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At 5:30 in the morning, the sky was still covered with a black cloth, with a few twinkling stars scattered among the black cloth.
Jiang Yan felt refreshed after washing her face. She walked into the kitchen, picked out a stainless steel basin, found a rolling pin from the corner, and returned to her room contentedly.
Jiang Pengpeng was sleeping soundly in the room, snoring like a little pig.
Sleep well!
Jiang Yanyi looked at Jiang Pengpeng with a malicious smile on his face.
After a moment, she picked up the basin and rolling pin in her hands, put them close to Jiang Pengpeng's ears, and then started knocking hard.
Ding ding ding, ding ding ding, the harsh sound echoed throughout the small room.
"Ahhh, ahhh, there's an earthquake, there's an earthquake." Jiang Pengpeng woke up crying, his whole body shaking, obviously not fully awake from his sleep.
Jiang Yan looked at him with a smile, without any trace of guilt after the prank. "You're awake, you should get up and study."
Jiang Pengpeng trembled for a long time before finally calming down. Looking at the large basin in Jiang Yanyi's hand, he realized what was going on no matter how dumb he was. He grabbed the quilt with both hands and angrily yelled at Jiang Yanyi: "Jiang Lai Di, are you sick?"
Jiang Yan slapped her on the head, "I gave you face, didn't I? I told you not to call me Jiang Lai Di, but you don't remember it, do you?"
A slap in the face completely extinguished Jiang Pengpeng's anger. Jiang Pengpeng complained dissatisfiedly, "Why did you call me so early? Look, it's still dark outside."
Jiang Yan nodded slightly: "I'm not blind, of course I know it's still dark outside. Don't you like to get up early every day? I'm just fulfilling your wish. Aren't you touched?" She didn't forget the first day she came here when she was knocked unconscious because of his yelling early in the morning.
Jiang Pengpeng collapsed: "Who likes to get up early!!!"
"Oh? You don't like it? You don't like the way you play games and curse every morning, disturbing people's sleep. You don't like the way you scream and sing all day long. You don't like the way you bang the stairs all day long. You don't like the way you twist and turn when you go to bed, making the bed creak. You don't like the way you pound the bed and the wall all day long? I see you like it very much."
Jiang Pengpeng was speechless after being confronted by her, "I..."
"Don't be so mean. I always like to repay evil with kindness. Although you are not a good person, I am still very kind. Look at how you treated me. I was so kind and worried that you would be late and woke you up. Hey, where can you find someone as kind as me?"
"But I don't go to school until eight o'clock." Jiang Pengpeng shouted out the powerlessness and anger in his heart with all his strength.
"Oh, I see. I'm so sorry. I forgot. Go back to sleep."
Jiang Yan shrugged, picked up the basin and turned to leave the room.
Jiang Pengpeng was once bitten by a snake and was afraid of ropes for ten years. He couldn't believe that she would let him go so easily.
"Hey, are you really going to let me sleep? You're not going to mess with me again, are you?"
Jiang Yan didn't even turn his head. "Whether you want to sleep or not is none of my business."
Jiang Pengpeng hadn't slept well to begin with, and his upper eyelids kept drooping. When he saw Jiang Yanyi leave, he let down his guard and could no longer resist the call of Zhou Gong. He shrank his body, crawled into the quilt, and fell asleep contentedly.
Jiang Yanyi carried the basin and went into the room of Jiang's father and mother again.
Father and Mother Jiang hadn't eaten all day yesterday. They were so hungry in the first half of the night that their stomachs were practically fuming. They lay in bed staring at the ceiling, unable to fall asleep. In the second half of the night, they couldn't bear it any longer and fell asleep, smacking their lips. They'd only gotten two hours of sleep so far.
This time, Jiang Yanyi did not violently hit the stainless steel basin in her hand. She picked up the basin and put it close to the ears of Jiang's father and mother. Ding, ding, ding, she knocked the basin slowly and steadily, waiting quietly for them to wake up.
As she expected, Father and Mother Jiang both woke up when she knocked for the fourth time.
Anyone would be furious if they were forcibly woken up so early in the morning, and Jiang's father and mother were no exception.
The new and old hatreds combined made them unable to contain their anger the first time they saw Jiang Yanyi. "Are you going to die? What's wrong with you so early in the morning?"
Jiang's father habitually wanted to beat Jiang Yanyi, but unfortunately he was defeated by reality the next second. He remembered that he was paralyzed and couldn't move at all.
He could only use more vicious language to express his anger and disgust. "You money-losing idiot, what are you doing? Are you crazy so early in the morning?"
Ding, ding, ding. Jiang Yan's hands kept moving, knocking and saying with a smile: "Sleep, sleep, sleep. All you do all day long is sleep, sleep, sleep. Why don't you die of sleep?" This was the words that Jiang's father and mother often used to scold her original body. Now she returned them to them intact.
"Oh no, it's five o'clock and you're still sleeping. Your precious son is already awake." Jiang Yanyi sarcastically said, "You're not pigs. Why do you sleep so long at such a young age? Look at the neighbors around you. Who can sleep as long as you do?"
Jiang's father and mother were furious. "You debt collector, what on earth do you want to do?"
Jiang Yan raised the basin in his hand and smiled brightly: "As you can see, it's time to collect the debt."
After successfully waking them all up, Jiang Yan returned to her and Jiang Pengpeng's room with satisfaction. Being young is great. She fell asleep right away. In less than half an hour, Jiang Pengpeng was asleep again.
