Chapter 17 The Hu Family Escaped
The old lady was startled and was about to scream, but Zheng blocked her mouth.
She looked at her daughter in shock, her face full of disbelief.
The next moment, Hu Lai Fu also came forward and tied the old lady tightly with a hemp rope.
While tying up her mother, Zheng whispered, "I'm sorry, mother, we are desperate now. Please help your daughter and give us a chance to survive. I will repay you when I have the chance in the future."
The old lady's eyes were bloodshot, and she wished she could bite off a piece of flesh from her body, but her legs and feet were inconvenient, and she was facing a strong daughter and son-in-law. She could do nothing except make "wuwuwu" sounds.
Zheng could guess with her toes that she must have cursed very badly, but it didn't matter because they couldn't hear it anyway.
After tying up the old lady, Zheng opened a box at the head of the bed and, under the old lady's red eyes, opened the bottom box.
The Zheng family was well off, and all the earnings from the sons were handed over to the public institution, which was all kept by the old lady.
In addition, when Zheng sold Chao Chao's ring two years ago, it was the old lady who helped to make the connection, and the old lady also got five taels of silver from it. Therefore, Zheng knew that the old lady was rich.
They wanted to escape, but they had little money. They originally had the jade pendant and anklet they had snatched from Chao Chao as a way of retreat, but now it was gone. They could only take some from the Zheng family.
Sure enough, when the small box was opened, it was filled with small change and a silver note.
Zheng counted and found that there were actually two hundred taels.
Hu Lai Fu was shocked, "How could there be so much?" How could a farmer's family, especially such a large family, save more than two hundred taels of silver.
Zheng suddenly turned her head as if she had thought of something, looked at the angry old lady and asked, "The money from selling the ring was more than twenty taels, right?"
A trace of guilt flashed across the old lady's eyes, and Zheng was annoyed. The next moment, she found a small and delicate cloth bag in the corner of the box.
When she opened it, her face instantly turned ugly.
There was actually a ring in the cloth bag, the ring taken from Chaochao.
She had asked the old lady to help sell two, but there was still one left, so she only sold one? And she sold it for far more than twenty taels.
Zheng was so angry that she said to the old lady angrily, "Originally, I wanted to take half and leave some for you. Now it seems that it is unnecessary. If you cheat your daughter like this, don't blame your daughter for being unfilial."
After saying that, she poured out everything in the small box, put it in her pocket, and swallowed it all.
The old lady sobbed even louder, occasionally banging her head against the bed, tears streaming down her face.
Zheng ignored her. Seeing that she had got the thing, she looked at Hu Lai Fu and left.
Although Zhou was busy in the kitchen, she still looked over here from time to time. Zheng raised her voice and said to her, "Sister-in-law, mother asked you to add two dishes tonight. Our Baodun wants to eat winter bamboo shoots. You can go to the bamboo forest and dig two. Don't worry, mother is here, I will take care of her."
Zhou was not happy, but seeing that the old lady did not stop her, she knew that the old lady meant the same thing, so she could only carry the basket and go out.
As soon as she left, the three members of the Hu family quickly left the Zheng family.
Quarter of an hour later, Zhou came back and saw the open door and the old lady with her hands and feet tied and fainted.
She was so scared that she dropped the basket in her hand and quickly looked for help. By the time the old lady woke up, it was almost dark and the Zheng family had all returned.
Then they heard the old lady's heart-wrenching cries.
After hearing the whole story from her in bits and pieces, the Zheng family was dumbfounded, and then they went to find Zheng to settle the score angrily.
But at this moment, the three members of the Hu family had long disappeared, and there was no clue to find them.
Shangliu Village was also in a mess. When Yue Chai saw the police coming, he took them to Hu's house, but it turned out that the house was empty. Yue Chai's heart skipped a beat and he immediately took people to Zheng's village, and then he saw the chaos in Zheng's house.
Yue Chai was stunned. The Hu couple...actually did such a cruel thing.
Unlike their chaotic situation, Chao Chao in the sky was very happy at this moment.
She lay obediently on the comfortable big bed, covered with a soft quilt, with her mother next to her humming softly to coax her to sleep.
There was no drafty house, no worn-out sheets that could not keep out the cold, no mice running around at her feet, and no sounds of beating and scolding that frightened her from time to time.
She could eat wontons filled with meat and be full. She could also drink hot water, and she couldn't remember the last time she drank hot water.
Not only that, she could also take a shower with hot water. That magical shower head would produce a steady stream of hot water once it was turned on, but it would wash out a lot of dirt, which made her very embarrassed.
But her mother did not despise her, and she applied a fragrant face cream on her. Her face, which was originally dry and cracked and hurt by the wind, seemed to become soft and tender. This face cream was much better than the face cream in Zheng's room, and it didn't smell like a stinky thing.
It really is... like a dream.
It’s just a little strange. Why is there only her mother at home? Where is her father?
Chaochao wanted to ask, but was afraid of saying the wrong thing, so she didn't open her mouth in the end.
She was reluctant to close her eyes and go to sleep, for she was afraid that after waking up, she would have to face a life of beatings and scolding again.
But Jian Yunsang's singing was so soft and gentle that it was very hypnotic, and Chao Chao was so tired that he could not bear it any longer and closed his eyes and slowly fell asleep.
At the same time, the sky darkened.
Jian Yunsang stopped when she heard her breathing become steady. She looked at the little fellow grabbing her clothes with some dependence and slowly exhaled.
She lay beside her and looked at her carefully. The more she looked, the tighter her heart became and the angrier her face became.
She knew Chao Chao had not had a good life in the past two years, and she thought she was mentally prepared, but when she took off her clothes to bathe Chao Chao, she still couldn't control herself. Looking at the wounds on her body, the bruises were new and old, and Jian Yunsang wanted to find the people who hurt Chao Chao and cut them into pieces.
Is it Shangliu Village?
She would find them, no matter where they were, she would find them.
"...Mom." A soft whisper suddenly came from my arms.
Jian Yunsang responded subconsciously, "Mom is here." He looked down and saw Chaochao was still sleeping with her eyes closed.
Her expression softened instantly, her eyes reddened, and she murmured softly, "Mom is here."
When Chao Chao woke up the next day, she was still a little groggy. Her biological clock had already been conditioned so that she had to get up before dawn every day.
It was the same today, but unlike the past days, she felt warm all over, as if she was still dreaming.
dream?
Chao Chao calmed down and turned her head to see Jian Yunsang still with her eyes closed. She raised her hand uncertainly and gently touched her face. She felt the temperature and was sure it was real.
Jian Yunsang has been a light sleeper in the past two years, and she wakes up as soon as Chao Chao stretches out his hand.
She held the child in her arms and said, "It's still early, why don't you sleep a little longer? When you wake up, Mommy will take you somewhere."
(End of this chapter)
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