Chapter 40: Li Bu's Finger
It's a quiet starry night, and the evening wind blows warmly.
At the top of the hillside behind the city, under the most central big tree, you can look up at the sky filled with stars.
Lying on the grass, blowing the night wind, I couldn't help but want to recall the past. The warmth will stay in my heart forever, and I can't forget it to this day.
"My mother is the best person to me in this world."
Li Wenzhu lay quietly on the grass, and Li Bu, like him, enjoyed this sense of freedom that he could not experience in his previous life.
"Since I was a child, my mother has done all kinds of things for me, even things that you and I can't even imagine."
"And my father, the current master of the Li Mansion, Li Wuxiong, has only had money in his eyes since I can remember."
Li Wenzhu began to reminisce and told Li Bu. His voice was very soft, with some emotion and the unbreakable kindness.
"I still remember that I was very sick and frail when I was a child. Because my mother's status was not high, she sometimes couldn't eat enough."
"But my mother was willing to starve herself, half-fill me, and always lie to me."
"My mother lied to me that she had a small belly and was full in one bite. I even mocked her at that time and said, if she eats so little, does she have a sparrow's belly?"
"Now that I think about it, I was so naive and stupid at the time."
Li Wenzhu was crying. Li Bu saw it, but he didn't look at her and continued to pretend to look at the stars.
"Because I'm frail and sick, I don't always have enough to eat, so it's very difficult for me to get sick."
"My mother went to my father many times to treat me. At that time, Lifu was not as wealthy as it is now, and Licheng was still a small town."
"So for this reason, my father, who is greedy for money, will naturally not pay for medicine for me, because he looks down on my mother, and he looks down on me."
Li Wenzhu suddenly clenched his fists, his eyes became a little more majestic, and his breath was no longer so gentle, but accelerated to a certain speed.
“Because I had no money to buy medicine, my mother had no choice but to ask the drugstore shopkeeper. That’s when I met Little Chapo.”
"Do you know why I know the dwarf?" Li Wenzhu asked Li Bu.
Li Bu naturally didn't know. Li Wenzhu sighed and continued: "Because mother doesn't want me to see her embarrassment, because in my eyes, mother is always happy and beautiful."
"My mother sent me to the room of Little Man, the son of the drugstore keeper, and I started playing with him, and we made a friend."
"Of course, at that time, my mother was in the outer room. I thought she was talking about my illness, but I didn't expect..."
Li Wenzhu stopped talking, and Li Bu turned around and saw that his hands were covering his eyes, his mouth was open and his teeth were clenched, silently enduring the heartache.
After recovering a little bit, Li Wenzhu continued: "My mother was in the outer room, kneeling at the feet of the medicine shop owner, with runny nose and tears."
"She was asking for medicine for me. My mother knelt in front of an outsider and asked for medicine for me."
"At that time, in Licheng, every family was not rich, and it was also difficult to be a medicine shop owner, but what could be done?"
"I'm already seriously ill. If I don't get treatment, I'm afraid something will happen."
"Although I don't know what my mother said in the end, the effect was still very good."
"In my memory, my mother came into the house anxiously, then carried me to the bed in the outer room of the pharmacy, and the shopkeeper came to see me."
"For a long time since then, the medicine shop owner has been providing me with free medicinal materials until I recovered."
"When I grew up, my mother was too weak to work. From that time on, I decided to work hard to be filial to my mother."
"I work hard to follow my father's footsteps and follow other young men. They are outside and I am exercising outside."
"Slowly, I helped my father grow the family's wealth and made a lot of money. It was luck. I found a sure way to make money."
"The main boss of that line is a close friend of mine. We both like swordsmanship and poetry, so we became good friends."
"Since then, my status in the family has begun to rise, and everyone has begun to call me Mr. Li. My mother's life has also improved."
"But my father has always looked down on me. I thought he would be proud of it, but I didn't expect that he would suppress me all the time."
"My father always threatens my mother and sometimes embarrasses me. My mother is also very wary of her family members."
"I think if my mother lived in such an environment every day and lived cautiously every day, then it is conceivable that she would not be happy."
"So I decided to take my mother and run away from home to live on our own somewhere else. Anyway, we don't lack money or anything."
"With this idea, I took my mother and left. Since my family treated us like enemies, why should we ask for trouble."
"Afterwards, my mother lived in the jungle south of Liugu Township, while I lived in Hanxia with a house. This was done entirely so that my mother would not be disturbed."
"I know that I will definitely be watched by my father, but my mother will not. In addition, the place is very hidden. If I don't act, my mother will not be found by my father at all. This kind of life will be rich and happy."
"I would visit my mother from time to time, and I would take a detour without being discovered by anyone. Now that I think about it, that can be considered a happy life."
"But I don't know what happened, but my mother was found in the end and got sick for no reason."
"The moment I was caught by Chen Duo, I knew it. From that moment on, I really thought that I was a burden to others."
"It hurts Han Xia Youwu, hurts my mother, and hurts everyone."
Li Bu stood up and looked at Li Wenzhu, who was lying on the grass. He said, "Don't blame yourself. If you want to blame, blame you for making the wrong friend. You were betrayed by your friend and you still did things for him."
