Chapter 126 Guagua Two-in-One
I have never seen such a shameless person.
Xiang Yao had only this one thought in his mind at the moment.
She recalled what Zhang Xiaoxi had said to that man when they were whispering in each other's ears in the woods.
What "worrying" and "anxiety"? Haha, they are just words.
In fact, Zhang Xiaoxi no longer even pretends in front of everyone.
Xiang Yao ignored this odd couple and turned to Yang Youliang, saying, "Captain, He Guoqiang will eventually die in a family like this. I think the brigade should deal with this and come up with a more thorough solution."
She added quietly, "You can't let a child just disappear one day."
When Yang Youliang heard her last words and thought of certain consequences, he couldn't help but feel a chill on his back.
If something really happened, the Shitang Brigade would never be able to hold their heads up in the commune again.
As the captain, it would have been fine if he didn't know about the situation, but after knowing it, he didn't take any effective measures to prevent it. I'm afraid others will call him incompetent.
He pondered for a moment, unable to think of any good solution, and looked at Zhang Xiaoxia.
Zhang Xiaoxia glanced at He Liuzhi and motioned for Yang Youliang to talk to her alone.
Yang Youliang waved his hand and said, "You guys wait outside for a while. We, the brigade cadres, will discuss this internally first."
He Liuzhi muttered quietly: "What's there to discuss? He Guoqiang is my son, I can just take him back."
Yang Youliang glared at him: "What did you say? Speak louder!"
He Liuzhi stopped talking.
Yang Youliang gave him an unpleasant look and called Zhang Xiaoxia into the office.
After the two men left, He Liuzhi straightened his back and the cowering look on his face disappeared. He glanced at He Guoqiang sinisterly and said in a calm voice, "You've grown up. You know how to find someone to complain to."
He Guoqiang shuddered, his face numb, and he didn't look at him.
"You little bastard," He Liuzhi gritted his teeth, "Come here!"
He Guoqiang didn't move. Seeing He Liuzhi walking towards him, he took a step back nervously.
He subconsciously wanted to hide behind Xiang Yao, but the next moment he was afraid that He Liuzhi would not only hit him, but also Xiang Yao, so he controlled himself.
He thought that if his father really came up and beat him, he would cry loudly.
He didn't want to implicate Xiang Yao, but Xiang Yao was determined to protect him, and Nie Baichuan also looked at He Liuzhi coldly.
He is not a kind person at heart, but he will definitely care about the people Xiang Yao wants to protect.
Xiang Yao did not use force to confront He Liuzhi head-on. After all, this was the brigade's territory. Beating someone in front of the brigade cadres would have a bad impact.
She rolled her eyes, gave a sly smile, and suddenly shouted, "Captain! Aunt Xiaoxia! He Liuzhi is going to hit someone again! Help!"
He Liuzhi was stunned by her action, and he stopped walking, gnashing his back teeth.
How come there are so many nosy people!
"He Liuzhi!" The office window snapped open from the inside. Yang Youliang poked his head out and shouted fiercely, "Come in!"
He Liuzhi didn't dare to disobey. He glared at He Guoqiang ferociously and went into the office.
There were only four people left in the huge yard. He Guoqiang stood beside Xiang Yao and Nie Baichuan, not even looking at Zhang Xiaoxi who was not far away.
If he had some feelings for this mother before, now, that little bit of natural admiration for her had completely disappeared in the hopeless pain.
Countless times, he looked at his mother for help, but his mother would just avoid his gaze and wouldn't even look at his miserable condition.
He Guoqiang didn't look at Zhang Xiaoxi, but Zhang Xiaoxi glanced at He Guoqiang coldly.
Although she mentioned He Guoqiang and expressed her concerns when she was having an affair with that man, in fact, that was just a means for her to get some money and food from that man.
She disliked this son from the bottom of her heart, this child born out of borrowed sperm in humiliation.
He Liuzhi had acted ruthlessly countless times, and hadn't she also thought about killing this bastard countless times?
