Chapter 221 Murder

Looking at Liu Xian's appearance, Zheng Haiyang knew that he couldn't possibly gain any advantage over her.

However, just as Liu Xian said, he couldn't continue to endure in Bakushu Village.

We're all in the same boat, so there's no point in continuing to hide things.

So he simply made his point clear.

"What I mean is, of course, that we'll steal Shao Guoyang and Li Aiping's admission notices together!"

"Stealing... probably won't be enough!"

A dark light gleamed in Liu Xian's eyes.

“They’ve already seen the admission notices and know which universities they’re from. If we steal them and apply to universities in advance, it will only cause more trouble when Shao Guoyang and Li Aiping come looking for us.”

Hearing her say that, Zheng Haiyang was taken aback, then his expression turned somewhat grim. He said in a slightly hoarse voice, "So, you mean..."

"Either don't do it at all, or settle it once and for all... kill them to silence them!" Liu Xian's voice was icy, and her usually quiet and elegant eyes were now flashing with a crazed light.

"Kill...kill people?"

Zheng Haiyang did not expect that Liu Xian would directly propose to kill someone.

The most he could think of was to steal Shao Guoyang and his wife's admission notices while they were asleep.

Then they impersonated them to attend university.

He truly never dared to consider the idea of ​​killing someone to silence them.

Seeing the fear on his face, Liu Xian snorted coldly and said, "Do you really think that if we steal their admission notices, they won't come looking for us at the school? In that case, not only will we not be able to go to university, but we'll also be sent to a labor camp!"

Zheng Haiyang swallowed hard, somewhat hesitant: "Liu Xian, maybe we should just call it off!"

"Forget it? You mean you want to stay in this lousy place for the rest of your life? You might as well be dead!"

Liu Xian's eyes reddened, and then she said to Zheng Haiyang in a coquettish tone, "Even if the two of us don't care, are you willing to let your future child be born in a place like this? Think about Liu Jiabao?"

Upon hearing Liu Xian's words, Zheng Haiyang's expression finally changed.

Since Chen Zhaodi hanged herself, and Liu Heping was arrested and sent to a labor camp for attempting to rape Xu Yirou, Liu Jiabao has become an orphan.

Everyone in the village has seen how Liu Jiabao treated Chen Zhaodi.

In addition, everyone in the village was poor and had no extra food, so no one was willing to adopt Liu Jiabao.

Liu Jiabao wandered around the village like this, occasionally receiving a half or a half steamed bun from kind-hearted people.

He even learned to steal chickens and dogs, and one morning he was found drowned in a ditch at the edge of the village.

It seems that Liu Jiabao was starving and wanted to catch fish and shrimp in the ditch, but because he was too small, he fell into the water and couldn't get up, so he drowned.

Now, when Liu Xian mentions Liu Jiabao, I think about the possibility that my child might grow up in this Bakushu Village just like Liu Jiabao.

Even if they don't suffer the same fate as Liu Jiabao, they will still be like other children in the village, with unkempt hair and grime, dealing with the land all day long.

Zheng Haiyang also felt he couldn't take it anymore.

He couldn't even imagine that a disheveled child with black fingernails and snotty nose could be his own child.

Having thought it through, he finally made up his mind, nodded, and said, "Okay, let's steal the acceptance letter together and then kill them to cover it up!"

Liu Xian was relieved. After all, she definitely couldn't have accomplished this task on her own. If Zheng Haiyang didn't understand, she really wouldn't have been able to finish it.

"In that case, let's wait until it's late at night, when they're sound asleep, and then we'll make our move!"

A cold glint flashed in Liu Xian's eyes. No matter what, she had to go to university. Only in this way could she return to the city, even if it meant taking a life for it.

So the two of them huddled under the covers and began whispering among themselves, discussing how they could kill Shao Guoyang and Li Aiping quietly.

The result of their discussion was that after Shao Guoyang and Li Aiping fell asleep, they would sneak into their room and kill them both.

Then they found the admission notice, set it on fire, and burned down the entire educated youth settlement.

After everything was agreed upon, Liu Xian went to fetch kerosene and began to place firewood around the house and pour kerosene on it.

In the winter of Northeast China, every household prepares plenty of firewood to heat their kang (a traditional heated brick bed).

The educated youth settlement was no exception, and Liu Xian, who was used to doing things in the countryside, had no problem doing these things at all.

After Liu Xian arranged the firewood and poured kerosene on it.

Zheng Haiyang did not hesitate to start prying open Shao Guoyang and Li Aiping's door.

Zheng Haiyang originally thought it would take some effort to pry open Shao Guoyang's door.

To his surprise, the door to Shao Guoyang's room was easily opened with just a push.

Seeing this, Zheng Haiyang smiled coldly, assuming that Shao Guoyang and the others were too happy to accept the admission notice and had made such a low-level mistake.

This actually makes things more convenient for myself.

Thinking it over, Zheng Haiyang raised the wood-chopping knife in his hand and walked in the dark toward the kang (heated brick bed) where the two of them were.

As soon as he got close, he nervously slashed down with his knife.

"Bang!"

A dull sound came from inside, not at all like the sound of something being struck on a quilt or a human body.

Zheng Haiyang's heart skipped a beat; he had a bad feeling.

He quickly raised the machete and chopped wildly a few more times.

But it all felt like the blows landed on the kang (heated brick bed), which was completely empty.

Shao Guoyang and Li Aiping are nowhere to be seen.

There's no one in the house?

Could it be that they heard me push the door open and hid?

At that moment, he couldn't care less about anything else.

He quickly called out, "Liu Xian, Liu Xian, come in quickly!"

Regardless of whether Shao Guoyang and his men are hiding, he has a knife in his hand now, and even if they hide in a closet or some corner, he will not let them go.

By this time, Liu Xian had been waiting for Zheng Haiyang for quite some time, holding a torch.

Hearing Zheng Haiyang's voice, they assumed he had already succeeded and quickly went inside with a torch.

"Brother Zheng, how is it?" After all, it was her first time killing someone, and no matter how ruthless Liu Xian was, she couldn't help but feel nervous and scared.

However, spurred by the acceptance letter, she went into the house without the slightest hesitation.

However, once inside, she quickly realized something was wrong under the torchlight.