When the matter was mentioned, an unnatural look flashed across the boy's face.
Shen Sangruo did not respond to his words, but instead said, "Why would Aunt Xu leave in the middle of the night? Just ask her and you'll know."
The boy pretended to be nonchalant, but his hands still unconsciously clenched tighter.
She asked Aunt Xu.
Aunt Xu answered truthfully, glancing at the boy from time to time, her voice conflicted, "He suddenly said he was in unbearable pain and woke me up, asking me to find him some painkillers."
At this moment, Aunt Xu was still holding the painkillers she had just received from that half-baked village doctor.
From the moment she learned that the boy had started the fire, Aunt Xu guessed that he might have deliberately sent her away.
"He still has some conscience. Aunt Xu took care of him for so long, so at least he knows to exclude Aunt Xu and knows how to be grateful. I think he has potential. After I give him a good beating, he will definitely be able to correct his ways."
A hint of relief appeared on the faces of many villagers.
boy:……
He no longer wanted to say anything.
"Didn't you want to kill everyone? Why did you save Aunt Xu? Little boy, you're a bit hypocritical. Your heart isn't black enough."
With great interest, she brought the boy up in front of her and stared directly into his eyes.
Her clear, bright eyes seemed to see right through the boy's heart.
The boy seemed to be burned by her gaze, and awkwardly turned his head away, letting out a cold snort: "Heh, if I don't get her out of here, how can I set the fire?"
"You and I are not the same kind of people, so stop trying to guess my thoughts with your own mindset."
"I started the fire, what are you going to do to me? Hurry up!" the boy urged impatiently.
He knew in his heart that those people were all bark and no bite, and that they probably wouldn't do anything to him this time.
All his efforts were in vain.
Shen Sangruo, however, was in no hurry to punish the boy. Instead, she said slowly, "At first, I did think you were hopeless, but now it seems you're not entirely beyond redemption."
The moment she saw Aunt Xu, she guessed that the boy had sent her away.
This is also why her attitude changed later.
Furthermore, since the villagers didn't intend to execute him outright, she naturally had no reason to kill him.
Upon hearing her words, the boy finally showed some reaction, his wide eyes revealing an extremely complex emotion.
Surprise, annoyance, regret... all these emotions converged in his small eyes.
He never expected that Shen Sangruo's reason for not killing him was this.
Ultimately, it was his own fault for meddling. If he hadn't gone to all that trouble, he probably would have gotten what he wanted by now!
The boy's chest heaved, wishing he could slap his past self for having such a stupid idea to care about the woman's life or death.
If he had another chance, he would definitely let that woman burn to death in the fire!
But he had already done it, and there was no going back. He didn't even know why he had sent the woman away.
He has become the kind-hearted person he describes himself as.
Ha, how ridiculous!
The boy was extremely depressed.
The villagers also discussed what to do with the boy and decided to temporarily hand him over to Shen Sangruo.
The boy expressed his disdain for this, not thinking that Shen Sang could do anything to him.
Since he couldn't kill her anyway, he had no fear and didn't want to pay any more attention to her. He had already closed his eyes to rest, looking like a dead pig that wasn't afraid of boiling water.
But as mentioned earlier, the boy didn't understand her at all, nor did he know that there are many things in the world that are worse than death, and that she had countless ways of tormenting people.
He's not afraid of boiling water, but she'd burn him with flames.
"The death penalty may be spared, but punishment is inevitable." She drawled, "I think many of the suggestions they made were quite good."
"For example, if we lock you in a cesspool and let you fumigate yourself, maybe you won't be so stubborn anymore?"
boy:……
That smell must make people tighten their mouths, right? Who would open their mouth wide and savor it?
But he didn't refute the flaws in her words, he just sneered and scoffed, "Tch!"
"You'd better kill me. If you don't, then I'll kill you all sooner or later. Just you wait..."
Snap—
Before the boy could finish speaking, the face that hadn't been hit received another solid slap, perfectly symmetrical.
"Well said, here's a slap for you." She raised her hand and slapped him, the movement anything but graceful and swift, as if she had done this countless times before.
Shen Sangruo said, "I'll say it again, no one knows how to slap someone better than me."
She has mastered the art of fanning the flames to its fullest extent.
A childhood without a big slap is incomplete, and she promises to give the boy a complete and memorable childhood.
Let him experience the power of love.
The boy was stunned for a moment, then his eyes flashed with boundless rage, like a wolf cub about to bite her head off.
"How dare you hit me again?!"
It was that same humiliating slap again!
Whether it was due to excessive anger or something else, his rage even momentarily drowned out the clamoring voices in his mind.
When Chen Sangruo slapped him for the first time, he was immersed in another kind of anger and didn't feel it as obviously.
He couldn't quite describe the feeling; it was a subtle sensation he had never experienced before.
Meeting the boy's gaze, which seemed to want to devour her whole, Chen Sangruo's smile remained unchanged. "Why wouldn't I dare to hit you?"
"This is nothing, and you can't even handle it? Don't worry, you'll have many more opportunities to say that later."
"This is punishment for disobedient brats. If you don't want to get a slap in the face, get rid of those violent thoughts in your mind."
According to her memories from her past life, she did not see the boy when she left, nor did she find him again.
It seems she has taught him well; she is quite confident in this.
"Do you think I don't want to let go?" The boy lowered his eyes, his voice was very low, and the movement of his lips was so slight that it was almost invisible.
Shen Sanruo, who was only at the Foundation Establishment stage, did not hear the boy's words.
She then followed the villagers' suggestion and threw the boy into the outhouse. Of course, she only left him in the outhouse and did not throw him into the latrine.
After all, it was the villagers' "good intentions," and she couldn't let them down.
She didn't stay for three days and three nights, but only one day, before taking the person out.
The boy exuded a strange aura and was in very poor condition, looking like he was about to ascend to heaven.
Chen Sanruo was very satisfied with this and said to the boy with an ugly expression, "It seems to be working very well. Let me see if your mouth is still so hard."
The boy, still convulsing, cried out, "I will definitely kill you..."
Snap—
Another smooth slap.
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