After the open-air movie in the village ended, the villagers went home one after another.
After Qian Xiaoshu greeted his third aunt Shen Nan, he walked with Luo Dajiang, keeping a distance from the others.
Luo Dajiang rubbed Qian Xiaoshu's head with his hand and asked softly, "How was it? Xiaoshu, did you enjoy it just now?"
Qian Xiaoshu nodded with a look of delight on his face: "Well, Brother Dajiang, I didn't expect revenge to feel so good. But I still feel a bit upset inside, as if I haven't had enough and I want to fight a few more times."
Luo Dajiang continued to impart his experience to him: "Now you understand? You can't hold on to grudges, you must avenge them immediately. Otherwise, after a long time, you will feel too wronged, right? When you were young, you were like a sheep in a wolf's den, waiting to be eaten by the wolves. But now you have escaped, and you will grow up slowly. In the future, not only can you not let them bully you anymore, you must seize the opportunity to pay them back fiercely!"
Qian Xiaoshu deeply agreed with Luo Dajiang's words, but a series of questions arose in his little head: "Brother Dajiang, have you ever been bullied even though you are so powerful? Otherwise, how do you know these principles?
How did someone bully you? Did you fight back?
Qian Xiaoshu's question made Luo Dajiang, who had just looked relaxed, fall into deep thought.
His life was quite comfortable now. His parents treated him well, and because he was tall and strong, he had never been bullied at school. However, there was always a shadow in his heart that he couldn't dispel, and he couldn't tell whether it was reality or a dream.
He remembered that when he was very young, he was locked in a small, dark room with the door locked from the outside. He was so scared that he banged on the door and cried for his parents.
When the door was opened from the outside, a man and a woman stood outside and said to him, "We are your parents!"
Luo Dajiang cried and shouted: "This is not my home, and you are not my parents. My parents are not that old..."
As soon as the words came out of her mouth, the woman's expression changed instantly: "Little wolf, who are you talking about? If you want to come out, you have to call us mom and dad from now on. You don't have any other parents, remember?"
Luo Dajiang shook his head like a rattle and cried out, "I don't want you, I don't want you to be my parents, I don't want..."
But his objections and refusals were of no use. The door was quickly locked again. Unlike the last time, the locked door quickly opened a crack, and a mouse slipped in through the gap.
He was terrified, jumping up and down, crying for help: "Someone please save me! Open the door! There's a mouse! Mom and Dad, I'm so scared..."
When Luo Dajiang cried out, not only did no one open the door to rescue him, but he also heard several sounds of gloating laughter outside.
"Just stay in there obediently. It would be better if you die in there!" A crisp but vicious voice of a little girl was heard.
Then another little girl's voice was heard saying, "Little sister, I think we just need to scare him a little. How about we let him out?"
"Third sister, stop pretending to be a good person here. It was your idea to catch the mouse and scare him!"
"I just want to scare him a little, so that he won't recognize us as his parents. When he does, he won't be treated well by us."
"Third and fourth sons, just tease him for a bit. Mom and Dad will be back soon. I'll go in and catch him. You two, get that rat out of here. Don't let Mom and Dad find out!"
"It's so boring! I haven't had enough fun yet! What can I do when my parents come back? I'll just say the mouse got in on its own!"
While the girls were talking outside the door, the noise in the room gradually died down.
Luo Dajiang had already fainted from fear at that time. The three girls outside the door saw the little boy lying motionless on the ground through the crack of the door, and they panicked for a moment and quickly fled the "crime" scene.
Only after the two middle-aged men and women returned did they carry the unconscious Luo Dajiang back to the main hall. Due to the shock, Luo Dajiang had developed a high fever, and just like Qian Xiaoshu had a near-death experience a few months earlier, he had a narrow escape. Upon waking, the two middle-aged men and women's attitudes towards Luo Dajiang had completely changed, and they now showed immense affection.
They bought canned peaches, which children loved to eat, and malted milk, a tonic rarely found in rural areas at that time. These were all enjoyed by Luo Dajiang alone, while the older girls drooled with envy, but could not get a single bite.
Later, they became Luo Dajiang's parents, and they always responded to his every request. He had new clothes that his sister didn't have, and he ate the snacks that his sister couldn't. His grandparents kept a locked cabinet with food bought by his aunts, and his grandmother would often secretly take it out for him to eat. He was almost sick of eating big peach cakes, egg yolk biscuits, and soy milk powder, even though his sisters didn't know what they tasted like.
As the only grandson of his grandparents, he was a thorn in the eyes of his four sisters, especially the fourth sister who was the youngest in age, who almost regarded him as her sworn enemy.
Even now, the fourth sister rarely looks at him straight in the eye, and rarely speaks to him, but she still does bad things to him behind his back.
If Qian Xiaoshu hadn't asked him about that vague memory, he would have almost forgotten it.
So, Luo Changyou and Chen Jinfeng, the couple, who were verbally criticizing the old lady of the Qian family, were they not equally cruel and selfish people? Perhaps after so many years, they had almost forgotten how their son came to be?
Thinking of this, he asked Qian Xiaoshu firmly: "Xiaoshu, do you want to go find your parents? I'm talking about your real parents, not the Qian family!"
How could Qian Xiaoshu, who had never felt the love of his parents since childhood, not miss them? But where were his biological parents? And how did he end up in the Qian family?
He thought Zhan Jinhua and Qian Jindou must know, but there was no way they would tell him. Not to mention that he couldn't see them, even if he did, they wouldn't tell him and would beat him up. They might even claim they were his parents and take him away from his third aunt's house. By then, his life would be even harder and more miserable.
After thinking for a moment, he replied to Luo Dajiang, "Brother Dajiang, I'm too young right now. I need to grow up quickly so I can go out and find my own home. Right now, I just want to protect myself and avoid any more accidents. What if my biological parents are also looking for me? If I die, they won't be able to see me again. How sad they would be!"
Qian Xiaoshu pieced together the origins of his third aunt Shen Nan's madness from the villagers, and realized that biological parents could love their children to such an extent. Therefore, Qian Xiaoshu, who had already disillusioned with his parents at such a young age, felt a surge of hope.
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