Chapter 071 Chapter 71 Explosion
There was a cry of surprise from the crowd. No one in the village had ever seen Lin Yue attack someone so ruthlessly. Someone whispered, "She's still a child. How could she be so cruel?" Lin Yue glanced coldly in the direction of the voice, and the crowd immediately fell silent.
Everything happened so fast that the two brothers didn't have time to react before Zhang Xiaoxi was thrown out. They looked around and quickly split up, one stayed to check Lin Yue's injured wrist while the other ran to help Zhang Xiaoxi.
Lin Yue hid her wrist behind her body. The wound on her hand was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye. She was afraid of being discovered and did not dare to let Zhang Shouyi check it. Liu Fang wanted to bandage her wound but she refused.
On the other side, Zhang Shouren had already helped Zhang Xiaoxi up. Zhang Xiaoxi felt a faint sweetness in her throat. She looked at Zhang Shouren expectantly, wanting him to help her stand up. But she didn't expect that as soon as she stood up and before she could say a word, she was slapped loudly.
Zhang Shouren was very disappointed with her: "I used to think you just couldn't tell good from bad, but I didn't expect you to do such a thing. How can you be worthy of your elder brother and elder sister-in-law's care for so many years?"
Zhang Xiaoxi looked at her second brother who loved her the most in disbelief. She ignored the pain in her body and asked loudly, "What have they taken care of for me? Are you talking about the money they gave to our parents? Isn't that what they should do? Moreover, since these two bastards were born, all of my money has been taken away by this woman. Have you forgotten? The things my eldest brother sent back before were all ours, but now? They have all gone into the stomachs of those two little bastards! And you two, don't think I don't know that all the candies you secretly saved were given to them. In the past, you gave me all the good things!"
She became more and more excited as she spoke, her eyes slowly becoming fierce again: "It would be great if these two little bastards didn't exist. If they didn't exist, you would still only be nice to me, and all the good things would be mine... Those little bastards shouldn't have been born, I'm going to throw them all into the toilet and drown them, all of them!"
She turned her head suddenly and stared at the two children who were held in the arms of two adults respectively. Her eyes were fierce, like a beast that was about to attack at the next second.
Zhang Shouren was shaking all over, angry and scared, and slapped her hard on the face again. Zhang Shouyi also turned around and looked at his sister in shock.
In the past few years, the two brothers have spent a lot of effort on this sister, trying to turn her around. They don't know how many times they have quarreled with their parents and apologized to others on her behalf. But now, their hearts have turned cold and they have completely given up on this sister. A person who is rotten from the root, no matter how much effort they spend, there is no way to save her.
Lin Yue's heart was also chilled. She originally thought that Zhang Xiaoxi simply wanted to bully the two children, and at most she would just make them covered in dirt, but she didn't expect that she was so vicious and really wanted to throw the children into the toilet and drown them. Fortunately, the two children were strong and didn't let her succeed. If these were just two ordinary children, she couldn't imagine what would happen.
She stared at Zhang Xiaoxi for a while, suppressed her emotions, and then said, "This matter will not be let go like this. When the child's father comes back, I will discuss with him about calling the police."
Zhang Shouyi rushed over and slapped Zhang Xiaoxi hard on the back several times: "You are really hopeless, don't expect me to take care of you in the future!" After that, he pulled his second brother and hurriedly chased after Lin Yue, leaving Zhang Xiaoxi alone in the dirty and smelly toilet, letting her stay there alone to accept the various looks from others.
Zhang Xiaoxi watched their receding figures, and suddenly all the anger in her body disappeared. She felt a belated severe pain in her body, which made her squat on the ground and curl up her body. She listened to the people pointing and talking at her at the door of the public toilet, and finally burst into tears like a normal ten-year-old girl.
The two young boys ultimately failed to catch up with Lin Yue and his companions. They stopped not long after running because they felt too embarrassed to see their eldest sister-in-law and her family again.
The two brothers walked aimlessly in the village for a long time with their heads down, neither of them saying a word. It was almost dark, but they still didn't want to go home.
Zhang Shouyi hung his head, mumbled for a long time, and whispered: "Second brother, I don't want to go back to that home. Xiaoxi has become like this because of our parents!"
Zhang Shouren said nothing, but just kept walking forward. Zhang Shouyi stopped and shouted, "Second brother, why don't we split up? Let's split up and not live in that family anymore!"
Zhang Shouyi turned around suddenly and cursed, "What nonsense! We have separated from our parents, so who will they live with? Do we still need our eldest brother to support them in their old age?"
Zhang Shouren didn't think too much about it. His face turned red and he didn't know what to say.
Zhang Shouyi sighed, pulled his younger brother to sit under a big tree by the road, and whispered, "I don't want to go back to that home anymore. Xiaoxi believes in his parents too much. Almost everything we eat and spend is spent on my eldest brother's money, but my parents still want to devalue my eldest brother. It's not like they treat their own son, but like they treat their enemy."
