Chapter 169: Out of Place (2)
My brothers love it the most, you should try a piece too..."
In fact, Fan Heng has been nervous all the time.
Because he didn't know when his judgment would come.
He also knew that the presiding judge today was Fourth Aunt.
He looked at Fourth Aunt frequently.
But Fourth Aunt just ate quietly, occasionally taking care of the children, or discussing the taste of the dishes with Fourth Uncle, or chatting with family members...
Perhaps because they cared that he was an outsider, the Bai family didn't talk much about him.
I finally waited until the meal was finished.
Xingxing went to bring over a large pot of sweet soup, saying it was for warming the stomach after dinner.
Then each person was given a bowl of glutinous rice wine, which contained red dates, quail eggs, wolfberries and raisins. It was sweet and delicious.
Fan Heng ate many things that he had never eaten in his life.
After she finished the sweet soup, Tao Tao finally spoke, "Xiao Fan, where are you from?"
Fan Heng's heart skipped a beat.
--here we go.
He was silent for a while and then talked about his family situation.
Fan Heng's hometown is in the next county, and he was born a year after his parents got married. His biological mother died in childbirth, and soon after, his father married a second wife.
His stepmother was quite nice to Fan Heng. She took care of him as soon as she got married and gave birth to another daughter for his father, named Xiuxiu. But Fan’s father was a bad guy. He drank every day and beat his wife. The stepmother raised the two children with great difficulty, but she couldn't stand the beatings from Fan's father, so she divorced him. Fan's father did not allow the stepmother to take Xiuxiu away.
My stepmother left and remarried.
When Fan Heng was ten years old, his father married his third wife, whose surname was Mei. Mei had been a widow for ten years and had two sons. The elder one was one year older than Fan Heng, and the younger one was eight years old. In other words, the father of Widow Mei’s youngest son is unknown.
In a reconstituted family, if the parents are not helpful, the family will generally not end well.
Fan Heng and Xiuxiu grew up together and have a deep relationship. Every day he fought for food and pushed work away from the two sons brought by Widow Mei... Over the years, this family had a lot of conflicts and deep resentment.
The trigger: After a banquet, Mei's elder brother took advantage of his drunkenness to defile Fan Heng's younger sister Xiuxiu. Xiuxiu was only ten years old at that time. The little girl dared not say anything. She cried all day long and was in a daze. She wanted to commit suicide several times.
Fan Heng questioned his sister several times, but she just cried and said nothing.
Until Fan Heng accidentally saw them, he saw with his own eyes the ugly Mei Lao Da pressing his pitiful sister who looked like a flower bud on the kang, and he also heard Xiu Xiu's desperate and painful cry...
The irrational Fan Heng rushed in to save Xiuxiu and beat up Boss Mei severely!
The young man did not know the seriousness of the matter and acted a little too harshly.
Boss Mei was carried back dying and died that night.
Widow Mei negotiated compensation with Fan's father on behalf of the Mei family. Father Fan had no money, so he borrowed from everywhere... Even Xiuxiu's mother came out and sold her house to help raise money, but it still couldn't reach the price the Mei family wanted.
Because the Mei family was unwilling to write a letter of apology to Fan Heng, the twelve-year-old Fan Heng was sent to a juvenile detention center. He was released early at the age of seventeen because of his good behavior and his sentence was reduced.
After hearing Fan Heng's words, the Bai family looked at each other in surprise.
——In the past, they had only heard that Fan Heng accidentally killed someone at a young age, but they didn't expect this to happen.
Everyone was silent.
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