No one knew when Zhou Shixun would come back and when he would stand at the door.
But his face now looks dark and ugly.
Zhong Wenqing opened his mouth: "Shi Xun, listen to my explanation..."
Zhou Shixun didn't even look at her, but ran straight to the bed, looking at Sheng An Ning who was tied up, and his eyes finally fell on her slender white arm. The blood-red mark stung his eyes.
He silently leaned over to untie the ropes around Sheng An Ning's wrists and ankles.
Zhou Chaoyang didn't expect Zhou Shixun to really come back, so he quickly threw away the cane in his hand and looked at Zhou Shixun nervously: "Brother, it's not what you think. We didn't hurt my sister-in-law. Really, we didn't intend to hurt her."
Zhou Chaoyang was very panicked because Zhou Shixun's expression was so scary, and he was very careful when he untied Sheng An Ning. She, who had been so strong and ruthless just now, couldn't help but burst into tears.
Her crying made Zhong Wenqing panic, and he hurried forward to explain incoherently: "Shi Xun, Shi Xun, we are not hurting An Ning, we..."
She started crying as she spoke, she no longer knew how to explain.
If this isn't harm, what is it?
The Taoist priest didn't expect a man to come back. He ignored the pain in his body and crawled quietly towards the door.
Before he could move much, he was grabbed by the collar and dragged to the bed.
Zhou Shixun's brows were grim, and he threw the Taoist priest to the ground like a piece of rag. He looked at Zhou Chaoyang and said in a low voice, "Keep an eye on him."
There was even a slight tremor.
He never imagined that the uneasiness he had been feeling these days was actually due to something really happening at home, as well as Zhou Chaoyang's voice just now and the scene he saw when he entered the door.
The person he wanted to protect his whole life was tied to the bed!
What would have happened if he had come back a little later?
Zhou Chaoyang stepped on the Taoist's back to prevent him from moving. He wiped his tears while watching Zhou Shixun carefully help Sheng Anning up: "Brother, we didn't mean to harm my sister-in-law, and I'm at home, I will definitely protect my sister-in-law."
Zhong Wenqing looked at the Taoist priest who was groaning on the ground after being beaten with a few canes, and then looked at Sheng An Ning and the glaring red marks on her arms. He was really panicked: "Shi Xun, I didn't mean to harm An Ning. I just wanted to cure her because she was sick. I was anxious, so I wanted to use these folk remedies."
But Zhou Shixun never responded. He carefully helped Sheng Anning sit down, let her lean against the head of the bed, and gently brushed the hair off her face.
Zhong Wenqing became even more panicked: "Shi Xun, it's really not what you think. I didn't intend to bully An Ning. If possible, I would rather be the one lying here, I..."
Zhou Hongyun also explained: "Shi Xun, don't think too much. We have always treated An Ning like our own child. She is sick now. We have seen many doctors but she has not been cured, so we had no choice but to think of this method."
"Your mother is really kind to An Ning and has never thought of abusing her."
Zhou Shixun closed his eyes. He believed that Zhong Wenqing and the others were truly kind to Sheng An Ning, but he could not bear it either. When Sheng An Ning was sick, they tried all kinds of medical treatments and used methods that hurt Sheng An Ning to treat her.
"You guys get out first!"
At this moment, he didn't want any explanation, and then looked at Zhou Chaoyang: "Chaoyang, you stay."
Zhou Chaoyang knew that his eldest brother would not listen to any explanation at this moment, and he must want to know what happened. He turned his head and looked at Zhong Wenqing and Zhou Hongyun: "Mom, aunt, you go down first, I will talk to my eldest brother."
Although she was a little angry at Zhong Wenqing's impulsiveness, she didn't want to see this family break up at all.
Zhong Wenqing wanted to say something, but Zhou Hongyun dragged him out. Zhou Shixun would not listen to anything he said at this moment.
After all, what he saw was that the mother-in-law brought people and was about to beat her daughter-in-law with a rattan stick.
It was the first time Xue Caifeng saw Zhou Shixun. She was so frightened that her face turned pale, without a trace of blood. She followed Zhou Hongyun and Zhong Wenqing down the stairs tremblingly.
Zhou Chao** didn't need Zhou Shixun's instructions. He took the rope that had just been used to tie up Sheng An Ning and tied the Taoist priest to the table leg.
Then she wiped the tears and sweat from her face, and looked at Zhou Shixun with red eyes: "Brother, it's good that you're back. Sister-in-law has been like this for half a month. Mom was wrong, but she was too anxious. An An and the other three are also sick, and sister-in-law is like this again..."
Zhou Shixun held Sheng Anning's hand, lowered his eyes to look at the red marks on her arm, and tried his best to control his anger. He took a moment to speak, "Why is your sister-in-law like this all of a sudden?"
Zhou Chaoyang was also unclear: "My sister-in-law was fine before, but she suddenly became like this one morning."
Zhou Shixun raised his eyes and met Sheng Anning's eyes. Those eyes used to be smiling and always looked coquettish and smart. But now they became empty and lifeless, as if she was immersed in her own world and couldn't come out, with a cold smile on the corners of her mouth.
He reached out and gently touched her cheek with his fingers. She didn't dodge or avoid him, but she didn't respond either.
Zhou Chaoyang wiped his tears with the back of his hand: "Brother, we have already found all the experts in the city, and also found experts in Shanghai. Dad is now trying to find experts from all over the country to take a look. There is no result at all. Some people also said that my sister-in-law has mental problems, but how could she have problems when she is fine?"
"That's why Mom believed what Xue Caifeng said, that this liar can cure diseases."
After that, he told the whole story like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube, including who Xue Caifeng was, how she went crazy, what she did after she went crazy, and how she got better.
Then he pointed at the Taoist priest and said, "This is the man. He said he could exorcise ghosts. My father and I didn't believe him. But my mother and the others heard him so many times that they thought he made sense. So we brought him home today."
Zhou Shixun kept staring into Sheng Anning's eyes, but he also listened to everything Zhou Chaoyang said.
Naturally, he didn't believe in ghosts and gods. He put down Sheng An Ning's hand, stood up and walked to the Taoist priest, squatted down and stretched out his hand to pinch his neck: "You can tell fortunes, and catch ghosts?"
The Taoist priest was so frightened that his whole body was shaking, his teeth were chattering, and he looked at Zhou Shixun without daring to speak.
Zhou Shixun did not speak, his fingers groping his most vulnerable throat: "Since you can tell fortunes, did you predict that it would be unlucky to go out today?"
The Taoist priest felt a suffocating pain in his throat, and stared at Zhou Shixun with wide eyes in horror: "You are killing someone, you are killing someone!"
Zhou Shixun used a little more force, not strangling him to death, but making him unable to breathe and speak: "Why did you come? Who asked you to come?"
Zhou Chaoyang looked at Zhou Shixun and the Taoist priest in surprise. Could it be that someone was behind this?
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