"And you! You're such a jinx! I feed you and clothe you, isn't that enough?! Buy you toys, buy you toys, that money is enough for me to buy two packs of cigarettes! You want what others have just because they have it, your eyes are as shallow as your mother, that bitch!" The verbal abuse continued.
A low whimpering sound came from the corner of the low wall, like the wail of a wounded animal, which was heartbreaking to hear.
“Cry, cry, cry, you just know how to cry! You make me lose every day when playing cards! What bad luck! Stop crying!… I told you to stop crying, didn’t you hear me?! I’ll beat you to death!”
"Don't hit my darling, don't hit her!" The woman who had originally fallen to the ground suddenly got up and rushed towards the door like crazy.
On the other side of the wall, the woman's painful groans and the child's terrified cries were intertwined.
"Don't be afraid, baby. Daddy is just drunk...hiss!"
"Daddy, don't hit Mommy! Please don't hit Mommy! Wuuuuuu..."
Jing Ling just told Jing Qiu that this was just a quarrel, but in fact it was not. In this case, it should be said that it was a one-sided insult and could not be considered a quarrel at all. Then after two or three minutes, it turned into domestic violence.
He was originally still hesitant about whether to intervene, but now that things have turned out like this, it would be a bit unfair if he just pretended he knew nothing and walked away.
"Sister, call the police and say the address is the alley diagonally opposite the back door of the Normal University. Then you wait for me here at the door. If the police can't find this place, you can go to the alley to pick them up." After he instructed Jing Qiu, he threw the things in his hand directly against the wall without caring about the situation on the ground, and ran towards the house in front.
"Xiao Ling..." Jing Qiu reacted only after Jing Ling ran for some distance. She subconsciously wanted to stop him and tell him to just call the police and wait for them to arrive. The man was obviously a drunk, and what if he did something irrational... As a result, just as she opened her mouth, she saw Jing Ling taking a running start from a distance away from the courtyard wall, grabbing the top of the wall with both hands, stepping on the rough wall, and then flipping into the yard.
Jing Qiu: “!!!”
On the other side, Hu Kui was punching and kicking his wife Zhu Xiufen, who was curled up in the corner. In the afternoon, his friends asked him to go drinking. They drank two boxes of beer and then went to the entertainment room to play mahjong. In less than an hour, he lost all his money and owed more than two hundred yuan. Others didn't want to play with him anymore. He walked out of the entertainment room cursing, and when he got home he saw Zhu Xiufen playing with her daughter Hu Qian with several toys in her hands. He was immediately furious.
"Wow, woo, woo, daddy, stop hitting me! Mommy, mommy!" the little girl cried heartbreakingly. Instead of feeling the slightest bit of pain, he felt even more upset. He wanted a son from the beginning, and before the birth of the child, he asked his mother to take Zhu Xiufen to see him secretly. At that time, he was said to be a big fat boy, but he turned out to be a money-losing child with poor health. He was sick every other day and it cost a lot of money to treat him. His mother already had some issues with her granddaughter, and she became even angrier after seeing this situation. She told him privately that she didn't want the child anymore, and that the money given to the hospital could be used to buy a lot of things for her grandson in the future. But at that time Zhu Xiufen kept a close eye on people, so the matter ended up being left unresolved.
The light bulb under the eaves emits a dim light, which becomes blurry in the corners. Zhu Xiufen held her daughter tightly in her arms, her body curled up in pain, and she pressed herself against the wall. The little girl felt sorry for her mother and her two thin hands broke free to hug her waist.
"Cry, cry, cry, you idiot! I've been unlucky since you were born. I lose every other day when I play cards!" Thinking of this, Hu Kui got even angrier. He bent down and was about to grab the little girl. "I'll beat you to death today!"
Just as he was about to touch the child, suddenly a dark shadow fell from the sky and blocked his way. He thought he was dizzy from drinking too much, so he retracted his hand to rub his eyes. Before he could let go, he felt a huge force hitting his chest. His body suddenly became light as if flying, and then he fell heavily to the ground. He didn't know what he was crushed by, and he felt a piercing pain on his back.
"Ouch!" Hu Kui couldn't help but howl.
She had been drinking too much in recent years, and her originally plump figure had swelled up as if it had been soaked in water. Her belly had swelled up like a balloon. If she had changed her gender and said she was seven or eight months pregnant, people would have believed it.
The sudden pain and the cold floor stimulated my nerves, and the drunkenness wore off a little. He howled like a ghost and twisted on the ground for a few times before he remembered to look at the corner to see what was going on.
In the dim light, I saw a person appear in the corner. I couldn't see his face clearly. He was wearing a T-shirt and long pants, the same outfit you can see everywhere on the street. His tall figure was reflected on the rough wall, and his shadow was very long.
