Seeing them leave reluctantly, Old Mrs. Xia began to coax her granddaughter to sleep.
"Grandma, I did something bad today."
Old Mrs. Xia opened her eyes wide. What bad things could this little kid do?
"What's wrong?"
Chen Lingling: "When I went to talk to Yingying, I overheard Uncle Hu talking. Uncle Hu said that the fat brother who came to our place before was gone."
Old Mrs. Xia thought a lot in an instant: ...Could it be that Hu Jie killed that person?
"How come it's gone?"
Chen Lingling shook her head: "I don't know. Uncle Hu said it was a good thing for him to die."
Old Lady Xia: "Anything else?"
Chen Lingling: "I talked to Yingying today, and she seemed to react."
Old Lady Xia: "That's really the blessing of the Bodhisattva. This child will get better soon. Go to sleep quickly."
She quickly coaxed her granddaughter to sleep, then jumped out of bed to find Old Lady Yin to ask about the situation.
When Old Lady Yin heard this, her eyes dimmed for a moment. "He's indeed gone. When we found him, he had been washed away to the next village. But don't worry, it wasn't Xiao Hu who did it, otherwise they would have caught him long ago."
Old Lady Xia: "Oh, my heart is in turmoil. I'm afraid he will do something stupid."
Old Lady Yin: "I don't know the specifics either."
Old Lady Xia: "As long as Xiao Hu is okay, that's all that matters."
On the other side, Hu Jie looked at the letter in his hand and smiled creepily. His ex-sister-in-law was getting married, and he went to the wedding and gave a gift. As a result, Hu's mother scolded him, but he didn't care. This was not his reason for coming back. This was just the superficial reason for issuing the letter of introduction.
Later, Hu Bin saw him coming back and asked him if he had brought anything delicious. As a good uncle, he said yes and gave him a bag of sweet cakes.
"Nephew, don't let your friends see this. If they do, they will ask you to share their food. Otherwise, they will fight with you and you will be at a disadvantage." Hu Jie said.
Hu Bin thought it made sense, but he was at a loss as to where to go.
Hu Jie enthusiastically pointed him to a place, which was behind an abandoned house near the river, where usually not many people went.
Hu Jie said there was no one there and that he could just come out after eating, so Hu Bin went over there stupidly.
But what he didn't mention was that it had rained last night, and that area was overgrown with weeds and close to the river. If you wanted to avoid being seen, you had to stand behind the trees on the big rock at the edge of the river. And it was very easy to slip on that big rock after it rained.
It rains a lot in their area during the summer, so the water level has risen quite a bit and the river is turbulent...
Sure enough, Hu Bin did not return home until late at night. Hu's mother was extremely anxious and took him to look for him for several days, but still couldn't find him.
In the past few days, he has been at home or at the village chief's place. Everyone can prove that he was not the one who abducted the child, so Hu's mother did not suspect him.
Finally, the date on Hu Jie's letter of introduction arrived, and he had to go back to work.
A few days later, Hu Bin's body was found. Someone in the village sent him a letter, and he felt that the evil anger in his heart had dissipated a little.
Although what happened to Hu Yingying was not something a child like him could do, he had robbed Hu Yingying of many good things since childhood. Because of his existence, Hu Yingying almost died twice. The first time was because they gave Yingying's things to him to eat, causing Yingying to almost die of starvation and illness. The second time was because they wanted to take Yingying's things for him, resulting in Yingying being sold.
They were capable of such a thing, yet they still wanted to raise their grandson well to carry on the family line. He wouldn't let them succeed. He felt that he was worthy of being the child of Father Hu and Mother Hu, and sometimes he could be cruel and reckless.
There would be no other children born to the Hu family. He was the last male heir in the family, and he wouldn't have any more. Later, he would change Yingying's surname to her mother's. His surname was too unlucky.
After reading the letter, Hu Jie immediately wrote a letter to his father, who was still undergoing reform on the farm, telling him this exciting... oh no, sad news.
On the other side, after sighing for a while, Old Mrs. Xia saw the panicked Chen Xiangnan hurriedly running towards her.
"Mom, it's bad. My dad and the third child have been scratched by them."
Mrs. Xia:?
Chen Xiangnan pulled his mother and told her about the process of them asking for things just now.
"My dad and the others are still over there, so I came here to report the incident. We just went to the first house, and the family was all women except for the third brother's friend. As soon as they heard we were coming to ask for something, they started to act rudely. Later, when they couldn't convince us, they turned rogue and refused to open the door. I did as you said and told them I was going to report the case, but they rushed out and started beating us, saying we were bullying them women."
"They were women, so we couldn't attack them. We could only hide and reason with them. I saw we couldn't win, so I ran back."
Old Lady Xia: "So you didn't report the case?"
Chen Xiangnan: "Mom, they only stole the third child's sweet potatoes. No one else saw it. Sweet potatoes are not worth much. And there is no evidence. How can the police handle this case?"
Old Lady Xia: "So you want me to go now, are you planning to let me fight them?"
Chen Xiangnan mumbled, "A good man doesn't fight with a woman. If the three of us men were to fight an old woman, wouldn't that make others laugh at us?"
"But, Mom, you're different. If you charge forward, we'll follow you and say we can't stand them bullying the weak and are here to help you."
"Help me? Did I cause this?"
Chen Xiangnan gave a flattering smile: "You are the one who helped us, but we are useless. Then we will punish the third brother."
"I'm not going. I told you, whoever provokes them should go. The third child learned this from your dad. Let your dad handle it. If he can't, I'll take care of them all. You have to take the lead in everything. What else is your dad good for besides making money? As someone's father, you just sit there and don't have to worry about anything?"
Chen Xiangnan prayed for them secretly in his heart, but thinking about his father's salary, he still tried his best to persuade Mrs. Xia, "Mom, we have to proceed step by step. My dad has improved a lot now. He has no experience in this matter. After you show your power, we will all learn from you. It will be easier to handle it when we have experience in the future."
"Before, my dad didn't care about us at home, as he had no work to do. After this period of time, he has taken the initiative to buy things for mom. As for me, when I went to Haishi, my heart and eyes were full of thoughts about home. I also thought about my family when I bought things. If it were before, I would never have thought of these things. All of this is thanks to you, mom."
Finally, after some persuasion from him, Old Lady Xia went over.
When she arrived, Old Chen had scratches on his face and head, and he was cursing without much harm. The third brother squatted on the ground, tears in his eyes, looking aggrieved, and just said that his brothers were not human beings.
It's really useless for the two of them to take action.
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