Chapter 194 Do you believe that we actually live inside a book?

Everyone present was shocked, not only because the child who had just been kneeling there sobbing uncontrollably now seemed to have transformed into a lone wolf, determined to slaughter Mai Dong, his nominal "adoptive father."

Even more so because of what he said, he said that Xie Ting's death was related to Mai Dong.

Although Xie Ting has gotten along very well with everyone in the brigade during this period, in the end, she is just an ordinary woman in the cowshed. She was just lucky because she knew about medicinal herbs and was selected to help in Qin Suisui's medicinal herb garden. That's how she got her good fortune.

But Mai Dong's identity is different. He is a soldier who spent many years in Beijing. The two have nothing to do with each other. How could he be related to Xie Ting?

Moreover, when Mai Dong came over just now, her expression was off, and she even called out to him in such an intimate way as "Xiao Ting"...

Also, the fact that Mai Dong suddenly wanted to register Hu Zi under her own name a while ago is something that almost everyone in the brigade knows...

Medford was a shrewd old man; his eyes darted around, and a glint of brilliance suddenly appeared in his mind.

He quickly sent the young men he had called over to help him back. This kind of thing could ruin Mai Dong if things went wrong, so the fewer people who knew about it, the better. Besides, he sent them away so he could ask Mai Dong what exactly happened!

On the other side, Mai Dong was knocked to the ground by Hu Zi, and his abdomen was pierced by the sharp stone in Hu Zi's hand. Fortunately, it was just a stone, not a real knife. The child had great explosive power, but he was still weak, so it only injured his flesh. Mai Dong didn't care at all. He just sat on the ground in a daze, muttering, "How could this be... how could this be..."

Qin Suisui and the others ignored him and buried Xie Ting according to the proper procedures. They dared not have any other ceremonies and kept everything simple.

Before leaving, Qin Suisui walked to Mai Dong's side and said in a cold voice, "Sister Xie Ting said before she passed away that she hoped you would keep your promise and raise Hu Zi well."

After saying that, he left.

After returning home, Qin Suisui fell ill that very night, suffering from a persistent high fever. She remained in a daze, constantly muttering incoherently.

Pei Jiuyan was extremely worried. He fed her the fever-reducing medicine she had prepared herself and took her to the hospital. Even after getting an injection and medication, it still didn't help.

The next day at noon, Qin Suisui's fever subsided a little, but she was still in a dazed and confused state, and kept talking nonsense.

Pei Jiuyan was anxious, so he had to ask Su Yunyi to come and take care of her, while he prepared to go to the Snake Spirit Brigade to ask Palon for help.

But just as he reached the front door, Su Yunyi chased after him, saying, "Ayan, Ayan, Sui Sui is awake. Come back first."

Upon hearing this, Pei Jiuyan immediately threw his bicycle aside and ran upstairs to the master bedroom.

In the room, Qin Suisui was leaning against the headboard, her face still frighteningly pale, but at least there was a glimmer of light in her eyes.

"Wife." Pei Jiuyan strode over, pulled her into his arms, and hugged her tightly.

God knows what kind of turmoil he has gone through in his heart since last night. He has seen Qin Suisui injured and sick, but he has never seen her in such a confused and vulnerable state.

"Ayan, quickly release her and give Suisui some water."

"Yes, yes, honey, have some water."

Qin Suisui smiled weakly at them, and then, with Pei Jiuyan's help, gulped down a large glass of warm water.

"Sister Yunyi, I'm sorry, I promised to go shopping with you for clothes today."

Su Yunyi frowned and touched her forehead, speaking softly, "What nonsense are you talking about? Is buying clothes more important than your health? Besides, my matter isn't urgent, and his sister won't be here for a few more days."

"Tell me, what's wrong with you this time? Is it related to Sister Xie Ting's passing?"

Seeing that Qin Suisui didn't speak, Su Yunyi spoke up again: "There are no outsiders here, just the three of us, so I'll just ask you directly, was Xie Ting's death because of Mai Dong? Did he do that kind of thing to Xie Ting?"

Qin Suisui was startled and quickly looked up at Su Yunyi. Then, realizing what was happening, she quickly lowered her head again.

She didn't say anything, but her subconscious reaction didn't lie.

Pei Jiuyan narrowed his eyes and didn't say anything, but Su Yunyi was so angry that she cursed in a low voice: "Well! I knew that Tiger had gone out to play that night and came back acting strangely."

It turns out that on the very day Xie Ting was stopped by Mai Dong halfway up the mountain and forced to have sex, Hu Zi happened to witness it.

