Bowen reached out to wipe Baoya's tears and comfort her. After Baoya calmed down, he asked, "Little Bao, did you see who that person was?"
The people in this area in the back mountain are basically either from their Red Flag Production Brigade or the Leap Forward Production Brigade. As long as they knew who it was, this matter would definitely not end like this.
However, Baoya thought about it with tears in her eyes, but she couldn't recall what the two people looked like. At the beginning, she was blindfolded by Fang Jigui, and at the end, her vision hadn't fully recovered and she was very emotional. In addition, Baoya had no impression of either Liu Shengzhan or Fang Jigui, so she couldn't remember them at this moment. She just felt very unfamiliar.
She sniffed, shook her head sadly, and tears began to accumulate in her eyes again.
"It's okay, we will find other ways." Bowen was not disappointed even though he knew the result would be like this. He just comforted the sad Baoya softly.
Afterwards, he comforted Tian En who was standing next to him: "Tian En, this is not your fault. Don't blame yourself. The brothers will definitely find the person who bullied Xiao Bao's sister."
After pausing for a moment, Bowen, holding Baoya's hand, and followed by the dejected Tianen and Wenzhi, returned the same way. Not long after, Boyu, Yuanbao, and the others also returned from the other side.
Originally, a few people were still chattering about catching pheasants, but when they got closer, they saw that Baoya's eyes were red, obviously she had just cried. Tianen also had his head down and looked depressed. The younger ones fell silent.
"Why is Xiaobao crying?" Yuanbao ran to Baoya and asked with his eyes wide open.
"What happened?"
"Did you fall on the road?"
At this moment, Yun Duo noticed a large, noticeable red and swollen area on Bao Ya's arm and asked in surprise, "Why is Xiao Bao's arm swollen?"
When she said this, Boyu, Yuanbao and Wenjie all looked over. Baoya subconsciously hid her arms behind her back, but a few people still saw her.
Boyu stepped forward and lifted Baoya's arm, clearly seeing the redness and swelling on it. It was particularly glaring against her fair skin. He frowned fiercely, looked up at Bowen and asked:
"Brother, what happened?"
Bowen told Baoya what had just happened. When Boyu, Yuanbao and the others heard that Baoya's cloth bag was snatched away and she was kicked, they instantly became so angry that their eyes turned red.
"I'm so angry
I'm so shameless! How dare you bully Xiaobao? If I find out who it is, I'll beat him to death! "
"Do you know who those two people are? Let's go find them directly."
"You bastards! I'm going to beat them until they cry!"
Yun Duo's tears fell when she heard this. She just had to think about Bao Ya facing two boys older than her alone, trying to snatch the cloth bag from her and hitting her. The anger and fear of empathy made her body tremble uncontrollably.
"Little sister, are you...are you in pain?"
Baoya saw Yunduo crying, and tears welled up in her eyes again. She shook her head and tried to comfort her: "It doesn't hurt, Sister Yunduo, don't cry."
Seeing Baoya being so sensible, the anger of the other people rose even more.
Bowen answered their questions: "I don't know who it was. They didn't see it clearly, but I think it's more likely to be the Yuejin Production Brigade."
Everyone in their production team was familiar with each other. Aside from Yang Fucai, who had a minor conflict and had since reconciled, and Ma Yuzhu and the others, who hadn't seen each other for a while, there were no other people in the team who were at odds with each other. Furthermore, the two people just now didn't look like them.
"Could it be Wang Zhuangzhuang and the others?" Yuanbao also thought that they were people from the Yuejin Production Brigade. The first people he thought of were Yang Licai and Wang Zhuangzhuang who had bullied Baoya together with Liu Dazhu last time.
“It doesn’t seem like it.”
"Who is that? Liu Dazhu? Who else could it be besides them?"
"We'll know if we go over and ask." Boyu said with a serious face.
However, the most urgent thing now is to go home first and ask Feng Guizhi to check Baoya's arm to see if it is okay.
"Let's go home quickly."
The younger ones all agreed, and now they no longer cared about the pheasant they hadn't caught, and went down the mountain all the way back to Old Song's house.
"Grandma, please take a look at Xiaobao's arm." After entering the house, Yuanbao ran into the main room and called Feng Guizhi.
"Look at your arm? What's wrong with your arm?" Feng Guizhi raised her head and asked.
Yuanbao couldn't say a word or two, so he pulled Baoya into the main room, grabbed Baoya's hand, and showed her red and swollen arm to Feng Guizhi.
Feng Guizhi was also surprised when she saw it. She quickly put down her needlework and asked with a frown, "What's going on? Why is your arm like this?"
Yuanbao didn't know whether he should tell the truth, mainly because he was worried that his brothers might get scolded.
Protect little sister Xiaobao.
At this time, Tian En lowered his head and took a step forward, and took the initiative to tell the whole story: "It's all my fault. I shouldn't have walked away. It was me who failed to protect my sister Xiao Bao. Otherwise..."
Tian'en couldn't say the rest of the words. He raised his arm and wiped his eyes, his voice choked with sobs.
Hearing that someone had actually done such a thing, Feng Guizhi's face darkened. However, now was not the time to pursue the matter. She began to counsel Tianen:
"This isn't your fault. The ones who should be blamed are the ones who bullied your sister. Stop taking the blame on yourself and think about how to punish the person who did the wrong thing."
