Li Xuan's voice was not loud, but it sounded like thunder to Sheng Min. He turned his head in surprise, trying to tell the truth from his face. But Li Xuan looked calm, as if he had just had a fish chopped at the fresh food market.
"Hurry up." Li Xuan kicked the knife in front of Zhao Yi, "Don't waste time."
Zhao Yi subconsciously moved back, but Li Xuan pulled him back by the collar, "If you can't do it, I can help you chop it off."
"No, no." Zhao Yi struggled desperately, "I don't..."
"Neither this nor that. Do you think you can bargain when buying cabbage at the market? Either you lose money or you cut off your hands. Hurry up. Who will discuss this with you?"
Zhao Yi ignored him completely and just kept saying no and shaking his head.
"Since you don't have any, just go to jail. In your case, the minimum sentence is seven years." Li Xuan was about to drag him out of the door. Zhao Yi was shocked by the seven-year sentence. He suddenly had the strength to break free from Li Xuan's restraints, and ran to Sheng Min and knelt down with a plop: "Save me, I'm going to kill someone, save me, I know I'm wrong, really..."
"You get up first." Sheng Min frowned and reached out to pull him up but couldn't. The child inside was frightened and cried loudly. Li Xuan walked over in two steps, grabbed the collar and dragged the person up from the ground.
"You hit someone to death and I didn't ask you to pay with your life. I even gave you a choice. I almost wanted to give myself a good person award. Don't act like I'm bullying you. You hit someone a day ago. If you really regretted it, you would have turned yourself in long ago. You thought that since there were no surveillance cameras and no witnesses, no one would know about it and it would be over, right? Why are you pretending now?"
"I was drunk. I didn't mean it. I was afraid, so I didn't turn myself in... I, I don't have money. I really can't come up with so much money." Zhao Yi reached out again to pull Sheng Min.
Li Xuan was furious when he heard this: "So I let you choose, don't play rogue to me."
The girl cried even harder when she saw them fighting outside. She ran out sobbing and pulled the hem of Li Xuan's clothes: "Don't bully my dad."
The living room was in chaos. Li Xuan frowned, but tried his best to control his temper towards the little girl, pushing her into Sheng Min's hands. He raised his hand and flipped the table next to him to the floor, making a loud noise that shocked everyone in the living room into silence for a moment.
"Stop arguing!" He pointed at Zhao Yi and said, "I'm here to collect my debt, not to listen to your complaints. If you don't want the options I give you, then go to jail..."
"I can't go to jail. I don't want to go to jail." Zhao Yi shook his head in panic. Hearing the crying of the little girl next to him, he seemed to be reminded. "My child is still so young. Yes, my child is still young. I did this for her. Such a big thing happened. I still have to take care of her. I can't go anywhere..."
Li Xuan was shocked by this outrageous logic: "You didn't run away for her, right? You were obviously drunk and careless and didn't have time to run. You didn't think about your child when you were drinking, and you didn't think about your child when you hit someone. When something happened, you used your daughter as a shield. Do you have any shame?"
"But I really have no money." Zhao Yi burst into tears.
"If you don't have money, just sell the house. Your house is in a good location."
"Where will you let me live after the house is sold..."
"Why would I care about you? Do you think I'm here to help the poor?" Li Xuan sneered, "Why didn't you care about me when you crashed? You turned around and ran away so fast."
Zhao Yiren was completely confused and didn't understand what was wrong with this. He just kept saying that he couldn't come up with the money.
Sheng Min half-knelt down, loosely hugged the little girl, and raised his hand to gently cover her eyes. In the chaos, he heard the phone ring, it was a message from Yang Xu.
Zhao Yi just said that he couldn't come up with so much money, and the situation was frozen for a moment. The little girl's eyes were swollen from crying, and she was panting rapidly. Sheng Min looked at her swollen face, and inexplicably remembered the scene when he was a child, when the creditor came to his house to ask for money. He also held his brother's hand and hid behind the door, but he didn't dare to cry, and he had to coax his brother not to cry. But that was not the end, the debt collector left, and his mother wanted to take it out on him again...
