Out of obligation and responsibility, the teacher also reminded them with concern, "Chunhua's father, please persuade Chunhua's mother. The child is still young. You can talk to her nicely. Chunhua is well-behaved and smart, and she will listen. Don't hit the child anymore."

Ling Jiang's face changed when he heard this, "Did her mother beat her?"

"Yeah, the beating was so fierce, it hurt me just watching..."

Without waiting for the teacher to finish speaking, Ling Jiang hurriedly rode his bike home.

"Chunhua! Chunhua!"

When he got home, Ling Jiang started shouting before he even had time to park his bike.

Li Li came out of the main room in a bad mood, "You're just calling me a ghost. You keep talking about your daughter all day long. When have you ever cared so much about Jia Le?"

Ling Jiang ignored Li Li. After parking the car, he looked up and saw his daughter standing at the kitchen door. She was holding a few vegetable leaves in her hands and looking at him as if she was about to cry.

Ling Jiang hurried over and took his daughter to look at her carefully. He found a slap mark on her cheek.

"Chunhua, did your mother hit you again?"

Looking at Li Li who was glaring at her not far away, Ling Chunhua lowered her head and dared not say a word, big tears dripping down her cheeks to the ground.

Ling Jiang reached out his hand to wipe his daughter's tears, but then he found that his fingers were rough and dirty, so he had to retract his hand.

He said softly, "Chunhua, go back to your room and write. Dad will make dinner."

Seeing that his daughter didn't say anything and just shook her head, Ling Jiang understood that his daughter was scared by the beating from her wife.

"It's okay, Dad is here."

After coaxing his daughter back into the house, Ling Jiang turned around and glared at Li Li coldly, "Why did you hit Chunhua?"

Li Li curled her lips in disdain, "You are just a poor little girl, look how much you care about her. What, do you expect her to marry a son-in-law to take care of you in your old age?"

Ling Jiang took two steps forward and asked again, "Why did you hit Chunhua?"

"You're still asking me, isn't it because you spoiled her? She doesn't go home to work after school, waiting for someone to invite her in a grand ceremony?"

Hearing what his wife said, Ling Jiang was furious.

"Did you give birth to her just to work? What kind of work can she do when she is so young? You stay idle at home all day, don't you know how to do the work?"

"Every girl has come this way. If she doesn't work, does she need me, her mother, to serve her?"

"What do you mean by serving her or not? You are her biological mother, shouldn't you raise her?"

"Didn't I raise her? Didn't she drink my milk when she was born or what? She's so big now, what's wrong with me asking her to do some work?"

Seeing that he couldn't convince his wife, Ling Jiang didn't bother to say anything more and turned into the kitchen to cook dinner.

After dinner, he still had to go out to do business. Business was not very good these days. If he delayed any further, he would really be out of money next month.

Li Li leaned against the kitchen door and couldn't help nagging at Ling Jiang who was cooking: "How much did you earn these days?"

"Not much."

"Not much, so how much?"

"Four or five dollars."

In fact, 4 or 5 yuan is not a small amount of money, but it is far from what Li Li expected.

My husband earned 52 yuan in half a month, which means he should earn at least 3 or 4 yuan a day.

But she didn't think about the fact that when she was away from her parents' home, Ling Jiang could do business peacefully from morning to night.

She has been making a lot of trouble every day since she came back. Ling Jiang can't even concentrate on his business. How can he make money?

"Why is it so little?"

Ling Jiang said nothing.

"Have you said enough?!"

Ling Jiang chopped the chopping board heavily with the kitchen knife in his hand, which scared Li Li.

Looking at the sharp and cold light of the kitchen knife that was piercing into the wood, Li Li felt only fear and trepidation.

If this fell into her hands, I'm afraid all the bones would be broken.

"If you don't want to tell me, then don't tell me. Why are you so angry?"

Although she did not show any weakness, Li Li did not dare to stay in the kitchen any longer and quickly slipped away.

Back in the house, Li Li patted her chest with lingering fear.

Did this man take the wrong medicine recently or was he possessed by evil spirits? It was fine that he had hit her before, but now he has even resorted to knife-wielding. If this continues, will she still be able to live a good life at home in the future?

After staying in the bedroom for a while, Li Li saw the light on in her daughter's room. She opened her mouth to yell, but the next second she remembered how fiercely her husband was when he was chopping the chopping board.

Forget it, my husband is still angry, so it’s better not to provoke him.

After dinner, Ling Jiang pushed his bicycle out to do business, and did not forget to take his daughter with him.

After the father and daughter left, Li Li cleaned up the dishes as quickly as possible and then took her son out.

Li Li did not visit other people's homes as usual, but went to the home of Wang Ba Po who lived in the westernmost alley.

Wang Bapo is over 70 years old this year. She is a well-known fortune teller who specializes in performing rituals to pray to gods and exorcise evil spirits and eliminate disasters.

"Bitch, my husband's temperament has changed drastically recently. Could it be that he has offended some unclean creature?"

After listening to Li Li's story, Wang Ba Po asked for Ling Jiang's birth date and counted on her fingers for a long time before she said calmly, "Your husband must have walked too much at night and bumped into Wong Tai Sin, which is why he is unconscious."

That’s right. Ever since my husband started his business, he has been coming home very late every night, and his temperament has also changed.

At this time, Li Li believed in Wang Bapo so much that she paid money when asked and drank the magic water in big gulps.

After coming out of Wang Bapo's house, Li Li held a piece of yellow talisman paper painted with cinnabar and hurried home excitedly with her son.

The old woman said that as long as she stuck the exorcism talisman on her husband's bedside, she could drive away the evil spirit from him.

It was already 10 o'clock when Ling Jiang got home from work. After settling his daughter to bed, he quickly washed himself and went to bed without noticing that there was a yellow talisman pasted above the head of the bed.

A night passed.

The next day, Li Li looked at her husband's calm face and tentatively said, "Lao Ling, give me 5 yuan later."

Ling Jiang glanced at her and said, "No money."

“…”

Why doesn't this exorcism talisman work?

Li Li continued to say, "Didn't you say last night that you made 4 or 5 yuan in the past few days?"

"The money should be kept for purchasing goods."

"Then give me 2 yuan first. I don't have a penny left. I have to buy food for my family, right?"

"You can eat whatever you want at noon, and I'll buy it for you in the evening."

No matter what Li Li said, Ling Jiang refused to pay a penny.

After sending her son to kindergarten, Li Li immediately went to find Wang Bapo with the exorcism talisman.

"Bitch, your talisman is not effective at all..."

(End of this chapter)