Jiang Yanyi was even happier. She climbed the stairs, holding her breath, and the rolling pin and the basin made a cheerful sound of clang clang clang clang clang clang.
"Ah!!!!" Jiang Pengpeng's scalp tingled. "Didn't you tell me to sleep well?"
"Really? When did I promise you that? I don't remember it."
This was too much to bear. Jiang Pengpeng felt that he had had enough of her. He suddenly pounced on her and said, "I will fight you."
Jiang Yan acted quickly, grabbing the stainless steel basin with both hands and slamming Jiang Pengpeng's head into the basin. After holding him, she freed one hand to pick up a rolling pin and began to hit the bottom of the basin. "You want to hit me, right? I think you've got a lot of guts."
The bang-bang sounds gave Jiang Pengpeng a headache, and he felt his eyes begin to glow with golden light.
Jiang Yan showed no mercy and pinned him down on the bed, venting all the grievances that Jiang Lai Di had suffered on him.
Jiang Pengpeng started out cursing, then begged for mercy loudly, and finally couldn't even shout with tears and snot streaming down his face.
Jiang's father and mother next door heard Jiang Pengpeng's pig-killing screams and felt heartbroken and anxious. However, they could do nothing but lie on the bed and howl: "Jiang Lai Di, what are you doing? Don't hit Pengpeng, you're going to die. Let go of your brother. If you beat him to death, I won't let you go. Jiang Lai Di, do you hear me? Let go of your brother and get over here."
"Jiang Lai Di, you unlucky ghost, what sin did we commit to give birth to a dead thing like you? Don't hit your brother, just let him go."
Jiang Yanyi twitched his lips. "Aren't you committing a sin?" You didn't cherish the original body's good daughter. Since you don't like filial piety, then let her take your place. There's a saying that goes, evildoers must be punished by evildoers. She is the evildoer who specifically punishes them.
"Sister, I was wrong. Please let me go. I know I was wrong."
"Sister, I won't dare to do it again, please."
Jiang Pengpeng's pleading reached Jiang Yanyi's ears through the basin. After thinking about it, the strength in her hands gradually weakened. The pig had to be fattened before it could be slaughtered. It would be boring to kill it all at once. She wanted to keep Jiang Pengpeng and grind him slowly.
"Jiang Pengpeng, I'm warning you for the last time. Be polite to me next time. If you dare to touch me again, I won't be as easy to talk to you as I was today."
Jiang Pengpeng lay sprawled on his bed, his pillow soaked with snot and tears. Ultimately, no matter how mature he was, he was still just a second-grade kid. He'd been able to bully the original character at will because he had the support of his father and mother. Children are like that; once they sense adult favoritism, they become emboldened. Because they're so young, no matter what they do, they're easily met with the adults' rebuke: "He's just a kid, what's wrong with you giving him a break?" They often feign innocence and do cruel things. Afterward, not only will they refuse to apologize, they'll even complain and cry their hearts out in front of the adults. In the end, the only ones who suffer are the so-called "adults."
Children are born actors, and they can perform pretending to cry and taking advantage of the power of others to perfection.
Now Jiang's father and mother are lying in bed and unable to get up. They can no longer be his umbrella of protection. His golden ticket to immunity from death is gone. He can feel the change in his status, so his former arrogance has disappeared completely.
"Sister, I won't do that anymore. I'll listen to you from now on. Can you please stop hitting me?"
Jiang Pengpeng sobbed and tried to please Jiang Yanyi.
"Let go of your claws." Jiang Yan slapped the hand on his sleeve and said, "You can listen to it or not. As long as you can bear it, you don't have to listen."
Jiang Pengpeng quickly assured: "No, no, sister, I will definitely listen to you."
Jiang Yan dismissed this and said, "Tsk, who cares?"
After venting his anger, Jiang Yanyi happily put on his schoolbag and left the house.
Just as she was going downstairs, a withered old man stopped her and said, "Laidi, I just heard some noise in your house. It seemed like your brother was crying."
"You must have heard it wrong, Uncle Wang."
Uncle Wang shook his head. "No mistake, no mistake. I heard it clearly. It was Pengpeng crying."
"Oh, he had a nightmare. He dreamed about the day they had the car accident. He was scared. The doctor said it was a sequelae of the car accident and it wouldn't heal in a short time. Uncle Wang, you don't know, the doctor said that not only my parents will need a lot of money to treat, but even my brother's sequelae will cost a lot of money. You said our family has no income now, where can I get so much money? Otherwise... Uncle Wang, can you lend me some money? I'm about to graduate, and when I graduate, I'm going to go work, and then I will pay you back as soon as possible."
Uncle Wang quickly stepped back, as if there was something dirty on her. "Hey, Lai Di, are you kidding me? I'm an old man, where would I get the money? I know your parents are very poor, but there's nothing I can do. I don't have any money either."
Uncle Wang was afraid that Jiang Yan would become dependent on him and never ask about the Jiang family's affairs again, so he took a step and ran away quickly.
Seeing Uncle Wang running away, Jiang Yanyi maliciously called out after him, "Uncle Wang, don't worry. It's okay if you don't have much. You can lend me a little less."
Uncle Wang ran faster.
Jiang Yan clapped his hands and said that from today on, the neighbors would no longer keep an eye on the Jiang family all day long.
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