She was a mother herself. How would she feel if someone else hit her son like this?

Soon, not only did the local police arrive, but the woman's husband also rushed over—and he seemed quite familiar with the officers from the local precinct.

However, Yi Anguo wasn't too worried. No matter how good your relationship with the local police is, you still have to be reasonable, right? If you have reason on your side, the police will definitely help you. If you don't, even if you're on good terms with them, they can't blatantly favor you, can they?

Before the police arrived, Yi Anguo had already learned from the teacher roughly what had happened.

At the time, the portly woman's chubby child was bullying Duo Duo, mocking her as a "wild child" without a father. The two kids started arguing, and the chubby boy pushed Duo Duo to the ground. Yi Xinyi also knew Duo Duo—they were good friends—so she stepped forward to help, accusing the boy of being a bully.

The chubby boy then said Yi Xinyi was a child without a mother, claiming her mom had abandoned her and her dad to run off with another man. He called both Yi Xinyi and Duo Duo jinxes—one unwanted by her father, the other by her mother.

The boy had a venomous tongue. Unable to win the argument, Yi Xinyi, in a fit of anger, was the first to throw a punch. When Duo Duo saw Yi Xinyi fighting, she joined in to help. Together, the two little girls knocked the chubby boy to the ground, leaving him in tears.

It wasn't a big deal at first. How serious could a fight between three four-year-olds be? But who would have thought that this chubby boy's mother would be so fiercely protective and unreasonable, even willing to strike a little girl.

At the local police station, the woman insisted on going to the hospital for an injury assessment, suspecting she had suffered a concussion. She claimed she was feeling dizzy and nauseous. By this point, Duo Duo had cried herself to sleep, and Yi Anguo also demanded a hospital check-up for her, claiming the child had been beaten unconscious.

A police officer spoke up, "This girl isn't your child, right?"

"She's not my child, so what?" Yi Anguo replied. "That woman was about to hit my daughter."

"That's just your subjective opinion. In reality, she didn't hit her, did she?" the police officer said.

"What do you mean? Are you saying I should have waited for her to injure my daughter and knock her to the ground before I did anything?" Yi Anguo said indignantly.

"The fact is, she didn't injure your daughter, but you did injure her. Therefore, you are being investigated for intentional assault," the officer stated.

"That woman knocked a little girl to the ground. Isn't that intentional assault?" Yi Anguo asked with a sneer.

"That's a separate matter and has nothing to do with you. We'll deal with it separately. You have no relationship with that little girl," the officer said.

"So you're saying if a woman hits someone else's child, I should just turn a blind eye? I can only intervene if she hits my own daughter, is that what you mean?" Yi Anguo retorted.

"It's not that you can't get involved. You can stop her from continuing her assault, but you were wrong to injure her by fighting back," the officer explained. "If you couldn't stop her, you could have called us! If everyone fought violence with violence like you, what would be the point of the police?"

"But she was about to hit my daughter! Was I supposed to just stand there and watch?" Yi Anguo said, furious.

"Then how can you prove she was about to hit your daughter?" the officer asked. "The issue now is that no one injured your daughter, but you injured someone else."

"If a criminal with a knife was about to kill your son, would you wait until after your son was dead before you shot him?" Yi Anguo shot back. "When you police rescue hostages from a knife-wielding criminal, and you take the opportunity to shoot the criminal dead while he's distracted, does that constitute intentional homicide?"

"The situations are different, so of course, the responses are different. Besides, no one was trying to kill your daughter, were they? Was your daughter's life being threatened?"

Yi Anguo seriously doubted the policeman's impartiality. He was far too biased toward that woman and hadn't said a single word about her own culpability.

In the end, Yi Anguo couldn't be bothered to argue with them anymore and simply requested to make a phone call to his private lawyer.

As soon as the policeman heard that Yi Anguo had a private lawyer, he no longer dared to threaten him. After all, Yi Anguo's offense wasn't that serious. Besides, could someone who could afford a private lawyer be an ordinary person? The best approach now is to stay out of it and see which side comes out on top.

Yi Anguo had initially, out of habit, thought of contacting Zhuo Weidong for help, but he suddenly changed his mind. He thought of Ding Jing. Wasn't she a Master of Laws? She should be able to handle a small matter like this. I tossed out three million, and she still hasn't contacted me. She hasn't really taken the money and run, has she?

Yi Anguo pulled up Ding Jing's contact number and dialed it. The call connected quickly.

"Hello! Mr. Yi!"

"I remember you have a Master of Laws. You should have a lawyer's license in our country, right?" Yi Anguo asked directly.

"Yes, I do. Do you have a legal issue that needs to be resolved?" Ding Jing asked calmly.

Yi Anguo immediately told Ding Jing everything that had happened at the kindergarten, asking if she could come to the police station to handle it.

"Alright, I'll head over immediately. In the meantime, you just need to remain silent. Don't say anything more than you have to. If they ask you anything, just tell them you'll talk once your lawyer arrives," Ding Jing said at once, instructing him on how to handle the situation.

An hour and a half later, Ding Jing finally arrived at the police station. By then, the medical reports for the woman and Duo Duo were out. The results showed that Duo Duo had a mild concussion, while the woman, other than some slight swelling on her face, was completely fine. The woman was acting like a total shrew, screaming and jumping around. How could there be anything seriously wrong with her?

Before coming, Ding Jing had gone directly to the kindergarten to investigate and had obtained the surveillance footage. Faced with irrefutable evidence, the woman's excuses were futile.

Setting aside the question of who was right or wrong among the children, for an adult to strike a child with enough force to knock her down, swell her face, and cause a mild concussion was unequivocally wrong. Furthermore, she had verbally abused the child, calling Duo Duo a "fatherless bastard," which caused even more severe psychological damage.

Yi Anguo had only struck the woman out of desperation. The surveillance footage showed that the woman had already raised her hand and was about to slap Yi Xinyi when Yi Anguo stopped her in the nick of time. He slapped the woman in turn to prevent her from continuing to harm the children.

Therefore, Yi Anguo was not in the wrong, nor did he need to pay any compensation to the portly woman. The woman, on the other hand, had to pay for Duo Duo's medical expenses as well as compensation for her emotional distress.

Otherwise, Duo Duo's guardian had the right to sue the woman in court. According to the Law on the Protection of Minors, she was suspected of intentional assault and slander of a minor. If convicted, she could face prison time. Based on Duo Duo's medical report, the minimum sentence would be at least three years. A mild concussion was legally considered a minor injury, which was serious enough to warrant a sentence of three years or more.

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