Chapter 869: Human made avalanche
Shen Li turned to look at Shen Jin who was bandaged up by Ye Liu and then glanced at his other three siblings who hid behind him when then saw that Yu Dong was looking at them, he sighed and then said in a low voice, " They are my little siblings, can I keep them for a while with me? I will ask them to return once Ah Jin's injuries recover."
What Shen Li wanted was to bring his siblings next to him but he was worried that his mother will make things difficult for him and Yu Dong, what was more his siblings were still young. They needed their daddies to take care of them, he could not just bring them with him and leave their daddies behind, even if he wished to do so, most probably his father and Daddy Xi will not agree.
His father was too prideful, he would rather break his spine than bow in front of anyone and these three were Daddy Xi's lifeline, he will die if he was to stay away from his kids, after seeing one kid being sold off after another, Shi Xi was no longer as sane as he was when he was young —— his head had gone haywire and he treated his kids as his life, in case something happens to them, Shi Xi will fight to death with that person who harmed his children.
Yu Dong's eyes narrowed as she looked at the young children who shivered and hid behind Shen Li's long legs and then glanced at Shen Li who was nervously looking at her, seeing him act like this Yu Dong could not help but question whether or not she was treating them all too crudely these days.
She sighed and then said, " As long as they do not cause any trouble."
With Madam Shen's loud fame, it was impossible for her to not hear about the ' extreme things' that her mother-in-law had done from borrowing money to drinking in a pub until she made a ruckus where she loudly and boldly announced that she was her daughter-in-law.
This was something that Yu Dong knew was the truth but the number of money lenders who had come to her shop asking for repayment was something that annoyed Yu Dong greatly, though she had sent them away saying that they should ask for money from those who borrowed it.
But they knew that Madam Shen could not pay the debt because of two reasons, one —— she was poor and two, she was already buried in a pile of debt. These days the Manager Qin who was in charge of the pub was telling her that she was going to burn the money lender down if they threaten her once again.
" I will make sure that they do not affect us much," Shen Li also had read those letters which were sent to Yu Dong before the snow blocked the paths they did not know how the situation was in town but he was sure that with his mother's loud ruckus, the money lenders must be making things difficult for Yu Dong and Manager Qin who was currently in taking care of pub which they have opened.
This was also seriously affecting their business since no mer wanted to go inside a pub which was surrounded by thugs.
"All right," though Yu Dong did not wish to be hard-hearted, she also needed to worry about the mother of these children. If her mother-in-law was a good woman she would not have said a word but she was not a good woman, with her presence alone she caused her to feel disgusted much less compel her to help Madam Shen.
Seeing that the children were frightened, Shen Li turned to look at them and spoke in a gentle voice, " Don't worry about your sister-in-law, she is only worried and nothing else."
There was so much trouble piling up on her plate that she was getting tired of dealing with it. What was more the majority of trouble was brought to her by Shen Hanxing and Madam Shen, after they failed in getting the money from Yu Dong, they simply stopped caring about keeping a solicitous attitude in front of Yu Dong, instead, they went around saying that they were in-laws with Yu Dong .
Though there were many shops that chased them out, there were some who wanted to make quick money in these situations thus they ended up giving the mother and daughter duo a lot of things before coming to demand for money in front of Yu Dong saying that the money was something that she owned them.
Yu Dong could have bluffed that the Shen mother and daughter were not her in-laws but this kind of lie could easily be seen through which was why she was now in a lot of trouble because of Shen Hanxing and Madam Shen.
The three kids nodded, in fact, they knew that their mother and sister were making things difficult for their sister-in-law and that annoyed sister-in-law a lot.
" We understand, brother Li!" The second oldest daughter of the current Shen family spoke as she sighed and nodded she understood the things which their mother did better than anyone and thus knew just how bad, their sister-in-law's impression was regarding their family. She sensibly bowed her head and then said, " I apologise for the trouble, don't worry brother Li as long as Ah Jin wakes up, we will go back… but can you tell our fathers that we are here? I am worried that they will be going out of their minds."
" You don't need to worry about it," Chen Mi felt sympathetic towards the children who were so weak that they looked like they were going to faint but then again he could do nothing since his wife was not willing to help anyone. He kindly spoke to the three children and then said, " We have sent one of the mammies to look for your fathers, it will take some time but she will find them."
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The Yu family was not the only one who was in trouble, the Big Stone village was also in great disharmony. Though the two villages were far from each other and were separated by two mountains, Qi Qing and Yu Jie somehow managed to drag themselves back to the village despite their injuries.
They did not wish to die because of frostbite which was why their will of surviving this predicament pushed them to their greatest potential and they were able to get away from the Big River village and arrived at their village.
As soon as they stepped inside the village they could not help but cry for help and then retell their story to the Village head of their village, once the village head listened to their tale, her expression grew sinister.
Seeing this Yu Jie and Qi Qing cried even more loudly.
Qi Qing howled, " Village Chief, you have to help us! We are only trying to help the village. Think about how many villagers died of hunger and were crushed by the snow. If this goes on how will we survive?"
"That's right! She even threatened us and then said that if we dare to touch the people of her village who are married in our village, she will definitely go and complain against us, what are we supposed to do?" Yu Jie spoke as she turned to look at the mers who were married to their village from the Big River village.
She truly wanted to drag one of these mers and punish them for what that woman did but before she could touch them her path was cut off by Yu Dong who seemed to have realised what they were thinking.
The village chief listened to the atrocious things that Yu Dong did and her expression turned cold, did that woman think that no one was in their village to stand up against her? She dared to threaten them and now she was even hitting her people, was it not equivalent to hitting her face?
Just as the Village chief was thinking about the matter, she heard Qi Qing quietly speak up, " And that woman's village has so many kids …all of them were healthier than ours including the mers. That woman has two mer sons and a brother but the three were so chubby that one child could be as big as three of ours."
Even the mers were that chubby?
The eyes of the women who were listening could not help but turn cold when they heard the words of the two women.
They could understand a daughter being treated really well until she was chubby and good looking but they were even treating their mer sons this well? Just how many grains they might have for them to spare those grains on the mer children?
Their eyes turned green with greed as they raised their head and looked up at their village chief, " Village chief why don't we do something that can kill the entire population of the big river village in one sweep ?"
One woman asked with a ruthless expression which caused the village chief to raise her head and ask, " Oh and how are you going to do that?"
" There is a big chasm behind which the snow is getting piled up…if we make it fall —— like an avalanche, then the entire village will get buried in the snow and die."
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