Piranha Plant (16)

After Song Xinran was arrested, her expression was calm. While wearing handcuffs, she looked at the distant mountain outside the car window. The mountain had a special meaning to her.

She remembered that when she was ten years old, she held Jin Yaming's hand and climbed up a small hill in Yong'an Town. She looked at the entire village and the rice fields, and her heart calmed down.

She likes coming here because this is where she feels safest.

She felt insecure since she was ten years old. That was after her mother passed away, and her adoptive father began to take over her life. Before school started, her adoptive father bought her a white dress with floral fabric. In that era, cloth coupons were very expensive, but her adoptive father Song Jinzhang was willing to buy her such expensive clothes.

When she went to school, the male classmates all looked at her with admiration, and the female classmates also looked at her with envy. She seemed like the most beautiful princess in the school.

At night, she was reluctant to take off her white dress and had a sweet dream on the bed.

However, that day was also the beginning of her nightmare. When she was half asleep, something wet licked her body. When she woke up, she found her skirt was lifted up and a drunk man was lying on top of her. She screamed, and when the man looked up, it was Song Jinzhang.

That night, Song Jinzhang seemed to have lost her soul and fled from her room in the dark. Her tears flowed and dried up all night long. She suddenly realized that it was not easy for her adoptive father to hold her and be intimate with her for so many years.

In the following days, Song Jinzhang didn't say anything to her. He seemed to feel very guilty about the incident. She originally thought that the matter was over. Her relationship with Song Jinzhang would be completely over as long as no one told anyone and she successfully graduated from elementary school and went to live in a junior high school dormitory.

One day there was a rainstorm and Song Jinzhang was drunk. He suddenly broke into her room, closed the door and locked the bolt.

Song Xinran, who was doing her homework, was startled and quickly put down her ballpoint pen and stood up. She leaned against the edge of the table and stared at him vigilantly.

She didn't believe that Song Jinzhang would do anything to her because when her mother died, Song Jinzhang promised her mother to take good care of her.

Maybe Song Jinzhang just missed his mother that night, so he went to her bed, treated her as his mother, and did intimate things with her.

Song Jinzhang smiled, a smile Song Xinran had never seen before. He clearly loved her very much before, always hugging her, kissing her little face and telling her, "Persimmon, Daddy will treat you well, better than anyone else."

Song Jinzhang looked at Song Xinran's deer-like eyes and her small and delicate face. He could no longer suppress the devil in his heart and rushed forward to grab her wrist.

Song Xinran closed her eyes and curled herself up into a ball. She wanted to use this hedgehog method to make Song Jinzhang let go.

But Song Jinzhang held her wrist tightly, and whispered in her ear with a strong smell of alcohol: "Persimmon, you are not a child anymore. Dad has raised you for so many years. Dad has spent so much money over the years. I will buy you whatever you want. Dad is reluctant to eat or wear, all for your good. Now it's time to repay Dad..."

"Ah..." Song Xinran screamed. She was scared and terrified, but more because she didn't understand this kind of relationship. The person in front of her had clearly protected her, so why did he seem to become a different person after her mother's death?

Perhaps all his previous actions were false. Thinking of this, she began to tremble all over.

It is a despair of losing everything, being betrayed, deceived and abandoned.

She curled herself up tightly, as if she was cut off from the world, but Song Jinzhang did not stop. He stripped her clothes while panting and begging her, "Why are you still doing your homework? Daddy will raise you for your whole life, and let you live a good life. Daddy loves you so much, so please be good."

"Please, please, let me go..." Song Xinran hugged herself desperately, holding the clothes she used to cover her body, because she knew that once she let go, she would be doomed.

"You're fucking disobedient, aren't you?" Song Jinzhang suddenly yelled.

This sound frightened Song Xinran so much that he shivered and his plea for mercy suddenly stopped.

There was lightning and thunder outside. Song Xinran felt the thunder of lightning, like a knife cutting into her eyes, but her eyes were always blurred by tears and she could not see anything in front of her.

She suddenly realized that Song Jinzhang had gone mad. He took a ball of yarn from the cupboard and desperately pulled out the yarn to tie up her hands and feet.

The red ball of wool wrapped around her wrist layer by layer. From that moment on, Song Xinran could only tremble and gave up resisting.

Song Jinzhang carried her to the bed, pulled out the belt, and whipped her back, buttocks and thighs.

One by one, accompanied by the sound of rain, it hit her delicate skin and fragile heart.

"I told you to be disobedient, I told you to be disobedient. You were so well behaved before, but you dared to resist..."

He seemed tired and dropped the belt to the ground.

"Hold back your tears, hold them back! Do you hear me?"

When Song Xinran heard it, she tried her best to stop sobbing, held back her tears, and dared not breathe.

"That's the way to be good, isn't it?" In the middle of the night, Song Jinzhang slowly unbuttoned her clothes and said with a smile, "Dad will cook chicken soup for you tomorrow, and it's time to kill the old hen..."

The rain stopped the next day, and Song Xinran, who was badly beaten, had a high fever.

Song Jinzhang told her classmates early in the morning that she had asked for leave. After she woke up, Song Jinzhang fed her some soup, but when she didn't drink it, she got angry and said, "What's wrong? Are you still angry with me?"

