Chapter 53 I'll break your legs first!
Xiang Wanning, who was being missed by her family, was now holding a wooden basin, a stick and soap and preparing to go to the river to wash clothes.
The sky was dark. The weather had been bad in the past few days. Xiang Wanning had some difficulty carrying a basin of clothes. When she reached the river, many aunts had already arrived there. After seeing her, they took a glance at her. Someone deliberately said loudly, "Hey, what wind brought this young lady here?"
The person next to him immediately said, "She's just catching a cold, and she dares to complain to her parents? Not only does she not wash the clothes, but she also loses her temper at home! Oh, the Xiang couple gave birth to her as if she had given birth to a ghost!"
"Yes, I heard that she woke up crying at home yesterday. If you didn't know, you would think her parents abused her!"
Someone scooped up some water from the river and splashed it towards Wan Ning. Seeing that she was soaking wet and shivering, someone even said something sarcastic: "With such a poor health, who would dare to marry you in the future? How are you going to give birth to children for other families?"
She said this with some anger. After all, she had taken a liking to Xiang Wan Ning from the beginning and thought she was pretty. She had agreed with her parents that after she finished junior high school, she would come to her house to be her wife and provide a support for her paralyzed son.
As a result, Xiang Wanning heard it. Although she was small in stature, she directly brought a pot of boiling water over and almost poured it on her face!
When she thought of this, she rubbed the clothes a little harder, and looked fiercely at Xiang Wanning who was washing clothes in the distance, and sneered in her heart: She took out 30,000 yuan! So sincere! Since Xiang Wanning doesn't know what's good for her, she'll never get married in this life!
If no one wants them in the future, won’t their family have to turn to her for help? There won’t be any share of the 30,000 yuan by then!
The aunt started talking about Xiang Wanning to the people around her again, hoping to make her reputation as bad as possible. Her eyebrows were flying, and she proudly showed off the gossip she knew to her friends.
"This girl was crying and wanted to find her parents yesterday, and she also said that the Xiang couple were not her parents. In my opinion, she deserves to be punished. She has been beaten up and has become obedient!"
Everyone looked towards Wan Ning again, and indeed saw bruises on her face and body. A newly married daughter-in-law couldn't stand it and couldn't help but refute: "The child is only three years old, there is no need to care about a child, right?"
"Don't care? Didn't I go through the same thing when I was three years old? If you don't care now, who will take care of you in the future?!" Auntie blew her beard and glared at him, "Don't speak for her. This girl has her own ideas! Hey, why didn't she scold me back today?"
…
Xiang Wanning was in no mood to pay attention to this group of people.
She hadn't recovered from her cold yet, but the bucket of water chilled her to the bone. She was shivering with cold, and her head was like paste. She hadn't recovered from the nightmare of yesterday.
But the strange thing was that Xiang Wanning remembered it very clearly when she woke up, and the sourness and pain in her heart made her breathless. But after her parents beat her up, she looked into their cloudy eyes and could not remember anything.
She seemed to have lost that memory, or it would be more accurate to say that the memory was locked in a box by her brain and sealed away, because Xiang Wanning had a vague premonition: those memories were real, and she had just returned to the starting point of everything.
She relied heavily on her intuition, so when she heard the voice over there saying "You also said that the Xiang couple are not her parents", even though Xiang Wanning no longer had this memory in her mind, she was very sure: since she had said so, then they were definitely not her biological parents!
No wonder, Xiang Wanning stared at those dirty clothes, as if she saw the cunning faces of her adoptive parents through the clothes. She didn't clamor to find her biological parents, but was thinking about how to leave here.
She hid two hundred yuan in the wall, which she stole from her adoptive father when he was drunk, but what could she do with two hundred yuan?
She thought, it would be better to steal it all. They would beat her up anyway whether they had money or not, and she could also consider it as the medical loss compensation.
She learned the term "medical damages" after she beat a boy from the neighboring village with a stick. The boy's family came to her house, but they had no money to pay, so they beat her again in front of the boy's family as an apology.
In the cold winter weather, Xiang Wanning reached her hand into the freezing river water while thinking. Her hands were covered with chilblains and she couldn't even stretch them out, let alone wash clothes.
Although Xiang Wanning was young, she understood that her adoptive parents did not really want her to do housework, they just didn't want her to have an easy life.
So she didn't use any force, but just dipped her hands in the water for the people around her to see.
