Perhaps it was because Hua Shi had stopped Li Shi from tormenting his second brother any further that Hua Xiao temporarily suppressed her inner resistance to Hua Shi and said in a sobbing voice,

"When my second brother came back from outside, he happened to run into Grandma coming back from changing the medicine. Grandma was already in a bad mood, and she immediately took out all her anger on my second brother, saying... My second brother had run out on his own initiative. Then she took a thick stick and beat him, poured ice water on him, made him kneel... and stepped on his lame leg..."

As Hua Xiao spoke, her voice choked up again and tears streamed down her face.

She felt sorry for her second brother...

Grandma is getting more and more extreme towards my second brother. She always likes to take her anger out on him... It's like she doesn't even consider him a human being...

Hua Shi reached out to touch Hua Yu's neck and felt his wet clothes. Looking at the young man who was still trembling even though he was unconscious, she frowned and sighed.

The ill-fitting clothes she wore were half too short, exposing her knuckles. One could clearly see that the exposed parts of her wrists and ankles were covered in bruises and purple scars.

Those were the marks left by Li's harsh beating with a stick...

"Give me a hand, help him into the house and change into dry clothes first."

The flowers were shivering from the cold, and the person seemed to be in a nightmare. All he could do was bring him back into the house, warm him up, and then see how things went.

With the help of his two sobbing younger brothers and sisters, Hua Shi took some effort and picked up the curled up Hua Yu with both hands.

She thought it would be a little heavy and was worried that she wouldn't be able to lift it.

But the boy, who was about fifteen or sixteen years old, looked a head taller than her, but was so thin that she dared not think about him.

The ground beneath her hand hurt her, and every bone in her body was clearly visible, yet so light and weak...

She didn't have to use much effort to carry the person back into the house.

"Go get some dry clothes for your second brother to change into."

Hua Shi touched the wet corner of Hua Yu's clothes and turned around to say to Hua Xiao.

Hua Xiao wiped her red eyes, pinched the corner of her clothes, and stood still, "Second brother... I only have this set of clothes, nothing else..."

Hua Shi paused, "Then change your wet clothes first, or cover yourself with a blanket."

As she spoke, she was about to reach out.

Suddenly, just as she stretched out her hand, before it even touched the edge of her clothes, her wrist was firmly restrained by an icy hand.

Hua Yu, who was unconscious just now, suddenly opened his eyes. His lifeless eyes looked fixedly at the beam of the house. After a while, his eyes turned to look at her.

Hua Shi was startled. At that moment, she clearly saw Hua Yu's cold eyes, which penetrated deep into her bones, looking at her.

"what are you up to?"

Hua Yu's voice was a little dry, and a warning sounded.

"Second brother! Are you awake?!"

Hua Xiao's eyes, which had been red from crying, lit up and she came over.

Hua Li, who was standing by, heard her second brother's voice, wiped her tears, and looked over.

Hua Shi retracted her hand. Seeing that he had woken up, she took a step back and rubbed her forehead. "...When you wake up, take off your wet clothes yourself."

Hua Yu's dark and cold eyes just now scared her.

She didn't know if she was seeing things, but at that moment, she seemed to see the cold murderous intent hidden deep in Hua Yu's heart...

That kind of look is definitely not what a teenager should have...

Naked and undisguised...murderous intent.

Hua Shi turned around and glanced at Hua Yu.

After Hua Yu woke up, he had already turned over and sat up from the kang bed, his eyes fixed on her vigilantly.

Their eyes met, and when Hua Shi looked over again, the cold murderous intent that he had just clearly felt had completely disappeared.

Hua Yuzheng raised his eyes and looked at her coldly.

Hua Shi walked out of the house. On the opposite side of the main hall, in Li's house, Hua Ciyuan also happened to come out.

Hua Ciyuan's face looked a little embarrassed. He covered his chest with his hands, looking as if he was disgusted by something, and then he dry-heaved.

Hua Shi glanced at him and walked out of the main room quickly.

Seeing Hua Ciyuan's appearance just now, she suddenly remembered that old man Hua, who had been given a mute drug by Li and hidden in the room, had not made a single sound...

Hua Ciyuan also knew the old secret hidden by the Li family... No, the entire Hua family knew...

Thinking back to the last time she accidentally broke into a room, it was stinking and in a mess. So much time had passed, and she had never seen Li clean that room.

It's easy to imagine that in that room, Mr. Hua was left unattended, with a lame leg, and could only eat, drink, defecate, and urinate in bed. Mrs. Li never cleaned for him, nor would they be allowed to get close. It was hard to tell how Mrs. Li could tolerate the extremely foul smell...

Hua Ciyuan was obviously disgusted by the scene in the room and he dry-heaved several times.

Hua Shi walked to the eaves of the yard, blinked, and looked at the place where he put down the bamboo basket.

A short, squatting little carrot head was staring at the bamboo basket with a fierce look in his eyes.

Xiao Hei stood beside the bamboo basket, hunched over, and roared fiercely at the little guy, as if trying to scare him away.

Little Huaying squatted on the ground with her hands behind her back. She was not scared at all. Her big, blinking eyes stared eagerly, as if she had spotted something good hidden inside.

Because Xiao Hei kept showing his claws and fangs to block him, he never found a chance to reach out.

In the stalemate, Little Radish Head was the first to lose his temper. He puffed up his cheeks, bared his teeth at the black cat, and imitated the black cat, breathing at it in a fierce manner.

"mine!"

“Meow…!”

The black cat also showed its sharp teeth.

One person and one cat, facing each other in a stiff stand...

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