng, together with his grandmother, Jia Zhangshi, attempted to break into the house through a window to commit theft."

Zhou Jianguo looked in the direction Chen Bing was pointing.

When he saw the two people clinging tightly to the window like electrocuted toads.

His lips twitched involuntarily.

This scene is indeed a bit of an eyesore.

He strode to the window, took out a flashlight, and shone the bright light directly at the feet of the stick.

"Click".

A soft sound.

Zhou Jianguo bent down and picked up a piece of rusty iron that had been frozen hard from the snow.

He rubbed it between his white-gloved fingers, where traces of sawdust still remained.

The beam of the flashlight was raised higher.

Through the half-open window, Zhou Jianguo could see clearly.

Banggeng's small, dark hand, which was flashing with a faint electric light, was gripping a delicate wooden box tightly.

The lid of the box had been opened halfway.

Inside, a gleaming gold martyr's medal lies quietly on a red silk cloth.

The proof is like a mountain!

The perpetrator was caught red-handed!

Zhou Jianguo's face instantly turned as black as the bottom of a pot, and his eyes became so sharp they looked like he wanted to kill someone.

"How dare you!"

He suddenly turned around and yelled at the police officers.

"On the first day of the Lunar New Year, someone broke into a house and locked it, stealing belongings belonging to military families and martyrs!"

"This is absolutely outrageous!"

"Cuff him! Take him away!"

Upon hearing the words "handcuff him."

Qin Huairu, who had been pretending to be dead on the ground, suddenly jumped up as if she had been pricked by a needle.

"Chief Zhou! Chief Zhou, please investigate this matter thoroughly!"

She rushed forward without hesitation, blocking the police officers' path.

"My mother-in-law and son are innocent! They were just... just curious and wanted to see..."

"Curious?" Zhou Jianguo sneered, raising the rusty iron piece in his hand.

"Would someone climb onto someone's window in the middle of the night with lock-picking tools out of curiosity?"

"Do you think the police station is your personal marketplace?!"

The officers pushed Qin Huairu away.

at this time.

In his mind, Zhang Huaimin quietly shut down the high-voltage electrostatic protection net.

"Smack!"

It lost its electrostatic adsorption.

Jia Zhangshi and Banggeng, like two puddles of mud, slid softly down from the window and crashed heavily onto the snow.

The officers didn't hold back and immediately pulled out gleaming handcuffs.

"Snap! Snap!"

Two crisp metallic clanging sounds.

The cold handcuffs were tightly fastened to the wrists of Bang Geng and Jia Zhangshi.

The icy touch jolted the dazed stick back to reality.

He looked at the gleaming iron handcuffs on his wrists, then at the heavily armed police officers around him.

My psychological defenses crumbled instantly.

"Wow--!"

Banggeng, with his spitting mouth, burst into a pig-like scream.

"I don't want to be handcuffed! I don't want to be arrested and put in jail!"

"Mom! Help me! I'll never steal again!"

He struggled desperately, kicking his legs wildly in the snow.

But the officers' hands were like iron clamps, pressing down firmly on his shoulders, showing no mercy whatsoever.

Jia Zhangshi was also lifted off the ground by the police officers.

Her face, charred black from the electric shock, was filled with terror and despair.

"Officer, I'm innocent! It's all that little bastard's fault..."

She tried to argue, but Zhou Jianguo glared at her sharply and shut her up.

"Whether you've been wronged or not, go to the police station and tell them!"

"take away!"

The police officers escorted the grandmother and grandson, who were crying and begging for their parents, and strode out of the courtyard.

"My goodness! My son!"

Qin Huairu screamed pitifully as she stumbled and fell several times in the snow as she chased after him.

The cold metallic scraping of the handcuff chains was particularly jarring in the chilly morning wind.

Banggeng was shoved into the police car, and through the barbed wire window, he desperately pounded on the glass.

His face, twisted and distorted by the electric shock, was filled with terror.

"Mom! Help me! I want to go home! I want to go home!"

The heart-wrenching cries faded into the distance as the police car started moving.

Jia Zhangshi was shoved into another police car and watched as the gate closed.

She suddenly went berserk and slammed her head against the car window.

"I don't want to live anymore! God, you're blind!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The dull thud made the police officers outside the car frown.

Qin Huairu slumped down at the entrance of the courtyard house.

I watched helplessly as the two police cars disappeared at the end of the alley.

At this moment, her world completely collapsed.

Amidst wind and snow.

Zhang Huaimin stood on the threshold of the east wing.

He looked at the empty courtyard and listened to Qin Huairu's suppressed sobs.

A faint, cold smile curled at the corner of his lips.

Are you satisfied with the gift for Chinese New Year's Day?