Chapter 50 Severe Injury

Just then, Chen Zhong hurriedly arrived with his eldest and second sons.

His face was contorted with rage. Without a word, he raised his hand and slapped Qian Daniu hard across the face. "Stop making such a racket! Aren't you done yet? Don't you think you've embarrassed yourself enough?" he roared angrily.

However, Qian Daniu, who had already fallen into a state of frenzy, didn't care about any of that. She stared wide-eyed and screamed like a mad beast.

"Fine, you old bastard, you dare to hit me! Fine, today we'll settle all our scores, old and new! You little brat, take me to the police station, and you old man, you still dare to lay a hand on me? Your whole family is no good!"

Before she finished speaking, Qian Danu pounced on Hencheng like a hungry tiger, knocking him to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, she reached out and scratched and clawed at the heavy object while cursing incessantly.

Heavy, without realizing it, was actually pushed to the ground by Qian Daniu.

To make matters worse, his back slammed hard against a small, hard rock.

With a muffled thud, he couldn't help but let out a painful groan.

Instantly, large beads of sweat rolled down his forehead like beads from a broken string, and his face, which had been flushed with anger, turned deathly pale from the intense pain.

Even so, Qian Daniu showed no sign of stopping. She continued to straddle Shen Zhong, raining down punches on him while scratching him hard with her fingernails.

The pain was so intense that he trembled all over and couldn't even utter a complete sentence.

Seeing that his father's expression was not right, Shen Zicheng quickly pulled Qian Daniu away from Zhongchen.

"Dad, how are you? Please don't let anything happen to you! Quickly try to see if you can stand up on your own?" Shen Zicheng squatted down beside his father with a worried expression and asked in a trembling voice.

His face was pale and heavy, with large beads of sweat rolling down his forehead. He gritted his teeth and said with difficulty, "Quick, help me up. Be gentle, my back seems to be injured, and there's a rock pressing against my back..."

Upon hearing this, Shen Zijing and Shen Zicheng quickly bent down, reached out their hands, and carefully helped the heavy body up.

"Dad, how are you feeling now? Should I take you to the clinic right away? It would be troublesome if you broke a bone!" Shen Zicheng said with a simple and honest expression, his only concern being his father's health.

At this moment, Qian Daniu snapped out of her daze and rushed over. Seeing her husband like this, her heart jumped into her throat. Tears welled up in her eyes as she cried out, "Old man, please don't scare me! How badly is he hurt?"

Just as everyone was in a flurry of activity, Shen Zijing suddenly noticed that Shen Zishan was slowly walking out of the house, leaning on a cane.

Shen Zijing was furious and pointed at Shen Zishan, yelling, "Third brother, you're really outrageous! Our mother is so old, and you just let your wife bully her like this!"

"Dad tripped and fell while trying to help you deal with all that messy stuff, and he can't even get up. And what about you? You only showed up now, taking your time. That's just too much!"

Shen Zijing's eyes widened like copper bells as he stared intently at Shen Zishan in front of him.

“Brother, you make it sound so easy! These are children that Mother didn’t sell. Don’t you feel any pain? Besides, Father didn’t get injured specifically for us.”

“I saw it all clearly just now. Dad was pushed down by Mom, that’s why he got injured like this, okay? Don’t put all the blame on us! We can’t bear it,” Ma Aning retorted angrily, her chest heaving.

Upon hearing this, Shen Zijing flew into a rage. His already frighteningly large bull eyes bulged out even more, as if they were about to pop out of their sockets: "Men are talking here, what right do you, a woman, have to interrupt? Get out of here right now!"

Ma Aning was clearly startled by Shen Zijing's sudden outburst of aura. She involuntarily took two steps back, but quickly regained her composure, puffed out her chest, and said, "Hmph, what's wrong? Do you want to hit me, big brother?"

Faced with Ma Aning's questioning, Shen Zijing gritted his teeth, suppressed his anger, and turned his gaze to Shen Zishan, who had remained silent. He stared intently at the other man and asked, "Third brother, what do you have to say about this?"

Shen Zishan seemed completely oblivious to Shen Zijing's sharp gaze, his expression remaining unchanged throughout.

He coldly said, "Brother, have you forgotten? I clearly told you before that I was going to sever all ties with you. I wasn't joking when I said that!"

Shen Zijing was surprised; he hadn't expected that the third brother would really sever ties with them.

"Third son, how could you do this! Don't you really want to abandon your parents? Aren't you afraid of being gossiped about and talked about behind your back by the neighbors?"

Shen Zijing stared at his third brother, Shen Zishan, in astonishment, and blurted out the question involuntarily.

Shen Zishan's gaze was unwavering. He looked directly into his elder brother's eyes and answered without hesitation, "I don't have a mother who would be so heartless as to sell my own children!"

Upon hearing this, Qian Danu, who was standing to the side, froze on the spot as if struck by lightning.

Her eyes widened as she stared in disbelief at her third son, her lips trembling slightly as she asked excitedly, "Third son... what did you just say? You're actually going to sever ties with the family that gave you life and raised you for the sake of those three outsiders?"

However, before Qian Daniu could finish speaking, Shen Zishan interrupted her mercilessly: "Mother, you're wrong, they're not outsiders! One of them is my lover with whom I've decided to spend the rest of my life, and the other two are my own children who have my blood flowing through their veins!"

At this point, Shen Zishan's eyes welled up with tears.

In fact, making this decision was not easy for him, and he was filled with pain and struggle deep inside.

But in the end, he gritted his teeth and continued, "These two children are the apple of my eye. Even if it costs me my life, I will protect them."

"But you wanted to sell them. From that moment on, there was no longer any kinship between us. You became my enemy!"

The heavy silence that had been building finally subsided, and he spoke up, "Third brother, since you've made up your mind to sever ties, then so be it..."

"We'll have the village chief come and help us write a statement later. We'll all sign and put our fingerprints on it, and from now on we'll go our separate ways and have nothing to do with each other!"

Only at this moment did he realize, as if waking from a dream, that the once deep father-son bond between him and his third son had been severed by an insurmountable chasm, and the distance between them was growing ever wider, making it impossible to return to the way things were before.

It felt like a gaping wound had been ripped open in my heart, with blood gushing out uncontrollably.