HLnovel Chapter 209 You broke your leg by running around recklessly.
Chapter 209 You broke your leg by running around recklessly.
Deng Xiuzhen brought Qin Yanlin to the company, and Zhang Liuying briefly explained the situation: the old man specifically requested Deng Xiuzhen to go.
Deep down, Deng Xiuzhen didn't want to go, but after thinking about it, she decided to go anyway. First, for the sake of the company, she wanted to avoid refusing clients; second, she felt that although Yao Chenchen was despicable, the old man was innocent.
For safety reasons, she left Qin Yanlin at the company and asked Zhang Liuying and the others to look after him. She took five people with her.
Because of the dismemberment case, no one comes to West Street anymore. The once deserted street now seems especially desolate. Moss has grown over that alleyway.
“Look at this moss, it must have been a long time since anyone walked here!” Zhao Sanzhen sighed.
Deng Xiuzhen was taken aback, a bad feeling welled up in her heart, and she quickened her pace.
I rushed to the old man's door and found it ajar.
"Grandma Yao, are you home?" Deng Xiuzhen asked from the doorway.
But there was no reply.
The group exchanged glances, then mustered their courage and pushed open the door to go inside.
The courtyard was quiet, the ground was noticeably dusty, and the room door was ajar...
Deng Xiuzhen pushed open the half-closed door, the old wooden door groaning as it lay dying. A cold wind rushed in through the broken windowpane, whipping up the clothes scattered on the floor. The blankets on the double bed rose and fell slightly, like a snow-capped mountain about to collapse.
"Grandma Yao?" Deng Xiuzhen called out as she tentatively stepped forward and lifted the blanket. The body curled up in the cotton quilt made everyone gasp—it didn't look like a living person at all, but more like a dried mummy in a museum. The old woman's bony ribs were clearly visible under her thin pajamas, and the festering bedsores at her ankles oozed yellow fluid, leaving eerie patterns on the darkened sheets.
The group shuddered in fright and involuntarily took two steps back.
"Deng, Deng..." A faint but barely audible voice came through, and the group's hearts returned to normal.
The old man's cloudy eyes suddenly rolled, and his sunken cheeks trembled violently. Deng Xiuzhen walked to the bedside.
The old man's bluish-purple lips moved, and his cloudy eyes stared at Deng Xiuzhen with a pleading look.
"Quick! Call 120 and get him to the hospital!" Deng Xiuzhen reacted and quickly gave the order.
"No!" The old man, with strength he didn't know he had, gripped Deng Xiuzhen's wrist tightly with his claw-like hand, his bulging veins almost digging into her flesh.
Deng Xiuzhen felt the pain and naturally stepped back, accidentally pulling on the bed rails. The bed frame collapsed with a crash, falling on the old man!
Several people lifted the bed railing, but the old man was already unconscious. When the ambulance arrived, the doctor examined him and immediately declared him dead. There was no need to send him to the hospital; they could just prepare for his funeral.
Before Deng Xiuzhen could respond, a man suddenly rushed over and reached the old woman in a few steps. Looking at her, he knelt down and shouted, "Mom! Mom! Mom, I'm late! I'm so sorry, Mom!"
He shouted and banged his head against the edge of the bed.
The shouts were urgent and shrill, the impacts were deep and violent, and those nearby couldn't help but feel heartbroken.
Deng Xiuzhen had a very bad feeling, like an intuition about a crisis.
She quietly took a few steps back, until she was at the very back, then slipped out of the courtyard gate and dialed 110. After making the call, she didn't dare leave and just peered out from outside the gate.
"How did she get this injury?" Deng Xiuzhen suddenly heard a man roar. She immediately shrank back against the wall, completely hiding herself.
“We came to clean for the elderly, and when we called for Grandma Yao, she didn’t answer. When we came in, we saw her on the bed, and when we came over, the bed frame had fallen over…” Zhao Sanzhen explained, subconsciously concealing the part about the elderly woman pulling at Deng Xiuzhen.
"Why did the bed frame fall over? What are you doing here? Did you knock the bed frame over? You'll pay for my mother's life!" The man roared as he got up, grabbed Zhao Sanzhen, and slapped her twice across the face.
Zhao Sanzhen's face immediately swelled up, and blood seeped from her mouth.
"Don't hit him!" The doctor quickly stepped forward to pull him away.
"Was my mother crushed to death?" the man asked, his eyes red.
"That's uncertain, after all, the elderly person's health condition is very poor..." the doctor replied.
"Is this how irresponsible you doctors are?" The man glared, exuding a menacing aura.
The doctor involuntarily took a few steps back and turned to leave.
"Why don't you try taking one more step?"
The doctor turned around and saw the man looking at him mockingly.
Looking at the distance, he figured if he was fast enough, he could run out. His body reacted faster than his brain.
He lifted his leg and ran, but before he could take a step, his other leg got tangled in something.
Then, he spectacularly fell face-first into the dirt.
The man walked up to the doctor and stepped on the doctor's leg.
A scream followed, and the doctor knew that his leg was broken.
"How could you be so careless? Did you break your leg?" the man said with a sneer.
The few people present completely lost their will to run and cowered, looking at the man.
"Speak! Who are you? What are you doing here?" The man turned around, grabbed Zhao Sanzhen, and asked fiercely.
Zhao Sanzhen wanted to say something, but her face was so swollen that she couldn't say anything. She could only look at the man in horror.
“We’re from a cleaning company. Your mother called and asked us to come and clean the house.” The others turned around and, not seeing Deng Xiuzhen, explained nervously.
"Explain the situation clearly, down to the last detail! Otherwise, you will all have to pay with your lives for my mother!" The man's act of breaking the doctor's leg had completely stunned them.
The group of people took turns explaining the whole story, including all the details.
"You're the boss?!" The man picked up Zhao Sanzhen like a chick.
Zhao Sanzhen's face was swollen so badly that she couldn't speak at all, and could only shake her head desperately.
"Who's the boss?" the man roared, startling the group. They instinctively looked around.
Deng Xiuzhen huddled against the wall, not daring to breathe.
Only the doctor was groaning while hugging his leg.
The man pulled out paper, pen, and a box of inkpad from his pocket and said, "Each of you write down the whole story, sign it, and put your fingerprints on it!"
"Remember, you broke your leg by running around recklessly." The man chuckled as he squatted down.
The doctor was startled and quickly nodded in agreement.
Those who could write and those who couldn't all took out paper and used their own ways of expression to leave their marks on it.
Finally, under the man's supervision and guidance, three documents were left behind. One was written by medical staff, explaining what they saw when they arrived. They also emphasized that their leg was broken because they were rushing to save people.
The other two documents were written by two literate people in the company, and three illiterate people signed and fingerprinted those documents.
The man carefully reviewed the materials and then asked everyone to leave their address and contact information.
Deng Xiuzhen listened from outside, not knowing what they had written. She was very anxious, but dared not do anything or even move.
The man stuffed the documents into his pocket, looked up at the group of people, and said, "You all have to come out and testify for me. Anyone who dares not to come, or who doesn't tell the truth, I'll kill their whole family!"