Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 256 - 256 253 Attempted Murder

Chapter 256: Chapter 253: Attempted Murder Chapter 256: Chapter 253: Attempted Murder She’s not worth it, she’s not worth it for her mom!

“Don’t say my name, it makes me sick coming from your mouth!”

Xu Qian took a tissue from her brother and wiped away the tears from her face. She looked at Lin Jian’an with scorn, “You killed mom and my sister, how can you still have the face to live? Lin Jian’an, you will be met with retribution, definitely!”

“You wretched girl, who did you say will face retribution? Say it again and I’ll tear your mouth apart.”

Lin Fei’s sharp gaze swept over, causing Ren Xiufen to immediately shut her mouth and step back fearfully.

He glanced at the dazed Lin Jian’an, then said to Xu Qian, “He has to do a paternity test with you, this process can’t be skipped.”

He stepped forward and plucked a few hairs from Lin Jian’an’s head, then placed them into a sealable bag he carried with him.

Having obtained what they came for, there was no need to stay any longer, especially for Xu Qian, who didn’t want to be there another second.

Xu Qian was the first to walk towards the exit, not giving Lin Jian’an another glance.

But before she had taken two steps, a shadow suddenly lunged at her from the side of the cramped living room.

Xu Ang stood to Xu Qian’s left, with Mu Jiawen behind her, Jiang Yan to the right of Mu Jiawen, and Lin Fei at the very end, while Xu Qian’s right side was empty, with no one there.

Just as the object in the shadow’s hand was about to strike Xu Qian’s head, Jiang Yan reacted with lightning speed, stepping sideways and kicking forward, sending the approaching figure flying before it crashed against the unclean wall with a “bang” and then fell to the floor with a “thud.”

The whole event lasted less than a second.

“Umm…”

A muffled groan came from the shadow’s mouth, the pain causing him to clutch his stomach and curl up like a shrimp.

For a moment, the living room fell silent, apart from the boy on the floor and Jiang Yan, who had kicked him. The others didn’t even have time to realize what had happened.

A few seconds later, Ren Xiufen let out a cry as she hobbled over, limping, “My son, Bin, are you okay? Are you hurt? Don’t scare Mom…”

Aside from the pain in his stomach from the kick, the intense pain from his spine smacking against the wall caused Ren Bin to break into a sweat in an instant, his face turning deathly pale, which was quite frightening.

“Damn it, are you trying to kill someone? Being police officers makes you great? Does it allow you to kill?”

Ren Xiufen wailed and shrieked in agony.

Lin Fei turned his head to look at Jiang Yan, who had an innocent expression, “I can’t be blamed for this, he suddenly lunged at me, and I just reacted instinctively.”

You call an instinctive reaction using full force?

But after all, Lin Fei didn’t say anything, because if they were to get to the bottom of it, the primary fault was definitely with Ren Bin.

As they were talking in the living room, that youth had silently come out from the bedroom and stood at the doorway.

Since he was just a kid, nobody paid much attention to him. Who would have thought that as they were leaving, he would suddenly attack Xu Qian?

Looking at the object he had been holding, when he struck the wall and fell to the ground, it landed on the floor with a clang and rolled away.

It was a metal rod as thick as an arm!

Lin Fei gasped upon seeing the iron rod, thinking if that had hit Xu Qian’s head, could she have survived?

He now understood why Jiang Yan needed to use all his strength to kick him.

“Look at what your son was holding, who is the one trying to kill someone?”

With a sharp rebuke from Lin Fei, the shrew-like Ren Xiufen immediately went quiet, but seeing her son in such pain, she couldn’t help but hold him and weep pitifully.

Lin Jian’an stared at the iron rod for three seconds, then suddenly stepped forward, pulling Ren Xiufen away and grabbing Ren Bin by the collar to slap him across the face, “She is your sister, what were you trying to do?”

