Chapter 121 The Brain Has Rusted

"Why should I stop him? He has to pay the price for doing wrong, and he deserves to be detained."

Su Laosan scratched his head. "That's true, but... wouldn't Second Brother's reputation be ruined? How will he find a job and a partner in the future?"

Li Banxia paused, then looked up and gave Su Laosan a deep look.

She asked casually, as if it were nothing out of the ordinary, "When did you become so concerned about your second brother? Isn't this the time when you two always argue and bicker over every word?"

"That's different."

Su Laosan clicked his tongue and looked at Li Banxia, ​​"Mom, is it that you can't stand us brothers washing the wall? Besides, I don't think Second Brother did anything wrong in beating Fourth Brother. As the saying goes, the eldest brother is like a father. Second Brother and Eldest Brother were born around the same time. Eldest Brother isn't here, so Second Brother beats Fourth Brother. Shouldn't Fourth Brother suffer?"

Boss Su hesitated, wanting to say something, but then held back and kept his mouth shut.

Li Banxia frowned.

Do you know why your second brother beat up the fourth brother?

"I don't know."

Su Laosan shook his head and asked in return, "Why did Second Brother hit him?"

Li Banxia was speechless. "You don't know the reason, yet you're speaking up for your second brother? What's the difference between that and bullying the weak or abusing your power?"

When Su Laosan heard this, something seemed off, and his eyes darted around.

Li Banxia asked, "Mom, do you think Second Brother did the right thing or the wrong thing by hitting Fourth Brother?"

Li Banxia looked at him in surprise.

His first reaction wasn't, "Who cares who it is? I don't care."

The third son she remembered, who always waited for others to pull him forward, was now actually thinking about problems on his own?

Su Laosan noticed her strange gaze and began to have doubts.

With a strong sense of impropriety, he asked, "Mom, did I... guess wrong? Second Brother hit the wrong person, and Fourth Brother is in the right?"

"no."

Li Banxia came to her senses and said, "Your second brother didn't beat Xiao Si unfairly. Xiao Si is in the right, but both of them are right and wrong in this matter."

"ah?"

These words caused Su Laosan's CPU to overheat and burn out.

He looked at Li Banxia, ​​on the verge of tears, and said, "Mom, I don't understand what you're saying. Wrong is wrong, and right is right. How can it be that both of us are right and wrong?"

"...Xiao Si said things he shouldn't have said in front of your second brother. Your second brother was right to hit him. Xiao Si really deserved to be beaten!"

Li Banxia looked at her son and slowed her speech, "Xiao Si was beaten and injured. Legally speaking, no matter the reason, hitting someone is wrong. So your second brother is wrong in this respect, and Xiao Si is in the right..."

"But from another perspective, brothers fighting is a family matter. Xiao Si called the police to handle it, which escalated the family conflict. Your second brother was detained, which may leave him with a criminal record. Whatever he does in the future will be dug up, which will be very detrimental to his development in all aspects. From this point of view, Xiao Si is wrong, do you understand?"

Su Laosan, "..."

He licked his lips, forced a dry smile, and stared wide-eyed at Li Banxia with his clear, foolish eyes.

My eyes were filled with the message, "I heard it, but I didn't understand it."

Li Banxia, ​​"..."

She frowned a few times, pursed her lips, and glared at Su Laosan with disdain.

"You better think it over carefully, or you won't be allowed to eat tomorrow."

Su Laosan exclaimed "Ah!" as if the sky had fallen.

She cried out, "No, Mom! I understand, I definitely understand! Please give me some time! My brain hasn't been used in so long, it's rusted. I need to remove the rust first, I need to polish it..."

Li Banxia's lips twitched.

Push him aside and loudly call out to Brother Li to have dinner with his comrade-in-arms, Xiao.

Brother Li led Xiao Zhanyou to his seat.

Su Laoda, two steps behind, called to Su Laosan, "That's called brothers fighting, fourth tone, not washing the wall."

"Big brother!"

Su Laosan grabbed Su Laoda, "Did you understand what Mom meant just now?"

Boss Su hesitated for a moment, but he understood.

but……

Seeing his reaction, Su Laosan gripped him even tighter. "Big brother, I'm your own brother! We were born of the same mother! You have to help me! I can't go hungry..."

Boss Su, "..."

He frowned, relaxed, then frowned again, finally unable to resist asking Su Laosan.

"Shouldn't you be worried about how to resolve the issue between the second son and the fourth son?"

Su Laosan: "Ah? Yes, yes, but I need to have food to eat before I have the energy to worry..."

In the end, he was quite self-righteous.

Boss Su looked at him for a while and then shook his head.

Well, let's take it slow. The third child is much better than before.

The two brothers huddled together, and Su Lao Er (Older Brother Su) whispered to him, breaking down Li Banxia's words in detail. In short, if Su Lao Er (Second Brother Su) beat Su Xiao Si (Fourth Brother Su) and didn't call the police, the matter would be resolved internally. Calling the police would escalate the situation, and Su Lao Er would be in the wrong.

After pondering for a while, Su Laosan whispered to Su Laoda, "...Mom said that Xiao Si said the wrong thing, that it was right for Second Brother to hit him, that it was wrong for Xiao Si to call the police and harm Second Brother, and that it was wrong for Second Brother to hit someone. From beginning to end, Xiao Si is wrong. What did he do right..."

Boss Su, "..."

He secretly wondered, "The son looks like the uncle, right? The daughter looks like the aunt, right?"

May the Chairman bless me so that I don't end up like my uncle.

Brother Li looked at the two brothers who were chattering away, and his eyes were full of heartache when he looked at his little sister.

These bastards are all such a handful! I should have sent them all to the army for some serious training!

After the meal, the group planted the tree in the pit and covered it with soil.

Li Banxia told Su Laosan to press water to irrigate the wisteria tree. "People move and they live, trees move and they die," he said. He wondered if the wisteria tree could stay with him for the rest of his life like it did in his previous life.

Brother Li and Xiao Zhanyou sat for a while longer before driving away.

Before leaving, the brother and sister exchanged a glance.

In the middle of the night, Brother Li sneaked into the Su family's courtyard. Before Su Xiao Si could react, he twisted his arm behind his back and gagged him with a pillowcase from his bedside.

They beat the man up in the dark.

Every punch landed squarely, and Su Xiaosi groaned in pain, curling up on the bed and rolling around, but she still couldn't escape being beaten.

He reached his hand to his mouth several times, trying to pull the pillowcase out.

Brother Li got impatient and dislocated his arm.

Su Xiaosi was in so much pain that she was covered in cold sweat. She couldn't escape, couldn't hide, and couldn't call for help. She cried with tears streaming down her face, but not a single sound escaped her lips.

After finishing the beating, Brother Li reattached the man's arm, removed the pillowcase, lifted the curtain, jumped over the wall, and left.

Su Xiaosi hugged her injured leg, leaned against the wall, and cried her heart out.

The noise disturbed Su Youfu next door, who kicked the wall and yelled, "What kind of funeral wailing is this in the middle of the night? Shut up!"

Su Xiaosi covered her mouth, crying even more bitterly and humiliated.

The next day, as dawn broke, Su Hongmei got up to wash her face with water. She saw that Su Xiaosi's room door was wide open, and he was sitting on the bed with a bruised and swollen face, red eyes, and bruises of varying depths on his arms and thighs, clearly indicating that he had been beaten up.

"Fourth Brother, was the house burgled? You...you look terrible..."