Her mother looked up in surprise and saw a middle-aged man smiling at her. Needless to say, the steamed bun was definitely given by this uncle. Overjoyed, her mother bent over and thanked the uncle profusely.
Seeing his mother's actions, the uncle waved his hands in embarrassment. "It's nothing. It's just two steamed buns. My house is just at the other end of the village!”The middle-aged man pointed as he continued,""If anything happens to you and the child, don't hesitate to come and find me!”
Her mother did not expect this uncle to be so kind and charitable. She bowed gratefully again.
His mother brought Ren Shujie to a big tree. The shade of the big tree blocked the sun's rays, giving Ren Shujie a cool feeling. "Here, eat quickly!" His mother gently handed the steamed bun to Ren Shujie. The hungry Ren Shujie took the steamed bun and wolfed it down. In just a few seconds, a steamed bun was destroyed. As the steamed bun entered his stomach, Ren Shujie's little belly also bulged. Looking at her son's round belly, the mother gently took a bite of the remaining steamed bun and carefully put it away.
The weather was too hot. His mother decided to rest for a while and wait for the weather to cool down before setting off. His mother held Ren Shujie in her arms and folded a large leaf to fan him with a cool breeze. Listening to the sound of her son sleeping soundly, the mother's eyes slowly closed.
When they woke up, the sun was already setting in the west. The villagers on the road also increased, but no one's gaze lingered on the mother and son for a second.
His mother patted the dust off her body and began to hold Ren Shujie's hand as they walked to the next village.
Night gradually enveloped the land, and the forest valley that looked friendly and charming during the day suddenly became ferocious in the dark. Occasionally, a few cries of unknown animals could be heard outside the wilderness, scaring the young Ren Shujie into his mother's arms.
"Mom, I'm scared! Mommy will carry it, Mommy will carry it." Ren Shujie hugged his mother's thigh with all his might. No matter how his mother comforted him, he was unwilling to let go and walk on his own.
The mother sighed lovingly and helplessly, then squatted down.
When her mother tried her best to stand up from the ground, she felt that the five-year-old Ren Shujie on her back was as heavy as a small mountain. The long-term hunger made her legs sway as if she was stepping on cotton. Suddenly, she felt her vision go black and her mother collapsed weakly.
As Ren Shujie was lying on his mother's back, he wasn't injured when he fell. He crawled to his mother's side and kept shaking her body. However, no matter how much he called out, his mother seemed to have fallen asleep and did not respond at all.
In the pitch-black night sky, fear and helplessness occupied Ren Shujie's five-year-old heart. He couldn't help but burst into tears. In the empty wilderness, Ren Shujie's crying sounded particularly abrupt.
Suddenly, a few spots of light lit up in the distance. Ren Shujie thought that it was a wild beast in the wilderness and cried even harder. Looking at the light spot getting closer and closer, Ren Shujie's heart was beating so fast that it was about to explode.
But very quickly, Ren Shujie realized that these few spots of light were actually flashlights in the hands of a few drunkards.
Ren Shujie was delighted when he saw that someone had come. He did not bother to wipe his tears and quickly ran forward to ask these people for help. The young him hoped that these people could save his dear mother, but he did not expect that in the dark night, people might not be humans, but beasts that had removed their disguise.
The three drunkards were of different heights. One of the drunkards was wearing a large straw hat. In addition, it was dark, so Ren Shujie couldn't see his face clearly.
The three drunkards followed Ren Shujie and walked slowly to his mother. One of them used a flashlight to scan his mother. The long period of wandering had caused the mother and son's clothes to be in tatters. In the summer, there were already very few clothes. In addition to Ren Shujie's push and pull just now, the mother was lying on the ground in a seductive position.
Looking at their mother's almost exposed body, the three drunkards were tempted. The three of them looked at each other. Although they did not speak, they could already see the hunger in everyone's eyes. One look at the mother and son's attire and they knew that they were wanderers from other places. It was not rare for someone to die on the roadside these days, let alone a mother and son from a different place.
The three of them were lustful and had the urge to kill. The drunkard with the straw hat staggered over to Ren Shujie. Before Ren Shujie could react, the drunkard had already lifted him up high before he suddenly fell heavily into a ditch by the side of the road. Looking at the motionless Ren Shujie, the drunkard laughed sinisterly.
When Ren Shujie was dealt with, the other two drunkards had already pounced on their mother impatiently.
Because of the hot weather, there was only a thin layer of water in the ditch. Because of the buffer of the water current, Ren Shujie was lucky enough to not die. However, his entire body was fractured. It was as if his entire body was bitten by thousands of insects, and the pain was unbearable. He wanted to scream, but he realized that he couldn't. Hearing the man's heavy and rapid breathing from above, Ren Shujie's tears flowed down.
Suddenly, Ren Shujie heard two screams from above. Then, there was a series of sounds of heavy objects being smashed. Ren Shujie, who was worried about his mother's death, suddenly had a surge of strength. He endured the pain of his broken bones and climbed up the slope bit by bit. Hiding in the grass, under the cover of the night, Ren Shujie realized that the two drunkards who had laid on his mother's body had somehow stopped moving.
Immediately after, Ren Shujie saw a face that he would never forget. Under the light of the flashlight on the ground, he saw a middle-aged man's pale face. What Ren Shujie found hard to believe was that the owner of that face was actually the uncle who had kindly given them steamed buns in town during the day. At this moment, the uncle's hands were covered in blood, but he was smiling. That kind of smile made Ren Shujie feel an indescribable fear and strangeness in his heart, as if this third drunkard uncle was not a human at all, but an evil spirit from hell.
The middle-aged man casually threw away a sharp stone that was covered in blood and brain matter. He kicked the bodies lying in the pool of blood. After making sure that they were all dead, he reached out and dragged them off his mother's body.
The middle-aged man pulled the bodies of the two drunkards away and calmly took off his clothes. He then laid on his mother's body.
He panted heavily. After a long time, he climbed up from his mother's body in satisfaction. After putting on his clothes, the middle-aged man bent down and picked up the blood-stained stone that he had thrown aside. Then, he walked to his mother's side and raised his hand to smash his mother's head.
"No!" Ren Shujie shouted loudly in his heart.
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