The knock on the door was urgent and heavy, accompanied by a sharp female voice.
Bai Chen listened to it, his smiling face suddenly losing all expression. A terrifying low pressure emanated from his body.
It was the first time that doctor Zhou and Bi Qing saw Bai Chen like this. They couldn't help but be surprised, especially Bi Qing, her eyes widened, and the chopsticks in her hand fell on the table because she was frightened by Bai Chen's appearance.
'Kuang dang.'
"Baby." Zhao Yan took Bai Chen into his arms, gently patted Bai Chen's back to comfort him, he lightly pecked Bai Chen's tender little face: "It's just an irrelevant person."
Bai Chen buried his head in Zhao Yan's arms, the pressure from before had dissipated, and he returned to that soft, sweet baby. He pouted and said angrily: "I hate her."
Days like this actually come looking for trouble.
So annoying.
Zhao Yan: "Um, I'll send her away."
Bai Chen wrapped around Zhao Yan's waist, his little temper still remained: "Let's go together."
Zhao Yan: "Mm."
It was still snowing and cold outside, and the cold wind was blowing. Zhao Yan took Bai Chen's going out equipment, and wrapped Bai Chen carefully, then pulled Bai Chen to his arms and walked outside.
Because of the snow, there was a thick layer of snow in the yard. A little bit of carelessness and they would fall down like a dog nibbling on feces. Zhao Yan was worried that Bai Chen would slip even with such a short distance, so he just hugged Bai Chen and went together.
Before going out, Zhao Yan said to doctor Zhou: "Dad, you eat first, don't go out when it is still snowing outside. Baby and I will go and come back quickly."
Doctor Zhou and Bi Qing were still stunned at Bai Chen's rapid transformation so it took a while for them to recover. When he recovered, Zhao Yan had already covered Bai Chen with the hat on his cloak and walked out.
"Hey, these two children." Doctor Zhou frowned tightly. Although he knew that with Zhao Yan's character, they would not suffer, he couldn't help but worry. After all, Li Lianhua, who was clamoring outside, was once Bai Chen's mother. Even if they wrote the cutting off letter, in the end they were still mother and son who broke the bones but still connected by the tendons. If something really happened, they, the juniors, might not be able to handle it.
The more he thought about it, the more worried doctor Zhou was. He clapped his hand, and said to Bi Qing: "Let's go out and see."
He is Bai Chen's father now, so he is the most suitable one to deal with Li Lianhua. The two children will still suffer from those moral gossip if they don't suffer.
Bi Qing hurriedly took the heavy cloak and bearskin hat on the side, put them on doctor Zhou, and hurriedly wrapped herself in warm clothes. She took the gloves on the stove for heating and handed it to doctor Zhou, then carefully helped doctor Zhou go out.
In addition to Li Lianhua, there was the village chief's son Ruan Qingyang, who was embarrassed, outside the gate.
"Mian ge'er, son-in-law, save your brothers." The door was opened, and Li Lianhua precisely fell on the snow, trying to hug Zhao Yan's legs.
Zhao Yan hugged Bai Chen and avoided her easily.
Li Lianhua wanted to continue to pounce, but Bai Chen frowned unhappily and kicked Li Lianhua directly into the snow with his little foot.
Ruan Qingyang saw this and became even more embarrassed and speechless.
Li Lianhua fluttered in the snow for a while and finally got out. She did not expect that one day she would be kicked by Bai Chen, who she had never paid attention to, so her face turned red. She forgot to maintain her pitiful appearance.
"You bitch, you dare to kick me!" She got up with a sullen face, wanting to reach out and grab Bai Chen.
Zhao Yan's eyes darkened, and he kicked Li Lianhua unceremoniously, directly kicking Li Lianhua a few meters away.
Although Zhao Yan's kick was controlled, it still made Li Lianhua unable to speak.
Zhao Yan turned his attention to Ruan Qingyang who was standing beside them, "What's going on?"
When Ruan Qingyang saw Zhao Yan's questioning, he didn't care about the embarrassment and told him everything he knew.
The Ruan family's first son and second son are very lazy and opportunistic people. In the past, when they were still busy with farming in the village, they could not work in the fields, so they chose the lightest and easiest work every time. What can anyone say? Ruan Agui wanted to say something but Li Lianhua has always talked for her two sons. Fortunately, his body is still strong, and his hands and feet are very quick. Li Lianhua is also a good worker in the field. The two gritted their teeth and worked on the field to finish it.
The two brothers who were no longer restrained when they went to town. They soon revealed their true colors, and they started to get the bad habit of eating, drinking, prostitutes and gambling. The two coaxed the money from Li Lianhua's hands. One bought girls in the red building while one, once every two days, lingered in the gambling den.
The daughters-in-law that Li Lianhua found for the two brothers were all of the 'affordable' type. Both daughters-in-law belonged to the ordinary but hard-working, capable, honest, and very soft-tempered kind. What did the husband and mother-in-law say? What can they do? They dare not resist. The two brothers were so profligate. At first, the daughter-in-laws dared to say a few words, but after being beaten and scolded by the two brothers, they dared not talk more.
