“We were fighting in the sandpit that day. It was Shi Tou who had to get involved, which made Dad come back and beat me up. When he was taking a nap at school, my sister and I cut up his favorite pants.”
San Niu also started to cry. She was in the process of losing her baby teeth and was already missing a front tooth. It looked even more awkward when she opened her mouth and cried.
“I just wanted to teach him a lesson, but I didn’t expect him to cry so hard when he woke up. He said that the pants his mother made for him before she died had a beautiful patch with a little mushroom on it. We didn’t do it on purpose. If he hadn’t been so nosy, we wouldn’t have cut off the pants his mother made.”
San Niu was sobbing uncontrollably, saying in broken sentences, "He disappeared when I came back from school that day. He must still be angry."
The two children originally just wanted revenge, but they didn't expect things to escalate so much and become known to so many uncles and aunts.
They dared not speak up, fearing they would be beaten.
But now it's clear that this matter can no longer be kept secret.
Zhao Lijuan stumbled, her mind went blank, and she almost fainted from anger.
She held up the peppercorns in her hand, reluctant to drop them, saying, "You two troublesome children, if something really happens to Shi Tou, you won't be able to deny it even if you want to."
She clasped her hands together and silently prayed, "God help me, please don't let him die like this, please don't let him touch our family."
These two children are so young; we can't let them bear the burden of a life for no reason.
When they reached the fork in the road, Yangyang led Xie Zhiyan and his group to their usual playground, while Yueyue led Shuying and several of her sisters-in-law to continue walking forward.
At the very back of the residential compound, there is a row of trees. Between the sixth and seventh trees, there is a hole. The hole is not very big, but a child can crawl through it without any problem, and a slightly smaller adult can also easily enter and exit.
Yueyue climbed over first, then turned and waved to Shuying, "This place is the secret base that Brother Stone told us about. He said we can only tell the people we trust the most."
Shu Ying bent down and crawled over from the ground. She was a little taller, but fortunately she was thin. Although it was a little difficult to crawl over, she managed to get across.
Climbing out of the cave, I was surrounded by fields. People had already started harvesting this month, and the golden wheat stretched as far as the eye could see. Stones couldn't possibly be mixed in with wheat fields.
Shu Ying looked around. Apart from the surrounding grass, there was nothing else. It was unlikely that Shi Tou had come here. After not going home for so many days, he would eventually need to find a place with food.
"Yueyue, are there any other places you and Brother Stone often go?"
Shu Ying searched around but couldn't find Shi Tou. The area was overgrown with weeds and had a lot of mosquitoes, so a small child shouldn't be able to stay here for long. Besides, people had been harvesting wheat these past two days, so if they found Shi Tou, someone would surely make a sound.
Yueyue shook her head, unable to think of anywhere else to go.
"Comrade Shuying, have you found the child? Should we go over and help?"
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