Chapter 130 Jinjiang Exclusive Release
Miao Jinfeng, Lu Qing, and other female relatives who happened to be passing by the corridor on their way to prepare lunch were startled. "What happened?"
At first they thought something had happened to a woman in the village, but when they noticed that the person in Wu Yang's arms was obviously not from their village in terms of clothing, they breathed a sigh of relief, and then became confused.
Could they be disaster victims rescued from outside?
Why did Wu Yang suddenly become so kind? Isn't he afraid of getting into trouble?
Lu Xuan waved to Wu Yang and asked him to take the person to the small hall in the main courtyard.
After taking out a blanket from the space and placing it on the ground for Wu Yang to put the person on it, Lu Xuan took out the treatment device and prepared to examine the person on the ground.
After Wu Yang put the man down, Lu Xuan also saw the other person's appearance.
His face was thin and pale, with some scratches on it, and he looked quite disheveled.
But other than that, he had no other thoughts.
Lu Qing, who had come over to help, saw the woman's appearance clearly, but her face changed and she exclaimed, "Li Yue!?"
"What?" Miao Jinfeng, who was originally struggling over whether to cook first or watch the fun, suddenly rushed over, glanced at the woman's face, and said excitedly, "Ayue!!"
The other people in the village were also shocked, "Is it really Li Yue from the village chief's family?"
"Why did she appear in Yangshan County?"
"Wu Yang, where did you find her?"
Wu Yang hurriedly said, "I found her by chance on the road," and then asked Lu Xuan anxiously, "How is she?"
At this time, other members of the Li family also hurried over. When they heard Miao Jinfeng holding the woman on the ground and calling Li Yue's name, they immediately became excited.
"Really, sister?"
"Is it Ayue? Ayue is still alive!?"
The eyes of the brothers Li Jing and Li Tuo suddenly turned red when they saw their lost sisters in their mother's arms.
Li Tie noticed that his daughter looked very bad, and he couldn't help but feel worried despite his excitement.
"Ah Xuan, how is Ah Yue? Is she okay? Is she injured and unconscious, or is there something wrong with her body?"
Lu Xuan, who had already checked Li Yue's body, replied: "Nothing serious, just hunger and fatigue."
In addition, there are some minor problems such as malnutrition, stomach problems, neurasthenia, and minor injuries.
Lu Xuan cured the external injuries directly with the treatment device on the spot. As for other minor ailments, he took out a few pills and asked Lu Qing to help Miao Jinfeng feed them. After that, they would recover after some recuperation.
In addition to the medicine, Lu Qing also fed him a nutritional supplement.
As soon as his physical condition recovered, Li Yue quickly hummed softly and opened his eyes.
Seeing this, the Li family became even more excited, "Sister! You're awake!"
"Ayue!"
Li Yue, who had just woken up, vaguely heard the familiar voice of his relatives and murmured softly: "Am I dreaming?"
Miao Jinfeng's voice choked with sobs, "It's not a dream, Yue, it's us! I'm your mother!"
"...Mom?" Li Yue tried to open his eyes wide and look at the person in front of him. When he found that it was really the relative he wanted to see in his dreams, his pupils couldn't help but dilate slightly.
Turning his head, he found several other people nearby and muttered, "Dad, and my eldest brother, eldest sister-in-law, and my younger brother...?"
The Li family members who were called nodded vigorously, "It's us! We are all here!"
Li Tie's eyes were red as he asked her, "How did you become like this? How did Zhou Chenghai take care of you? And what about Xiaoxiao?"
Li Yue, who hadn't fully recovered from the surprise of reuniting with her family, trembled when she heard her daughter's name. She immediately threw herself into Miao Jinfeng's arms and broke down crying, "Xiaoxiao, Xiaoxiao is gone, mother! Xiaoxiao is dead—!"
"What!?" The Li family's faces changed drastically.
The expressions of the surrounding villagers also changed.
There was no surprise on Lu Xuan's face as he stepped aside.
He remembered Lu Qing saying that Li Yue's daughter Zhou Xiaoxiao was the same age as Liu's Fang Yuan, only three years old.
It would be almost impossible for such a young child to survive the extreme heat season without the help of the Covenant's high-tech items.
Li Yue cried for a long time before she choked up and told the Li family everything that happened after she left her mother's home before the earthquake under their questioning.
At first, she didn't believe the disaster her family said, but she still secretly used her dowry to buy some food in case of emergency.
What happened later proved that her decision was correct.
However, Li Yue himself was lucky enough to survive the earthquake unharmed, but his daughter Zhou Xiaoxiao was unfortunately injured.
The injury was not serious originally, and it might have been recoverable if it had received timely treatment.
