Chapter 38 Lin Cuihua's fate. You are all family.
The sunlight penetrated the clouds, but did not bring any warmth to the people in the mountains.
Qiu Shitou leaned against the rocks, panting. He had been running all the way and only stopped to rest when he saw that no one was catching up with him.
He is not young anymore and has never suffered such a hardship.
The more he thought about it, the angrier he got. He cursed, "You useless bastard, your rebellious son, your unfilial daughter, they're all ungrateful bastards who can't be tamed."
Qiu Shitou had never thought that the son he had loved for so many years would commit murder. He didn't believe it, nor did he dare to believe it. But today, Brother Biao, who always played with Hu Zi from the same village, stood up and was willing to be a witness.
He didn't dare to think about it any further. After he came to his senses, he picked up a wooden stick and walked home while leaning on it.
In the courtyard of the Qiu family, Lin Cuihua was embroidering while humming a little tune. Thinking that Qiu Xuan would make a fool of herself in town today and even have to hand over half of the silver to Qiu Shitou, she was so happy.
When the door opened, Lin Cuihua put down her needlework, twisted her body, and called out, "You're back. How's it going?"
Qiu Shitou threw the stick into the yard, paying no attention to Lin Cuihua. He roared at the house, "Huzi, get out of here!"
"What's wrong with you? Why are you telling him to do something so angry?" Lin Cuihua stepped forward to calm him down and asked suspiciously, "Hu Zi hasn't caused any trouble recently, so why are you so angry?"
Qiu Shitou's expression turned cold. He had been thinking about Hu Zi all the way and hadn't thought about Lin Cuihua at all. Now that he saw the person, he couldn't help but feel suspicious: "Do you know about Hu Zi's murder?"
"What?" Lin Cuihua's eyes widened, and she covered her mouth in fear: "Don't say that nonsense, how could our Hu Zi be that kind of person?"
Qiu Shitou was slightly relieved when he saw that she did not look like she was faking it. If Lin Cuihua knew about this but hid it from him, he would break her legs today.
Hu Zi was playing with a slingshot in the room. It was said that something was expensive for a reason. He had been playing with this slingshot for many months and it was still very useful and not loose at all.
He tucked it into his belt and was about to leave the house when he heard his father's roar coming from the yard.
He shrank his neck and hesitated for a long time before leaving the house.
"Dad, what's wrong with you?" Hu Zi pursed his lips, feeling a little guilty. Ever since he was beaten by his father once, he is now really scared.
"Come here." Qiu Shitou saw his helpless look and his anger grew stronger. "Tell me, have you ever thought about killing your eldest sister? Did you deliberately push her into the water and not let anyone rescue her?"
Hu Zi swallowed his saliva and took two steps back. He waved his hands and refused to admit it: "Dad, I didn't."
"You didn't?" Qiu Shitou rushed over and kicked him to the ground. "How can someone wrongly accuse you if you didn't do it?"
Hu Zi thought it was Qiu Yun who said that. Feeling extremely guilty, he quickly changed his words, "Dad, did Qiu Yun tell you something? I didn't mean to kill her at all. She just fell into the water by accident."
Qiu Shitou couldn't help but understand what was said. His own son had actually tried to kill his own sister!
"Rebellious son! Bastard." Qiu Shitou was furious and kicked Hu Zi several times. "You dare to do such a thing, I wonder what you dare not do. If it weren't for Brother Biao telling me the truth today, I wouldn't have known you wanted to kill your own sister."
"Brother Biao?" Hu Zi was stunned.
"If you kill someone, you will go to jail. You'd better stay at home these days. If you go out and cause trouble again, I will beat you to death." Qiu Shitou was a little tired of beating people. After all, Hu Zi was the only root of his Qiu family. Even if Hu Zi really killed someone, he, as his father, had to protect him.
Lin Cuihua never thought that she had only asked Qiu Shitou to ask for money, but in the end it involved Hu Zi.
She hugged Hu Zi and cried, "You silly child, how could you do such a thing?"
After she finished speaking, she raised her tearful eyes and cried, "Look at how you beat Hu Zi. He's your only son, how could you have the heart to do that to him? Besides, the girl is still alive. How can you kill someone if she's still alive?"
"If he's not dead, then he didn't kill anyone? Do you know that if they report him to the government office and Brother Biao comes out to testify, your son Hu Zi will have no chance of survival?"
