The villagers who had already become evildoers could not help but feel somewhat dissatisfied with Chen Gensheng. It was Chen Gensheng who summoned everyone to offer human sacrifices, and it was also he who chose Widow Li's daughter. Since they had already come to snatch the child and become evildoers, now he was talking about using livestock for sacrifice, which made them feel like they were neither here nor there.
Chen Gensheng, the person in charge, left. The villagers looked at each other and dispersed.
Seeing that everyone had left, Li Xiu'e hugged her daughter, walked forward, knelt on the ground in front of Yu Qizhe, wiped her tears and said, "Thank you, Wulang, for saving my sister Huan's life. Thank you..."
Yu Qizhe said nothing and moved sideways to avoid the direction where Li Xiu'e was kneeling.
In the courtyard, Yu Zhixing lifted Yu Mengshan out of the mud and helped him pick up the prosthesis beside him.
Yu Hanshan, with a bruised face and nose, wiped the blood from his nose and called out to Yu Qiaoshan and Yu Mengshan a little embarrassedly, "Big brother, second brother..."
He was grateful in his heart. If the first and second wives had not brought people over, I'm afraid Sister Huan would have been dragged to the river sacrifice by that group of people.
"Dad asked us to come over and take a look." Yu Qiaoshan looked at the mess in the yard, glanced at the Zhao mother and her two children who had been standing in the main hall without moving, sighed softly, and said, "Third brother, if you have anything, please call us when you return to the old house. Second brother and I will go back first."
Yu Hanshan responded, and watched Yu Qizhe enter the yard and support Yu Mengshan and Yu Qiaoshan, who were holding prosthetic limbs, as they walked out of the yard. He suddenly felt a little dry in his nose, and couldn't help but say, "Big brother, second brother, thank you for coming."
Yu Qiaoshan and Yu Mengshan both turned around to look at Yu Hanshan and waved at him to indicate that it was nothing.
Perhaps it was because of the heavy rain that Yu Hanshan was blinded. He wiped the warm water drops from the corners of his eyes and couldn't help but feel that he had been too confused in the past.
In the past, he always called each other the eldest and the second, but now that the family has split up, he realized that in this world, only brothers can stand up for each other and take care of each other.
Only brothers will not hold grudges overnight and will not care about or bear grudges about grudges.
Yu Hanshan turned around and saw Li Xiu'e still standing in the yard holding the little girl. He walked up to Li Xiu'e, looked at the little girl in her arms, and asked, "Is Sister Huan okay?"
Li Xiu'e said with red eyes, "It's okay." Seeing that Yu Hanshan's eyes were bruised and his mouth and nose were bleeding, Li Xiu'e choked up and said distressedly, "Third brother, I'm sorry for making you suffer."
"Hurry up and carry Sister Huan back to the house, before she gets wet." Yu Hanshan touched the top of the head of the little girl in her arms.
The little girl who was still sobbing in Li Xiu'e's arms had a pale face and looked listless and frightened. She was frightened by Yu Hanshan's touch on the head and her eyes widened. She grabbed Li Xiu'e's clothes tightly on her chest like a frightened bird.
Seeing this, Yu Hanshan quickly withdrew his hand.
"Sister Huan was frightened by that group of people..." Li Xiu'e was afraid that the little girl's reaction would make Yu Hanshan unhappy, so she patted Sister Huan's back and explained.
Yu Hanshan nodded and said, "Go inside."
Li Xiu'e was holding the little girl and holding her son's hand as she was about to go back to the house when she suddenly heard a weak voice in her arms, "Dad."
Li Xiu'e thought she had misheard and stopped, "Sister Huan, what did you say?"
Huan Jieer in her arms looked at Yu Hanshan and called out tenderly, "Dad..."
Yu Hanshan was shocked and at a loss. Just as he was about to smile, he pulled the corner of his mouth which was broken. He ignored the pain and responded with a smile, "Hey!"
The eldest son, who was held by Li Xiu'e's hand, also called out to Yu Hanshan, "Dad."
Yu Hanshan hurriedly responded, smiling and covering the wound at the corner of his mouth, "Wan Ge'er has grown up."
Li Xiu'e was also somewhat happy. She did not expect that the two children would change their way of addressing Yu Hanshan. No matter how she coaxed them, the two children always refused to call them dad.
She carried Huan Jie'er back to the house. Yu Hanshan stood in the yard in the rain for a while. In fact, he didn't know why he tried so hard to stop the group of people in the village from taking Li Xiu'e's little girl away.
These two kids are clearly a burden and they are not his offspring. Logically, he shouldn't be beaten like this and still be protecting Sister Huan.
Yu Hanshan raised his hand to wipe the blood from his nose, thinking that maybe it was because Li Xiu'e regarded these two children as her life, and if Huan Jie'er died, Li Xiu'e would probably also commit suicide to follow him, so he could be so risk-free.
The reason why he was able to sleep with Li Xiu'e was not because he bought a useful hairpin, nor because he fetched water or chopped wood for Li Xiu'e, but because he bought food for the two children and made them like him.
Only then did Li Xiu'e let him get closer.
Shivering from the rain, Yu Hanshan walked towards the main room.
Zhao made a sullen face, gritted her teeth and stared at the disheveled Yu Hanshan, and said sarcastically, "Are you so happy to hear another bastard calling you dad?"
Yu Hanshan felt a little annoyed when he saw her face. He glanced at Yu Jinshu and Yu Jinyan and tightened his lips. The children from the first and second wives had fought, but his two sons just watched their father being beaten coldly. It would be a lie to say that he was not heartbroken.
Yu Hanshan's lips moved, but he couldn't say any words of accusation. After all, he was the one who did the wrong thing first, and he felt sorry for Zhao and his two sons. Knowing that they hated him and Li Xiu'e, Yu Hanshan went to the west room alone to change his clothes.
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