Chapter 44 Chapter 44 What if you killed me?
The spider's mother cried out her name, "Ayi Na," with tears streaming down her face. She hadn't heard anyone call her by that name in ten years. Now, whenever she heard it, she would recall the moment when her parents cruelly abandoned her as a child.
She lived alone in a thatched hut next to a cemetery, and her relatives ignored her. Why did they suddenly come to her house? It was obviously not a good thing.
As expected, her mother begged her as soon as they met: "Ayi Na, your eldest sister was bitten by an unknown poisonous spider while she was out shopping. She came home that night with a high fever and was unconscious. Mother would like you to go back and save her, please?"
The spider felt it was ironic when she heard that. In the past, they all regarded her as an unlucky girl and scolded the little spiders she raised as poisonous. Now they actually asked her to help detoxify?
"If you're sick, just go find the old Miao doctor. The poison I brew isn't a life-saving antidote."
She turned and left, unwilling to pay any attention to her mother who was begging her.
"Mother has consulted an old Miao doctor. If they could find out what the spider that bit her looked like, maybe they could tell us what kind of spider venom she was poisoned by. But it was dark when she was poisoned, so she couldn't see clearly what kind of spider it was. Mother thought that since you have so many spiders, you might be able to guess what kind it was, so I came to ask you to save your elder sister."
The spider's mother knew that she owed her daughter and did not expect her to agree to save the man immediately, so she knelt on the ground, hugged her thighs, and cried loudly.
"What are you doing? You should seek help from someone else. I'm limited in my abilities and can't tell what kind of spider venom she was bitten by."
"No! Who in the whole Miao village is more proficient in spider venom than you? Ayi Na, I know you hate me, hate that I didn't care about you back then, but your eldest sister is innocent! There were many children in the family back then, and I was busy with farm work. It was your eldest sister who raised you as both a sister and a mother. You can't not save her! If I didn't have this daughter, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to survive, wuwu~"
"But I'm also your daughter! When you abandoned me, did you ever consider that I was all alone, starving, and living on scraps, nestling in this gloomy graveyard? It's a miracle I'm still alive. Now you're talking about family affection? Do you think you're worthy of being a mother?"
The spider roared hysterically. She was the only one who knew the grievances she had suffered over the years. She had to swallow her anger and endure the indifference and taunting from those who took advantage of her. No one understood her, and no one cared about her.
It doesn't matter what other people think of her. What matters is that her biological parents who gave birth to her and raised her, and her seven sisters who grew up with her, also dislike her as much as everyone else.
Her mother said that it was her elder sister who took care of her when she was young, but she also clearly remembered that when the village chief forced her parents to abandon her, her elder sister was the first one to agree.
Now that she was in trouble, and thinking of her daughter, she couldn't believe how people could be so greedy and selfish? Don't advise others to be kind without experiencing their suffering!
Yin Jinglong, watching this drama of family affection unfold, couldn't help but sneer. He said to Hanyu, "Sister-in-law, did you see that? Even the most arrogant person will bow their head for personal gain. Even the most cold-blooded mother will kneel down and beg the child she abandoned for the sake of the child she chose. It's truly ridiculous!"
Hanyu refuted his remarks, "How is that ridiculous? Those who don't know the inside story shouldn't make irresponsible remarks. How do you know her mother didn't have her own reasons when she abandoned her? I still can't believe a mother would heartlessly abandon a child she carried for ten months and painstakingly raised until she was eight years old just because of the gossip of the villagers! There must be some hidden secret behind this."
Only the spider's mother knew the whole story of what happened back then, but now the spider's eldest sister was dying. After all, she was a family member. She believed that the spider was not a cruel person and was just still holding a grudge against her mother.
She wanted to go over and try to persuade the spider, but Yin Jinglong stopped her, saying, "Less trouble is worse than more. This Miao village is like a bottomless vat, hiding many unknown secrets. It's best for us outsiders not to get involved. Whether the spider is saved or not is none of your business, and you can't persuade her."
"But that's a life! Even if we can't save it, we should at least go and see my sister before she dies!"
Hanyu wanted to break free from Yin Jinglong's hands and tried to persuade the mother and daughter, but she heard Yin Jinglong mocking her in a sarcastic tone:
"Hey! When you indiscriminately tried to kill me earlier, why didn't I see that you still had such kindness and compassion?"
"Can you be the same as those ordinary people?" Han Yu asked impatiently.
"Why is it different? Isn't my life a life?"
"What if you killed me?"
Hanyu blurted out these words without thinking, which stunned the two people present.
She and Yin Jinglong looked into each other's eyes, and she seemed to see the hidden sadness in his eyes.
"No, I mean..."
"You don't need to explain. If you insist on treating me as your enemy, no amount of explanation will be of any use. Go away! Go back to your A Jiang! I don't need your sympathy or pity."