Mai Dong thought the location was very secluded, but he didn't know that behind that spring was Xie Ting and Hu Zi's "secret base." Back in the cowshed, before they joined Qin Suisui's medicinal herb garden, they ate the worst food and drank unclean rainwater.

Later, Xie Ting accidentally discovered that small spring on the mountainside. The spring water was clean and clear, and flowed continuously. Moreover, probably because the soil was moist due to the water source, many medicinal herbs and tender wild vegetables grew there.

From then on, the mother and son would go to that place to drink water whenever they were thirsty.

A ring of tall bushes grew around the spring, and if you hid inside, no one would find you. Sometimes, when they caught small prey such as mountain rats or birds, they would secretly take them there to process and eat.

That was their secret hideout.

That was also the place where Qin Suisui first met Xie Ting, who had fainted from heatstroke, and first saved her.

Little did we know that that place would also be the place where Xie Ting's life came to an end.

That evening after school, Hu Zi finished his homework early. Thinking that his mother would pick him up early, he wanted to go play with Ada for a while. But then he remembered that Ada had been having diarrhea for the past two days. Hu Zi recalled that his mother had taken him to find herbs to treat diarrhea by the spring before, so he decided to find some to give to Ada.

Unexpectedly, when I got there, I saw Mai Dong pinning my mother down, and my mother was motionless with a strange expression on her face.

Since Maidong appeared, he has always been very kind to him. Later, Maidong even became his "adoptive father" and sent him to school. In Huzi's eyes, Maidong has always been a good person.

Faced with this scene all at once, Tiger was greatly shocked. He didn't know what was happening between the two of them or what to do, so he simply ran back to the base in fear.

It wasn't until the day his mother passed away that Tiger finally understood what the expression on his mother's face was like.

It was despair, the despair of being powerless to struggle.

It is also a state of desolation, a desolation that signifies having no more attachment to this world.

Children don't grow up gradually; they suddenly grow up in a certain moment.

He suddenly realized the meaning of his name "Xie Simai" and that the man who had been so kind to him from the moment they met might be his biological father.

He remembered his mother's perpetually furrowed brow, the way she would often stare blankly at his face in her younger years, as if looking at someone else through him, the dwindling number of words she spoke, and... the despair on her face as she was pinned beneath Mai Dong...

It was Ophiopogon japonicus that killed his mother!

Qin Suisui was taken aback: "What's wrong with Tiger?"

“That day he got out of school a little earlier than usual. After finishing his homework, he told me he was going to the spring to pick some medicine for Ada to treat his diarrhea. But he came back in a little while, without picking any medicine. He was covered in grass clippings. He even asked me if Ophiopogon japonicus was his biological father.”

"What?! You're saying Tiger went to Little Spring?!"

“That’s right!” Su Yunyi’s eyes remained unchanged: “Sui Sui, Hu Zi saw Mai Dong bullying his mother that day, right? I knew that Sister Xie Ting’s clothes were all messed up that day, it didn’t look like she had just fallen. She walks that road every day, how could she have fallen so hard! And even swollen her mouth, that dog of a man Mai Dong!”

Qin Suisui didn't speak and lowered her head. With a little attention and by considering what happened that day, it was easy to guess the answer to this kind of thing.

"So Tiger is right, he really did kill Sister Xie Ting!"

Su Yunyi is usually a very gentle person, but when she thought about this incident, she cursed Mai Dong for a long time.

Pei Jiuyan looked at his wife's listless face, walked over and hugged her: "Wife, don't take the blame for Xie Ting's death. No matter who is to blame, it's not your fault."

If he didn't know why Qin Suisui suddenly fell ill, how could he not understand after hearing what the two sisters said? His wife was taking the blame for Xie Ting's death.

She probably felt that if she hadn't suggested that Mai Dong start with Hu Zi, Xie Ting wouldn't have lowered her guard against Mai Dong, and Mai Dong wouldn't have thought there was any hope of reconciliation, which is why she did what she did to Xie Ting, ultimately leading to Xie Ting's death.

Hearing Pei Jiuyan's words, Qin Suisui's tears rolled down her cheeks like large beads. She recalled the nightmare she had that night, in which Zhou Zecheng cursed this world in the book before he died. Later, Xie Ting died, and Pei Jiuyan, Song Yunlai, and Chi Donglin also died. Her parents died, and Su Yunyi, Jia Zhenzhen, her master, and her senior brothers all disappeared...

So even if the male protagonist dies, will the plot of this world still be the same as in the book?

She suddenly looked up at Pei Jiuyan and Su Yunyi: "Do you believe that we are actually just living in a book? Perhaps our fate has already been arranged by someone."