C100 (1/2)
”You … you all …” The man lying on the ground suddenly realized that his wife was acquainted with the owner of the inn. He viciously said, ”Bitch, so you intentionally lured us here. So you were stealing a man outside.”
Jinxin helped Jinxin to stand up, she was covered in blood, with each step she took she picked up the blade on the ground and forced it towards the man.
”Don't kill me, Jinxin, spare me, I, I promise I won't say anything, I promise …” The man was scared to the point of peeing, he hugged his head and curled up into a ball, ”I was wrong, Jinxin, I was wrong …”
”It's too late, you bastard. Where are you going to touch your hand? Where are you going to touch your daughter?”
”I didn't, I really didn't …”
Jinxin screamed and rushed forward crazily. She stabbed the back of the man's hand with his blade and the man shouted in pain as if he was about to kill a pig. He wanted to push her away, but she pulled out her blade and stabbed it into his heart.
The man twitched twice and no longer made a sound. The entire inn became quiet.
Xiaowan stood on the third floor. The other day, when she was watching the fight between the Wu Lin gang and Susu, she and Susu were extremely shocked. But today, after seeing the Bloody Red Inn, the expression on her face was very similar to that of the usually calm Ling Chaofeng.
Ling Chaofeng carried her up horizontally. She reached out his bloodied hand and gently stroked Ling Chaofeng's chin: ”I know, you will definitely protect me.”
In the backyard, Susu was carrying Little Xuan. The Aunt Zhang indicated for her not to let her child go out, so she picked up her stone water basin and cloth, and headed towards the main hall.
Xiaowan went downstairs and followed the bloody footprints to Yunze's room. The weak woman laid on the bed and when she saw her, she revealed a gentle smile.
”Sister-in-law …”
weakly called out. Her heart trembled, immediately her eyes filled with tears, she quickly walked up, but Jinxin fainted.
”Jinxin!” The Xiaowan called out to her. Ling Chaofeng supported his wife and said, ”Let her sleep for a while. She's tired.”
Downstairs, Uncle Biao had finally returned. He did not go rent a carriage, but rather went to the mountain to pick some wild hawthorn stalks, intending to make candy for his child to eat.
Seeing the scene in the shop, he silently closed the door and cleaned the bloodstains together with Aunt Zhang. He wrapped the three corpses in straw mats and stacked them beside the firewood at the back door.
Not long after, the inn returned to normal. Apart from the faint smell of blood on the second floor, it was hard to tell that there had been a massacre here.
In the evening, Jinxin woke up. After she had bathed and changed into a clean set of clothes, she went to see her daughter.
Little Xuan used a handkerchief to give her a little mouse to scare her mother, and laughed: ”Mother, I really like it here, there's delicious food, and there's even someone to play with with me, the big grandpa made me sweet hawthorn, it's delicious.”
Jinxin laughed: ”In the future, mother will cook delicious food for you everyday and play with you everyday.”
Little Xuan asked, ”Mother, where are father and grandmother? I'm not seeing them.”
Jinxin said worriedly: ”They don't want us anymore. Little Xuan, are you willing to follow mother?”
The little girl stared blankly. A six year old child, she knew a lot of things, but she was still a child in the end. She wouldn't think about whether or not her grandmother and father had met with an accident.
However, she understood that since she was separated from her grandma and father, no one would ever hit her mother again.
”Don't want them.” Little Xuan said, ”I only want mother, I will be fine with mother.”
She heaved a sigh of relief as she hugged her daughter and fondled her petite body lovingly. When she looked up and saw Ling Chaofeng and Xiaowan standing there, she wiped her tears and said embarrassedly: ”I've troubled you guys.”
”Little Xuan, Auntie will bring you to eat delicious food.” Xiaowan thought that his husband and his childhood sweetheart should have something to say, so she trusted Ling Chaofeng. Jinxin was also a strong woman, so he was naturally at ease.
Little Xuan was not afraid that her mother would get beaten up, and was happy to follow Xiaowan. She even charmingly asked, ”Aunt, why should I call you Aunt?”
Hearing that, Jinxin asked Ling Chaofeng: ”You told her, do you take me as your little sister?”
Ling Chaofeng nodded: ”Always.”
Jinxin laughed helplessly: ”It's just that you are, and I am not, but …. We are not fated to be together.
Ling Chaofeng frowned and asked: ”I only know that you're already married, how could you be married to someone like me?”
Jinxin laughed coldly: ”I was blind.”
In the great hall, Little Xuan was pressing her head against Xiaowan's stomach and asked curiously, ”Is Aunt going to have a baby? Aunt, my grandma always asks my mother to give birth to my little brother. If my mother could give birth to my little brother, my grandma wouldn't beat her up. ”
Xiaowan rubbed Little Xuan's head and said gently: ”It's grandmother's fault. Even if your mother didn't give birth to your brother, she still shouldn't be hit. Little Xuan, little sister, little brother, even you are your mother's precious baby. Other people can like you, but no one has the qualifications to despise you. ”
The little guy did not seem to understand and grinned. ”Anyway, no one else will hit my mother.”
Upstairs, Ling Chaofeng did not linger, and quickly followed.
Uncle Biao made hawthorn ducks, Zhang Luo and his family ate dinner, the whole family sat around them, and although three people had died in the tavern today, it seemed as if nothing had happened.