So what if you flee from famine? Start all over again and live a good life every day

Sui He paused, then, as if he hadn't heard anything, he struck hard with the stick in his hand, "I told you not to kick my grandfather."

Er Laizi reacted and quickly protected his head with his hands. Sui He's stick hit Er Laizi's arm hard, causing him to scream in pain.

Lin Wu, who was at the door, rushed in dragging a man, ran to Sui He, and snatched the stick from Sui He's hand: "Stop hitting him, if you beat him to death, you will pay for his life."

"He wants me to pay for his life, but he doesn't deserve it." Seeing that the wooden stick in his hand was taken away, Sui He didn't make any more entanglements. He turned around and ran to his grandfather. Together with his grandmother, he helped his grandfather to sit on a stone bench nearby. His grandmother rubbed his grandfather's waist distressedly: "What is going on?"

"Why are you here?" Sui He looked at Lin Wu in confusion. He hadn't seen Lin Wu for a long time since he came to Qingshan Village. He heard that Lin Wu had returned to his old job in the town.

I collect protection money and work as a thug for others. It seems that I am doing well.

But why did he come back today, and at this critical moment?

"I was chatting with some friends in town today, and I heard them say that some people had their eyes on the family that delivered tofu to HSBC Restaurant, and wanted to take action tonight." Lin Wu saw the suspicion in Sui He's eyes and kicked the mouse next to him: "I knew it was you, so I came back to check, and as soon as I came back, I saw him sneaking around your backyard."

Lin Wu was about to say something when he heard a noise coming from outside the door. Villagers from Qingshan Village ran into Suihe's yard, some holding torches and some holding sticks.

"Brother Chen, what's going on? We seem to have heard screams." Father Lin stepped into the yard, looked at the three people lying on the ground, frowned, and looked at Lin Wu who was standing aside: "Lin Wu, why are you here? What's going on?"

"Father Lin, this is what happened. I heard in town that someone was doing something bad to the people of Qingshan Village, so I came back to take a look. I just came back and saw this scene." As the former village chief of the Lin family, Lin Wu still gave face to Father Lin.

Sui He pointed at the three people on the ground, his anger still not subsided. "These three guys sneaked into my house in the middle of the night, tried to steal things, and now they beat up my grandfather."

"How dare you come to my Qingshan Village to cause trouble? Do you think there is no one in our Qingshan Village?" Village Chief Zhao walked in with his clothes on.

When Er Laizi and his two companions saw someone coming from the village, they dared not even breathe a word and lay on the ground, trying to reduce their presence.

"Are you these three? You dare to come to my Qingshan Village to steal things. I will kick you to death." A bad-tempered villager went up and kicked Er Laizi. With so many people, Er Laizi didn't dare to fight back. He could only protect his head and dodge.

Ma Zi was still curled up on the ground because of the pain. He saw someone coming over and reached out his hand tremblingly, grabbing the trouser leg of the person who came over: "Please, help me call a doctor."

"Bah! I'm calling a doctor for you! I would have killed you long ago!" The man used his feet to pull his trouser legs out of his hands and walked away from him.

"Everyone calm down first." Village Chief Zhao said, "Two people come and tie them up, lock them up in the ancestral hall first, and send them to the government tomorrow."

Immediately, a villager took out three ropes, tied up the three people on the ground tightly, and threw them into the ancestral hall.

"Brother Chen, how are you? Are you seriously injured? Do you want to ask a doctor to take a look?" After taking care of the three people on the ground, Village Chief Zhao ignored them and asked the grandfather who was sitting on the stone bench with concern.

Grandpa held his waist and waved his hand to indicate that he was fine.

"My grandfather was kicked in the waist by Er Laizi, and I don't know what his condition is now," Sui He said worriedly as he stepped forward.

"Well, you look after your grandfather first. I'll ask Erzhuang to go find the doctor. He's young and can run faster," Village Chief Zhao told his second son. After hearing his father's order, Erzhuang turned around and ran towards Doctor Ye's house in the village. He disappeared into the night in the blink of an eye.

"Thank you, Village Chief Zhao." Sui He nodded.

"Except for your grandfather, is everything fine at home?" Father Lin was worried and looked around.

"Everything is fine at home. I found them before they came in."

"I think we should send a few people to check around and see if we have missed anything." Father Lin was worried that there might be accomplices, so he asked his eldest son Lin Youxiang to take a few people and patrol the village with torches.

Seeing that Suihe's family was fine, it was not a good idea to delay at night, so Village Chief Zhao and several villagers took Erlaizi and the other two away. Before leaving, he told Suihe to close the doors and windows and to shout at them if anything happened. They would all pay attention to the movements in the village tonight.

Suihe thanks the villagers

After everyone left, Sui He and Grandma helped Grandpa into the room and laid him down. They waited for Doctor Ye from the village to come over and check Grandpa's injuries.

"It's just a minor injury. You'll be fine after a few days of rest." Doctor Ye pressed Grandpa's waist and asked a few questions. He said it was nothing serious, just a slight sprain. He took out a plaster with a strong smell of medicine from his medicine box and put it on Grandpa's waist.

"Okay, I'll leave this up overnight and observe it again tomorrow."

At this time, there was a knock on the door. Sui He opened the door and saw Lin Wu standing at the gate of the yard.

"I came to take a look. By the way, I'll take Doctor Ye to the ancestral hall to check on those people. The pockmarked man was screaming miserably." Lin Wu walked in and said, "Is your grandfather okay?"

"Thanks to you this time." Sui He said gratefully. If Lin Wu hadn't heard the news in the town and rushed back, they didn't know what would have happened tonight.

"You're welcome. We're all from the same village. It's just a piece of cake." Lin Wu said nonchalantly, and shouted to Doctor Ye who had packed up his medicine box and walked out, "Doctor Ye, come with me to the ancestral hall and take a look at those people. We have to send them to the government tomorrow."

"We'll go over first. You guys should go to bed early." Lin Wu took the box from Doctor Ye and led Doctor Ye to the ancestral hall.

Seeing them go away, Sui He closed the gate and stood at the gate, not knowing what he was thinking. He looked back at the closed gate.

The next morning, Aunt Li knocked on the door of Suihe's yard.

"Aunt Chen, please open the door quickly. We heard that your house was robbed last night."

Suihe opened the gate and several aunts came in.

"Suihe, is your grandma up yet? Let's go and have a chat with her." Aunt Wang glanced at Suihe's feet inconspicuously.

"Aunt Li, Aunt Wang, why are you here so early? Grandma is in the main room." Sui He saw Aunt Wang's little action and wondered if there was something on his feet. Sui He looked at his feet. There was no mud on them. They were quite clean. "Aunt Wang, what are you looking at?"

"Uh... nothing, nothing..." Aunt Wang followed Aunt Li and walked inside with a smile.

"How cruel... I heard... it's broken..." Aunt Wang lowered her voice and her words reached Sui He's ears intermittently.

What's broken?