Reborn as the Blissful Wife in the countryside
Chapter 58 - 058: Beaten to Death

Chapter 58: Chapter 058: Beaten to Death

"Girl Fang, my Girl Fang, how will you survive from now on."

"Su Fen, oh Su Fen, it’s all mother’s fault, shouldn’t have sent you to that pack of goddamn beasts just to let you have a cotton-padded coat to wear and a meal to eat."

"Sister Xiang, if you’re feeling terrible, just cry out, don’t stay silent, don’t scare mother."

The families of those young women held their daughters, crying and comforting them.

But these girls had suffered too much damage, and after being fumigated with sedatives for several days, they were not in their right minds, not speaking or crying, just staring blankly, driving their families to desperation.

Seeing this, the surrounding disaster victims felt very distressed and sympathetic but were powerless to help.

Among the disaster victims, some older women saw the girls’ clothes torn to shreds, wiping away tears, and gathered a few decent clothes, handing them to the families of the girls: "Quickly drape these over the children."

The families of the girls accepted the clothes gratefully, covered their daughters with them, and held them crying.

The disaster victims, upon seeing the girls’ plight, hated Hu Si and his gang, especially the girls’ fathers, their eyes bloodshot with anger, cursing Hu Si and the others: "Beasts, a bunch of goddamn beasts, utterly heartless scum, ruining the lifetimes of our daughters!"

These fathers, filled with venomous hate toward Hu Si and his cronies, rallied their brothers and clan members, armed with big sticks, hoes, and shovels, and told the surrounding victims: "Folks, those beasts have harmed countless people. We can’t let them go. We must kill them, so they can’t hurt anyone else!"

The disaster victims also detested Hu Si and his gang. Hearing this, they shouted in agreement: "Yes, we can’t let those creatures, worse than pigs and dogs, stay alive."

With emotions running high, led by several girls’ fathers, the disaster victims charged at Hu Si and his men with sticks and stones, laying into them with a fierce beating.

"Ah—"

"Don’t hit us, please, fellow villagers, we realize our mistake, we won’t dare again, please stop hitting us—"

Hu Si and his gang wailed under the beating, pleading for mercy, but having provoked public anger, the villagers didn’t listen to them and continued beating them with hoes, shovels, and sticks for over a quarter of an hour, until they were dead.

Elder Qin, upon learning that Qin San Lang had captured Sister Liu and two others, said after the disaster victims had killed Hu Si and the others: "Sister Liu and two of her cohorts aren’t dead yet."

Sister Liu’s infamy was well known among the disaster victims. Hearing Elder Qin’s words, those blinded by rage immediately asked: "Where’s that poisonous woman, Sister Liu? Lead us to her!"

Elder Qin pointed in the direction of their resting place: "Over there, tied up by my grandson San Lang."

Elder Qin didn’t wish to spare Sister Liu and her two companions either, but he and his grandsons couldn’t take action themselves—they still had to settle down and couldn’t be seen by so many killing someone. Otherwise, once in the south, it wouldn’t be surprising if the victims brought it up, and in an unfavorable turn, they might end up in the government office with their past misdeeds uncovered.

Elder Qin could only craftily arrange for these disaster victims to end the lives of Sister Liu and her two companions.

Hearing Elder Qin’s words, the frenzied disaster victims charged towards their resting area, bent on killing Sister Liu and her two companions.

Qin Er Lang walking beside Elder Qin coldly complained: "It’s just you and San Lang who like to meddle."

What do these disaster victims’ lives or deaths have to do with them? It was bad enough that San Lang helped the Gu Family’s daughter catch people, but even he was dragged out by Elder Qin to search for someone and had been busy all night.

Elder Qin was very tolerant towards Qin Er Lang. Upon hearing his words, he was not angry but just smiled and walked with his hands behind his back towards the rest area of several families.

"Sister Liu is here, everyone come quick, beat this evil bitch to death!" The refugees saw Sister Liu and wished they could devour her flesh alive.

Sister Liu, seeing hundreds of refugees armed with hoes and sticks charging at her, turned deathly pale with fear. Knowing the atrocities they had committed, she was certain the refugees would beat them to death. In panic, she pleaded with Qin San Lang who was guarding them, "Young brother, save my life, I was forced by that bastard Hu Si, I didn’t really want to harm those girls."

The two accomplices also begged, "Young brother, please help us, let us go, we have money and food. As long as you let us go, all of it is yours."

Qin San Lang completely ignored them and instead turned his head to shout towards Third Grandma and the others, "Third Grandma, you all should get out of the way first."

Upon seeing the refugees rushing over, Third Grandma knew they were coming to beat and kill the three people, Sister Liu. She quickly called several women over, "Quick, take the children to a far place for safety."

They mustn’t let the children see such things; it would terrify them to their souls.

Several women hurriedly took the children away to a distant place.

The refugees quickly approached Sister Liu and her two accomplices. Not giving Sister Liu a chance to cry out and beg, they beat them with hoes and clubs. In no time, all three were beaten to death.

Gu Yumei watched from afar as the refugees beat Sister Liu to death and shivered all over, thinking the refugees were too cruel. How could they beat someone to death?

"This will bring retribution," said Gu Yumei.

Mrs. Chen rolled her eyes at these words: "You’re just too naively kind. Those folks committed such sins, they deserved to be beaten to death. I’ve heard that several of the girls they captured were violated."

She glanced at Gu Yumei: "You were lucky not to have anything happen to you. If it did, would you still say the same?"

Gu Yumei stiffened, frightened pale by Mrs. Chen’s words: "Really, really?"

"Ha, could it be fake? If you don’t believe me, go ask the surrounding refugees. As soon as those girls were found, people ran back to talk about their plight." There was no lack of gossipy women among the refugees; she went around once and knew everything.

Gu Yumei was too scared to speak again.

After Hu Si and his accomplices were beaten to death, the refugees found some food and silver in the cave where they had hidden the girls. Out of decency, they gave these resources to the families of the violated girls as a form of compensation.

But compared to the girls’ lost purity, these resources were nothing.

In that era, a girl who lost her purity was ruined for life. Had it happened in their hometown, the clan elders would have caught those girls and drowned them.

Fortunately, they were on the run from famine and the clan members were scattered about, the clan elders had died and could not uphold the rules, so the girls’ families did not reject them. They decided to continue on the road with them, thinking that in the south, where nobody knew of the matter, they could find some widowers to marry them, offering a way to survive.

But not all the girls’ families cherished their daughters so much; of the thirty-odd girls that were rescued, ten were not taken back by their families.

Among them, four girls had been abducted from other places by Hu Si and his gang, and their families were now untraceable; four had been given away by their parents who had no food to Sister Liu and the others; the remaining two had families that were too ashamed to take them back.

Third Grandma cursed those parents who refused to take back their daughters: "This is too heartless. The girls have done nothing wrong. How can they just abandon them? In these desolate mountains and with some unruly people among the refugees, leaving their daughters here, isn’t that dooming them to death?"