Chapter 16
Yunmian did not notice the harshness in her mother's words. She pressed her cheek against her mother's rough palm and whispered to her what had happened in the morning.
At the end, the little girl puffed her face in annoyance: "I was going to pick up a lot of mushrooms...but my bag was left on the side of the road. What if someone picked it up?"
The next second, she was gently embraced by her mother.
"Mother?"
Mianmian hugged her mother back in a daze. She had no idea that she almost couldn’t wake up, and she had no idea that she was facing life and death.
She was just happy that she could see her mother as soon as she opened her eyes.
Yun Jin rubbed her daughter's hair that had been torn and tangled, and whispered, "Forget about the bag. I'll pick it up tomorrow. Does Mianmian still feel any pain? Are you hungry?"
Mianmian hesitated for a second, then rubbed her cheek against her mother's warm embrace and said softly, "Mianmian doesn't feel any pain, but I'm a little hungry. I want to eat the noodles that mom cooks~"
Seeing her mother hurriedly closing the door and preparing to go home to cook noodles, Yun Mian frowned in pain after she left. She curled up on the bed like a shrimp, groaning with gritted teeth.
She lied to her mother. In fact, it hurt so much. Her whole body hurt!
But in her previous life, her mother always asked her if it hurt. At first, Mianmian would tell the truth, but every time she finished, her mother could only hug her more anxiously or hide her tears. So Mianmian later learned to endure the pain and smile at her mother.
Mom is already very tired, and Mianmian can’t make her worry anymore.
Even in this life, mom is still the same mom, and Mianmian can't bear to see her cry.
"Uncle System, am I sick again?" Yun Mian endured the pain all over her body, looking a little helpless.
The system flew in front of her, imitated her previous action, and gently touched her forehead, saying softly: "Don't be afraid, Mianmian, you are just injured, not sick, you will be well soon."
Yun Mian then pursed her lips and smiled with relief.
As long as he is not sick, otherwise mom will have a hard time.
…………
After I finished eating the mushroom noodles cooked by my mother, the sky outside the window was already faintly turning pale.
It's dawn.
Yunjin hadn't rested for a whole day and night, and her already tired eyes were filled with red bloodshot. After getting the affirmative answer from the village doctor that Mianmian was fine and just needed to go home and recuperate for a while, Yunjin asked Sister Lihua to take care of the child, lowered her head to pat her gray and old clothes, took a deep breath, opened the door and walked out.
My daughter woke up, but that doesn’t mean the matter is over.
On the contrary, this matter has just begun. If the four children of Zhao Guangcheng's family did not give an explanation for Mianmian's injuries, Yun Jin would never give up today.
It was only seven o'clock in the morning, and many people had already gathered in the courtyard of the village doctor's house, and the number was getting larger and larger.
These people are all villagers from Zhaojiagou. Yesterday, many of them stayed here for a long time but failed to wake up the unconscious Yunmian. After they returned, the news spread from one person to another. In just one night, not only the people in Zhaojiagou knew about it, but even people from several neighboring villages probably knew that a child in Zhaojiagou was almost beaten to death.
As the instigator, Zhao Guangcheng and his family had been squatting outside early waiting for any movement inside.
They watched the village doctor and his wife go in, and watched them come out. When they wanted to stop the two village doctors and ask them about the current condition of Yunmian's child, the tightly closed door opened again.
When they saw Yun Jin straightening his back and walking out step by step, inexplicably, everyone present slowly stopped talking, and the whole courtyard became quiet, so quiet that you could almost hear a pin drop.
Yun Jin immediately locked onto Zhao Guangcheng's eldest son, Zhao Hongnian, who was shrinking his neck and trying to get into the crowd.
But she just glanced at the other person indifferently, and did not specifically pull him out to cry and complain to the sky. Instead, she ignored him and walked straight out.
This scene stunned everyone in the courtyard. Aunt Peng, who also arrived early, hesitantly called out to Yunjin when she was about to step out of the courtyard.
"Xiao Jin...Where are you going?"
As soon as this question was asked, the eyes that were originally focused on Yun Jin became burning again. It was obvious that this was not only what Aunt Peng wanted to know, but also what everyone present wanted to know.
Yunjin was grateful for Aunt Peng's care for her every day, and was also grateful that she waited for so long at the village entrance yesterday just to tell her that Mianmian was injured.
So when Aunt Peng spoke, Yun Jin stopped, with a calm look on her face, and under everyone's curious gaze, she slowly replied, "Aunt, please help me keep an eye on Mian Mian. I'm going to the county town."
county seat?
What are you going to the county town for?
Someone asked out of curiosity. Yun Jin answered very calmly, but every word that came out of her mouth broke the silence of the courtyard in an instant.
"I'll go to the police station and report the case."
These words were like a spoonful of boiling water poured into sizzling oil. With just a crackling sound, no one could continue to be a calm spectator.
