Chapter 23 Chapter 23

As soon as Li Hua left, He Tingting, who was pretending to be asleep, opened her eyes.

She lifted a corner of the curtain and looked out into the yard through the gap.

In the moonlight, he saw Li Hua walking towards the gate quietly.

The He family's front door is made of wood, except for the iron bolt.

Over the years, the door bolt will naturally rust.

It takes some effort to open and lock the door every day, and sometimes my hands are covered with red rust.

He Tingting heard the dull sound of the door bolt opening.

She thought her second uncle was waiting outside the door and would come in soon.

Unexpectedly, Li Hua tiptoed back to the east room, climbed onto the kang, and lay down pretending to be calm.

He Tingting could only patiently pretend to be asleep.

I don’t know how long it was before He Tingting heard her second aunt snoring again.

It was already late at night, and I estimated that the sun would rise from the horizon in another hour or two.

After a busy day yesterday, He Tingting was a little exhausted at this time. She pinched herself in the quilt from time to time, fearing that she would fall asleep.

Judging from Li Hua’s actions just now, something is bound to happen tonight.

If she fell asleep and He Guan succeeded, she would be so upset*.

With this breath, He Tingting held on until three o'clock in the morning.

Finally, I heard some movement outside the house.

The old and unlubricated wooden door creaked in the quiet night.

Someone came in.

He Tingting suddenly woke up, her eyes half open, leaving a slit, trying to see if it was He Guan who came in.

About a minute later, light footsteps were heard.

A shadow entered the house in the dark.

Before going to bed tonight, He Tingting deliberately left a gap in the curtains.

At this time, the moonlight shone into the room, allowing her to see clearly who entered the room, it was He Guan.

He has a clear purpose.

As soon as he entered the room, he went straight to the kang.

He Lili is short, and even when she lies on the kang, she is much shorter than the two people next to her, making her very easy to distinguish.

After figuring out which one was Lili, He Guan took out a piece of cloth from his pocket.

He Tingting vaguely saw him reaching out towards Lili, and she thought to herself that something was wrong. She immediately stood up and shouted loudly.

"Someone come! Arrest him!"

While shouting, she reached out and grabbed He Guan's wrist to delay time.

Compared to her body when she first came here, He Tingting is now much stronger.

She grabbed He Guan's wrist tightly. He Guan was startled and couldn't break free for a while.

This gave the people in the next room time to react.

Guo Zhuang and his two friends agreed to take turns to rest tonight, with each sleeping for two hours to ensure that at least one of them would be awake.

It was Guo Zhuang's turn to wake up.

It was the middle of the night, and he was afraid that he would fall asleep, so he stood up to stay awake.

As soon as He Tingting shouted, Guo Zhuang slapped each of his two friends in the face, waking them up.

Then he jumped down quickly and rushed into the east room.

When Guo Zhuang entered the room, he saw He Guan holding a towel and trying to cover He Tingting's face with it.

Guo Zhuang's family had some money and bought a color TV.

There have been many cases reported on TV recently, and he had seen one where a towel like this was used to cover a person's mouth and nose, and the person would immediately faint.

Guo Zhuang became furious when he thought of those cases.

"Damn it, what are you doing!"

He was a strong man, only one centimeter away from being 1.9 meters tall. Standing at the door with his tall and strong figure, his aura alone was scary enough.

He Guan originally wanted to knock He Tingting unconscious and then take He Lili away directly.

After all, the two sisters have little ability to resist, so using tough measures will also succeed.

But he didn't expect that there was such a tall man hiding in He Tingting's house.

He Guan's heart skipped a beat, and he felt that he was going to fail today.

He subconsciously wanted to run.

He Guan was not tall, so he bent down and wanted to go around Guo Zhuang while he was not paying attention.

Guo Zhuang was so angry that he punched him.

He Guan was beaten directly out of the east room.

He Guan was used to hanging out in casinos and had been beaten before. When he was knocked to the ground outside the house, his first reaction was not to fight back, but to run away.

It was obvious that this person was inexperienced and actually knocked him out the door.

Doesn't this give him a chance to escape?

He Guan was secretly delighted. He stood up and ran towards the door.

Before he could even start running, he bumped into a wall of flesh.

That was the brother Guo Zhuang specially called.

He Guan bumped into a burly man who was 1.8 meters tall and weighed more than 200 pounds, but the guy didn't even move.

Instead, He Guan fell back and collapsed in the middle of the yard in a mess.

Seeing that he couldn't escape, he started cursing.

"Damn it! That indecent girl He Tingting is actually hiding a man in the yard!"

Guo Zhuang has seen many such scoundrels and deadbeats.

As soon as He Guan opened his mouth, Guo Zhuang guessed what he was thinking.

He held the towel that He Guan had thrown away in a panic and covered He Guan's face with it with force.

It took less than three seconds before He Guan fainted.

He Tingting was frightened, but her mind remained calm.

"Send it to the police station, Zhuang Ge. Thank you so much today."

"Don't be polite to me," Guo Zhuang frowned and asked his two friends to lift the man up.

"Let's take him to the police station first. Why don't you stay home and take care of some family matters?"

The family affairs that Guo Zhuang mentioned were Li Hua who secretly opened the door.

With such a big commotion, how could Li Hua not wake up?

She had woken up a long time ago and watched He Guan being beaten with trepidation.

When He Tingting said she wanted to send He Guan to the police station, her heart beat extremely fast.

She was afraid that He Tingting would suddenly ask to send her there too.

She was even more afraid that He Guan would expose her.

After He Guan fainted, Li Hua's uneasy heart felt a little relieved.