Even at this point, Lin Cuihua still showed no sign of repentance. Qiu Shitou was so angry at her that he completely lost control. He picked up a bamboo stool from the yard and smashed it directly on Lin Cuihua's legs.
With a "click" sound, Lin Cuihua's right leg was completely broken.
"Dad, what are you doing!" Hu Zi was angry when he saw his mother being beaten.
Seeing Hu Zi protecting his mother, Qiu Shitou sneered, "You're still protecting this idiot. Let me tell you, if it weren't for your troublemaker mother instigating me to go today, no one would have known about your misdeeds. Just stay home and pray that no one reports it to the police."
Hu Zi stretched out his hand and instantly retracted it.
It turns out that this is all his mother's fault!
"You, what are you talking about? How can I, as a mother, harm Hu Zi?" Lin Cuihua cried loudly in pain. She hated Qiu Xuan and Qiu Shitou.
But no matter how she cried and shouted, neither the father nor the son of the Qiu family paid any attention to her. She curled up on the ground alone, tears slowly falling, wetting the area.
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Next door, since Qiu Shitou left, the table at Qiu Yun's stall has never been empty.
As soon as this diner left, someone else sat down.
In the end, all the noodles she brought were sold out. Looking at the half-empty jar of copper coins, Qiu Xuan's morning depression was swept away.
"Mom, look, although food is two cents cheaper today, we still made so much money." Qiu Xuan held the jar to show her mother, her face full of joy of making money.
When the clan mother saw her like this, she swallowed back the words she wanted to say.
"Okay, okay, my little girl is the real deal. She's earned so much money in just half a day." The clan mother took her hand and patted it gently, with unconcealable pity in her eyes. "When we get home, I'll cook for you guys."
Zong Anji interjected, "That's it. It definitely won't taste that good."
The clan mother raised her hand and pinched his arm, twisting it in circles, "What nonsense are you talking about, you bastard? Is my cooking skill that bad?"
"Mom, it hurts...hiss." Zong Anji immediately begged for mercy. Seeing his mother let go of his hand, he quickly rubbed himself.
The atmosphere around them suddenly became lively, and no one mentioned what happened today on the way home.
But the matter was not over yet. Although they did not mention it, Qiu Xuan could not help but ask.
She took advantage of her mother-in-law being busy in the kitchen and hurried into the house.
"How did you know about this?" Qiu Xuan blocked him at the edge of the kang, and she looked like she wouldn't move away unless Zong Xiao told her.
Zong Xiao paused in holding the thing, and now he had to reveal everything he had been hiding.
"My third brother told me when we came back from the mountains last time." Zong Xiao sold out Zong Anji.
"Third brother?" Qiu Xuan frowned slightly. How could the third brother know this?
Seeing her confusion, Zong Xiao took her hand and pulled her closer to him, "That day, Sandan from Datun Village was hiding with Third Brother and the others. At that time, Sandan told him everything."
Qiu Xuan never expected that the man who jumped into the water to save her that day would finally stand up and make this shameful thing public.
"How come you never told me about such a big thing?" Zong Xiao looked at her with heartache.
She was deliberately pushed into the water by her own brother, and had stones thrown at her by a group of kids...she almost died.
"It's all over." Qiu Xuan couldn't tell him that it was because of falling into the water that this body was replaced.
"Besides, it's useless to tell me. No one would stand up to help me in the situation that day." Qiu Yu knew that if it weren't for the wild boar incident in the mountains, this secret would definitely be hidden for a long time, even many years.
When Zong Xiao thought of Qiu Shitou's expression today, he couldn't help but wonder if Qiu Xuan would have been sold to a widower by Qiu Shitou if he hadn't agreed to the marriage proposal.
How could such a smart and strong girl have such an ending?
"What are you thinking about? You look so sad." Qiu Xuan poked his eyebrows with her finger and asked, "Look, everything is in the past. I'm living so well in this family now. I've even gained weight."
After spending such a long time together, Qiu Xuan already feels at home here.
She treated all the members of the Zong family as her own relatives.
Zong Xiao is an exception among exceptions.
Zong Xiao looked at her slender waist that could be encircled with one arm and frowned, "How can she be fat? She still has to..."
He was about to continue speaking when the door was accidentally knocked open by someone from outside.
Zong Anji was seen standing awkwardly in front of the door with Huaixue in his arms. He said guiltily, "Well...well...we just came here...to invite you guys to dinner..."
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