Chapter 33 Chapter 33 Egg liquid blink...
The egg liquid leaked onto the ground in the blink of an eye. The child gasped in surprise, biting his lip and squatting on the ground to watch.
"Stop crying, kid."
Someone called him, and he raised his head with tears in his eyes. The sunlight was bright, and the whole yard was filled with crisp green, so bright that he could not open his eyes.
Jin Man beckoned at him: "Come here."
The child sniffed and walked over reluctantly: "Why is your leg lame?"
Jin Man hit him on the head with a ladle and said unhappily, "You're the one who's lame."
He was used to being steady in the Lu family, and was forced to be so. He became a little more lively when he got home. He didn't mind being beaten like a child, and smiled foolishly with his head tilted back. He didn't seem to have the wit to steal other people's lunch boxes.
Jin Man took out a sweet potato from the stove candy and handed it to him: "Eat it."
“Thank you, uncle!”
The freshly baked sweet potatoes were so hot that they were impossible to hold. Jin Man took one out for himself. The child no longer thought about the duck eggs after having the sweet potatoes. He happily got a stool for Jin Man, and the two of them squatted beside the bucket, staring at the fish in the bucket.
"What's your name?"
The child lowered his head and said nothing, humming twice.
Jin Man thought he hadn't heard her, so he bent down with amusement and asked, "I mean, what's your name?"
The child's face flushed red, and the sweet potato in his hand no longer smelled good. He stumbled: "I..."
Jin Man didn't expect that he would scare people away. He sighed, washed his face, and looked at himself in the mirror for a long time. He obviously didn't look scary.
He skipped and hopped to find his elder brother. He was so tired on the way that he found a big tree fork to use as a walking stick.
The eldest brother's house was next to the canal, surrounded by flowers and grass. He was smoking a cigarette and grinding tofu with sweat dripping down his face. When he saw Jin Man, he exclaimed:
"Li Tieguai is here."
Jin Man: “…”
He turned around and left, and his eldest brother hurried over to pull him back, saying that he was just joking, and carried Jin Man into the yard.
Jin Man took a ladle and poured beans in. The crunching sound was accompanied by the aroma of beans. Soon he was sweating all over. "Brother, do you know the kid who stole my lunch box last time?"
The eldest brother hummed and wiped his sweat: "What's wrong?"
Jin Man knocked on the millstone twice, shaking the beans out. "He has wounds all over his body, one after another. It doesn't look like he fell."
My eldest brother had just returned from the army and wasn't very clear about it. He was silent for a while and said, "Okay, I'll go ask some other day."
The next day, Zhou Yu received a call from his comrade and went out of the province to help. He left in the middle of the night and the old man didn't know when he would come back. There happened to be a funeral in the next village, so he went to blow the trumpet to earn money, and no one took care of Jin Man.
His feet have been very swollen and painful these days. He was lazy and didn't apply any medicine on them, so this minor problem turned into something serious.
I had this problem when I got married. I didn't like taking medicine or seeing a doctor, and I was very resistant to hospitals.
When I was in the Lu family, there were people watching me, and I suffered a lot in my life.
The house hadn't been cleaned for a few days, and with the heavy rain in the summer, I could hardly go out the entire day.
The small clinic at the entrance of the village couldn't take an X-ray, so the doctor prescribed some medicine and advised him to go to town for a checkup if the pain still persisted.
Jin Man was walking home in the rain. He walked too fast and fell. The fall was quite heavy. Not only did he see stars, but his whole body was in pain.
He turned over and sat up, and the tree branch flew into the cornfield. He sat on the ground in a mess, and there was no one in sight.
Now I have to either limp back or crawl in to find it.
God seems to like playing jokes.
Jin Man's eyes were hot. He bent his legs and was about to climb into the cornfield when suddenly the rain stopped. He raised his head and saw a familiar little round face with a lotus leaf on its back, wearing a small straw raincoat and carrying a basket of pig grass. It looked at him in surprise.
He cut a lotus leaf for Jin Man, looked at the branches in the cornfield, and went in.
After a while, he came out with a crutch, and his face was scratched several times by corn leaves, but because of his dark skin, it was not very noticeable.
Jin Man was stunned. He took the crutches and stood up. The child shook the backpack and said, "Let's go."
