Only this green, not disappointing the spring

Li, who was already exhausted, became even more sad when he saw this situation.

She didn't know how much suffering and grievance she had endured during the years when Zhou Jun was away from home.

Finally, their man came back and they thought that all the hardship had finally paid off, but why did God just keep holding on to their family?

It felt like something was blocking her chest, and finally, unable to control herself, Li fell to the ground and burst into tears.

The country women all inherited a skill, as if they were born with it.

Cry and sing.

While crying loudly, he talked about the grievances he had suffered and the difficulties he faced. There was a unique tone in his voice, unlike his usual speech.

It seems that only in this way can I vent the depression in my heart.

She had to sit on the ground and pound the ground with her hands, using astonishing strength. Her hands were often bloody after she cried.

As usual, other people in the village, regardless of their relationship with the person, would help the person who was crying and singing up from the ground with tears in their eyes and sniffles.

At this time, no one came out to comfort Li. No one even came out to take a look, even the children who usually loved to join in the fun were nowhere to be seen.

Night has fallen, the moonlight is bright and the stars are twinkling. What should have been a quiet and beautiful night seems particularly creepy.

Sadness is easily contagious; even Zhou Xiaoxi, who has lived two lives, is not immune.

She stood beside Li with her hands and feet stiff. Although she did not cry out loud, tears were already streaming down her face.

The young Zhou Xiaonan knelt beside his mother and cried heart-wrenchingly.

However, Zhou Jun on the donkey cart was still unaware of anything. No one knew whether he could hear the sound, and no one thought he could wake up.

Some people are curious about what hell looks like. Look, isn’t hell right here on earth?

Old Man Liu felt very sympathetic towards the mother and her two daughters, but life was not easy for anyone these days.

He is an old widower with no relatives or friends. At an age of knowing the destiny, he still has to make a living with his old bones. It is not easy for him.

He was already very tired and had to interrupt them.

"Zhou Jun's wife, what's the point of just crying? Don't you have to continue living without anyone to help you?"

"You three, plus this old man like me, let's hold our breath and carry your Zhou Jun back to the room! If you keep crying like this, you will lose all your strength, which will be even worse! "

Zhou Xiaoxi quickly came to her senses and helped her mother up together with her sister. The three of them wiped their sticky cheeks with their sleeves and slowly calmed down.

"Father Liu, you are right. We can't let the whole family hang themselves. Xiaoxi, Xiaonan, let's carry your father home!"

The four old, weak, women and children stumbled and carried Zhou Jun into the house, and they almost fell down because they didn't have enough strength.

Li fell to her knees at the risk of hurting her knees, but her strength did not slacken at all, and she held her man steadily with both hands.

After settling everything down, Li asked Xiaoxi to go to the kitchen and get the only three eggs left in the house to give to Old Man Liu.

Without the help of this old man, the three of them would have been helpless.

After repeated refusals, Old Man Liu returned home happily with the eggs in his pocket.

Eggs are a good thing these days.

He often had to travel on his donkey cart and had no time to raise chickens, but he was reluctant to spend money on them, so he could only eat them a few times a year.

These three eggs are enough for him to make a big bowl of fresh and tender egg custard, and pair it with a little wine. It’s a wonderful thought.

Today's effort was not in vain!

If the Zhou brothers are no longer willing to carry Zhou Jun in the future, this old man can still help out a few more times, provided that Zhou Jun's wife is grateful.

After calming down, Li asked Zhou Xiaoxi about the reasons for the abnormal behavior of the villagers. After listening to her daughter's guess, Li was so angry that she trembled all over.

"Who on earth is spreading rumors everywhere? Your father is obviously sick, how can they be so heartless!"

Li fell into deep despair.

The doctor in the city had told her today that Zhou Jun's condition was not optimistic, and she only had a dozen copper coins left in her pocket.

Tomorrow she would have to go to the pawnshop to pawn her belongings for silver before going to the city. She already felt like she could no longer hold on. Why didn't the villagers help her family and even drive them to death?

"Mom, cheer up. If no one helps us, we have to rely on ourselves. If you collapse now, how will Xiaonan, Dad and I survive?"

Zhou Xiaoxi didn't dare to attack Li again, but she would know tomorrow that Old Man Liu would no longer agree to drive her father to the hospital for treatment.

The ancestors of the people in Huaihua Village fled from various places and settled here. There is no clan, and there is only one headman in the whole village.

In a village without cohesion and where no one can read and write, the so-called propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame will all take a back seat in the face of money and interests.

The rumors spread in the village were actually not very credible, but Old Man Zhou and his uncles and their families were willing to believe them, probably because they had a perfect excuse to cut off all ties with them and let the family fend for themselves without any burden.

Four days have passed since the incident, and none of the three aunts who married to the neighboring village have shown up.

When the rumors in the village spread wider and wider, it is very likely that the entire Huaihua Village will be affected.

If the situation continues to develop, their family will become the public enemy of the whole village. By then, the villagers will probably hold torches and burn their whole family to ashes...

Zhou Xiaoxi was so frightened by her own analysis that she was shaking all over. Could it be that the god who gave her the chance to be reborn was deliberately making trouble for her?

Death from overwork would be fine, but she had to be burned alive again! No, she had to save herself.

"Mom, we have to hurry and find grandpa!"

Li looked confused.

"Xiaoxi, what's the point of us looking for your grandfather? He doesn't even care about the life and death of his own son. It's obvious that he is afraid that we will implicate him. When your father was in the military camp, your grandfather ignored our family, let alone now!"

"Mom, we have to go. This concerns the survival of our family! Do you still remember Zhou Changkuan's family who lived in the west end of the village? Or the story you told me?"

Li's face turned even paler.

In Zhou Changkuan's family, his wife gave birth to a baby boy. The midwife was so scared when the baby was born that she almost threw the child on the ground.

It was said that the child had a rabbit-like mouth, 13 fingers on each hand, and a hideous face. Their family paid the midwife hush money and planned to secretly throw the child into the mountains and tell others that the child died at birth.

I don’t know if it was because the midwife didn’t keep her mouth shut, or if the neighbors had secretly seen it, but the story became a hot topic.

Later, some people began to say that Zhou Changkuan's wife was a rabbit spirit, and the baby she gave birth to was a monster that would eat people when it grew up.

The news spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred, until finally the village head brought a group of farmers, holding torches in their hands, and blocked the family in the yard.

They demanded that Zhou Changkuan's wife and children be handed over and burned to death, otherwise they would set their house on fire and kill everyone inside.

In desperation, Zhou Changkuan could only hand over his wife and children. His wife cried heartbreakingly, but no one showed any mercy.

Poor mother and son, they were burned to death.

Later I heard that Zhou Changkuan had gone crazy, and that his happy family had been shattered overnight...