Looking at the Sin-Cleansing Tan who was close at hand, Li Dajiang trembled his hands, like a mad beast, and rushed into the crowd around the Sin-Cleansing Tan.

He muttered.

"Ah Niu, Ah Niu, where are you? Daddy is here to bring you home. ”

When the crowd is dispersed, there will naturally be people who are not happy.

Some people have a good temper, after being pushed by Li Dajiang, they see that they are a crazy old man, and they are embarrassed to worry about him, so they can only scold and admit that they are unlucky, but there are also people who have a bad temper, after being pushed, no matter whether he is an old man or not, he will beat someone when he raises his hand, but he was stopped by someone.

After such a fuss, Li Chengyuan and Liu Yunyi finally noticed this.

Seeing that Li Dajiang was about to be beaten, Li Chengyuan and Liu Yunyi shouted together.

"Stop it."

The two patriarchs spoke, and everyone below immediately fell silent, not daring to make the slightest extra move.

Li Dajiang took this opportunity and finally rushed to the innermost part of the crowd. With tears on his face, he looked at Li Chengyuan with pleading eyes and shouted loudly.

"Patriarch, where is my son? What about my son, Niu? ”

Li Chengyuan sighed, and Liu Yunyi made a way, and behind the two of them was Li Aniu, who was blind.

Li Dajiang finally saw Li Aniu, he screamed miserably, and pounced on the place where Li Aniu was.

When he reached his son's side, he knelt on the ground, trembling his hands, and slowly stretched out to Li Aniu's face.

"Ah Niu is good, Ah Niu is not afraid, Dad is here."

Perhaps because he heard his father's voice, Li Aniu Muran's eyes rejuvenated. He looked at his tearful father, squeezed out a smile, and whispered.

"Dad, my face hurts, my hands, and my feet, they all hurt."

Li Aniu smiled and laughed, and then cried. It's just that at this time, what he cried out was no longer normal tears, but turned into bloody tears.

Li Dajiang's trembling hands wanted to touch his son's face, but he didn't dare to touch it.

"Ah Niu, Dad will blow it for you, and it won't hurt if you blow it."

Li Aniu closed his eyes with a smile and said softly.

"Okay, Daddy......"

After Li Aniu closed his eyes, Li Dajiang lay on the ground, slowly approached his son's face, puffed up his face, and blew gently.

Li Aniu closed his eyes and suddenly asked.

"Dad, I remember that your mouth is very stinky, why can't you smell it today."

Li Dajiang trembled his lips and whispered.

"Dad rinsed his mouth with salt water today, it doesn't stink."

"Dad, salt is very expensive, you have to save some money. I lost my job, and our family will not have a good time in the future. ”

"It's okay, Dad picked up a big mallet again, it's very big, and our family will not be short of money in the future."

The corners of Li Aniu's mouth twitched, but he didn't open his eyes.

"Dad, let's exchange money this time, I don't want to go to the pharmacy to be a buddy."

Li Dajiang forcibly endured his crying and said in a gentle tone as much as possible.

"Okay, Dad listens to you, let's exchange it for money, Dad will buy you new clothes and your favorite snacks."

Li Aniu smiled even more happily, like a baby in swaddling clothes.

"Okay."

Li Chengyuan had tears in his eyes, and slowly turned his head, unable to bear to look at the scene in front of him anymore. Liu Yunyi clenched his fists and slowly closed his eyes.

All the Liu clansmen who stayed not far away also had tears in their eyes. Some Liu women, who were less able to bear it, even hugged their children or men and cried softly.

Everyone bowed their heads or closed their eyes, and they couldn't bear to look at this scene again. There is only one exception, and that is Lu Yangsheng.

Lu Yangsheng looked at the scene in front of him with a pale face, his hands and feet were cold, and his whole body trembled.

In his mind, the voice of the ninth master before he died was still beating his nerves, and in front of his eyes was the scene of Li Dajiang holding Li Aniu.

The voice in his head and the scene in front of him hit Lu Yangsheng's spirit over and over again, making him feel confused for the first time.

He didn't know whether the series of conspiracy he had painstakingly devised was right or wrong.

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"Dad, I'm sleepy."

Li Aniu's eyes were closed, and his voice became weaker and weaker.

Li Dajiang said softly.

"Then you can sleep for a while."

"But Dad, I've killed someone, and they're going to drown me, I'm afraid."

Li Dajiang gently patted Li Aniu's stomach with one hand, and comforted him with a smile.

"Good son, don't be afraid, Dad is guarding you, they don't dare."

Li Aniu relaxed at this time, he nodded slightly, and said to Li Dajiang.

"Then I'll sleep for a while, just for a while. Dad, I will be obedient in the future, you must not leave, otherwise I will be afraid. ”

Tears dripped down Li Dajiang's beard, and he muttered.

"Ah Niu, don't worry, Dad won't leave, Dad won't leave anywhere. Daddy is here to watch over you. ”

After a while, a slight snoring sound came from Li Aniu's mouth, and Li Aniu really fell asleep.

After Li Aniu fell asleep, Li Dajiang slowly turned around, knelt on the ground, and moved towards Li Chengyuan step by step with his knees.

He whispered as he moved.

"Patriarch, I've heard Yun Wu say about Ah Niu's murder, so Ah Niu is tied up here, and I know why, but Ah ......"

Li Dajiang raised his head, and his old face became extremely distorted because of pain.

"But why, why Ah Niu's ears and nose were cut off, and even his fingernails were gone. Why......"

Li Chengyuan turned around and looked down at Li Dajiang, who had already crawled to his side, although his face was full of pain, his tone was very stiff.

