Chapter 51

  It is obviously an unsubstantiated rumor.

  Some people take it to heart.

  At dinner time, the quiet and dark corridor was filled with Mrs. Zhang's scolding voice. The neighbors on the fifth floor held their rice bowls, biting half a green vegetable or fish head, opening the door to take a peek at the commotion.

  Mrs. Zhang, with her hair disheveled, pounded heavily on the door and shouted hoarsely: "You, surnamed You! Come out!"

  The entire long corridor, the moldy wall was burning with the color of sunset. The faces that stretched out from each household were apathetic onlookers, and in the blurred outline worn by light and shadow, a barely perceptible smile emerged.

  "Yu's family, return my son's life!"

  She covered her ears. She couldn't pretend not to hear it. She picked up the slippers and threw them hard at the wall, leaving a dirty shoe print on the grayish-white wall. The rough knocking sound mixed with Mrs. Zhang's scolding voice broke the quiet of the room.

  Le Zi opened his innocent eyes, looked around in a daze at the door and then at his sister.

  The little fatty who used to bully him is dead, and he died a terrible death. He knows nothing about it, and the meaning of death is still too profound for him to understand at his age. It's just that someone went to a very far place and won't appear again, just like his mother, he will look at his mother's photos and miss this never-before-seen relative.

  He had no idea why the people in the photos wanted to live so far away, and where that place was.

  He didn't even know why Mrs. Zhang outside was so angry and knocking on his door?

  He didn't do anything bad.

  She clutched her head tightly, her fingernails digging deep into her scalp. She was in pain, but didn't make a sound. Mrs. Zhang's increasingly loud and abusive insults outside the house were more intense than any physical pain. She felt that her body would soon be filled with these voices, and then burst like an over-inflated balloon.

  She didn't even have the courage to open the door.

  She can be straightforward and refute all the groundless accusations made by Mrs. Zhang. Mrs. Zhang has simply lost her mind, the pain of losing her son makes her like a mad dog, barking at anyone she sees. She probably came to you just because she heard the neighbors' absurd analysis of the case.

  Although the police had already ruled it as an accident, Zhang's non-response made Mrs. Zhang certain that she was guilty and became even more agitated. She cursed out loud with all sorts of vile and dirty language. The onlookers couldn't help but burst out laughing.

  Youyou hugged Lezi and ran into the bathroom. After closing the door, she sat on the toilet, feeling very cool and calm.

  She didn't kill Little Fatty. That's for sure. But that night, she was in the stinky ditch... The slipper in the dead man's hand...

  All of this will make her speechless.

  The unspoken fear made her clench her fists until they turned white. Le Zai saw his sister's body tremble slightly as she hugged herself, and he comfortingly wrapped his small body around hers, saying: "Sister, don't be afraid, Le Zai won't let anyone bully you. Ah Lian also won't let anyone bully Sister."

  Hearing A Lian's name, Yu You fell silent and smiled bitterly.

  Are you a good kid, Alan?