Siheyuan: tomb robbing? I am serious about hunting.

Chapter 199 Something fishy

Qin Huairu felt sorry for Sha Zhu when she saw him like this. She knew that Sha Zhu was not that kind of person and he must have some difficulties.

"Silly Zhu, you..." Qin Huairu was about to speak but was interrupted by Xu Damao.

"Hey, Qin Huairu, are you feeling bad? I told you there's something fishy going on between you two!" Xu Damao said with a sly smile, "You might as well stop pretending and just..."

"Xu Damao, shut up!" Qin Huairu roared, interrupting Xu Damao.

Xu Damao was shocked by Qin Huairu's sudden anger. He didn't expect that Qin Huairu, who had always been weak, would get so angry.

"You...you..." Xu Damao pointed at Qin Huairu and said "you" for a long time but couldn't say anything.

"Xu Damao, if you dare to talk nonsense again, I will tear your mouth apart!" Qin Huairu glared at Xu Damao, her eyes seemed to be spewing fire.

Xu Damao was frightened by Qin Huairu's momentum. He subconsciously took a few steps back and dared not speak anymore.

Qin Huairu took a deep breath and tried to calm herself down. She turned her head, looked at Sha Zhu, and asked softly, "Sha Zhu, tell me, why did you do this?"

Sha Zhu raised his head and looked at Qin Huairu's concerned eyes. He opened his mouth and was about to tell the truth, when suddenly, he felt a murderous aura coming from behind.

Sha Zhu turned his head suddenly, and saw a dark figure standing behind him, holding a shiny kitchen knife in his hand...

Sha Zhu's heart tightened, and a chill rushed from the soles of his feet to the top of his head. Before he could react, he felt someone push him hard on the back, and he fell forward uncontrollably.

"Ah!" Qin Huairu screamed and subconsciously reached out to pull Sha Zhu, but missed.

Sha Zhu staggered a few steps and almost fell. He stood up and looked back, only to see a short and fat man holding a kitchen knife, staring at him fiercely.

"Jia Zhang?!" Sha Zhu recognized the person at a glance and was immediately furious. "Are you crazy?! Why are you stabbing me with a knife?!"

Jia Zhang, Qin Huairu's mother-in-law, was a notoriously aggressive woman. She usually disliked Sha Zhu, thinking that he always took advantage of Qin Huairu. Today, she saw Sha Zhu running to Qin Huairu's house in the middle of the night, and was sneaky, and she was immediately furious.

"I'll chop you to death, you heartless bastard!" Jia Zhang roared, "Don't you even know where you are? You come here in the middle of the night. What do you want to do?!"

"I..." Sha Zhu opened his mouth, but didn't know how to explain. He couldn't say that he came to give Qin Huairu something, right?

"You still dare to quibble?!" Seeing that Sha Zhu didn't say anything, Jia Zhang thought he was guilty and became even more arrogant, "Do you think I don't know what you are thinking? You just want to take advantage of Bang Geng's absence to bully our Huai Ru!"

"Jia Zhang, stop talking nonsense!" Qin Huairu was also anxious, "Sha Zhu is not that kind of person!"

"Huai Ru, don't be fooled by him!" Jia Zhang pointed at Sha Zhu's nose and scolded, "This boy is full of bad intentions. Look at the girls in the courtyard. Which one has not been harmed less by him?"

Sha Zhu was scolded by Jia Zhangshi, but he was powerless to refute. Although he was usually harsh in words, he was no match for a woman when he really had to scold her.

"Ms. Jia Zhang, you..." Sha Zhu was so angry that he was shaking all over, but he didn't know what to say.

"What? You still want to hit me?" Seeing Sha Zhu being humiliated, Jia Zhang became even more complacent. "I'm telling you, if you don't explain yourself to me today, I'll go to the factory and sue you for being a hooligan!"

"Jia Zhang, don't go too far!" Qin Huairu was also angry, "I know what kind of person Sha Zhu is better than you!"

"Huai Ru, you..." Jia Zhang didn't expect Qin Huai Ru to go against her for Sha Zhu, and she was stunned for a moment.

"Shazhu, go now." Qin Huairu took a deep breath and said to Shazhu, "There is nothing for you to do here."

Sha Zhu looked at Qin Huairu, then at Jia Zhangshi, and finally said nothing and turned away.

He walked very slowly, and every step seemed to be on the edge of a knife. He didn't know where to go, nor did he know what to do. He just felt empty inside, as if he had been hollowed out.

He walked to the gate and suddenly stopped. He looked back and saw that the light was still on in Qin Huairu's window. He knew that Qin Huairu had not slept yet.

He wanted to go back and ask Qin Huairu why she chased him away. He wanted to tell Qin Huairu that he was not what Jia Zhang said, and that he was sincere to her.

But he didn't have the courage.

He was afraid that Qin Huairu would not believe him, and even more afraid that Qin Huairu would hate him because of this.

He sighed, turned and left.

He didn't know that the moment he turned around, Qin Huairu also started crying.

She looked at Sha Zhu's departing back, feeling mixed emotions. She knew that Sha Zhu was really kind to her, and she also knew that Jia Zhang's words were unreasonable.

But what can she do?

She is a mother of three children and she cannot help but consider her children.

She couldn't let Sha Zhu bear an unjust accusation because of her.

She could only choose to hurt him in order to protect him.

……

Sha Zhu walked out of the compound with heavy steps. It was late at night, and the street lights were dim, stretching his shadow long, as if silently mocking his loneliness.

Qin Huairu's words were still echoing in his ears, like a blunt knife, cutting his heart again and again. He knew that Qin Huairu was doing this for his own good, but he felt aggrieved, more uncomfortable than taking coptis root. He knew what kind of person Jia Zhang was, but he just couldn't control himself. When he saw Qin Huairu's watery eyes, he softened his heart.

"Shazhu, you are a useless thing!" Shazhu slapped himself hard. He hated himself for being so incompetent that he couldn't even protect a widow.

He walked aimlessly and unknowingly came to the shore of Houhai. In the late autumn night, the lake was filled with cool breezes, which made him shiver. He found a stone to sit down, looking at the dark lake, with a lot of thoughts in his mind.

"Why, were you kicked out?"

A familiar voice sounded in his ears, and Sha Zhu knew who it was without turning around. He smiled bitterly and shook his head without saying anything.

Xu Damao sat down next to Sha Zhu with two bottles of Erguotou in his hands and threw one of the bottles to him.

"Drink some to warm yourself up."

Sha Zhu took the bottle and took a sip. The low-quality liquor flowed down his throat, burning him like fire, causing him to cough uncontrollably.

"Cough cough cough..."

"Drink slowly, no one is going to snatch it from you." Xu Damao handed him a cigarette, "Tell me, what happened?"

Sha Zhu took the cigarette, lit it, took a deep breath, and exhaled all the depression in his heart as a wisp of green smoke.

"What else could it be? It's still that old pious woman named Jia Zhang..."

Sha Zhu told Xu Damao everything that happened tonight.

After hearing this, Xu Damao laughed with glee.

"Silly Zhu, you have finally come to this day? Hahaha..."