Chapter 666: Resolving a Conflict
Bai Qing’s words made her parents fall into silence again. They didn’t even notice Zhang Heng walking away for a short ti. When he hung up the phone and returned to Bai Qing, her mother had finally gotten up from the ground. However, she wasn’t willing to get close to her husband no matter what.
The middle-aged man stood there looking solemn, making Bai Qing seem a little helpless.
The middle-aged man snorted, “Keep an eye on your mother. I’ll bring the car here.”
“No, I don’t want to go to the hospital!” Bai Qing’s mother shouted hysterically.
The way she acted made Bai Qing believe that she must have just endured sothing traumatizing.
“Should we go ho first?” Bai Qing hesitated.
“No, I won’t go ho! I don’t want to stay with your dad again!” Bai Qing’s mother insisted, “He is no longer the person he used to be. I can feel it.”
“You are in a ss right now, and you need treatnt,” the middle-aged man said with no emotions. “When your treatnt is complete, I will take you back.”
As he spoke, he reached out and grabbed Bai Qing’s mother by her hand.
But the next mont, a hand stopped his arm.
“It’s better that you two calm down first,” Zhang Heng said. “As you said, she is ntally unstable now. It’s not good to force her to stay outside. It’s better to let her stay in a hotel for a few days. You should talk to her again after she calms down.”
“You haven’t left yet?!” The middle-aged man glared at Zhang Heng. He tried to shake off Zhang Heng’s arm with his other hand, but it was futile. The boy was a lot stronger than he thought, and in frustration, he shoved Zhang Heng.
Zhang Heng, however, easily managed to stop him from doing that.
“Stop... Fighting.” At that mont, Bai Qing had beco most anxious. After seeing what happened to her parents, she almost broke into tears. Then, before she could even figure out how the sporadic skirmish between her parents broke out, Zhang Heng had almost started a fight with her father.
But then, before anybody could react, a faint siren could be heard wailing in the distance.
The middle-aged man’s face changed drastically, and he looked at Zhang Heng viciously. “Did you call the police?”
“It’s not ,” Zhang Heng shook his head, “I just called my friend to tell him not to wait for
and go ho first.”
In contrast to the now panicked middle-aged man, Bai Qing’s mother was elated when she heard the siren. “The police... are the police finally here?”
A patrol car stopped in front of them after a while, and two policen exited the vehicle.
The chubby officer on duty asked, “Who was the one that called the police just now?”
“! ! !” Bai Qing’s mother instantly answered.
“What the hell is going on? You didn’t tell us anything on the phone just now. All you told us was the address.” The chubby officer wiped the sweat off his brow.
“It’s my husband. He wants to hurt . I’m so relieved that you guys ca here in ti!” Bai Qing’s mother gushed with a solemn expression while holding the chubby policeman’s hand.
The chubby policeman was left dumbfounded when he heard what she said. “Did you just say that your husband wants to harm you?”
“Sorry, my wife is a little ntally unstable,” the middle-aged man quickly blurted. At the sa ti, he reached out his hand and took a cigarette out of his pocket. “I’m so sorry that you guys ca here for nothing.”
The chubby policeman waved his hands. “I don’t smoke during duty. We have a body cam on us.” He then looked at Bai Qing’s mother again. “Ma’am, what’s the matter? You can tell
everything.”
“My husband has been a bit abnormal lately. It’s as if he’s beco a complete stranger,” Bai Qing’s mother went on. “Not only does he look at
like a stranger, but he also speaks like soone that I don’t know. And he doesn’t return ho at the ti he used to. He even changed the clock on the bedroom wall out of the blue.”
“Uh, is there any problem with changing a clock?” the chubby policeman asked.
“I didn’t think it was a problem at first, but when I took it down and cleaned it today, I found sothing wrong with it.”
“What’s wrong with it?”
When she talked about it, Bai Qing’s mother seed to recall the horror she experienced when she checked on the clock. The expression on her face beca tense again, and then she whispered nervously, “There... is a hidden cara within it.”
“A hidden cara? You an...”
“Yes, it’s one of those pinhole caras usually found in small hotels or an Airbnb.”
The plump officer and his partner glanced at each other.
“You an your husband installed a pinhole cara in his bedroom?”
“Yes, then I found pinhole caras in the living room, study room, and toilets...” Bai Qing’s mother covered her mouth. “I realized that my every move has been monitored!”
“Why would your husband want to spy on you?” the chubby officer asked in disbelief.
“I don’t know. As I said, we’ve been married 20 years, and he’s never been like this. He ca ho late today, and I wanted to ask him about the caras. I didn’t expect him to look so angry, and the mont he closed the door, he glared at , pushed
to the ground, strangled , grabbed my hair, and dragged
out of the house!” Bai Qing’s mother lanted in agony.
The chubby officer saw that the middle-aged man’s gaze had changed suddenly.
“How can you do that to your wife? No matter what happens, it would help if you’d just speak amicably. Never resort to violence!”
After hearing that, the middle-aged man did not say a word. He just stood there, staring at his wife coldly.
There was no emotion in his eyes, and he looked a little panicked in the dark.
The chubby policeman then said again, “So nothing serious actually happened here... but a family dispute?”
“What do you an by nothing serious? He strangled , and I almost suffocated!” Bai Qing’s mother insisted while showing the marks on her neck to the officers, “I used all my strength to kick him before I could open the door and save myself. Please, you can’t let him get near
anymore.”
“But he is your husband,” said the chubby policeman. “You said that you have been married for 20 years. Lady, there are ups and downs in a marriage. Look at your son and daughter. They are all grown-ups. Divorce is not worth it.”
“I don’t have such a good son.” The middle-aged man glanced at Zhang Heng and snorted coldly.
“Then you are?”
“I am their daughter’s classmate,” Zhang Heng said.
“Do you live here too?”
“No, I live in Yibei District.”
“Wait a minute. Why are you here?”
“He’s here to send
ho.” Bai Qing, on the other side, blushed.
“So you guys are together now,” the officer continued. He then turned to Bai Qing’s mother again, “Lady, I think you should communicate better with your husband. If you can’t solve the dispute, you can seek help from the neighbourhood committee. We’ll leave first if there are no other problems. Many bad things happened today. A group of drunkards got into a fight, and one of their heads got smashed in.”
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