Chapter 13

Seeing Xu Qiang, Xu Li struggled to stand up, she cried and shouted, “Brother, they want to marry me off to a fool. Aunt always withholds food from me, even my clothes are hand-me-downs, if I don’t marry, Aunt will beat me.”

“Brother, take me away, okay? I really can’t live here anymore, brother…”

Looking at Xu Li, who was sobbing uncontrollably, her exposed skin covered with new and old wounds, Xu Qiang’s eyes turned red.

His grip on Chen Jialiang’s wrist tightened, Chen Jialiang cried out in pain, but it was useless.

With a snap, Chen Jialiang’s wrist was dislocated by Xu Qiang’s force, the pain made Chen Jialiang faint on the spot.

Seeing her son faint, Xu Guiying was scared, she didn’t care about her fear of Xu Qiang anymore, she sat on the ground and started to wail, “Murder! Murder! Xu Qiang, you two siblings can’t escape today, if anything happens to my son, I’ll never let you go!”

As soon as Xu Guiying shouted, some of the villagers who were watching from outside the courtyard turned around and ran to call the head of the brigade.

Meng Xunzhou turned back and looked at Song Shishi, making sure she was okay, then he walked towards the fainted Chen Jialiang.

“What are you doing?”

Xu Guiying was genuinely afraid of these soldiers, she leaned over Chen Jialiang, her eyes vigilantly fixed on Meng Xunzhou.

Meng Xunzhou didn’t say anything, he reached out and grabbed Chen Jialiang’s injured hand, resetting the dislocated wrist.

“Let go of my son, don’t touch him.” Xu Guiying was about to pounce on Meng Xunzhou, but Xu Qiang grabbed her arm and she couldn’t move.

Meng Xunzhou didn’t know how he did it, but with a snap, Chen Jialiang, who had been unconscious, sat up with a pale face, screamed, and clutched his wrist, crying in pain.

“Damn it, you soldiers are bullying people, I’m going to report you.”

Xu Guiying was desperate for her son, she yelled at Xu Qiang and Meng Xunzhou viciously.

“Okay, then let’s go and talk about it properly, how you abused the military dependents and how you embezzled the military allowance. I want to see who will be crying louder then.”

Xu Qiang walked to Xu Li’s side and picked her up.

Xu Li was covered in injuries, she needed to go to the hospital for a checkup.

Song Shishi watched Xu Qiang’s departing back and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Xu Qiang came back in time, Xu Li shouldn’t die because she was forced to marry the fool, right?

After Xu Qiang left, Xu Guiying didn’t dare to say anything, she could only sit on the ground and cry.

“Aren’t we leaving?” Song Shishi pulled Meng Xunzhou’s sleeve and asked in a low voice.

Meng Xunzhou smiled gently at her and said softly, “There will definitely be more trouble later, I’ll stay here to deal with it. Did you get hurt just now?”

Speaking of getting hurt, Song Shishi only now felt the pain in her back.

But she didn’t want Meng Xunzhou to worry, so she just frowned slightly and shook her head.

Meng Xunzhou stared at her, he was about to ask a few more questions when he heard the sound of hurried footsteps.

Head of the Brigade Zhou Jianguo, with several people, was running this way, the people watching the commotion outside the courtyard all made way for them.

Meng Xunzhou didn’t say anything, after knowing the other party’s identity, he explained the situation.

Zhou Jianguo didn’t care about Xu Guiying, who was still crying, he scolded her directly.

Xu Guiying wanted to refute, but because of the head of the brigade’s identity, she was speechless.

“Comrade Meng, how about this? Xu Li will be taken care of by the village from now on, Xu Qiang can rest assured to serve in the army, I guarantee that this kind of thing will never happen again.” The head of the brigade said sincerely.

“Head of the Brigade Zhou, it’s not that I don’t want to agree, but this is after all a family matter for Xu Qiang and Xu Li, the final decision still depends on them.”

“Yes, yes, yes, I’ll take someone to town to see Xu Li later.” Zhou Jianguo nodded in agreement.

“Head of the Brigade, what about me? Don’t you care about my son?” Xu Guiying still wasn’t giving up, seeing that they were about to finish talking, she asked.

Zhou Jianguo was so angry that his teeth were itching, he growled, “What do you want? I think your son is making enough noise.”

After saying that, Zhou Jianguo flicked his sleeve and turned to leave.

Meng Xunzhou and Song Shishi went to the town hospital.

Meng Xunzhou and Xu Qiang came out to take care of private matters, so they came by bicycle.

“Get on, I’ll take you there, if we walk, we won’t get there until nightfall.”

Meng Xunzhou got on the bicycle and turned back to look at Song Shishi.

Song Shishi hesitated for a moment, thinking that what he said made sense.

But after she got on, she was embarrassed to grab Meng Xunzhou’s clothes, and she was afraid of falling off halfway, so she could only hold the back seat tightly.

Even by bicycle, when they reached the hospital in Qinghe Town, the sun was about to set.

They finally found Xu Li and the others, and saw Xu Qiang holding Xu Li, who was crying loudly.

Xu Qiang’s face was grim, his brows furrowed.

“Lili, how are you? What did the doctor say?”

Seeing this scene, Song Shishi thought that Xu Li had been beaten by Xu Guiying and had some serious injuries.

Hearing Song Shishi’s voice, Xu Li stepped back from Xu Qiang’s arms, wiped her tears, and explained, “Sister Shishi, I’m fine, it’s just superficial injuries, I’ll be fine after applying some medicine.”

Speaking of which, Xu Li suddenly remembered that Song Shishi had shielded her, she quickly asked, “Sister, didn’t you also get hit on your back? You should quickly let the doctor apply some medicine for you, otherwise, it will leave a scar.”

“You’re hurt?” Meng Xunzhou heard this, his brows furrowed, he was about to go over to check.

“I’m fine, I’ll just go to the doctor and get some medicine.” Song Shishi waved her hands repeatedly.

Meng Xunzhou turned and went out, he came back with the doctor soon.

Because the place that needed medicine was on her back, Meng Xunzhou and Xu Qiang went out.

Feeling the coolness of the medicine, Song Shishi slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

“Sister, Brother Meng is so good to you.”

“Huh?”

As soon as the doctor went out, Song Shishi heard Xu Li suddenly say this.

Xu Li lay in the hospital bed, she turned her head to look at her.

“According to my brother, you’re Brother Meng’s white moonlight, and you’ve always been. I heard that he even ran all over the leaders’ offices to find books for you.”

Xu Li said, her eyes filled with envy.

“If I find someone I like in the future, and he treats me like Brother Meng treats you, I’ll be satisfied.”

Song Shishi blinked her eyes, not knowing what to say.

She and Meng Xunzhou were childhood friends, and their relationship had always been better than others.

So his kindness to her, she just thought it was friendship, the affection between childhood friends.

She never thought that Meng Xunzhou was special to her.

It was just that since she went to the countryside, something seemed to have changed between them.

“You’re so young, you’re already thinking about this, how shameless.”

Song Shishi raised her hand and gently scratched Xu Li’s nose, teasing her.

“What’s wrong with that, there are women in the village who are my age and already married. Besides, wasn’t my aunt trying to marry me off? I’m going to get married anyway, I’d rather marry someone I like.”

“Knock knock knock!”

There was a knock on the door outside the ward, Meng Xunzhou and Xu Qiang pushed the door open and came in.