The male supporting character was actually myself.

Upon hearing this, Li Shuaishuai cursed her filthyly while running even faster.

"Stop right there!" In her haste, Shi Xiaotong quickly caught up with him and stopped him, saying, "I'll take you to the big square to see more fun things. The water's too cold to play in now!"

"I'm not going to play in the water, I want to listen to Grandma Crazy's stories." Li Shuaishuai quickly shook off her and ran up the mountain;

Hearing Shi Xiaotong's shouts, Liang Rumeng, who was guarding the front door, hurriedly pushed the door open and went in. She found Li Mingliang and his wife playing on their phones in the kitchen and anxiously reminded them, "Your handsome son insists on going to the river to play in the water. Go and call him back right away!"

Li Mingliang didn't even look up from his phone, staring at the female anchor posing seductively on screen. He waved absentmindedly and said, "Go ahead and play. I've been doing this since I was a kid, and I'm still a grown-up, aren't I?"

Li Mingliang's wife was engrossed in watching a TV series and didn't even hear them talking.

Enraged, Liang Rumeng snatched the phone away, her heavily made-up eyebrows instantly standing on end as she yelled, "Who the hell are you? Why are you making such a fuss? This is our house, not a tourist attraction. This is trespassing, you know?"

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She stood up, grabbing the phone and shoving people around, the noise attracting her grandmother, Wang Siya.

Upon hearing that her beloved grandson had been instigated to play in the river, she threw down the broom in her hand, grabbed her son by the ear, and yelled, "Go and bring the child back right now!"

Are you two dead?

"You hurt my grandson, and you can't even have another one!"

Having their sore spot touched, the two reluctantly put down their phones.

The four of them—one old man, two young men, and Liang Rumeng—went out through the back door and followed the trail.

Shi Xiaotong had no experience in comforting children, and she was physically unable to hold off Li Shuaishuai. After being punched and kicked, she could only follow far behind him, crying and trying to dissuade him.

Annoyed and exasperated, Li Shuaishuai simply turned a corner and headed straight for the river. "I'm going to play in the water, what can you do to me, you troublemaker?"

Song Gang, who had just come out of the village, happened to hear their commotion. He hesitated for two seconds and silently retreated.

He felt that Shi Xiaotong's attempt to stop him might fail, and if he were to be caught up in the butterfly effect, he might be killed like Tang Zixuan. It would be better to stay away from her.

When Jiang Chen arrived, Shi Xiaotong and Li Shuaishuai had already waded through the deep and shallow water to catch up with the waterfall.

Li Mingliang and his wife, who had not exercised for a long time and were elderly, along with his grandmother Wang Siya and Liang Rumeng, chased after him from a distance. The four of them kept shouting for Li Shuaishuai to stop and not run forward.

However, spoiled Li Shuai, taking advantage of his height and weight, shoved Shi Xiaotong into the water, then twisted his head and made faces as he ran along the edge of the shallow river, yelling, "I'm running, I'm running, what can you do about it? You're such a pain! Damn it! Your mom's going to explode..."

"Ah!" He was cursing when he suddenly twisted his ankle, lost his balance, and fell into the river. He struggled for a few moments, but the more anxious he became, the deeper he rolled into the water, and was soon swept away by the rushing river and down the waterfall.

Only Li Shuaishuai's scream echoed from the high mountain, and then there was silence.

Shi Xiaotong, who had been pushed down, lay pale-faced on the rocky beach by the river, her mind blank.

"So handsome!"

"My grandson!"

"Child! My child!"

"It's over..."

……

The four people trailing far behind were terrified by this scene and screamed in fright.

Li Mingliang was the first to react, turning around and running down the mountain, shouting, "Mom, hurry and find a doctor!"

His wife collapsed to the ground and hurriedly got up, falling twice more before barely managing to steady herself. She then followed her husband down the mountain.

"It's over, it's completely over!" Shi Xiaotong trembled all over, whether from the cold because her clothes were soaked through or from fear, it was hard to tell.

Jiang Chen rushed forward and pulled her out of the water. "Quick, hide!"

They hid in a nursing home or other secluded place.

Li Shuaishuai is definitely going to die from falling from such a height; his family will definitely try to extort money from you.

Still shaken, Shi Xiaotong trembled even more violently, "Am I going to die?"

“If we don’t leave now, things might get really bad.” Jiang Chen dragged Shi Xiaotong, whose legs were already weak, and said in a more serious tone, “As long as you hide well, we’ll help you find a way to stall for time!”

Panting, Liang Rumeng caught up and urged, "Hurry up and leave while they're too busy to care about anything else!"

I have to break up with you; being together makes us too conspicuous.

Besides, even after I called their whole family, I couldn't stop them. Once they realize what's going on, they'll definitely think we're in cahoots. On this deserted island, they might take their anger out on us and resort to vigilante justice!

"I made the wrong bet..." Shi Xiaotong looked down at the small stone hanging around her neck, her whole demeanor was very dejected.

"Aunt Liang, can you manage on your own?" After getting confirmation, Jiang Chen picked up Shi Xiaotong and headed to a more remote nursing home.

Firstly, Shi Xiaotong's current wet appearance is too eye-catching, so they can only choose the nearest one, otherwise they are easily discovered by the villagers;

Secondly, yesterday at the nursing home, the little white cat discovered a hidden little hole.

As long as Shi Xiaotong stays hidden inside and doesn't come out, Jiang Chen can use props to disguise her and she will never be discovered.

He told her not to come out under any circumstances, and after confirming it several times, he left Shi Xiaotong two bottles of water and some compressed biscuits. He then disguised the small hole with wooden boards and straw, and finally used a disposable Class B prop.

