Chapter 404: Worse than Beasts
"That year you took your wife and youngest son Sun Juanbai back to your mother's home for a short stay, but he disappeared on the fourth day, and you only found one of his shoes on the shore." Lu Li slowly recounted what happened that year.
"Then what? What else do you know?" Sun couldn't help but ask.
What Lu Li said matched exactly what happened back then.
"Many people thought he went to the river to play in the water and then fell into the river and died. In fact, he was killed by several children." Lu Li's expression was solemn.
But Sun's eyes narrowed!
Before Selaginella disappeared, it had played with several children in the village. But when he asked them about it later, they all said it was time for dinner and went home. They had never seen Selaginella.
"My son has no grudge against them. Why do they want to kill my son?" Sun shouted unwillingly.
"They are just kids! The oldest one is only nine years old. How could they kill Selaginella like this?"
Sun was incredulous.
The people who were listening to the conversation between the two were also in disbelief.
Even if there are conflicts between children, they wouldn't kill each other, right?
"The kindness of adults is complex, but the evil of children is pure evil. So what if they are children? The moment they kill their companions, they are no longer children, but demons." Lu Li continued to talk about what he saw from the melon-eating system with a sullen face.
"Your son had just turned five years old, and you and your wife made him a beautiful silver lock. Those kids wanted to take his lock away, but he refused, so they took it away."
"Three people beating one, naturally your son got a black eye and a swollen face. Your son said he was going home to complain and asked you to deal with them. You are quite influential in Dahe Village, and these kids were afraid that you would punish them if you came to their house, so they decided to go all out and hit him with stones and beat him to death."
But when Sun heard this, anger boiled over in his chest like boiling water. His face was distorted with anger and his eyes were burning with rage.
He nearly broke his teeth.
He suppressed his anger, pulled back his reason, and asked, "Why didn't I find Selaginella's body?"
Lu Li took a deep breath and continued, "Because he was not dead at that time. He was just knocked unconscious. The children ran back home and told their parents about it. They were shocked, and the three families gathered together to discuss how to destroy the body."
"After all, they were afraid that you would retaliate if you saw your son was seriously injured, and they couldn't afford the medical expenses, so they decided to make it look like your son fell into the river and disappeared."
"They ran to look for your son and decided to dig a deep pit in a secluded place in the back hills and bury your son in it. In order to prevent being discovered, the three families dug the pit very deep."
Before Lu Li finished speaking, Sun asked tremblingly: "You said before that Selaginella was not dead, but was just knocked unconscious, so when he was buried in the ground, it was still... or..."
Lu Li nodded, her nose a little sour: "Yes, he was still alive at that time."
But the string in Sun's mind suddenly broke.
Selaginella was still alive at that time. He felt himself being buried by the soil bit by bit. How desperate he must have been.
"My son!" Sun let out a miserable roar, and tears welled up in his eyes instantly.
He fell on the small coffin, tears streaming down his face.
His Selaginella is so afraid of the dark, how scared it must have been at that time.
Everyone who heard this story clenched their fists in anger.
Those three families are worse than beasts!
Sun wanted to open the coffin, but he didn't dare to face his son's bones. Veins on his hands bulged and he pinched the edge of the coffin hard. He was so angry that even his nails were broken.
He seemed to feel no pain at all.
Just looking at the coffin and muttering to himself.
"Selaginella, it's my fault that I'm useless. I'm sorry for you. I made you stay in that dark place for so many years."
"Selaginella, also known as the grass of resurrection, the grass of immortality. Dad gave you this name because you hoped you could live a hundred years. Why did fate play tricks on you?"
"It's all Dad's fault. I shouldn't have given you this name. I hoped you would live a long life, but you only stayed in this world for five years. It's all Dad's fault. Why did he give you such a big silver lock? If the silver lock was smaller, those people wouldn't have snatched it from you, let alone beaten you. It's all Dad's fault. I didn't keep a close eye on you all the time, so you were bullied..."
"How can you be blamed? If anyone should be blamed, it should be those families!" Lu Can couldn't bear to listen any longer and interrupted him.
He wiped away his tears and continued, "It was those kids who were too greedy, and it was those families who didn't teach their kids well. It has nothing to do with you."
"Don't blame everything on yourself. This is not your fault, nor is it Selaginella's fault." Lu Li comforted her in a gentle voice.
"What we need to do is to bring those people to justice and give justice to Selaginella."
But when Sun heard this, he stopped crying.
He stood up and wiped away his tears.
Yes, instead of crying about his own stupidity, what he should do most is to avenge his son.
"Thank you, sir..." He was about to say the word "princess" when he realized that Lu Li was wearing men's clothes, perhaps not wanting others to know her identity.
So he changed his words.
"Thank you for sending my son back. Your kindness will be forever in my memory. If there is anything you need my help with in the future, just let me know and I will do my best to help you."
After saying that, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times to Lu Li.
Although he seldom left the valley often, he knew how powerful the princess in front of him was.
This is the only crown princess in all dynasties.
It is said that she inherited the predictive ability of the Saint of Southern Xinjiang and is the favorite of God. What she says is absolutely correct.
So he did not doubt what Lu Li said.
"Senior Brother Sun, please stand up quickly." Lu Li reached out and helped him up.
"I have already had those families under control. You can go to Dahe Village to find them now."
Sun was stunned. He didn't expect Lu Li to have done this.
Long Aotian and Qu Songnian looked at each other, and then they realized why Qin Xiao suddenly left a few days ago.
Lu Li came up to him and said in a low voice: "You can go and take revenge yourself, but you can't kill them. After all, their crimes still have to be judged by the government."
She supported Sun's efforts to seek justice for her son, but did not support his private killing.
If everyone were to take revenge on each other privately and kill each other, then the government and the laws of Daxia would become meaningless.
"Okay, you've done so much for me, so I won't make things difficult for you. I won't kill them." Sun sneered in his heart.
He would not let those families die, he would only make their lives worse than death.
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