When the group of people had washed their clothes, had had enough of her joke, and left the river in satisfaction, she stretched out her foot and stepped into the wooden basin, then she carried it away.
She was also extremely vigilant on the way back, because Xiang Wanning had seen many things that she shouldn't have seen when passing through the small paths in order to save time, and she was also kidnapped on the main road. Fortunately, she carried a blade with her and crawled back here, preventing others from succeeding.
But from then on, Xiang Wanning would always be fully alert and run away immediately if anything went wrong.
At least by staying here she can survive and then think about how to escape from here.
While Xiang Wanning was daydreaming, she passed a weed-covered path. This path was the only way back. She was about to raise her foot, but the next second she saw... a dog running towards her in the distance?
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After the system told them the address, everyone drove here immediately. Xiang Tingye first found the home of Xiang Wanning's adoptive parents, and saw that it was bare. The place that belonged to Xiang Wanning was a small room full of miscellaneous items. When he opened it, he found that there were not even a few things that belonged to Xiang Wanning herself.
The adoptive father was still holding a cigarette. Seeing that they were well-dressed and obviously wealthy, his cloudy eyes lit up and he immediately asked, "Are you guys here to buy my daughter too?"
Mo Yin's expression immediately changed: "Buy?"
"Besides, my daughter is very pretty and can do anything." The adoptive father shook his head, quite pleased with himself: "If you book now, the price can be negotiated..."
Xiang Tingye couldn't help it, and before he could finish speaking, he reached out and beat up her adoptive father.
The adoptive father's body had already been hollowed out by alcohol and sex, and Xiang Tingye's punch made him fall to the ground, unable to move, and he kept calling for his father and mother.
He roared on the ground, as if he was used to being the boss on weekdays. He felt that he could not lose to Xiang Tingye at this moment: "You guys broke into my house! And beat people up! I will sue you to death!"
"Sue?!" Xiang Chisong walked over and kicked him in the chest, then slapped him twice: "You're trafficking children, go to jail first!"
After saying that, he still felt unsatisfied, so he pulled up his collar and asked, "Where is Xiang Wanning? Who did you sell her to?!"
The adoptive father's face turned red from the beating, his mouth was full of blood and he spat out a mouthful of saliva, as if he was scared of the beating. When he looked at Chi Song, a trace of fear flashed in his eyes.
He put on a lewd and flattering smile, and couldn't figure out why this person wanted to find Xiang Wanning, until he saw the angry face of the girl in the puffy skirt next to him, and then he suddenly realized and reported to them: "She should be washing clothes by the river now, what's wrong, did she beat your child?"
"Don't worry, I'll teach her a lesson in front of you when she comes back! I'll make her apologize to your child!" The adoptive father said, as if to win their sympathy, and he couldn't help but complain about himself: "That girl has become too powerful. It's not the first time she's fought with others. This time I'm going to break her legs!"
"I'm going to break your legs first!" Xiang Chisong's chest was beating violently, his eyes were red with anger, and at this moment, he was staring at the man lying on the ground pretending to be dead, wishing he could tear him into pieces!
Even though he was mentally prepared before coming here, Xiang Chisong never thought that this man could do such a thing to a three-year-old child!
He simply picked up the stick next to him and hit his legs!
There were constant wailing and groaning sounds in the house. Mo Yin wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and saw that Xiang Chisong and Xiang Tingye had teamed up to beat the man to the point where he was neither alive nor dead. She heard the neighbors' puzzled voices outside the house, so she took Xiang Zhinian out the door.
She took out her wallet and gave half to Xiang Zhinian, who understood immediately and knocked on every door. She smiled sweetly and said, "Hello, I'm Xiang Wanning's sister. We're here to take her home today. I'm sorry that you guys are taking care of my sister here. This is a little token of our appreciation."
Xiang Zhinian saw that they accepted it with greedy faces, saying "No trouble, no trouble". Those who had scolded Xiang Wanning by the river before now changed their faces and kept praising Xiang Wanning.
"Xiang Wanning is just like you, she's very pretty!"
"Oh, so she is your child. I was wondering how the Xiang couple could give birth to such a pretty girl!"
"Hahaha, you're so polite. That girl is so pitiful!"
Xiang Zhinian sneered in his heart, but still smiled on his face: "You are too polite. We will come back to thank you all after we take Wan Ning back! But we found that my sister's adoptive parents are not very kind to her. Dad and brother are a little angry and are trying to reason with them in there!"
She pointed inside and said to them with an embarrassed look: "If anyone else asks..."