But after the earthquake, the entire Baisong Town was in chaos, and the temperature kept rising. Zhou Xiaoxiao had a fever due to his injuries, and his wounds began to ulcerate. Later, he suffered from heatstroke and died in less than five days.
The Li family was heartbroken when they heard this. Although Li Kangbao was only eight years old, he was already sensible. After learning that his little cousin had died of illness, he couldn't help but cry out in grief.
Miao Jinfeng hugged her daughter with a look of sadness and distress, and comforted her, "It's all in the past. At least you're still alive, which is a blessing in disguise for us."
Li Tie asked hoarsely, "What happened next?"
Li Yue continued, "I originally wanted to go back to the village to look for you, but I found that the road was blocked by a crack in the ground. I couldn't find the original location of the village anymore, so I had to go back to the town."
However, most of Baisong Town was also destroyed in the earthquake, and there were cracks everywhere in the town. The authorities were slow to send people to rescue, and more and more people in the town took the opportunity to cause chaos. The Zhou family was afraid that it would be unsafe to stay there any longer, so they packed up their luggage and went to the county town with other people who were also preparing to leave to seek a way to survive.
When leaving, no one expected how much changes the previous earthquake had brought to the surrounding terrain.
They walked for a long time, but not only did they fail to reach the county town, they completely lost their way and couldn't even find the way back to Baisong Town.
In the end, I could only continue to move forward aimlessly, stopping and starting to avoid the rising temperature.
Because Li Yue had stockpiled food in advance, the Zhou family did not have to worry about running out of food. However, Li Yue's parents-in-law were old after all, and unfortunately they suffered from heatstroke and collapsed on the way and never got up again. In the end, only she and her husband Zhou Chenghai were left to rely on each other.
During the hottest period of the hottest season, the two of them almost couldn't hold on, but they finally waited for the first rain and the temperature to drop, and arrived in Yangshan County eight days ago.
Having said that, Li Yue's originally stable emotions became intense again.
"When we first entered the city, we simply found a place to stay in the west, relying on scavenging supplies in the ruins to survive. But Zhou Chenghai somehow got in touch with the thugs in the gambling house and joined their forces."
The villagers couldn't help but frown. Why did they have to join the gambling house when they could join any of the four forces in the city?
Thinking of the bad deeds of the gambling house that they had learned about through various channels in recent days, they had a hunch that Li Yue's future days would probably not be easy.
The facts are just as they thought.
The gambling house was full of hot-blooded thugs who couldn't get married. Li Yue, a young woman, was taken there as a family member by Zhou Chenghai, and was bound to be teased and molested by those thugs.
There were even more than one person who intended to do something bad to Li Yue while Zhou Chenghai was out with other thugs collecting protection fees, and Li Yue had to struggle to avoid them every time.
After that, she mentioned it to Zhou Chenghai many times and persuaded him to take her away, but Zhou Chenghai didn't take it to heart at all. He even disliked her for making a fuss and said that those people were just joking with her.
When Li Jing and Li Tuo heard this, intense anger suddenly rose in their chests.
"Is he even a man? His wife is being pursued by someone else, and he doesn't even help you out? He even thinks you're making a fuss."
"When I asked you to marry me, I said I would protect you forever. Is this how I protect you?!"
The Li brothers didn't know that even more outrageous things were yet to come.
Zhou Chenghai was an outsider and not a very skilled person, so even if he joined the gambling house, the treatment he received was not good.
Not only was Li Yue often harassed, he himself was also often used as a punching bag by experienced thugs.
As the young master of a grocery store, Zhou Chenghai had never suffered such humiliation before. In order to escape his low-class status and avoid being bullied, he wanted to find a way to win Feng Hu's favor.
The only way to please your superiors is to rely on money and sex.
Zhou Chenghai naturally has no money, so the only way out is sex.
When Li Yue mentioned that Zhou Chenghai wanted to please Feng Hu, the audience in the live broadcast room had already guessed Zhou Chenghai's plan.
Selling wife for fame.
That’s right, Zhou Chenghai had the idea of sending Li Yue to Feng Hu’s bed.
He did not hide his intentions from Li Yue at all. Not only did he openly tell Li Yue about his plan, he also said to her: "As long as you follow Boss Feng and find a way to give him a child, we won't have to worry about the rest of our lives."
Finally, he shamelessly added, "You don't have to worry about Boss Feng getting tired of you and being left without support. As long as you can get through this difficult time, I will still want you and will never despise you."
"Shameless!" The Li family and villagers were furious when they heard this.
"Bastard! Where is that bastard! I'm going to kill him now!" Li Jing and Li Tuo were so angry that their eyes turned red, and their expressions were so ferocious as if they wanted to eat Zhou Chenghai.
