Xie Zhi turned a deaf ear to the girl's pleas for mercy, but the strength in his hands significantly decreased. However, her buttocks had already been swollen, and even the lightest caress would bring her excruciating pain.
Xu Jiaojiao and Yang Mei had a lot of fun playing by the stream. When they returned home, it was already six o'clock. They did not eat together in the evening. Only the girl and Xie Zhi ate together in their small room.
Xu Jiaojiao brought back her spoils and proudly showed off to the man: "How about it, I got it, isn't it amazing?"
Xie Zhi's expression became more serious, but his tone was still gentle: "This thing is in the back mountain. It's very dangerous there. You went there alone."
The girl was squatting on the ground, wrapping up the mulberries with a tissue: "No, Yangmei and I went there."
Xie Zhi didn't even want to pretend anymore, his smile disappeared from his face: "Go find her."
"No, she asked me to pick fruit with her, and we also went to the stream to play in the water." The girl said heartlessly, put one in her mouth, squinted her eyes, it was so sweet.
But she didn't notice that the man sitting on the bed was looking at her dangerously. The next second, the basket was kicked over heavily, and Xu Jiaojiao's body was pulled over forcefully, and she fell on his legs, and then a slap came down.
Then there is the scene that appears at the beginning.
Xie Zhi's eyes were bloodshot, almost tearing up: "Didn't I tell you not to go out with her alone? Have you forgotten the look in that bitch's eyes?"
Xu Jiaojiao sobbed and cried so hard that her heart was broken. She couldn't hear a word. She only felt very painful and unprecedentedly embarrassed.
There is nothing more disgusting than being held down on the legs and spanked like a child as an adult.
The girl said angrily: "I don't want you to care. Why do you hit me? My parents have never hit me."
"I don't want to be with you anymore. We want to break up."
At this moment, anger ran through the girl's brain, causing her to speak out the deepest words in her heart, recklessly, without worrying about hurting him at all.
Xie Zhi's pupils shrank, and the blue veins on his neck suddenly bulged. He picked the person up, held him in his arms, and gently stroked his back.
He kept comforting himself that his wife was just too young, easily bewitched by others, and easily indulged in the simplest carnal pleasures, and that he was the only one who was truly good to her.
"Be good, Jiaojiao, don't cry. You haven't had your milk tonight yet."
As he spoke, he picked up the girl as if she were a child and let her lie on his shoulder. He took the water from the kettle, added cold water and a certain proportion of milk powder.
He held the girl and sat her on his lap. Fearing that the girl would feel pain, he even put his hands underneath her.
The milk cup touched Xu Jiaojiao's lips: "Drink it obediently, Jiaojiao has been wronged."
Xu Jiaojiao suddenly raised her eyes and looked at her, which were filled with deep dissatisfaction. In an instant, the milk was quickly splashed on Xie Zhi's cheek. At that moment, she felt very relieved.
The man's boney face was instantly covered with white blood, and his eyelashes trembled. He was obviously the criminal officer, but now he looked extremely fragile.
But soon the fragility in his eyes was replaced by a sharp look. He drank the remaining milk in the cup, pinched Xu Jiaojiao's chin, and pushed her over fiercely.
The girl kept choking, while Xie Zhi shed tears in pain: "Why don't you listen to me? Why? You have encountered many such situations before, why don't you listen to me?"
"Then why can't you just talk to me nicely instead of hitting me?"
"Jiaojiao, that's not called beating, that's called the fun between husband and wife."
Xu Jiaojiao said this quickly without thinking: "We are not husband and wife." She regretted it immediately, looked at Xie Zhi's fragile expression, and finally could not say the words of surrender.
She knew that this man was doing this for her own good, but couldn't he just talk to her nicely? His violent behavior made Xu Jiaojiao's rebelliousness even worse.
Xie Zhi smiled bitterly and looked up at her, tears welling up in his eyes: "I don't understand why you don't want to marry me, Jiaojiao."
"I think I have done everything I can, but why are you unwilling to marry me? If you don't want to marry me, why are you willing to sleep with me?"
Even though Xie Zhi had lived abroad for a few years, that was when he was very young. The Confucian education he received in his bones, coupled with the special circumstances of the times, made him not understand why this was happening.
Xu Jiaojiao sniffed uncomfortably. She used to think about whether to marry Xie Zhi, but now she really needs to think about it carefully.
“Why do you insist on marrying me? Being a compatible couple and enjoying the beauty of love is what you men like the most, isn’t it?
The two eventually parted unhappily. Xie Zhi sat on the stool all night, listening to the girl's steady breathing. His palms felt a burning pain. Jiaojiao must be in pain.
With the help of the moonlight outside the window, he looked at the girl's peaceful sleeping face, took out a bottle of anti-swelling medicine from the drawer, and applied it carefully. The fragrance of the medicine instantly spread throughout the room.
Xu Jiaojiao whimpered a few times in pain, looking so pitiful.
When the girl woke up the next day, there was no trace of Xie Zhi's voice. The pain in her butt was gone. Before leaving in the morning, he applied medicine again and pointed the fan at Jiaojiao, bringing a cool feeling.
Xu Jiaojiao touched her butt in a daze, then stood up angrily and washed and ate the apricots in the basket. She ate more than a dozen in one breath and bit them down angrily.
As if venting his anger, Xu Yan looked at his sister's actions and pinched her fair cheek: "Jiaojiao, what's wrong with you?"
"Nothing, I just think this is delicious."
Just as he finished speaking, Xie Zhi came in from the door. He finished school early and came back at around ten o'clock. Their eyes met and he smiled as if nothing had happened.
She kindly reminded him, "Jiaojiao, if you eat too many apricots, your teeth will get sour."
Xu Jiaojiao said in a very aggressive tone: "Who cares?
Yan Fenglian hurriedly drove the man out: "Oh, my little ancestor, what are you doing? It's hot and greasy, get out quickly."
In the end, the girl was kicked out and sat in front of the fan dejectedly. Xie Zhi brought the washed red fruit and coaxed her, "Jiaojiao is so sweet."
Several people noticed that the atmosphere at home was not right. They saw the couple who used to be so affectionate with each other, now not saying a word to each other, and the girl even ignored them, but Xie Zhi persisted.
Xu Yan couldn't bear to watch it any longer. Xie Zhi's goodness was obvious to all: "Jiaojiao, don't bully Xie Zhi."
"That's right, Ah Zhi is so good to you and never gets angry with you."
Xu Jiaojiao had no words to express her pain. Didn't she have a mouth? But in the end, she could only angrily say, "He hit me."
"What, Xie Zhi, you dare to hit my sister." Xu Ze and Xu Yan said in unison, with disbelief in their eyes.
He went forward and twisted Jiaojiao up, looking left and right: "There are no scars, he hit you there."
"Butt, he spanked me for a long time last night."
After saying this, he went into the house angrily, squatted in the kitchen to watch his mother cook, stirring the ashes with a firewood stick in his hand.