Song Erzhuang pushed open the door to his own yard and shouted, "Qiao Guilan!"

He called out several times, but after searching the entire house, he still couldn't find Qiao Guilan, and his anger flared up.

On his way back, he had already gotten a general idea of ​​the situation from Gou Dan and guessed that his wife had gone to help other people with their work again. He ran to the next house and asked each household where Qiao Guilan was.

We asked every single household on both sides of the house, but none of them said they had seen it.

Finally, a neighbor's seven-year-old grandson pointed to the back of his house and said, "Aunt Song is in my field."

The child's grandparents hurriedly covered their grandson's mouth, but it was too late.

They were also hoping that Qiao Guilan would help them finish the work in the fields.

Enraged, Song Erzhuang yelled at the elderly couple next door, "I asked you seven or eight times if you'd seen Qiao Guilan, and you both said you hadn't?!"

The elderly couple pretended to be crazy, saying they were too old and had forgotten that Qiao Guilan was in their own field.

Behind the house stretched a vast expanse of farmland. In the distance, a figure stood up, rubbed his back, and then squatted down to continue working.

The rice stalks concealed her figure, so no one could see her unless she stood up.

Enraged, Song Erzhuang went home, grabbed a large iron shovel, and rushed to his neighbor's field ridge.

The neighbors all rushed to the back of the house to see what was going on.

Everyone knows that Song Erzhuang has a fiery temper and will beat his wife and children if he gets angry.

Qiao Guilan, who knew nothing about the situation, squatted on the edge of the field to plant beans. After squatting for a long time, her legs became numb and her back ached, so she had to stand up for a while.

"Qiao Guilan, you old hag, you don't even care about your own daughter when she's in trouble, you're always squatting in other people's fields working, are you trying to get yourself killed?!"

Enraged, Song Erzhuang raised his shovel and struck Qiao Guilan on the back, causing her to flee in all directions.

The ridges of the paddy fields are uneven, and there are small ponds left over from the irrigation of the rice fields.

Qiao Guilan was so frightened that she screamed for help. She stepped into a small pond and rolled into the irrigation ditch next to it, getting mud all over her clothes and face.

"Oh my god, oh my god, what happened? Honey, why did you hit me for no reason?" Qiao Guilan collapsed in panic on the muddy ditch, her soul already out of her body.

"Grandma Liu said she's too old to squat down and asked me to help her burn the beans on the ridge. It's such a small thing, why are you making such a fuss?" Qiao Guilan burst into tears. "Song Erzhuang, I've been married to you for decades, given you children, and haven't enjoyed a single day of happiness. You come home after being upset outside and take it out on me without even asking what happened?"

Qiao Guilan burst into tears, "Just kill me already! I don't want to live anymore, I can't take this life anymore!"

"Stop wailing, something's happened to Xiao Si'er." Song Erzhuang grabbed a shovel and rushed home. "Go find Xiao Si'er quickly, or the child's life will be ruined."

Ignoring the mud covering half her clothes, hair, and face, Qiao Guilan hurriedly got up, climbed out of the ditch, and followed her husband home.

Seeing that it was almost time, Wang Erchui gave a bag of candy to a few children in the village and told them to spread the word throughout the village that they had seen Han Zhiyuan and Song Yinhua go to the small, dilapidated house at the foot of the mountain together.

Song Erzhuang was asking around the village if anyone had seen Han Zhiyuan take his fourth daughter somewhere when he heard the village children say they saw Han Zhiyuan with their eldest daughter.

Song Erzhuang was completely baffled, and the villagers told him to go and check out the small house at the foot of the mountain first.

A large group of people headed to the foot of the mountain.

Tang Suxiang happily carried her granddaughter to watch the spectacle. She couldn't be happier thinking about how her brother-in-law's daughter had been messing around with other men before she was even married.

Whether she's the eldest daughter or the fourth daughter, it's all shameful.

