"You stupid girl, you can't keep your mouth shut, can you? What did I tell you not to tell your dad about this? Can you remember what I said?"

Ling Chunhua covered her face with her hands, tears welling up in her eyes. Although she felt wronged and sad, she still apologized sensibly, "Mom, I was wrong. I won't do it again."

Li Li was still not satisfied, so she pulled Ling Chunhua into the yard and kicked her in the leg.

How could a 6-year-old child withstand the force of an adult? He bent his knees and fell to the ground.

Li Li angrily poked Ling Chunhua's head, and Ling Chunhua's small body swayed from side to side like a tumbler.

"Kneel down here. If you dare to stand up before I tell you to, I'll break your legs!"

After beating and scolding, Li Li returned to the main room to continue eating breakfast.

Ling Jiale ran to the yard with a gloating look on his face, and clapped his hands around Ling Chunhua who was wiping away tears, "Sister is crying, shame on you!"

When Ling Jiang rode to the entrance of the alley, he realized that he had forgotten to bring the counting notebook, so he turned back home to get it.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw his daughter Ling Chunhua kneeling in the yard and his son jumping and dancing beside her. His face immediately darkened.

When Ling Jiang saw the red fingerprints on his daughter's face, it was like a fire burning in his heart.

"Chunhua, get up."

Looking at her father who seemed to have fallen from the sky, Ling Chunhua was surprised and happy, and the tears in her eyes flowed down.

"dad……"

Ling Jiang pulled his daughter up, bent down and patted the dust off her knees, and said gently: "Be good, go back to your room and get your schoolbag. Daddy will take you to kindergarten."

Ling Chunhua pursed her lips and said nothing. Her big, tearful eyes looked towards the main hall, fear and uneasiness evident on her face.

Seeing her husband coming back, Li Li hurried out of the main room.

Seeing her husband looking at her with a dark face, she suddenly felt a little uneasy, "Why are you back again?"

Ling Jiang stood up and pointed at the slap mark on his daughter's face. "What did Chunhua do wrong? Why did you hit her? She is such a young child. Why can't you talk to her in a nice way? You made her kneel on the ground. If I don't come back, how long do you plan to make her kneel?"

Facing her husband's accusation, Li Li also got angry, "What's wrong with me disciplining my child? Can't I discipline my own daughter?"

"Chunhua is your daughter, but she is also my daughter! You can discipline her, but you can't lay hands on her!"

"Ling Jiang, stop pretending to be a good person. Go out and ask, whose children aren't beaten up from childhood? Do you think you gave birth to a princess born on a golden branch and jade leaf who can't even be touched?"

"I don't care about other people's affairs, but it won't happen in my family! If you do anything to Chunhua again, I..."

Ling Jiang couldn't say anything harsh, so he could only change his words and say, "Just go back to your parents' home."

Li Li couldn't bear to hear that her husband wanted to drive her away for her daughter.

"Well, Mr. Ling, after all you've said, you still don't want to live with me anymore. You're still using Chunhua as a pretext. Tell me the truth, do you have someone else out there? Is it the Wei from yesterday? If you don't explain yourself clearly today, I'll never forgive you."

Li Li was still not satisfied with her yelling, and she rushed over and started hitting and kicking Ling Jiang with her hands and feet.

Although Ling Jiang was angry, he couldn't fight back against his wife. He could only raise his hands to block and dodge backwards.

"Mom, please don't hit Dad..."

Ling Chunhua saw her father being beaten and ran up anxiously to help, but was pushed away by the angry Li Li.

"Get lost!"

Ling Chunhua staggered and fell backwards, and her head hit the flower bed with a dull sound.

Seeing Ling Chunhua fall, the couple were stunned.

Ling Jiang quickly picked up his daughter and touched her head. It was sticky and his hands were covered in blood.

Ling Jiang's face turned pale with fear. "Chunhua, it's okay. It doesn't hurt. Dad will take you to the hospital."

Watching her husband hurriedly running out of the house holding their daughter, Li Li came to her senses belatedly, took the key, picked up her son and hurriedly followed him.

At the clinic, the doctor quickly helped Ling Chunhua stop the bleeding. While examining her, he said, "Fortunately, the skull is not injured. It's just that the wound is a bit long and needs a few stitches."

"Okay, sew it!" Ling Jiang nodded without hesitation.

Children are afraid of injections, let alone stitches.

Ling Chunhua raised her little face with tears in her eyes, and her little hands tightly grasped the corner of Ling Jiang's clothes, "Dad..."

Noticing his daughter's fear and anxiety, Ling Jiang quickly and patiently comforted her: "Chunhua, don't be afraid, the wound will heal after stitches."

The doctor was quite experienced in this area and smiled and coaxed her: "Don't be afraid, little girl. Uncle will give you anesthesia and I guarantee you won't feel any pain at all."

Hearing this, Ling Chunhua obediently stopped resisting and struggling, but her trembling little body still betrayed her true emotions.

Although Ling Jiang felt distressed, he had no choice but to hug his daughter's thin body tightly to give her comfort and strength.

Watching the thin curved hook pierce his daughter's snow-white and tender scalp, Ling Jiang turned his head and wiped his eyes.

Li Li, who was standing by, looked at her husband and cursed him inwardly for being useless. She then took her son outside to prevent him from being scared by the stitching scene.

The wound was sutured quickly and then wrapped with a thick layer of gauze. Ling Chunhua's little head looked a lot bigger.

The doctor carefully explained the dressing change time and precautions, then pinched Ling Chunhua's wrist and shoulder bones, and casually asked Ling Jiang: "How old is your daughter?"

"He's six years old now. It'll be in June. He should be going to elementary school next fall."

The doctor carefully observed Ling Chunhua's teeth and hair, took out a tape measure to measure her height, and said to Ling Jiang: "Your daughter is moderately stunted. The situation is already a bit serious. If it is not improved, it will have a great impact on her health in the future."

After hearing this, Ling Jiang's face changed, "Then doctor, is there any way to treat this?"

The doctor hesitated for a moment and said, "I can prescribe some calcium tablets and brain-enhancing syrup for you to take first. If conditions permit, give your child more eggs and milk."

Ling Jiang nodded repeatedly, "Thank you, doctor. Can you please calculate how much the medical expenses plus the two medicines you just mentioned will cost?"

The doctor took out a pen and calculated, then quoted a price, "Fifteen dollars and seventy cents."

Ling Jiang breathed a sigh of relief. He still had about thirty yuan on him, enough to pay for the medicine.

"Okay, doctor, I'll prescribe the medicine as you said..."

"Why are you prescribing it? We don't want such expensive medicine!"

Before Ling Jiang could finish his words, he was interrupted by Li Li who came in from outside.

But he ignored Li Li, took out the money he had on him, counted out fifteen dollars and seventy cents and put it on the doctor's desk.

Seeing that her husband didn't listen to her, Li Li grabbed the money anxiously.

(End of this chapter)