Flip the table and divide the family property! Take his wife and daughter into the mountains and eat

Before he finished speaking, Ergaizi suddenly took two steps forward, grabbed the metal side of the truck with both hands, and climbed onto the truck bed using both hands and feet.

"Clang!"

He grabbed one of the heavy oil drums, gripped the metal lid tightly with his fingers, and twisted it hard with gritted teeth.

The cap was roughly unscrewed with a "click".

The strong, pungent smell of gasoline spread rapidly with the night wind, making people's noses sting.

Erga picked up the big iron bucket with both hands, and without thinking, poured it over the hole in the main room where the truck's cab had crashed!

"Splash—!!"

Gasoline, emitting a pungent odor, was poured like a waterfall onto the collapsed adobe houses, shattered window frames, and smashed tables and chairs.

He carried the oil drum back and forth along the edge of the truck bed, pouring most of the drum of gasoline into the house, not even sparing the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed) and the torn curtains.

"You old bastard!"

"Aren't you worried about the money?!"

"Would you sell your own daughter if it weren't for the money?!"

Fuck your mother!

Erga cursed viciously as he casually smashed the empty iron bucket into the ruins, then grabbed the second bucket.

"Snap!"

He unscrewed the lid, lifted the heavy iron bucket with one hand, and jumped barefoot off the truck bed.

When he landed, the soles of his feet were painfully cut by broken tiles, but he didn't utter a sound. He carried the oil can and walked backwards towards the gate.

Golden gasoline spilled along the ground, leaving a cold, gleaming trail on the mud crushed by wheels, the scattered logs, and the broken bricks of the collapsed courtyard wall.

They poured gasoline all the way to the open space outside the yard, using up every last drop from both buckets.

"Clang!"

Ergazi kicked the second empty bucket hard into the ditch beside him, his chest heaving violently as he panted heavily.

The pale moonlight fell upon him.

His bare feet were red and raw, and his head and face were covered with blood and dirt that had been trickling down from his forehead. His tattered polyester shirt fluttered in the night wind.

Erga reached into his pocket and pulled out a box of matches, which was soggy from being soaked in sweat.

His fingers were frozen stiff and covered in slippery gasoline. He shakily pulled out a matchstick and rubbed it hard against the side of the matchbox!

"Sizzle!"

The first match broke.

Erga gritted his teeth, pulled out another one, used his hand to block the night wind, and slashed it fiercely with his thumb.

"Whoosh—whoosh!"

A ball of orange-red flame suddenly leaped up, illuminating his face, which was filled with ferocity and madness.

Ergaizi looked down at the thick, shiny black gasoline trail at his feet, then looked up at the Liu family's mud house, which had been smashed to pieces by the truck, and a vicious grin spread across his face.

"Burn it for me!!"

He loosened his grip, and the burning match spun and fell to the ground.

"boom--!!"

In an instant, a violent, muffled thud erupted from the ground!

The crimson fire dragon shot up more than two meters high along the oil line on the ground, and with overwhelming force, it roared and rushed madly towards the Liu family's courtyard, bringing with it billowing black smoke and towering heat waves!

The wood was set on fire.

The dilapidated belongings were set on fire.

The main room, which was covered in gasoline, and the collapsed adobe house were instantly engulfed in a blindingly bright inferno!

Flames shot into the sky, turning the night sky over Xiakanzi Village a blood red!

……

at the same time.

The pale electric lights still shone brightly in the health center of Qingshi Commune, more than ten miles away.

The ward was filled with the pungent smell of Lysol and mercurochrome, and the night wind rattled the old wooden windows, making an unsettling creaking sound.

Grandma Liu lay on the iron-framed hospital bed with her eyes closed, her face as white as paper, an IV needle still stuck in the back of her hand, and her breathing so weak that it was almost inaudible.

Beside the bed, Liu Cuier's head was wrapped in thick white gauze, and traces of blood had long since soaked through the innermost layer, turning it a dark brown.

She sat there quietly, her hands tightly gripping her mother's rough, cold hand, without moving.

At the end of the corridor, Liu Changgui sat hunched over on a bench.

Half of his head and ear were wrapped in gauze like a white rice dumpling, and one of his arms was also wrapped tightly in gauze.

Once the anesthesia wore off, the excruciating pain from the wound caused half of his face to twitch uncontrollably. He gasped for breath and groaned in agony.

At the ward door, Ma San had a half-smoked cigarette dangling from his lips.

Two burly henchmen stood like door gods on either side of the wall, their eyes fixed menacingly on the surrounding corridor.

Several nurses on duty and passing patients' families saw the three men with fierce faces. They were all frightened by the overwhelming thuggishness emanating from them. They lowered their heads and scurried past along the wall, not daring to even breathe loudly.

The trip to the hospital, the stitches and bandages, plus the hospital deposit, all costing a few dozen yuan, was all taken out of Ma San's wallet.

Liu Changgui glanced at Ma San, whose face was gloomy, suppressed the excruciating pain all over his body, and slid off the bench with a sheepish grin, fawning over him like a lapdog:

"Third Brother... don't worry, since that girl Cui'er has promised you, she definitely won't run away! If she dares to have any wicked thoughts or say a single word of dissent, I, as her father, will skin her alive..."

"Snapped!"

A crisp slap suddenly rang out in the corridor!

Ma San slapped Liu Changgui across the face, which was wrapped in gauze, causing him to stagger back two steps and crash back onto the bench, blood spurting from the corner of his mouth.

