Chapter 12: Father and Daughter
The situation at Li Yuanxiang's house was somewhat unexpected to me.
I was undoubtedly Li Yuanxiang's father who spoke to me on the phone and told me that Li Yuanxiang was at home, and I remember his tone on the phone, which was typical of philistine and timid middle-aged men.
But when the door was opened for me, the man, Li Jiquan, was holding a wine bottle in one hand, his eyes were red, and his hair was on his wet forehead.
The door only opened a crack, and he dangled the bottle and poured a large gulp of liquor into his mouth: "You're the fucking cop on the phone, shit-huh?" "Li Jiquan burped, and the heavy smell of alcohol mixed with bad breath made me almost faint.
"I'm a special adviser to the police department, and you can understand it as a detective." I automatically filtered out his foul mouth and corrected him.
"It's all fucking the same! Is there something wrong with you? ”
"We already said on the phone - I'm looking for your daughter, classmate Li Yuanxiang."
"Well, I forgot. Yuanxiang, get out! There's a cop looking for you! Li Jiquan shouted into the room.
Not long after, Li Yuanxiang's figure appeared at the entrance of the house, as if she didn't dare to approach her father, just stood far away, and then looked at me with some cringe.
"Mr. Yoshi, Mr. Yoshi......"
Li Yuanxiang's voice was very soft, and as she spoke, she covered half of her face with one hand, but I had already caught a glimpse of it with sharp eyes, and there was a red mark left after being slapped on one side of her face.
Judging from the traces of the red mark, it should have been beaten.
Li Jiquan glared at his daughter: "Why are you standing so far away?" Come here! ”
Li Yuanxiang didn't move.
"Haven't you been annoying Lao Tzu's ears? Are people really dead? Or is it a nonsense you made up just to not go to school? You also asked this guy to act, right? You die for me! Li Jiquan suddenly became furious, he suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed Li Yuanxiang's hair, "Your mother ran away with someone, you have to run with you, right?!" All of them are cheap! An immature white-eyed wolf! ”
Suddenly, I was horrified to find that Li Jiquan actually raised the wine bottle in his hand high and was about to smash it against Li Yuanxiang's head!
I didn't have time to care about anything else, so I raised my foot and kicked the door open, and the door hit Li Jiquan's body, causing his movements to stagnate—taking advantage of this time, I twisted Li Jiquan's arm holding the wine bottle and twisted it to his back!
"Bang-"
The bottle shattered on the floor tiles, and the smell of alcohol rose into the air.
"!" Li Jiquan scolded, let go of the hand that was grabbing Li Yuanxiang's hair, and hit my lower ribs with a heavy elbow!
Under the pain, my hands were weak for a moment, and Li Jiquan suddenly pulled out the arm that was twisted back from my hand, and then reflexively rushed towards me-
"Bang!"
Together, we fell on the floor covered with liquor and broken glass shards.
In an instant, I felt a dense pain of torn skin all over my body!
If at the beginning I was still pitiful because Li Jiquan was in a drunken state, then now, I have completely escaped my anger!
I also already understand what happened to Li Yuanxiang's red and swollen face.
This guy, after drinking heavily, turned into a demon!
Sideways to avoid Li Jiquan's punch, I didn't leave my hand, and directly raised my hand to his temple is a heavy punch!
Li Jiquan's head hit the ground hard and he fainted.
I slowly propped myself up from the ground and sat down against the wall, a dense tingling sensation came from half of my body, and I glanced at it—there were many shards of glass stuck in my right arm and thigh.
During this process, Li Yuanxiang kept standing in place as if he was stiff, only staring at me with his eyes wide open.
"Is there any iodine or anything like that in the house? Well? ”
As if awakened by my question, Li Yuanxiang trembled, didn't reply, and turned around and rushed into the room. I heard the sound of the drawers being turned inside, and the sound of "Ding Lingdang" debris falling to the ground, and then, Li Yuanxiang rushed to me, panting, and put a large bag of things in his arms in front of me.
I glanced at the pile of things on the ground, and sighed to myself: there were band-aids, a large bag of defatted cotton, iodine and pure alcohol, safflower oil for bruises, and even bandages...... It is conceivable how ruthless Li Yuanxiang's father usually is!
I pulled out the broken glass one by one, then cleaned the wound with cotton soaked in pure alcohol, then applied iodine and bandaged.
To my surprise, Li Yuanxiang is much more proficient in dealing with wounds than I do. At first, I just asked her to help me hand me cotton or something, but then it became mainly her, and I helped her get what she needed, especially when it came to helping her drunken dad with his wounds.
I told Li Yuanxiang that her father was fine. Although I shot angrily at the time, I still managed to save some strength in the end, so Li Jiquan was only knocked unconscious by me, and he was not seriously injured.
But when I took out my phone and was about to call the police, Li Yuanxiang stopped me.
"Please, don't call the police, okay?" Almost in a pleading tone, she explained to me that her father used to be a very good man, and that he had only started drinking heavily since her mother had cheated on someone and divorced him.
"Just wait until my dad is sober, he didn't mean to." Li Yuanxiang said.
In my opinion, this kind of bastard who gets drunk and then takes out his evil fire on his family should be punished by law. But I didn't expect that this bastard was Li Yuanxiang's father who couldn't choose, and he was always Li Yuanxiang's closest person.
I wanted to explain to her that this kind of behavior is not tolerated, because every person who drinks and goes crazy with it will make a bitter self-condemnation afterwards and swear to repent! But there's always a next time!
But when the words came to my lips, I stopped.
Regardless of whether Li Yuanxiang can understand this truth or not, this is always a family matter of their family, and I can interfere once or twice, but I can't become Li Yuanxiang's guardian and supervise forever to prevent this kind of thing from happening again...... I think it's better not to mention it for now, and then talk to Shen Tangzhi, she is a member of the judicial system, and she must have a better way than me.
So I turned to ask about the murder in the school - in fact, this is why I came to Li Yuanxiang's house.
After a short silence, Li Yuanxiang spoke, but the first words she said shocked me.
"Our entire class actually participated in the 'Million Dollar Jackpot Man Wolf Game'."
Li Yuanxiang said.