Sometimes she even secretly hoped that the child would die in the mountains, drown in the water, or be beaten to death by He Liuzhi...
A trace of complex hatred flashed in Zhang Xiaoxi's eyes. He shifted his gaze and stared blankly at a vegetable patch planted with green onions not far away.
Xiang Yao thought about it and felt that since He Liuzhi had gone inside, now was a good time to attack them one by one.
She walked slowly to Zhang Xiaoxi and followed her gaze to look at the rows of lush green onions.
"You really don't like He Guoqiang, right?" She blinked and asked directly.
Zhang Xiaoxi didn't look back: "My son, how could I not like him?"
Xiang Yao raised his cheek and whispered, "Of course you don't like it. No mother who loves her own child would be so cold and indifferent."
"I think you not only don't like your child," she sniffed and said lightly, "you even wish he had never been born."
Zhang Xiaoxi's voice suddenly rose: "What nonsense are you talking about? You're just a little girl, what the hell do you know?"
Xiang Yao wasn't angry. Her eyes were calm, and her voice was even calmer: "It doesn't matter whether I understand or not. What's important is that your son, He Guoqiang, is a living person."
"He wasn't born and raised with your blessings and love, but he's also a person of flesh and blood who knows pain and suffering."
Zhang Xiaoxi stared at Xiang Yao: "So? Isn't he alive and well?"
"I don't understand the big ideas of you scholars. I only know that I gave birth to him and raised him. As for his father beating him, what can I do as a woman?"
Xiang Yao looked at Zhang Xiaoxi carefully.
She was good-looking, with a look of fatigue that belonged to a middle-aged woman between her eyebrows. At the moment, she was frowning fiercely, as if she was angry, but also seemed numb.
When she talked about He Guoqiang, there was no trace of love in her eyes.
Xiang Yao raised an eyebrow and said, "Since you don't like him, why not give him a hand and agree to let him leave your man."
Zhang Xiaoxi frowned: "What do you mean?"
Xiang Yao: "If you feel even a little bit sorry for He Guoqiang, then agree to let him go out alone."
Zhang Xiaoxi was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously said, "He Liuzhi won't agree."
He Liuzhi still hopes that He Guoqiang will provide for his retirement in the future, so how could he agree to such a thing?
Xiang Yao said, "Don't worry about whether He Liuzhi agrees or not. I want you to agree first."
Zhang Xiaoxi sneered: "Why should I agree?"
Xiang Yao stared into her eyes and said, "You should at least have a little conscience and give your son a chance to live. Otherwise, you really can't guarantee that he can survive."
Sometimes Zhang Xiaoxi really wished she had never given birth to this son. She had watched He Liuzhi beat up He Guoqiang countless times, but she herself had never actually taken action.
Did she love her son? Perhaps she did at least a little bit.
But back then, when she was forced by He Liuzhi to do the sperm-borrowing thing, her soul had already died.
Zhang Xiaoxi looked at He Guoqiang who was squatting on the ground and delivering his hair, and her eyes swept across his skinny face covered with safflower oil.
The two of them spoke in a very low voice, and the child did not hear what they said, so he had no idea that she really, really wished he had never been born.
As if sensing this tangible gaze, He Guoqiang raised his head, glanced indifferently at the owner of the gaze, and lowered his head again.
Zhang Xiaoxi's heart felt as if it was pulled by an invisible thread, causing a slight pain.
She doesn't treat this son as her son, so how can this child treat her as his mother now?
It's all bad fate.
"Okay, I agree."
She averted her gaze and whispered.
Xiang Yao smiled suddenly: "Thank you."
Zhang Xiaoxi didn't say anything, he just felt it was a little funny.
Look, people are running around for her child and thanking her as the mother. It's really funny.
She thought for a moment and warned, "He Liuzhi is a bit of a coward, but he likes to use dirty tricks. You'd better be careful."
Xiang Yao curled her lips: "I'm not afraid of these. My man and I are not vegetarians."
