Joyful Motherhood in a Rural Family

Chapter 311: Furious Liu Sisi

“Oh dear! Is tying him up really necessary? Is this how you treat a runaway slave or a concubine? Aren’t you his legal wife? Is this how you should treat a wife?”

The more Ms. Xin talked, the lower Liu Zhi’er’s head dropped.

“But… he is after all…”

She stuttered, not knowing what else to say.

When Di Yelei and the others brought a man along, everyone still hadn’t recovered from the shock.

“Let me go! I’m telling you, what gives you the right to tie me up? Why are you arresting me? What crime have I committed? Tell me! Say it!”

Being pushed and led in front, the tied-up man walked in between Di Yelei and the others. Despite having only one arm, he still had a handsome face; no wonder he could marry a beautiful woman like Liu Zhi’er.

At the moment, he was desperately trying to escape from Di Yelei and the others, kicking and thrashing about.

“Keep quiet! We are proper constables, not just some governmental runners. Open your eyes and see clearly!”

Zhang Peng couldn’t bear it any longer and kicked his buttocks, making the man stumble and fall on his face.

“You… pah! You strike people even though you’re officers?”

The man struggled to get up.

“Yes, we strike people like you! Get up and roll!”

Di Yelei grabbed him and directly shoved him forward towards Liu Sisi and the others.

Di Cheng, walking behind them all, was holding a child who was crying loudly.

Hearing the child’s cry, Liu Zhi’er couldn’t hold back her tears and quickly ran towards them. She hugged the child fiercely and cried even harder.

“Da Mao! Da Mao, my Da Mao! Wuu…”

The child was about three years old and dirty as if rolled in mud. He seemed frightened, staring at Liu Zhi’er for a while before timidly calling out.

“Mom…”

This cry made Liu Zhi’er’s tears fall even faster.

“Ai! Mom is here! Da Mao, my Da Mao, wuu…”

On the other side, Di Yelei pushed the man all the way to the thatched hut and shoved him down onto the muddy ground where the ice and snow had just melted. Only then did he let go of him.

Di Yelei had a fierce look on his face as he walked towards Liu Sisi, not being able to hold back any longer.

“This beast! As soon as we reached the East Village, we heard the shouting from a house there, and his voice was the loudest among them. This bastard was actually gambling there! We called him several times, but he didn’t respond. When I tried to pull him, he dared to resist even more! So I tied him up!”

His words immediately made Dong Chang, a man standing nearby, shrink back and look at him surreptitiously, his neck drawn in.

If before he was still guessing about the identity of these people and why they only arrested him instead of everyone who was gambling, now upon seeing Liu Sisi, he understood everything!

These people must be the helpers that the damn woman found!

Thinking about it, he curled up even more, and then, with a sudden turn of his eyeballs, began to wail in pain.

“Zhi’er! My nephew! You’ve finally returned. I’ve missed you so much, nephew…”

This chilling cry made Liu Sisi furious. She abruptly got up from the ground and aimed a stomp at the man’s foot, twisting it viciously as she did so…

“Ah! It hurts…”

Dong Chang’s tears were about to fall from the pain!

This damned woman was actually so cruel, he had underestimated her before!

“Does it hurt?”

Liu Sisi suddenly lowered her head to look at him, with a radiant smile on her face.

“It hurts, it really hurts, ah! …”

As Liu Sisi twisted the shoe sole heavily again, Dong Chang couldn’t say anything more.

Today, Liu Sisi was wearing leather boots that Di Yelei had given her a few days ago.

These brown-yellow leather boots were beautifully-designed and noble, paired with her newly-acquired water wave cloud-patterned satin woven butterfly brocade dress, with a scarlet gold thorn hairpin on her head, a cloud bud and begonia hairpin inserted diagonally, and jadeite scattered flower earrings on her small earlobes. No matter how you looked at Liu Sisi, she was beautiful! She completely dazzled Dong Chang.

Now, on her pretty face was a faint smile, but the depths of her eyes carried raging flames that almost burned through him.

She laughed softly, “So, you know what pain feels like too!”

After saying that, she suddenly continued upwards, stepping on his shinbone, pressing down heavily…

“Ah!”

Dong Chang was in so much pain that he could hardly make a sound. He supported his body with his bound arms and tried to kick with his other leg, struggling to break free.

“You know pain? You know hurt? Do you even know how to write the words ‘pain’ and ‘hurt’? Huh!”

Her voice grew louder and louder, and her actions underfoot grew heavier and heavier! The bones under her foot gave off crackling sounds!

“But do you know? It’s all because of you! It’s all because of your heartless actions! You actually sold your own wife to an old man to have a child for him! That’s an old man! Has your conscience been eaten by a dog?”

Liu Sisi’s voice became sharper, her tone more urgent, wishing she could just hit him with a stick and be done with it!

But carrying the crime of murder for such a person was not worth it!

He did not deserve it!

Dong Chang cried out in pain, “Spare me, spare me, please! That Old Man Li is just an old man. What harm can he do? I was just thinking of Zhi’er, I…”

“Spare you? Do you think you deserve to be spared? Humph! You’re dreaming! Old Man Li is not a human being. His ‘thing’ doesn’t work, but he tortured my Second Sister alive for several months. Her body is covered with dense scars left after the abuse, scars upon scars. No one cared about her festering wounds. And all of this was caused by you, a human-faced beast!”

Liu Sisi grew angrier as she spoke, and her actions became heavier and heavier!

Dong Chang begged for mercy incessantly, “Spare me! I didn’t know about all this, I really didn’t know, spare me…”

“Enough! Sisi, someone’s coming over there!”

Seeing Dong Chang in so much pain that he couldn’t make any sound, Di Yelei hurriedly came over and pulled her back.

Liu Sisi looked back at Liu Zhi’er, who was still crying and holding the child, and then at the group of people running from a distance. She hesitated for a moment and couldn’t help but exclaim.

“Wait! Didn’t Second Sister have three children? Why is there only one left?”

What about the other two children? Where did they go?

At her words, everyone’s attention returned to Dong Chang, who was curled up in the corner.