Chapter 20

Nan Tao frowned. The voice sounded familiar, as if it was the girl from the afternoon. She tilted her head and asked Zhou Mei, "Do you think the voice sounds familiar?"

Zhou Mei: “It’s her!”

Nan Tao and the others could not bear to hear the girl's miserable screams, so they quickly walked towards the direction of the sound.

What caught my eye was a terrifying scene.

A tall and fat man, holding a willow branch in his hand, hit the girl on the ground fiercely and muttered to himself.

The girl rolled on the ground in pain, her arms covered with purple whip marks. She climbed up but was pushed down again, unable to escape.

"You deserve to be beaten. I'll beat you if I want to."

"Humph, I told you not to buy me a popsicle."

"When I get home, I will file a complaint against you for bullying me and beat you to death, you loser."

"I'm going to let your mother starve you for three days."

Nan Tao and Zhou Mei looked at each other but did not rush forward to stop him. They were all women with little strength, so they definitely could not defeat this adult man. The wisest thing to do was to negotiate with the program crew.

Finally, after being asked by the program director, several tall, sturdy and enthusiastic staff members raised their hands and stepped forward to help.

"Who are you?"

"Let me go!"

"I'm going to tell my mom that you guys bullied me!"

The staff pinned the man to the ground and threw the willow branches aside.

One of them couldn't help but yelled: "How can you be a man if you hit a woman?"

The girl hugged her knees and sobbed softly.

Nan Tao patted the girl and asked, "Do you want me to call the police for you?"

The girl raised her head, her eyes red, and looked at the man who was pinned to the ground. She turned her head away and said, "Thank you, don't call the police. He, he is my brother."

Nan Tao frowned, "Dear brother?"

The girl nodded.

Nan Tao: "Does he often beat you?"

The girl hesitated, but nodded and said with a wry smile: "It's all my fault. If it weren't for me, my brother wouldn't have become like this."

Nan Tao couldn't understand. She was beaten like this, but she still thought it was her fault? Seeing the girl's guilty and painful expression, she didn't know what to say.

The girl explained: "He drowned when he was a child, and after being rescued, he became stupid. Now he is a fool."

Nan Tao asked, "Is he stupid?"

The girl nodded.

Nan Tao helped the girl up: "Why don't you keep an eye on him? What if he gets hurt?"

The girl smiled bitterly: "My mother... Never mind, thank you, my name is Xiong Qin, if I hadn't met you, I would probably... Alas!"

Nan Tao asked, "I'll call you Xiao Qin. How old are you this year? Why don't you go to school?"

Xiong Qin shook her head: "I was 19 years old and just started my sophomore year. My mother asked me to drop out of school and stay at home to look after my brother."

Nan Tao couldn't understand, "Your parents are not at home, why do they need you to take care of it?"

Xiong Qin bit her lip, seemed to want to say something but stopped herself, and finally shook her head.

Nan Tao guessed that he had some unspeakable secret, so she asked someone else, "How will your brother handle it? It will probably be troublesome if we let him go."

Xiong Qin: "Please help me keep an eye on him. I'll ask the neighbors to come and take him back."

Soon Xiong Qin found a few villagers, who skillfully tied up Xiong Qin's brother with a hemp rope and then dragged him away.

When they passed by Nantao, Brother Xiong Qin suddenly struggled, and one of the villagers lost control and let him run away.

"Sister Fairy!"

The man ran in front of Wen Manqing, and Wen Manqing screamed in fear, and her previous gentleness turned into terror.

The staff quickly blocked Wen Manqing and clamped Xiong Qin's brother.

Netizens watching the live broadcast were furious when they saw this scene, especially Wen Manqing's fans who wanted to rush into the screen and beat him up.

【Who is this! 】

[If you are a fool, just stay at home and don’t come out to harm others! ]

[This is terrible. It is dangerous for women if this kind of person walks around casually! ]

[Xiong Qin is so pitiful! How can there be such parents? ]

[I am Xiong Qin's classmate. She has excellent academic performance and is studying in a 985 university. We all felt sorry for her decision to drop out of school, but we didn't expect that she was going home to take care of her silly brother. How can I put it? If it were me, I would not be able to do such a great deed.]

