bookpower Chapter 1 - 1 Chaos(1)_1
Chapter 1 - 1 Chaos(1)_1
Chapter 1: Chapter 1 Chaos(1)_1
In a small farmhouse in Yangliu village.
Madam Yang Zhou, with a face marked by the passing of more than fifty years, sat at the edge of the kang bed. Her right hand gently caressed the waxy yellow cheeks of her granddaughter, who lay quietly on the kang bed with her eyes tightly shut, murmuring softly, "Jiujiu, you've been asleep for two days and nights. Please open your eyes and look at granny."
Doctor Li said Jiujiu had injured her brain and if she didn't wake up today, she would leave this world forever.
"Mother."
The Yang family's second daughter-in-law, Liu Xiuyun, pale and sickly, with a basin of water in her arms, walked in. She glanced at her niece on the kang, tears shimmering in her eyes. She placed the basin on the nearby table, wrung out a cloth from it, and approached the edge of the kang, "Mother, I'll wipe Jiujiu's face and body. Jiujiu loves to be clean, and after sleeping for so long, she'll be uncomfortable."
"Let me do it. You're not well either, go and rest," Madam Yang Zhou took the cloth from her daughter-in-law's hands.
"I'm fine, I'll stay here with Jiujiu," Liu Xiuyun sat down on the other side of the kang.
It's not that she didn't feel the pain for her young son, but Jiujiu, endearing from a young age, was always kind to their family, always thinking of them whenever there were delicacies.
This time, Zhuzi, the Seventh Son of the Yang family, Yang Cheng'an, and the Eighth, Yang Chengbin, took Jiujiu out to play, and they even encouraged her to climb a tree to look for bird's eggs. Unfortunately, as Jiujiu was coming down, Zhuzi suddenly shouted, causing Jiujiu to fall to the ground, hitting her head and falling unconscious.
Thinking Jiujiu was dead, the three boys cried out in fear, and the people nearby in the village, realizing something was amiss, came over and discovered the accident. They quickly carried Jiujiu back home. Doctor Li said her injuries were severe, and if she didn't wake up within three days, there would be no hope.
Jiujiu was the cherished treasure of the Yang family. If she were gone, it would not only damage the harmony between the two families, but her own heart would also ache as if cut by a knife; therefore, when Zhuzi's father said that Zhuzi must give his life in recompense, although she was pained, she did not object.
To take a life is to owe a life, a principle as unyielding as the heavens and the earth.
"Sister-in-law, what are you doing? Get up quickly!" Liu Xiuyun hurried to help Aunty Zhuzi up.
Madam Yang Zhou also urged, "It's not Zhuzi's fault. It's just that Cheng'an and Chengbin didn't take good care of Jiujiu. Tell Changsheng when you go back not to beat Zhuzi anymore, and not to mention anything about giving a life. Otherwise, I, an old woman, won't spare him!"