After saying that, Feng Guizhi asked Bowen and the others to look after Tiantian. She went out and filled a half basin with freshly squeezed cool water and brought it over. Then she soaked a towel in it and applied it to Baoya's red and swollen arm.
After a while, Feng Guizhi went back to the house and took some safflower oil to apply on Baoya.
"Grandma, when will Xiaobao's arm be healed?" Yuanbao looked at Baoya's wrinkled face and said worriedly.
"Maybe it'll take a few days." Feng Guizhi looked at Baoya's arm, feeling a little distressed. Such a large red and swollen area showed how much strength she had used. She was only four years old, but she didn't cry or make a fuss even though she felt pain. Her sensibleness made her feel particularly distressed.
"Then let Xiaobao stay at home first. Grandma, my brother and I will go out for a while." Boyu said.
Feng Guizhi knew where they were going without asking, but she didn't stop them. The Song family never provoked others, but that didn't mean they were easy to bully. Especially since they were grabbing things and physically assaulting four-year-old Baoya. If they just let it go, wouldn't they be encouraging them?
"Go ahead and find out who this is, and don't let yourself be bullied."
"Yeah." Bowen Boyu nodded, turned around and walked out.
Yuanbao looked at them and then at Baoya, feeling a little conflicted. On the one hand, he wanted to stay with Baoya, but on the other hand, he wanted to go out and find the people who bullied Baoya and avenge her.
After hesitating for a long time, Yuanbao finally ran to catch up with Bowen Boyu, and an angry voice floated back: "Sister Xiaobao, I will definitely avenge you!"
Wenjie and Wenzhi also went with them, while Tianen stayed behind. Although he also wanted to avenge Baoya, in the end he wanted to stay by her side more, fearing that she would be hurt again.
......
Bowen Boyu and his friends soon arrived at the Yuejin Production Brigade and found
Yang Licai and Wang Zhuangzhuang were playing in the river. They were bathing in the river and catching fish.
Boyu suspected that they were the ones bullying Baoya, so he didn't act politely at this moment. He walked directly to the river and asked them coldly, "Where did you go today?"
Yang Licai raised his head from the water and saw the five people from the Song family standing by the river. He immediately panicked: "We...we were just playing in the team. What's wrong? We didn't go to your team."
"Only in the brigade, not in the back mountain?"
"No!"
Wang Zhuangzhuang, who was not far away, gave the same answer, but his eyes were wandering as if he felt a little guilty: "We are in the brigade, we haven't gone anywhere else..."
Seeing Wang Zhuangzhuang's reaction, Bowen and Boyu looked at each other and their eyes darkened: "Come here, come up and talk it over."
"You...what do you want to do?" Yang Licai and Wang Zhuangzhuang said with their eyes wide open.
I don't know what they thought of, but instead of swimming towards the river, they ran in the opposite direction. This seemed to confirm their guilt, and Boyu quickly took off his shirt and dived into the river.
After all, Boyu was a few years older than them, so it didn't take long for him to drag them both to the riverbank. Yang Licai and Wang Zhuangzhuang were exhausted after swimming for a while, and now they didn't even have the strength to run. They just looked at the young man from the Old Song family angrily and shouted:
"What on earth do you want to do? Bullying the weak? If you want to fight me, go ahead. I'll definitely get back at you later!"
Boyu shook the water off his hair, lowered his head and looked at the two of them. He ignored what he said and said coldly, "Tell me the truth, did you go to the back mountain today?"
"No, we didn't go to the back mountain today."
"So what did you do today? Why were you feeling so guilty just now?"
"We...we..." Wang Zhuangzhuang hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said loudly, "We just stole a few peaches and cantaloupes. They weren't yours, so what are you doing here?"
"......" Boyu frowned: "Is this what you felt guilty about just now?"
Wang Zhuangzhuang and Yang Licai both stretched their necks, their faces full of anger: "Yes!"
"Didn't you see a small cloth bag?" Boyu said, staring at the expressions of the two men.
"What kind of cloth bag?"
"Where have we seen any cloth bag?"
The expressions of the two people don't seem fake.
Bowen and Boyu looked at each other and instinctively knew it wasn't them. Bowen asked again:
"Do you know who from your team went to the back mountain today?"
"I don't know." Yang Licai said angrily.
The younger ones had no time to bother with them at this moment. After knowing what they wanted to know, they turned around and left, continuing to look for the suspicious person.
After they left, Yang Licai and Wang Zhuangzhuang dared to curse a few words and vent their anger. After a while, they realized belatedly: "Did Liu Dazhu and Shengzhan go to the back mountain today?"
......
After snatching Baoya's small cloth bag, Liu Dazhu, Liu Shengzhan, and Fang Jigui saw Tianen coming back and ran a long distance. They stopped only after they were sure they would not be caught.
The three of them sat on the ground, panting. Liu Dazhu couldn't help but accuse them, "What took you so long? We almost got caught."
"It's not Jigui yet. I'm waiting for him." Liu Shengzhan said panting.
"I, I was grabbed by the leg by that idiot. Anyway, we haven't been seen now, right?" Fang Jigui continued, "Look at what's in that cloth bag. It would be great if there was money."
Liu Shengzhan laughed at him: "Are you dreaming? How could that idiot have money?"
As he spoke, he ripped open the bag and poured out everything inside: three candies, two plums, and... a bracelet.
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