Chapter 68: I’ll Pay with My Life

Chapter 68: I'll Pay with My Life

Su An assessed the scene before her and, straddling Su Jianjun, delivered two sharp slaps that echoed through the room.

"Dad, Dad, wake up! Please hurry!"

From the small room, Su Lei rubbed his eyes and walked out dazedly. Su An's eyes lit up.

"Su Lei, go inside quickly. You're the heart of our family; nothing must happen to you. If anything happens, how will our family survive?"

Zhao Xiaoyu, who had just gotten up, heard these words and, without hesitation, grabbed Su Lei and ran.

Today, they weren't getting any advantage. Her brother and cousin had already fled. If they stayed any longer, the three of them might not even be able to protect their own lives.

First, they needed to seize the opponent's weak point. There would come a time when the Su family would beg her!

Su An grew even more excited and slapped Su Jianjun with all her strength. "The lifeblood of our family is being taken away!"

Ji Qingqing, who was fighting with Liu Huilan, was anxious and let out a series of screams.

"Su Jiao, Su Jiao, quick, quick..."

Hearing her mother call out, Su Jiao snapped back to reality, picked up the rolling pin that Liu Huilan had dropped, raised it over her head, and brought it down on Liu Huilan's arm that was pulling Ji Qingqing's hair.

With a cracking sound, Liu Huilan felt as if her bone had cracked.

She screamed and let go of Ji Qingqing's hair, her hand forming a claw as she viciously scratched Su Jiao's face.

"Ah!"

Su Jiao let out a tragic scream, dropping the stick and covering her face as she backed away.

From her right temple to the back of her right cheek, it was a fiery pain that made her shoulders tremble slightly.

Especially when her hand brushed against the torn skin on her face, Su Jiao screamed even more painfully. Her face was disfigured, scratched by Liu Huilan.

Hearing her daughter's sorrowful wails, Ji Qingqing, in one swift motion, mounted Liu Huilan.

Elsewhere, seeing his wife running away with the child, Wang Dabing knocked Su Jianjun down, covered his head, and ran after his wife.

As for Xiao Jiliang, she had already quietly disappeared from the crowd when the Xiao father and son had started retreating.

The power imbalance was too great; she didn’t want to die.

Su Jianjun finally came to under Su An’s so-called 'loving slaps.'

"Dad, Dad, Su Lei has been taken away! Chase them!"

After shouting, Su An sprinted after Zhao Xiaoyu.

Zhao Xiaoyu and her husband were not good people. Every time they visited her parents' home, they either caused trouble or sought attention. In her past life, Su An had been beaten countless times because of her.

The reason for her hostility was that Wang Dabing had made advances toward her several times, which Zhao Xiaoyu had seen.

Rather than disciplining her husband, she accused Su An of seducing him, often making baseless accusations in front of Zhao Daxing and Xiao Jiliang.

This grudge had to be settled.

Silently, Su An pursued them. She remembered that ahead was Xiongjun Alley.

This alley isn't just any alley; the local atmosphere is fiercely protective. The people who seem unremarkable are actually hidden Good Samaritans. Especially since two children went missing in the alley before, the residents deeply abhor this kind of behavior.

If any bad guys show up, the whole alley will go after them. Only if the police arrive in time can they spare the criminals' lives.

Seeing Wang Dabing and Zhao Xiaoyu rushing into Xiongjun Alley, Su An immediately started shouting at the top of her lungs.

"Help! Kidnapping! Child abduction! Catch the human traffickers!"

Her booming voice startled everyone. Pedestrians whipped their heads around, and windows and doors along the street burst open with a creak.

People wearing scarves with shovels, others with laundry beaters, and some with washbasins, all rushed out.

"What? Kidnapping?"

"Where? Where?"

"I heard there are human traffickers?"

Everyone looked around and an old man spotted Zhao Xiaoyu running with Su Lei on her shoulders and shouted, "Over there! Over there!!!"

"Stop them! They're asking for it, daring to come to our Xiongjun Alley to snatch kids!"

"Everyone, go! Block them, don't let them escape!"

With the old man's shout, a large crowd surged out from all directions, closing in on Zhao Xiaoyu and Wang Dabing.

Zhao Xiaoyu and her husband froze, overwhelmed by the swarm closing in.

Their faces full of panic, they awkwardly and nervously put down Su Lei. "Wait, wait, it's a mistake! This is all a big misunderstanding."

"Listen, everyone, we know each other. We're relatives. No, we're not human traffickers..."

Su Lei, frightened and shaken from being carried on a shoulder, his insides nearly shaken out, couldn't even shout. As soon as he was put down, he immediately started wailing loudly.

"Waa, waa, Mom, Dad, waa..."

The crowd of elderly people surging forward didn't listen to Zhao Xiaoyu and Wang Dabing's explanations.

The elderly women showed that they still had plenty of fight left in them.

And the old men proved that they hadn't lost their edge.

Elbows, flying kicks, slaps, iron fists, sharp claws—all densely landed on Zhao Xiaoyu and Wang Dabing.

"Beat those bastards to a pulp! Let them be arrogant! Let them show off! Go all out, everyone!"

"Crush them! Crush them! These despicable creatures, stealing children..."

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Let me kick them..."

"Don't push me, don't push me, let me scratch these bastards."

"Daring to commit a crime in our Xiongjun Alley, crush them into mud..."

Zhao Xiaoyu and Wang Dabing, covering their heads and crouching on the ground, had their screams and cries for help completely drowned out by the crowd's curses.

When the local police arrived, Zhao Xiaoyu and Wang Dabing were beaten to the point of being barely alive.

"Who did this? Who did this? How did they beat people to this state?"

"You are taking the law into your own hands, do you realize this is illegal? Even if they were in the wrong, you still can't beat them like this. The courts will handle it!"

Faced with the two police officers' indignant accusations, the residents of Xiongjun Alley either stared at the sky or kicked pebbles around.

Just then, two frail old folks leaned on their canes and shakily made their way toward the officers, clinging to the walls.

"Officer... I... I did it..."

"And... me too~"

The police officers turned to see an elderly lady in her eighties or nineties, struggling to speak, trembling while gripping the wall.

Next to her was a one-toothed blind grandpa, leaning on his cane.

The two of them called out together, insisting they should pay for what the kidnappers did, even if it costs them their lives.