Chapter 254: Being Slapped
Listening to their conversation, Xiaohua clutched her schoolbag tightly with both hands, lowered her head, and quickened her pace.
Hengheng also heard it. He immediately looked at the two girls and said, "Can you please say it again?"
At this time, Hengheng had a cold face and spoke very seriously. The two girls looked at him and immediately became quiet and stopped talking.
When he turned around and found that Xiaohua had gone far away, he immediately chased after her, "Xiaohua, you didn't wait for me again. You were so weird this afternoon. You ignored me."
"No." Xiaohua replied, "Did I make you angry?" Hengheng asked her.
"no."
Humph, I feel a little crazy when I hear this. It would be strange if there is no such thing.
Seeing her walking with her head down without looking at the road, and not hiding even though there was a senior student in front of her, Hengheng quickly reached out and grabbed her arm and pulled her to the side.
"Hiss—it hurts!" Xiaohua's face turned pale at this time. She struggled to pull her hand away from Hengheng's hand and reached out to touch the place where she was grabbed.
"I...I, I hurt you?" Hengheng was a little panicked. He didn't use so much strength, how could he hurt her.
Xiaohua touched her arm, looked at him and said, "It's none of your business." Then she walked away.
Hengheng looked at his hand in confusion. He didn't have much strength, so how could he have hurt her?
Xiaohua was so strange this afternoon, not like usual at all.
Sitting in the car, he held the book in his arms, his head down, and kept thinking about this matter.
I didn't feel like doing anything else when I got home. I sat in front of the desk looking at the homework in front of me without any mood at all.
He was in a bad mood even when eating. Song Tingxuan and Gu Fei noticed that he was not in a good mood. He was happy in the morning and fine at noon, but he was unhappy when he came back in the evening.
Did something happen at school?
After dinner, Heng Heng went back to his room to do his homework. His parents were discussing in the living room how to ask him what happened at noon. Song Tingxuan said, "I'll go ask."
"Okay, you ask." Gu Fei nodded. Hengheng was closer to Song Tingxuan, so it would be better for Song Tingxuan to ask than for her to ask.
“Knock, knock, knock—”
"Who is it?" Hengheng shouted absentmindedly while playing with a pen, "It's me, Dad." Song Tingxuan replied him and only opened the door and came in after getting Hengheng's consent.
"Dad, why are you here?" Hengheng looked at him and asked, shouldn't he be with Mom now?
Song Tingxuan pulled a chair and sat next to him, looking at him and said, "What happened at school?"
"Nothing." Heng Heng shook his head and said, but Song Tingxuan looked at him and said, "But you have been in a bad mood since you came back. You don't even eat well."
"Can you tell Dad what happened? Maybe Dad can help you find a solution."
After hearing what Song Tingxuan said, she pursed her lips and hesitated for a moment before saying, "My deskmate ignored me this afternoon. She refused to eat anything I gave her."
Song Tingxuan's eyes fell on the bag of food on his desk, "Is this why you're unhappy?" Song Tingxuan asked him.
"In the morning after school, she left without waiting for me. In the evening after school, she almost bumped into someone while walking without looking at the road. I tried to pull her back, but ended up hurting her."
"Where did you hurt her when you grabbed her?" Song Tingxuan asked.
"It's right here on my arm." Hengheng pointed at his arm and said, "When I took out the trash, she took the trash can away by herself and ignored me."
Song Tingxuan put together what he said, but couldn't figure out what Hengheng had done wrong to make his deskmate unhappy.
"Are you on duty with her today?" Song Tingxuan asked. As a man in his thirties, he couldn't understand the troubles of the children.
"Ah!" Hengheng suddenly exclaimed, "Xiaohua swept the classroom by herself today, so is she angry with me?"
"..." Song Tingxuan felt like his own son had been slapped on the butt. He was lazy and let others do all the work, and he didn't know why the other person was angry.
"Go and apologize to your deskmate tomorrow, and sweep the entire classroom by yourself next time you are on duty. Got it?" Song Tingxuan slapped him on the thigh and gave him the task.
"Oh, I understand." Hengheng nodded and said that he would apologize even without Song Tingxuan telling him.
"Tomorrow bring a band-aid or some medicine to apologize to the kid because you hurt his arm."
"OK!"
After Song Tingxuan left the room, Gu Fei came over with a bulging belly and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing, he got into trouble on his own."
