Chapter 100 Peace of Mind
Chapter 100 Peace of Mind
Standing in front of the bed, seeing her daughter becoming increasingly haggard over the past few days, the middle-aged woman could not help but turn her back and sob silently.
In the end, she did not turn off the light for her daughter.
She knew that although her daughter said she was no longer afraid, she must still be afraid in her heart.
Although in their family's situation, letting the lamps burn without restraint was a luxury...
After walking out of the room, the middle-aged woman silently closed the door and returned to the next room, but she couldn't fall asleep for a long time. She thought of her daughter's hellish experience a while ago. It was also that experience that made her daughter extremely afraid of the dark night without fire.
Thinking of this, she felt a sharp pain in her heart. She clenched her hands into fists so tightly that her fingernails had already dug into the flesh of her palms. The pain made her feel between trance and clarity.
Suddenly, a grumbling sound came from the middle-aged woman's mouth:
"That beast... shall not die a good death..."
Perhaps because she didn’t want her daughter next door to hear, the middle-aged woman kept her moans very low.
However, although her daughter did not hear her voice, the "gentleman on the roof" who had been on the roof of their house for a while heard it clearly.
When Liu Xi heard the voice, he transformed into the appearance of Shopkeeper Song. His body became stiff under his clothes and his eyes had a complicated look.
Some fragments of memories came flooding back to my mind, still fresh in my memory, as if they were still vividly remembered.
The girl of this family was kidnapped by the people of the Galie family at the order of the original body about half a month ago. She was blindfolded with cloth and then pressed into a dark, silent and deserted alley where no one could answer her calls, and was raped...
Suppressing the damn immersive feeling, Liu Xi let out a deep sigh, closed his eyes, and tried his best to empty his mind and suppress these dark memory fragments from his original body.
If he thinks about these things for too long, it will easily make his mind become distorted.
Although he did not do those things, those solid memories have been engraved in his mind and become one with him. He asked himself if he could ignore them, nor could he forget them in a short period of time.
And tonight, when he came out of the Xiao family, he was giving certain compensation to those families who were hurt and abused by his original body, so that he could feel better at least.
Seek peace of mind.
It was a last resort.
He never thought of himself as a good person, but at least he had his own way of dealing with people and things.
Although the facts are helpless and aggrieved, who made him happen to be transported to the body of this scumbag also named Liu Xi?
There is no point in blaming the heavens and the earth. He just needs to do what he wants tonight and settle the cause and effect involving his original body, so that he can live a good life with peace of mind.
After tonight, apart from the ties with his original family and his master, he will just be himself.
No more distractions.
But then again, if you really want to be serious, God still has eyes. At least it turns out that Liu Xi had died mysteriously.
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After a while, when there was no more movement in the house, Liu Xi turned over and jumped off the eaves.
This house had a door and only two window panes connecting the inside and the outside. As expected, both the door and the window panes were tightly closed.
A widowed mother and daughter live in a house with no man. How could they live carelessly when encountering misfortune? It is impossible for such a family to boldly open the door.
Using some skill, I carefully shook open the window hinge without making too much noise.
Looking through the window, he saw the situation inside and found that the girl in the room had her eyes closed, so she probably wasn't awakened. Liu Xi felt relieved and turned over and entered the house.
"You...who are you..."
However, just as Liu Xi stepped on the ground, the girl's nervous voice rang out.
Turning my head, I saw the girl on the bed, her hands wrapped tightly in the quilt, her bright eyes full of panic, and a hint of despair from deep within her heart. I don't know what she was thinking of...
It turned out that the girl had not fallen asleep, so how could she be suddenly awakened by the noise of him coming in?
For a moment, Liu Xi's body froze and he subconsciously forced a friendly smile on his face, but he forgot that he now looked like Shopkeeper Song. His smile looked like a chrysanthemum, extremely ugly.
"You...you...can you please not hurt me...I won't scream..."
The girl's voice was intermittent. She was obviously scared, but she forced herself to remain calm.
The content of these words makes people feel inexplicably sad.
It was visible to the naked eye that the girl's body was shaking like a dustpan under the quilt. She was obviously extremely frightened, but the fact that she could say such words showed her wisdom.
Knowing that it was late at night and everyone was asleep, even if she shouted and waited for the neighbors to come, she might have been killed by the angry "bad guy". Moreover, there were only her and her mother in the house, both of them were ordinary women who had never practiced fighting skills, and it was unlikely that they would be a match for the person in front of them.
Playing the game of hypocrisy is the only way she can think of to ensure the safety of herself and her mother.
Their family was not well-off, let alone wealthy, so the man in front of them was definitely not a thief who was after property. It seemed obvious why he broke into the house of an orphan and a widow for money...
Thinking about what might happen next brought back her painful experiences.
Moreover, she vaguely felt that although the person in front of her looked unfamiliar, there was a sense of familiarity in his figure and back, and that feeling was not a good one...
Water mist appeared uncontrollably and filled her eye sockets, forming tears swirling in the girl's eyes.
Seeing the girl like this, Liu Xi felt a little bitter in his throat. He didn't say anything. If he spoke, the girl might recognize who he was.
He silently took out a wooden box full of gold coins from the ring, then turned around and was about to leave, but stopped in front of the window pane. He looked around the room and came to the desk on the side.
There was a piece of paper on the table. He wrote down eight words with a flick of his pen, then climbed out of the window and disappeared into the thick night outside.
It was not until he had been gone for a while that the girl on the couch came out of her intense state of fear.
He...just left like that?
I didn't do anything bad...
This was the girl's first reaction, and she breathed a sigh of relief.
Thinking about the man's strange behavior just now, she got up from the bed and closed the wide-open window pane again, then looked at what the man had written.
"Don't show off your wealth, take good care of yourself..."
She read out the eight words one by one.
With a strong sense of confusion and doubt, she walked to the wooden box left by the man.
The box was not locked, so she opened it.
Suddenly, under the light of the lamp in the house, the inside of the box was gleaming with gold, so bright that she could hardly open her eyes.
Her heartbeat quickened inexplicably, and after a moment of daze, she trotted to the next room.
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(End of this chapter)