In Lanshan Village during the 1970s, the Zhang family had always been honest and hardworking. The eldest son had served in the army for many years, but there had been no news from him. The second s...
The next day, Zhang Rui woke up early in the morning and started to get busy, preparing a room for his daughter with great enthusiasm.
At that time, Tianjiao was still lying on the bed and sleeping soundly.
Although she and Zhang Rui shared a room, the young man took into consideration that she was a girl and placed a winter quilt between them. She slept inside, covered with a thin quilt, lying flat on her back with her hands on her belly, sleeping in a well-behaved posture.
What happened yesterday was quite shocking to her. She fell asleep very late and couldn't hear anyone else getting up this morning. She has been sleeping till now.
It was not until the sun came out and he felt a hint of heat that Tianjiao kicked the quilt, sat up blankly, rubbed his eyes, looked at the dark, old wall in front of him, and subconsciously shouted, "Dad!"
Zhang Rui, who was banging on the other side, heard the sound and immediately shouted, "Hey, Dad is here. Wake up. Get up. I'll get you some sweet potatoes and eggs."
Tianjiao nodded, then remembered that there was no one in the room, and shouted loudly: "Okay!"
With a smile on his face, Zhang Rui willingly put down the work in his hands, went outside to get water to wash his hands, and then went into the kitchen.
He put the boiled eggs and steamed sweet potatoes in the pot with water to warm them in the morning. They should still be hot when he takes them out now.
But when he opened the lid, his face immediately fell. He threw down the lid and rushed to the lobby and knocked hard on Zhang Zhi's room, growling, "Ding Yushu! Open the door! Did you take the eggs?"
Zhang Rui slapped the door with his big hands, making a loud clacking sound. Anyone who was not deaf could hear the sound, but he was afraid of scaring his daughter, so he used less force. His eyes became even colder, and he threatened in a low voice, "Open the door quickly, or I'll kick it down!"
Tianjiao, who had just put on his clothes, came out of the house, still looking confused: "Dad, what's wrong?"
Zhang Rui turned around, and the coldness on his face instantly turned into a smile: "It's okay, go rinse your mouth."
After saying that, he turned around and continued to knock on the door, cursing countless times in his heart. Was this woman a reincarnation of a ghost who died of starvation in her previous life? How could she steal even the children's things?
In this state, Tianjiao would definitely not believe it if he said it was okay. But his mind was still a little confused at this time, and he did not notice Zhang Rui's first words. He could only rub his face and go out.
As soon as he stepped out, he saw the second aunt with two braided pigtails coming into the yard from outside. Tianjiao hurriedly said, "Dad, the second aunt is here."
Ding Yushu had been out for a while with someone, and when she saw that it was almost time for her mother-in-law to come back to cook, she came back. But who knew that the little girl had just gotten up?
She was so depressed, especially when she heard such a loud noise right after entering the courtyard. She glared at him and said, "What are you talking about, little bastard? Are you asking for a beating?"
Tianjiao looked at her angrily and snorted. Whatever she said deserved a beating. His mouth was itching and he wanted to curse someone!
Zhang Rui's kicking of the door paused, and he sneered in his heart, oh, so she went out to hide. But he was so angry, how dare she scold his daughter?
He turned around and started to yell, "Ding Yushu, who are you talking about? I think it's you who deserves a beating!"
After saying that, he immediately rushed out, but after taking only two steps, he came back and closed the door, asking Tianjiao to stay inside: "Stay here and don't come out."
It’s better not to let the little girl see that scene, so as not to scare her.
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"Dad, what are you doing?" Tianjiao wanted to stop him. She was a little flustered by this series of actions. She had been here for more than ten days, and this was the first time she saw Zhang Rui so angry.
But he was not strong enough, and in a few seconds Zhang Rui pushed him in, closed the door, and then turned around and rushed towards the woman who had already run away.
Fortunately, the doors of the houses in this rural area are rather dilapidated. After years of use, the gap between the doors has become quite large. She just stood on tiptoe and the height was just right so that she could see outside through the hole.
Tianjiao looked stern and watched carefully. If this second aunt bullied his father, he would curse her!
Suddenly, she felt a pain at the back of her head, as if someone had hit her with a knuckle. Tianjiao immediately wrinkled his face and covered the back of his head, extremely depressed and whispered: "Tiandao father! Don't bully Jiaojiao!"
She was the only one in the simple living room. Who else could beat her except Tiandao?
Although it is invisible to the naked eye, Tianjiao could feel it clearly. After she said this, she immediately felt someone rubbing her head, but the force was a little too strong, and her head was rubbed down. It seemed that she was a little unhappy, but also seemed to be coaxing her. Poor girl, she had only been walking for a short time, but she was already thinking about others.
"Dad! Stop it~~" Tianjiao muttered, pouted, and waved away the invisible big hand. He grabbed the door with his little hands, put his face close to it, and stared at the scene outside the door.