[You are not from the countryside, so you don’t understand. This kind of thinking is instilled in you by your parents since childhood. It is very difficult to get rid of it if you come from a bad family. To put it bluntly, it is mental control.]

[The program crew must protect our goddess Wen! ]

[Don’t choose this kind of place in the future. What if something goes wrong? ]

[The people above are worrying too much. With so many people from the production team watching, how could anything possibly happen?]

[I feel like Xiong Qin is the one who was scolded when Nan Tao and his friends were looking for a house. Wasn’t that family extremely patriarchal and made the younger sister cook for the older brother? Maybe it was Xiong Qin. ]

Netizens watched the live broadcast in anger.

Nan Tao, Jiang Hui and the others quickly comforted Wen Manqing, "Don't be afraid, we are all here."

Wen Manqing: "I was scared to death just now, it was so terrible. I have never encountered such a situation in my life."

Xiong Qin apologized guiltily: "I'm sorry, I scared you. I apologize on behalf of my brother."

Wen Manqing frowned, "It has nothing to do with you."

Xiong Qin sighed, with regret in her eyes, and bowed deeply to Nan Tao and the program crew, then turned around and trotted away behind the villagers.

The four of Nan Tao carried the water with great difficulty.

Nan Tao: “It’s so heavy.”

Wen Manqing: "No, I can't breathe."

Jiang Hui: "Let's take a break."

Zhou Mei: "Okay."

They walked and stopped many times, and had not even covered half the distance. As it got darker, the adults became more and more anxious.

Nan Tao: "I don't know what happened to my son."

Wen Manqing: "My daughter is heartless. She might even wish I wasn't around."

Jiang Hui: "Xiao Li seems to be fine."

Zhou Mei: "I hope Xuanxuan didn't cry."

At this time, the children were having a great time.

Yang Xuan followed Zhan Li like a little tail, "Brother Li, wait for me."

Zhan Li was holding a basket in his hand. When he heard Yang Xuan calling him, he stopped and waited for her.

Yang Xuan happily jumped in front of Zhan Li and stretched out her soft little hand to hold Zhan Li.

Zhan Li made a mistake and didn't let go.

Yang Xuan pouted her lips and said, "Brother Li, hold your hand. Mommy and I are both holding your hand." Then she continued to hold his hand perseveringly.

Zhan Li sighed helplessly and held her, "Let's go."

On the other side, Zhang Tong and Yu Ze were in a group. They went to the villagers' homes with bamboo baskets in their hands to collect seed potatoes.

"Hello, grandma. We want to collect some sweet potatoes to plant in the fields." Yu Ze and Zhang Tong said obediently.

The old lady was very kind and smiled and said, "Is this it?"

Grandma took out about ten smooth egg-sized seed potatoes.

Yu Ze: "Thank you, grandma."

Zhang Tong counted how many were in the basket and said to Yu Ze, "Let's go to the neighbor's house and ask if they have any. We are almost done."

The two of them ran to the neighbor's grandfather's house and got five or six seed potatoes.

Zhang Tong: "Let's go find Zhan Li and Xuan Xuan. We don't know how much they have collected."

Yu Ze nodded: "I think I heard their voices just now, let's go out and take a look."

Not far away, Zhan Li was confronting a big yellow dog with its tail wagging.

Yang Xuan hid behind Zhan Li, grabbed his clothes fearfully, and sobbed, "I, I'm so scared, will the dog bite me?"

Zhan Li: "Don't be afraid, I will protect you."

Zhan Li tried to drive the big yellow dog away. The big yellow dog barked and wagged its tail more and more happily. Zhan Li felt a little nervous and his palms were hot.

When Yu Ze saw this, he quickly put down the basket, picked up a big branch from the ground, walked towards the big yellow dog, and used the branch to drive it away.

The big yellow dog wagged its tail, took a few steps back, then lay down in the middle of the road, refusing to move forward.

