Drinking water doesn't relieve the spiciness at all; there's nothing I can do but endure it.
"Waaaaah..." Liu Shengrui cried so hard.
"You!" Zhang Cuihua looked at her son, then at her weeping grandson, and couldn't help but complain, "How could you be such a father, making Xiao Rui so sick!"
“He didn’t do it on purpose,” Mo Youyou said, trying to cheer up her son and tell him not to be angry, that his father didn’t do it on purpose.
Liu Shengrui kept crying. He looked at Liu Dekai through his teary eyes. Although he didn't say anything, he remembered that piece of spicy beef.
He didn't know why this was happening. He had been behaving very well, so why was his father punishing him by making him eat such spicy food?
He was a little angry, but he didn't show it.
As the day of his mission drew closer, Liu Dekai became increasingly diligent in his extra training, even to the point of overdoing it. He would even take the initiative to go to the military base for extra training during his normal rest time.
That weekend, Zhang Cuihua was cleaning the house, Mo Youyou was doing something in her room, and Liu Dekai went to the army base for extra training.
Liu Shengrui wanted to go out and play, but his mother and grandmother didn't respond when he pulled them.
"Xiao Rui, why don't you play around near your house for a bit? Mom will come out and play with you when I'm done with my work, okay?" Mo Youyou said.
"Okay." Liu Shengrui nodded, not insisting.
Because he is behaving very well now, many children in the compound are willing to play with him, so Mo Youyou and Zhang Cuihua are not watching him as closely anymore. Sometimes they even let him go out to play by himself and come back on his own.
It's such a large area, and the people coming and going are all from the residential compound, and they all know each other, so there's not much to worry about regarding safety.
Liu Shengrui hadn't felt this "free" in a long time.
He went out happily, and after taking only a few steps, he spotted the little puppy!
It was that little puppy that had inexplicably appeared in the courtyard, loved by all the children, and later discovered by Su Yueya to have been abused.
Now, the little puppy has grown a tiny bit.
"Puppy!" Liu Shengrui rushed over excitedly, as if seeing a long-lost old friend. "Puppy, puppy!"
He wants to play with the puppy!
It's the same old game!
Before making his move, Liu Shengrui was very cautious. He looked around and saw no one. Now that only he and his good friend were there, he naturally had to cherish this rare opportunity and enjoy playing with his old friend.
"Stand up!" Liu Shengrui shouted, then grabbed one of the puppy's front legs and made it stand up.
The puppy had been abused by Liu Shengrui before, and now it smelled that familiar, terrifying scent. It immediately wanted to run away, but its front legs were grabbed, and it couldn't move at all. It stiffly tried to get away.
"Naughty."
Liu Dekai frowned, clearly displeased with the puppy's uncooperative behavior.
"If you misbehave, you will be punished."
Immediately afterwards, Liu Shengrui grabbed the puppy by its front leg and lifted it up completely, even raising his hand to the highest point he could reach, deliberately swaying and swinging it back and forth to scare the puppy.
"Will you listen to me? Will you listen to me?" Liu Shengrui asked.
The little puppy couldn't answer people's questions. It was completely overwhelmed by fear and could only make soft whimpering sounds, unable to escape at all.
Liu Shengrui was quite angry when he received no response.
"You're so naughty!"
Then, without warning, Liu Shengrui let go of her hand.
"Woof—" The puppy crashed hard to the ground. Even if Liu Shengrui hadn't thrown it, the height and its own weight alone would have been enough to injure it.
Although it hurt a lot, the puppy's first reaction was to run away!
Based on past experience, if it fails to escape the clutches in time, it will face even more terrible abuse; the fall it just experienced is nothing compared to what it has just endured.
The puppy immediately jumped up and tried to run away—
How could Liu Shengrui let it go so easily?
The moment he let go, he crouched down to get a closer look at the puppy's pain.
Those weak sobs and those panicked, evasive eyes were Liu Shengrui's favorite rewards.
"Trying to run away?" Liu Shengrui grabbed the puppy's hind leg and pulled it back after it had only run a little distance.
The puppy seemed unwilling to accept this outcome. It desperately pawed at the ground with its front legs, but it was no match for Liu Shengrui's strength. It could only be passively pulled backward by the force of its hind legs, moving closer to the demon.
"No, you're not allowed to run away." Liu Shengrui said, word by word, his tone even carrying a smile, "We're good friends, and good friends should play together. You have to play with me."
Liu Shengrui genuinely believed from beginning to end that he and the puppy were good friends, and that their interactions were just playing and had nothing to do with abuse.
Having not seen the puppy for a long time, Liu Shengrui missed it terribly.
In front of other children, in front of the uncles and aunts in the compound, even in front of his parents and grandmother, and in front of Teacher Mao, Liu Shengrui was always pretending. He hadn't been "himself" for a long time.
At this moment, with his mother and grandmother not around, and no one else around, and having just happened to encounter the puppy, he simply couldn't keep up the pretense any longer. He wanted to be himself and do things entirely according to his own heart.
Anyway, puppies can't talk or tattle, so no matter how they play, no one else will know. It's a secret that belongs only to him and his puppy.
How wonderful! Just thinking about it makes me yearn for it.
"It's the same game as before, remember?" Liu Shengrui asked, looking particularly patient.
He reached out and stroked the puppy's trembling body, as if he really liked it. Then, his stroking hand slowly clenched into a fist, which he raised high and then slammed down heavily on the puppy.
"Bang—"
One punch after another.
The puppy's thin body trembled like a leaf, and it kept whimpering.
"Ha ha!"
Liu Shengrui let out an excited laugh. He felt his blood boiling. This familiar feeling was quite enjoyable and very comfortable for him.
"Is it fun? Isn't it a lot of fun?"
Liu Shengrui acted like a madman, not content with just punching, he stood up and kicked the puppy.
"Waaah..."
The puppy seemed to have given up resisting. It curled up on the ground, unable to run away or hide, and could only endure every punch and kick that landed on its body.
"Fun! Fun! So much fun!" Liu Shengrui was extremely excited.
So much so that he became so engrossed in the exhilarating feeling that he ignored his surroundings.
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