Nanny Zhang was stunned by the blow. Before she could react, she saw Zhang Qiu winking at the people behind her, signaling them to look for the child.
Only then did Nanny Zhang realize that these people meant no good.
She immediately shouted for the bodyguards to protect the child.
But there were only two bodyguards in the house, and they were no match for those people at all.
A smart nursery maid heard the commotion downstairs. She immediately picked up the child and hid in a room, locking the door behind her.
But Zhang Qiu had brought too many people. The house was only so big, and they searched room by room.
They smoothly found the room where the nursery maid and Youyou were.
The noise of their violent door - pushing scared Youyou inside.
The child started crying loudly.
Just then, Zhang Qiu came upstairs. She rolled her eyes at those people. "What useless fools you are! Can't you hear the child crying?"
Those people thought she was feeling sorry for her grandson. Who would have known that she directly grabbed Nanny Zhang and brought her upstairs, asking her to find the key to open the door.
With the child still inside, Nanny Zhang naturally refused.
Immediately, she was beaten up.
Zhang Qiu also lost her patience and told those people to find a tool to pry the door open.
"This is my daughter's house. Don't worry. No matter what happens, I'll take the responsibility."
There was a hidden excitement in her eyes. Especially when she saw the door lock being broken, she even let out a few laughs.
Inside the room, the nursery maid was holding Youyou, looking at all this outside in horror.
They had been working here for a few months. They had been told that apart from Qi Shifeng and Xu Tingyu, they should not hand the child over to anyone.
Anyone at all.
At that time, they had privately asked and were told that the Qi family might come to snatch the child.
But for so long, the Qi family had shown no sign of action.
Unexpectedly, the one who came to snatch the child turned out to be Zhang Qiu.
Zhang Qiu walked in. She glanced at the frightened nursery maid and said to her disgustedly, "The child is crying like this. How are you taking care of the child?"
While saying this, she roughly snatched Youyou away.
Youyou was hurt and cried even louder.
Disgust flashed across Zhang Qiu's eyes. "Cry, cry, cry! What are you crying for? You don't look like your uncle at all. Isn't it said that nephews are like their uncles?"
She sized Youyou up from every angle, and finally her eyes were full of disgust.
"Right, I'm so stupid. How could this child be like Jiajia? My Jiajia was the best child in the world, the most well - behaved one."
She murmured. When mentioning Xu Jiajia, there was a bit of tenderness in her eyes.
But Youyou was crying so loudly that it really annoyed her.
Recently, she had secretly hidden the medicine prescribed by the hospital because after taking it, she couldn't see Jiajia coming to her.
But without the medicine, her head was always in a daze.
There was even a moment when she forgot what she had come here for.
However, Youyou's crying pulled her back from her daze.
She turned around and was about to leave with the child.
Nanny Zhang's lips were bleeding from the beating, but she still blocked the door. "You can't take the child away. Madam will be back soon. This child is Madam's life."
Although she didn't know why Zhang Qiu had suddenly done this, she was very clear that Zhang Qiu's state was not right.
If the child left with her, it was very likely to be in danger.
Moreover, the Qi family's old mansion already had quite a few complaints about Madam. If they knew about today's commotion, they would definitely take the child away.
By then, Madam would surely be in so much pain that she couldn't go on living.
Nanny Zhang had been with Xu Tingyu for four years and had long regarded this gentle girl as her junior and taken good care of her.
She said this in the hope of telling Zhang Qiu that Xu Tingyu was in a difficult situation in the Qi family. As a mother, she should think more about Xu Tingyu.
But she never expected that the relationship between Zhang Qiu and Xu Tingyu had already deteriorated.
Even more, she blamed Xu Tingyu for the bankruptcy of the Xu family, as well as the deaths of Xu Jianmin and Xu Jiajia.
Now, she just wanted to take this child away and let Xu Tingyu taste the pain of losing her son.
She was like a madwoman, forgetting that Xu Tingyu was also her daughter and the child in her arms was also her grandson.
Seeing Nanny Zhang blocking her way, she got angry again. She even took out a Swiss folding knife from somewhere.
"Fine, since you won't let me go, I'll kill this child right in front of you."
"Didn't you take my son's heart? Then I'll take his heart too."
She murmured and really waved the knife in front of Youyou.
Everyone was shocked.
Including the people she had brought.
Those people were just doing the job for money. They didn't even know this was Qi Shifeng's house before they came.
Now seeing Zhang Qiu threatening the child's life, they got scared.
"Hey, you just said you wanted us to help you get justice. I thought it was about asking for money. How come it's about taking a life now? I quit."
One person turned around and left.
Then, thinking he couldn't come for nothing, he casually took some valuable things and shouted, "This will be my reward."
When the others saw him leaving, they followed suit.
After all, no one was stupid. Fighting and causing trouble was one thing, but a manslaughter case was another.
If this turned into a case of breaking into a house to kill someone, everyone here would end up in jail.
One by one, they came to their senses and ran faster than anyone else. But when they reached the door, they were blocked by Zou Yu and the others.
Zhang Qiu was a bit angry when she saw these people running away.
But she still refused to let go of Youyou. Instead, she hugged Youyou and pointed at the nursery maid. "You come in with me."
Then she moved to Xu Tingyu and Qi Shifeng's master bedroom and locked the door again from the inside.
No one knew what she was up to.
By the time Xu Tingyu and the others came back, Zhang Qiu had already taken the child inside for half an hour.
They didn't know what was going on inside.
After hearing all this, Xu Tingyu immediately ran upstairs.
When climbing the stairs, because she was shaking so much, she even stumbled and fell. But without any hesitation, she got up and continued going up.
When she reached the door of the master bedroom, she immediately found the key. The moment she opened the door and walked in, she felt as if her heart and gall were splitting.
Youyou was lying on their bed, and Zhang Qiu was staring at him intently, playing with the Swiss knife in her hand.
The sharp tip of the knife was less than five centimeters away from Youyou's face.
The little child didn't know the danger. He thought she was playing with him and even reached out his little hands, trying to grab the tip of the knife.
The nursery maid beside them had already fainted from fear and was lying on the ground. No one knew how she was.
"Mom, don't do this. If you have anything to say, come at me. Youyou is only four months old. He doesn't know anything."
Xu Tingyu tried her best to calm herself down.
But from the moment she appeared, Zhang Qiu's emotions became excited again.
"How dare you show up? So, now that your son is in danger, you know to be nervous. But back then, when your father and your younger brother had an accident, why weren't you nervous?"
"You are the sinner of the entire Xu family. You are unfilial to your parents and not kind to your younger brother. You are simply an ungrateful white - eyed wolf."
"Our Jiajia was killed by having his heart dug out, and how could you act like nothing had happened and have a child with the murderer?"
"This child is an evil seed. I'll help you end his life."