So the three sons sat in a row and all looked at Liu Shengrui, who was playing the role of their father.
"Then, you should go wash your hands first," Liu Shengrui said.
The three sons immediately pretended to wash their hands, making movements like turning on a tap and rubbing soap on their hands.
Da Jun, always playful, pretended to fill a handful with water and splashed it on Liang Qingsheng, laughing and shouting, "Haha, your clothes are all wet!"
“Then I’ll splash you too!” Liang Qingsheng said, immediately “catching a handful of water” and retaliating.
The two of them had a great time playing water fights.
Liu Shengrui got angry.
He's the father!
He told them to wash their hands, but they were laughing and splashing each other in the water, which is wrong!
"Stop messing around!" Liu Shengrui shouted, then slapped Liang Qingsheng and Da Jun on the arm twice with a loud thud.
"What are you doing? Why are you hitting people?!" Liang Qingsheng immediately expressed his dissatisfaction with Liu Shengrui, glaring at him angrily.
Dajun also touched his arm, looking aggrieved, it hurt a little.
"Yeah, why did you hit us?"
Faced with Liang Qingsheng and Dajun's questioning, Liu Shengrui did not immediately speak up to explain himself, still wearing the same angry expression he had before hitting them.
The commotion they made attracted the attention of the other children playing different roles, and they all gathered around.
The oldest child among them, who was leading the game, stepped forward.
"What's wrong with you?" the leader asked.
"He hit people!" Liang Qingsheng pointed at Liu Shengrui and accused him to everyone, "He hit me and Dajun!"
“Yes!” Da Jun echoed.
"Why did you hit someone?" the leader asked Liu Shengrui, accusing him. "Hitting people is wrong. You can't hit other kids, or no one will want to play with you."
Tian Feixiang looked at Liu Shengrui, feeling a little scared, remembering his mother's words of warning.
But he's the one who invited everyone to play with Liu Shengrui today, won't something bad happen?
Tian Feixiang felt a pang of guilt.
However, Liu Shengrui still had the same expression as before, and he didn't change at all when he was accused and questioned. Moreover, he seemed very confident when he spoke.
"Because they don't listen!"
“I’m the dad. I told them to wash their hands and eat, but they were having a water fight and wouldn’t listen, so I got a beating,” Liu Shengrui explained.
Isn't that how it is in every home?
If a child misbehaves, his parents will discipline him by hitting his hand or spanking him. It's just that they hit his arm, but isn't it all the same thing?
The other children, after hearing Liu Shengrui's explanation, felt that it seemed to make sense.
If you don't obey, you'll get a beating.
Now everyone is playing house, and Liu Shengrui is playing the father. He's beating his disobedient son, which seems reasonable.
“Alright, you guys stop being disobedient,” the older kid in charge said to Da Jun and Liang Qingsheng, who had been beaten, and then instructed Liu Shengrui, “You shouldn’t hit them anymore either. If they’re disobedient, you can teach them a lesson with words, you don’t necessarily have to hit them.”
Everyone accepted this approach, so no one pressed for further questions, and they continued playing the game.
Tian Feixiang breathed a brief sigh of relief, thinking that thankfully nothing serious had happened.
However, things did not go smoothly, because children are always mischievous, and since they are playing a game, nothing is always under control.
When Liang Qingsheng once again acted in a way that Liu Shengrui considered "disobedient," Liu Shengrui ignored the advice of the older child leader and resorted to the old methods.
"Slap—" A slap landed on Liang Qingsheng's arm.
"Stop messing around!" Liu Shengrui reprimanded him sternly.
Liang Qingsheng's arm hurt terribly; the spot where he was hit was burning with pain. He clutched his arm, his eyes reddening, looking at Liu Shengrui with a wronged expression and resentment in them.
It's just playing house. Liu Shengrui isn't his real father, so why does he keep hitting him?
Liu Shengrui saw Liang Qingsheng's defiant gaze, and the evil factor in his genes was fully activated.
You disagree?
Then beat him until he submits.
"You're glaring at me?" Liu Shengrui questioned, then slapped Liang Qingsheng's other arm.
"Smack—"
Immediately, both of Liang Qingsheng's arms turned red.
Ouch!
He couldn't hold back any longer; overwhelmed by pain and grievance, he burst into tears.
"Ouch—that hurts!"
"Waaaaah..."
Liang Qingsheng's cries immediately attracted everyone's attention.
Not only the children playing together, but even the military wives chatting on the side were alerted, and everyone quickly gathered around.
"Why did you hit someone again?" The older kid who was leading the group looked at Liu Shengrui with dissatisfaction, and then went to comfort Liang Qingsheng, who was crying. He was extremely busy.
"He's disobedient!" Liu Shengrui repeated the same excuse.
Even the leader, who's still a kid, can't handle this situation.
Fortunately, the military wives have arrived.
When Liang Qingsheng's mother, Lin Zixin, realized that it was her son crying, she immediately went to his side and asked, "Qingsheng, why are you crying?"
"Waaah... He, he hit me, it hurts so much, it hurts so much!" Liang Qingsheng immediately complained pitifully, showing his mother his two reddened arms. "Mom, it hurts."
When Lin Zixin saw her son's reddened arm, she felt extremely distressed.
"You hit my son?!" Lin Zixin turned her head and saw the little boy her son had pointed at. She recognized him as Liu Shengrui, the man all military wives avoided. Anger rose within her. "What right did you have to hit him!"
Liu Shengrui wasn't afraid at all. He stubbornly retorted, "Disobedience deserves a beating! Serves you right!"
Lin Zixin grew increasingly angry.
Whether her son is obedient or not, whether he deserves to be hit, when did it become the place for this universally disliked bad kid to judge?
"You think he deserves to be hit? I think you're the one who deserves to be hit!" Lin Zixin was so protective of her son that she didn't even think twice before slapping him back.
Zhang Cuihua arrived just in time and saw that her eldest grandson was about to be beaten, so she quickly stopped him.
"Hey! What are you doing? You want to lay a hand on a child? Are you even human?!" Zhang Cuihua stopped Lin Zixin and immediately shielded her eldest grandson behind her.
The other military wives also gathered around, and when they recognized that the one who hit the person was Liu Shengrui, the one who was rumored in the compound to be a terrible kid named Chaoxiong, they all stood on Lin Zixin's side.
"Sister, your child hit someone first! You don't discipline your own grandson, and you're blaming others? You're being completely unreasonable!"
"Yes, that kid's arm was all red from being hit. How hard did they hit him? You're the only one who can feel sorry for your own child. Aren't other people's children children too? How can you do this!"
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