Chapter 199 Someone Was Killed
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"Zhao Xiaoyu! Get out here! You coward! You shameless bastard who dares to do something but not admit it!"
Inside, Zhao Xiaoyu was terrified. She slammed the door shut with a bang and frantically used a stool to prop it shut. Bi Yuntao, who was trying to sneak in after her, was locked out.
"Xiaoyu! Open the door!" He pounded on the door anxiously.
"Brother Tao! I have to go to work at the hospital tomorrow! I can't see anyone with this injury! Get that crazy woman out of here!" Zhao Xiaoyu screamed, pressing herself tightly against the door, afraid that her enraged mother would shove it open.
Looking at the closed door, Bi Yuntao felt a mix of emotions, but mostly a chilling sense of despair.
Just then—
"You beast! Give me your life!" Lin's mother, her eyes bloodshot, rushed forward, raising her broom with a whooshing sound, and smashed it down on Bi Yuntao's head and face!
"You whole family of filthy bastards! You do nothing but despicable things that will bring you to the brink of childlessness! I'll beat you to death today, you filthy, rotten beasts!"
Crack! Crack! The broomsticks rained down on Bi Yuntao, making him run away with his head in his hands!
"Ah! My son!" Seeing his son being beaten, You Yongsheng's eyes turned red. He suddenly grabbed a rusty wood-chopping knife from the corner of the wall and, roaring, viciously chopped it down on the back of Lin's mother's head.
"I'll fight you to the death!"
Lin Baozhu and Qin Haifeng's pupils constricted as they stepped into the courtyard! Lin Baozhu's heart nearly stopped. In a flash, a pebble shot out like an arrow and struck You Yongsheng's wrist, which was holding a knife, with pinpoint accuracy!
"Awooo—!"
You Yongsheng let out a miserable scream as the woodcutter's knife flew out of her hand and spun around, then with a "thud," it cut deep into her own foot...
Blood gushed out instantly, staining the shoes, socks, and the ground red!
"My foot! My foot—!" You Yongsheng clutched his injured foot, rolled on the ground, and screamed like a pig being slaughtered.
When Lin's mother turned around, her anger intensified, and she rushed forward, delivering several powerful kicks to You Yong's bloodied face!
"You damned beast! You dare to use a knife?! I'll beat the shit out of you today, or I'll change my surname to yours!" Lin's mother's cheeks flushed red, her eyes burning with fierce flames!
You Yongsheng was filled with pain and hatred, his eyes gleaming with venomous resentment. Lin's mother, oblivious to all this, immediately unleashed a flurry of slaps, landing them on both hands:
"Slap! Slap! Slap!" The crisp, loud slaps echoed in the courtyard.
"Have we, the Lin family, ever been too kind to you?! You've taken advantage of our kindness and kept causing trouble! Today, Zhao Xiaoyu dared to accuse my family of possessing weapons without any evidence; tomorrow, she'll dare to accuse the entire village of speculation and profiteering!"
Lin's mother looked around at the villagers who had gathered to watch the commotion, her voice even louder than before: "Everyone, be the judge! With such a menace in the village, how can you sleep soundly?!"
"Get them out! Get them out!" The villagers' emotions were clearly stirred up by Lin's mother; they were all indignant, and their shouts were deafening.
The battalion commander, sweating profusely, squeezed in, listening to the deafening clamor of condemnation. He inwardly groaned; his superiors wanted to protect Zhao Xiaoyu. He could only bite the bullet and try to smooth things over:
"Hey, can you guys just shut up for a second? What's with the commotion again?"
Lin's mother stomped on You Yongsheng's blood-stained head, slammed the broom on the ground with a thud, and pointed at Zhao Xiaoyu's tightly closed door, angrily shouting, "Captain! You've come at the right time! Today, those mad dogs from the Revolutionary Committee came to my house and smashed things up, all because of that black-hearted bastard Zhao Xiaoyu who reported it! If I don't smash up this den of thieves, I won't be able to swallow this humiliation!"
"Sister-in-law, calm down! I'll definitely give you an explanation for this!"
The captain tried to comfort him, then turned to look at You Yongsheng, whose face was swollen like a pig's head, whose hair was a mess, and whose hands and feet were covered in blood. He yelled at the young men, "Are you all just standing there like wooden stakes?! Quickly carry him to the county hospital! Do you even want your feet back?!"
