Chen Daniu and Chen Guanshan came together.
Wang Jianguo followed behind them:
"Lao Chen, this has nothing to do with my family. Your daughter-in-law ran over here on her own.
"I went to call you guys immediately. It's been almost half a month, how come you haven't trained her well yet? Why is she still thinking of running away?"
Chen Guanshan took a fierce drag of his cigarette:
"We just haven't beaten her enough. I thought beating such a tender little flower bud would ruin her looks.
"I also wanted to see less blood during the New Year.
"Who knew that giving her an inch would make her take a mile? She actually dared to run?
"Damn it!"
He threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stomped on it hard:
"Chen Daniu, drag her back.
"Beat her, break her legs. Let's see if she still dares to run."
Chen Daniu walked toward the girl step by step.
She curled up, her teeth chattering as she hid behind Lin Wanyi:
"No, I don't want to go back. Please let me go, okay?
"I have money. If you let me go back, my parents will definitely give you money.
"Hundreds of thousands, whatever you want.
"Please don't beat me. Really, please don't hit me!"
She tightly clutched Lin Wanyi's clothes. Lin Wanyi's heart ached agonizingly.
She tried to persuade Chen Daniu:
"Chen Daniu, beating someone is against the law. She can report you."
"Report?"
Chen Guanshan pointed at Lin Wanyi and laughed:
"Jianguo, your daughter-in-law is interesting. Report me? I'm beating my own damn daughter-in-law, who can do anything about it?
"Really opened my eyes today. I spent so much money, and I can't even play with her?"
Wang Jianguo glared at Lin Wanyi:
"Hurry up and step aside. Don't meddle in other people's business.
"Hurry up! Don't cause trouble for my Wang family."
The girl held tightly onto Lin Wanyi:
"I don't want to go back. Sister, save me, save me! If I go back, I will definitely die, I definitely will!
"Sister, sister!
"I finally managed to escape, I won't go back!"
Liu Chunlan pointed at Lin Wanyi's nose:
"Step aside, step aside right now. You can't even sort out your own family's mess, and now you're meddling in someone else's?
"Lin Wanyi, do you hear me?"
Lin Wanyi still didn't budge. Lin Jiajun also stood in front of her:
"You guys are going too far. How can you bully a little girl like this?
"And from what I'm hearing, you bought her?
"What does that mean? Human trafficking? Are you trafficking humans?
"In broad daylight, how dare you do such a thing?"
Chen Guanshan glanced at Wang Jianguo:
"Jianguo, who is this? Why is he speaking so unpleasantly?
"What do you mean trafficking? I clearly spent fifty thousand yuan to properly marry her to my son.
"Who dares to say I'm trafficking?"
Lin Jiajun didn't buy it at all:
"If that's the case, where is she from? Where is her maiden home?
"If you have conflicts, just call her parents and family to come and judge the situation, wouldn't that work?
"You absolutely cannot hit people!"
He finished speaking and took out his phone:
"Come, girl, what's your family's phone number? You call them. Call your mom, call your dad, do it now."
The girl terrifiedly tried to reach out, but Chen Guanshan suddenly coughed:
"She's an orphan. No father, no mother."
Lin Jiajun didn't believe it at all, and neither did Lin Wanyi.
But Chen Guanshan said:
"In this place, even ghosts can't leave once they enter. Daughter-in-law, even if your parents really came, they would only turn you into a real orphan.
"Call them. Let's see if you dare."
Lin Jiajun kept urging her:
"Call, call right now. Don't be afraid. If worst comes to worst, I'll take you with me when I leave.
"I don't believe they can be this lawless!"
But the girl silently pushed down Lin Jiajun's phone. She slowly stepped out from behind Lin Wanyi.
"I'll go back. I'll go back with you."
Chen Guanshan roughly yanked her over and delivered a sharp slap:
"Run? Do you know where you are? Everyone in this village is related. Who's going to help you?
"The heavy snow has sealed off the mountains. Where can you run to?
"You're really disobedient. Wait and see how I deal with you when we get back!"
He dragged the girl away by her arm. On his way out, he turned back and glared viciously at Lin Wanyi:
"I told you not to meddle in my family's business. Watch out for your daughter."
As soon as the three left, Liu Chunlan started scolding:
"Lin Wanyi, are you unhappy if you don't stir up trouble for a day? How many times have I told you, even an upright official finds it hard to settle family disputes. Why do you insist on meddling in other people's affairs?
"We're all from the same village, we see each other all the time. I've never seen anyone as nosy as you."
Li Suhua was displeased:
"In-law, don't you feel guilty saying that?
"It's obvious that girl wasn't a willing bride. Didn't you see the injuries all over her?
"We're both mothers. Doesn't your heart ache looking at her? You have a daughter too, how can you turn a blind eye?"
"My daughter?"
Liu Chunlan scoffed:
"My daughter wouldn't sleep around outside. If these trampy women weren't sleeping around, how would they get sold here?
"They are rotten to the core themselves. They deserve it, they all deserve it!"
Lin Jiajun rolled up his sleeves in anger:
"Lunatics, you're all lunatics! How can you be so cold-blooded?
"Sis, call the police. I have to call the police!"
Lin Wanyi silently showed him her phone; she had already called.
But judging from Liu Chunlan's words, it was useless.
The police here were all locals, all tied by kinship and connections.
No one would take it seriously.
They might even celebrate that they finally got a wife.
Lin Jiajun was so angry he started cursing:
"Expose..."
This time, before he could finish, Lin Wanyi covered his mouth.
Lin Wanyi shook her head:
"Jiajun, say less."
"Why should I say less? I..."
Li Suhua glared at him again:
"Go back to your room and sleep. It's the middle of the night."
Lin Jiajun was defiant, but he still listened to Li Suhua.
Before returning to her room, Liu Chunlan was still warning Lin Wanyi:
"Don't even think about exposing this online. Ask Wang Hao. Last year, some idiot woman in the neighboring village did that. Guess what happened in the end?"
Lin Wanyi didn't know. She rarely paid attention to village matters, let alone other villages.
Wang Hao said:
"She posted the news online, but the villagers found out. That very day, they came looking for her with knives.
"The woman's family begged bitterly to spare her life, but she still lost her hand.
"The one who tried to run away had her legs broken. By the time outsiders came looking, she had long disappeared.
"Her whereabouts are still unknown."
"Was there no evidence? Did the police just not care?"
Lin Jiajun didn't understand.
Wang Hao continued:
"What evidence? The whole village covered it up. Even a mighty dragon cannot crush a local snake. There's nothing that can be done.
"Jiajun, I know you have good intentions, but doing this won't just fail to help her, it might even cost her her life.
"At least for now she can keep her life, because Chen Daniu spent a lot of money.
"Unless absolutely forced, he won't go down fighting.
"Wife, Jiajun, this is really how it is."
Lin Jiajun paced back and forth in the room, highly agitated.
His mind was filled with the girl's pitiful face.
Covered in blood.
Li Suhua also frowned with worry:
"If her family saw this, how could they live with it?
"My heart is breaking. Wanyi, how can they be so cruel?"