After listening to Song Tingxuan's story, Gu Fei laughed. He was just being lazy and making others angry.
"Don't mention it. Hengheng treats his deskmate differently. Last time, his hand was swollen because of her. He even bought her a watch and gave her snacks every day."
"Was the white watch you bought last time for his deskmate?" Song Tingxuan just then realized that Hengheng bought two watches and one of them was for his deskmate.
"Yes, you don't know?" Gu Fei asked him with a smile in his eyes.
"I don't know. Hum didn't tell me."
At this time, Xiaohua was in the room, looking at her bruised arms, pursing her lips as she rubbed the medicine beside her. This was the medicine she bought with her pocket money after school.
When her father was drunk, he would pinch her arm and sometimes even hit her. If her mother tried to stop him, she would also be beaten.
After she applied the medicine, she heard her mother's scream again. Xiaohua opened the door and looked out, only to see her drunk father grabbing her mother's hair and beating her hard.
The mother lay on the ground and could only let him beat her. "Why are you making such a fuss when I asked you to buy some wine?!"
"You're taking so long to buy a bottle of wine!"
Xiaohua ran down and hugged her father's hand, shouting, "Dad, you can't hit Mom anymore!"
"You loser, get out of here right now!" Her father became even more angry when he saw Xiaohua. He pushed her away with too much force and Xiaohua couldn't stand steadily and fell to the ground.
Xiaohua stood up in front of her mother and protected her mother with her arms open. At this time, she looked at the man in front of her with a firm look and said, "Dad, you are not allowed to hit Mom. If you want to hit me, hit me!"
The mother, who was lying on the ground with blood from being beaten, burst into tears when she saw Xiaohua's small back. She thought it was her fault for not protecting Xiaohua well.
"You loser, what's wrong with me hitting you?" As he said that, he raised his hand and slapped her on the face. The slap was so hard that Xiaohua fell to the ground. The corner of her mouth was bleeding and her ears were buzzing.
"Xiaohua!" Her mother struggled to get up from the ground and hugged Xiaohua. At this time, Xiaohua covered her ears and could only hear the buzzing sound.
After beating the man, her father fell asleep on the sofa. Xiaohua's mother ignored the pain in her body, grabbed her wallet and carried Xiaohua out of the house.
"Mom, it hurts." Xiaohua cried as she curled up into a ball.
The ear was buzzing, my face was burning, and the corners of my mouth were also hurting badly.
"Hangu, bear with it, we'll be at the hospital soon."
Sitting in the taxi, she kept comforting Xiaohua in her arms, even though she was in pain all over her body.
The driver looked at the mother and son through the rearview mirror. Both of them had injuries, which showed that they had been subjected to domestic violence.
"Ma'am, are you being abused?" the driver asked.
"Yeah, he got drunk and beat people up."
"Why did he beat the child so badly?" The driver looked at the little girl in her arms and said, "If he beats you often, you should call the police."
"Yes, I will."
After arriving at the hospital, Xiaohua's mother gave the money and ran into the hospital immediately. The nurse saw that both mother and child were injured and immediately arranged for emergency treatment.
After examining Xiaohua, the doctor told her mother, "Your eardrum is perforated. It will heal if you treat it well, but you may get tinnitus, which is more difficult to treat."
Xiaohua's face was swollen, and the doctor put medicine and a Band-Aid on the corner of her mouth.
She didn't understand what the doctor said. Xiaohua looked at her mother out of habit. At this time, her mother grabbed her hands and began to hate the man for the first time.
After examining Xiaohua, the doctor asked Xiaohua's mother to also take a look, as her injuries were quite serious.
After the examination, it was found that they were just superficial injuries. I gave her some medicine and prescribed her some medication and she was fine.
She sat in the hospital corridor with the medicine, looking at Xiaohua lying in her arms. She touched Xiaohua's head gently, looked at the information in her hand, took a deep breath, and decided to get rid of the man and give Xiaohua a childhood without violence.
The next day, Xiaohua didn't come to class. Hengheng endured it until the class was over and then ran to the office to ask the teacher.
"Homeroom teacher, why didn't Xiaohua come to class?"
"Oh, her mother has asked for a week's leave for her, and she won't be attending classes these days." The head teacher told him and walked out of the office with a snort and a shrug.
One week, Xiaohua took a week off.