She tried to open her mouth. Seeing the soup enter her mouth, Song Jinzhang smiled with satisfaction and warned her in a low voice: "Go ahead and tell the teacher. See if he will believe you! I have plenty of ways to deal with you!"

After Song Jinzhang turned around, a tear secretly slid down her fair and small cheek.

Ten-year-old Song Xinran didn't know that there was such a way out as calling the police to complain. She lived in a poor village and had little legal knowledge. The only thing in her mind was to survive and not let others know.

She has been cowardly since she was a child. There is a saying that goes "picking on the soft persimmons is easy", and Song Xinran is the softest one. When she plays with other children, she is always the one who is bullied, and they nicknamed her "Persimmon".

Later, after calling her Persimmon for so long, everyone forgot her real name, even Song Jinzhang called her Persimmon.

She tried hard to hide her miserable life, and went to school silently. Even when she was not feeling well, she did not want her teachers and classmates to know.

But Song Jinzhang hurt her even more. Every time he got drunk, he would have sex with her. Later, she became almost numb and extremely submissive.

Things changed one day. Jin Yaming was a kid who was often bullied by the older kids at school. He was thin, with a pale face, and seemed to have been born with a face that showed he was being bullied.

However, Song Xinran gradually began to enjoy observing the process of him being bullied, during which she developed a sense of superiority.

Standing in the wind, watching Jin Yaming being beaten to a pulp, she smiled unnaturally.

However, she began to hate herself because even with Jin Yaming's frail physique, he always wanted to fight back whenever he was bullied.

One day, Jin Yaming was lying on the ground, grabbing mud with his chicken claw-like little hands and throwing it at the older child. The scene of angry resistance shocked her greatly and left a deep impression on her. It planted a seed in her little heart.

Self-hatred made her start planning a plan. She prepared a notebook, and on the innermost page, she wrote down all the plans to kill Song Jinzhang. However, at that time, in her mind, Song Jinzhang was a strong man, and she couldn't kill him. She thought about using pesticides, but she also heard that it would be easy to be discovered after death if you drank pesticides.

Among the endless options, she thought of the safest and most effective one, but she couldn't complete it herself.

She began to think of Jin Yaming, and one day when she was walking on the stairs, she pushed the older boy who had always bullied her down the stairs in front of Jin Yaming, causing multiple fractures.

Since then, there seemed to be fewer people bullying Jin Yaming in school. Song Xinran succeeded, and Jin Yaming began to treat her well.

That day she dragged Jin Yaming to the top of the mountain, which was secluded and safe. She told him calmly: "Yaming, do you know? I was raped." Even though others called him skinny monkey, she still called him Yaming.

"Rape? Who raped?" Jin Yaming's pupils widened. He was obviously unfamiliar and timid with this word.

That afternoon, as the breeze blew across the hills, Song Xinran smiled and told Jin Yaming, "I want to kill him. Will you help me?"

Jin Yaming's forehead was covered with sweat. He knew what this meant. When Song Xinran lost her smile and turned to walk down the hill, he got up and shouted to her, "I do!"

Jin Yaming fell in love with her from that day on, because when she turned her head again, the wild wind blew her hair and she was so beautiful that she didn't seem like a human.

That night, Jin Yaming hid in the closet of her house in advance. When Song Jinzhang rushed in drunkenly and suppressed Song Xinran, he pushed open the closet door. That was the bravest moment of his life.

He hugged Song Jinzhang tightly. Although he was small in stature, he was very strong. Maybe Song Jinzhang was drunk and weak that day, so he was easily taken down by the two men. Song Xinran took out the rope he had prepared long ago, and they worked together to tie up the drunk Song Jinzhang.

They worked together to lift him out of the yard, and pushed him down at an angle that Song Xinran had repeatedly tested beforehand, causing Song Jin's camphor pulp to burst.

Song Xinran was extremely excited. She cut his ropes with scissors, removed the cloth ball from his mouth, and cleaned up the scene according to the plan she had prepared in advance.

Although in retrospect, there were many details missed at the scene, the villagers did not seem to care and buried Song Jinzhang early.

However, Jin Yaming was extremely scared that day. He cried so hard that it took Song Xinran a long time to comfort him.

Song Xinran gained her freedom, but Jin Yaming began to deliberately stay away from her. After some time, she understood the reason, which was Jin Yaming's father, a villain who caused domestic violence to cause his mother to have mental disabilities and left him with scars all over his body. As long as she helped Jin Yaming get rid of his father, then Jin Yaming would definitely be completely with her.

She began to slowly counsel Jin Yaming, and even used a machete to let him chop a pumpkin to simulate the murder process.

Jin Yaming seemed to accept all of this slowly. He must have hated his father to the core.

That time, when Jin Yaming's father went up the mountain to chop firewood and lay in the grass to rest, Jin Yaming walked over cautiously and tremblingly, and chopped it down with a knife.

Song Xinran once again demonstrated her strong and meticulous thinking. She created an accident where an axe fell from a tree and chopped off someone's head.

The villagers had long held grudges against Jin Yaming's father. No one seemed to care about the details, or what the two children would do. They thought this was retribution.