Upon hearing that Fu Yunjuan was only concerned about the money Li Xue'e had secretly kept, Li Xueyao said, "But my sister hasn't come back. Where did she go?"
Now that the marriage is over, there's no way I can go back to the Yuan family, so I can only go back to the Li family.
Moreover, Chen Donghu just said that he saw Li Xue'e coming back this way.
"I wonder if she went to her friend's house," Fu Yunjuan thought of a possibility.
Li Xueyao and her brother exchanged a glance before realizing, "Oh right! They must have gone to that Yuanyuan's house."
"Let's go to her house and look for her first." With that, Chen Donghu and his sister rode their bicycles to Longgun Village.
At this time, Li Xue'e and Yuan Mengge were not at Hu Yuanyuan's house.
The reason was that when the two had just ridden their bikes out of the town, at a fork in the road, Yuan Mengge's system radar suddenly activated.
New task detected —
300 meters ahead on the right, the target is a 27-year-old woman who has beaten and abused her daughter 38 times. It is predicted that she will accidentally kill her daughter in an hour and hide her in the coffin of a recently deceased old man with her lover.
Event time: one hour later.
Location of the incident: Shichijo Village.
Task Rewards: 100,000 cash, 800 experience points, 100 stamina, 50 speed/strength, and 200 overall physical fitness.
Yuan Mengge immediately stopped the car, turned it around, and headed towards the fork in the road.
Seeing that she had suddenly changed direction, Li Xue'e, who was behind her, asked her in confusion, "Huh? This isn't the way you're going. Where are you going?"
Yuan Mengge: "Go and punish that scumbag! That trashy woman who even abuses her own daughter!"
She knew that not all women in the world would love their own children.
There are indeed some women who are not fit to be mothers, nor even to be human.
Li Xue'e was completely bewildered: "Huh? Who? How did you know?"
Yuan Mengge said, "You'll find out in a little while."
After riding for 300 meters, the two saw a woman riding a bicycle ahead.
Yuan Mengge said to Li Xue'e, "See that woman over there? That's her."
Li Xue'e peeked out from behind her and looked at the strange woman with a puzzled expression. "Her? Do you know her? How do you know she would abuse her own child?"
Yuan Mengge: "I heard it from others, let's go see if it's true."
Li Xue'e said somewhat disapprovingly, "But even if she hits her own child, that's her business, isn't it? Wouldn't it be nosy for us to go along?"
Yuan Mengge said, "But if we do nothing, her daughter might be beaten to death by her today."
Upon hearing this, Li Xue'e asked with a puzzled expression, "Really? What kind of mother would beat her own daughter to death?"
Yuan Mengge: "Human hearts are treacherous. Not all women love the children they give birth to. You must have heard that some women specialize in having children to sell."
There are many such cases in this era, and there is no shortage of women who treat childbirth as a way to make money.
After all, making money is not easy these days.
The two of them followed the woman at a leisurely pace.
Yuan Mengge was there to complete a mission, while Li Xue'e was curious whether what Yuan Mengge said would really happen.
The woman rode her bicycle for a short while before entering a village.
This village is actually seven villages.
Yuan Mengge and the other woman were about 100 meters apart when they entered the village and watched from afar as the woman went into a house.
The two then hid the bicycle in the woods at the entrance of the village, and then took a detour to the back of the woman's house.
Behind the woman's house was another house, and in front of that house was a tree.
Yuan Mengge and Li Xue'e stood under the tree. Li Xue'e said, "Wouldn't it be a bit suspicious if the two of us stood here?"
They're not from this village, so the villagers would probably wonder why they're here.
Yuan Mengge said, "It's okay. If anyone asks, we'll just say we were just passing by and having some fun."
Li Xue'e hesitated for a moment upon hearing this: "I just feel... that reason doesn't hold up very well..."
Yuan Mengge glanced at her and said with a smile, "Then you should tell people that we came here to follow that woman, specifically to watch her beat her child?"
Li Xue'e: "...Uh, let's just say we came here for fun."
Just as the two finished speaking, they heard a child crying suddenly coming from inside the house.
"Waaaaah—Mommy…don't hit me…I was wrong…waaaaah…Ah! Ahhh—it hurts—don't hit me…ah…waaaah…"
Judging from the child's voice, he is probably five or six years old.
"Look at you! What good are you after raising you? You can't even do a good job! Why did I give birth to you? You still eat my food and wear my clothes, wasting my food! I might as well beat you to death—" a woman's voice cursed fiercely.
"Clap clap clap—"
"Ah—ah waaaah—don't hit me anymore, waaaah—" The child cried loudly as he was being hit.
When Yuan Mengge heard this, she realized it was just a normal adult disciplining their own child, and she couldn't bring herself to intervene.
After all, they were disciplining their child in their own home, and it was unreasonable for an outsider like her to barge in and stop them.
Li Xue'e also heard the child's cries and said with some heartache, "What did the child do wrong to deserve such a severe beating..."
Judging from the child's shouts and the sounds of hitting, the beating was indeed quite severe.
While observing the situation, Yuan Mengge analyzed the information provided by the system.
This woman beat the child to death, but then hid the child with her lover.
Lover? At home?
Where is her husband? Isn't he home?
And since she's already having a lover, the man must not be home...
Could she be a widow?
Suddenly they saw a man walk over and go into the woman's house.
The man said in a low voice, "Why did you hit her again?"
The woman said angrily, "Before I went out this morning, I asked her to sweep the yard clean and fill the water tank. Look, I've been gone for several hours, and now I'm back and she still hasn't filled the tank."
The man said, "Alright, she's just a child, sweeping is fine, but fetching water is too heavy a task. Okay, okay, stop fetching."
Then, as if speaking to a child, he said, "Xiaoduo, come here. Uncle Liang will give you some money. Go buy something to eat."
The woman seemed to stop moving, and the child's voice also became softer, just low sobs.
Then a woman's voice could be heard: "What are you crying for? Didn't they give you money to go out and buy something to eat? Get out of here!"
Then a child dressed in tattered clothes came out, wiping his eyes as he cried out, "Waaah—waaah—"
She walked in another direction of the village while crying.
Yuan Mengge and the other person exchanged a glance, and then there was no sound from inside the room.
After the man and woman chased the children out of the house, they suddenly fell silent.
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