Chapter 17

Mo Yutong still can’t forget the deep sadness in her Mr. Yan’s eyes when he talked about his two younger brothers and sisters. Such a gentle and restrained man, but with red eyes, he was silent.

She knew how much he loved them because they were his only two relatives in his youth. She also knew that he always blamed himself because they died in the village ditch in the winter when he was six years old.

Looking at the pale and skinny child in front of him, Mo Yutong guessed his age, four and a half, or five?

Yan Mingcheng, curled up on the ground, looked at Mo Yutong who was reaching out to him with the light behind her. His dim eyes suddenly burst into a faint light. It was the first light encountered in the deep darkness and the hope seen in the boundless despair.

Many years later, when Yan Mingcheng stood on the podium of Jingcheng University and recalled the past, he could never forget this moment of that day. His most respected sister-in-law held his hand and protected him behind her.

“Sister, they are bad kids.” Yan Mingxue, who followed Mo Yutong closely, wiped her red eyes and accused.

She thought she would be bullied badly today, but she never dreamed that such a beautiful sister would stand in front of her.

“Let me tell you, my father is the custodian of the brigade.” Li Tiezhu continued to be arrogant. Mo Yutong wanted to tell him that if a custodian could stretch his neck so long, then wouldn’t I have to fly to the sky and stand shoulder to shoulder with the sun?

“So your father could violate the rules and not give me the production tools?” Mo Yutong took Yan Mingcheng’s hand and gently patted the mud off his clothes, not even wanting to glance at Li Tiezhu.

Mo Yutong was never in a good mood when it came to treating a naughty kid. Besides, the one being bullied by him was her future brother-in-law! She had to protect him.

“Does it hurt?” Mo Yutong looked at the scratch on Yan Mingcheng’s cheek and looked at Ma Xinguo beside him. “Do you have any clean water here?”

She wanted to use clean water to wipe the dirt off Yan Mingcheng’s face, but she had drunk the last bit of water in her small kettle half an hour ago.

Ma Xinguo was about to say something when he heard Tian Xiaomei, who was leaning against the railing of the oxcart, reach out and shout at them: “Brother Xinguo, we still have to report to the brigade headquarters. If we are any later, we won’t be able to see the road clearly.”

Brother Xinguo? Ma Xinguo’s back stiffened, and his forehead began to throb with pain. He couldn’t understand how Tian Xiaomei could be so close to him so naturally when he had barely exchanged a few words with her.

Ma Xinguo didn’t bother to pay attention to her, but nodded to Mo Yutong and said, “Yes, I’ll get it for you.”

Just as Ma Xinguo walked to the back of the car to get the water bottle, Li Tiezhu, who was choked by Mo Yutong and didn’t know how to refute, suddenly winked at the group of friends who had just gotten up.

Originally, the friends didn’t want to provoke the educated youth because someone was thrown into jail for beating up the educated youth a few years ago. They didn’t want to go to jail, but they couldn’t resist the obedience effect.

Li Tiezhu gave a look and the seven or eight little boys immediately rushed towards Yan Mingcheng and Yan Mingxue beside Mo Yutong, while he himself bumped into Mo Yutong.

Without time to think, Mo Yutong instinctively held the two children in her arms.

At the same time, two figures quickly rushed to her side. One of them belonged to Ma Xinguo. He stood in front of the children who tried to hurt Mo Yutong, and easily made them have close contact with the ground.

Meanwhile, another figure firmly grasped Li Tiezhu’s head and shouted in a deep and sharp voice, “Li Tiezhu!”

“Brother!” Hearing the happy shouts of the two children in her arms, Mo Yutong couldn’t help but tighten her arms around them, and almost immediately turned around to look at the tall man beside her.

Even though it was just his back, Mo Yutong recognized him. This was her Mr. Yan, the Mr. Yan she had been thinking about day and night.

But her Mr. Yan really had a hard life.

The gray homespun vest was covered with crooked patches here and there.

The cotton trousers of the same color could not even cover the calves completely, and the threads of the trouser legs hung in the air. There was a large patch of blue cloth on the crotch and buttocks.

Like the two younger ones, his feet were barefoot, but there were many small scratches crisscrossing across his exposed insteps, ankles, and calves.

At this moment, Mo Yutong really wanted to take out all the things she bought from the department store and put them in front of him.

How could Mr. Yan, who always wears a well-ironed suit, be so miserable?

Mo Yutong stared at Yan Mingli’s back with burning eyes, and her eyes were filled with uncontrollable moisture.

Perhaps her gaze was too intense, Yan Mingli, who was staring at Li Tiezhu with a cold face, couldn’t help but look back at her.

The pretty little girl, wearing a sailor shirt, overalls, and small leather shoes, with a small army green shoulder bag slung across her body, stood there with slightly red eyes, like a little rabbit with red eyes.

It was obvious that this little rabbit was born into a wealthy family and was raised by his parents in pampering. He was not from the same world as people like him who were part of the fifth category.

After just one glance, Yan Mingli looked away. There was no need to pay too much attention to someone with whom he was destined to have no intersection, even though the girl was really beautiful.

“Who do you want to hit?” Yan Mingli asked in a bad tone. In Li Tiezhu’s eyes, his tall figure was a naked threat.

Li Tiezhu didn’t expect Yan Mingli to appear here. He remembered very clearly that when he got off work at noon, his mother was still gloating and saying that Yan Mingli was going to water the land in Yazilin this afternoon.

He saw that Yan Mingli’s workplace was far from the village entrance, and that the land could not be irrigated in a short time, so he and his friends drove Yan Mingcheng and Yan Mingxue to the village entrance.

I don’t know if it was luck, but today I not only met a nosy female educated youth, but also met Yan Mingli, who was impossible to appear here.

“Brother, he wants to hit me.” Yan Mingxue poked her little head out from behind Mo Yutong, grabbing the small buttons on Mo Yutong’s pants with both hands and unwilling to let go.

Sister? You dare to call me sister? But it depends on whether I am willing to accept it!

Yan Mingli lowered his eyes to look at Mo Yutong. The little girl’s eyes were clear, like a spring flowing from a mountain stream, but where the spring water gurgled, it was accompanied by an unknown sound, and it was breaking the shell gently and softly.

“They are a group of people who bullied two children and now they want to bully me. They have no shame.” Mo Yutong changed the anger she had when she grabbed the man’s collar just now, and looked at him aggrievedly and said.

After saying that, she reached out and tugged at the hem of his clothes, as if she was born to be the one he should protect.

Mo Yutong’s natural action made Ma Xinguo, who was about to step forward, stand still silently.

Tian Xiaomei, who was sitting in the car, gritted her teeth with jealousy in her eyes. She knew that Mo Yutong was not a good person. When they were in Ming County, she took the opportunity to seduce her brother Xinguo, and now she even didn’t let go of a farmer who was digging for food in the fields.

Bah! She is indeed a shameless vixen.