Chapter 1050 The Real and Fake Aunt of the Daughter (11)
Jing Kai also felt that it was a bit strange for him to attend the hundred-day banquet hosted by the Sheng family. After all, Sheng Shichu had invited him when the Sheng family held banquets in the past, but he always avoided her as much as possible. But this time, Sheng Shichu did not invite him. The Sheng family just sent an invitation to the Jing family as a token of their appreciation. But when he saw it, he suddenly had the urge to attend, and he actually put it into action - and had another quarrel with Sheng Shichu.
"Don't think too much. I'm just bored, so I came here to take a look." Jing Kai tugged at his collar and said to Li Jiu guiltily.
Li Jiu had been hanging out with him since childhood, so how could he not see that he looked different now? Therefore, he was shocked and his eyes widened: "Good fellow, you are not going to tell me that after Sheng Shichu stopped pestering you, you realized that you actually had feelings for her, right?"
When Jing Kai heard what he said, he immediately exploded, and shouted in a timid manner: "What nonsense are you talking about? I don't have any feelings for her, can you say something like this as a joke?"
Li Jiu didn't know whether he believed it or not, but he shrugged and said, "Okay, you know for sure whether it is true or not."
Jing Kai's sudden attendance at the Sheng family's banquet surprised all the guests present. After all, this was his first time attending a banquet hosted by the Sheng family. Everyone speculated whether he and Sheng Shichu had "turned hostility into friendship", or whether he was moved by Sheng Shichu's love and was willing to accept her pursuit; but these were all unfounded thoughts, and they could only think about it themselves and did not dare to ask in front of the person involved.
Sheng Weilai's hundred-day banquet was very successful. As the only child of the third generation of the Sheng family, Sheng Weilai became the focus of the banquet and received everyone's sincere blessings. Everyone praised her for being lively, cute, smart and clever. She was surrounded by guests and praised like the moon surrounded by stars.
However, Zhang Hongmei, who was born in the same hospital and had her birthday on the same day, and whose birthday is also today, was not so lucky. Her gambling father lost all his money outside and came back drunk. When he came home, he heard Zhang Hongmei crying and kicked the door angrily: "Why are you crying? You are a money-loser! If you cry again, I will throw you away! Old woman, are you dead? Shut her up! She is so noisy!"
Mother Zhang was so frightened that she trembled all over. She quickly hugged her granddaughter in her arms and covered her mouth with her other hand in panic, telling her not to cry out and wake up her evil father.
Although Zhang's mother is Zhang Lei's biological mother, she still cannot escape the fate of being beaten by him. In the past, her daughter-in-law Liu Yaomei helped share the pressure of being beaten, but now Liu Yaomei is in jail for replacing someone else's child. Now only Zhang's mother and her granddaughter are left at home, living under the shadow of Zhang Lei. The two of them, old and young, can only endure the beatings without any power to resist.
Zhang Hongmei was only three months old and didn't understand anything. She kept crying even when she was frightened. Even though her mother had covered her mouth, the crying sounds still leaked out through her mother's fingers.
Zhang's mother was so frightened that she lowered her voice to comfort her: "Xiao Mei, don't cry, don't cry, your father will be angry and will beat you, be good, don't cry..."
But the child cried even harder. Zhang Lei was drunk and wanted to sleep, but when he heard the child's suppressed cry, he became even more irritable. He jumped up and ran to Zhang's mother's room. After a while, Zhang's mother's painful voice begging for mercy was heard: "Zhang Lei! Stop hitting me! Stop hitting me!"
"You damned old woman! You're such a waste of money! You two are such troublemakers. Do you have to be beaten before you behave yourself?!" Zhang Lei's violent voice rang out inside. In addition to the crying of Zhang's mother, there was also the howling of a little baby...
"What a sin! Is Zhang Lei beating his mother and daughter again? His daughter is only about three months old, right? Will she be beaten to death by him?" A neighbor said worriedly after hearing the noise coming from Zhang's house.
"What can we do? It's no use calling the police. Liu Yaomei is in jail again. If you go to persuade her, she will beat you too! Zhang Lei is a lunatic." Another neighbor said with a pout.
"Speaking of Liu Yaomei, she is very bold. She actually wants to exchange her own daughter for the daughter of a wealthy family. It's really a fantasy." Neighbor No. 1 said.
"It's a pity that she was discovered by that family. If she hadn't been discovered, her daughter would be enjoying a good life in a wealthy family now. But a real rich girl was beaten by Zhang Lei instead of her daughter. I didn't expect that Liu Yaomei usually looks listless but is so scheming. You can't judge a person by his appearance..." said Neighbor No. 2.
"She's in jail now, maybe it's a good thing, after all, she won't be beaten by Zhang Lei anymore." Neighbor No. 1 sighed, "Her idea is good, if it succeeds, her biological daughter can enjoy a happy life, if it fails, she will just go to jail, and won't be beaten, and she can live a peaceful and quiet life for a few years, it's not a loss for her either way..."
As the two were talking, the crying of the Zhang family's baby suddenly became more shrill. The two looked at each other in panic: "The child was beaten and cried like this, what if he was really beaten to death? Or should we call the police? After all, it's a life..."
"Then report it quickly."
So the two neighbors quickly called the police. More than ten minutes later, the police arrived and rescued Zhang's mother and Zhang Hongmei from the crazy Zhang Lei. Zhang's mother had been beaten black and blue, and little Hongmei also had bruises on her little face, and there were many red and swollen areas on her body.
"He is so cruel that he even harms his own child. Not even a tiger will eat its own cubs. This scum Zhang Lei is worse than an animal!" Neighbor No. 1 said indignantly after seeing Zhang Hongmei's miserable condition.
"Police comrade, you really have to detain him this time. His mother and children will really die if he continues to beat them like this." Neighbor No. 2 lowered his voice and said to the police comrade.
"Don't worry, Zhang Lei has gone too far this time and has caused considerable harm to the elderly and children. There is no way he can get away with it unscathed," the police officer replied.
"That's good. We have to lock him up for a while! Don't let him out so soon, or else his mother and children will die..."
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In the original world, Sheng Weilai had to endure such days instead of Zhang Hongmei. Now, it was Zhang Hongmei's turn to endure it alone.
Sheng Shichu was looking for Sheng Weilai, who was already two years old, in the garden. He looked around deliberately, pretending that he couldn't see her, and asked loudly, "Weilai, where are you hiding? Auntie can't find you?"
Sheng Weili hunched over and hid in the rose bushes, covering her mouth and holding her breath, not daring to make any sound for fear of being discovered by her aunt.
She had run a short distance before, and her little face was rosy, like a ripe apple, so cute.
(End of this chapter)
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