There was a commotion in the courtyard. Zhao Guangcheng's family turned pale in an instant. They looked at Yun Jin in panic, their lips moving but their words were blocked in their throats by fear and they couldn't make a sound.
Someone was anxiously trying to persuade Yun Jin to stop. While reaching out to pull her, he hurriedly advised: "Sister Yun Jin! Sister Yun Jin, don't be anxious! This matter... this matter..."
After talking about this for a long time, I still couldn’t say the following sentence: “It’s not serious enough to report it to the police.”
After all, everyone saw that Yun Mian was beaten all over yesterday, and the village doctor even said that if she didn't wake up, she would never wake up again. It can be said that she was almost beaten to death by the four grandsons of Zhao Guangcheng. If this is not serious, how serious could it be?
So he stammered for a long time, and finally let go of her hand awkwardly under Yun Jin's quiet gaze.
However, with his absence, more people in the courtyard came to their senses from their shock and spoke up to calm Yun Jin down.
But Yunjin is not the kind of person who is soft-hearted and easily bullied, nor is she the kind of soft-hearted person who would retreat, yield, and make a big deal out of a small matter just because bystanders use the overall situation to pressure her with a few words.
Yun Jin pulled her sleeve back from Aunt Peng's hand, ignored the anxious villagers, and strode out calmly, as if no one could make her change her determination to report the case.
But as soon as he walked out, he was stopped again.
This time she stopped again, because the people who called her were the village chief and the village party secretary who were hurriedly invited over after seeing that the situation had gotten out of hand.
"Yunjin, how is the girl Mianmian doing now? Is she awake?" The village chief glanced at the courtyard behind him and asked slowly about Yunmian's situation.
He didn't stop anything right away, so Yun Jin gave him face and relaxed his expression. He nodded and said, "Mianmian woke up in the middle of the night yesterday. Sister Lihua is helping me take care of her now."
"It's good that he woke up, it's good that he woke up." The village chief smiled and breathed a sigh of relief, and sighed: "This child must be blessed with a good life. Now that this disaster is over, everything will be much smoother in the future."
Yun Jin nodded gently, and then she heard the village party secretary next to her ask her: "I heard from Lao Liu that Mian Mian injured the back of her head and the bones in her body. He also thinks it would be best to take the child to a large hospital in the county for a check-up. Of course, we also know that it is not easy for you to live with Mian Mian alone, so today I came here to discuss with you the subsidy the village will give you in the future. What do you think?"
Hearing this, Yun Jin smiled at him gratefully: "Thank you for the help, village cadres, but can you wait until I come back?"
"...Where are you going so early in the morning for some urgent matter?" The village chief smiled and pretended to be confused even though he knew the truth.
Yun Jin also smiled tiredly and said bluntly, "I will go to the county police station to report the case and ask the police to arrest those little beasts who hurt Mian Mian. You two also know that there is a saying that a thief can steal for a thousand days but cannot guard against thieves for a thousand days, right?
If we let those four little beasts live in the village, what will happen if my daughter Mianmian is bullied by them in the future? If we don’t catch them and shoot them, I, as a mother, will never be at peace in my life.”
Almost every time Yun Jin said a word, the village party secretary's eyelids would twitch. When she finally said that she wanted to report the case and have the person shot, the villagers who had been listening quietly couldn't help but gasp in horror and looked at Yun Jin with awe in their eyes.
Shoot... This is too cruel. This will wipe out Zhao Guangcheng's family!
"Xiao Jin! Xiao Jin!" Zhao Guangcheng finally couldn't hide it anymore, and he walked forward with a wry smile, still holding his eldest son in his hand. After he approached, he bent over and smiled flatteringly: "I know that it was those kids in our family who did this unkindly. When we got home yesterday, Hongnian tied them to a pillar and beat them severely. Today, they couldn't even get out of bed. Look at you... We are also fellow villagers. Please be magnanimous and forgive them this time. They really won't dare to do it again. Just think of it as Uncle Zhao begging you, okay?"
He spoke very earnestly, but he was reluctant to say even a harsh word, and most of his words were just excuses.
Yun Jin listened coldly, and finally her face turned cold and she sneered, "I spared them? Who spared my Mian Mian yesterday? I haven't bothered your family for Zhao Yuntao's slander of her stealing things at school, but now four little beasts pinned my daughter to the ground and beat her. I'm afraid they have read too much and become stupid, right?!"
"There's no way I'll let them go. Unless all of you in Zhaojiagou are shameless and willing to tie up a helpless widow like me and beat me to death, I will never let those four little bastards go! Even if it means risking my life, I'll drag them down with me!"
Only then did Yun Jin reveal a frightening cruelty, his eyes were so sharp that it seemed as if he wanted to tear a piece of flesh from Zhao Hongnian alive.
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