"Um?"
Lu Huaijiao hummed in agreement.
"I was wrong."
The man backed down in a second.
The young couple whispered to each other on the road. The pretty young woman, who was even more beautiful than the dolls in the New Year's paintings, had an exquisitely delicate face that would sometimes smile and sometimes puff out her cheeks and glare at people.
The expressions were very vivid.
In that village of Dawan, Gu Changzheng, the fourth son of the Gu family, who was never thought to smile, was humbly coaxing the little girl all the way, with a faint smile on his lips.
The wind that blew over them seemed to soften as they walked.
Perhaps even the wind wouldn't dare disturb the young couple who suffered a lifetime of hardship in their past life.
In contrast to the harmony here, the village office was in complete chaos.
On a blanket of indistinguishable color, lay Wang Laizi with his eyes closed.
Wang Chunhua sat on a large rock in front of the village office, sobbing and wailing loudly, "Heavens, this is unbearable! My perfectly healthy son was crippled by that scoundrel! What are we going to do now?"
"My child, I'm so sorry!"
Although it's supposed to be work time now, the tool warehouse is right next door, so everyone who wants to work has to come here to pick up their tools, which has caused quite a crowd to gather here.
Seeing Wang Chunhua's wretched appearance, and then glancing at Wang Laizi lying on the blanket with his bruised and swollen face, they couldn't immediately tell from Wang Laizi's dirty face whether he was dead or alive.
As soon as Lu Huaijiao and the others arrived, they heard Wang Chunhua crying loudly from the crowd not far away.
"Everyone, you must stand up for us, mother and son! You can't just turn a blind eye just because the one who beat us was the brigade leader's son!"
The captain's son?
Hitting someone?
Lu Huaijiao looked up at Gu Changzheng.
Gu Changzheng coughed.
"It wasn't me."
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