The child's frail body was covered with shocking scars, twisted burns on his arms and neck, and redness and swelling on his back, arms, and even on his ribs visible to the naked eye, like ferocious little snakes entwined in his body.
Some of the scars had already scabbed over and were dark in color, while others had not yet healed and were purple in color, and it was obvious that they were caused by beatings. There were patches of bruises on the slender and fleshless legs, and the color was as dark as the land ravaged by a storm...
Li Fenlan's hands couldn't help shaking as she held the towel. She wiped the small body with the hot towel and almost cried, "Who would be so cruel to touch such a young child? How young is he!"
No matter how naughty a child is, he would never be beaten like this! Moreover, these scars are obviously caused by years of abuse!
Xie Yunshu took a deep breath and couldn't bear to watch any more. The child's small body seemed to have become a container for pain, and these scars were cruel witnesses of the cruel past he had experienced.
Zhou Xinyue is her biological mother. Doesn't she know the scars on her child? For more than a year, Lu Zhixing gave all his salary to Zhou Xinyue because Xiaowei was too pitiful. Thus, he ignored himself and favored Zhou Xinyue.
So the result of him taking pity on the child and caring for him is that the child is subjected to unjust abuse?
The hot towel wiped Xiaowei's back and rubbed off a layer of dust. It was obvious that the child had not taken a bath for a long time. Only his little face and hands were clean. She couldn't imagine what this child had been through in the past year.
Warm air surrounded Xiaowei, and he fluttered his eyelashes and finally woke up, his eyes full of confusion and fear. He ran out of the family compound without any direction, and somehow he thought of the place where his mother took him to kowtow.
That time he kowtowed here, and someone pulled him up. After he went back, he was not beaten or hungry. He did not understand the emotional entanglements of the people, and his consciousness thought that this was a safe place. He just wanted to give it a try.
Because he couldn't find the way home, and didn't know where his home was...
There were no clothes for children at home, so Li Fenlan could only wrap him up in a blanket and then asked softly, "Kid, where are you from? Who are your parents?"
Xie Yunshu sighed: "Mom, he is Zhou Xinyue's son, and now he should also be considered Lu Zhixing's son."
She hated Zhou Xinyue, but no one should bring disaster to children. Not to mention that such a young child didn't know anything, and the child looked really pitiful. No matter how hard-hearted she was, she couldn't drive him out in such a cold weather.
Li Fenlan's face really changed, and even Xie Mingcheng's eyes became gloomy: "Why is that girl's child here?"
She doesn’t know either!
Xie Yunshu sat down and frowned as he looked at the shivering child wrapped in the quilt. "Never mind that for now. Let's get him a bowl of ginger soup. It's so cold and he'll freeze to death, not to mention he's still so young."
Li Fenlan's face was complicated. Thinking of the little body covered with scars, she couldn't help but ask, "Kid, who hit you like this?"
No normal mother could fail to see the new and old scars, but Zhou Xinyue never said anything about it, and even labeled herself as a poor mother who loved her children.
Then it is obvious who hit him.
Xiaowei just shook his head timidly: "I'll be obedient."
He is obedient, can you not beat him? Perhaps thinking of something, Xiao Wei suddenly loosened the quilt and struggled to kneel on the bed, kowtowed to Xie Yunshu: "I was wrong, I am obedient..."
This was probably the only language he knew how to speak. The only thing he would say was whatever Zhou Xinyue told him to say...
Xie Yunshu gritted his teeth and wrapped the quilt around him again, his tone a little bit angry: "You are not stupid, why are you kowtow to me? You just got warm for a while and you dare to move around, do you really want to die?"
Xiaowei was frightened by her, but he didn't cry like other children. He just bit his lip and whispered, "Don't hit me, I'm obedient."
"What a sin!" Li Fenlan turned her face away and dared not look anymore. She walked to the honeycomb stove, lit it and started to cook ginger soup: "Don't worry about whose child it is. Let's get rid of the cold first and send it back tomorrow."
It was so cold and raining outside, and the child didn't even have a piece of clothing to wear. If he continued to struggle, the clothes would be gone.
Xie Mingcheng's face was not looking good either. He glanced at Xiaowei and said in a cold tone, "If the top beam is not straight, the beam will be crooked. How can a girl like that raise a good child?"
He hated Zhou Xinyue and Lu Zhixing so much that he wanted to throw them out when he thought about the kid and them! But he just said it with his mouth, and wrapped the quilt tighter with a cold face: "If you don't want to die, be obedient, otherwise I will throw you out now."
Xiao Wei seemed to have a natural fear of being obeyed. He kept his mouth tightly shut and just nodded.
The ginger soup was quickly cooked, and there was no sugar in it. Li Fenlan was afraid that Xiaowei would not drink it, so she patiently coaxed him, "Drink this, it's good for your health."
Xiaowei took the bowl obediently and drank the ginger soup in one breath without even frowning.
Xie Yunshu felt that something was wrong with this child. She frowned and looked at the purple marks on his arm: "Who beat him? Your mother? Or Lu Zhixing?"
But although Lu Zhixing is stupid and arrogant, he is not cruel. On the contrary, he likes the identity of a superior savior, otherwise he would not give his salary to Zhou Xinyue, just because he feels sorry for Zhou Xinyue.
To be honest, if it was Lu Zhixing who beat him, Xie Yunshu really didn't believe it. But if it was Zhou Xinyue, it would be even more terrifying. Under what circumstances would a mother be so cruel to a child?
Xiao Wei felt a sense of security as he felt warmth coming from his body. He bit his lip and whispered, "My mother won't hit me."
Zhou Xinyue didn't like his mother. If he didn't call her, he would be beaten and starved. He didn't dare to resist and wouldn't resist...
"No Zhou Xinyue?" Xie Yunshu frowned even more tightly: "Does she know that you have so many injuries on your body? Did your classmates or teachers beat you up?"
If Zhou Xinyue hadn't been there, so many wounds would have constituted a crime, and the one who beat Xiaowei should have been sent to jail! With Lu Zhixing's personality, he couldn't just sit back and watch...
When Zhou Xinyue's name was mentioned, Xiaowei shrank back into the quilt in fear: "No, mom, please don't hit me."
"What?" Xie Yunshu was confused and didn't quite understand what Xiaowei meant: "Who hit you? Can't Zhou Xinyue see? Doesn't she know your biological mother?"
How could the mother not know that her child was beaten like this?
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