Chapter 19
Wang Mengmei couldn't calm down.
A surge of anger rushed to her crown.
She wanted to beat Jian Li right now.
She couldn't remember anything about not beating children, respecting them, or communicating well.
When the feather duster fell, Jian Li was still feeling lucky, thinking that she could delay for a while until her father or sister came back.
But before she could delay successfully, her mother started beating her.
Jian Li:!!!
Mom, do you have martial ethics?
What about the agreement that you would confess first and then fight?
Jian Li was not a child, and she started running after being hit a few times.
"Mom, Mom, listen to me!"
Wang Mengmei was furious: "I won't listen!"
This summer, Jian Li successfully received a beating for the first time in her two lives.
After being hit seven or eight times, Jian Li's eyes were filled with tears due to the pain.
Fortunately, Qian Ping came back at this time.
Seeing the situation in the house, he was also shocked and rushed to stop it.
"Auntie, please talk nicely and stop hitting me!"
"Ping Ping, get out of my way! If I don't beat her, she'll go crazy! You're acting on your own without telling your family! You're cheating on both sides!"
Jian Li felt wronged: "If I tell the truth, can you persuade my aunt?"
It would have been fine if she didn't say anything. As soon as she started talking, Wang Mengmei got even angrier: "Look at her, does she have any intention of repenting? Whose child is like this? She never tells adults anything. If I don't take care of her, she'll dare to make a big fuss in the future!"
Jian Li felt wronged!
How come her mother always manages to make every little thing a matter of her character?
She clearly did a good thing this time!
Qian Ping snatched the feather duster from Wang Mengmei's hand: "Aunt, you really blame Jian Li wrongly!"
The few sentences Wang Mengmei said while beating Jian Li had already made Qian Ping realize that Jian Li was beaten because of her.
Her voice seemed to contain a grievance that had been brewing for a long time: "Aunt, please stop hitting me. It's all my fault. My mother asked me to go to the United States, but I didn't want to go. Xiaoli lied to help me."
Wang Mengmei was still angry: "Then she shouldn't have lied to you..."
She didn't dare to think about what would happen to her in the future since she was so young and couldn't even blush when she lied.
Qian Ping's tears fell down, which scared Wang Mengmei.
Jian Li had been pretending to be a quail by the side, but when she saw what was happening, she limped over to hand the handkerchief to her sister.
Qian Ping said with a nasal voice: "Aunt, you don't know how stubborn my mother is. She kept insisting that I go to the United States. When I said I didn't want to go, she said I was useless, just like my father..."
"She doesn't know how much pain I feel."
Wang Mengmei felt sad. She knew her sister's temper.
"Ping Ping, Auntie didn't say anything to you. You can live here without worry. Even if your mother comes, she can't force you to go to the United States."
Qian Ping lowered her head, her tears dripping onto her pants, leaving circles of water.
"Aunt, I really have no choice. I have nowhere to go... Don't tell anyone else. Actually, that woman is not a good person!"
"She asked me to go to her house, and then she asked me if I had any friends at school, and if I had sex with anyone... I said no, and then she kept dragging me away."
"Later, she said she was going out to buy food and invite me to dinner. Her man came up and hugged me..."
Wang Mengmei's scalp went numb: "How dare she, bastard!"
Qian Ping couldn't stop crying: "I pushed him away and ran away. Later, she came to me with a smile and told me that her husband was drunk. I didn't dare to tell my mother, nor did I dare to say I wouldn't go."
Wang Mengmei hugged her niece distressedly: "Why don't you say it? Even if your mother is stubborn, she won't watch you being bullied!"
"Aunt, I'm afraid that if I tell my mother, she will ask me to go again." Qian Ping said discouragedly, "She thinks I'm embarrassing her and doesn't want me to be around her anymore."
"Nonsense!" Wang Mengmei said sternly, "Your mother wouldn't be like that, Pingping. If you don't want to go back, then don't go back. It doesn't matter if you live with your aunt for a few years. But remember, your mother is not that kind of person. She is uneducated and strong-willed, but she is not heartless."
Qian Ping cried without saying a word. Wang Mengmei couldn't help sighing in her heart. She watched as a high wall was erected between her elder sister and Qian Ping, but she could do nothing.
Qian Ping cried for a while and went to bed early in the evening.
After being beaten, Jian Li behaved herself obediently and didn't dare to say anything.
Jian Feng worked the night shift today and it was already twelve o'clock when he got home.
Wang Mengmei waited for him to come back and told Jian Feng about beating up the girl today.
Jian Feng originally thought he could keep it a secret, but who knew his wife was so quick to act. Not only did she find out, she also beat the child directly.
He didn't even bother to change his clothes and hurriedly got up to see how Jian Li was beaten.
"You are too impatient. Xiaoli did nothing wrong. Her aunt is such a person. Let alone the child, even if it is you or me, who can persuade her? The child did something wrong and asked you to beat her. How aggrieved she must be."
Wang Mengmei was already feeling bad tonight.
It was the first time she hit her child, and she regretted it immediately.
Especially when Qian Ping told her what happened, she felt even more that she had hit the child without asking any questions and might have hurt the child's feelings.
She lamented that her elder sister and the children were so far apart in their hearts, but how could she be any better than her elder sister?
The more she thought about it, the more upset she felt. As soon as Jian Feng came back, he started to blame her.