Since then, the two brothers have been living in the town with ease, but they are not children of wealthy families. The money in their hands coaxed from Li Lianhua is only a hundred or so taels. It was quickly squandered, and they still owed several hundred teal of silver in the gambling den.
People from the gambling den came to collect the debt, but the two brothers couldn't get the money. The people from the gambling den threatened to chop off their hands if they couldn't get the money. The two brothers were afraid and promised to pay back the money. After the people left, they hurriedly picked up their children and went back to the village in a very disheartened state.
When the two brothers went to town, Li Lianhua still boasted in the village that her two sons were going to do big things, saying that she would enjoy riches in the future and two or three months later, the two brothers would bring her with them. They all came back, which caused the women in the village to speculate that Li Lianhua didn't know what her two sons were doing outside. She was coaxed by her two sons and only thought that the school in the town had come back early for the holiday. Yes, she always shows off when she's outside, and doesn't let others say anything about her two sons.
The two daughters-in-laws who knew the truth but did not dare say anything under the threat of their husbands. As for Ruan Ayao, she was also threatened by her two elder brothers. If she dared to say a word, they would ask their mother to sell her to the town, to a bad old man in exchange for money to pay off debts.
Ruan Ayao wanted to marry a rich man, but she didn't want to marry an old man. When she thought of the old man with one foot in the coffin, Ruan Ayao was nauseous and disgusted, but she knew that if her two brothers really did this, their mother, who loves her sons, would definitely give her to the old man to exchange money to pay off the debt.
Therefore, after Ruan Ayao returned to the village, she didn't dare to say anything, and planned to marry as soon as possible.
There are a lot of rich people in the town. A few months in town, Ruan Ayao also gained something. She hooked up with a young master from a good family, but that young master is already married. If she wants to marry him, she can only be a side mistress, though the young master's money is not as much as the old man's.
Although she was a little unwilling and wanted to find someone better and richer, facing the current situation, that young master was already Ruan Ayao's best choice.
It's just that they didn't wait for her to contact the young master again before the people from the gambling den came over. It was still such a big celebration day...
Ruan Ayao looked at these sturdy and muscular thugs in front of her in despair.
She doesn't want to marry a disgusting old man...
Ruan Qingyang made the long story short, and quickly explain what happened tonight.
He looked at Zhao Yan and Bai Chen and was embarrassed and ashamed: "The brothers owed more than a hundred taels of silver together in the gambling den, and they sneaked away without paying the money. Now that group of people has come to ask them to pay back the money immediately. If they don't pay today, they will chop off both of their hands, so aunt rushed over to look for you, big brother Zhao."
When the two Ruan brothers were in the town, they didn't want others to look down on them, so they lied that they were from the town. After they secretly ran back to the village, the people in the gambling place couldn't find them for a while. After finding them, the people in the gambling den were so angry that they came to collect debt on this beautiful New Year's Eve. They did not give any time for accommodation, and asked them to pay back the money immediately.
At first, Li Lianhua was stubborn and wanted to cheat and not pay back the money. Later, the thugs pulled out their knives and slashed Ruan Agui's arm. This time she was very scared, but she really couldn't pay back the money. The original owner has been cut off by her, thinking about the original owner's soft and weak character before, and she is his biological mother no matter what. She came over to ask Zhao Yan and Bai Chen to fight against this debt collector.
It's just that Li Lianhua is used to yelling and scolding the original owner. Although Bai Chen has taught her lesson a few times, the more than 10 years of habit is not so easy to change. Li Lianhua blows up when Bai Chen kicks her.
Of course Zhao Yan and Bai Chen don't care about the Ruan family's affairs.
"We have already cut off." Bai Chen said coldly.
"This..." Ruan Qingyang looked hesitant and disapproved.
In his opinion, even if Bai Chen and the Ruan family have cut ties, they are still close relatives. Even if the Ruan family used to be too much to him, but now the Ruan family fell into trouble, no matter how much Bai Chen has resentment in his heart, he shouldn't be so cold-blooded. Besides, ge'er status is not high. The Ruan family might do too much for him, but to be so heartless, really...
How could Zhao Yan not see what Ruan Qingyang is thinking about. His face suddenly changes, extremely cold: "We will not pay this debt. Even if baby is willing, I will not agree. You can leave."
The person who bullied his baby in the past has now received retribution, how could he help?
How kind he was to not step on them now.
But if the other party doesn't know enough is enough, then it's uncertain whether his foot will step on.
Zhao Yan hugged Bai Chen and turned around. Just as he was about to close the door, Li Lianhua, who was kicked into the snow, didn't know when she had got up, spoke.
"Mian ge'er, it was your mother who has wronged you before. You had to save your two brothers. Mother can't just watch them have an accident. If they have an accident, your mother can not live..." Li Lianhua cried, so tragic with no trace of the domineering temper that she used to have.
Zhao Yan and Bai Chen turned a deaf ear and kept closing the door with their hands.
Seeing that it was useless to pretend to be pitiful, Li Lianhua threatened loudly: "You think you can really do nothing if you have the breaking off letters, don't forget, this is Ruan's Village. Take out your dowry or get out of Ruan's Village!"
Ruan Qingyang, who was trying to persuade Zhao Yan, widened his eyes when he heard these words. He was so angry that he wanted to push Li Lianhua into the snow to let her cool off.