Seeing that it was useless, Yu Ze tried to negotiate with the big yellow dog, "Can you let us pass?"

Zhan Li rolled his eyes. "Can he understand?"

Yu Ze had a blank expression on his face: "What do you think?"

The two looked at each other and turned their heads away.

In the end, a villager passing by recognized the big yellow dog and took it home.

Several children gathered together and counted how much they had collected, and they found that they had a great harvest.

The adults were still struggling to carry water.

As it was getting dark, Nan Tao and the others became even more anxious.

Originally thought that the mission was hopeless, but unexpectedly, there was a sudden turn of events, the little girl Xiong Qin who had just been rescued appeared, and brought a few good sisters with her.

Xiong Qin: "Let us help you carry it."

Nan Tao felt embarrassed, "This..."

Xiong Qin: "This is to thank you for saving me just now."

Nan Tao and her friends were filled with gratitude and said to the program director, "This is not against the rules. People are willing to help on their own initiative, not us asking for it."

The program director saw that they couldn't lift the bag, so he planned to ask some villagers to pretend to pass by and help. Unexpectedly, Xiong Qin took the bag with her friends. How could he refuse? He said, "It's not against the rules if it's just a bit tough."

The netizens who were watching the live broadcast were laughing to death.

[It's still barely possible, let it go if you can. 】

【To be honest, it is really difficult to carry such heavy water for such a long distance. 】

[Xiong Qin is a nice girl. She seems to be a kind and loyal person.]

When they were almost at the gathering place, Nan Tao and her friends thanked Xiong Qin and the others, then walked the remaining distance carrying some water.

When the children saw the adults, they rushed out and hugged their mothers.

"Mommy." Yu Ze said happily.

Nan Tao touched Yu Ze's little head and asked, "Are you having fun?"

Yu Ze: "Happy, we completed the mission."

Nantao praised: "Great!"

After dinner, the guests were tired after a long day and went home to wash up and fall asleep.

The next morning, after finishing the game and having breakfast, the village chief said, "Next, the villagers will lead you to transport water and seeds to the fields. You must complete the task of one mu today."

Nan Tao and her son and Zhou Mei and her daughter were riding on the same three-wheeled electric vehicle.

Passing by and seeing construction workers demolishing a house not far away, Nan Tao asked curiously, "Are they demolishing it?"

The villagers said proudly: "Yes, our Fenghuang Village is going to be renovated. All the houses here will be demolished. Some will get money, and some will get resettlement housing coupons. Except for a few stubborn households, basically every household has reached an agreement."

Nan Tao: "Nail House?"

Talking about this, the villagers kept talking: "The most famous and difficult family in our village is Xiong Da's family. His wife is a difficult person. The welfare provided by the government is good enough, but she still thinks it is not enough. She asks for a lot of money. If her demands are not met, she will not move. But the location of their house is very important. If they don't move, the neighbors in front and behind will not be able to demolish the house. They complain a lot. Oh, by the way, it's Xiong Qin's family who you rescued yesterday. Xiao Qin is a good child. Thank you for saving her yesterday. It's a pity that she was born in a poor family. Her silly brother is hard to describe."

Nan Tao sighed endlessly.

We arrived at the fields, got out of the car, and thanked this enthusiastic and talkative villager.

Wen Manqing, Jiang Hui and their children were already there.

The village chief saw that everyone had gathered and said, "In order to help everyone to grow crops better, this time we have invited local villagers to help everyone. This is Xiong Qin, she will help teach everyone how to grow crops. If you have any questions, you can go to her."

Xiong Qin looked reserved in front of the camera and smiled shyly at everyone.

Nan Tao was just about to ask Yu Ze to help get the seed potatoes when she suddenly heard her son's voice.

[Tong, you said this sister was deceived? ]

[When she was a child, she didn’t fall into the water and her brother didn’t save her? ]

[It turned out that her brother was willful and disobedient and went into the water to play, and when he was pulled out of the water after drowning, he was dumbfounded. ]

[Her parents were afraid that their stupid son would be left without anyone to take care of him in the future, so they lied to her and said that her brother became stupid in order to save her? ]