The sound ended, and she woke up suddenly, just like Cinderella's disappointment and panic when she fell into reality after the midnight bell rang.
The crowd slowly dispersed, and Liu Ping and Zheng Qi accompanied Xu Yanting and walked out slowly.
Liu Ping asked, "Is it fun?"
Xu Yanting nodded.
Liu Ping smiled and said, "I'll teach you a few more amazing dances later, and then you'll be able to outdo all the women in the village."
"Haha!" Xu Yanting finally showed some of the cheerfulness and brightness that her age should have. She was no longer gloomy and numb. She asked with a smile, "How come you can dance so many times?"
"I'm nothing! Qiqi knows more! She can do folk dance, Latin dance, and even street dance!"
Although Xu Yanting didn't quite understand what was said, she knew it was amazing, so she exclaimed with envy, "You are so amazing."
Zheng Qi waved his hand. "What's so great about that? I learned all this when I was a kid. I'm only half-baked."
Xu Yanting said with emotion: "Then you were really happy when you were a child."
"Happiness?" Zheng Qi's expression suddenly became strange. He pulled the two of them to sit on a rock by the roadside and said softly, "Actually, I lost my father when I was young."
Xu Yanting exclaimed in surprise, and heard Zheng Qi continue: "My father was a gambler. He lost money every day and borrowed a lot of debts. When he lost, he would come back and beat my mother and me, blaming me for bringing bad luck to him. Although I don't have any specific memories of the days before I was three years old, I still remember that I had a very bad life. Fortunately, when I was a little over three years old, my mother divorced my father and took me to live in Jincheng."
Xu Yanting was surprised and asked, "Is it possible?"
Zheng Qi smiled and said, "Marriage is a union between two people, not something that is set in stone for life. If it's not suitable, just separate and find a new partner. Otherwise, why does the national law allow divorce?"
She recalled, "After the divorce, my mother took me with her. Life was hard at first, but she was very capable and soon made some money, so life got better. She was still very young and pretty at the time, but in order to raise me, she never remarried, and that's how it is today. I'm actually quite thankful. If they had continued to pester us like this, perhaps our lives would have been much more miserable."
Xu Yanting was stunned by Zheng Qi's words. This story challenged the inherent thinking in her mind.
Can you get a divorce if you are not living well?
Can you live better after the divorce?
Won’t others say anything?
She looked at Zheng Qi and said hesitantly, "Then...what about the others?"
Zheng Qi laughed, "What are you thinking? This is not ancient times. Divorce is a very normal thing nowadays. Why would others think too much about it? From childhood to adulthood, I have never been discriminated against by others! Right, Pingping?"
Liu Ping rolled her eyes. "Why are you asking me? Although my mom is divorced, I have a stepfather. My stepfather treats me very well!"
"Ah?" Xu Yanting looked at Liu Ping, "You...you too?"
Liu Ping spread her hands. "There's nothing bad about my biological father. He just doesn't get along with my mother. They broke up and each found someone to marry. Now our two families still have dinner together occasionally."
Xu Yanting was stunned. What was going on? How could this happen?
Liu Ping and Zheng Qi looked at each other. They really wanted to strike while the iron was hot and persuade this kind and ignorant girl to divorce that scumbag Gu Gang, but they still kept in mind what Huo Qianli and the teacher had told them. They just told their real experiences and left everything to Xu Yanting to judge and decide for herself.
Yes, these two girls were naturally also carefully prepared by Huo Qianli for Xu Yanting.
Xu Yanting returned home in a daze and was in a daze all night.
After coaxing the baby to sleep and helping the two girls to rest, Xu Yanting sat on the bed for a long time until Gu Gang came back and woke her up.
"Go get a basin of water for washing your feet!"
Gu Gang, who was drunk, took off his shoes and socks and ordered bluntly: "Then pour me a bowl of water."
Xu Yanting subconsciously did as she was told and brought the water for washing feet over. As soon as Gu Gang put his feet in, he frowned, "The water isn't even hot anymore. You can't even pour water for washing feet?"
Xu Yanting shrank back and hurried out to pour a bowl of boiling water into the thermos.
Gu Gang took it and put it to his mouth. Just as Xu Yanting was about to speak, Gu Gang spit it out and splashed the water in the bowl directly onto Xu Yanting. "You did it on purpose, didn't you?"
The water at 50 or 60 degrees soaked her clothes and burned her skin, but Xu Yanting's heart was cold. For the first time, besides numbly enduring, she had other thoughts.
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