Li Wenzhu smiled bitterly: "Now that I have handed over the money-making route to my father, it is all for medicine. I have no choice."
"So now, no matter what my father says, I will do whatever I want. I have put down my dignity and face, just like my mother did when she saved me. This time I will save her."
"So Li Bu, I really don't know whether I should believe you or not. I don't dare to gamble. I don't dare to gamble with my mother's life."
Li Bu said: "But Li Wuxiong is obviously hanging on to you!"
Li Wenzhu also sat up and said helplessly: "Now, what can I do? If it doesn't work, I will chop off my hands and take the medicine."
Li Bu sighed: "I have a way, but I don't know if you are willing to..."
Halfway through Li Bu's words, Li Wenzhu suddenly stood up in a panic. He looked ahead, as if something had happened.
Li Bu was confused and looked back, but he didn't find anything unusual: "What's wrong?"
Li Wenzhu said: "Why are there three people at the door of my mother's room?"
When Li Bu heard what Li Wenzhu said, he looked in that direction and looked attentively: "It's really true. Oh my God, what's that look in your eyes?"
Li Wenzhu frowned and said, "I've been playing here since I was a kid, so I'm naturally more familiar with it than you are. It's time for us to go back, so we don't want anything to happen."
After saying that, Li Wenzhu ran wildly down the mountain, and Li Bu scratched the back of his head: "Familiar? What does it have to do with the eyes? Could it be that he is habitually looking in a fixed direction?"
"Hey! Wait for me..."
Just when Li Bu was talking to himself, Li Wenzhu was about to go down the mountain, so Li Bu hurried to catch up. Unfortunately, going down the mountain was also a technical job.
"Strange, why is he so fast?"
Li Bu, who was treading step by step downhill, was curious as to why Li Wenzhu ran so fast without falling.
Li Bu always felt that if he ran like Li Wenzhu, he would end up falling down the mountain.
In this way, Li Bu walked slowly down the back mountain, followed the same path he came from before, and returned to Li Mansion. After climbing over the back wall, Li Bu was shocked by the scene before him.
Li Bu saw that the short man was grabbed by the neck and lifted up by a man, while Li Wenzhu's mother was lifted out by two people and placed on the ground.
At this moment, Li Wenzhu covered his head, and blood flowed from where he covered his head.
"What happened?" Li Bu hurried over, but was stopped by someone.
Li Bu frowned and looked at the man in front of him: "Did you do it?"
The man snorted coldly, raised the corners of his mouth and said with an ugly smile: "Who else would it be?"
Li Bu stretched out his finger: "Count to three, get out of my way."
The man grabbed Li Bu's three fingers arrogantly and spat on Li Bu.
"Hey! Isn't this the bastard who insulted the master?"
"Kneel down and beg me now, otherwise your fingers will... click, click, click... Hahaha, do you understand?"
Li Bu smiled slightly, and with only three fingers, plus two free ones, he squeezed the man's hand tightly, causing pain to the man.
At the same time, Li Bu raised his fist and was about to hit that face. At that moment, Li Wenzhu shouted: "Li Bu, stop, don't hit!"
Li Bu was shouted to stop, but he didn't expect that at this moment, the man used both hands to forcefully pry Li Bu's fingers, only to hear a click.
"Ahhhh...cough cough..." Li Bu's whole body trembled violently at this moment, and then there was a stabbing pain in his heart, and a throbbing pain in his fingers.
When Li Wenzhu saw this scene, he immediately blamed himself: "I'm sorry Li Bu, I've caused trouble to you again."
"This is my father's man. For my mother's medicine, I really can't fight back."
"I have remembered this kindness, Li Bu. Please don't fight back. I will definitely cut off my right leg one day to repay you for the pain of cutting off your finger."
Li Wenzhu's mother was lying on the ground in pain and said at the same time: "Xiao Zhuzi, you don't have to do it for your mother..."
Li Wenzhu shouted and interrupted: "Stop talking about mother, I am willing to give up everything for you."
Li Bu endured the pain and half-crouched on the ground. The man still held on to Li Bu's fingers. Li Bu didn't care at all.
Looking at Li Wenzhu, and Li Wenzhu's mother in front of her, this humiliation, this appearance of being manipulated by others.
"Get up, stand up, didn't you hear me, you woman?" At this time, the man holding the dwarf dropped him and came to Li Wenzhu's mother's side.
Li Wenzhu became anxious, and the man raised his finger and pointed at Li Wenzhu and shouted: "Don't move, do you want your head to blow up again? If you want medicine, don't move."
The man began to kick Li Wenzhu's mother violently, and Li Wenzhu became more and more angry, but the third man beside him shook the medicine in front of him.
Looking at the medicine and then at his mother, Li Wenzhu was in a dilemma. At this moment, Li Bu roared: "Stop it!"
Li Bu shouted and stopped everyone. The three men, plus the short man, Li Wenzhu and his mother all looked at Li Bu.
Li Bu stood up with a dark face, then smiled slightly.
Chapter completed!