Moreover, as for what happened just now, when others went to his house to inform them, their parents were actually at home. But when they heard that it was Zhang Xiaoxi who bullied Xiao Wanli again, the two of them sat quietly, not in a hurry at all, and didn't even have the intention to go and check it out.
Zhang Shouren urged quickly: "Then let's think of a way, let's just split up! In the future, we will take turns to support our parents, and Big Brother T and Big Sister-in-law won't have to worry about them!"
Zhang Shouyi was actually very tempted. Children see things in black and white. They are very stubborn and believe that the mistakes made by their parents and sister are unforgivable. Once the idea of splitting up the family was born, it became their goal. But they were only two twelve or thirteen-year-old children after all. How could they just split up the family? Later, they were beaten a lot for this.
The two children were sighing on the side of the road, and Lin Yue was still uneasy even after returning home.
The incident happened suddenly, and both Lin Yue and Liu Fang hurried out. At first, there were still a few people at home listening to the radio, but when they heard that something had happened, they all ran to watch the excitement. When Lin Yue and his friends returned home, they saw that all the doors of the house were open, and there were obvious signs that someone had rummaged through the house. The tens of dollars and tickets in Liu Fang's bag were stolen, and the radio was also missing.
Lin Yue looked numbly at the messy house and said calmly, "Very good, one more item to report to the police."
Most families in the village are not wealthy, and few are willing to install locks on their doors. They usually tie them with iron chains or hang an old-fashioned bolt lock, which is easy to pry open and only serves a psychological purpose. However, most families will buy a small hanging lock, not to lock the door, but to protect the box containing important items.
Lin Yue said weakly: "Go check if the wooden box is still there. Your documents and other things are in there."
Liu Fang took the key and went into the house to check. Fortunately, the box was still there and the items inside were not lost.
Lin Yue guessed that it should be okay. This person stole things during the chaos. He might take some small objects that are easy to hide, but he would definitely not dare to take anything too eye-catching.
After this happened, Lin Yue dared not leave the two boys for a moment. She was very regretful now. She should not have thought of enduring for a day just to save face. She should have been tougher at the beginning and not let so many people come to her house.
When Zhang Yuandong came back in the evening, she told him what happened. Zhang Yuandong comforted her, "It's not your fault. You can't just lock the child up at home or lock the door and stop communicating with others. This is not your fault. Don't put it on yourself."
He gently picked up the two children, and broke out in a cold sweat because of what happened today. From the children's intermittent description, the two knew the general situation.
Zhang Xiaoxi tried to coax them out to play, but the two kids didn't like her and wouldn't listen to her. Zhang Xiaoxi got angry and dragged them out to the street. The two kids struggled so hard that Zhang Xiaoxi hit them several times. In the end, she had no choice but to leave Lingling behind and only took Wanli with her.
Lingling had short legs and couldn't catch up with Zhang Xiaoxi and her brother. She cried for a long time before running back home to find Lin Yue.
When Zhang Yuandong heard what Zhang Xiaoxi did to Wanli in the public toilet, he was already furious before he even finished listening to what she said.
He had tolerated that couple for so many years, not because he had any affection for them, but because he wanted to continue staying in the army, he couldn't have any stain on himself, and he couldn't ignore his parents, so he delayed dealing with the relationship with that couple, and he didn't expect that it would implicate his wife and children.
The two children had fallen asleep. He touched little Wanli's restless face even in his sleep, and felt extremely guilty.
Perhaps because they were frightened, little Wanli developed a high fever in the middle of the night. Because they had been drinking spiritual spring water since they were young, the two children had almost never been sick, but this time the fever was very serious, and they seemed to be in a semi-comatose state, and they kept talking nonsense.
Xiaotian Village was far from the hospital in the county town, and the road was too bumpy. Unless it was absolutely necessary, Lin Yue didn't want to take the child there to suffer. Moreover, the medical level at that time was limited, and even if they went to the hospital, it would not be of much use.
Fortunately, it was the middle of the night, so she asked Zhang Yuandong to keep watch for her while she and Xiao Wanli slipped into the space.
Lin Yue didn't know any medical knowledge. All she could use was the spiritual spring water in the space. She diluted the spiritual spring water again and again, and used it to bathe Xiao Wanli and take it orally according to the method she used to save Zhang Yuandong. However, this time she didn't dare to leave the child easily, and she kept observing the situation carefully.
The fever subsided quickly. The temperature outside had already stabilized before dawn. She held the sleeping child in her arms and left the room again. She saw Zhang Yuandong sitting next to Xiao Lingling, his eyes as red as hers.
Liu Fang, who slept in another room, also tossed and turned on the kang for a long time. He walked to the door of the east bedroom countless times and left silently countless times.
The two children were in danger, and the three adults all fell into self-blame.