"Mom has a younger brother, and my younger brother treats me badly. I don't want to go back."

Jin Feng cried loudly, "I want to follow Grandpa!"

"What nonsense are you talking about, you stupid kid? Of course your mother is the best to you. Even if you have a younger brother, that won't change anything."

But Tie Jinfeng always held Uncle Tie's arm tightly and refused to let go.

"If my brother cries, my mother will scold me. If I don't take good care of him, my uncle will beat me."

Uncle Tie touched Tie Jinfeng's arm. She was only about seven or eight years old, with arms as thin as poles, and even thinner than last time.

Uncle Tie was furious: "No wonder you didn't let me see Jin Feng, are you afraid that I would see the child like this?"

"She was sick a few days ago and refused to eat, so she lost weight."

Jin Feng's little face was yellow, and he looked malnourished.

Uncle Tie wiped her tears and said, "Tell Grandpa, is that so?"

Jin Feng looked at his mother timidly, lowered his head and dared not speak.

A man suddenly appeared behind Yan Ling and tried to pull Jin Feng without saying anything. "Don't make your mother angry again. Come back with us! Your mother will forgive you. You are sick, and I don't want you to take care of my younger brother anymore."

When Jin Feng saw her stepfather, she began to tremble like a sieve.

"Grandpa, save me, save me."

As soon as Lu Qingyang saw this scene, he knew there must be something fishy going on.

These two kids seem to be hiding something.

It must be inconvenient for a grown man, so he asked Shen Mo to check the child's clothes and whether there were any injuries on the body.

Seeing Jin Feng like this, Shen Mo seemed to recall something and nodded silently.

He went forward and touched Jin Feng's clothes first.

The clothes were all covered with patches, and the fabric was not warm cotton. When Shen Mo tore it open, she found that it was full of prickly straw.

"How can we go back...this clothes won't keep us warm at all."

"Jin Feng, come here with me. I'll check if you have any injuries."

Yan Ling and her current husband Wang Shuanyi became excited when they saw this scene.

"What are you going to do with my baby? You can't hide her."

Uncle Tie's face flushed red. He was not a person who was good at theory. He was so angry that he couldn't speak.

Seeing this, Lu Qingyang stepped forward and said, "Don't worry, Jin Feng is Uncle Tie's only granddaughter, how could he possibly harm her? As for you, why are you so excited? You're just taking the child to change clothes."

"Everyone, you see, the clothes this child is wearing are all made of straw. If you really love her so much, why would you let her wear such clothes?"

Yan Ling was speechless for a moment, and tried to find an excuse: "It's not that the family conditions are not good... Besides, the child likes to wear this, what can we do?"

"Is that so, Uncle Tie? Tell me, have you sent a lot of furs?"

Uncle Tie looked annoyed: "I didn't leave much for myself. I just hoped that she wouldn't mistreat Jin Feng. Not only that, every month, I also gave her food coupons and banknotes. How could I have known that Jin Feng would wear such clothes?"

Lu Qingyang turned to look at the two people, "I see you are dressed quite well, leather jackets, and this is a new cotton jacket. Why do you dress like this? Do your children dress like that?"

"That's right, that's right. How can you treat your own child like this?"

"As the saying goes, if there is a stepfather, there will be a stepmother..."

The villagers who were watching were talking about it.

Yan Ling also tried to explain: "It's not like that, what nonsense are you talking about, this is what the child likes to wear."

"Oh, you like to wear bright red, and little girls like to wear coarse linen, right?"

Wang Shuan couldn't bear to watch it any longer. "Who are you? This is our family affair. What qualifications do you have to intervene? Go wherever you want! Mind your own business!"

Lu Qingyang smiled and said, "It's cool everywhere here. I'm just telling you the truth. Why, can't you bear it?"

"So all the tickets Uncle Tie sent were used on you, and Jin Feng got nothing. No wonder you were only concerned with asking for money and tickets, and refused to let Uncle Tie see his granddaughter. What are you trying to hide? Anyone who understands will understand!"

"Yeah, that's really too much!"

"Yan Ling, if you can't raise the child, just return it to your husband!"

"That's right. Do you think you are doing this to Zhuzi?"

The more Yan Ling listened, the angrier she became: "Zhu Zi, Zhu Zi, you are already dead, and it was the old man who promised me that as long as I gave birth to Jin Feng, he would give me money every month. This is what I deserve."

Uncle Tie just felt sad. If he had known the child's situation, he would have snatched the child back.

"If I hadn't given birth to this child, my life wouldn't be so bad. You, the Tie family, owe me this!"

Uncle Tie's tone was filled with sorrow: "What a sin! What a sin you have done! I, an old man, have been frugal all these years and have always kept my promise. What about you? If you don't want to raise her, I will tell you, give Jin Feng to me and I won't treat her badly. Look at what you have done to the child now. She doesn't even have a decent piece of clothing."

Now, all the subsidies for Jinfeng go to Yanling and her current husband. I'm afraid she is using these to support her little son.

"You can use it if you want. I won't say anything. At least you should take care of Jin Feng, my poor Jin Feng."

"Don't be so hypocritical!"

Shen Mo took Jin Feng to the heated kang and took off her coat. Only then did she realize that the child was covered in bruises and was extremely skinny...

She couldn't help but feel her eyes sore, and took out the new clothes she had bought earlier and put them on her, "It's a little big, you wear it first, it's warmer than those."

"Wuwuwu, I don't want to go back." Jin Feng kept sobbing.

"Don't worry, Uncle Tie won't let you go back, just stay here with peace of mind."

"Who caused all these injuries on you?"

When this was mentioned, Jin Feng showed a horrified expression.

"No one."

"Don't worry, no one dares to hit you here. Whoever hits you, I will punish him!"

Shen Mo stretched out her fist, "One hit and one hit!"

"I didn't take good care of my brother, so my uncle and my mother beat me."

Shen Mo felt distressed when she heard this, this was still a child.

"I was hungry and cold. I wanted a warm coat, but my uncle kicked me and said I was a spendthrift and a money loser."

When she mentioned this, she began to sob again, "I'm scared. I'm so scared. I miss Grandpa."

Although her mother was not very close to her before she remarried, at least she would not starve her.

But now, her mind is completely on her brother.

She accidentally contracted the cough, and because she was taking care of her brother, she infected her brother again. Her mother slapped her several times and didn't give her food for several days.

Shen Mo looked at her slender wrist and frowned: "I will protect you, don't be afraid."