Free Web NovelChapter 1326: Chapter 1325: Vicious Scheme
Chapter 1325 A Vicious Plan
Zhong Jiaxiang’s plan was to grind this boy to death.
That way, even when he died, he would still count as a son of the Zhong Family, and the brother he brought in his fate would naturally stay with the Zhong Family as well.
So, starting from the birth of his own son, that is, from when Gougou was three years old, the couple began grinding Gougou down.
They cursed as soon as they opened their mouths and hit as soon as they raised their hands, and that was the lighter part; usually they simply didn’t give him food, which became an everyday routine.
When Gougou was so hungry it hurt, he would wait until they put down the pig feed and walked away to steal pig feed to eat, or, when they were feeding the chickens, as long as the adults left, he would steal the chicken feed. But whenever he was discovered, a beating and a scolding were inevitable.
They even drove him out of the house at night on the excuse that he wet the bed, making him sleep in a shed so he would die sooner, and even when he fell ill they refused to have him treated.
But Gougou’s Life Energy was extremely strong; several times he was sick enough to be at death’s door, yet he still managed to pull through.
Once, Liu Ping discovered that Zhu Asi was secretly decocting medicine for Gougou to drink; only then did she realize he had been secretly helping Gougou all along, so she cursed Zhu Asi viciously, saying he was meddling in others’ business with ulterior motives, that he wanted Gougou to grow up and support him in his old age.
Zhu Asi had indeed harbored such thoughts, which was why he secretly helped Gougou. Since Liu Ping had laid it all bare, he simply brought it up directly with Zhong Jiaxiang: "Now that you have your own son, why not let me have Gougou?"
But Zhong Jiaxiang sternly rejected him and even gave him a thorough tongue-lashing, accusing him of ill intent, of trying to buy Gougou’s loyalty. He warned that if he ever again saw him giving Gougou little favors, he would beat him every single time he caught him.
Later Zhu Asi bought himself a wife, and Liu Ping deliberately broke the rules, saying that a woman who had once run away didn’t count as a main wife, that other men could sleep with her. But she deliberately omitted the rule that other men could only touch her with her own man’s consent. In the end she forced that Miss Xiangxiang to jump off a cliff and kill herself, also because she resented Zhu Asi for coveting Gougou.
From then on, Zhu Asi no longer dared to help Gougou, but he kept his eyes tightly on the Zhong couple. Because of that, the Zhong couple didn’t dare to kill Gougou outright in one go; at the very least, they still let Gougou have one meal a day.
As for the other neighbors, because of Liu Ping’s ferocity, they no longer dared to openly give Gougou food. But when Gougou was starving, and couldn’t steal pig or chicken feed at home, he would run next door to steal food. The neighbors, seeing this pitiful child stealing pig feed, would turn a blind eye.
Yet even so, if the Zhong couple discovered that Gougou had gone to the neighbors to steal food, he still couldn’t escape a beating and a scolding.
In her previous life, whenever Mengyu saw Gougou, it was like seeing her own childhood. No, Gougou was even more miserable than she had been, because the Jiang Family had only exploited her and denied her food, but they had never beaten her with the intent to kill.
Because of this, in her previous life every time Mengyu saw this child, she felt a sense of shared suffering. No matter how the Zhong couple cursed, she still gave him food. Whenever the Zhong couple tried to beat him to death, she would rush out to stop them. Sometimes, even when the Zhong couple clearly saw that Gougou was already in Mengyu’s arms, they still swung their blows, and that beating would land on Mengyu instead.
However, although the Zhou Brothers often tormented Mengyu, they couldn’t stand seeing others beat her. Therefore, the Zhong couple didn’t dare to go too far with her, and that was how Mengyu managed to protect Gougou, until Mengyu escaped and Gougou was thrown off a cliff by the Zhou Brothers.
It could be said that without Mengyu, Gougou would never have lived to fourteen.
Now that Zhong Jiaxiang’s plan had been laid bare by Mengyu just like that, how could he not be shocked in his heart? Along with the shock came fear: this Gougou actually was Mengyu’s godson!
