"You stinking woman, what are you looking at?"
Li Mod was puzzled by her gaze, and a chill ran through him.
In the blink of an eye, Li Chunhua went out and brought back a kitchen knife.
"what you up to?"
Li Mod was so frightened that his face turned ashen.
He quickly called his two sons to help restrain her.
Leng Can helped Leng Huan get dressed, and was quite startled when he saw his mother take out a gleaming kitchen knife.
"Mom, what are you doing? Put the knife down!"
However, how could she listen when she was consumed by anger?
Li Chunhua approached the father and his two sons, brandishing a kitchen knife with a ferocious expression, shouting, "Die, all of you!"
The three men, father and sons, pushed and shoved each other, scattering in all directions while shouting things like "kill me, save me!"
Li Jianye and Li Jiantu grabbed Leng Can and Leng Huan and blocked them in front of them.
"Mom, put the knife down!"
"Mom, I don't want to die, sob sob sob."
Leng Can and Leng Huan were also terrified and turned pale, each trying to persuade the other to back down.
Li Chunhua's hard-won courage was mostly wasted by her two children before she could even unleash it.
Hao swung his knife wildly, injuring Li Mod and two others.
However, they were quickly subdued.
"You damned woman, I didn't even try to kill you, and you still want to kill me?"
"If it weren't for the fact that you can still work, do you think I would have spared your life?"
Li Mod pinned him to the ground and beat him severely.
Still shaken, Li Jiantu and Li Jianye stepped forward and kicked him twice with all their might.
The three men, father and sons, grumbling and cursing, snatched the multigrain pancakes from Leng Can's hand, shared them, and then fell asleep on the bed.
Outside, Leng Lie, shrouded in darkness, coldly watched all of this.
He couldn't be bothered to wait any longer.
He took out a match, intending to light the firewood on the edge of the steps.
Suddenly, a hand reached out and accurately grasped the match in his hand in the darkness.
"I'll do it!"
The person only said those two words.
Leng Lie then let go.
A tiny flame rose up, and Fang Yuan carefully protected it.
He lit the torch he had prepared long ago.
The firelight instantly illuminated two cold, desolate faces.
"Go back now, and don't let anyone find out."
A slight smile curved at the corners of Fang Yuan's lips, a smile that bloomed even in the cold wind, yet remained utterly icy.
Leng Lie glanced inside the room again, then turned and left.
Fang Yuan extinguished the torch.
I sat in the corner of the room, gazing up at the dark starry sky to rest.
Judging that Leng Lie had already arrived at Lengjiagou, he struck a match again.
He carefully guarded that glimmer of light, just as he guarded his perseverance and faith.
A short while later, the crackling sound of burning began.
He retreated into the darkness in the distance, and gave a cold, mocking smile.
Li Chunhua and Leng Can were not bad people, but they both deserved to die.
All cowardly, unscrupulous, and hypocritical people deserve to die...
Fang Yuan crouched in the darkness, motionless, watching the flames grow stronger and stronger until they engulfed the entire room.
The neighbor got up in the middle of the night and saw the house in the firelight, so he hurriedly woke up his family.
"Li Chunhua's house is on fire, should we go and help?"
"What's the point of saving them! Their house is burned to the ground, how can anyone live there, let alone us?"
"Something's not right. Last night I heard their two older sons shouting things like 'murder! Help!' Should we go check it out?"
"What are you looking at? Those three—father and sons—are lazy and good-for-nothing, and they make Li Chunhua work like an ox. Wouldn't it be better if they were dead?"
"But Li Chunhua also..."
"You damn woman, why are you meddling in other people's business? You'd be better off doing something yourself..."
The man's hands explored the woman's body, and he half-pulled, half-carried her into the house.
Anyway, the house that caught fire was a detached house, so it wouldn't burn down to other houses, so why bother?
Fang Yuan's clenched hands finally opened again.
***
At dawn, early risers smelled the smoky, fiery aroma.
"Huh, that scoundrel's house got burned down again?"
"Being burned twice in a row, could it be that we have offended some deity?"
"Listen, it sounds like someone's there!"
The group took out their tools and cleared a path. In the corner of the earthen wall, Li Chunhua, who had been burned, lay on the ground groaning.
Not far from her, Leng Can and Leng Huan were also severely burned, lying motionless, their fate unknown.
The wall behind the house, which was built with bamboo strips, straw, and yellow mud, had been burned to ashes.
On the large bed that was originally against the wall, Li Mod and his two sons were now lying on top of a still-burning beam.
Faced with such a tragic scene.
The crowd quickly rescued them.
"What a lucky guy! He's still breathing!"
A fire destroyed the last house they lived in, but all six people inside survived.
However, the wounds from being hit by the beam and the burns were varied and looked terrible.
The villagers sighed and took them to the health center.
"Um, should we inform Leng Lie? He can't just abandon his mother and younger siblings, can he?"
"What do you care? I heard he had a big fight with his wife yesterday and even hit Xiaoxi."
"I've heard about it too. Those two old bachelors tried to harass Xiaoxi, and not only that, the scoundrel and Li Chunhua each slapped Xiaoxi."
"Then who's going to pay for this? It's unfair to make us split it up, right? I don't want to!"
"Hey, who's willing to pay for their family's expenses?!"
......
Not long after, Guan Yuxi also heard the news.
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