A car accident, our family of three crossed

After settling Hang's mother, Hang Shuheng came out of Zhang's house and said to Shuisheng who was waiting outside with a bullock cart: "Let's go!"

"Okay!" Shuisheng turned around and followed him, pulling the ox cart. "Uncle Hengzi, you don't have to be sad. Fifth Grandma is here anyway. You can come and see her anytime."

Shuisheng felt that no matter how bad Hang's mother was, she was Hang Shuheng's biological mother after all. She would probably feel sad to be separated from her son!

Hang Shuheng knew he was thinking in the wrong direction as soon as he heard it, and without explaining, he followed his thoughts and said, "Yes, this is the only way to settle it for the time being."

"But Uncle Hengzi, do you really think you can convince Great Grandfather and the elders to change their minds?"

"Who knows! Let's talk about it later." Hang Shuheng did not comment.

The two of them got on the ox cart and prepared to go home, but Hang Shuheng keenly noticed that someone was spying on him, so he held Shuisheng down and said, "Wait a moment."

"What's wrong, Uncle Hengzi?"

Shuisheng saw him suddenly jump out of the car and walk towards a big tree on the side of the road, so he followed him curiously.

There was a rustling sound behind the big tree. When they walked over, they saw a skinny child carrying a basket full of pig grass, which was much higher than her head. When the child saw them, she subconsciously shrank back and looked at them timidly with her head raised.

Hang Shuheng felt that the child looked familiar at first sight, and recognized her after careful examination, "You are... San Ya?"

He was shocked. It had been such a short time since he last saw her, and she had become like this. She was so thin that she was just skin and bones. She looked like a completely different person than when she was in Shangtang Village. In Shangtang Village, she at least looked like a normal five or six-year-old child, but now she looked even smaller than a three or four-year-old child.

Shuisheng was also quite shocked: "How, how did this child become like this?" Although he didn't have a good impression of this child when he was in Shangtang Village, he still felt a little pity for her when he saw her like this.

Seeing that the child didn't speak, Hang Shuheng asked again: "Do you still recognize me?"

San Ya looked at him for a long time before nodding, still without saying anything.

Seeing how thin she is, she must have been living under the care of Zhang Youcai's family and hasn't even had a full meal. It's obvious that she is severely malnourished.

Hang Shuheng sighed, turned around and asked Shuisheng: "Do you have anything to eat?"

"Oh, yes." Shuisheng understood and quickly took out an oil-paper bag from the cloth bag hanging on his body. "When I went out at noon, my aunt wrapped two cakes for me."

Hang Shuheng opened the paper bag, took out a piece of cake, squatted down and handed it to San Ya: "Here, take it."

San Ya looked at the cake and kept swallowing her saliva. She obviously wanted to eat it, but she didn't dare to take it.

Seeing this, Hang Shuheng stretched his hand forward a little further: "Don't be afraid, take it and eat it!"

Encouraged by Hang Shuheng, San Ya reached out her hand tentatively, paused for a moment when she touched the cake, then grabbed it. Subconsciously, she turned around and ran a few steps before stopping. Seeing that they did not chase her to get the cake back, she began to eat it in big mouthfuls.

"I'm afraid it's been a long time since I had a full meal..."

Shuisheng looked at San Ya wolfing down the food and couldn't help but think of when he and his brothers were little. Although their parents were gone, they were much luckier than this child.

The villagers would help them, with a meal from the east family and a bowl of soup from the west family. The brothers grew up eating food from hundreds of families. But this child, who has relatives alive, lives a life of hunger. It is really pitiful.

He couldn't bear to watch, so he took the bamboo tube filled with water and walked over, "Don't eat so fast, you'll choke. Drink some water."

San Ya was sure that they would not beat her, so she let down her guard and started drinking water from the bamboo tube in big gulps.

Hang Shuheng wrapped the remaining piece of cake and handed it to her, saying, "Hide it yourself, don't let anyone find you, and eat it secretly when no one is around."

Judging from the child's alert look, she must have been beaten many times. Everyone has their own fate, and all they can do is to give her two cakes to fill her stomach temporarily, that's all.

San Ya watched Hang Shuheng and the others get on the ox cart and leave. She only lowered her head to look at the oil paper bag in her hand until they were out of sight. There was a piece of cake inside, which was given to her by her uncle.

She wondered how she could hide so as not to be discovered. If she was discovered by her grandmother and aunt, they would definitely beat her and not give her food. She couldn't help but shudder at the thought of being beaten.

Suddenly, she had an idea. She ran to the big tree, dug a small hole with her bare hands, put a few leaves in it, then put the paper bag in, covered it with a few more leaves, and finally covered it with soil, so that she would not be afraid of being discovered by her grandmother when she took it back.

However, she didn't know that when she hid the biscuits and carried the pig grass back, a wild dog came over after smelling the scent, sniffed the pile of earth she had buried, and in a few seconds dug out the biscuits and carried them away.

Therefore, when she came back in the evening, she saw that the pit she had buried had been dug up, and the cakes hidden inside had disappeared. Endless grievances suddenly surged in from all directions, and she squatted under the tree sadly and wiped her tears for a long time.

Hang Shuheng and Shuisheng will never know about this.

Not long after they returned to Shangtang Village, Shuisheng, the big mouth, spread the news that Hang Shuheng had given money to the Zhang family to settle Hang's mother. Within an afternoon, everyone in the village knew about it and praised Hang Shuheng for being a kind person.

When the old patriarch heard about this, he just snorted twice, obviously still angry with Hang Shuheng.

My aunt scolded at the side: "I am talking to you! That's enough. You are so old and yet you still have a bad temper."

The old patriarch was not happy when he heard this. He blew his beard and glared, saying, "What's wrong with me having a bad temper? You don't know how irritating that kid is."

"So what else do you want? Are you planning to be angry with that kid forever?" Auntie said with a sigh, "Alas! I don't know whether it is good or bad to expel Shuheng's mother from the family. Do you think Shuheng will blame you in the future?"

"What do you women know? Zhang, that stupid woman, is a nuisance if we keep her around. Shuheng won't be able to study well if she's around. With Zhang's high expectations and low skills, she's the easiest to be tricked by villains. If we keep her around, Shuheng's future will be ruined by her sooner or later."

"Think about it carefully. When she brought her niece home, she caused Shuheng's family of three to almost drown in the river. Last time, she listened to the instigation of outsiders and wanted to burn Shuheng and his wife. This time, she sold her daughter-in-law for money. Who can guarantee that next time, she will not commit murder and arson for a little money?"

When Auntie heard this, she thought about it and felt that this was the truth. The old clan leader took a puff of his pipe and said, "In any case, Zhang cannot be kept. Expelling her from the family is also for the sake of the family. Even if Shuheng will blame me in the future, I will accept it."