Her eyes were gentle, shining brightly in the sunlight: "If possible, I hope you can pack up He Guoqiang's clothes and send them to him when the time comes."
Zhang Xiaoxi nodded and stopped talking.
She couldn't do much for the child, but at this moment, when the little girl in front of her suggested that He Guoqiang live alone, she began to feel that this might be the best situation.
Just then, Zhang Xiaoxia came out and waved at them: "Come in! Let's discuss this!"
Xiang Yao pulled He Guoqiang and responded, "Here we come!"
After entering, Yang Youliang glanced at He Guoqiang and said in a deep voice, "Director Zhang just told me about Xiang Yao's suggestion. This is unprecedented, and He Guoqiang is too young. I don't agree with separation."
He Guoqiang's heart tightened and he subconsciously looked at Xiang Yao, his dark eyes filled with anxiety.
Xiang Yao pursed her lips, glanced at He Liuzhi, and asked, "Are we just going to watch a child get beaten every day and eventually die? Captain, this is unprecedented, but no other child in our team has been abused like this."
Yang Youliang took a puff of his cigarette, feeling annoyed. "The main problem is that this child is too young. How can he live alone?"
Xiang Yao: "Why not? He has an easier life without his parents."
Yang Youliang sighed, "This isn't as simple as you think. A child this young, even if he works in the fields to earn work points, won't earn much. How will he even make ends meet throughout the year? What if he has a headache or a fever and needs money?"
Xiang Yao's eyes widened. "Separation doesn't mean we're moving our household registration out. Doesn't that mean he can't get the food rations he deserves?"
Yang Youliang pondered for a moment and said awkwardly, "Even if He Liuzhi, the father, doesn't agree, we, the brigade leaders, can't force him."
Xiang Yao was almost laughing out of anger: "Of course he disagrees. On the one hand, he wishes He Guoqiang dead, but on the other hand, he expects his children to work like slaves for him, washing clothes and cooking for him, and to provide for his old age."
She pointed at He Liuzhi and said, "Captain, you don't know how this man treated He Guoqiang. Why don't I tell you first?"
Yang Youliang was also very helpless. He Guoqiang was too young. Nowadays, if a young boy could bankrupt his father, no one would be willing to adopt him temporarily, so this matter was really difficult to handle.
Listening to Xiang Yao say this, he gestured: "Go ahead."
Xiang Yao counted the number of times he had done this: "I've told you before, He Liuzhi has repeatedly thrown children into the mountains. He's done so many inhuman things!"
From pushing a child into the water to try to drown him, to stripping him naked and throwing him out in the dead of winter, from having such a small child do all the housework, to being beaten until his face was bruised and swollen every day...
"We live in a new society, not an old one. We live in a society ruled by law, not a feudal society. If such behavior were inflicted on anyone other than his son, he would be sentenced to prison!"
It's a pity that in this era, in a small rural place like this, whether it is domestic violence or she was forced to marry, even if she reports it to the police, it is difficult for the other party to get any effective treatment.
But despite this, He Liuzhi was still frightened.
"Why, why am I going to jail? Who doesn't beat their kids? Why am I going to jail for beating them..."
Xiang Yao sneered: "Are you beating a child? You are committing premeditated murder. The sentence for murder is very severe."
Yang Youliang smoked gloomily and stopped talking.
He knew that what Xiang Yao said must be true.
He Liuzhi actually treated He Guoqiang like this, and the reason why He Guoqiang is still alive today is that he is lucky.
Under such circumstances, is he really suitable to live with such parents? He asked himself a question in his heart.
Xiang Yao, however, struck while the iron was hot: "Captain, I don't think there's anything to think about. The child's life is the most important thing after all. If you're worried about this operation, why not give it a try first? If it doesn't work, we can find another way then."
Zhang Xiaoxia also said: "I think this is a good idea. We can give it a try first. I know He Guoqiang. Although he is young, he is actually quite capable. If he lives in his great uncle's house, there will be some adults around to take care of him."
