Nothing major has happened in Anning Village for more than ten years, but today there is something exciting to watch.

Today, three people from the Chu family were struck by lightning, and the news spread quickly. Some said it was karma, and no one knew what bad things the Chu family had done.

There were also rumors that Boss Chu was speaking up for his younger brother. After all, a good kid had been tortured into this state.

Some people were dissatisfied and asked, didn’t Chu Xiaoxiao also get struck by lightning?

Another said: "But he didn't get burned at all, which means we didn't mean to hurt him at all."

Well, that makes sense.

The Chu family originally had eight acres of land. After the eldest brother Chu passed away, the second brother Chu was left to farm the more than ten acres of land. They also had three large tiled houses, so it could be said that their life was not bad at all.

But people are just not satisfied. Chu Xiaoxiao is just a little boy. If they raise him well and give him more dowry when he gets married, the villagers won't say anything. But they just don't raise him well. He lives in someone else's father's house and farms someone else's land. They also beat and scold him and make a child do all the work. They are really conscienceless.

It seems that Lei was just trying to speak up for Chu Xiaoxiao.

The Chu family that was being talked about was crowded with people coming in and out. There was no way out. The father and son of the Chu family were seriously burned, but they had to be cleaned after applying medicine. And there were only two women and a seven-year-old boy left in his family, and they were all useless.

The village chief could only ask them to pay someone to help. As they carried out basins of black water, the people in the kitchen screamed in pain: "Be gentle, be gentle, it hurts."

Chu Peng gasped in pain. He woke up not long after being carried down the mountain. However, he had no strength in his body and was twitching from time to time. The doctor said it was a sequelae of being struck by lightning.

The village chief hadn't left yet either. Suddenly he remembered something and asked, "Where's Chu Xiaoxiao?"

"He's in his own room. I'm busy here, so I don't have time to take care of him." Li Xiulan said dissatisfiedly while fetching water: "If it weren't for him, my boss He Pengzi would never have been punished like this. He's such a jinx."

The village chief was somewhat dissatisfied with her attitude, but thinking that it was inevitable for her to have some emotions after such a thing happened in her family, he did not care.

"Why are they going up the mountain so late at night?"

The village chief was very puzzled, but when he asked her early in the morning, Li Xiulan just kept crying and he couldn't get any information out of her, so he could only go up the mountain to look for someone.

Li Xiulan felt guilty, so she didn't dare to tell the truth, so she lied, "Chu Xiaoxiao, that little beast, got angry and ran away from home in the middle of the night, so the father and son chased after her."

The village chief nodded and didn't ask any more questions. As long as there was an explanation, it would be fine. As long as other people's family affairs didn't come to him, he would not be willing to interfere.

After asking him, he didn't stay any longer. He was covered in mud and dirt, so he had to go back and wash it.

Chu Xiaoxiao, who said she was in her own room at this time, was actually placed in the woodshed. Apart from a wooden bed, there were all kinds of firewood and a musty smell.

When Chu Xiao woke up again, he felt very dizzy and every joint in his body was aching.

He opened his eyes and looked at the environment in confusion. How come the scene changed when he closed his eyes and opened them again?

Feeling groggy, he didn't really want to think, but those inexplicable things kept turning around in his mind, forcing him to pay attention.

Following the scene in his memory, he scanned the house. Oh, the woodshed where Chu Xiaoxiao lived. Then he... had a headache.

It was obvious that he was the cuckoo occupying Chu Xiaoxiao's magpie's nest.

The memory is jumbled and incoherent.

What impressed him most was the faces of the Chu family, which made him feel as if something was stuck in his throat and he couldn't swallow it or spit it out.

Although Chu Xiao grew up in the base and had no idea who his parents were, he was a man who would never be bullied. There were many capable people in the base, but he just wouldn't admit defeat, and he would do so at the cost of his life.

So this is just because he was unwilling to accept the consequences and got himself into trouble.

But if you don't fight or compete and just live a cowardly life, you will die anyway. Chu Xiaoxiao is the best example of this.

Anyway, Chu Xiao was born to be unwilling to submit, but the situation had changed and his body was really weak now. Even if he wanted to be unwilling to submit, he had to do it slowly and could not go against his body.

