roccoschili Chapter 149: Not as Good as Outsiders
Chapter 149: Not as Good as Outsiders
The neighbors were all kind-hearted, and the children thought that as long as their uncles and great-uncle came, they would have someone to rely on.
However, the subsequent development of the incident really made the neighbors and several children see what it means to be shameless in pursuit of money.
The old man and woman who headed this family had two sons. The families of their two daughters-in-law rushed over as soon as they heard the news.
However, before the neighbors could breathe a sigh of relief at their arrival, they started competing to cause trouble.
The first thing the two families did was to divide the five children of this family. They wanted to trick their own nephews and nieces into standing on their side so that it would be easier for them to fight for the inheritance with the other family.
The five children in this family have a very good relationship with each other. When their lives were in danger, they did not abandon their other brothers and sisters and run away. Instead, they pulled each other and supported each other. How could they listen to the orders of their uncle and aunt whom they rarely saw?
The two families with bad intentions had already won the unanimous disgust of the children since the beginning of their attempt to "sow discord".
The five little ones all thought that their brothers and sisters were very good. When their uncle and aunt said bad things about them, they simply thought that the other party was ignorant of the situation at first, so even though they were dissatisfied, they just tried to explain calmly.
Later, the other party became more and more outrageous, and they couldn't control their temper and directly argued with their uncle and aunt.
How could the five little ones' uncle and aunt stand this? They had ill intentions and had long treated the five children of this family as objects to be disposed of at will.
Now that the objects were rebelling against them, they subconsciously wanted to teach the kids a lesson.
They beat up several children, and three of them, who were so proud of bullying the weak, even spoke out their vicious thoughts with a cheerful look on their faces.
It turned out that not only did they want to seize the family's wealth under the pretext of helping the children to arrange the funeral for their elders, but they also planned to sell all the children of this family for money after the storm passed.
The children never dreamed that their neighbors would take better care of them because they lost their elders, while their own blood relatives would start to bully them unscrupulously because they lost their elders.
Not only did they seize the family property left by their grandparents, they even wanted to sell all five of their siblings for money.
What kind of uncle is this? He is worse than a stranger.
Several children were beaten black and blue. They wanted to ask their neighbors for help, but they were tied up and gagged by their own uncles and aunts.
Fortunately, after the child's grandmother's brother received a message from the family's neighbors, he brought a large group of people directly.
The old man had a very good relationship with his sister. When he heard the bad news, he was heartbroken and even more determined to cut the murderer into pieces to avenge his sister's family.
Knowing that the government was seriously short of staff due to the recent bad times, the old man simply brought his son, daughter-in-law, and most of the young and middle-aged men in the clan to the county town.
He originally thought that his daughters-in-law could help with funeral arrangements and take care of the children, while his sons, nephews, and great-nephews could join the county government's search team and help the government identify the murderer as soon as possible.
However, to his surprise, the large number of people he brought were not used to help identify the murderer, but to help rescue his sister's poor grandchildren.
The old man was full of doubts when he didn't see any children after entering the house. He asked a lot of questions, and the lies that the two families had hastily made up suddenly became full of loopholes.
The old man, who had a bad premonition in his heart, decisively waved his hand and ordered the tribesmen he brought with him to disperse immediately and look for his sister's five grandchildren.
Then, the five children who were tied up tightly and stuffed into the cupboard were found out one after another by the old man's son, daughter-in-law, nephews and grandchildren.
The old man never dreamed that before his sister's body was even cold, the families of his two nephews' wives would actually treat his sister's grandchildren so cruelly.
After experiencing that, the five children all became frightened birds.
They cried and hugged each other, and when their uncles and aunts tried to explain themselves, they told the old man without hesitation that they wanted to seize their family property and sell their five siblings for money.
Gu Wenxuan and the others rushed over at this time. They witnessed with their own eyes the two families' flawed excuses and the exciting scene where the five children mustered up the courage to expose their true colors.
“It’s so wicked!”
"That's right. He's my uncle, but he's not as good as outsiders like us."
"Fortunately, these children have their uncle to help them."
"Yes."
"..."
While everyone was talking about it, the old man simply ordered people to drive away the two unscrupulous people.
He was obviously not used to speaking softly to others. After the two families walked out of the crowd amid the spitting of the onlookers, the old man walked up to the five little ones who looked extremely pitiful, and said to them in a voice that was very serious at first but became more and more gentle later: "Okay, don't be afraid, your uncle is here, and he won't let anyone bully you."
The old man spoke in a stern voice, but in reality, the only thing he could do to help these children was to make sure they would not be bullied.
He, his son and his wife were all very thin, and they were all wearing tattered clothes with patches on top of patches. There was even a small hole in the straw sandals on his feet. Without him saying anything, everyone could see that his family must be having a very hard time.
Sure enough, when his son and daughter-in-law heard him say this, the expressions on their faces suddenly turned into embarrassment.
They had no objection to their old man helping these five children, but the problem was that their own family was also having a hard time. They were very poor, let alone supporting these five children, they might not even be able to support all of their own children.
But the thread in their hearts prevented them from being like the heartless uncles and aunts of these children, who seized their wealth and then sold them.
Even though their so-called wealth was just a little food, utensils and their small courtyard, which was not enough to support five of them, the two brothers, who were their cousins, still did not want to get their hands on each other's wealth.
The oldest girl noticed the expressions of her cousins. She was very sensitive to the sudden change and guessed why they looked so unhappy in just a moment.
She didn't want to lose the only relative who had no ill will or calculation towards her and her siblings, so she forced herself to thank the old man, "Uncle, thank you. Don't worry, I will find a way to support my brothers and sisters in the future."