Chapter 231 Things Have Changed
After sitting for a while, Xiao Zheyu followed Wen Ling downstairs with sleepy eyes.
When Xia Xiaoman heard the voice, she looked up at the stairs. When she saw Xiao Zheyu's face, she was stunned for a long time before she came to her senses.
Xiao Zheyu's face, which he was so proud of, was covered with bumpy scars. The scars covered the entire left side of his face, like a melting wax figure.
When Xiao Zeyu saw her, he pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled. But perhaps because of the injured muscles on his left face, only the right side of his face was upturned, and the left side did not change at all, which looked very strange.
"Sister Xiaoman, long time no see. How have you been recently?" Xiao Zheyu's voice was a little hoarse and sharp, and the boy's previous clean and clear voice was no longer there.
Xia Xiaoman wanted to smile back at him, but she couldn't. She pursed her lips and said, "It's just like that! Not good, not bad. What about you? How did you make yourself look like this?"
Xiao Zheyu raised his hand and touched his left cheek, then said with a wry smile: "It's normal for a man to have some scars on his body."
Perhaps he didn't want to talk about the scar on his face, so he looked at Maodan and changed the subject, "Sister, where did you get this dog? It looks so fierce."
"This is a wolf. Sun Qing gave it to me last year. I've had it for eight or nine months. I named it Maodan."
When Maodan heard the shit shoveler calling his name, he lay down obediently at Xia Xiaoman's feet, but his eyes were still fixed on Xiao Zheyu and the others. Once someone in the house made a dangerous move towards Xia Xiaoman, he would jump up and bite the enemy.
When Xiao Zheyu heard that Maodan was a wolf, he gave up the idea of touching him. Wen Ling, on the other hand, had no idea what a wolf was, and when she saw Maodan's fluffy appearance, a hint of desire flashed in her eyes.
"Sister Xiaoman, can I touch it?" Wen Ling looked at Xia Xiaoman with her big watery eyes.
"Okay." Xia Xiaoman patted Maodan's head, signaling him to lie down and not move. Wen Ling saw this and stepped forward to touch Maodan's back carefully.
When Xiao Zheyu saw Wen Ling showing her childish side, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, but he didn't know what he was thinking about, and the smile on his face disappeared in an instant.
"Sister Xiaoman, did Sun Qing come to see you?"
Xia Xiaoman nodded. There was nothing to hide. Even if she didn't say it, Xiao Zheyu would be able to find out that Sun Qing's convoy had visited her place yesterday after a little inquiry.
"Does she want you to help her look after the place?" Xiao Zheyu continued to ask.
Xia Xiaoman nodded again, "That's right, what's wrong?"
Xiao Zheyu didn't answer and continued to ask, "You didn't agree?"
"No, I don't like being tied down. If I agree to help her run the store, I have to report to her store every day, which is too troublesome." To put it bluntly, she is lazy. If she is not forced by life, she does not want to work for others at all.
Xiao Zheyu felt relieved when he heard Xia Xiaoman's answer.
Seeing his expression, Xia Xiaoman asked, "What's wrong? Is there any problem with Sun Qing opening a store?"
Xiao Zheyu shook his head. "Recently, the income of the major gangs has not been very good. If Sun Qing comes to Fucheng to open a shop at this time, she will most likely be targeted by the major gangs. It is too dangerous to watch the business over there. If possible, it is best not to go."
During the extremely cold night, most people in the floating city hid in the sewers, and it was difficult for the major gangs to steal other people's supplies. After starving for a whole winter, the gangs knew that someone was coming to the floating city with a large amount of supplies to open a store. It was easy to imagine what would happen next.
As they were talking, there was a noise at the door. Xia Xiaoman turned around and saw the short-haired woman who had helped her out at the entrance of the community.
The woman nodded to Xia Xiaoman, then looked at Wen Ling, "Xiao Zeyu, my elder sister is back. She has brought six truckloads of supplies, and I want you and Lingling to go over and help count and put them into storage."
Xiao Zheyu clicked his tongue and said to Xia Xiaoman embarrassedly, "Sister Xiaoman, please sit here for a while. I'll be out for a while and will be back soon." After that, he took Wen Ling and the short-haired woman and left.
Not long after Xiao Zheyu and his group left, Li Yu'e and Zhou Qiuyang came back. One was injured in the abdomen, and the other had a long cut on his back. Behind them was a woman with her hair in a bun.
Li Yu'e entered the living room and slumped down on the single sofa. She said to the woman, "Menglin, help Xiaoyang deal with the wound first."
Luo Menglin responded, helped Zhou Qiuyang walk to the kang, and helped him take off his clothes. After taking off all his shirts, Xia Xiaoman saw that Zhou Qiuyang's back was covered with scars. Some of the scars were just a faint pink, and it was obvious that the scabs had just fallen off, while some had not even fallen off yet.
"Xiao Man, how come you have time to come here?"
Li Yu'e's hoarse voice sounded, and Xia Xiaoman came back to his senses and looked at her, "I heard that the coach..."
Li Yu'e was stunned for a moment, and then remained silent for a long time. She gritted her teeth and said, "He deserved to die. I told him not to be soft-hearted but he just wouldn't listen. Now he has lost his life and left two children for me to raise... If I had known he would be so suicidal, I would not have married him!"
A few months ago, they received news that a batch of supplies were hidden in the underground parking lot of a shopping mall. Li Yu'e and her team went to investigate, but they were too late and the supplies in the parking lot had already been moved away.
On the way back, a little boy about seven or eight years old ran out of the alley barefoot, his nose and mouth were covered in blood, and one of his hands was scratched. A couple followed behind the boy, and the couple chased the boy while shouting insults.
Wen Jianfeng saw the miserable state of the little boy and felt pity for him and wanted to save him. But Li Yu'e felt that the timing of the family's appearance was not right and thought it was a trick, so she insisted on leaving and did not allow her men to save the little boy.
Seeing that no one supported him to rescue people, Wen Jianfeng followed Li Yu'e away in silence.
But after walking a few steps, he heard the sound of the couple beating the boy. Wen Jianfeng turned around and saw the boy's eyes looking for help. For some reason, he thought of his son Wen Xu, and rushed to rescue the boy.
The couple was beaten away by him. Seeing how cowardly they were, Wen Jianfeng relaxed his vigilance and picked up the boy who was curled up in a ball after being beaten and returned to the team.
Just when he was about to tell Li Yu'e that this was not a trap, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his neck. He lowered his head stiffly and saw the boy's cold expression.
The boy used his uninjured hand to stab Wen Jianfeng in the neck. Wen Jianfeng didn't even have time to say a last word before he fell to the ground in the snow...
"That family of three was specially sent by the enemy to ambush us. They found out that Wen Jianfeng had two children, so they specifically found children who were about the same age as Wen Xu and Wen Ling to set up the trap."
"I told him that this was not right, but he just didn't believe it and insisted on being a great saint. He not only lost his life, but also caused us so much suffering!"
Li Yu'e's eyes were filled with anger, she was angry at Jianfeng's bad intentions, but also angry that he passed away so early, leaving her alone to support such a big gang. She was always on edge every day, not daring to relax at all.
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