Luo Datian, who was a little dazzled by the sun, narrowed his eyes, feeling that his dignity as an elder was offended. His eyebrows suddenly stood up, and without thinking, he raised the branch and slapped Lu Wei hard on the back twice.
The burning pain spread from his skin, and Lu Wei looked at him quietly, with cold eyes, like an ignorant dummy.
Luo Datian's heart skipped a beat. When he saw those clear phoenix eyes, his whole body shivered, and he felt an inexplicable fear of a seven-year-old child.
In order to prove that it was just an illusion, the little trace of conscience left in his heart immediately disappeared. He raised the branches ferociously and tried to beat Lu Wei until she cried and scared.
"Hey! What are you doing!" The clear and clear young voice shouted loudly, and Luo Datian's arms froze in mid-air in shock.
During the few seconds of pause, a thin figure ran over, picked up Lu Wei and put her on the back seat of the bicycle. Then she got on the bicycle and pedaled hard towards the village.
Luo Datian immediately panicked and subconsciously asked for help, "Someone is here to snatch the child!" But he soon realized that this person in the wilderness came from somewhere, and he hurriedly chased after him.
"Little bastard, come down here and don't run away. I will definitely kill you if I catch you!"
This kind of self-contradictory statement is a joke! Who would obey him obediently even if he knew that he would be beaten and punished if caught?
Lu Wei smiled and let Luo Datian look at her. Her anger became even more intense. She ran and cursed, shouting until her throat was on fire, but she couldn't catch up with the young man's swishing bicycle.
Lest this girl, who was several months younger than his sister, would be scared, Li Yu comforted her loudly, "Nanny, it's okay. Your second brother has already notified the villagers, and someone will be here soon."
"Brother Li Yu, how did you find me?" Lu Wei asked curiously.
"Your second brother and I were about to go to the forest to pick some wild vegetables, and we happened to see that man sneaking around. I have not been in Luojia Village for a long time, but I have never seen this man before. He is a stranger, so I found out
He snatched you away. I was afraid that I would lose time and not be able to catch up with him, so I stole Aunt Wang’s bicycle and asked my brother to call the villagers for help.”
Li Yu moistened his mouth that was dry due to heat, and continued: "I took a side road halfway, but luckily I found your cloth shoes, otherwise I wouldn't have caught up with you so quickly."
Lu Wei rubbed her feet on her trouser legs to remove the pebbles embedded in the soles of her feet. The abraded areas were a little stinging due to sweat.
"That man is my dad."
When Li Yu heard this, his foot slipped on the pedal and he almost fell off the bike.
Just when he was considering whether to get out of the car and apologize in time, he heard the little girl slowly speak again, "Three years ago, he and my mother pushed grandma down on the steps, and grandma's head bled a lot. Then they ran away. Over the years, it's
I saw him for the first time."
Li Yu breathed out, his intuition was not right. After finally coming back, Nannan's father didn't even enter his yard, nor did he look at Grandma Zhou. He obviously didn't want to go home and admit his mistake. He asked in a deep tone, "
Does your grandma know that he is back?"
"I don't know, neither grandma nor I know." Lu Wei said calmly.
Li Yu stopped talking. He has a special status. He is a stranger to other villagers. There are some things that you really shouldn't interfere in. Even if you interfere, no one will believe it.
The two of them were silent all the way, and did not realize that the man chasing behind them had lost their voice. It was not until they entered the village that they realized something was wrong.
Ordinarily, the villagers should have found him long ago, but from a distance, all the villagers were gathered at the entrance of the village talking loudly, and Luo Datian was obviously among them.
"He took a shortcut." Li Yu's face turned gloomy, and he figured it out in a flash. He was relatively unfamiliar with this place, and his daughter might not have had the chance to leave the village. Naturally, she was not as familiar as Luo Datian.
Although the boy was young, his thoughts were very clear. When he saw Luo Datian talking and laughing with the villagers, he didn't feel guilty at all. His heart skipped a beat and he slowed down his pedaling, "Does anyone else know that your dad hurt Grandma Zhou?"
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"I don't know." Lu Wei pursed her lips and patted Li Yu on the back, "Brother Li Yu, if you don't hide, I will send Aunt Wang's bicycle back."
Li Yu pressed the brake to stop, put his long legs on the ground, turned his head and said firmly to Lu Wei: "No, I'll stay with you."
Grandma Zhou is not at home. If Nannan does not know the situation and her father takes her away, it will be troublesome. He has seen with his own eyes that Luo Datian beat Nannan without holding back. There is no one who beats the child for no reason and even uses a tree branch to beat her.
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Although I heard that boys are favored over girls in many places, and this bad habit also exists in Luojia Village, fortunately, the people are simple and they prefer boys at most, and there has never been any abuse of their daughters or granddaughters. In addition, the captain's family dotes on Luo Yuting.
It inspired other villagers, and everyone's bad impression of girls paying for goods has changed slightly.
Seeing the villagers discovering them, Luo Datian even gave him a weird and proud smile. Li Yu was panicking, but he still carefully noticed that Lu Wei's sole was injured. He whispered, "Don't get out of the car."
, I will push you over."
"You are really a kid. My daughter was taken by her father to her grandma's house to visit relatives. What are you causing trouble? You may have done something bad with good intentions! You were so scared that Uncle Datian thought he had met a bad guy and almost went crazy!" Aunt Wang said in a tone of voice.
With complaints, he took his own bicycle back first.
Facing the disapproving looks of the villagers, Li Yu's face turned cold, and he knew in his heart that he was shouting "Catch the thief" when he encountered a thief!
He supported Lu Wei, who had jumped out of the back seat, and blocked her behind him. He straightened his chest and refused to give in. "Uncle Datian, you said you were bringing your daughter for a wedding. Does Grandma Zhou know that? And why did you go to the wedding?
If you want to pass through the house without being allowed in, just run away with my daughter under your arms." He took out two cloth shoes from his pocket, held them in his hand, and showed them to everyone, "My daughter's shoes were lost, and you didn't even pick them up.
, it’s not that you have done something wrong and you dare not face Grandma Zhou!”
"You're talking nonsense!" Luo Datian panicked when he mentioned Grandma Zhou. Under everyone's suspicious looks, he pretended to be calm and explained, "This child didn't even say a word if she lost her shoe. How could I find it while I was holding her.
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"If you are holding Nannan, why are the soles of Nannan's feet all injured?" With that said, Li Yu supported Lu Wei, and Lu Wei consciously raised her feet.
The small soles of the feet, which were originally white and tender after being raised by Grandma Zhou, are now covered with blood stains and dirt, criss-crossing them, showing that the owner of the feet has traveled a long distance.
"The child is disobedient. Sometimes she wants to walk by herself, and sometimes she wants to be hugged. What can I do? I beat her because she is wasting time by dawdling!" Luo Datian simply admitted everything like a broken pot, but this vague statement made many adults understand.
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Who wouldn't spank their children, especially when they are anxious to do something serious and the children don't cooperate?