She won't clear her name; she'll throw away all the scum.

Police officer: "Go ahead and tell me."

Luo Yuan: "He gave us these sweet potatoes himself. He took them and gave them to us brothers. We tried to persuade him to take them back for a long time, but he still refused, so we took them away."

"I don't know why he said we stole it. If he didn't do it voluntarily, why would he go through all the trouble of carrying half a bag of sweet potatoes out of his house? Who would bring out their sweet potatoes from their house to show us for no reason?"

Chen Xiangbei's face turned red with anger. "I originally wanted to give them to you, but you didn't want them. You insisted that I go home and steal valuable things to sell for money so I could eat well at the state-run restaurant. When I refused, you beat me and then took away the sweet potatoes I had brought with me."

“Look at my face, they're the ones who hit me.”

Luo Yuan: "Officer, you heard it too, it was him who gave it to us. How could a family like ours refuse gifts from others? Especially a state-run restaurant, I never even dared to dream of such a thing."

"I originally thought he was a good person who genuinely wanted to give us, his brothers, the gifts, so I reluctantly accepted them. But who knew he would turn around and bite us?"

“His injury wasn’t caused by us; it was from a fight he got with someone.”

Chen Xiangbei was pacing anxiously, saying, "That's not how it is, it really isn't like that."

But he didn't know how to explain it. How could Luo Yuan lie so easily in front of the police officers?

Upon hearing this explanation, Chen Xiangnan knew that the basket couldn't be used to verify Chen Xiangbei's claim. He then suddenly spoke up, "Officer, since Luo Yuan said it was a wound left by Chen Xiangbei in a fight, he must know who he fought with and where it happened. Why don't we get him to name the person and then verify the situation?"

Luo Yuan thought to himself, "How could he find a loophole in this?" "Officer, this is what Chen Xiangbei told me. I don't know who it is."

Chen Xiangnan: "Didn't you say he was your good brother? If your brother gets beaten up, you should all help fight back, right? How come you didn't even ask him?"

Luo Yuan opened his mouth, unsure how to explain, "Officer, whether or not to fight back has nothing to do with this matter."

Chen Xiangnan continued, "Okay, let's not talk about that for now. Since you say that Chen Xiangbei gave you the sweet potatoes and you didn't steal them, why didn't you go to your house to get them instead of making him bring them out?"

Luo Yuan confidently replied, "That's because his parents definitely wouldn't agree."

Chen Xiangnan: "Then you must know that during that time period, our parents went to work, and I wasn't home either. There was definitely no one at home, so no one would have stopped you."

Luo Yuan rolled his eyes and said, "That's because we didn't want the sweet potato, but he insisted on giving it to us and went to his house to get it himself."

Chen Xiangnan: "You mean that Chen Xiangbei brought sweet potatoes and cabbages from his house, and you refused to accept them, but he insisted that you take them, so you reluctantly accepted them."

Luo Yuan: "Yes, that's exactly it."

He suddenly pulled up Luo Yuan's sleeve, revealing a teeth mark. "Who bit you here? It looks fresh. Did you get into a fight today?"

Luo Yuan pulled his hand back, "It's normal for boys to have some conflicts, this has nothing to do with this matter."

Chen Xiangbei immediately remembered that this was the bite mark he made when he couldn't beat them. "Officer, this is the bite mark I made. If you don't believe me, you can compare it with my teeth. It was me who bit them. I was fighting with them."

The police officer said sternly, "You guys were fighting? That's not right."

Chen Xiangbei was a little scared, but then he suddenly remembered that he was fighting to protect his sweet potatoes. "Officer, they were stealing my sweet potatoes, of course I had to protect them, that's why I fought back."

Police officer: "Comrade Luo Yuan, how do you explain this?"

Luo Yuan stood with his hands behind his back, saying, "He didn't bite me; he's talking nonsense."

Chen Xiangbei was a ruthless man. He immediately bit his arm hard, then held out his hand to the police officer. "Officer, you can tell by comparing my hand with his. They are definitely the same."

Police: ...Actually, it's not necessary. Just showing him his teeth should be enough. Two of the child's teeth are crooked, so it's easy to spot.

However, since they were so heartless as to bite him, and they even saw him in tears from the pain, they decided not to let them down.

Seeing that the police insisted, Luo Yuan had no choice but to extend his hand, but he couldn't explain why there was a tooth mark that looked exactly like Chen Xiangbei's teeth.

Chen Xiangbei: "So he got into a fight with me."

Grandma Xia: "My poor Xiangbei. He was kind-hearted and wanted to help his good friends, but they were greedy and not only beat him up, but also stole his sweet potatoes. Now they're even distorting the truth."

Luo Yuan's mother was standing to the side, having already thrown the stick aside. With the police already there, she dared not act violently. Realizing that her actions would be detrimental to her son, and hearing Old Lady Xia start crying pitifully, she rushed over and shielded her son behind her.

"Officer, you can't just listen to them. The truth might not be like that. Ah Yuan, say something."

Luo Yuan: "I..."

They panicked, but couldn't think of a reason for it at the moment.

Finally, under continued questioning from the police, Luo Yuan confessed. He felt that it wasn't just him who made the mistake, so why should he bear the consequences? Besides, he only took a few sweet potatoes, so his crime should be lighter.

Seeing that things were not going well, Luo Yuan's mother immediately knelt down in front of them and begged for forgiveness.

Her son is still a student, he absolutely cannot go to jail, so she was no longer as aggressive as she had been at the beginning.

Chen Xiangnan didn't care if he was young or not. Anyway, there was a crackdown now, and even stealing a little bit could lead to a labor camp. They had been so brutal just now, and he had been arguing with them for so long late at night. He was annoyed and decided to just arrest them all.

He was about to speak again when he noticed Chen Xiangbei moving closer to him.

"Brother, if he gets arrested, will he betray me?"

Chen Xiangnan stared at his younger brother suspiciously and asked in a low voice, "What other good things have you done?"