The beating lasted for more than twenty minutes.
When the man stopped, Jiang Zhen was already dying. "Fuck you!" The man spitted on Jiang Zhen's face and then turned back to the cabinet.
Jiang Bi hid in the gap between the closet doors, watching this horrifying scene with tears in her eyes. When she found her adoptive father looking at her, Jiang Bi was so scared that she rolled out of the closet.
She fell to the ground, but quickly got up, knelt down and kowtowed to apologize, "Dad, I was wrong. I won't run away again. I won't dare to do it again!"
The man was already furious and didn't have the energy to deal with Jiang Bi anymore. He pointed at Jiang Zhen and threatened him, "If you dare to run again, I'll tear your sister's tendons and skin her alive!"
Jiang Zhen glared at the man with dissatisfaction and clenched his teeth.
The man left quickly.
After he left, Jiang Bi finally crawled to her brother's side. Seeing Jiang Zhen's injuries and the blood at the corner of his mouth, Jiang Bi was so scared that she didn't know where to start hugging her brother.
"Brother..." Jiang Bi's tears fell on Jiang Zhen's face, "Brother, don't die, don't die!"
Jiang Zhen gave her a weak smile and fainted.
The beating left Jiang Zhen with a broken left arm, a broken rib, and spleen pain for over a month. But Jiang Zhen didn't see a doctor; the man didn't even let him leave the house.
Jiang Zhen was imprisoned again, and this time for another two months.
One day a month later, Jiang Zhen was released. On the day he was released, Jiang Bi was handcuffed and locked in a room.
The adoptive father sat on a chair in the living room, took a puff of his pipe, and told Jiang Zhen: "Ao Han, watch carefully, your sister is locked up at home. If you dare to run away, I will chop off your sister's arm and take her life!"
He spent all his savings to buy this pair of brother and sister, and he still had to rely on these brother and sister to take care of him in his old age.
He would not be willing to not tame Jiang Zhen!
Jiang Zhen glanced at his sister, silently picked up his schoolbag, walked out of the house and went to school. In this way, the brother and sister continued to live together with their adoptive father in peace.
Later, in order to free his sister, Jiang Zhen began to act like a good son. At school, he studied hard and got the top score. When he went home at night, he would pretend to be dreaming and calling for his mother in order to deceive his adoptive father's trust.
In addition, Jiang Zhen would prepare dinner in the evening for his adoptive father to eat when he came back, and even wash his clothes for him.
Seeing Jiang Zhen being so obedient, his adoptive father thought that this child was really sensible and knew what was right and wrong, so he gradually became relieved of him. It took Jiang Zhen a year to completely gain his adoptive father's trust, and only then did his adoptive father remove the chains from Jiang Bi.
And so they lived together for another three years.
In the blink of an eye, Jiang Zhen and his sister were ten years old, and six years had passed since they were sold to the Kingdom of Yue.
Jiang Bi became more and more beautiful as she grew up. Many families in the neighborhood liked her and were waiting for her to grow up and marry her as their daughter-in-law.
Seeing his daughter so popular, the adoptive father was happy from the bottom of his heart. He was now looking forward to Jiang Bi growing up quickly. When she grew up, he would find her a wealthy husband and ask for more dowry.
Jiang Zhen knew his adoptive father's plan, but he didn't express his dissatisfaction, nor did he dare to express his dissatisfaction. He often stayed up late to teach Jiang Bi to read and write, so even though Jiang Bi had never been to school, she could still read.
Jiang Bi's pencil broke, so Jiang Zhen handed his pen to Jiang Bi. He picked up a knife to sharpen the pencil, but he lost his balance and the pencil sharpener fell under the bed and could not be found.
Jiang Zhen turned on the flashlight and crawled under the bed, only to find the blade had fallen behind the bedpost. Jiang Bi crawled under the bed, took the pencil sharpener, and was about to climb out when she discovered two words written with a black wooden stick on the wooden bed board.
——Jiang Zhen.
Jiang Zhen stared at the two unfamiliar words in a daze, and suddenly his eyes became blurred.
Seeing Jiang Zhen lying under the bed and not coming out, Jiang Bi thought his pencil sharpener was missing. "Brother, did you find the pencil sharpener?"
Jiang Zhen quickly wiped his eyes and slid out from under the bed. He said, "I found it."
Jiang Bi was surprised to see Jiang Zhen's red eyes. "Brother, are you crying?"
Jiang Zhen sat on a small stool, silently sharpening his pencil without answering.
Jiang Bi asked again: "Brother, why are you crying?"
Jiang Zhen suddenly raised his head and stared at Jiang Bi, asking her, "Do you still remember our original names?"
Jiang Bi was stunned for a moment, then shook her head. "I don't remember."
"Then do you remember where our home is?"
Jiang Bi still shook her head.
Jiang Zhen suddenly became very frustrated. He exerted force with his hand, and the pencil sharpener directly cut off the pencil lead. His finger was also cut and bleeding.
Jiang Zhen stared at the blood on his fingertips, lowered his head and said, "Bi'er, I will definitely take you home in the future."
Jiang Bi remained silent, probably because she had given up hope on this matter.
Jiang Zhen put down his knife and pen, and went to the vegetable garden with a flashlight. He found a kind of grass in the vegetable garden, crushed it and applied it directly to the wound on his finger.
Jiang Zhen held down the herbs and waited for the bleeding to stop before preparing to return home. He walked through the hall downstairs, flashing a flashlight, towards the stairwell when he heard voices coming from the dining room.
Jiang Zhen stopped dead in his tracks when he heard the words "buy it and raise it" and "it's almost grown up." He turned around calmly, turned off the flashlight, and quietly walked out of the restaurant.
Jiang Zhen leaned against the wall and eavesdropped.
inside the house.
The adoptive father smoked his pipe and stared at the woman in front of him silently.
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