“What sister… bullshit… I don’t recognize her!” Reeling from the severe pain, Ren Bin could barely catch his breath after being slapped by Lin Jian’an. Leaning against the wall, he glared at Xu Qian with bloodshot eyes, “She… she hit you… and you still protect her?”

Just as Lin Jian’an was about to speak, a mocking voice laughed, “Quite the actor! Kid, your dad isn’t protecting her; he’s protecting you. Using this to smash someone’s head, that’s attempted murder. Over fifteen, you can be detained, you get that? Right, Captain Lin?”

Lin Fei nodded, “That’s right. Although not old enough for prison, you all know about juvenile detention, don’t you?”

Only then did Ren Xiufen feel afraid. She glanced at Xu Qian, then at Lin Fei, and tried to argue forcefully, “But… but it didn’t hit anyone, that doesn’t count, you… you’re just scaring people.”

Jiang Yan was speechless. He didn’t even know what to say anymore, “Was it your son who missed? It was because I didn’t let him hit; maybe you should thank me?”

Thank you for kicking him?

Ren Xiufen stared at Jiang Yan with wide eyes, unable to utter a word.

Ren Bin glanced at Lin Jian’an and then kept his mouth shut.

….

When everyone left the Ren household, the sky had already turned pitch dark.

As they were about to exit the alley, Lin Jian’an caught up from behind, panting as he approached Lin Fei, “Police… Officer, can I ask what exactly happened to Huifang, Xie Huifang, and my little girl?”

The others gave Lin Jian’an a look and walked away without turning back.

Lin Jian’an watched Xu Qian’s receding figure with a complex expression.

Lin Fei briefly recounted Xie Huifang’s experiences from the past, then left without wanting to say anything more than necessary.

Having obtained the hair sample, Lin Fei planned to send it for testing first, then rush home for dinner, since the holiday wasn’t over yet. It was already considered overtime for them to return to the station and assist today.

Mu Jiawen and Jiang Yan took the brother and sister straight back to Qinghe Garden, while Mu Chenyan booked two rooms for Xu Qian and her sibling at a nearby five-star hotel.

After such a tumultuous day, especially with such emotional swings, Xu Qian definitely needed a quiet place to calm down. So Mu Jiawen and Jiang Yan didn’t join them for dinner, but had meals delivered to their rooms and then went home.

“Xu Qian’s sister was taken away in Beijing, right?”

On their way back, Jiang Yan asked Mu Jiawen.

After thinking it over carefully, Mu Jiawen said, “In my memory, her sister wasn’t in Yunzhou. She doesn’t remember clearly, and the captured traffickers have long forgotten. Finding the little sister now is probably going to be very difficult.”

After all, a one-year-old baby is the easiest to buy and sell; who knows where she was sold to back then?

Thoughtful, Jiang Yan mused for a while before saying to Mu Jiawen, “Lao Er recently helped a little girl. She looks about fifteen or sixteen, a real beauty, and her eyes resemble Xu Qian’s a lot.”

Mu Jiawen’s eyes widened in surprise, “No way, what a coincidence?”

Jiang Yan also found it too coincidental and somewhat implausible, “Maybe I’m overthinking it, let’s head home for dinner.”

Mu Jiawen grabbed him, “Better to check and be wrong than miss out. Have Lao Er bring her to Xu Qian for a look, what if it’s really her? Also, what’s her family situation? Was she adopted?”

How would Jiang Yan know that?

“Ask Lao Er.”

As they walked, Jiang Yan called Lao Er—

“Yes, the girl Mao Mao, how old is she this year, where’s her family from? Who all lives at home?”

Lao Er relayed everything he knew to Jiang Yan, “She’s sixteen, in her third year of junior high. It’s just her grandmother at home; they get by growing some vegetables. As for her parents, it seems they’re gone. She never talks about it, and I’ve never felt it was my place to ask.”

As to whether she was adopted, that’s something you can’t just find out by asking. After all, no one who has bought a child would admit it to outsiders, and even if the neighbours knew, they wouldn’t tell.