The neighbors understood and immediately shook their heads and said, "We didn't know anything about this. This is your family affair, your family affair! How can we have the right to interfere?"
"I went to bed early today and didn't hear any noise!"
"Don't worry! We are very tight-lipped!"
“…”
When Xiang Zhinian came back, he happened to see the woman of the family also came back. She had a sarcastic look on her face, holding a few vegetables in her hands, and walked back cursing - it was Xiang Wanning's adoptive mother.
She walked to the door and found many strangers in the house. There was also a beautiful woman and a little baby standing at the door. Her eyes were full of shock. She heard her husband screaming like a pig being slaughtered from inside and immediately ran out: "Hurry up! Someone is killing someone! Someone is killing someone!"
Mo Yin quickly closed the gate. Her slender white hands were able to grab her adoptive mother at this moment, and she exerted amazing strength to drag her back into the house.
The foster mother was so frightened that she trembled and huddled in a corner, listening to them asking, "Who told you to steal the child?"
She immediately said, "I didn't steal it! That's my daughter! Didn't I know about the child I carried for ten months and gave birth to?!"
This sentence completely infuriated Mo Yin. Even though she looked delicate and gentle, as a mother, if someone dared to bully her child, don't blame her for showing her fangs and biting them hard!
She grabbed her adoptive mother's neck and almost yelled, "That's my child! You stole my child, beat her, and made her wash clothes by the river in such cold weather! I wish I could chop you into pieces now!"
The foster mother's face turned red, and when she was almost out of breath, she uttered a few words: "I'll tell you! I'll tell you!"
Mo Yin suddenly let go of her hand, and saw a red mark on her neck. The other party coughed twice before saying, "Yes, someone in the hospital gave it to me three years ago... gave me ten thousand..."
Mo Yin knew that the person should be from Country Z, but he was still so excited by the ten thousand yuan she mentioned that he clenched his fists.
Ten thousand yuan. They sold her Wan Ning to such a family for only ten thousand yuan, causing her to suffer for so many years!
Mo Yin slapped her, barely suppressing the thought of killing her, and shouted, "Call someone to take them away!"
The two people on the ground couldn't sit still anymore. They grabbed Mo Yin's trouser legs and looked panicked: "We didn't do anything. We raised her for three years! You can't do it on your own! This is illegal!"
The foster mother's face suddenly swelled up in pain. She seemed to know that they were powerful people. She tried her best to shift the blame and begged for mercy, pointing at her husband: "It's all his fault! I told him no, but he was obsessed with money! Take him away, don't take me!"
Seeing that they were unmoved, she immediately started yelling, "I'm going to call the police! I'm going to hire a lawyer! I'm going to sue you!"
The sound of broken bones could be heard one after another in the house. The two men collapsed on the ground and could only move their bodies by crawling. Xiang Tingye came back from the phone call and sneered when he heard her voice: "I've already called the police. I want to see what tricks you can come up with!"
He then turned his head and suddenly found that someone was missing, and immediately asked, "Where is Que Zhou?"
…
In order to avoid biting them a few times in the house and to maintain his dignity, Yu Quezhou went out alone and looked for Xiang Wanning along the river.
When he found Xiang Wanning, he saw that she was wearing a summer skirt and a pair of slippers. Her exposed skin was frostbitten, mixed with a bunch of whipping wounds, which looked particularly shocking.
He froze on the spot, as if he had never expected that the girl who was so spoiled in front of him could have once been so pitiful.
Then, he heard Xiang Wanning breathe a sigh of relief, and her inner voice echoed in his ears:
[I was shocked. It turned out to be a dog]
[I wish I could have a dog, so I wouldn’t have to worry so much]
[But it looks so fierce, will it bite me? 】
Thinking of this, she seemed a little hesitant and squatted down, wanting to test whether he would listen to her.
Xiang Wanning waved at him and took a pinch.
Yu Quezhou: ...
He could only pretend he didn't hear it and remain unmoved.
Xiang Wanning stood up somewhat disappointedly, thinking regretfully:
[Well, even the dog won’t help me]
[If I am sold out by them next time, how will I escape? 】
What?
When Yu Quezhou heard this, both of his ears perked up.
He circled around Xiang Wanning twice angrily, as if he had marked her as part of his territory, and then stretched out his paw towards her, motioning her to touch him as she pleased.
He began to regret running out first. It would have been great if he could have bitten the two men to death right inside the house!
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