Hengheng was in a bad mood until school was over. Today, Song Tingxuan was free to pick him up. Seeing him walking out of the school gate with an unhappy look on his face, Song Tingxuan felt puzzled.
What did this little brat do at school to annoy his deskmate?
"Did you apologize today?" Song Tingxuan asked him after he got in the car.
Heng Heng shook his head and said, "No, because Xiaohua took a week off and didn't come to school."
"Then wait until she comes and apologize." Song Tingxuan started the car and drove towards home.
"OK."
Why did Xiaohua take a week off?
Hengheng was holding his schoolbag, which contained not only books but also food and Band-Aids that he had prepared. He bought the Band-Aids at the drugstore himself and also bought disinfectant as the aunt asked.
Xiaohua was staying in the hotel with her mother at the time. When Xiaohua woke up, her mother was already sitting beside the bed looking at the results of last night's examination.
"mother……"
"Wake up." She put down what she was holding and looked at her softly, "I'll take you to wash up and take medicine."
"OK."
While eating lunch, Xiaohua's mother looked at her and said, "Xiaohua, Mommy has decided to divorce your mommy. Do you want to move to another city with Mommy?"
"Mom, don't you want daddy anymore?" Xiaohua raised her head and asked her when she heard this. The redness on her face had not yet subsided, and there were five big handprints on it. Her heart ached whenever she saw the five handprints on her face.
It was all her fault for not being ruthless that Xiaohua had to suffer, so she had to be ruthless this time.
"Well, I don't want a dad anymore. Xiaohua, do you want to follow mom?"
"Follow, wherever mommy goes, I'll go." Xiaohua nodded and said, "I don't want to be separated from mommy."
"Okay." She hugged Xiaohua and gently touched her hair and said.
After staying in the hotel for two days, she returned with Xiaohua. When her father saw them, he yelled at them: "You are back from fooling around. Why don't you go and cook dinner?"
"Hua Bai, let's get a divorce." She said straight to the point.
Hua Bai was stunned when he heard this, and immediately found it ridiculous. If the mother and daughter left him, could they survive in this city?
"I'll give you three seconds to take it back, or don't blame me for being rude." Hua Bai threatened her.
But this time, he was determined to divorce. "Look at Xiaohua. It took two days for the slap you gave her to heal. Her eardrum is perforated and she might get tinnitus."
"She is your daughter, how dare you beat her so severely!"
Hua Bai said nonchalantly, "She's just a money-loser. I'll beat her up if I want to. While we're still young, you should give me a son as soon as possible!"
"Huabai!" Chuncha shouted loudly, her beautiful face turned fierce, "What are you talking about!"
"divorce!"
She really can't stand this man for even a second now. She wants to divorce and take Xiaohua to live in another city.
She shouldn't have agreed to marry him in the first place. Even though he has become successful now, he still can't change the bad nature in his bones!
It is really disappointing that he said such things in front of Xiaohua.
Hua Bai got angry after she yelled at him, and he immediately shouted, "Divorce if you want, just don't regret it!"
"Go get my marriage certificate right now and go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get a divorce!" He pointed at Chuncha's nose and shouted loudly.
Chuncha immediately went upstairs to get the marriage certificate. Huabai felt annoyed looking at his daughter standing there. He thought what his brother said was right. A daughter was a waste of money. It would be better to have a son.
"What are you looking at? Why don't you pour me some water!" He yelled at Xiaohua and sat on the sofa. Xiaohua immediately ran to the kitchen to get a cup and poured him some water from the water dispenser.
She was so nervous that she held the cup with her whole hand, and as the hot water flowed into the cup and burned her hands, she dropped the cup, and the hot water also burned her hands.
When Hua Bai heard the noise, he started to curse again: "I asked you to pour a glass of water but you hesitated and even broke my glass. I think you are tired of living, right?"
Chuncha asked him for a divorce, and he was so angry that he didn't know how to vent it, so he could only vent it on his five-year-old daughter.
“Come here!”
When Xiaohua heard this, fear filled her eyes. She knew that her arm would be strangled if she walked over.
She hesitated and was reluctant to go over, but when she got in front of him, her arm was pinched hard.
"I can't get you to do anything, can I?"
"What are you doing!" Chuncha came down with the marriage certificate and a series of documents. When she saw him twisting her daughter's arm, she immediately rushed over and hugged her daughter.
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