Chapter 316 This troublemaker...

"If you ride that yellow bike again, I'll hit you with this, you hear me?"

"I heard you..." Chu Dexi responded timidly. After Chu Fudi put away the bamboo stick, he ran behind his grandfather and hid. Then he began to complain.

The sound of complaining was so loud that everyone in the house could hear it.

"Grandpa, Dad was about to hit me! Please hit him for me!"

The grandson instigated his grandfather to beat his own father; it's utterly upside down.

Chu Fu was just putting on an act, trying to scare Chu Dexi.

After being yelled at by Chu Dexi, he had the urge to hit someone, and his eyes slowly moved down, landing on Chu Dexi's buttocks.

Grandpa Chu glanced at Chu Fu, then staggered to his feet, supporting himself on his thighs, and sighed:

"Grandpa's too old to fight your dad anymore, you'd better figure it out yourself."

As he spoke, he returned to his room and closed the door.

This kid has really gone too far in causing trouble; his dad should teach him a lesson. He doesn't want to get involved in this.

Unable to rely on his most trusted grandfather, Chu Dexi turned his attention to Shen Xuewei.

Shen Xuewei didn't want to get involved in the matter between the father and son. When Chu Dexi looked over, she immediately turned her gaze away.

Fearing that the boy would pester her, she even turned around and went back to her room, locking the door from the inside.

She slept soundly through the night and heard no noise from the living room. However, when she woke up the next day, Chu Dexi looked at her with an unusually resentful gaze.

Shen Xuewei was happy staying at the Chu family home. When Chu De'an finished his exams on Friday, she and Chen Fangli went to town to pick him up from school.

When Chu De'an, who was twelve or thirteen years old, came out of the examination hall with several boys of similar age, he saw Shen Xuewei and Chen Fangli waiting downstairs.

His eyes lit up, and he strode down the stairs.

"Mom, sister!"

Then, looking at Shen Xuewei, she said, "Sister, you've been gone for so long, I thought you weren't coming back."

Shen Xuewei's eyes curved into a smile, "Isn't that why I'm here to pick you up?"

"Hurry up and pack your things, let's go home, and I'll go play with you later."

"Okay. Mom, Sis, you two wait for me at the school gate. I'll be ready and down in a minute."

Chen Fangli stepped forward, "Do you want Mom to help you tidy up? That way it'll be faster..."

As Chu De'an ran, he said, "No need, it's just a little bit of stuff. If you come over and help me pack, it might make things even slower."

He ran so fast that he didn't even care about the friends following behind him.

Shen Xuewei and Chen Fangli waited by the school gate. It seemed like less than ten minutes later, Chu De'an came rushing out, carrying a bulging schoolbag.

"Let's go, I'm all packed."

Chen Fangli took his schoolbag and carried it herself, letting him walk with Shen Xuewei.

Having not seen Shen Xuewei for a long time, Chu De'an seemed more lively than usual, asking questions from time to time.

The three of them bought some more things at the market before getting on the bus back to Fuxing Village.

Chu De'an also returned home for the holidays, and with the lively Chu Dexi around, the already bustling Chu family became even more lively.

Every time these brothers got together, Chen Fangli would pull Shen Xuewei away and tell her to stay away.

At first, she didn't know what was going on until she saw the two of them, who had been getting along well for only a few minutes, start arguing, and then get angry and start spitting at each other.

Chen Fangli sighed, "See? These two never have a moment's peace."

"Kang Kang is young, but he always likes to provoke De An. The two are evenly matched in their verbal skills, and when they get angry, Kang Kang will resort to physical violence."

“At first, De’an hit him a few times, but then one time he hit him too hard and Kang Kang’s arm was bruised for several days. Your second uncle said that Kang Kang was too young and that De’an should teach him a lesson in a different way. ... That’s how it turned out to be what you see here.”

Spit flew everywhere, spraying onto the two of them. The spray continued to spread, and Shen Xuewei and Chen Fangli, afraid of getting spit on themselves, took a few steps back and stood outside the door.

Ten minutes later, Chu De'an won the verbal battle. Chu Dexi, his mouth dry, drank a glass of water and stormed back to his room.

Shen Xuewei and her companion entered the room and sat down on the chairs.

Thinking about the things she had tidied up in her room, Shen Xuewei looked at Chu De'an, who had defeated Chu Dexi and had a slightly smug look on his face.

"De'an, let's go to Grandma's house tomorrow. I'll ride Auntie's bicycle with you, and you can help me carry my things, okay?"

Chu De'an was taken aback, scratched his head and said:

"Sister, I'm willing. But the problem is, my maternal grandparents have been taken to the city by my second uncle."

Shen Xuewei was somewhat surprised, "You went to live in the city with your second uncle? I called your second uncle before, why didn't he tell me?"

She took her phone out of her pocket. "I'll ask my second uncle."

A hand reached out to her and pressed down on her phone, which she was about to use to make a call.

Shen Xuewei looked up and saw Chen Fangli's hesitant face.

"Weiwei, listen to what your second aunt has to tell you..."

Chen Fangli prepared her words, "You... your uncle tried to steal money from home, and he happened to run into your grandfather. After a big fight, your uncle didn't get any money from home, so he went to someone else's house to steal in the middle of the night..."

“The homeowner was awake, and the theft turned into robbery. Then your uncle stabbed him twice, and he stayed in the hospital for several months.”

"Your maternal grandfather received the news and was so angry that he had a stroke and was hospitalized. Later, your second uncle took him to the city, and your maternal grandmother also went to the city to take care of him..."

Shen Xuewei tried hard to process this pile of bad news.

My uncle stabbed someone and is in jail again, which angered my grandfather so much that he ended up in the hospital...

A barrage of news hit her, and Shen Xuewei tried to calm herself down, saying:

"How is Grandpa? How serious was his stroke? ...I'm going to the city to see my second uncle and I want to see Grandpa and Grandma."

My maternal grandfather passed away two years later, not from a stroke, but because he slipped on the path while chopping firewood on the mountain, fell down the mountain, and was killed by a rolling rock.

In this life, as the elderly couple grew older and their family was not short of money, Chen Fangyang and Chen Fanglan, under the instigation of Shen Xuewei, began to pay a young man from a nearby village every month to cut firewood and deliver it to the Chen family.

The house was piled high with firewood, and a shed had been built outside to store even more. The elderly couple could burn it for four or five years without running out.

Therefore, they haven't been up the mountain for a long time.

However, despite avoiding such a disaster, Chen Fangqiu turned out to be the culprit...

Thinking of Chen Fangqiu, Shen Xuewei asked:

"Second Aunt, how many years was Uncle sentenced to?"

Chen Fangli shook her head, "This time it's not just a few years, he was sentenced to twelve years. When I asked your second uncle to see him, he even wanted your second uncle to pay for a good lawyer to help him..."

Shen Xuewei angrily said, "Help him my ass! It would be better to just let him stay in jail. I think twelve years is too little; he should be sentenced to twenty years!"

My maternal grandparents usually doted on my younger brother the most, and now it was my younger brother who caused my grandfather to be bedridden.

I wonder what the elderly couple were thinking at that moment.