Hanyu lowered her head and was secretly sad. The truth of the grudges in her previous life had not yet been sorted out. She could never forget that it was him who chopped off her father's head with a knife in front of her. How could she forget such a hatred for her father's murder?
Even if he had not done these things in this life, she would never be able to untie the knot in her heart from her previous life. She had no way of telling anyone about her rebirth. Perhaps in Yin Jinglong's eyes, she was just a lunatic with delusions!
The spider outside the door was still arguing with her mother. The spider's mother called the village elders to persuade her. Her father personally held his dying eldest daughter in his arms and knelt down to beg the spider to save her life.
The spider was a woman who lacked family affection. Seeing the elder sister who had treated her like a mother was dying, she felt a little bit reluctant in her heart.
Finally, she compromised and agreed to try to detoxify her sister.
Yin Jinglong sighed and said, "I never expected that she would choose to reconcile with the past grudges."
"What about you? If you still want to take my life, then now is your best opportunity. Min Hanyu, since you said that I killed you, I will give you a chance for revenge."
He faced Hanyu and unbuttoned his shirt himself, revealing the scar that tore his heart out for her that day. He closed his eyes and waited for the verdict.
The silence at this moment seemed longer than the entire night, and the only sound in the stillness was the breathing of the two people.
Hanyu stared at the stitched wound on his chest, and she couldn't bring herself to do it.
"Don't push me."
Yin Jinglong slowly opened his eyes, closed his shirt, and asked softly, "If one day you discovered that the truth you believed in was not what you thought it was, and that your enemy was someone else, would you be willing to accept that cruel but true fact?"
He took off the Panlong jade pendant he was wearing around his waist and put it together with the one his brother had given to Mr. Lai. These two jade pendants were given to him and his brother by their father when they were born.
One of the coiled dragon's heads faces left and the other faces right. When looking at a single jade pendant, one can see a roaring and mighty coiled dragon. However, when they are put together, the two dragons are entwined with each other, complementing each other.
The moment he put the two jade pendants together, he gradually understood the deep meaning of the jade pendants his father gave to him and his brother. Unfortunately, time has changed, and his father is no longer the father who treats him equally, and he has not grown up to be what his father expected.
Hanyu looked at the pair of coiled dragon jade pendants in his hands, not understanding the deeper meaning of his words. She wanted to ask more, but Yin Jinglong was unwilling to talk anymore.
His legs still needed the help of Lai Lao to give him acupuncture, and now the spider had been invited home by those people, and it was unknown when he would be able to return.
Yin Jinglong put away the jade pendant and sighed falsely, "I don't know when my legs will be restored to their original state. Perhaps I will never be able to stand up again in this lifetime. My father already disliked the child with a broken arm. Now that this child has both legs crippled, he must be even more unwilling to acknowledge him, right?"
He used both hands to turn the wheel axle to move the wheelchair out the door, but the gravel road outside the yard was difficult to move forward, and he had to use twice the strength to turn the wheelchair.
"Where are you going? I'll help you."
Seeing him sighing like this, Hanyu couldn't help but soften her heart and helped him push the wheelchair.
"Go to Old Man Lai's house in East Village. He hasn't cured my leg yet, so he's thinking of being lazy and not coming. So I'll go to him myself."
Hanyu pushed Yin Jinglong to Lai Lao's house to look for someone. It happened that Lai Lao was out, and there was only a young girl at home. When she saw a stranger knocking on the door and asking questions, the girl did not feel shy at all, but warmly invited them into the house for tea.
After asking carefully, I found out that this young girl was the granddaughter of Mr. Lai and the elder sister of the cowherd boy at the village entrance. Her name was Lai Yue.
When Lai Yue heard Hanyu say that she was here to see Mr. Lai, she thought that Mr. Lai had made an appointment with an old friend and went out to play chess.
Yin Jinglong rudely scolded the old man in front of his granddaughter, "This old man is untrustworthy. He clearly promised to come and give me acupuncture every day, and now, he didn't come, which is fine, but I came to look for him in person, and he actually has the leisure to go out and play chess?"
He instructed Lai Yue: "You! Little Lai girl, go and bring your grandfather back, otherwise I will stay at your house today."
"Why are you being so mean to the little girl?"
Hanyu quickly explained kindly, "Ayue, don't bother with this bad-tempered man. He's like this because of his leg disease. Could you please help us notify Mr. Lai and tell him that his friend with mobility issues is looking for him?"
"Then you wait at home first, sister. I will go and call Grandpa."
After Lai Yue left, Yin Jinglong questioned her, "Who is his friend with limited mobility? Min Hanyu, if you despise a cripple like me, I don't need your help. Just leave! Don't pretend to be kind while saying such hurtful things!"
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