A person suddenly showed up in the house late at night, and the timid ones were scared half to death. However, there is a saying that alcohol makes a man brave. Hu Kui was not scared at all. Instead, he got up from the ground with anger, cursing, "Who the hell are you? Did I allow you to come in? Get out!"
Jing Ling looked at the short and fat man who was staggering towards him, and had no other thoughts except disgust. This kind of trash can only bully women and children. If he confronts other men, he will most likely be the one who gets taught a lesson.
Seeing someone approaching him, he frowned, raised his foot and kicked him directly. So Hu Kui, who had just gotten up, fell to the ground again. Jing Ling had good eyesight and could clearly see the fat body tremble a few times.
"Disgusting garbage." He said coldly.
Just as he finished speaking, he heard a child's trembling voice behind him, "Big brother?"
It seems like knowing yourself? Jing Ling turned around with a little confusion, and saw the little girl sticking her head out from under her mother's armpit. Her small face had a pointed chin, which made her eyes look a little scary big, but the right side of her face was swollen.
“Big brother, it’s really you!” Her eyes lit up all of a sudden, and she pushed the person holding her with her little hand, “Mommy, mommy, it’s big brother, the awesome big brother who got a lot of toys!”
The woman's body was still stiff. She slowly raised her head when she heard the words, her eyes empty and numb. She looked at Jing Ling, but it seemed like she was simply looking ahead, with an unfocused gaze. His eyes moved downward, his pupils shrank suddenly, and he hugged the little girl in his arms almost reflexively, holding her shoulders with one hand and pressing her head with the other, forcing her into his arms.
In addition to one's own fear gene, people will only subconsciously fear something if they have been hurt by it. Obviously, the woman just saw the man lying on the ground.
"Mom, it's the big brother! The big brother who was with the big sister just now!" the little girl shouted, trying to get out of the woman's arms. Somehow, her eyes suddenly became filled with fear, "Big brother!" the little girl shouted, her voice trembling a little.
Jing Ling knew why. The trash lying on the ground just crawled up. He learned his lesson and knew to keep his mouth shut and attack secretly.
He moved aside and the man missed. His consciousness was paralyzed by alcohol, and his body lost balance and fell face down on the ground. Another howl.
There was a sound of footsteps coming from the door. It was Jing Qiu coming over. The door was open, and she cautiously poked her head in. "Xiao Ling!" she called as she stepped into the yard.
"Sister, here." Jing Ling replied.
Jing Qiu looked over following the sound and saw Jing Ling standing in the corner. Just as I was about to say something, I heard a little girl's voice, "Big sister!"
The lighting in the yard was a little dim, and Jing Qiu's vision was not as good as Jing Ling's, so he couldn't see clearly. Only when I got closer could I see clearly, "Oh, it's you!" I couldn't hide my surprise.
Of course she didn't know the girl, she just saw her on the street. At that time, her hands were full of spoils won by Jing Ling, and she accidentally dropped one, and it was this little girl who picked it up for her. The little girl's envious eyes reminded her of her childhood, when she also looked at other people's toys in the same way. Since she had so many things in her hands, she just gave two to the little girl.
She was on the phone outside just now and heard what the drunk man said. She was originally very angry, but now she feels a little guilty because the gift she gave caused the little girl to be misunderstood, and both mother and daughter were beaten for this.
"Xiao Ling, I..."
"You don't have to blame yourself. There's nothing wrong with being kind. Even if you didn't send anything, this jerk would have other excuses to do it." Listening to the conversation between the two, Jing Ling roughly guessed what had happened before.
The woman held the little girl tightly in her arms, like a drowning person holding on to a life-saving piece of driftwood. She curled up in the corner and never uttered a word.
Jing Qiu approached cautiously, and seeing that she had no obvious resistance, he squatted beside her and comforted the little girl softly.
Jing Ling watched from the side, with his foot on the man's back, letting him curse and swear. His round body twisted on the ground, but he couldn't turn over.
The police arrived quickly, a man and a woman. Before entering the house, one of them muttered, "I knew it was his house again!" After entering the house, they were not surprised to see Jing Qiu and Jing Ling. They asked about the situation separately.
"It was you who reported the case, right?" the female police officer asked Jing Qiu, her tone affirmative rather than questioning.
The man said to Jing Ling, "Come on, young man, take your feet away." Then he said to the person on the ground, "Hu Kui, you drank too much horse urine again, didn't you?"
Jing Ling used to be a policeman. Although he was not at the grassroots level, he was still very clear about certain situations. From the tone of the two policemen's voices, he knew that this had happened more than once, and he had come to this conclusion from the woman's reaction before.
"Young man, it's a good thing to be brave and righteous, but you'd better not get involved in the situation of this family." After following the procedure, the two policemen were ready to leave.
Jing Ling stopped the man and said, "Aren't you going to take this garbage back with you?"
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