"Silly boy, how can you grow taller if you don't eat?"
The old man touched the little girl's head and said.
"It's okay, it's okay. If I eat less, grandpa can eat more, and my daughter will be healthy again in a few years."
The little girl said with a serious face.
Hearing this, even Chu Ye, who had always been iron-hearted, felt unspeakably uncomfortable for a moment.
Such a young child was forced into this situation by life and forced to learn to be sensible.
There is a saying that the more sensible a child is, the more people feel distressed.
Chu Ye looked at the slap marks on the little girl's face, and his face became colder and colder. He couldn't imagine how vicious a person could be to kill a cute and sensible little girl.
"We eat meat tonight."
Chu Ye grabbed the little girl's hand and said seriously.
"Thank you, big brother."
The little girl nodded and finally stopped crying.
The old man stood up, took a few deep breaths, and then felt a little relieved in his lungs.
He looked at the two wild boars in the kitchen, then at Chu Ye and He Liu'er, and couldn't help but be a little surprised: "Child, where did you get these two wild boars?"
He Liuer smiled and said: "Brother Chu Ye and I went to the back mountain."
"Here, this wild boar isn't brought by you, is it?"
The old man was taken aback and said quickly: "No, no, the back mountain is too dangerous. This is something you risked to get. I can't have it."
Chu Ye said: "Nanny's birthday is here, this is a birthday gift for her.
Liu'er and I ate two pig's trotters from her, and now we're giving her two pigs back."
The old man and the little girl were a little at a loss for a while.
Perhaps they have been used to being bullied for so long, and suddenly when someone treats them well, they are a little uncomfortable for a while.
"It's just two pig's trotters..." "Although it's just two pig's trotters, they are already your most precious things. I, Chu Ye, am not a heartless person."
A faint smile appeared on Chu Ye's face, and he said to his daughter: "Little girl, big brother will cook braised pork for you tonight, okay?"
"Big brother..." Nannan cried out loudly and threw herself into Chu Ye's arms.
Chu Ye picked up the little girl, touched her head with pity, and said: "Tonight, big brother will make you braised pork elbows, braised pork, braised pig's trotters, cold pig ears, braised pork ribs..."
After hearing that Chu Ye was going to cook so many delicious foods for herself, the little girl finally stopped crying. She had just squeezed out a happy smile on her face, but suddenly she showed a look of fear.
"Brother, you should leave tomorrow. Don't stay here. Those bad people will come to bully us..." Chu Ye felt touched in his heart.
He glanced at He Liu'er. He Liu'er was soft-hearted and could not help but secretly wipe her tears.
Chu Ye took a deep breath. He never expected that the girl who was only three or four years old would not think of herself first, but worry about him.
Such a sensible little girl was beaten like this.
A cold light flashed in Chu Ye's eyes.
"Don't worry, as long as I'm here, no one will dare to bully you."
Hearing this, the old man suddenly became nervous. He had long seen that Chu Ye and He Liu'er had extraordinary status, and couldn't help but be a little worried. He was afraid that Chu Ye would offend the Zhou family and cause a big disaster in his impulse, so he quickly said
: "Child, don't be impulsive. The Zhou family is not someone to be trifled with. They have connections in the provincial capital, and we ordinary people cannot afford to offend them."
"Old man, please tell me, what is going on in the Zhou family this time?
Why do they bully your grandparents so much?"
Chu Ye lit a cigarette, handed another cigarette to the old man, and asked with a frown.
"Alas, this week Dahai married into a wealthy family in the provincial capital with the help of his daughter. A sparrow flew on a branch and turned into a phoenix. Even his son was arranged to enter the provincial capital. One of them got the Tao, a chicken and a dog ascended to heaven. The Zhou family has always been domineering in the town.
Fu, forcibly occupying people's homesteads..." The old man smoked a cigarette, as if recalling the past events he least wanted to think of, and slowly narrated: "Two years ago, when my son came back from the army, he encountered people from the Zhou family coming to demolish the house.
He stood up and led his neighbors to protest, and then the Zhou family gave up."
"Zhou Dahai swore that he would take revenge and asked my son to wait and see..." "Not a month later, my son and his daughter-in-law went out to sea to fish together, and the boat capsized at sea. Neither the couple could come back. They were really gray-haired.
People give gifts to black-haired people... From then on, the two of us were left alone to live."
"Since then, Zhou Dahai has often sent people to make trouble and disrupt business. The yellow-haired young man who came today is Zhou Peng, Zhou Dahai's nephew."
At this point, the old man sighed and said: "I have already thought about it. This is not the way to go. These people are too evil. Zhou Peng said that he would sell his daughter to rich people in the provincial capital. I am afraid they will really do this!"
"After today, I will go to the graves of my son and daughter-in-law, and then I will take my granddaughter and leave here, never to come back.
Even if I go to a big city to beg for food, I can't just watch my granddaughter being raped by them!"
Nannan remained silent and hugged her grandfather's arm tightly, as if she was afraid that someone would force them apart.
Chu Ye was silent for a moment, but suddenly felt that the Zhou family mentioned by the old man had a sense of déjà vu.
He thought for a while and said: "Old man, which wealthy family in the provincial capital did this daughter of the Zhou family marry?
To be honest, we happened to be coming from the provincial capital, so we might know something."
He Liu'er also cast an earnest look. She really wanted to know which wealthy family would actually marry the daughter of such a vicious family.
Born in such a vicious family, this daughter must not be a good thing! The old man thought for a while and said seriously: "That wealthy family seems to have a surname of He."
What's your last name?
Chu Ye turned around, looked at He Liu'er, and asked: "Liu'er, besides your family, are there any other wealthy families in the provincial capital named He?"
He Liuer thought for a moment and shook his head.
He is not a popular surname to begin with, and there are not many people with this surname.
What's more, there are only a few dozen wealthy families in the provincial capital. He Liu'er feels that the He family the old man is talking about may just be an inconspicuous small family in the provincial capital.
Chu Ye seemed to realize something, and the expression on his face gradually became complicated.
"Grandpa, do you know the name of the Zhou family's daughter?
Or, you might as well know the name of the son the Zhou family arranged to move to the provincial capital."
He Liuer asked seriously again.
The old man thought about it carefully, and after confirming it repeatedly in his mind, he said: "This girl Zhou Dahai grew up in the town when she was a child. Her nickname is Fang'er."
"As for her name, it seems to be..." "Her name is Zhou Lu!"