Although the item's effect has been weakened, as long as she can hide in the village and cause chaos, she can basically get rid of the crisis.

As Jiang Chen left the nursing home, he was surprised to see the widowed grandmother in the woods behind it.

She was limping as she explained the flowers and plants in the woods to several children. From the distance, you could tell from her voice and explanation that she was a very cultured old woman.

However, she probably didn't have a good impression of tourists from outside the area. When she saw Jiang Chen, her eyes were filled with vigilance, and she led the children to the other side.

Li Shuaishuai fell off the waterfall and died.

Wang Erzhu, who was casting his net to catch fish, immediately helped to retrieve the fish upon hearing the commotion. Grandma Wang Siya brought the village's barefoot doctor over, but after only one glance, she shook her head helplessly.

His neck was broken, and he was already dead.

Li Mingliang's wife held her son, who was soaking wet and had fallen to his death, and cried her heart out.

"My precious grandson, how could you die like this!" Grandma Wang Siya rolled on the ground and cried, while the villagers gathered around and watched silently, no one came forward to comfort her.

"Those two women!" After rolling around and wailing for a while, Wang Siya suddenly jumped up, grabbed her son, and shouted, "It's all because of those two women!"

Especially the younger one, if she hadn't been chasing my grandson, how could she have panicked and fallen off the mountain? I want them to pay for my grandson's life!

"You can't say that. They meant well." A villager who witnessed the situation retorted, "The tourists kept telling your grandson to go home. You can't reason with that damned devil."

"Yes, I saw it too. Your grandson wouldn't listen to advice and even beat up the girl. He was really fierce!"

"It wasn't pushed down by someone, so we can't falsely accuse them."

……

Wang Siya, whose grandson had died, had a livid face and stared viciously at the villagers who were speaking up for the tourists. Her withered hands were clenched tightly.

"If it weren't for our Li family, you would have starved to death long ago!"

"You ungrateful wretch, you will get your comeuppance!"

She cursed him fiercely, glaring at her son with her triangular eyes and shouting at the top of her lungs, "Your son has been murdered! Are you really that spineless?"

Li Mingliang's fat face twisted slightly as he shouted to the crowd, "Everyone who helps to catch those two women will get two thousand yuan! Whoever catches them first and brings them to me will get ten thousand!"

Tempted by money, many people looked at each other, and then, before anyone knew who shouted first, "Grab those two women!"

"Catch those two women and avenge Shuai Shuai!"

"As long as they're still on our island, we'll definitely catch them!"

"As expected of a rich person, they are very generous. If you are lucky enough to catch one, you can get ten thousand yuan."

"Hurry up, before those two women know anything, let's go and stop them and arrest them!"

……

The villagers rushed towards the village in a noisy commotion, shouting and yelling all the way. With Li Mingliang's repeated urging, many people in the village quickly got moving.

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"Hey, have you seen those two old ladies who came to the island for tourism?" Soon, some villagers turned to the vicinity of the nursing home and saw the widowed grandmother telling stories with a large group of children in the woods behind it. They called out to her, interrupting the old woman and the children's entertainment.

"We didn't see them, why are we looking for them?" a child asked curiously.

Some, upon seeing their parents, rushed over and exclaimed, "Grandma Widow is telling the story of the elves and the magic tree! We have a magic tree on our island too!"

"Damn it, get home right now! Li Shuaishuai fell and died while playing!" The villagers were clearly not in a good mood with the crazy widow, and most of them were shouting for their children to go home quickly.

The dozen or so children of all ages who had been crowding around the old lady scattered in all directions.

An elderly woman with gray hair and a limp walked alone into the depths of the woods, her back view showing her old age and loneliness.

"Grandma Widow is a pitiful person," a village woman said with a sigh as she drew water from the river. "My mother-in-law told me that she was trafficked to the island."

Her father-in-law bought the peanuts from human traffickers for two bags.

When the widow grandma first arrived on the island, she thought about running away every day, but where could she run to in this wretched place?

Without a boat, you can't go anywhere!

She was beaten every few days, and the worst time she was beaten was when she had to lie on the kang (a heated brick bed) for more than a month before she recovered.

That time I was hit really hard, and my mind wasn't quite clear.

She was incredibly beautiful and educated when she was young. Forced to stop running away, she opened a small school on the island. The few dilapidated houses behind the clock tower were built by her herself using adobe bricks; the village chief at the time had to call on others to help her build them.

The village students are still attending classes there.

The widowed grandmother taught for most of her life.

Her life was truly miserable. At first, she was tormented every day trying to find ways to escape; later, when she stopped running away, she died of illness without even having a child or a husband.

Her parents-in-law lived a long time and she was always the one taking care of them.

She was always hungry and cold, and she was beaten. The two old people insisted that she had cursed her son to death, and they abused her every day.

The widowed grandmother taught the village children to read and write all by herself, even while she was injured. I studied with her for two years and learned to recognize a few characters. She lived alone until her parents passed away; she was almost sixty then.

Duan Chengze frowned as he listened, "She's such a good person, and she even teaches you to read and write, why isn't anyone helping her?"

"Oh dear, how can I help?" The village woman looked like she had seen a ghost, glanced at him and said with dissatisfaction, "It's their family matter, how can outsiders interfere?"

Besides, there's a rule passed down from the island's ancestors—a woman bought by someone can never leave the island for her entire life, and whoever helps someone lose a woman they bought will be drowned in a pig cage!

Not only would they risk their lives, but their families would also have to pay compensation to the other party and send their own women to marry that person.