"I'm just afraid that she's a habitual liar! You don't know what she did this summer, do you? I called her and her uncle said that she was collecting mountain products and Chinese medicine in the village and reselling them in the city!"
"How old is she? She dares to ride her bicycle to the city every day. I can't sleep just thinking about it! Have you forgotten what happened in our factory two years ago?"
Jian Feng remained silent.
Wang Mengmei sat on the edge of the bed and wiped her tears: "You know, a few years ago, our factory lost three or five children, and later one was imprisoned for fighting. The incident two years ago was paraded through the streets. Just tell me, a group of 17 or 18-year-old children harmed a little girl. The girl's parents jumped into the river three times later."
"I only have one daughter, Jianli. I look at other girls of her age on the street a few more times. I hope she grows up safely and steadily. I hope she is safe more than making money or being proud of herself."
There was no light in the room, and Jian Feng had no idea what Wang Mengmei's expression was.
He could only put his arm around his wife's shoulders and comfort her softly.
Wang Mengmei's emotions gradually calmed down: "I beat her this time, I guess she will blame me, take her to buy her some food tomorrow and comfort her. Also, I spanked her butt today, ask her if it hurts, take her to the clinic."
Jian Feng: "Will her aunt come to the city tomorrow?"
Wang Mengmei: “Come.”
Jian Feng: "Then Ping Ping..."
Wang Mengmei: "Now that the child is out, I won't let my sister take him away. You don't have to worry about this."
Wang Mengmei didn't tell Qian Ping about what happened. She kept the matter to herself and was determined to take care of it.
First of all, Qian Ping must not be allowed to go back. No matter what Wang Menglan says tomorrow, she will not let her go.
Qian Ping is with her. If she wants to study, she can continue her studies. If she wants to find a job, she will help her find one.
The child is a good child, and she can't just watch Qian Pingzhen become separated from her elder sister.
Wang Mengmei was thinking well, but she received a letter the next day.
Her sister is not coming.
Wang Menglan said calmly on the phone: "Tell Qian Ping that if she still recognizes me as her mother, she can take a bus back by herself. The ship to the United States will leave in five days, and the person I entrusted will leave tomorrow."
Wang Mengmei never imagined that her sister had gone through the experience of running away from home and still hadn't come to her senses.
Wang Menglan on the other end of the phone: "If she doesn't come back, I'll just ignore her as my daughter. Let her handle it herself."
Wang Mengmei was filled with anger and shouted at her sister: "Is there any mother like you?"
"How many times have you taken care of your child since he was little? Now that your child didn't do well in the college entrance examination, you just scold her. You even want to send her to America. America is so good, why don't you go? You don't even know if you are a human or a ghost, but you just push your daughter into the fire pit."
"Wang Menglan, I'm telling you, if you don't want this daughter, give her to me. You don't know how to cherish such a good child. You will regret it when you are old!"
After cursing, Wang Mengmei hung up the phone.
Qian Ping knew what her mother said, and she no longer felt bad. She just worked harder silently, which made Wang Mengmei feel distressed.
*****
After Jian Li was beaten, she was the "big panda" in the family until school started.
Qian Ping used the little money she had to buy her an electronic watch that she had always wanted.
Jian Feng gave Jian Li whatever she wanted and even took her to buy several sets of clothes.
Although Wang Mengmei did not apologize, her kitchen was filled with a variety of delicious dishes every day.
Jian Li lay on the bed leisurely eating grapes. Her mother didn't hit her hard and the pain went away after three days.
Jane Li didn't bear any grudge against her mother's dictatorial behavior at all.
She turned the page like she was flipping a page of a book.
Wang Mengmei and Jian Feng both breathed a sigh of relief.
Soon the day for the report arrived.
Jian Li put on new clothes, a white short-sleeved top and a navy blue skirt.
Her weight loss this summer, combined with her new clothes, makes her look less fat.
Jian Li carried her schoolbag and was taken to school by her father.
In Cotton Spinning Factory Junior High School, the head teacher follows the class. Last year, Jian Li was in Class 2, Grade 1, and this year she is in Class 2, Grade 2.
After finding the class, the podium was lined up and parents were paying the tuition.
Junior high school tuition is more expensive, 200 per semester, plus miscellaneous fees of 50, uniforms of 30, and materials of 10. All in all, the total is more than 300.
In the past, you didn’t have to pay so much.
After all, it was named the Junior High School of a Cotton Spinning Factory, and the children of the factory's employees could generally go to school by paying a miscellaneous fee of around RMB 100.
However, as the factory's business became sluggish, the school's tuition fees began to rise gradually.
Three hundred dollars is a lot of money now. When paying the fees, some parents always ask questions such as whether they can still wear last year's school uniforms or whether they can waive the data fees.
However, most parents had prepared the money, and soon it was Jian Feng's turn.
After Jian Feng paid the money, he told Jian Li to study hard and left in a hurry.
Jian Li was standing in the classroom and was in a dilemma.
If she did it again, not only did she forget where she sat, she even almost forgot everyone in the class!
She tried hard to identify the familiar faces and found a seat in the back row based on her faint memory.
As soon as I sat down, Li Lijuan came with Xia Liu to report.
Jian Li waved happily.
Xia Liu, her best friend.
Xia Liu: ...
Who can tell her why Jane Li takes her seat so naturally?
It feels like she is the only one who still remembers that we agreed to break up.
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