Ma San shook his hand as if he had touched something dirty, and glanced down at him.

"Shut up."

Did I give you permission to speak?

"If you dare mention skinning and beating people in front of me again, I'll chop off your last ear tonight."

Liu Changgui covered his face, trembling with pain, but dared not utter another sound.

Ma San turned his head and glanced inside through the glass window on the ward door.

Liu Cuier remained seated inside, her back ramrod straight.

Ma San took the cigarette butt out of his mouth, threw it on the cement ground, and crushed it out with the tip of his leather shoe.

He reached out and pushed the door open, then walked straight in.

Ma San stopped a few steps away from the bedside. He first looked down at the unconscious Liu Da Niang on the bed, then looked up at Liu Cuier, who never turned around.

"I asked the doctor when he came out just now."

Liu Cuier tightened her grip on her mother's hand slightly.

Ma San continued from behind:

"Your mother's head wasn't seriously injured. Although her body looked frightening with blood and splatter, it was mostly superficial injuries. The main problem was that she was too weak and was frightened, which caused her to faint. The doctor said that after finishing these two bottles of medicine tonight, she should rest and be observed at the health center. As long as she can open her eyes tomorrow morning, she should be fine."

Liu Cuier's thin shoulders, which had been tightly taut, finally relaxed slightly, almost imperceptibly.

Ma San noticed this subtle change but didn't point it out. He casually pulled over a wooden stool and sat down with an air of authority.

"Cui'er".

"I, Ma San, have fulfilled every single promise I made to you."

"I personally arranged for your mother to be brought here. She was seen by the best doctor in the commune, and the best medicine was put on her IV drip. I paid for all the hospital and medical expenses out of my own pocket. I didn't let you and your mother spend a single penny unnecessarily."

"As for the gambling debt your father owes me—"

Ma San glanced sideways at Liu Changgui, who was huddled on the bench outside the door, and a cold sneer appeared on his lips:

"I said I wiped it off, so I wiped it off."

"From this day forward, Liu Changgui owes me, Ma San, not a single penny."

The ward fell silent, with only the faint sound of the IV dripping from the metal frame.

Ma San rested his hands on his knees, staring intently at Liu Cuier's back:

"I, Ma San, have done everything I promised you."

"Now, it's your turn to give me a straight answer."

Liu Cuier did not turn around immediately.

She lowered her head, staring intently at her mother's sallow, bloodless face. The room remained deathly silent for a good dozen breaths before she slowly straightened up and turned around.

"Since you've done everything you promised me..."

Her voice was hoarse, like sandpaper scraping against rough wood, but her bloodshot eyes held a chilling calm.

"I, Liu Cuier, am not someone who doesn't know what's good for her or doesn't keep her word."

Liu Cuier turned back to her mother, gripping her cold, rough hands even tighter. After a moment of silence, she whispered:

"Once my mother wakes up and recovers, she'll be able to get out of bed to cook and walk on her own. The doctor also said that she's fine..."

Liu Cuier paused for a moment:

"Let's get married."

Upon hearing this, Ma San's lips curled into a grin, and he finally couldn't help but chuckle softly.

This wild little horse, notorious for its unruly nature in the surrounding area, was eventually tamed by him.

Don't be fooled by his suicidal tantrums and knife fights during the day. If you really find a way to get to this woman's weak spot and give her enough sweetness and support, she'll have to obediently bow her head and let him do whatever he wants.

Once we bring her back to town, we'll press her onto the heated kang (a traditional heated brick bed), deflower her, get her pregnant with our child, and make her a mother. No matter how wild or fierce she is, she'll be obedient and devoted to us for the rest of her life.

Just thinking about that scene made Ma San feel a surge of blood rush through his body, a lustful fire rising in his lower abdomen, and his eyes filled with undisguised excitement.

"good!"

"Cui'er, with your words, I can finally feel completely at ease!"

Ma San pushed himself up on his knees and stood up abruptly, tugging at his leather jacket, a sense of exhilaration emanating from every bone in his body.

"Once your mother has fully recovered and the doctor says she can be discharged, we'll immediately hold our wedding in the commune!"

"When the time comes, I'll buy you a brand new red cotton-padded jacket, hire four suona players and two big horse-drawn carriages, and we'll have a grand wedding with gongs and drums, carrying you into the Ma family in style!"

"I'll double the bride price, throw in a feast with ten or eight tables, and let everyone in the commune see for themselves that from now on, Liu Cuier, you belong to me, Ma San!"

He took half a step forward, looked down at Liu Cuier's slender back, and spoke with a confident and self-satisfied tone:

"Don't worry about me at all. From now on, if you come with me, you'll have plenty of rice, flour, fish, and meat every day. As long as I have food to eat, you and your mother will never go hungry. And if anyone in the whole town dares to bully you again, I'll skin them alive!"

Ma San's face was filled with the ecstatic joy of his success, and he was just about to reach out and touch Liu Cuier's shoulder—

"Bang!!"

Suddenly, the large iron gate at the end of the corridor was violently slammed open with a deafening crash!

Immediately afterwards, a flurry of hurried, staggering footsteps, accompanied by a gust of wind reeking of mud, rushed in, and a shrill, hoarse voice instantly shattered the deathly silence of the clinic:

"Liu Changgui!"

"Liu Changgui, where did you run off to?!"

"Something terrible has happened! Someone rammed your house with a Liberation truck! They poured two cans of gasoline on it, the roof collapsed, and the whole house is completely burned to the ground!!"