"Huo Xiaolong!"
He Yi was being carried by Huo Shuwen to the rooftop, close to the sea. The two snuggled under a paper umbrella, near the sea. The heat was unbearable, and they squinted their eyes in the sea breeze, enjoying their sweet moment, when a roar came from afar.
"Is that Sister Cen's voice?" He Yi asked in disbelief.
Normally, she's the one who calls him Huo Xiaolong, so what's wrong with him today?
When her mother beat the little dumpling, she would chase after him with a feather duster. Huo Xiaolong had excellent lightness skills and internal strength, and he was practically circling around a pillar with He Yi.
But it was a different story with Cen's mother. Huo Xiaolong wasn't being beaten; he used all his lightness skills and internal energy, leaping over trees and walls at lightning speed.
"Uncle Zhao! Uncle Zhao! Help me out!"
The third-ranked scholar was reading under a tree when he heard a humming sound approaching from afar, but he didn't dare to recognize it.
Huo Xiaolong's face was covered in soot and dust. His cute little buns, which he had combed neatly in the morning, were now scattered and flying all over the place. The usually clean child looked like a little beggar.
No, he's worse than a little beggar.
"Long'er?"
"Uncle Zhao, get me out!"
The little dumpling whimpered and hid behind Zhao Kai, while the woman stepped on the leaves and came to the man.
"come out!"
"Mom! Please, don't hit me. I know I was wrong."
His parents, watching from the rooftop, were amused. They thought the child had fallen into a ditch and gotten himself all dirty, and that he'd finally gotten a beating.
“Ah Cen, the child is still young, can’t we talk things out properly…”
The woman interrupted Zhao Kai by waving her wide sleeves.
"She was playing with saltpeter with Xiangxiang and Dani'er! Look at her now! That saltpeter! It exploded! It blew her up like this!"
The third-ranked scholar moved two steps to the left, revealing the pitiful and dark-skinned Huo Xiaolong to Cen Ang. There was nothing he could do; there was nothing he could do about this.
How could someone be so reckless?! Zhao Kai had seen a lot of people, from spoiled rich kids in the capital to street thugs, but none of them had ever played with fire and saltpeter, let alone blow themselves up like this.
"Are you hurt, Long'er?" the man asked, squatting down.
"No, I'm good at light footwork, I flew away in a flash."
"What about Xiangxiang and Dani'er?"
Huo Xiaolong wiped his face a couple of times, trying to clean it up, and then said...
"I didn't let them go forward. I'm good at light footwork, so I started the fire."
"..."
"He deserves a beating!" said Mrs. Cen.
Zhao Kai held Cen Ang's hand and nodded to her.
The child is fine, you can go ahead and get the abortion.
"Uncle Zhao! You've gone too far!"
Huo Xiaolong's danger radar kicked in, and he tried to run away as soon as his toes touched the ground, but Cen Ang grabbed him by the back of his neck and pulled him away.
"I'll show you what I'm made of today!"
Seeing Cen Ang carry Huo Xiaolong into the room, followed by the crisp sound of a slap and the baby's cries, He Yi finally relaxed.
If Huo Shuwen hadn't been holding her hand so tightly, she would have given him a good beating too.
“We’re not covered in tan lines, are we?” Hou Xiangxiang said to Da Ni’er.
The little girl shook her head.
"No, but if you hear that sound, I reckon Long'er is being beaten."
The little girl nodded.
"How about we go back later?"
"OK!"
"Waaaaaah, it wasn't just me playing by myself, Dani'er and Xiangxiang played too!"
Lady Hou and Granny Wang, who happened to be coming to see what was going on, heard this as soon as they entered the room, and then asked Zhao Kai.
"Manager Zhao, what's wrong? What's so important that Master Cen is so angry?"
Zhao Kai thought of the two young girls following behind Huo Xiaolong and said with a smile.
"It's nothing, it's just that Long'er took Tianci and Xiangxiang to play with saltpeter with fire and it exploded."
The two mothers immediately lost their smiles and turned to go out and grab the child.
"Huo Xiaolong! This is the second time you've betrayed me!"
It was getting late, and three little girls, standing in a horse stance with wooden basins on their heads, were standing in a row in the yard. Hou Xiangxiang was full of resentment. She had already sold her out when they were sewing cotton pants last time, and now she was selling her out again!
Anyway, it's not bad. It's not just about selling yourself; Da Ni'er is also standing up.
"Hehe~ We're all good sisters, we share the good times and the bad."
Da Nier asked expressionlessly
"Do you people from the Central Plains just love to beat your children?!"
The little dumpling shook its head and said...
"No, my mom only hits me when I make a mistake. This is the first time my mom has hit me, hehe."
"You're still laughing! Doesn't it hurt?" Hou Xiangxiang asked.
"It hurt a moment ago, but it doesn't hurt anymore."
"Heartless!" the little girl said to her.
"You're the same way! And you'll do it again next time!" the little dumpling retorted.
"Hmm, that's true."
Wang Dani looked at the stars in the sky and said...
“Ever since my mother started hitting me, I’ve been getting hit more and more often.”
"This thing is like a dam being opened; once the switch is turned on, it can't be stopped. When my mom first found me and brought me back, she doted on me. But look at me now, she's beating me too. You get used to being beaten."
"Was your brother beaten up too?" Hou Xiangxiang asked.
Both she and Dani were only children and had never experienced having siblings.
“I don’t think my mother ever hit him, but my father did. When my father hit him, he always made a move,” Huo Xiaolong replied.
"Then let Mother hit him."
I think so too.
The little dumpling listened to the howling sea breeze and asked...
"Aren't you two tired of holding it?"
"kind of."
"good."
"How about the three of us go play on the roof for a while? My dad says the sea view is beautiful," Huo Xiaolong said. No wonder she gets beaten the most; this child is never quiet.
“Okay,” Hou Xiangxiang agreed.
"Won't we be discovered?" Dani'er was thinking a lot; she was a little worried that if she were discovered, the punishment would be even more severe.
"No way!" the little dumpling continued to urge.
She first put the wooden basin on the ground, then jumped up and down onto the roof, before waving to her friends.
"Come on, little girl, chuunibyou sister."
Xiangxiang didn't know martial arts, so it was a bit difficult for her to go up. Huo Xiaolong took out a rope from his pocket and had Da Nier tie it up for her, while Xiao Tuanzi pulled her up.
"Isn't it beautiful?"
Bathed in moonlight, the sea seemed to glow, like the Milky Way descending to earth. The wind pushed the waves toward the shore, creating a magnificent spectacle.
"nice!"
"If only Sister Zhihua were here, she could draw it!"
What was I doing when I was five years old in my past life?
As Huo Xiaolong lay sprawled on the roof, he thought to himself, "In my past life, at this time, I must have been... envying others."
I envy others who have friends and people to play with, and I envy others who are adopted by kind people.
But now, she has two mothers, and two fathers who try to stop her from getting beaten.
She couldn't remember.
Huo Xiaolong!
She called out her own name in her heart, calling out to her past life self.
The little dumpling reached out her hand, trying to touch the twinkling stars in the sky that were responding to her.
Huo Xiaolong, you have everything now!
It's as if those hands, covered in wounds, from a past life are now clasping her chubby little hands.
I see……
Take good care of yourself.
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