Rumors are rampant.
Pan Dachun's already aged face looked even older, and his entire back hunched over.
Hu Shuli sat at home every day, crying her eyes out, pounding her chest and cursing the streets, cursing heaven and earth and the Pan family ancestors for eighteen generations, how could her perfectly good son become a homosexual!
Pan Jiwen stopped going out to work and stayed in bed with his head covered by a blanket every day. If anyone tried to get him out of bed, he would yell, "I'm too ashamed to go out! People say I have a male sister-in-law, I can't face anyone!"
Surprisingly, the calmest person in the family was Pan Jixian.
He comforted his mother, who was constantly crying, then extinguished the pipe in his father's hand, threw the blanket covering his younger brother into the yard, and forced the three of them to sit on the kang (a heated brick bed) and listen to him speak.
Pan Ji first explained how he and Wang Shuli hired a madman to seek revenge, then how the mental hospital was investigated, how the counselor's father was implicated, and why he was with Wang Meizhen, which provoked Wang Shuli.
The other three were so startled by what they heard that they forgot all about sighing and complaining.
Pan Jiwen excitedly grabbed his older brother's hand, "Did you hire that madman?"
Shh! Keep your voice down!
Pan Jixian covered Pan Jiwen's mouth. This loud voice, is he afraid others won't hear him?
"Brother, you're really capable! But why didn't you kill Li Xiangdong first?"
"Sigh, the original plan was to have him kill Li Xiangdong first, but Li Xiangdong was always accompanied by a big, dumb guy, and Xu Fengzi couldn't handle him alone, so we had to target Li Jin first."
Pan Jixian sighed. It's true that man proposes, God disposes. He originally thought that with Xu Fengzi's fighting skills, killing the Li family father and son would be an easy thing to do, but in the end, he was the one who got killed.
Hu Shuli had previously had a good impression of Wang Shuli, but upon hearing that he had violently attacked her son, she was so angry that she slammed her hands on the earthen bed, yelling, "That idiot!"
Pan Dachun, as expected of someone who had served as a brigade leader, immediately grasped the key point of the conversation: "Son, you said Wang Meizhen's father is the deputy county magistrate of Luo County?"
Pan Ji nodded first.
"That girl has liked you for four years?"
"It should be!"
He never doubted Wang Meizhen's feelings for him.
Pan Dachun's aging eyes gleamed with a sharp light, and his withered, rough hands gripped Pan Jixian's arm tightly like eagle claws. "Son, our family's future depends on this girl!"
Walls always have ears; even a tiny hole can let in a gust of wind.
Pan Jixian thought his family's conversation was discreet enough, but he didn't know that his neighbor had already dug a hole behind his cabinet...
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Guo Yuxi was whispering to her classmates in class when the teacher threw a piece of chalk at her, which hit her squarely on the head.
"We're in class! The teacher is lecturing up here, and you two are talking down here. Are you even listening to the lesson?!"
Guo Yuxi touched his forehead where a chalk mark had been thrown at him, then suddenly stood up. "Report! Teacher, my stomach hurts, I need to go home and poop!"
The students in the classroom burst into laughter.
The teacher angrily threw the textbook on the table, "Hurry up! You're such a lazy bum!"
Guo Yuxi ignored what the teacher said and ran to Li Xiangdong's house like a madman!
Li Xiangdong was lying on a rocking chair with a hand-woven rosewood mat, basking in the sun. Next to him, on a small round stool, was a plate of freshly washed Kyoho grapes.
The grapes grew in our own yard. From picking to washing them, it only took five minutes. They were plump and purple, with water droplets and white frost on them.
Wax plum and jasmine lay on either side of Li Xiangdong, like two loyal guards.
Guo Yuxi burst in like a whirlwind, shouting, "Second Brother! Second Brother! Important intelligence!"
Li Xiangdong truly never expected that Liu Yuxiu would have such audacity!
He had always thought that Wang Shuli had instigated Liu Yuxiu and Li Weijun to get close to Li Jin in order to steal something, but he never expected that they were planning to poison him!
Li Xiangdong was so angry that he smashed the plate next to him on the ground. The grapes had thin skins, so the juice splashed everywhere, and the plate shattered into pieces!
He went back into the house, took down the homemade gun hanging on the wall, and headed straight for Li Weijun's house.
Guo Yuxi followed him hurriedly for a while, and just then he saw Chunhua playing with the child by the roadside. He quickly ran over and explained the situation to Chunhua, urging her, "Auntie, hurry up, I'm afraid we'll be too late!"
Chunhua's face changed drastically at Guo Yuxi's words. She hurriedly locked her son and daughter back in the yard and told them to stay home. She then rushed to the food factory to find Zhao Sufang.
When Li Xiangdong arrived, Li Weijun and Liu Yuxiu were not home; the front door was locked.
Li Xiangdong took two steps back, took a running start, kicked open the lock on the door with a "bang," and then swaggered into the house to wait for Li Weijun and his wife.
Guo Yuxi followed Li Xiangdong, panting. He first caught his breath and then advised, "Second Brother, don't get agitated. What if Pan Xiaolong misheard? Who poisons food with salt? Which dish we eat doesn't have salt in it? Don't get agitated, really! Maybe I misheard..."
Guo Yuxi kept trying to persuade him, but Li Xiangdong's face grew greener and greener as he listened.
They don't know what ta salt is, but Li Xiangdong does!
The sensational "thallium poisoning" incident that lasted for decades in later generations made almost all Chinese people aware of "thallium salts," a deadly poison!
He wondered how Li Jin could be stabbed so easily by Xu Fengzi without being able to fight back; it seemed his father had been poisoned!
Thinking of this, Li Xiangdong felt as if his heart was being torn apart.
It's all my fault for being careless and using my parents as bait. I want to know what kind of trick Liu Yuxiu is up to!
Now that the father has been poisoned, the mother, sister, brother, sister-in-law, and nephew will probably not escape either. This time, the whole family is truly wiped out!
Li Xiangdong's heart was numb with pain. All he wanted to do now was shoot Liu Yuxiu and Li Weijun dead with two shots, and then wipe out Pan Jixian's family and Liu Dagai's family.
Next, I'll die with my family, at least we can be together again in the afterlife...
Thinking of this, Li Xiangdong shed two tears, which fell directly to the ground.
A series of footsteps approached.
Li Xiangdong wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, slowly raised the gun in his hand, and gently stroked the muzzle with a handkerchief.
"Xiangdong, my son, what's wrong with you?"
It was Zhao Sufang who arrived.
She could tell at a glance that something was wrong with her son. He was fine this morning, but after not seeing him all morning, he looked like he was about to break apart!
Upon seeing his mother, Li Xiangdong could no longer hold back his tears. He knelt down with a thud, hugged Zhao Sufang's leg, and began to wail loudly, "Mother! I'm so sorry for you!"
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