Chu Xiao fell asleep again while thinking, and was not disturbed by the noise outside at all.

On the other side, Yan Zhenshen sent Chu Xiaoxiao back and went straight home.

As soon as he walked into the house, he smelled the aroma of food. At the same time, his younger brother Yan Zhenbei also ran out: "Brother, you are back. Second brother left with Dahei and has not come back yet."

"Well, he should be back soon." Yan Zhenshen said as he strode into the house. At this time, a man in his forties was sitting on a small stool weaving a bamboo basket. He saw him come in and said with a smile: "Boss, you have worked hard."

Yan Zhengdao couldn't help feeling distressed when he saw his son's dusty appearance. If it weren't for his legs, the burden of supporting the family wouldn't have been placed on his eldest son.

Yan Zhenshen looked at his father's guilty expression and knew what he was thinking. However, he was not good at comforting people, so he could only say, "I'll go wash up. Dad, I shot a few pheasants, and one was bitten by the big black one. It's not easy to sell. Wait for my second brother to come back and you can take care of it. Let's stew it today."

"Okay, okay. It just so happens that your third sister and Xiaobei picked some mushrooms a few days ago. Let's stew them together." Yan Zhengdao said as he put down the work in his hands and limped to the pot to boil water to scald the chicken feathers.

Yan Zhenshen glanced at the porridge bubbling in the earthenware jar. There were not many rice grains, mostly wild vegetables. He knew that this was what his family would eat once he went up the mountain.

But he didn't say anything, as this was the current situation at home.

He took a change of clothes and prepared to take a bath in the river not far from his home. After changing his clothes, he realized that he had forgotten to bring his coat back.

Forget it, it’s just an old piece of clothing, patched up, so it’s gone.

When he came back from taking a shower, his father had already prepared the pheasant. His third sister Yan Xiaoxi and his mother Zhao Guizhi, who had gone out to pick wild vegetables, also came back.

His mother was cutting up a pheasant, and when she saw him, she asked, "I heard on the way back just now that you saved Chu Laoer's family in the mountains today?"

"It can't be considered a rescue. The villagers came to find me shortly after I arrived." Yan Zhenshen sat down and poured himself a glass of cold water and drank it.

"It was you who carried the young man from the Chu family down the mountain." Zhao Guizhi asked.

"Yeah." Yan Zhenshen responded, and then said: "I have made it clear to them. I am just helping. They will not cause any trouble."

"Not necessarily." Zhao Guizhi watched Yan Zhenshen finish drinking the water, and then she filled a bowl of porridge in the earthenware pot and handed it to him: "It will take a while to eat, you can fill your stomach first."

Yan Zhenshen took a look at the porridge in the bowl. It was almost all rice grains. After this bowl was served, the rest of the earthenware jar would probably be rice soup.

But he didn't refuse. Refusing would make Zhao Guizhi feel uncomfortable, so he took it without saying a word.

Zhao Guizhi continued to busy herself with the chicken, saying, "The Chu family is not trustworthy. When they took Chu Xiaoxiao in, they promised very well that all the children left by Chu Laoda would be Chu Xiaoxiao, and when he grew up, they would give him the dowry. But in less than half a year, their true colors showed, and they treated the child like a servant."

"Yeah, I know." When Yan Zhenshen's family was still in the village, he would often see Chu Xiaoxiao. The little guy always carried a backpack, either cutting grass for pigs or digging wild vegetables. He was always covered in dust every time he saw him.

However, ever since his family moved out of the village, he always went to the mountains and I haven't seen him for many years. It seems that even though he has grown up, his life is not satisfactory.

"It's better to be on guard." Zhao Guizhi sighed.

"I know." Yan Zhenshen finished the porridge in his hand, stood up and said, "I'll go fetch some water."

After saying that, he left. Zhao Guizhi rolled her eyes at him helplessly and said to the man weaving bamboo baskets, "You said the boss... is a taciturn person. Which woman will follow him in the future?"

"Let it be." Yan Zhengdao didn't even raise his head. He knew that even if the eldest brother was eloquent, no one would be willing to marry him given his family's situation.

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