C16

Xu Yun, who had returned home, felt the desolation of her home as soon as she entered. She was not at home, and her mother was not at home as well. She put down her schoolbag and washed her hands before cooking with a pressure cooker.

It was almost dark when Miao Shufeng and Xu Yu returned, followed by an emaciated grandmother with puffy eyes.

As soon as Miao Shufeng entered the room, she sat on the sofa and silently cried. Xu Yu was in a trance as she took out a cigarette from her pocket and lit it, leaning against the door as she gloomily smoked.

"Dad, mom, grandma, I've finished cooking."

His grandmother was just about to reply when Miao Shufeng opened her tired eyes like a cannon. "What else are you going to eat? People are already dying at home. How can we even have the appetite to eat?"

Xu Yun took a deep breath. She knew that her mother was in a bad mood and had no place to vent her anger. That was why she shouted at her mother.

The grandma immediately became spirited and whispered, "Yun-er, you are sensible now. Your mother is not in a good mood. Why don't you accompany the grandma to cook?"

Xu Yun did not say anything and just nodded. She quickly packed up her textbooks and followed her grandma to the kitchen at the back.

Seeing her grandmother washing the cabbages while wiping away her tears, Xu Yun knew that her grandmother had definitely been to the police station.

"Grandma, how is brother doing?"

"Your brother is an idiot. Even now, he still talks about brotherhood, saying that he's the mastermind. Say, your brother, he …" "Will it?" Grandma couldn't continue, her voice was so choked that it made one's heart ache.

Xu Yun bit her lips as she worriedly cut the food.

What could she do?

She was only fourteen now. She had no connections or money, and she was still a worm. The only thing she could do was help her mother do some housework and lighten their burdens.

As for her big brother Xu Tang, she really couldn't help much.

"Grandma, that's not possible. Big brother hasn't reached adulthood, so he definitely won't be sentenced to death."

"Even if it wasn't the death penalty, I would still be jailed for more than ten years. Grandma doesn't know if she would still be alive to see him come out." The more he thought about it, the more heartbroken he became.

"Grandmother, don't cry. You will definitely live for a hundred years." Xu Yun gritted her teeth.

As she watched her grandmother's tears fall, her heart ached. She had finally managed to make two simple dishes and a soup, but the sounds of Miao Shufeng and Xu Ya quarrelling could be heard from the living room.

"I was really blind back then. So many people didn't marry, but they did. You only knew how to stay at school all day long. How many people did you manage, son?" It's all because of you that he's come here today. Xu Yu, you're not human! "

You're blind, and I'm blind as well. Last time, I told you, Xu Tang is currently in the midst of a rebellion, and you need to spend more time with him. But you, you go play mahjong every night, and you still have the face to say that I'm not human?

"I've spent my time with him, but he wants me to stay with him too. Can I stay with him? It was a son, not a daughter. Last month, when I locked him in the house, he jumped down from the second floor and ran out. Do you know how weak I am? "Look at other people's families. Who isn't under father's control? And yet you still push the blame onto me? Xu Ya, I really do hate you."

"Alright, let's not argue here. What has happened has already happened, so there's no use in pursuing the responsibility now. If he says so much nonsense, why don't we think of a way to pull him?"

"Do you want to pull him now? Why didn't you do it when you knew he was in rebellion? He is now standing up taller than me, and his fists are clenched stronger than mine. I'll hit him, I won't dare to hit him, I'll curse him, and he runs away again. How am I supposed to handle this? "

Miao Shufeng cried and roared. When she thought of what Xu Ya had said to blame her, her heart went completely cold.

"Alright, there's no use talking about it anymore. I admit that I was wrong, but it's not completely my fault. I'm also giving up money for this family. If I don't work, then the money will be used to support them."

Miao Shufeng was not a rude and unreasonable person. When she heard Xu Yu lowering her head, she no longer refuted her words. Instead, tears streamed down her face, turning her heart icy cold.

Xu Yu forcefully threw the cigarette butt onto the ground, flattened it with the tip of her foot, then powerlessly held her head as she hoarsely said, "What a stupid thing, to actually take so many big bags. Has he ever thought about how we as parents feel?" Feng, I really want to rush in and beat him up. "

"Beat him. You only know how to hit him. After so many years, are you thinking of ways to transfer him back to the city? If you were home everyday, how could your son have ended up like this?"

Xu Ya painfully clenched her fists, feeling depressed for a long time.

Xu Yun's grandma held her hand, not knowing what to say. Lived to her age, she knew that it was tough for a person, especially when they were in their thirties. There were both old and young, and it was the most difficult time of their lives.

With such a huge incident happening at home, everyone's heart was in pain. They needed to vent their frustrations, to vent it all out. Otherwise, they would have to hold it in in order to become sick.

"Yun, you go eat first. After you're done, go upstairs and read some books. Ah!"

Looking at the gloomy atmosphere, Xu Yun knew that she was powerless to help. She silently nodded and prepared to leave.

At this moment, Miao Shufeng asked, "What do we do now?"

"There's no other way. I can only think of a way to use the money to pull him."

"The Deng Family wants one hundred thousand yuan, where would we get that much money?"

A hundred thousand!

It was like a lion opening its mouth wide. One had to know that at this time in 1998, anyone with 10,000 yuan in savings could be called a 10,000 yuan household. In front of everyone, that was a very impressive thing.

"Let's borrow it. I'll think of a way to borrow it from Big Sis, Second Sis, Third Sis, and Fourth Sis."

"Even if I were to borrow more, I wouldn't be able to borrow that much."

"How much can I borrow? Tomorrow, you can go to the Deng Family and talk about it. Try to keep it private. Let's see if it can be any less."

Miao Shufeng's face turned green and she gritted her teeth. Thinking of going back to the Deng Family to take revenge, she felt like vomiting blood.

In her entire life, she had never begged and begged like this, not to mention that she was the principal of a high school. For her son's sake, she had splashed herself, not only with money, but also with words and insults.

"If I don't go, I'll go with you. You don't know how ugly their scolding is. I've never been this angry before in my life."

"No matter how angry we are, we still have to endure. Who asked that stupid thing to beat their son to death? If it were us, we would have still cursed at them harshly. For this sort of thing, you women would have acted better." Xu Yu felt that her hair had really turned white from worry and her voice had become frighteningly hoarse.

At the very least, the families of the deceased would not beat up women. However, if Xu Ya were to go, there was no guarantee that it would end up like that. At this point, the family could not afford to cause any more trouble, much less fall to the ground once more. Even if they wanted to borrow money, they would still need her to borrow money from their relatives.