Chapter 322: Out of breath
"How could a three-year-old baby bite off the lower part of a person's lower body because his deciduous teeth are so soft that he can't eat hard things? This is really weird!"
"Maybe I can catch up a little bit."
"In this case, Lao Liu will have to pay a lot of money, right?"
"Not only that, Peng Kang's daughter-in-law goes to Lao Liu's house every day to cry and asks for 200,000 yuan!"
"Two hundred thousand? But yes, after all, this matter is really difficult to handle. Anyone who leaves it alone will end up in trouble."
"From the first time I saw that little kid, I felt something was wrong. You said in this day and age, even if there are people who throw children away, they can't just throw them in the middle of the road without their clothes slipping out.
Not even a single piece of clothing.
Lao Liu has had no children for these years, and he was so happy to see a boy again. He didn’t listen to anyone, he didn’t even look for the police, he just kept him like this, and the result... ugh!"
"You can't say that. This is just a child. He doesn't understand even at such an old age. It's because the old Liu family didn't take it seriously. Otherwise, how could we let him run around in the middle of the night?"
Lao Deng became anxious, frowned and said: "No, anyway, I have always felt that the little kid adopted by his family is evil. Once, I saw this little kid playing on the roadside, and I thought
Go over and tease him.
Then I saw him stepping on a mouse..."
"Old Deng, you are making too much of a fuss. Stepping on rats is nothing. In our day, there was nothing to eat. Didn't we still eat rats?"
A strange color appeared on Lao Deng's face. He shook his head and said, "It's not the kind of stepping you think.
He first suppressed the mouse with two bricks, and then stepped on its head so hard that the bones and brains of the mouse flowed all over the floor. If that wasn't enough, he would pinch the mouse's body and smash the mouse's brains.
Pull out the intestines and play with them.
I asked him what he was doing, and he smiled and said he was playing a game with mice, and asked me if I wanted to join him.
To be honest, I was really a little scared at the time.”
"Old Deng, you are really good at it. You are so suspicious. What can a three-year-old baby understand? It must be fun. You think too much!"
Old Deng opened his mouth, looked around, and finally closed his mouth and stopped talking, but it was obvious that he still felt that there was something wrong with the little kid.
Lao Deng stopped talking, and the others started talking about other things.
"Hey, it's true that weird things happen these days. I was listening to the radio two days ago, and there was a big fish with human arms on its body. It was really scary!"
"I heard it too, and the expert said he saw it wrong..."
"..."
I glanced at these people and stuffed the steamed buns in my hand to Zhang Geng, who ate them with gusto.
After everyone finished eating, many people found a cool place to take a nap. They still had heavy work to do in the afternoon.
Zhang Geng also found a place, "Brother Zhao, come here and sleep for a while!"
I walked over and said, "You can sleep here, I'll go take a look inside the park."
"Brother Zhao, could it be..." Zhang Geng's little eyes flashed with a strange light, and he didn't know where he was thinking.
"Don't guess, I'm just going for a walk. Do you have any cigarettes? Give me a pack!"
"Brother Zhao, don't you not smoke?"
As Zhang Geng asked, he took out a box of Baitashan from his pocket. I took it, took one out, put it on my ear, and gave the rest to Zhang Geng.
"You should smoke less and read the words on the cigarette pack when you have time."
After I said that, I turned around and left.
Zhang Geng lowered his head and looked at the cigarette case. He turned over and over again but didn't understand what I meant. He could only curl his lips, then lay down against the tree, closed his eyes, and fell asleep snoring loudly in less than a minute.
I walked near the steel cage, and sure enough I saw Lao Liu tying the steel bars without saying a word under the scorching sun.
I walked up to him and handed him the cigarette.
He waved his hand in flattery and took two steps back sheepishly: "What...are you doing?"
I smiled and said, "Lao Liu, I see you've worked hard. Let's have a cigarette and take a break."
Lao Liu glanced at me twice, then finally took the cigarette and followed me to the shadows.
His rough, chapped palms bear traces of time, and there are many scars that are difficult to heal, and there is almost no good spot.
This is a pair of hands that earn a living.
He put the cigarette under his nose, smelled it, and showed an expression of enjoyment.
Then he gave the cigarette back to me.
"Little brother, I quit."
When he said this, he smiled at me, showing his black and yellow teeth, but his eyes were cloudy and sad, without any trace of happiness.
"Old Liu, I heard that you adopted a little baby?"
Lao Liu groaned, as if he didn't want to say anything.
I said with a smile: "Then you don't have a wife? That's a good thing! How about taking care of the little baby?"
"It's very easy to take care of! My mother-in-law also said that she has never seen such an easy-to-take care of baby. She is so well-behaved and polite."
I chatted with him for a few words, and he finally let down his guard and started talking.
"Little brother, to tell you the truth, I always wonder how it is possible for my little kid to bite off a grown man's words so easily? I really can't believe it.
But I can’t help it! I work here all the time, and there are only my mother-in-law and my little boy at home, and they don’t have a man to support them. If I don’t admit this, I’m afraid my spine will be broken by the villagers..."
"On the day of the accident, besides Mr. and Mrs. Peng Kang, did anyone else see it?"
Old Liu sighed, shook his head and said, "No. But my mother-in-law said it was very strange that day."
When he said this, Lao Liu shivered and seemed a little scared.
"My mother-in-law said that the domestic dog barked so hard that day, several chickens at home died, and... the daughter of Peng Yun's family who lived opposite my house fell into the well and drowned. It rained heavily all night outside.
They all screamed...
Little brother, do you think it’s possible that the dead girl was unwilling to give in and entangled my little boy?”
"How old is the daughter of the Peng Yun family? How did she die?"
Lao Liu said: "She is four years old, which is a little older than my little baby. This girl is very naughty. She cries whenever she sees my little baby and cannot be coaxed by anyone. She has a lot of opinions about my little baby.
Big, maybe it’s an injustice from a previous life?”
I pondered for a moment and then said, "Old Liu, actually I can exorcise evil spirits."
"What?" Lao Liu obviously didn't understand what I meant.
"The Celestial Masters in the Celestial Masters Association have a good relationship with me. If you need it..."
But Lao Liu shook his head: "Little brother, I know what you mean. But I have no money, let alone a heavenly master, I can't even afford a goddess.
All my savings for half my life have been lost to Peng Kang, and I... really have no money."
Chapter completed!