He was in a trance for a moment, until his palms turned cold. The little girl's tears soaked his fingers, and she sobbed and pulled at his sleeves, saying, "Brother, please don't bully my dad."
No matter what Li Xuan said in the living room, Zhao Yi just kept saying that he couldn't afford to pay so much money. Li Xuan was furious at his quarrel, but because there were children present, he tried his best to be patient and signaled Sheng Min to take the child away.
Sheng Min looked at the little girl in his arms, then looked at Li Xuan's gloomy face, hesitated for a moment, and said softly: "How much money can you take out now?"
"I don't have a penny..."
Sheng Min frowned. He knew that Li Xuan was pressing hard and not giving in, not for money. But he looked at the little girl and said gently: "You know this sentence is meaningless."
"Five thousand..." Zhao Yi said.
wb night. Xia gave the moon. Li Shengmin sighed softly: "If you always have this attitude, then he should talk to you."
"It's only 20,000 yuan. I don't have any more." Zhao Yi cried, "You are trying to kill me."
"Then give me 20,000 first." Li Xuan glanced at him angrily, telling him to shut up. Sheng Min reached out to wipe away the tears on the girl's face, but still finished his words, "The rest of the money can be paid in installments. If it can't be paid in one year, it can be paid in ten or twenty years."
"But… "
"No buts." He waved the phone interface in front of Zhao Yi, "We have the addresses and phone numbers of your parents and your two brothers, so don't even think about running away. If you run away, the police will come looking for you."
"The police really won't come to arrest me?" Zhao Yi asked timidly.
Sheng Min said calmly, "If you don't believe me, you don't have to give it to me."
"Okay, I'll get you the money," Zhao Yi swallowed, looked at Li Xuan fearfully, and got up to go to the bedroom. The little girl followed him in.
"Is that it?" Sheng Min glanced at Li Xuan, and seeing that he didn't say anything, she assumed that he agreed. She looked around the living room, found a pen and paper, and wrote an IOU.
Zhao Yi's movements were very quick, probably because he wanted to get rid of Li Xuan as soon as possible. He quickly took out a bank card and did not dare to look at Li Xuan. He only said to Sheng Min, "There is more than 10,000 yuan in it, and the password is six 8s."
"Sign it." Sheng Min handed over the written IOU.
"I have already paid, this..."
Zhao Yi didn't want to sign and was hesitating. Li Xuan, who had been silent until now, suddenly sneered.
"Is it settled already? You are really good at talking to yourself, aren't you?" Li Xuan's face darkened. "Who allowed this? I am the only one who has the final say on this matter."
Li Xuan said to Zhao Yi, but his eyes were coldly looking at Sheng Min: "I changed my mind. I don't want the money anymore. It's better to chop off your hands. Otherwise, you will get drunk and drive and hit someone again."
As he spoke, he bent down, hooked the knife on the ground, grabbed Zhao Yi's collar and pulled it hard, then raised his hand to chop his wrist.
"Dad!" The little girl screamed in fear. Zhao Yi subconsciously closed his eyes tightly, but the blade did not fall down. He opened his eyes in panic. Sheng Min held Li Xuan's hand.
"Let go." Li Xuan frowned.
Sheng Min shook his head, a little helpless: "Does it have to be like this?"
Li Xuan narrowed his eyes: "I'll count to three... one, two..."
Before he could finish his words, Sheng Min seemed to sigh, and the next second, he suddenly snatched the knife from his hand with strength that he didn't know where it came from.
"You..." Li Xuan was stunned and caught off guard. He saw Sheng Min leaning sideways to block the girl's sight, holding Zhao Yi's hand, gritted his teeth, and stabbed forward fiercely.
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