Chapter 439 The Cause of the Incident

However, he cannot enter a regular ward for the time being. He must stay in the monitoring room for 48 hours, and someone must stay by his side to prevent any emergencies.

Seeing her colleagues' puzzled expressions, Qiao Xiaoyun knew that it was all thanks to Qiao Qiao. She hugged Qiao Qiao and kissed her hard. Through the door of the monitoring room, she glanced inside a few times, and tears welled up in her eyes.

Around five or six o'clock in the evening, the two elders of the Meng family also rushed over after hearing the news.

The two elderly people had always doted on their grandson, Meng Zihuan. Seeing their once lively and energetic grandson reduced to this state, they couldn't help but wipe away tears.

Grandma Meng sat by the bed, holding Meng Zihuan's hand and wiping away tears.

Grandpa Meng pulled Meng Zhengcheng to the side.

Grandpa Meng used to be a policeman. Although he has retired, he still retains some of his habits from his time as a policeman.

He asked Meng Zhengcheng with a serious expression, "What exactly happened? Was it something you did while handling the case...?"

"No, it's the Cao family on the fourth floor, that beast named Cao Xiaowen!" Qiao Xiaoyun replied, her eyes red with hatred that seemed to be dripping blood.

The Cao family?

Qiao Qiao, who was still in the ward, blinked in confusion upon hearing this, trying hard to recall her memories.

She remembered that the Cao family seemed to have some issues with her aunt. During her time living in the tenement building, she did see the lady of the Cao family arguing with her aunt.

However, it wasn't at all to the point of murder.

Since Qiao Qiao moved into this tenement building with Qiao Changdong, although they don't live here most of the time.

However, because of her grandmother Yan Liti's generosity, she would often give the children in the apartment building some delicious food and fun things. Everyone in the building, whether adults or children, liked her very much and was very friendly to her.

If one had to find someone who disliked her, it would probably be the Cao family, who lived on the fourth floor and didn't get along with her aunt.

This Cao family consists of five members.

From the moment she moved into the tenement building, she and her aunt, Qiao Xiaoyun, began to have some disagreements.

Most of the families living in this communal dwelling are public officials from Hongfeng Town.

The reason why the Cao family on the fourth floor and Qiao Xiaoyun don't get along is because when they were choosing an apartment, they also had their eye on the one Qiao Xiaoyun is currently living in.

The tenement building has five floors in total.

When Qiao Xiaoyun and Meng Zhengcheng moved in, most of the employees had already moved into the apartment building. There were six rooms left: three on the first floor, one on the third floor, and one each on the fourth and fifth floors.

The weather in Hongfeng Town has a very obvious characteristic: it gets damp in spring.

Every year from February to April, during the humid season, the ground is basically always wet and the walls are covered in water.

Unless there are special housing requirements, few people would be willing to live on the first floor.

The second floor had the best spots, but they were all booked up very early on.

Of the remaining six rooms, only the third floor is considered relatively good.

The Cao family also liked the third floor, but since both families were choosing apartments at the same time, the leaders couldn't decide which one to give the apartment to and could only let them draw lots to decide.

In the end, Qiao Xiaoyun drew this room.

The Cao family could only choose the fourth floor.

However, the Cao family always felt that her aunt, Qiao Xiaoyun, had taken their house. Her aunt was also straightforward and outspoken, so she naturally wouldn't tolerate the Cao family's sarcastic remarks and attempts to provoke her, which led to many arguments between the two families.

Of course, these are usually just verbal arguments and don't escalate to the point of physical confrontation.

Why would they resort to such a ruthless act this time?

Qiao Qiao quickly found the answer to her question.

That very night, her uncle visited several of the children involved in the incident and obtained the answer.

It turned out that this afternoon, her younger cousin came home from school and overheard Cao Xiaowen, the child of the Cao family, saying bad things about Qiao Changdong and her.

Meng Zihuan went up to argue with them and told them not to talk nonsense.

Before they knew it, the verbal argument had escalated into a physical confrontation.

Although Meng Zihuan was two years younger than the other party, he often went to the Mo family and learned some leg skills from his older brothers.

He might not have much of a chance against an adult or a child much older than him, but against a boy who is only two years older and thinner, he has a very good chance.

He knocked Cao Xiaowen down in just a few moves.

But Cao Xiaowen turned out to be a ruthless character. While Meng Zihuan was turning around and bending down to pick up his schoolbag, Cao Xiaowen pulled out half a brick from under the flower bed and hit Meng Zihuan on the back of the head.

This led to this tragedy.

As for why Cao Xiaowen spoke ill of Qiao Changdong and Qiao Qiao, it was because a small newspaper published a report about Qiao Changdong's misdeeds that day.

To tell this story, we have to go back to a few days ago when Wang Jun took Wang Dafa, a tabloid reporter, to the police station and searched his film files.

After being refused an interview by Qiao Changdong that day, and then being taken to the police station by Wang Jun, Wang Dafa deleted a photo that he had finally managed to take. After that, Wang Dafa held a grudge against the Qiao family.

He thought that if the XX newspaper reported positive news about Qiao Changdong, then he would report negative news about him, as if he wanted to challenge him to a duel.

Wang Dafa began to collect all the negative news about Qiao Changdong.

And you know what? He actually collected quite a few.

To put it simply, in Qiaojia Village, there was a family that hated Qiao Changdong to the core—the Qiao Tieniu family, who had been imprisoned by Qiao Changdong on charges of adultery.

Starting with Qiao Youliang in the previous generation, this family had a feud with Grandma Qiao.

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