The small wooden house at the foot of the mountain has been in disrepair for many years and has been uninhabited for most of the time; the two doors can no longer be closed properly.

Through the thick, slanted gap, one could vaguely see two figures overlapping on the open ground inside.

Qiao Guilan quickly stood in front of the door and sent the villagers back.

Tang Suxiang led the commotion, and Song Erzhuang lost face. He was so angry that his eyes were spitting fire. He was furious that a young, unmarried woman had done such a shameful thing with someone. He wanted to go in and beat her to death right now!

"Get out of my way!" Song Erzhuang shoved his wife away.

Qiao Guilan fell to the ground, grabbed her husband's trouser leg, and said, "Have some face for the child!"

"After doing something like this, what face do you have left!" Song Erzhuang kicked open the door and was about to rush in when he heard Xie Daguang's loud shout.

Xie Daguang rushed into the crowd behind him.

He was having a few drinks with some people in the village when he heard that someone from Songzhuang Village had informed Song Erzhuang that Song Caixing had been knocked unconscious and taken away by Han Zhiyuan. He immediately chased after them.

A village woman saw the two men, their clothes disheveled and intertwined on the ground, still not separating. She covered her eyes in embarrassment and said, "Oh dear, in broad daylight, how shameful!"

Some villagers said, "He's sleeping so soundly, he must have been so violent just now." Hearing this, Song Erzhuang's face turned red with embarrassment.

Xie Daguang grabbed Han Zhiyuan and punched him several times.

"Han Zhiyuan, Cai Xing is my woman, how dare you sleep with my woman?"

Han Zhiyuan was jolted awake by Xie Daguang's punch. He groggily reached up to touch the back of his neck, which was throbbing slightly. When he saw Xie Daguang clearly, he shoved him away, yelling, "What's wrong with you? What nonsense are you spouting! What Cai Xing!"

The woman beside him woke up at this moment. Xie Daguang excitedly pushed Han Zhiyuan away, picked up the woman on the ground, and said, "Cai Xing..."

When Xie Daguang saw the woman's face clearly, he suddenly fell silent.

A sharp-eyed villager exclaimed, "Isn't that Li Er's wife, who sells pork at the market?"

When Han Zhiyuan saw Zhao Huizhen's face, his eyes widened in shock. "Where's Yinhua? It's clearly Song Yinhua, how could it be you?"

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On the mountain behind the small, dilapidated house, Song Yinhua leaned against a tree trunk with her eyes closed.

She was completely enveloped by the shadows of the trees, and a tall man was squatting beside her.

Huo Jianguo quietly watched Song Yinhua. He had seen Zhao Huizhen when she went to the machinery factory in town to find Han Zhiyuan.

My cousin Xie Daguang has mentioned to his cousins ​​more than once that Han Zhiyuan was after Song Yinhua.

Song Yinhua had saved his mother, and he didn't want her to be schemed against by Han Zhiyuan.

Previously, he worked at the only auto repair shop in town. A few days ago, he joined the machinery factory where Han Zhiyuan worked, responsible for machine repair and debugging. Keep an eye on Han Zhiyuan's movements.

When Han Zhiyuan knocked out Song Yinhua and was about to bully her, it was he who knocked out Han Zhiyuan and then threw the previously knocked-out Zhao Huizhen into the dilapidated house.

He wasn't sure if he could be so lucky to protect her every time, so he could only do his best.

Huo Jianguo stared intently at Song Yinhua, as if he could never get enough of her.

Song Yinhua's eyelids twitched, and she slowly opened her eyes.

There was no one around, only birdsong and the sound of the wind.

Song Yinhua wondered why she was here.

She remembered going to rescue Cai Xing, who had been taken away by Han Zhiyuan, and then she remembered nothing else.

Thinking of Cai Xing, Song Yinhua hurriedly left.

Huo Jianguo, who had been hiding to the side, finally came out and silently watched her departing figure.