Yang Youliang looked at her and felt a little shaken.
Seeing that he was silent, He Liuzhi was obviously considering whether to do this. He immediately disagreed with his eyes bulging: "No! Our family is fine, why should we split it up? There's no way this is possible."
Xiang Yao retorted bluntly, "Of course you think you're doing fine. You do nothing all day long, waiting for your son to do all the work. You abuse the child at every turn. You're a feudal cancer of the old society, a landlord, don't you know that? I think people like you should be arrested and sent to labor camps! Criticized! Paraded through the streets! Imprisoned!"
He Liuzhi pointed at her: "You, you——"
He wanted to curse, but when his eyes met Nie Baichuan, he thought of this ruthless man who suddenly brought a few people to his house and beat him up for no reason. He immediately stopped being arrogant.
He now suspected that this man was going to beat him up just because of that little bastard He Guoqiang!
But he just complained to the captain, but the captain said he had no evidence! He couldn't falsely accuse someone!
I'm so angry!
I can only hold it in!
Xiang Yao ignored him and turned to Yang Youliang and said, "Captain, I think we should give it a try first. This is a special case and requires special treatment. At least it can let the child live a peaceful life."
Yang Youliang looked at He Guoqiang. Although the little boy's face was full of colorful expressions, his expression was firm.
But he also noticed that every time He Liuzhi spoke, the child's body trembled slightly, and he tried his best to hold it back, thinking that no one else knew.
Alas, I am just too young.
"Okay, I agree." He made the decision.
He Liuzhi was suddenly shocked: "How can this be possible!"
Yang Youliang is a very decisive captain. He either disagrees or becomes tough once he agrees.
Hearing He Liuzhi still grumbling, he glared, slammed the table, and shouted, "What's wrong? If you behaved properly and honestly, I would respect you as a man. But He Liuzhi, He Liuzhi, look at what you have done!"
Just listening to Xiang Yao's previous description, he felt distressed. He didn't expect that such a thing had happened in his own team!
"You're bringing shame to our Shitang Brigade, don't you know that? We're lucky we didn't arrest you and report you to the police! What are you still whining about here for?"
He Liuzhi panicked. He hadn't objected at first because he thought the captain wouldn't agree to such a ridiculous thing. Who would agree to let a child who wasn't even a child live alone? This was just nonsense!
I didn't expect that the captain would actually "do something stupid" like this, which really caught him off guard.
He Liuzhi: "This won't do. How can I live like a human being if this gets out?"
Xiang Yao snorted coldly: "Humph, you are no longer a human being, how can you still be a human being!"
He Liuzhi shook his head: "No, no, I don't agree. I'm He Guoqiang's father, and if I say no, it's not allowed!"
Yang Youliang pointed at him and said, "If it's even a little bit good for the child, I wouldn't agree to this kind of thing. But He Liuzhi, tell me, have you ever been even a little bit good to your child?"
He Liuzhi was terrified and naturally couldn't say anything good. He rolled his eyes and looked at Zhang Xiaoxi again, saying anxiously, "Can't I change? I won't beat him anymore. Besides, this child can't live without his mother! How can I let him go and live alone?"
Xiang Yao rolled her eyes and bluntly pointed out his mistake: "How many times have you said you wouldn't hit anyone? Who would still believe you?"
He Liuzhi ignored him and stared at Zhang Xiaoxi: "Mother, please say something. Do you also want the child to live separately?"
Zhang Xiaoxi didn't look at him, nodded, and said numbly: "I agree."
He Liuzhi was so angry that his mouth was crooked. He clenched his back teeth tightly and wanted to point at her nose and scold her, but he was worried about the many people around him.
He endured it stubbornly, feeling as if his abdomen was burning with fire. He simply wanted to grab He Guoqiang and beat him up again.
"Anyway, I just don't agree." He squatted on the ground and said as if he was playing a trick.
