When Huang Hongmei married Zhang Laowu, Zhou Dashu and his siblings were already quite grown up, so they were not allowed to change their surname.
When Li Ermei gave birth to Congming, in order to please Zhang Laowu, Huang Hongmei persuaded Zhou Dashu and Li Ermei to let Congming take Zhang Laowu's surname.
Zhou Dashu and Li Ermei thought that they would definitely live in the Zhang family in the future, so they decided to let the child take Zhang Laowu's surname. They thought that maybe the child would be treated better because of the surname Zhang, so they agreed.
That's why intelligent people have the surname Zhang.
Perhaps when he was born, Zhou Dashu and Li Ermei had considered his future, but they never expected that his life would end in the hands of his parents.
"By the way, the reason I came to talk to you about this is to remind you that Li Ermei is acting like she's gone mad right now. If you run into her on the street, be careful, lest this mad dog bite you."
Finally, Aunt De revealed the purpose of her visit.
"Surely it's not that serious?" Fang Yan was a little confused. "Zhang Congming's matter was caused by his own family, it has nothing to do with me, why is she attacking me?"
Aunt De, however, gave her a "you're still too green" look. "Does a mad dog need a plausible reason to bite someone?"
Fang Yan: ...
I have to say, Aunt De was right.
Fang Yan didn't expect that she would run into Li Ermei and Zhou Dashu so quickly, on the afternoon of the third day.
More precisely, the two of them waited for Fang Yan on her way home.
Today, an elderly man in the village asked Fang Yan to buy him two jin of fish in the county town.
Fang Yan had just delivered the fish to the person when she turned back and saw the two of them waiting by the roadside.
Before delivering the fish, Fang Yan thought it would only take a few minutes, so she left Qi Bei at home to keep the little fish company.
With Qibei by her side, Fang Yan could at least feel a little safer.
Now, all by herself, all alone, she's still a little scared.
Especially when Fang Yan saw Zhou Dashu and Li Ermei, their eyes bloodshot with rage, as if they were looking at their mortal enemies, her heart skipped a beat. She instantly remembered what Aunt De had said the day before yesterday and thought, "It really can't be like what Aunt De said, that the mad dog has come looking for us."
They really know how to find a good spot; this is a dilapidated house that no one lives in.
I heard that this was a house where no one lived. After the whole family died, people disliked the house, fearing it would bring bad luck, so no one was willing to build a house near it.
So, with at least two or three plots of land in front, behind, left, and right, where no one had built houses and the open space was overgrown with weeds, it was a perfect place to kill someone and cover up their crime.
"You bitch! You'll pay for my son's life!"
Li Ermei suddenly charged at Fang Yan like a wild bull, as if she wanted to knock her away.
Fortunately, Fang Yan had some basic Muay Thai skills from her previous life. She kept a close eye on Li Ermei, and when Li Ermei was about to crash into her, she quickly dodged away.
"Bang..." Li Ermei couldn't stop herself and stepped on a round pebble, falling straight to the ground. Her forehead hit the ground first, causing a small but noticeable wound from which blood gushed out.
However, the pain of losing her son seemed to oblivious to Li Ermei. She didn't even get up; instead, she turned and scrambled towards Fang Yan, yelling, "You killed my son! You heartless murderer, you owe me my son's life!"
Because they were afraid that they would be implicated, arrested, or even shot.
So she and Zhou Dashu were too afraid to report it to the police.
And because they would have to continue living in the Zhang family's house, they didn't dare to do anything to Zhang Laowu.
But their son is gone.
Their resentment, unwillingness, regret, grief, anger, and other emotions needed an outlet.
Zhou Dashu and Li Ermei dared not do anything to Zhang Laowu, and they never looked for problems within themselves.
If there's a problem, it must be someone else's problem; I have no problem at all!
And so, this eccentric couple pinned the blame for Zhang Congming's death on Fang Yan.
Fang Yan was worried that Zhou Dashu would launch a surprise attack, and if that happened, she would be fighting two people by herself and definitely wouldn't be able to handle it.
Therefore, she acted decisively, taking a small running start before Zhou Dashu could make a move, and kicked him to the ground first.
He turned around and kicked hard, sending Li Ermei, who was about to crawl to his feet, rolling several times...
"It was Zhang Laowu who told you to feed Congming the herbal juice. The herbs were picked by Zhou Dashu from the mountain, and he was the one who ground the juice. You fed it to your son yourself. What does it have to do with me?"
Li Ermei, don't try to madness on me. If you want to avenge your son, you should drag them down to hell with you!
"It's incredibly unlucky that my son married parents like you, who only care about money and wouldn't even care about their son's life!"
"No! It wasn't me! I didn't!"
Li Ermei waved her hands everywhere as if trying to drive away something unseen, appearing mentally deranged, and kept defending herself, "I didn't, it wasn't me, I didn't kill Congming, it wasn't me!"
"I'm his mother! How could I harm him? It wasn't me!"
It's clear that the pain of losing her child is driving her to the brink of madness.
But Fang Yan showed her no sympathy whatsoever. "If you had known this earlier, why did you do it in the first place?"
What's the use of regretting it now, of being in unbearable pain now?
"What do you know? What do you know? What don't you know..."
After shouting and questioning several times, Li Ermei suddenly burst into tears again, wailing at Fang Yan, "Your man gets a stipend, your pockets are bulging, you have no idea about our suffering..."
Without money, they didn't even dare to utter a word of protest at home.
It was because Zhang Laowu promised that once he found money in Fang Yan's house, he would give them half of it.
Thinking back to how Fang Yan has been selling braised food in the county town every day since the family split up, and how her business is supposedly booming.
Rumors are circulating that Fang Yan must have earned at least seven or eight hundred yuan during this period.
After deducting what's used up, there should be around six hundred left, right?
Half of six hundred is three hundred yuan!
Zhou Dashu and Li Ermei, who had never saved a hundred yuan before, immediately had their eyes light up.
In addition, Zhang Laowu repeatedly assured that the herb would not kill anyone, it would only make people faint.
They were so blinded by greed that they immediately agreed.
But no one considered that the long-term malnutrition had made Zhang Congming's body particularly weak, and this dose of herbal juice would cause him to never wake up again.
"Do I not know your suffering?"
Fang Yan looked at her and said, "You know better than anyone what kind of life I lived before we separated. Do you think I don't know the bitterness of being broke?"
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