Daya seemed to have recalled something horrible. She sat down on the ground, curled up and hugged herself, buried her head in her knees and burst into tears.
The old man was about to step forward, but Shen Qingli stopped him with a look and said, "Let her cry. It's good for her to cry. She was so stunned just now that she didn't act like a child anymore. Keeping it in her heart won't be good for her future mental health."
After hearing what his grandson's wife said, the old man stopped abruptly and sighed.
Daya cried for a while, and her two younger sisters woke up one after another and looked at them in a daze. The rescue work outside was not over yet, so Shen Qingli coaxed the children to sleep and put them on a movable crib.
He walked forward and gently touched Daya's dry and messy hair, which was like straw: "Don't cry, your sister is awake."
Hearing the words "sister", Daya raised her head and saw her two sisters in front of her with dazed eyes, as if they had lost their souls. She wanted to cry again.
"It's okay if you don't want to talk." In her eyes, Shen Qingli was the only person she could rely on and trust. Daya was still sobbing, wiping the tears from her face fiercely, and choking as she spoke: "Grandma...my brother and dad ate...they all fell down after eating..."
The intermittent words made the adults present look at each other and their hearts tremble.
What does it mean that you fell down after eating?
Her body was twitching, and Shen Qingli secretly brought her a cup of spiritual spring water. After thanking her, Daya gulped down the cup.
She had just given all the water to her two younger sisters and didn't drink it herself. Her throat was sore from the smoke but she didn't say a word.
The water tastes so good that Daya thinks it is the best water she has ever tasted.
"Do you want more?" Shen Qingli poured another glass. Daya nodded and drank three glasses of water in a row before stopping.
She was not sobbing so much now. She didn't know whether she should tell it or how to tell it.
"Sister, will my mother be okay?"
She looked at Shen Qingli and the old man with hope. She remembered that the old man was also very kind and would often secretly give her food without telling her brother.
Shen Qingli turned his face away. How could he explain this? The fire was so big, and if there were people inside, the chances of survival were really slim.
"The firefighters are all very nice. They will all do their best to save your family." Shen Qingli pursed her lips. Facing three pitiful faces, she really couldn't make up a lie, but she couldn't tell the truth either.
Daya's lips trembled as she stammered:
"They can't be saved... Sister, they're all dead, all dead! Dead!"
She seemed to have remembered something terrible. She slid down to the ground and kept backing away until she reached the chair leg. She hugged her legs and looked up at Shen Qingli with tears in her eyes: "They are all dead."
The two younger sisters next to him still didn't react. They stared blankly at the ground, as if they were isolated from all sounds from the outside world.
Shen Qingli walked up to her and held her in his arms: "It's okay, it's okay. If you're afraid, we won't tell you."
At this moment, she really felt sorry for these three miserable little girls. Perhaps after today they would become orphans without parents like she was in her previous life. How could Shen Qingli not sympathize with them?
“Mom! Mom chopped them all…chopped them all…to pieces! There was blood everywhere, all blood. Then she locked us in another room, and then…then their room caught fire…”
Daya recounted the events in fragments. Old man Shen Qingli and Meng Kexin looked at each other. Yes, they both roughly understood what had happened.
The people next door might have tampered with the food first, and after several people were unable to resist, she had been filled with resentment and anger for many years, so she took a knife and hacked several people. Then, after she settled her daughter, she went back and burned herself to death with them.
The rescue work lasted for more than half an hour before the fire was completely extinguished. The finishing work took another half an hour. Daya rushed out at the first moment. She looked at the charcoal ruins on the ground and shed tears silently.
She didn't want to cry either. Everyone in the family, including her mother, was mean to them, but why did she?
It’s still so sad!
There was no one at home, so Daya and the others should have chosen to live with other relatives. However, the Gao family was not in Beijing, and Hu Yun needed to go back to investigate and notify people there to come and pick them up. The neighborhood committee was going to take the three of them away first, and they also needed the three survivors to cooperate with the investigation in the next two days.
Shen Qingli actually meant that they could stay at the Meng family and wait for someone from their mother's hometown to pick them up before leaving. Daya didn't want to cause them any more trouble, so before leaving, she took her two sisters and kowtowed three times to Meng Xiao to thank him for saving her life.
Meng Xiao and Shen Qingli both felt a lump in their throats. They turned their heads away slightly and moved sideways. Daya led her sister into the car and left without looking back.
Sitting in the car, she watched her two younger sisters weep silently. It was her first time riding in a car, following behind a vehicle carrying the remains of four relatives. She clutched the money in her pocket tightly and said, "Mom, no matter what, Daya will take good care of my younger sisters. She will."
After this incident in the middle of the night, everyone was in a heavy mood. Many people couldn't sleep when they returned home to their rooms.
No one would have thought that the daughter-in-law of the Gao family, who never fought back or retaliated, and who was as hard-working as an ox, would be so cruel. No one would have thought that the Gao family would be reduced to three orphaned girls in the blink of an eye. No one would have thought that Li Caixia, who had been domineering for decades, would end up like this...
There are so many things I didn't expect
It really proves the saying that you never know which will come first, tomorrow or an accident.
Shen Qingli looked at the wounds on Meng Xiao's body, silently found the iodine gauze and burn medicine in the space, and added spiritual spring water and spiritual spring liquid into it.
Her silence made Meng Xiao feel uneasy. It seemed that Shen Qingli might have hurt his wound. He groaned in his throat, and Shen Qingli's hand trembled as he applied the medicine.
Meng Xiao tilted his head slightly and asked softly, "Are you angry?"
As he spoke, he pulled at the corner of her clothes, just like a child trying to please someone.
"No." Shen Qingli said in a rough voice.
"I know you are worried about me, but Qingqing." He looked at Shen Qingli and sighed.
"I am a soldier of the people. I cannot just stand by and watch."
Shen Qingli's hands moved a little harder, causing Meng Xiao to gasp. She said unhappily, "Serves you right. I let you play the hero."
Meng Xiao smiled foolishly. In fact, he didn't feel any pain. He was just cooperating with his wife.
Shen Qingli said that he deserved it, but his hands moved more gently: "I didn't say that I wouldn't let you save people. I know you have a sense of justice, and I understand and support you.
But, I just want you to put your own safety first, is that okay?
You are worried about me and don't want my space to be exposed, but I am also worried about you being unarmed and mortal. You are not invulnerable to swords and guns, or immune to water and fire.
You are even more professional than them. What if, I mean what if something happens? What will you do? What should I do? What about the children? What should we all do…”
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