Seeing that the man had finished his cigarette, Lin Yi said tentatively, "Brother, please let me in. I'll give it a try. If it doesn't work, I'll give up."

The man turned ruthless at this moment. He stood up, patted the dirt off his buttocks, and swung his big stick:

"It's useless to go in. Go back quickly. Not everyone can come to our village. There are few girls in the village. The bachelors in the village are still unmarried. How can you, an outsider, get out of here? Get out now. If you don't leave, I'll ring the bell."

The man pointed to a bronze bell hanging on a big tree next to him. The rope that vibrated the bell was right next to him.

Lin Yi felt a gray spot on his chest from the tip of his stick. He was immediately unhappy and his face darkened. "Are you really not letting me in?"

Man: "You are not allowed in, you are not allowed in. If I tell you not to enter, then you are not allowed in!"

Lin Yi: "No room for negotiation?"

The man said impatiently: "What are you talking about? Get out of here!"

Lin Yi curled his lips into a cold smile, "I'm so sorry!"

The man was stunned and was about to ask him what he meant, but the stick in his hand was pulled out of his hand by him.

The man's reaction was not slow. As soon as the stick slipped out of his hand, he was about to pull the bell rope, but he was still a step too slow. Lin Yi hit him right in the forehead with a straight punch, and he fell down limply.

Lin Yi looked around. He thought that he couldn't just stay at the village entrance like that, otherwise he would be surrounded by armed villagers as soon as he entered the village. He thought the tree with the big bell hanging on it was a good choice. Although it was winter now, the weather in your province was still warm. Although many leaves had fallen off the tree, more of them were left on the tree.

He untied the man's belt and tied him to the tree. If he hadn't looked closely at the tree, he probably wouldn't have been able to see the person tied to the top of the tree from the ground.

Worried that the man would wake up and call for help, he suppressed his nausea and took off the man's socks and stuffed them into his mouth.

Before coming down from the tree, she took her cigarettes and lighter from the man's pocket.

Then he followed Ling Shuang's footsteps and swaggered into the village.

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When Ling Shuang arrived outside the fence of the Qiao family, he found that the Qiao family's yard was in a mess and noisy, and bursts of women's shrill wails could be heard from the house from time to time.

She crouched down and looked inside quietly. She saw three silent men sitting on the bamboo benches in the yard, one old and two young. They kept looking in the direction of one of the houses.

Outside the window of that room, there was a little boy of six or seven years old peeking through the crack of the window.

Soon, a young girl came over from another mud and thatched house carrying a basin of hot water. She whispered to the little boy, "Tie Niu, don't be afraid. This isn't your mother's first time giving birth. She'll be fine. Go to the kitchen and eat first. Don't worry, your aunt is here!"

Tie Niu shook his head with tears in his eyes, "Aunt, please let me in too. Mom is screaming so hard. If I go in and keep her company, she won't be afraid anymore."

The girl smiled at him tenderly and was about to say something else when an old woman's stern voice came from the room: "You silly girl, why don't you hurry up and come in? You're so slow even boiling water. Shouldn't I tighten my belt on you?"

The girl's face tensed, and Tie Niu quickly helped her push the door open: "Auntie, please come in quickly, grandma is getting anxious and scolding again."

The girl quickly carried the basin into the house. Tie Niu followed behind and wanted to see his mother's face, but the delivery room was not a place a little boy like him could see. Before he could see clearly, his aunt kicked the door shut.

Tie Niu felt like every second felt like an eternity. In reality, his aunt had only been in there for ten minutes when he heard a baby crying in the room. He also heard his aunt happily say, "It's born, it's born."

Tie Niu's heart was half relieved.

Outside the house, Tie Niu's grandfather and Tie Niu's father also gathered around excitedly. They shouted into the house, "What's the baby? Is it a grandson?"

Inside the room, Grandma Tieniu's voice was like a stone scratching glass, harsh and cold: "This useless person has given birth to another money-losing child."

Grandpa Tie Niu and Dad Tie Niu's faces suddenly fell, and they no longer had any patience. The old man walked out of the yard with his hands behind his back. Dad Tie Niu also carried a hoe and called his younger brother, ready to go to the fields to work.

As for the unexpected granddaughter (daughter) in the house, the old lady has experience and will handle it.

Tie Niu watched the three men leave the yard in silence. His heart began to lift again. He pushed the door open a little from the outside and heard his grandmother's low voice from inside: "Give me the child."

Then came the aunt's horrified voice: "Mom, you can't, this child is also the blood of our Qiao family, you can't..."

Grandma Tieniu's face was very bad: "If you want to blame someone, you can only blame your sister-in-law for not being able to bear the baby. We don't have extra food to feed a little girl. Give the child to me quickly, don't force me to do it."