Tiandao cannot appear at will. This is something Tianjiao knew before coming to the mortal world. Tiandao father cannot be by her side at any time and anywhere.
Now he suddenly appeared behind her. If it were any other time, Tianjiao would definitely pull him and act coquettishly.
But Tianjiao couldn't take care of him at this time.
However, the yard was in chaos again. Ding Yushu was holding Dabao and had only run a few steps when she was pulled back by the agile Zhang Rui. In order to prevent him from making a move, she blocked her son in front of her and threatened him in a sharp voice: "Zhang Rui, you are crazy! If you dare to touch me, I will never forgive your Zhang family!"
The noise scared Dabao so much that he cried loudly in her arms.
Zhang Rui knew that she didn't dare to run away with the child in her arms, especially since she needed to use Dabao to threaten him at this time. He walked over step by step and was about to pick up Dabao and put him aside before dealing with her: "I did touch you. Damn it, you even dared to steal my daughter's eggs. How can I not kill you!"
But Ding Yushu couldn't just let him take the child away. If he did, she would be in danger. She hugged Dabao tightly and said, "What are you doing? Let go! Help!"
The screams here are extremely cruel, and they can actually stretch out their claws to scratch people.
Zhang Rui dodged her claws and grabbed her with one hand, while still wanting to hold Dabao in his arms with the other hand. He could clean her up, but he couldn't hurt the child.
Dabao had already been crying his heart out, but his mother refused to let go, and his whole body was in pain.
This also caused Zhang Rui to not dare to really use force. The two of them were deadlocked in the yard. He said with a dark face: "Put the child down, we will settle the account ourselves!"
"I won't!" Ding Yushu stiffened her neck and ignored the child at all. She didn't believe that Zhang Rui would really cry so hard just by looking at Dabao. This child was her strength. As long as Dabao was there, Zhang Rui would not dare to do anything.
Tianjiao was also anxious. In this family, besides her father, she was most familiar with Dabao, so she couldn't help but want to open the door: "Dad Tiandao, please help me, Dabao is so pitiful."
I don't know if Tiandao's father has left?
There was no sound around.
When Tianjiao couldn't help feeling a sour nose, the lock on the outside inexplicably opened by itself with a "click" sound. The two people in the stalemate didn't notice it, but Tianjiao had already reacted and said sweetly "Muah!" to the ethereal air, then opened the door and came out.
After being kissed, Tiandao subconsciously wanted to reach out and "touch" his daughter, but he didn't expect that as soon as he stretched out his hand, he saw his daughter running away from him.
No one saw it. The invisible body froze for a long time, and the aching feeling slowly dissipated between heaven and earth.
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"Dad, let go! Dabao is crying!" Tianjiao ran over quickly and pulled him to separate them.
Zhang Rui subconsciously let go of his clothes being pulled: "You guys are coming out?"
Ding Yushu quickly took two steps back and said proudly: "Don't you know how big this girl's appetite is? She can't eat so much by herself. I'm just helping her eat..."
“Ah——” Before he could finish the word “eat”, he was slapped hard on the head.
The dull sound of the palm hitting the head startled Tianjiao and he widened his eyes.
Behind Ding Yushu, the old lady Li Mizhen was looking at her fiercely with her hands on her waist, spitting out of her anger: "Ding Yushu, you bastard, you have no conscience, your son is crying like this and you don't even try to comfort him, do you really want me to beat you up?"
Ding Yushu trembled all over, and the right side of the back of her head hurt so much that her mind felt a little dazed. She turned around in despair and shouted weakly, "Mom..."
Li Mizhen didn't want to waste time talking to her anymore. She quickly held the child over with a distressed look on her face. She glared at her fiercely and said through gritted teeth, "Just wait for me. If I don't peel off your skin, I'm not named Li!"
The old lady's words were like a bolt of lightning hitting her heart. Although Ding Yushu was fearless in the Zhang family, she was actually afraid of Li Mizhen.
She was the only one who would really do that to her.
For example, Zhang Rui was so angry today and his face was obviously gloomy, but he is a grown man and usually has a good temper. There is no way he would really fight with a woman like her. At most, he would go to her room and take some good things away.
But this old lady is not necessarily the case.
But Ding Yushu also felt wronged and said angrily, "Why do you blame me? If your son hadn't gone crazy and held me tightly, why would Dabao cry like this?"
When Tianjiao saw Li Mizhen come back, he had been watching everything quietly. When he saw Ding Yushu complaining, he pouted unhappily, but then he thought about it and realized that this seemed to be the case. He immediately looked at his new father and then at Ding Yushu, not knowing whether he should help.
Zhang Rui had a cold face and was not afraid at all: "You stole the eggs I left for Jiaojiao, can't I ask for justice?"
Oh, right, eggs!