Several "helpful" young men who were on good terms with Lin Sanlang immediately responded, hurriedly tearing down a broken door panel from the Bi family's house and "clumsily" tossing the screaming You Yongsheng onto it. Before he could take two steps, one of the young men cried out "Ouch!" and slipped, falling hard, board and all! You Yongsheng rolled to the ground like a tattered sack, his injured foot aggravated, the pain almost knocking him unconscious.
"Oops! I'm so sorry! My hand slipped! Please come up again, this time I promise it will be steady!" The young man apologized, but his smile was dazzlingly bright.
The captain's lips twitched as he watched their half-hearted acting: "A bunch of useless idiots! You can't even lift a person properly! If you can't walk, hitch a ride on an oxcart! Hurry up!"
You Yongsheng slumped onto the door panel, clutching his leg, wailing with snot and tears streaming down his face: "Captain... you have to do us justice... that crazy woman Guo Cuicui barged in and started smashing things and injuring people... she's the one who hurt my leg! Medical expenses! And the damaged belongings! You have to pay me a thousand yuan! Not a penny less!"
Ha! The fox's tail has been revealed! He's jealous of the Lin family getting three thousand five hundred, and he's waiting here to extort money from them!
Upon hearing this, Lin's mother jumped up and pointed at her nose, cursing, "Compensate?! Do you want me to compensate you with a thin coffin?! You still have the nerve to ask for money? You son of a bitch!"
She turned to the brigade leader, her neck stiff, and said resolutely, "Brigade leader! Zhao Xiaoyu maliciously reported us, causing my mother and me to be beaten and suffer. We need to go to the hospital for a medical examination right now! The Bi family must pay for it! If we don't teach them a lesson today, who knows who they'll harm tomorrow!"
"Bullshit!" You Yongsheng roared through the excruciating pain, "If your family didn't have weapons, would Xiaoyu have reported it?! Maybe you've already moved the stuff! Our Xiaoyu is... she's putting righteousness before family, eliminating a scourge for the whole village!"
Enraged, Lin's mother lunged forward and unleashed a barrage of powerful slaps across You Yongsheng's face! The blows caused You Yongsheng's nose to bleed profusely…
The captain's lips twitched. After Lin's mother actually slapped him, he sternly reprimanded those around him, "Are they all dead?! Why aren't you pulling them apart?! All you do is cause trouble!"
The crowd rushed forward to "break up" the fight. As several women "helped" You Yongsheng, they pinched the soft flesh on her arms and waist hard with their fingers! She screamed in pain again.
"The oxcart is here! Make way!" someone shouted at the door.
"Quick! Lift him up!" The young men hurriedly shoved You Yongsheng back onto the door panel and lifted him onto the oxcart. Just as the door panel was about to be firmly in place—"Bang!" A loud crash! The heavy door panel slipped off again, landing squarely on You Yongsheng's face like a fly being swatted!
"Uh!" You Yongsheng didn't even utter a sound, his head tilted to the side, and he became completely still.
"Someone's been crushed to death!" someone screamed, and the crowd instantly erupted into chaos. The people who had been carrying You Yongsheng were so frightened that they all retreated.
The captain strode forward, checked the man's breath, and, finding he was still breathing, breathed a sigh of relief. He then kicked the nearest young man hard on the head, yelling, "What are you yelling for! The man's just unconscious! A bunch of clumsy bastards! Bi Yuntao! Get the money and take your mother to the hospital! If you delay any longer, your leg will be ruined, and you won't have anyone else to blame!"
Bi Yuntao dared not disobey in the slightest, as his family was already finding it difficult to move an inch in the village. If he argued with the brigade leader now, things would only get harder in the future.
"I'll go get the money right now."
He walked quickly to Zhao Xiaoyu's door and gently patted it: "Xiaoyu, open the door, I'm going to get money for Mother's treatment."
From inside the door came Zhao Xiaoyu's timid voice: "Brother Tao...it's outside...it's so scary outside...I'm scared..."
"Don't be afraid, I'm here. No one can hurt you." Bi Yuntao reassured you gently.
The captain, listening from the side, clicked his tongue and felt a wave of nausea wash over him.
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