"Because he set it on fire."

Li Dajiang, this honest man who has been looked down upon by his wife and son all his life because of his nest, has red eyes with someone for the first time, and this person is still the patriarch of the Li family.

"Set fire? You just set a fire, and you cut off my son's nose and ears, why, why......"

At this time, Li Dajiang's hands were clenched, his eyes were bloodshot, and the whole person was already on the verge of going berserk.

Li Nianfeng, who was on the side, was afraid that his father would be injured, so he hurriedly walked in front of his father, but was pushed down behind him by Li Chengyuan.

"Li Dajiang, I remember that your house was also burned down forty years ago, right? I ask you, how did your mother die, have you forgotten it? Four of you brothers, why are you the only one alive? Do you remember the smell of human flesh being roasted? Dream in the middle of the night, and you never see them again? ”

Li Chengyuan's voice became louder and louder, and his tone became more and more stern.

"Shhh

Li Dajiang's face did not change in the slightest, he stretched out a hand to his mouth, signaling Li Chengyuan not to speak loudly.

Li Chengyuan gasped for breath, forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and the scene became quiet again.

It didn't take long for Li Dajiang to suddenly whisper.

"Of course I remember the fire. I was only four years old that year, right? I remember that day, my father went up to the mountain to collect medicine and did not come home, because he brought enough dry food, so my mother did not worry. ”

"Because my family was poor, the whole family slept in one bed, and in the middle of the night, there was a sudden smell of burning in the house, and then I was woken up by my mother."

When Li Dajiang said this, a panicked expression suddenly appeared on his face.

"Then I saw the fire. It was such a fire that it burned so much that none of us could open our eyes. ”

Li Dajiang's eyes seemed to be burning with flames at this time, and he trembled.

"The fire was so big that my mother and my brother couldn't get out, and then my mother drove a few of us into a corner. She asked my third brother to hold me, my second brother to hold my third brother, and my eldest brother to hold my second brother, and she held all of us. ”

"Then I smelled a scent, a smell of barbecue."

said the fragrance in his mouth, but Li Dajiang spit it out.

Li Chengyuan's eyes were red, and he stared at Li Dajiang deadly.

Among the young people, even people like Song Gui couldn't help but vomit when they saw Liu Mazi's corpse, why didn't Li Chengyuan and Liu Yunyi vomit?

That's because they, the old people, have seen even worse. And all of this is because of the fire twenty years ago.

In the fire that year, Li Dajiang was rescued by Li Chengyuan.

It's just that when Li Chengyuan found out about them, Li Dajiang's mother's back had been scorched, and his three elder brothers had been suffocated to death.

But even so, Li Dajiang was almost not rescued.

It is precisely because he witnessed the tragic deaths of several brothers and his mother that he also fell ill and became very timid, cowardly and inferior.

"Patriarch."

Li Dajiang took a deep breath and choked softly.

"I know what you mean, and I know that Ah Niu shouldn't set fire to the town, but ...... But that's my son. I only have one son, patriarch......"

Tears fell from the corners of Li Chengyuan's eyes, but he didn't answer.

"Ah Niu, this child, has been afraid of pain since he was a child. I remember when he was a child, his favorite thing to do was to go to the river to play, and once, he was playing in the river and suddenly saw a crab. ”

"The child was only four or five years old at the time, and he hadn't caught a crab by himself, so when he caught a crab, he accidentally caught his hand by the crab."

Li Dajiang stretched out his thumb and pointed to his fingernails and said.

"Patriarch, you see, it's just such a big crab, it's small, isn't it? However, the child was not productive at that time, and after being clipped, he ran all the way back to my house, hugged me and cried. ”

"At that time, my wife and I were frightened, we both thought that our children were being bullied, and my wife was ready to go out and scold the street. But at this time, Ah Niu stretched out his finger caught by the crab and pointed at the crab and shouted pain. Patriarch, you don't know, my wife was laughed at that time......"

Li Dajiang was smiling on his face, but he couldn't stop his tears.

"After the crab was taken off that day, Ah Niu kept shouting pain, I had to hold him to blow it, you don't know, Ah Niu liked to stick to me when he was young, and he didn't want to blow it to him, but he was angry......

Speaking of this, Li Dajiang looked at Li Chengyuan in a daze and said.

"Patriarch, you said that a child who was so afraid of pain was cut off by you, and even his nails were pulled out. Ten fingers to heart, patriarch. ”

Li Chengyuan closed his eyes and said softly.

"The rules of the clan cannot be violated, and since he has done something wrong, he must be punished."

Li Dajiang sobbed.

"I know, I know, but patriarch, Ah Niu is still a child, what can he do wrong? If you want to say that there is a mistake, it is also my father's mistake, can there be anything that comes at me? I will be punished for him, and I will die for him. ”

When Li Dajiang said this, he seemed to remember something, and he quickly crawled to Li Chengyuan's feet, and his two sleeves frantically wiped his shoes.

After wiping, he looked up at Li Chengyuan and said in a hurried tone.

"Patriarch, patriarch, there are so many mistakes, it's my fault as a father, it's my failure to discipline Ah Niu well, it's my failure to fulfill my responsibility as a father. I beg you, let Ah Niu go, let him go, he's just a child, and he's not sensible. I'm going to die, I'm going to die for him, okay, patriarch, patriarch, I beg you. Yes, kowtow, patriarch, I'll kowtow to you, I'll kowtow to you, patriarch......"

Li Dajiang knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Li Chengyuan frantically, and the pebbles on the ground were stained with blood in a few clicks.