Chapter 114 Lu Laosan: Something Big Has Happened

Lu Sanzhu, who had been keeping an eye on the sounds outside, rushed out as soon as he heard the sound of wheels rolling.

"Ayu is back? Come, come, give me this mule cart, I'll help you feed the mules."

As soon as he finished speaking, Da Niu opened the carriage curtain, revealing the two sisters inside.

Lu Sanzhu's smiling face froze instantly when he saw Daya's disheveled appearance and red, swollen eyes. "Daya, what happened to you?"

Shu Yu got off the mule cart, turned around and helped Daya down.

Both she and Da Niu had gloomy faces, which made Lu Sanzhu feel that something was wrong.

He immediately started shouting inside, "Mother, Second Brother, something's happened! Da Ya's in trouble!"

Shu Yu felt a sting in her ear, glanced at him, and led Daya into the courtyard.

As soon as I entered, several elderly women who had rushed over upon hearing the commotion came to greet me.

"Da, Daya, why are you back at this time? You, you..." The old lady was startled by her disheveled appearance and quickly grabbed her, asking, "What happened, huh?"

"Grandma, let's go inside first." Da Niu then entered the room and helped the old lady so she wouldn't be too anxious and lose her balance.

Lu Sanzhu, who was outside the gate, was very curious. He quickly led the mule cart into his own yard and tied it up. He said to his son, who was playing there, "Dabao, go to your uncle's house quickly and tell him that Daya is back and something happened. Ask your uncle to come over."

After Da Bao ran out, he pulled Liang Shi, who was holding Bao Ya, and ran towards Lu Erbai's house, saying, "Come on, let's go and see. I feel like something terrible is about to happen in our family."

Others might not know, but he was all too aware of Shu Yu's methods.

The last time she learned that Granny Ruan was going to sell Sanya and Dahu, she had the same murderous expression.

When the two ran into Lu Erbai's house, Shu Yu happened to be talking about what the Zhang family had done. When she saw Lu Sanzhu and the others, she just glanced at them and didn't stop them from coming in and sitting down to listen.

She continued, "...Except for Zhang Shu, who wasn't home, everyone in the Zhang family sat there with their legs crossed, watching my older sister work. They didn't treat my sister like a human being at all. They made her squat in the corner like a wooden stake, and had three children throw sunflower seed shells at her head, competing to see who could throw the most. If my sister tried to block them with her hand, that old woman Zhang would hit her on the head with a corncob."

“Those two daughters-in-law from the Zhang family knew that my sister brought back peaches last time and didn’t leave any for their son, so they said they would punish her. They let her go hungry all day, and when my sister came back from work, they suspected that she had hidden peaches again. As soon as she entered the yard, they started pinching and twisting her. Look at her, she doesn’t have much flesh on her body, and her arms are covered with marks from their pinching.”

The old lady listened with tears streaming down her face, cursing the Zhang family as beasts while regretting her poor judgment in choosing them and pushing her granddaughter into a pit of fire.

She grabbed Daya's hand, looked at her bruised and battered arms, and cried so hard she almost fainted.

Daya looked at Shuyu with a sob in her voice, "Erya, don't say anymore, don't say anymore."

Shu Yu didn't want to talk about it, but if she didn't let her family know about the suffering Daya had endured, they wouldn't realize the seriousness of the situation. Sooner or later, Daya would have to go back to that cannibalistic place.

Ruan Shi and San Ya were also crying with tears streaming down their faces. Lu Erbai was so angry that the veins on his forehead were bulging. Da Hu rushed straight to the door, shouting, "I'm going to avenge my eldest sister!"

However, he was pulled back halfway by Lu Dasong and Li Shi, who had just entered the room.

(End of this chapter)