Chapter 47 The mission has finally arrived. Please protect the female supporting character, Qin Tao...
No one expected that Grandmother Li would die like this!
Having endured more than a month of fleeing famine, at this point, Grandmother Li died in such an absurd accident. She died at the hands of her own son, whom she had raised with the blood and sweat of most of her life!
No one present could believe that Grandma Li had died like that!
Li Wangming kept holding his grandmother's head and calling out to her repeatedly, calling "Mother" again and again, but even the most heart-wrenching voice could not bring the dead back.
Li Wangming couldn't accept this accident—or rather, he couldn't accept that his grandmother had died because of a deliberate push by his father.
Even though he knew in his heart that Grandmother Li was really dead, she was still his mother!
Even though Grandmother Li was indeed a bit biased towards Father Li, she wasn't bad to Li Wangming either. They were both sons, not to mention that Li Wangming was even more outstanding.
How could Li Wangming possibly accept this?
Grandma Li, who survived such a difficult journey of fleeing famine, died in such an accident.
It's you!
It's all because of you!
It's all because of you!
It was you who disobeyed your mother, you who disregarded propriety and had an affair with another man, and even fathered an illegitimate child!
It was you, you beast without any humanity or filial piety, who not only forced your mother to give you money, but also dared to lay a hand on her!
I'll beat you to death! I'll beat you to death, you unfilial son who killed your mother!
Ah! Mother!
I'm going to beat you to death!
Li Wangming rushed towards his father like a madman. His father was still in a daze. He saw the grass soaked with blood, he saw his grandmother with her eyes closed and no sound, and he also heard Li Wangming's accusations against him.
But he still couldn't believe that it was his push that caused Grandma Li's head to hit a sharp stone and die.
His first instinct was to run, but he was already ill, so how could he possibly have the energy to escape?
Li Wangming rushed forward and knocked Li's father to the ground with a single punch. The pain of losing his mother transformed into the power of grief and anger. He straddled Li's father and relentlessly punched him in the face!
It's you! It's all your fault!
You killed your mother!
I'll beat you to death!
I'll kill you!
Under these circumstances, Li's father had no strength to resist Li Wangming's beating. He could only cover his head with his hands and try to minimize the harm Li Wangming caused him.
First came arguing, then shouting, one thing after another at the Li family's place, already attracting a lot of attention, with everyone in Li family village watching from the sidelines.
Therefore, in this chaotic situation, with people dying, someone had already gone to inform Li Youfu.
What about Li Shiyue?
She watched as Li's mother carefully listened to Li's grandmother's chest, confirming that Li's grandmother was indeed dead. Only then did Li's mother look towards Li's father and Li Wangming with tears streaming down her face.
Seeing Li Wangming's fierce demeanor, Li's mother was genuinely afraid he would beat Li's father to death.
It wasn't that she still had any feelings for Li's father; when he betrayed her, Li's mother had long since given up on him.
She was afraid that Li Wangming would really beat Li's father to death!
If Li Wangming really beat his father to death, not only would he regret it when he came to his senses, but the stigma of killing his elder brother would follow him for the rest of his life!
How could Li's mother, who raised him herself, allow Li Wangming to do something so harmful to himself?
Li's mother turned around and cried as she said to Li Shiyue, "Shiyue, quickly pull your second uncle away, don't let anyone else die."
Li Shiyue was unwilling to pull Li Wangming away. In Li Shiyue's opinion, Li Wangming was right. Wasn't Li's grandmother killed by Li's father?
So, they are both Grandmother Li's sons. What's wrong with the younger son hitting the older son for his mother's sake?
Besides, Li Wangming needed to vent his anger somewhere, didn't he?
Therefore, while Li Shiyue verbally agreed with her mother, she walked slowly toward Li Wangming and her father. It wasn't until Li Shiyang and the others ran toward their home that Li Shiyue reached out and grabbed Li Wangming's hand, preventing her father from being beaten.
In just a short while, Li Wangming had thrown at least a dozen punches, and now there wasn't a single unblemished spot on Li's father's face.
Li's father's nose was bleeding, his mouth was split open, and he even had two black eyes on his face.
"Second Uncle, stop hitting her, let Mother go in peace."
Li Wangming seemed to clear his mind a little after hearing his mother's words. He turned around and cried out to his mother, "Sister-in-law, Mother is gone! Mother is gone! I have no mother anymore! I have no mother! Waaah..."
Li Wangming could no longer hold on and collapsed to the ground. Li's mother was already crying, and when she heard Li Wangming shout like that, she couldn't stop crying. She squatted down, half-hugging the child she had raised since he was a child, and stroked his head as she did when he was a child, crying as she comforted him: "Wangming, you still have your sister-in-law, you have Shiyue, you have Shitou, you still have us, you still have us!"
Cry, cry, but once you've cried, you can't cry anymore.
Your mother must be smiling at you, sob...cry now...
When Li Shiyang arrived, this was the scene he saw.
Li's father lay on the ground with his face covered in blood. Qin Tao knelt beside him, too afraid to move. Li Wangming and Li's mother embraced and wept bitterly. Li Shiyue pulled Shitou and stood with the Zheng family mother and daughter who had rushed over. Not far away, Li Chunli and Li Shigui were also rushing over.
Li Shiyang first went to see his grandmother's body to confirm that she was indeed dead. He also examined the wounds, which clearly showed that her head had hit a stone, and the sharp stone had pierced the back of her head, killing her instantly.
There was no need to ask anyone; the people living near Li Shiyue's house all chimed in, telling Li Shiyang everything they had seen.
Li Shiyang was in a real bind. He was already on the road fleeing famine when he was caught up in the plague. He had planned to stay in the mountains and wilderness for a couple more days, let the sick villagers take medicine and recover, and maybe they would survive before continuing his journey to Dengzhou.
He also had to worry about the strategies of the imperial court and the rebel army, making sure he didn't stumble upon the same path as them.
He also had to figure out if the Mr. Chen he had met in the prefectural city, who was under the command of the Prince of Zhenbei, was really real. He also had to figure out what to do about the large ship that Mr. Chen said he had in Dongmou Port that could take him to the Andong Protectorate. He also had to think about where the seventy or eighty people in Lijia Village would make a living.
As it turned out, this is what happened to Li Shiyue's family!
Li Shiyang went to look at Li Shiyue, and Li Shiyue looked back at him with a sullen face. Neither of them spoke.
After a while, Li Youfu and his third uncle and other elders finally arrived, their old arms and legs failing them.
"Save lives first!"
How is Wangguang doing?
Sigh, this...
Li Youfu initially wanted to say that this was too ruthless, but then he remembered what Li Shiyang had just said and felt that Li's father deserved what he got.
Li Shiyue stood up, even though her mother had divorced her father, he was still her and Shitou's father.
In this world, if you want to live with dignity, you still have to consider filial piety.
Li Shiyue went over and, together with Shitou, helped Li's father up. She found a cloth, dampened it, and wiped the wounds on Li's father's face that Li Wangming had inflicted, making his face presentable again.
It seems that Li Shiyue hit him hard, hurting Li's father, who was originally unconscious, now slowly woke up.
As soon as Li's father woke up, a system's electronic voice sounded in Li Shiyue's mind: "Mission detected. Please protect the female supporting character Qin Tao from the attack by the male supporting character Li Wangguang. Upon completion of the mission, you will receive one chance to draw a prize."
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