Unexpectedly, just when she was half relieved, He Tingting reached out and pushed her to the middle of the yard.

"No, we'll all go together."

Li Hua's heart was lifted again.

But she still had an illusion, hoping that He Tingting didn't know it was her who opened the door.

She suggested cautiously.

"It's so late, and Lili is still a child. It would be so scary for her to go to the police station. Why not let her stay and have a good sleep? I'll stay home with her."

He Tingting's expression was particularly cold.

Li Hua's heart sank as he watched.

When she spoke, my heart sank even more.

"No need, Second Aunt. I think you should go to the police station and explain why you opened the door for He Guan in the middle of the night."

She saw it, she saw it all.

In an instant, Li Hua's back felt cold and all the hairs on his body stood up.

She had no way to defend herself, and with three strong men around her, she couldn't tell a decent lie and could only be dragged to the police station.

The noise just now was quite loud.

The neighbors were all alarmed.

When He Tingting went out, her neighbor Aunt Jia came out and asked her a question.

"Tingting, what happened?"

The rural environment is relatively closed, and sometimes once rumors spread, it is difficult to dispel them.

Now is a good time to occupy the high ground of public opinion, and He Tingting will not give up.

She changed her previous calmness and forced herself to shed a few tears.

"Aunt Jia, I have a miserable life."

Aunt Jia couldn't bear to see the little girl cry, so she hugged He Tingting in her arms and patted her with heartache.

"What's going on? Tell Aunt Jia and she'll take care of it for you."

He Guan fainted and was carried by two men. Li Hua looked absent-minded again, and something was wrong.

Although Aunt Jia didn't know what had happened, she subconsciously felt that He Tingting was the one who was wronged, and glared at the other people.

"Aunt, my second aunt and second uncle had a quarrel and wanted to divorce, so I took her in. You know this too. I woke up suddenly in the middle of the night and found that my second aunt..."

He Tingting wiped her tears and choked before continuing.

"I didn't expect Second Aunt to secretly open the door for Second Uncle in the middle of the night, allowing Second Uncle to steal Xiaoli."

In earlier years, human traffickers were rampant in Jiajia Village.

What Aunt Jia hates most is people who steal children.

When she heard what He Guan had done, her eyes widened and she couldn't help but curse.

"You bastards, your conscience has been eaten by dogs. Tingting is so good to you, and you two conscienceless bastards actually want to steal Lili and sell her. If it were a few years ago, you two beasts would have been dragged out and paraded through the streets."

He Guan woke up slowly at this time.

Li Hua was so ashamed after being scolded.

She also knew that this was a very immoral thing to do, so she lowered her head deeply, not having the face to look at Aunt Jia, let alone He Tingting.

"Luckily, Brother Guo Zhuang had a lot of friends today and his room was full, so he came to stay in the west room of my house. Otherwise, I might not have a sister."

He Tingting spoke while sobbing.

She was indeed a little scared.

After all, this is reality, if she takes a wrong step her sister will really be gone.

In Aunt Jia's arms, He Tingting felt the warmth from her elders for the first time in a long time, and she couldn't help crying more and more sincerely.

"Good girl, stop crying. It makes your aunt feel bad."

"Aunt Jia is fine. Brother Zhuang and the others will help me send my second uncle to the police station. Don't worry."

Although He Tingting and He Guan are relatives, this is a case of human trafficking, and with witnesses and evidence, the matter will not be left unresolved, which also solves a major worry for her.

Aunt Jia became enthusiastic and went home to put on some clothes.

"Girls, you guys go to the police station first. I'll go to the village chief's house. I'd ask him to go there too. We won't let that beast He Guan escape justice."

The two of them sang in unison, making He Guan's face look as pale as gold paper.

He originally thought that even if he went to the police station, He Tingting would not be able to do anything to him because they were uncle and nephew.

But after hearing what the two men said just now, it was clear that they wanted to put him in jail and maybe even sentence him.

Only then did he regret his reckless act of stealing He Lili.

Not only did you fail to steal anything, but you also got yourself into trouble and might even go to jail.

"Tingting, uncle was wrong. I will never do this again. Please forgive me this time!"

He looked pitiful.

Unfortunately, He Tingting doesn't buy into the sympathy trick at all.

He gave a look, signaling Guo Zhuang and the others to move forward.

"Uncle, it's too late. People always have to pay the price for what they have done."

Li Hua, who was standing next to him, turned pale upon hearing this.

Yes, people always have to pay the price for what they have done.

He Tingting was so good to her, so why did she get so obsessed with helping He Guan open the door?

Li Hua regretted his decision.

But there is no medicine for regret in the world. No matter how much you regret it, you can only swallow the bitter fruit.

She held it in for a long time before finally uttering a sentence.

"Tingting, it's your aunt who is sorry for you."

He Tingting had been kind enough to take her in for so long, but after being stabbed in the back by Li Hua, she no longer had the good attitude she had before.

"Aunt, there's no need to say this. Let's go and tell the police when we get to the police station."

He Tingting held He Lili's hand tightly and walked forward with firm steps.

"I will no longer consider you two as my relatives. Anyone who wants to sell even his own niece is not worthy of being my family."

The more blunt her words were, the uglier Li Hua's expression became.

In the end, Li Hua couldn't help but glance at He Guan.

He Guan happened to look over as well, and the two looked at each other. He Guan instantly thought of a way to exonerate himself, and he shouted.

"This wasn't my idea, it was Li Hua, it was her idea!"

Li Hua felt extremely desperate.

The feeling of regret was like a mountain, pressing down mercilessly.

She couldn't help but imagine what would have been better if she had rejected He Guan at that time.