Chapter 3789: Chapter 3780: Impervious to Reason or Persuasion

Upon hearing the police’s words, the shouting inside the house stopped, and soon the door opened.

This time, Li Hongjuan’s attitude showed some signs of softening. Facing the police, she didn’t dare to be arrogant.

"What are you here for?"

"You don’t know what we’re here for?" The police’s attitude was very serious. They knew that a gentle approach wouldn’t be effective with this old lady in front of them.

"You keep banging on a basin every day, making it impossible for others to live. What are you really thinking?"

"I wasn’t thinking anything. This is my home; I can bang however I want."

Despite Li Hongjuan’s attitude still being quite unreasonable, she was no longer as arrogant.

"I advise you to tone it down. This community is for everyone, not just for you. You can’t disturb others."

As they spoke, the police stepped aside, revealing Lin Yi and Zhao Yuhuan.

"They are journalists from the radio station. You can talk things over and try to solve the problem."

Lin Yi stepped forward and looked at Li Hongjuan.

"Ma’am, I want to ask about your daily basin banging. Is there a motive behind it? What’s your ultimate goal?"

"There’s no motive. I just want to bang, and once I do, I feel better. At my age, I just want peace of mind."

Li Hongjuan leaned on the door frame, painfully clutching her chest, "Why is my heart feeling so uncomfortable?"

Seeing this, no one said anything further. Everyone knew she was pretending, not truly in pain.

"As far as I know, it’s because you guys occupied the basketball court, and were eventually kicked out, and you’re dissatisfied, so you bang the basin at home every day as revenge, isn’t that right?"

Lin Yi’s words hit Li Hongjuan’s weak spot, and her face showed a guilty expression.

"Don’t talk nonsense about square dancing or not. I’m doing this to make myself feel better, otherwise my heart feels uncomfortable."

"We know the real situation, and arguing is useless." Lin Yi paused and spoke kindly:

"What I want to say is, the basketball court is for playing basketball. If you want to do square dancing, you can go to the nearby square, dance however you want without disturbing the residents. Isn’t that great?"

"The square is several hundred meters away. How can we go there?"

At this point, Li Hongjuan didn’t bother pretending anymore and said:

"Don’t interview me. My heart is uncomfortable!"

As she spoke, Li Hongjuan tried to close the door, but Lin Yi stopped her.

"Ma’am, what you’re doing isn’t right. You can’t occupy the basketball court just because it’s nearby."

"What do you mean occupy the basketball court? We are elders; they should learn to respect the elderly and care for the young, and give the basketball court to us!"

Li Hongjuan raised her voice, "And you, all of you, why aren’t you speaking for me, and instead you’re blaming me? Do you have any sympathy at all? Will you be satisfied only if I am driven to death by anger?"

Facing Li Hongjuan’s unreasonable behavior, the others were helpless and all looked towards Lin Yi in hopes he could come up with a solution.

"Ma’am, this issue isn’t about you..."

"What are you doing?!"

Before Lin Yi could finish, a voice came from the stairway.

They looked down to see a man in his forties carrying groceries and a woman coming up. They appeared to be a couple.

"That’s her son, named Ma Wangxi," Wang Xu whispered to Lin Yi.

Seeing Ma Wangxi, Li Hongjuan looked like she had seen her savior.

"Son, you’re finally back. Come and see, they’re bullying me!"

As she said this, Li Hongjuan clutched her chest and sat on the ground, closing her eyes as if she had a heart condition.

"What are you doing?!"

Ma Wangxi rushed up the stairs, reaching Li Hongjuan.

"Mom, what’s wrong? Where are you feeling uncomfortable?"

"They’re bullying me, my heart feels uncomfortable." While speaking, Li Hongjuan breathed heavily as if she was gravely ill.

"Enough pretending, we’ve been watching the whole time." The police said bluntly:

"Are you trying to extort us?"

Seeing the police’s attitude, Ma Wangxi didn’t dare take further action.

"You’ve come looking for my mom time and time again, what do you want?"

"You dare ask? Don’t you know what’s going on?"

"I don’t know," Ma Wangxi said. "My mom is exercising at home; do you have to interfere even when she’s uncomfortable? Is there no justice left?"

"So, are you refusing to communicate and unwilling to stop your behavior, is that it?"

"I don’t see anything wrong. You guys are the ones causing trouble," Ma Wangxi said:

"If someone is bothered by the noise, they can just move out; no one’s begging them to live here, right?"

"Son, hurry and help me inside, I can’t take it, my heart feels uncomfortable."

Ma Wangxi assisted Li Hongjuan indoors and shut the door, unwilling to continue the discussion.

Outside the door, everyone exchanged glances, unsure of what to do.

"Journalist, as you can see, this family is like this, they won’t listen to reason, and we’re out of options."

"I’ve basically understood the situation, and I’ll handle the follow-up issues."

"That would be wonderful."

After a brief conversation, the group left.

After seeing the police off, Lin Yi and Wang Xu stood together.

"Journalist, the situation is like this now. Do you have any good ideas?"

"The three of them live together; they must be annoyed by the constant banging too."

"Her son and daughter-in-law work at a chemical plant and need to work shifts. She bangs the basin when they aren’t at home."

"Does she have any grandchildren?"

"Yes, apparently they are at boarding school and don’t come home usually."

Lin Yi nodded, having gained a rough understanding of Li Hongjuan’s family situation.

"Property management should have their personal information, like phone numbers and license plate numbers. Could you provide me with that information?"

"That’s no problem," Wang Xu said. "Let’s add each other as friends, and I’ll send that information to you later."

"Great."

After discussing business, Lin Yi and Zhao Yuhuan left and returned to the car.

"Ahhh—I’m going to explode! This situation is infuriating! How can there be such shameless people!"

In the car, with no one around, Zhao Yuhuan was jumping with anger, "Even as a woman, watching this makes me want to hit someone; truly a nest of troublemakers."

"Calm down, getting angry won’t solve the problem." Lin Yi said with a smile, not hurried at all.

Zhao Yuhuan looked at him, "Lin Bro, you have such a good temper; you can actually hold it in."

"I can’t hold it either, but this is our job, and we need to handle it appropriately; otherwise, who would watch our program?"

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