The two of them went back in the rain. Jin Man entered the yard and turned back to say, "If the rain stops later, come find me and I'll boil eggs for you."
The child looked at him, shook the water droplets from his hair, and ran away without saying a word.
Jin Man went into the house, changed his clothes, and wiped his body. This time he remembered to apply the medicated oil. He applied it with a grimace and went to the stove to light a fire.
The rain stopped at noon. Jin Man was reading in the house. He was a little disappointed that the child had not come.
He slept on the bed and didn't know how long he waited. The puppies in the yard barked and there were also the voices of children.
Jin Man opened the door and saw a round-faced child wearing a straw raincoat squatting next to the chicken coop and teasing the dog.
It was getting towards evening and the sun was setting.
The picture looks quite cute. Jin Man, with his limp, made fried rice for the child.
The rice was fried with lard and added with Zhou Yu's tofu and corn kernels. It smelled delicious when it was served. The children ate it very quickly, and their faces were covered with oil.
Jin Man thought of Lu Zhi, who ate very slowly. He squatted down to wipe the child's face. He widened his eyes, his ears turned red with embarrassment, and he didn't know what to do with his hands and feet.
"May I have your name?"
The child was silent. Jin Man saw the red marks on his arm, like those from bamboo lashes. The scabs had a strange, foul smell. He wanted to take a closer look, but the child saw him inhale and wrinkle his nose. His face changed, and he pursed his lips. He used the excuse of putting down the bowl to slip out from under Jin Man's arm and ran away.
Jin Man felt that the smell was very familiar. When he was a child, he would search all over the mountains for wild fruits and mushrooms to sell for pocket money. When he was injured, he would chew herbs and apply them to his wounds. If the wound was not treated properly, it would have that smell.
When he was a child, he picked herbs because no one cared about him and the living conditions were poor. Why is it like this now?
Jin Man thought about it, then limped to the village clinic to buy some anti-inflammatory drugs. Two large trucks were parked outside the village clinic, and a lot of people had come. It seemed that new equipment and new doctors had arrived.
The old doctor took time out of his busy schedule to prescribe medicine for him and generously lent him a walking stick.
Jin Man asked as he walked, and found a house near a lotus pond, close to the reeds. The owner raised a lot of ducks, which were enclosed in the pond with wire mesh. However, the management was not very good, so you could smell a foul odor when you got closer.
He frowned and saw a child squatting in the middle of the yard, wearing a straw raincoat and mixing feed.
A man came out of the house, holding a bamboo stick for driving ducks, and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Duck shit, duck shit!"
The child shuddered, raised his head, and looked out.
The man pointed at him, his eyes wide and bloodshot, and he was furious: "You stinky duck shit, rotten duck shit, I asked you to watch over the ducks, where have you been? You didn't even know you lost something!"
The child subconsciously wanted to run, but was blocked by the fierce bamboo sticks. He was beaten into the basket and rolled out again, covered with duck feathers.
The animals flapped their wings in fear and rushed into the lotus pond, but the child who could not fly could not hide.
"stop!"
Such sounds were rarely heard in the village. The man was in the right, and he was venting his anger while cursing.
Turning around, he saw a strange face, shaking hands, and using crutches to open the gate.
The man didn't recognize him and said angrily: "Fuck your mother, who let you in? Get out."
Jin Man's hands were shaking. He walked slowly, and his footprints left a pit on the muddy ground with every step.
Alpha's back stood in front of the duck cage, blocking out the light.
When the child looked up, all he could see was his broad shoulders and shiny white clothes.
"I've called the police."
The man thought he was just meddling in other people's business, but his expression changed drastically when he heard this.
Jin Man knew that most people were not familiar with the law and found it troublesome, but he had been in the Lu family for so long that he inevitably understood some of it.
He faced the man's furiously raised sickle without showing any fear. He said calmly and calmly, "You still want to attack me now? Do you really want to go to jail for life?"
The man panted hard, gnashing his teeth, and after a while he put down the knife: "It's none of your business, don't think I don't dare!"
Jin Man didn't say anything. He held the child's hand and found that the child was extremely tense. There was a cut on his head with duck feces mixed with duck feathers. The risk of bacterial infection was too great, so Jin Man didn't dare to wipe it.
