The three children were confused, but they still obeyed their father and knelt down in the direction they came from.
After the children knelt down, he knelt down too.
Li looked at this situation and swallowed back the words she was about to say. She followed silently and knelt down in the direction of the two elders of the Su family.
Su Xiaoyi took the lead and kowtowed three times in the direction of the two elders of the Su family.
Li and her three children kowtowed three times.
"Dad, Mom, I am an unfilial son. I will come back in my next life to repay your kindness in raising me."
After the family of five kowtowed, they never looked back.
Under the trees at the edge of the official road, the old couple of the Su family had been waiting.
Old Mrs. Su suddenly covered her chest and said, "Old man, I feel a little uncomfortable."
"He must be tired. He just needs to lean back and rest for a while."
Old Lady Su glanced at the forest behind her with concern, "I don't know if they have found anything to eat."
The weather is dry now and many trees are dead. It's not easy to find food.
Old Man Su sighed, "Don't worry, we just have to wait."
Old Mrs. Su nodded.
Old Man Su thought of Li's attitude, and then thought about his current situation, and said, "Old woman, I have something to tell you."
"What's the matter? Just tell me."
"Don't talk back to the second son's wife from now on. Whatever she says is what you will get."
Old Lady Su was used to being the boss, so how could she easily agree? "I'm not dead yet, when will it be her turn to be the boss of this family?"
"Old woman, why don't you understand? Now we have nothing to eat or drink. If I could still walk, she wouldn't have a say. But now I can't move, we still have to rely on the second son and his wife. If you treat the second son's wife the same way as before, she will definitely not let you down."
"If you don't step down now, our lives will be difficult in the future."
"She dares!" Old Mrs. Su is used to being strong, how can she let it go just like that?
"Just listen to my advice." Old man Su held her hand and comforted his irritable daughter-in-law.
Old Mrs. Su calmed down, her expression gradually became lonely, and there was reluctance in her eyes, but she finally succumbed to reality and nodded to her husband, "Old man, I listen to you. From now on, whatever she says is what it is. I don't care."
Old Man Su was very pleased.
The old couple of the Su family waited quietly for the second son's family to come back. As they watched the sun set in the west, the second son's family did not come back, and the couple's faces showed anxiety.
"It's already this late, why haven't you come back yet?" Old Mrs. Su looked around anxiously at the entrance of the woods.
Old Man Su was also anxious, but he still comforted his wife, "Don't worry, maybe he went far away to find food, so he will be back late."
He said this, but a sense of uneasiness welled up in his heart.
No, they won’t.
Old Man Su stared at the entrance of the forest.
The two of them just stared at each other, waiting quietly.
I waited until the sunset and until it was completely dark.
But the person they were waiting for did not come back.
The couple both had guesses in their minds, but no one spoke them out loud, as if once they said it out loud, it would come true; as if as long as they didn't say it out loud, there was still a glimmer of hope.
Old Mrs. Su's voice trembled slightly, "Old man, did something happen to them? Should I go look for them?"
Old Man Su did not respond and remained silent.
Suddenly, Old Lady Su stood up abruptly and was about to walk into the woods, muttering, "Something must have happened to them, something must have happened to them."
As soon as she stepped into the woods, Old Man Su seemed to have just woken up from a dream and shouted to his partner, "Don't go, they've already left."
When this shout came out, those cloudy eyes were filled with tears.
Old Mrs. Su stood there motionless, as if she had lost her soul, and kept muttering, "Impossible, impossible. I am his mother, how could he be so... so cruel."
A tear silently rolled down the corner of Old Man Su's eye.
Being abandoned by their own son was undoubtedly a heavy blow to the old couple.
They never thought that their own son could be so cruel.
Old Man Su choked up, "I'm the one who dragged you down. If I hadn't broken my bones, he, they... wouldn't have been like this. I'm the one who hurt you."
"No, it's not you, it's all the second brother's family. She must have instigated it."
Old Mrs. Su was unwilling to believe that her son would abandon them. She would rather believe that it was Li's fault.
But Old Man Su understood that if his son did not agree, no matter how powerful Mrs. Li was, it would be of no use, because after all, his son had abandoned them.
Old Man Su did not refute and let his wife curse Li to vent his anger.
But after venting their anger, what awaits them is despair.
How can an old man who cannot walk and an elderly woman survive in this cannibalistic world without water or food?
There is only one road waiting for them - a dead end!
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On the other hand, ever since the brothers Su Xinyang and Su Xinguang escaped overnight, they had been running all the way. No matter how tired or hard it was, they gritted their teeth and persevered. When it was almost dawn, the two little guys went into the forest and found a secluded place to hide and rest.
When it was night, the two of them carefully came out of the woods and continued on their journey in the dark while everyone was resting.
Although traveling at night would be slower, after all, it is dark and we can only rely on moonlight.
But they had no choice.
Su Xinyang knew very well that their two seven-year-old children, hurrying on the road with bags on their backs, would inevitably attract other people's attention and easily become someone else's target, so they could only choose this way to avoid people.
Fortunately, the two brothers have night vision and can see the road at night, otherwise they can only travel during the day.
They naturally thought about traveling through the woods on both sides of the official road during the day, but not all official roads had forests on both sides. In many cases, there were dry riverbeds, farmlands, or mountain walls.
It is also possible for them to travel at night, but traveling at night is not completely safe and they still have to be careful. If they encounter a team on guard, they dare not pass through easily for fear of being targeted.
As a result, the two men moved very slowly, but they got a good rest unexpectedly, and had food and drinks, and their faces looked a little more refreshed.
"Brother, is this little bit of food enough for us to make it to Jiangnan?"
Only when they arrived in Jiangnan could they find their sister and mother.
Jiangnan is their only hope.
"Let's eat sparingly." Su Xinyang knew it was not enough, but he didn't dare to say it.
"Um."
Under the moonlight, two small figures were walking on the road, glancing at the surrounding environment from time to time.
Suddenly, an obscene laugh came from the woods nearby, and a grinning face with a mouth full of yellow teeth and bloodshot eyes was staring sinisterly at the two brothers.
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