The live broadcast room's barrage was filled with all kinds of dirty words directed at Zhou Chenghai. Because they were too dirty, many of them were blocked and only a string of asterisks could be seen. What's worse, some people even spent a large sum of money on gifts and wanted to hire Lu Xuan to beat Zhou Chenghai to death for them to vent their anger.
Li Tie's face darkened as he shouted angrily, "Listen to what Ayue has to say!"
Li Jing and Li Tuo clenched their fists and forced themselves not to rush out.
Li Yue said in a hoarse voice, "I naturally didn't want to do that kind of thing, so I had a big argument with him. Zhou Chenghai even wanted to lock me up, but in a rage I grabbed a candlestick in the room and knocked him unconscious, then escaped."
Fortunately, most of the people in the gambling house went to the north of the city in the past few days, and the base camp was relatively empty. Li Yue avoided the people who stayed behind and ran out without much effort.
It was just because he was panicked, and it had rained a lot in the past few days, making the road slippery. He accidentally fell several times while escaping, leaving him with many external injuries. Later, when he met Wu Yang, he relaxed for a moment and fainted.
As for malnutrition and neurasthenia, these problems are the sequelae of the previous hot season and the loss of the child that has not been adjusted.
After saying this, tears of regret once again appeared on Li Yue's haggard face. Her thin fingers tightly clenched Miao Jinfeng's sleeves and she cried bitterly, "I should have listened to you and Dad and stayed. If I had stayed, Xiaoxiao might not have gotten into trouble." She wouldn't have to face the unbearable experiences that followed.
Miao Jinfeng never expected that her son-in-law, who seemed to be a good person at first, would show such an ugly face in the face of disaster. She hated Zhou Chenghai for a while.
She held her daughter's hand to comfort her, saying, "Don't worry, if that bastard Zhou Chenghai bullied you, we will never let him go!"
"That's right!" Li Tuo said angrily, "Sister, just wait, I'll go catch Zhou Chenghai and let you vent your anger!"
When the other villagers heard what had happened, they were also very angry about Zhou Chenghai's actions.
Why should the married daughters in their village be treated like this by an outsider!
Even if Zhou Chenghai failed to succeed, the grievances he had caused Li Yue before could not be let go.
"Let's go to the gambling house and settle accounts with Zhou Chenghai now."
"That's right! Make him kneel down and apologize to Li Yue!"
"Why apologize? Just catch him and kill him! This kind of beast has no value in living!"
Wu Yang's face did not look as excited as the other young men, but the anger in his eyes was no less than that of Li Jing and Li Tuo.
Wu Cheng glanced at his son and said to the equally gloomy village chief, "Because of what happened in the north of the city, the people in the gambling house already dislike us. If a group of us go to the gambling house to look for Zhou Chenghai again, Feng Hu might think we're signaling a war. Then, it might not just be Zhou Chenghai's problem. If we're not careful, we'll be facing off against the entire gambling house."
Fists and feet have no eyes. Once dozens or hundreds of people start fighting, even if they win in the end, it is difficult to guarantee that no one will accidentally get into an accident along the way.
Wu Cheng certainly didn't think that they shouldn't settle accounts with Zhou Chenghai. He just reminded Li Tie that even if he wanted to go, he should at least be fully prepared and not let anger cloud his mind.
If something really happens to a young and strong person in someone's family, there is no guarantee that the relatives will not vent their anger on Li Yue, which will be bad for Li Yue who has suffered a lot outside and finally returned.
After hearing Wu Cheng's words, the furious Li Tie finally calmed down a little.
At this time, Lu Xuan, who had remained silent, spoke up, "We can first send out the drone to see where the people in the gambling house are now. Zhou Chenghai is just a new follower and may not be with the others. If we can catch him alone, we can naturally do whatever we want to him."
As for whether the gambling house would discover that the person was missing afterwards, Feng Hu might not care much even if a newly joined thug really disappeared.
If the other party finds out that they were the ones who did it and wants to use this as an excuse to find fault, then they can just deal with him as well.
Although the young and strong men were still very angry, they were not really willing to risk their lives. Before helping Li Yue, they also had to think about their own families. They nodded in agreement with Lu Xuan's proposal.
Lu Xuan quickly released the drone into the night.
Their residence was not too far from the gambling house. In just ten minutes, the drone had found the gambling house's headquarters, and through a half-open window, it discovered Feng Hu who was discussing something with his men.
Zhou Chenghai's figure was not found on the screen. Lu Xuan was about to control the drone to move to another place to continue searching, but the drone's sensitive radio equipment recorded several names mentioned by Feng Hu, which made him pause. A cold light suddenly appeared in his calm eyes.
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