There was a police car parked at the entrance of the village, and many villagers came one after another.
The village chief was also alarmed. The police were inquiring about the situation. Jin Man said he wanted to take the child for a physical examination.
The man was extremely angry after hearing this, his words were slurred and he cried out: "What did I do to him? He's a bastard born by a cheap bitch. I feed him and clothe him. How have I wronged him?!"
"Bah, you son of a bitch! You act like a decent human being, and you're so good at saying nice things. If you dare, you'll be cuckolded and raise a bastard!"
He pointed at the child, spat on him, and said viciously: "Bastard."
The blood on the child's face had not yet dried. He looked up at the noisy people around him with a look of confusion on his face.
He is a bastard and a piece of duck shit.
Others think he is dirty, but actually he thinks he is dirty too.
A pair of hands suddenly covered his ears. The child raised his head and saw the adult standing behind him with a cold face, saying something calmly. He saw that the man's face was getting uglier and uglier.
The villagers around him were pointing and talking, but not at him. He looked up at Jin Man in confusion.
Jin Man noticed it, lowered his head and said, "Don't be afraid."
The village chief went to the police station with them to participate in mediation. The injuries on the child's body were new and old, large and small, and it was confirmed that there was abuse, but the injuries did not constitute intentional injury and did not meet the conditions for prosecution. The final result was detention and a fine.
The village chief said that the man came from another place and liked to beat his wife when he was drunk, so his wife cheated on him and ran away with her child after the incident.
Jin Man knew that woman. She was his relative's niece. They used to catch loaches in the lotus pond together when they were young.
Jin Man was somewhat related to the child, and he was stunned for a long time when he found out about this.
The village chief sighed: "Everyone knows he beats them, but not all children are raised by beatings. It's better to have someone to take care of them than to be an orphan."
"At least there's food to eat and a roof over my head."
Under the law, mental abuse is difficult to be sentenced. This child doesn't even have a name. He is called Duck Shit. He has not attended kindergarten and has never worn children's clothing appropriate for his age.
Some people in this world seem to be born unlucky. They face many misfortunes from birth, and their future lives seem to be foreseeable at a glance.
Someone pulled him up, making him think he could be saved, but when he fell back into the water, he was only in a worse situation.
It would be better if you never have any expectations.
After the child was washed and his wound was bandaged, Jin Man walked to the hospital's corridor to make a phone call.
He wasn't eavesdropping, but was sitting in a chair playing with his fingers.
After a while, Jin Man came back, squatted in front of him, and peeled a lollipop for him.
Sugar is sweet, so it's okay to send him back.
There are good people in the world. If he grows up a little bit, he will try hard to meet good people.
He smiled at Jin Man, pulled the wound on his forehead, and grinned like a puppy.
Jin Man also smiled. He touched the child's head and asked him, "Would you like to come to my house first?"
The child held the candy in his mouth and nodded after a while.
…
After Lu Zhi felt a little better and was able to leave the hospital, Lu Yanlin took Lu Zhi abroad to relax.
He is the child of the Lu family. He has the best of everything, and it is not difficult for him to buy happiness with money.
Lu Yanlin can build him an underwater park, let him appear in his favorite cartoon, let him study in an aristocratic school, give him a docile pony, and adopt a penguin that has lost its parents. These enviable things are not difficult.
Lu Zhi's mood did improve a little, and he didn't ask where Jin Man had gone.
Smart children know that once Pandora's box is opened, it can never be closed again.
Lu Yanlin and Lu Zhi were skiing abroad when they accidentally met a family of three.
The other child's father came to apologize and talked about the dispute that had occurred between the two children. He apologized to Lu Yanlin and said that his child had said some very excessive words.
The adults were chatting nearby, and Lu Zhi was listening quietly. The child he had thrown his schoolbag at came over awkwardly, tugging at his mother's clothes: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that about your father."
Lu Zhi held onto his skis and nodded politely: "No need, I beat you up too."
The child scratched his head and said: "I don't hate your father. I was really envious of you at that time. I was jealous that your father treated you so well."
Lu Zhi suddenly turned around and looked at him.
The child looked around and asked curiously, "Where's your dad?"
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