Chapter 600: 602 Promised Father and Mother
“No need.” She took the freshly washed new foot basin into the kitchen and placed it on the empty floor, scooping hot water and mixing in cold water, “I’ll just wash in the kitchen.”
After raising her voice, she went to the secondary bedroom and fetched a set of coarse clothes with purple embroidery made for her by her third brother, as well as a clean bellyband and underpants. She then entered the kitchen, closed the door, and took a bath.
Xiao Ailiu sat alone in the yard, crying loudly, and no one came to comfort her.
Xiao Yuchuan was already weak, and the fight earlier had made him even more tired and breathless. Catching his breath, he sat down on the bed, and gazed at Xiao Qinghe, who was sitting in the wheelchair holding new clothes and lost in thought. With a sympathetic call, he said, “Fourth brother…”
He came to his senses and called softly, “Third brother…”
Regret surfaced in Xiao Yuchuan’s eyes, “Fourth brother, you have been wronged just now. If it wasn’t for me, your legs wouldn’t be…”
Qinghe gave a faint smile, “You can’t blame yourself. No one could have predicted the landslide on Rainy Mountain back then.”
“If you hadn’t tried to save me, my legs would have been crushed by the rocks, not yours,” Xiao Yuchuan said guiltily.
“That’s not necessarily true.” He replied indifferently, “Who knows, even if I didn’t push you away, I might have still been unfortunate and been crushed by the rocks.”
“Don’t try to comfort me anymore…” Xiao Yuchuan said with a bitter smile, “It’s all my fault…”
“Third brother, it’s all in the past,” He said calmly, “It’s all right, really. Don’t take it to heart.”
Xiao Yuchuan sighed helplessly, looking at his fourth brother’s pale face, and promised, “Fourth brother, in the future, your third brother will take good care of you and won’t let anyone hurt you.”
“Thank you, third brother.” He smiled faintly. The bitterness in his heart, however, was understood by no one.
Xiao Yuchuan lay down on the bed and said, “I feel so sleepy after taking the medicine, fourth brother. I’ll go to sleep first.” He then closed his eyes.
Xiao Qinghe looked out from the open door of the master bedroom, ignored his screaming elder sister in the courtyard, and stared at the kitchen door with a gaze filled with endless sorrow and desolation.
Yishan saw that nobody else was here to take a bath, so he took the bathtub out to the yard. Instead of pouring out the new bathwater, he soaked his dirty clothes in it.
Ailiu cried to him, “Second brother, I am badly injured. Please go and get a doctor for me… ”
“No,” he said coldly and emotionlessly, “You will have to bear it.”
“Second brother, how can you be so heartless!” Xiao Ailiu accused through her tears, “Have you forgotten what you promised when Father and Mother died? When they died, you promised to take good care of me…”
“But I also promised to take good care of the third brother and the fourth brother,” he said indifferently, “The injury on you is self-inflicted, no one is to blame.”
“Wuwu…” She cried so hard that her tears and mucus were about to block her nose, and she wiped it messily, “Second brother, you have no conscience, not getting a doctor for me when I am this badly injured…”
“Stop crying!” He bellowed hoarsely.
Xiao Ailiu was finally scared into stopping her cry seeing his fierce appearance.
Yishan then entered the master bedroom impatiently.
Su Qingyue came out of the bathroom to find that little bastard waiting at the door.
Seeing her come out, Yishan quickly walked over from the master bedroom wanting to help her pour out bathwater, “Yue’er, let me help you.”
“No need, second brother.” She took the foot basin herself, walked to the edge of the courtyard fence, and poured out the bathwater.