Tianjiao pursed her lips and covered her hungry stomach. She hadn't had breakfast yet and now it was time for lunch.
Li Mizhen was busy coaxing her grandson and didn't say anything, but she was still listening with her ears perked up. Ding Yushu naturally saw it and puffed out her chest, not wanting to be outdone: "What's wrong? Can your daughter eat it? It's almost lunch time. I'm not afraid that she will eat too much and there will be food left for outsiders, so I helped her eat in advance. What's wrong? Can't I eat the food at home?"
This is what happened yesterday.
But Zhang Rui didn't care about that. He just laughed and forcibly pulled her arm again: "You can't eat it. If you eat my eggs, give them back to me!"
As he said that, he pulled her to their room.
He doesn't hit women, but that doesn't mean he will swallow his anger: "If you don't make me feel comfortable, I will make sure you don't even think about eating a bite of food in your life!"
These words were so harsh that Ding Yushu's heart skipped a beat. She forced herself to stay calm and said, "You dare!"
Zhang Rui pushed the man to the door, his face grim: "See if I dare to do that!"
Ding Yushu was frightened. Zhang Rui was just a gangster. He had a good temper, but he could be really bad when he was bad. He had caused so many troubles in this brigade in the early years. People who knew the character of the Zhang family said that the Zhang family had been honest all their lives, so how could they raise such a rebellious child?
Even with such a cowardice, Ding Yushu was forced by Zhang Rui to open the door. In fact, the door was not locked, but was blocked from the inside with a chair. If one really pushed hard, it could be pushed open directly.
With a "bang", the chair fell to the ground. Zhang Rui went in and immediately let go of Ding Yushu, searching inside. He knew that she would not be honest unless she bleeds. Hadn't his mother scolded her enough in the past two years? Still the same bad habits.
If he gave in this time, Zhang Rui felt that everything Jiaojiao put in her mouth would be taken away from now on.
Tianjiao watched them confront each other and didn't dare to go over, so he came to Li Mizhen to help coax Dabao.
Zhang Rui was a little scary when he was furious, so she'd better not get close to him.
It was noisy over there, and Dabao was comforted by Li Mizhen. He opened his red eyes and looked up, and saw his favorite little sister. Dabao's eyes lit up and he rushed over: "Ahhh!"
Tianjiao pursed his lips and smiled, then continued.
Li Mizhen did not stop him. After Tianjiao held the child, she stood up, patted her butt, and pointed to the corner: "Sit there."
"Ah?" Tianjiao was a little confused. Why did they suddenly change positions?
She is now working on the doorstep.
Li Mizhen explained in a good-tempered manner: "Get out of the way."
Tianjiao's face turned grim, and he felt extremely sympathetic towards Ding Yushu. He hurriedly took Dabao, who had already started to learn to walk, to a corner. From the corner of his eye, he saw Li Mizhen pick up the broom placed by the door with a cold face and walk into the main room. Her scalp suddenly went numb, and she hugged Dabao tightly: "Be good!"
Grandma is scarier than new dad! !
Dabao smiled foolishly and blew bubbles with his saliva: "Puff puff..."
The room was still commotioning, and Ding Yushu was screaming to stop them: "Don't move, I spent one dollar to buy this vanishing cream! It's much more expensive than that egg!"
Zhang Rui sneered, "It's not Big Brother's. Have you ever earned a penny since you were a child?"
"Let go, this is not allowed!"
"Asshole! Zhang Rui, you're a psychopath!"
“Bitch—” Ding Yushu’s voice suddenly disappeared when she was halfway through the word “human”, and the next second it turned into a scream: “Ahhh!”
"Ah - Mom, what are you doing! It hurts!" Zhang Rui's voice was also heard.
Li Mizhen suppressed her anger and yelled, "One of you is Dabao's biological mother, and the other is Dabao's biological uncle. How can you just make a scene and watch him cry? If not you, who should I teach a lesson to?"
Tianjiao heard everything that was happening inside clearly, his little mouth slightly opened in astonishment: The new father was also among those being beaten? ! She bit the hand that Dabao had brought to her mouth with a distressed look on her face, whimpered, and whispered, "Daddy!"
The next second, a figure hurried over. It was Zhang Rui who was running away with his head in his hands.
Tianjiao took Dabao's hand and looked up at him stupidly: "Dad, why did you come out?"
Zhang Rui curled his lips and smiled, raising his eyebrows proudly: "Because dad is awesome. Are you hungry? I'll get you some sweet potatoes." Turning around, he rubbed his arm that had been hit twice, and glanced with lingering fear at the two women who had already rushed into the living room.
He had been beaten by Li Mizhen since he was a child. By now, he had become very skilled at escaping, especially with Ding Yushu, who fought back even after being beaten and refused to be outdone, blocking the fire in front of him.
Thinking of this, he immediately raised his head and chest, determined to give his daughter a tall and mighty image!