Xiang Yao crossed his arms over his chest and threatened openly, "Then report to the police. Once they arrest you, you'll behave yourself."
He Liuzhi stared at the ground without saying a word.
Xiang Yao looked at Yang Youliang and said, "Captain, I think we should get a letter of guarantee. Not only should we ensure that He Guoqiang can move out smoothly, but He Liuzhi should also promise not to get close to him, let alone hit him."
"Otherwise..." Xiang Yao glanced at He Liuzhi, "Don't blame the team for being rude to him."
He Liuzhi looked at her viciously, his face ferocious as if he wanted to eat her.
Xiang Yao wasn't afraid. She said lightly, "He Liuzhi, you don't want some of your things to be exposed, do you?"
He Liuzhi's expression paused, and he became suspicious for a moment.
He looked at Xiang Yao's application and couldn't help but wonder, could this girl know something? Or was she saying this deliberately to scare him?
But he had something to hide, so He Liuzhi didn't dare to answer.
Yang Youliang took a final drag on his cigarette, holding the butt between his lips as he scribbled rapidly on a piece of paper. He mumbled, "That's settled then. Let's try this for two months."
After writing it, since He Liuzhi was illiterate, he read it aloud again. It included how much rations and firewood He Liuzhi and his wife should give to He Guoqiang, and that they were not allowed to harass He Guoqiang during this period... and so on.
As for money, the He family still owed the production team a lot of money. Yang Youliang knew that they would not be able to pay a single cent.
However, this issue will be left for discussion among the next few cadres in a meeting. There will always be a solution.
After listening to this, He Liuzhi had a lot of opinions, but he didn't dare to say anything more. Under Yang Youliang's gaze, he and Zhang Xiaoxi obediently pressed their fingerprints.
Yang Youliang collected the paper and started to chase the people away. He had a lot of other things to deal with and didn't want to waste time on this matter.
He finally said, "I'll have to trouble you, Baichuan, to arrange for reinforcement of the room where He Guoqiang lives. Tell me how much material was used. The brigade will pay for it."
Nie Baichuan didn't refuse and nodded: "Okay."
Yang Youliang waved his hand: "Okay, let's go. Director Zhang will help deal with this matter later. If you need anything, just look for her."
Zhang Xiaoxia smiled and said, "Okay, I'll keep an eye on it."
Before leaving, Yang Youliang asked Nie Baichuan to stay, saying that he wanted to talk to him about something else.
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After leaving the brigade headquarters yard, He Liuzhi stared at He Guoqiang gloomily, but because he was still near the brigade headquarters, he didn't dare to do anything.
But he was thinking in his heart that sooner or later this little bastard would be left without anyone to protect him, so he just had to wait and see.
Looking at his expression, Xiang Yao knew what this beast was thinking.
She smiled and told He Guoqiang to go back and borrow two knitting needles from Aunt Xiaoxia, saying that she also wanted to learn knitting and would like to borrow the needles of different lengths, thicknesses and sizes to make a few.
He Guoqiang went there obediently.
Seeing him leave, Xiang Yao said, "He Liuzhi, I warn you not to go to He Guoqiang privately, otherwise, you will really regret it."
Seeing that Nie Baichuan hadn't come over yet, He Liuzhi sneered cruelly, "I'm his father. I can do whatever I want. Don't think I'll obey you just because you ask the brigade to interfere in my family's affairs."
Xiang Yao raised his eyebrows: "Are you really his father?"
He Liuzhi paused: "What do you mean?"
Xiang Yao blinked innocently: "I don't mean anything. Anyway, I'm putting my words here. If you dare to get close to He Guoqiang, don't blame me for revealing your secret."
She said in a relaxed tone, "Of course, I've always been a very good person. As long as you don't provoke me next time, I won't tell anyone. But if you provoke me, you can try."
Seeing that He Liuzhi seemed to want to say something, she didn't give him a chance and continued, "Oh, and I advise you to be honest, otherwise..."
"I can't guarantee how many times the colorful flowers on your face will bloom."
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