Fu Yuling hurried back from there, quickening her pace along the way. Instead of immediately looking for He Qiu, she went home first.
“Xiao Wen, come over here.”
He Wen saw that Fu Yuling looked somewhat exhausted and quickly ran over.
“What’s wrong?”
There was confusion and a hint of worry in his bright eyes.
Fu Yuling forced a smile and began purposefully questioning.
“Xiao Wen, can you tell me what you did after you and Xiao Qiu left that day?”
He Wen hesitated. He didn’t know what Xiao Qiu had done, but he saw him throwing something in.
“Can’t you say? Is it a secret?”
Fu Yuling changed her approach. “Then did you go near the house at the back of the mountain that day?”
“We did.”
“Did Xiao Qiu take you there?”
He Wen was worried that Fu Yuling would blame He Qiu, so he tugged at her arm. Since Fu Yuling always squatted down when talking to children, it was easy to touch her.
“Don’t blame Xiao Qiu. He just wanted to help me get revenge.”
He Wen was still uneasy. “And Xiao Qiu got beaten up. His face is swollen.”
“So, don’t blame Xiao Qiu, okay?”
Fu Yuling immediately forgot about her own tangled thoughts. With just a few words, all she heard was that Xiao Qiu’s face was swollen from being beaten.
“Did He Jingxue do it?”
Her voice was cold.
“Hmm, because Xiao Qiu didn’t do well on the exam…”
He didn’t finish the sentence because Fu Yuling’s expression looked terrifying, like the calm before a storm.
Previously, she thought that no matter what, He Jingxue had taken He Qiu in and would treat him better. So when He Qiu said he wouldn’t come back, she didn’t insist.
But now, He Qiu was beaten and it was He Jingxue who did it. She couldn’t care about anything else. There was only one thought in her mind, and that was to find He Qiu.
“Xiao Wen, take care of your little brother. I’ll be back soon.”
“Okay…”
Before He Wen could finish his word, Fu Yuling headed straight to He Jingxue’s house.
After about ten minutes, she knocked loudly on the door.
“He Jingxue! Come out!”
He Qiu, who was doing his homework inside, seemed to hear Fu Yuling’s voice. He looked up and listened carefully. After confirming that it was indeed Fu Yuling, he rushed to the door in a hurry and opened it.
As soon as the door opened, he was hugged tightly and his face was scanned as if with a scanner.
He wasn’t used to this and felt uncomfortable, so he moved slightly.
But Fu Yuling held him down with a serious expression.
“Don’t move!”
He Qiu obediently stayed still. Fu Yuling glanced at him a few times and confirmed that He Qiu had indeed been beaten. Although it wasn’t obvious on the surface, upon closer look, there were still some lingering red marks.
She felt sad and angry. “You can handle Li Cuihua, but you don’t know how to avoid being hit when you’re being beaten!”
He Qiu’s heart sank. He pursed his lips uneasily and couldn’t look directly at the person in front of him.
“You tell me, you’ve even self-studied medicine, so why can’t you protect yourself properly?”
Fu Yuling poured out all of He Qiu’s secrets in one go. She hugged him and her eyes turned slightly red. Her tone still carried a sobbing tone, but she was impatient.
“Don’t cry…”
This was the first time He Qiu saw such a scene. He felt at a loss and didn’t know what he should do.
He recalled the scene when his teacher wiped away the tears of other children while he was in class. He, like a little adult, touched her eyes with both hands and kept talking with his little mouth.
“Hoo-hoo, stop crying. Blow away all the tears…”
Oh my god, He Qiu is too adorable!😭😭